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With the advent of Web 2.0, the public is becoming increasingly interested in spatial data exploration. The potential for Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) to be adopted for passive disease surveillance and mediated...

Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies

Companies produce increasing numbers of textbooks in electronic format (e-textbooks) for use by students and instructors. One would be remiss, however, to think that university bookstores are not filled with hard copies of...

Distance Education Education Educational Technologies

This article focuses on decolonizing, or specifically Indigenizing, a school of social work that has a stated focus on Native Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders, and Asian populations in the Pacific region. Armed with Kanaka...

Native Hawaiians; Kanaka ‘Ōiwi; critical race theory; Indigenization; decolonization; social work curriculum

Risk pervades contemporary discourses surrounding and describing homeless youth. Deemed to be at risk and vulnerable to a range of dangers related to living on the street as well as risky due to their delinquent behaviours...

homeless youth; risk; practitioner-researcher; power/knowledge; ethics; subjectivity; anti-oppression

This article is based on a study, inspired by institutional ethnographic methods, of a mental health court (MHC) situated in Montréal, Canada. The focus of this article is on the qualitative results of the project, namely, the...

mental illness, accused, risk, otherness, judiciarization, self-governance

Social work field education has reached a crisis point due to the imposition of neoliberal logics in both university and practice settings. As a result, social work programs are faced with challenges such as practicum shortages...

transformative learning; field education; social justice; practice