This paper presents our experience in developing an online curriculum dedicated to promoting the use of social media in an educational context on a European scale. We describe ‘social media based learning’ as a new form of using old technology. Our focus is not based on the technology itself but rather the engagement with technology that positions this as a social innovation. The term “social i...

This book is a collection of thirteen edited chapters from different contributors, each presenting their perspective on the nature of evaluation and research and their application to practice. The editors aim to provide a ‘comprehensive treatment of the central issues confronting evaluation in social work’, however, their claims that it is likely to appeal to students, researchers and practitio...

The social role of a participant in a social system conceptualizes the circumstances under which she chooses to interact with others, making their discovery and analysis important for theoretical and practical purposes. In this paper, we propose a methodology to detect such roles by utilizing the conditional triad censuses of ego-networks. These censuses are a promising tool for social role ext...

The term social exclusion in its most general sense refers to a lack of engagement with broader society. This can arise through an absence of opportunities for employment or study, or though barriers to participation in social or recreational activities, among many other causes. Recently, work has been undertaken to develop small area indicators of social exclusion risk specific to children, an...

Representations of social categories help us make sense of the social world, supporting predictions and explanations about groups and individuals. Here we explore whether children and adults are able to understanding category-property associations in structural terms, locating an object of explanation within a larger structure and identifying structural constraints that act on elements of the s...

with the establishment of modern bureaucracy in iran, it was expected that the administrative system would find a logical order based on legal rationality. this not only proved to be far from the case, but the administrative system showed an unfortunate return to its previous status as well. the efforts made to improve the system have only aggravated the situation. the first question addressed ...