L'expression "intervention sociale" tend à s'imposer et à supplanter celle de "travail social". Depuis les lois de décentralisation des années 80, les transformations affectant le champ et les pratiques du travail social ont abouti à une véritable recomposition de cet univers professionnel et ont modifié les contenus des activités quotidiennes. Une réflexion sur l'évolution de la culture professionnelle des "métiers du social".

La première partie de cet ouvrage révèle la diversité des approches de l'analyse des pratiques professionnelles dans le champ du travail social. On s'intéresse ensuite à l'analyse de pratiques dans la formation initiale de trois catégories différentes de travailleurs, et enfin, dans la troisième et dernière partie, on examine les modalités particulières de l'analyse des pratiques de la filière socio-éducative.

CATEGORIES DE PRATICIENS, LE SYSTEME DE CONTRAINTES, D'ORDRE INSTITUTIONNEL ET ORGANISATIONNEL, QUI INTERVENTION-RECHERCHE EN MILIEU, TRANSORGANISATIONNEL, L'ANALYSE SE CENTRE SUR LE SYSTEME

More and more, health promotion is a crucial component of public health, to the extent that public health interventions are called on to prove their effectiveness and appraised for scientific validity, a practice many in the field consider self-defeating. Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the Americas cogently demonstrates that scientific rigor and the goals of health promotion are less in conflict than commonly thought, synthesizing multiple traditions from countries throughout North, Central, and South America (and across the developed-to-developing-world continuum) for a volume that is both diverse in scope and unified in purpose. The book’s examples—representing robust theoretical and practical literatures as well as initiatives from Rio de Janeiro to American Indian communities—explain why health promotion evaluation projects require different guidelines from mainstream evaluative work. The editors identify core humanitarian principles associated with health promotion (participation, empowerment, equity, sustainability, intersectoral action, multistrategy, and contextualism), while chapters highlight challenges that must be mastered to keep these principles and scientific objectives in sync, including: (1) Building health promotion values into evaluation research projects. (2) Expanding the use of evaluation in health promotion. (3) Developing meaningful evaluation questions. (4) Distinguishing between community-based participation research and evaluation-based participation. (5) Evaluating specifically for equity. (6) Designing initiatives to foster lasting social change. The applied knowledge in Health Promotion Evaluation Practices in the Americas: Values and Research can bring the goals of intervention into sharper focus for practitioners, evaluators, and decision-makers and facilitate communication on all sides—necessary steps to progress from study findings to real-world action.

This volume details a wide range of consumer research methods from different disciplines with an application to food and beverages. Each chapter is written by well-known researchers in the field that guides the reader on a specific method in applied consumer research. Chapters are separated by disciplines, detail brief theoretical background, provide a clear examples of the methodology, anthropology, history, linguistics, and visual arts, culinary arts, design, and user experience are also approached. The separation of methods through disciplines gives a better structure to the reader when trying to apply each method. Authoritative and cutting-edge, Consumer Research Methods in Food Science detail clear steps and a framework to reproduce consumer research methods in different applications.

The world has changed radically since 1989, when the General Assembly declared the period from 1990 to 1999 as the United Nations Decade of International Law. During that time, the international community claimed some major achievements as reflected by the adoption of conventions and treaties. This publication presents a collection of essays from legal advisers of States and international organizations, all of whom are among those committed to promoting respect for international law. Their contribution provides a practical perspective on international law, viewed from the standpoint of those involved in its formation, application and administration.