Tag: Aspirations

Free Download Mariske Westendorp, "Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia: Values, Family, and Identity "
English | ISBN: 1789208955 | 2020 | 222 pages | PDF | 821 KB
Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations. Delving into topical issues such as education, social inequality, family pressures, changing values, precarious employment, and political discontent, the book explores how young people are pushing boundaries and imagining their future. In this way, they explore and create the identities of their local and global surroundings.

Free Download Michael Rose, "Indigenous Spirits and Global Aspirations in a Southeast Asian Borderland: Timor-Leste’s Oecussi Enclave"
English | ISBN: 9463723420 | 2020 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Over the past 40 years, life in Timor-Leste has changed radically. Before 1975 most of the population lived in highland villages, spoke local languages, and rarely used money. Today many have moved to peri-urban lowland settlements, and even those whose lives remain dominated by customary ways understand that those of their children will not. For the Atoni Pah Meto of Timor-Leste’s remote Oecussi Enclave, the world was neatly divided into two distinct categories: the meto (indigenous), and the kase (foreign). Now matters are less clear; the good things of the globalised world are pursued not through rejecting the meto ways of the village, or collapsing them into the kase, but through continual crossing between them. In this way, the people of Oecussi are able to identify in the struggles of lowland life, the comforting and often decisive presence of familiar highland spirits.

Free Download Celestial Aspirations: Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series) by Philip Hardie
English | March 1, 2022 | ISBN: 0691197865 | 400 pages | MOBI | 65 Mb
A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists

Free Download Dare to Dream: Turning Aspirations into Reality by SAM GARDNER
English | December 23, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CQWFG2XT | 321 pages | EPUB | 0.28 Mb
Embark on a transformative journey with "Dare to Dream: Turning Aspirations into Reality" by Sam Gardner, a profound exploration into the extraordinary power of dreams. In this compelling guide, Gardner combines insightful wisdom, real-world examples, and practical strategies to empower readers to transform aspirations into enduring realities.

Free Download Catarina Antunes Gomes, Cesaltina Abreu, "African Citizenship Aspirations: As Time Goes By or How Far Till Banjul"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367892669, 1138577979 | EPUB | pages: 108 | 0.5 mb
This collective work aims to critically reflect upon contemporary citizenship aspirations and practices in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on different realities, such as Angola, Mozambique and the Great Lakes region, it tries to unveil multiple historical commonalities, especially those arising from shared experiences of postcolonial violence and vulnerability. Thus, albeit the social realities under scrutiny cannot stand for the complexity of the Continent, the studies here gathered enlighten similar processes that can be identified in many other African contexts. That is certainly the case of the proliferation of religious manifestations and democratic demands that are currently being articulated in different countries such as Burundi, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Nigeria.

Free Download Leading Beyond Sustainability: Six Aspirations for a Brighter Future
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032549254 | 217 Pages | PDF (True) | 10 MB
The 2020s present a decade of unprecedented disruption. We have now reached a point where people are overwhelmed and numb to the ever-present news of threat after threat, and challenge after challenge. It’s time for leaders to tell a different story of six powerful aspirations – connection, vitality, peace, abundance, opportunity and wisdom. This is a vision "beyond sustainability", to inspire organisations and people to bring the best of who they are into service of the brighter future that is already emerging.

Free Download Sonja Ardoin, "College Aspirations and Access in Working-Class Rural Communities: The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First"
English | ISBN: 1498536883 | 2019 | 156 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
College Aspirations and Access in Working Class Rural Communities: The Mixed Signals, Challenges, and New Language First-Generation Students Encounter explores how a working class, rural environment influences rural students’ opportunities to pursue higher education and engage in the college choice process. Based on a case study with accounts from rural high school students and counselors, this book examines how these communities perceive higher education and what challenges arise for both rural students and counselors. The book addresses how college knowledge and university jargon illustrate the gap between rural cultural capital and higher education cultural capital. Insights about approaches to reduce barriers created by college knowledge and university jargon are shared and strategies for offering rural students pathways to learn academic language and navigate higher education are presented for both secondary and higher education institutions.