"Bisher fehlte eine zuverlässig recherchierte, allgemein zugängliche und übersichtliche Informationsquelle über die Telefonseelsorge (TS). In über 100 regionalen Zentren ist die TS vertreten. 800.000 Anrufe jährlich und 6.000 Mitarbeitende zeigen an, wie viele Menschen unmittelbar mit TS zu tu
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n haben. In den Beiträgen werden die Arbeitsweise sowie die gesellschaftliche und kirchliche Funktion der TS vorgestellt. Die Beiträge behandeln Entstehung und Selbstverständnis der TS, Funktion und Gestalt des Ehrenamtes, die Organisation auf lokaler und auf Bundesebene. Zwei Beiträge sind den Herausforderungen durch die Revolutionierung der Telefontechnik gewidmet. Nach der Beschreibung komplementärer Dienste (Krisenberatungsstellen) schließen sich Beiträge über den Ort der TS im kirchlich- theologischen und im sozialpsychiatrischen Feld an. Ein Lexikonteil gibt dem Leser kurz und präzise Antwort auf seine Fragen. Die wichtigsten Grundlagenpapiere, eine Zeittafel, eine Liste der TS-Stellen mit Postadressen in Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz, Luxemburg und Straßburg sowie ein Index machen das Buch auch zu einem Nachschlagewerk." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"A total of 59 papers are brought together in these three volumes, with articles on children’s literature in all parts of the world, including a large number on the topic of children’s literature in Africa. Among these are “The Spirit of My Story” (Gcina Mhlophe); “Children's Literature in
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Cameroon” (Edward O. Ako); “Context and Culture as a Factor in Black Children's Responses to Books” (Thuli Radebe); “Archetypes or Stereotypes: Fantastic Realism in Children's Literature” (Miriam W. Maranga); “Ideological Inscription in Children's Fiction: Strategies of Encodement in Ngugi and Achebe” (Peter T. Simatei); “Creating an Awareness of the Importance of Reading in Schools: The Whole School Approach Used by READ in the Independent Development Trust Project” (Cynthia Hugo); “Literacy in a Multicultural Environment” (Myrna Machet); “The Implications for Humour in Children's Literature, with Particular Reference to the Contemporary South African Situation” (Sandra Braude);“Popular Themes in Children's Literature in Uganda: Some Case Studies” (Evangeline L. Barongo); “A 25 Year Retrospective of South African Children's Reading of other World's Books” (Rosey Bennet); “Children's Books in African Languages: An Overview” (Johan Lenake); “Children's Books in African Languages: Translations, Adaptations or New Materials” (Denise Diamond); “Nigerian Children's Literature and the Changing Social Scenes” (P. Osazee Fayose); and “Discovering One's African Identity: Two Kenyan Voices Speak” (Jenny Janisch)." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1622)
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"Zum einen werden in diesem Buch zentrale Erkenntnisse der Rezeptionsforschung und Entwicklungspsychologie an Fallbeispielen veranschaulicht, zum anderen wird an ausgewählten Sendungen gezeigt, durch welche Elemente Wünsche und Anprüche von Kindern erfüllt werden können." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
"Since the mid-1970s there has been a marked increase in the local production of children's literature in South Africa. This thesis considers various issues relevant to the field of children's literature in South Africa, through both traditional means of research as well as through a series of inter
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views with people involved in the field itself. It also examines racial and gender stereotypes in children's literature and the manner in which people's attitudes to and about children's literature are shaped. The author stresses the need to broaden the scope of current publishing methods and the ways in which publishers foresee themselves doing this is considered. The limitations of current methods of distribution are similarly investigated, and some more innovative approaches, a number of which are currently being used in other parts of Southern Africa, are suggested. The gap between the 'black' and the 'white' markets is reviewed, and possible methods of overcoming this divide are considered." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1694)
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"Zwei Aspekte stehen im Mittelpunkt der Beiträge von insgesamt zwölf Autoren: der Film als eine Methode der ethnologischen Forschung und der ethnologische Film als Forschungsgegenstand. Behandelt werden u.a. verstecktes und offenes Filmen, Verhältnis zu den Gefilmten, gegenseitige Beeinflussung,
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Schnitt und Materialauswahl, Drehplan." (commbox)
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"An analysis of African children’s and young adults literature, primarily from West Africa, especially Nigeria. Seeks to shed light on the aspects and genres of the literature and African cultural assumptions – especially those about love and marriage– as well as aspects of social conduct, and
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traditional values. Focuses chiefly on the writing, rather than on publishing aspects of children’s books." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1656)
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"This is a summary version of an important study commissioned by the IFLA Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations and supervised by the African Publishers Network, which reviews the status of indigenous language publishing in seven African countries. Identifies African language mate
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rial available from each country and its publishers; examines the development of the orthographies of each language and its implications for language utilization and publishing; and also looks at support structures in various countries, i.e. indigenous language literature bureaux, book development councils, book trade and library associations, authors' groups etc. The full report was never published, but extracts from it, covering the situation in four African countries (Ghana, Kenya, Togo, Zimbabwe), have been published in APNET's African Publishing Review, authored by Martins O. Fajemisin." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2099)
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