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  • Our Hopes, Our Future

    Insights from the Hope Barometer

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    How can we overcome crises and shape our common future?Since the beginning of the Corona pandemic, we have all been put to an immense test. This shows how humanity can successfully and constructively deal with such situations and make the best of them. And we learn that the future is not something that happens to us, but that we can actively and constructively shape it. The basic prerequisite for ... Read more

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  • Education Transformation in Muslim Societies

    A Discourse of Hope

    Series series Advancing Education in Muslim Societies
    Hope is a complex concept—one academics use to accept the unknown while also expressing optimism. However, it can also be an action-oriented framework with measurable outcomes.In Education Transformation in Muslim Societies, scholars from around the world offer a wealth of perspectives for incorporating hope in the education of students from kindergarten through university to stimulate change, ... Read more

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  • Hope for a Good Life

    Results of the Hope-Barometer International Research Program

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume addresses the convincing belief that hope is an existential need and resource for living a good life, not only when all is going well, but especially in difficult times. The findings reported in this volume result from the annual survey of the Hope-Barometer Research Program collected during 7 years and conducted in several countries. Structured in three parts, the first one provides ... Read more

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  • Hope across cultures

    Lessons from the International Hope Barometer

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This open access book presents an integrative and transdisciplinary conceptualization of hope and brings together cross-cultural studies based on quantitative data from around the globe. It incorporates state-of-the-art theories of hope from psychology, philosophy and theology and presents a novel approach to the study of hope in different life situations. The volume analyses empirical data from ... Read more

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