Life Course Justice and Learning

Gender, justice and domestic work: life course transitions and perceptions of fairness

This paper investigates changes in perceptions of housework fairness as men and women make the transition from cohabitation to marriage and experience the birth of a child. Using four waves of data from the Negotiating the Life Course project in Australia, we assess how marriage and parenthood alter perceptions of housework fairness. Consistent with previous research we find that the majority o...

Like Before, but Better: The Lessons of Developmental, Life-Course Criminology for Contemporary Juvenile Justice

This article considers the origins of the juvenile court and the degree to which developmental life-course (DLC) criminology might inform aspects of juvenile justice policy and practice. We discuss the foundations of the juvenile court in developmental science and also consider insights on delinquency from similar contemporary traditions. From there, the article provides a sense of what the juv...

Sanctity of life, quality of life, and social justice.

In two areas of moral theology, the Catholic tradition has had an asset in its flexibility: the responsibility to sustain individual human lives, and the just distribution of the material and social resources which contribute to the "common good." Moral analysis in the former area is newly tested by medical technology which prolongs life in four related instances: seriously abnormal newborns; a...

Life Course, Environment Change, and Life Span

Effects of problem based learning approach on medical students’ learning, satisfaction and engagement in embryology course

Background: Problem-based learning is a student-centered teaching method that encourages students to become active learners in the classroom and  to improve the learning processes.  The aim of this study was to compare two methods of teaching, problem- based learning (PBL) and lecture-based learning, in an embryology course. Methods: This was a semi-experimental study conducted in Kurdistan Uni...