The first issue of Volume 4 of The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences has been published.

Volume 4, Number 1 contains:

• Navigating Global-local Dynamics in Education: A Case Study from Singapore by Lesley Vidovich and Meen Sheng Yap.
• Methodological and Ethical Agendas in Intercultural Educational Research Involving Human Subjects: Teachers’ Perceptions of ‘Interculturality’ in an Intercultural Primary School in Greece by Fokion Georgiadis.
• Exogamous and Endogamous Marriages among Italians and Mexicans in Dallas County, Texas (2000) by Valentino Belfiglio.
• Communicating with Someone who is Grieving: What Do I Say? by Mira Mayer.
• Regional Disparities in Agricultural Labour Productivity in the Brahmaputra Valley by Bimal Sharma.
• An Exploratory Investigation of the Quality of Life of Adults with Learning Disabilities Living in Family Homes or under Residential Care by Andreas G. Philaretou and Stella Myrianthous.
• Application of Engaged Social Research Principles in Inter-generational Aged Care Workforce Research by Peter Nixon.
• Rethinking the Anthropologies of Witchcraft in South Africa by Theodore Petrus.
• Probation Workers’ Perceptions of the Changing Sociopolitical Climate of Juvenile Justice: Implications for Youth and Families by Joyce Arditti and Karen Joest.
• Explanatory Exclusion and the Status of Special Scientific Explanations by Neil Campbell.
• The Prevalence of Sexual Abuse in Two Communities in South Western Nigeria by Bayode Isaiah Popoola and Babatunde A. Adeyemi.
• A Review and Comparison of Sociological Theories of Global Development by Jonathan Hinton Westover.
• Decision to Enroll in Post-Graduate Education: What are the Predictors? by Ab. Rahim Bakar, Shamsiah Mohamed and Abdullah Mat Rashid.
• Pedagogy Transcends Tradition: Practice and Pitfalls by Marjorie P. Callahan and Richard C. Ryan.
• Children’s Emotions and its Social Meaning by Normaliza Abd Rahim, Noraien Mansor, Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Arbaie Sujud, Zaitul Azma Zainon Hamzah and Siti Nur Aliaa Roslan.
• Internet Mediated Research: The Viability of Synchronous Online Interviewing and Web-Based Diaries for Data Collection with Participants with Social Communication Difficulties by Vanessa Hinchcliffe.
• The Visual Artefact As Site for Cross-Cultural Engagement: Making New Connections, Imagining New Possibilities by Donna Wright.
• Environmental Disclosure and Financial Performance of Europe’s Largest Industrial Groups: A Research Note by Voicu D. Dragomir.
• Postcolonial Identity in Selected Works by K.S. Maniam and C.M Woon by Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Zainor Izat Zainal and Normaliza Abd Rahim.
• Two Decades of Social Capital: Where is this Concept Going? by Ignacio Macedo Castillejos.
• Climate Change Communication: Linguistic Repertoires and Interdisciplinary Differences by Wendy Howe.
• Brownfields Redevelopment: Can Business Incentives be Justified and what are the Implications for Efficiency versus Equity? by Rayman Mohamed.
• Child Victims of International Crimes as “Victim Participants” at the International Criminal Court at The Hague: The Psychological Implications of their Search for Justice by Sonja Grover.
• The Role of Nature in Tash Aw’s The Harmony Silk Factory by Zainor Izat Zainal and Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya.
• The Implication of Foreign Workers on National Security: A Malaysian Experience by Mohd Na’eim Ajis, Mohamad Faisol Keling, Md. Shukri Shuib and Mokhtafizam Mokhtar.
• Empowerment in the Retention of Home Health Care Workers by Janice Gasker and John Vafeas.
• The Real-World Advantages and Disadvantages of Permeable Pavement as Roadways by Harold Boudreau III, Michael Taylor, Tsang Yu Huang, Samuel Tatel and Fazil Najafi.
• Migrant Entrepreneurship & Ethnic Community Development: Polish Small Businesses in Cardiff, Wales by Julie Porter.
• Using a Multi-Media Presentation to Analyze Thinking Patterns of Children with Autism by Ching Mey See and Keow Ngang Tang.
• Challenges between Land use Determination with Environment in Mazandaran Province, Iran by Danyal Fouroughi and Fatemeh Masoumi.
• Transforming Organisations towards Sustainable Practices by Ling Wong and Gayle C. Avery.
• Social Capital and Complexity Theory: The Science and Language of Collaboration by Elizabeth D. Carlson, Joan C. Engebretson and Robert M. Chamberlain.
• Breaking the Silence: Historical Reflections on the Narratives Shared by People Appearing at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC) by Marietjie Oelofse.
• Union Responses to the Offshoring of Call Center Work by Andrew Stevens and Elizabeth Shi.
• The Application of e-Government for Increased Service Delivery in South Africa by Shikha Vyas-Doorgapersad.