National Civic Review Volume 98 Number 1 Spring 2009

Author : Wilfred M. McClay
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594037183
Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book Why Place Matters written by Wilfred M. McClay and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of “place” and community. Appreciating place is essential for building the strong local communities that cultivate civic engagement, public leadership, and many of the other goods that contribute to a flourishing human life. Do we, in losing our places, lose the crucial basis for healthy and resilient individual identity, and for the cultivation of public virtues? For one can’t be a citizen without being a citizen of some place in particular; one isn’t a citizen of a motel. And if these dangers are real and present ones, are there ways that intelligent public policy can begin to address them constructively, by means of reasonable and democratic innovations that are likely to attract wide public support? Why Place Matters takes these concerns seriously, and its contributors seek to discover how, given the American people as they are, and American economic and social life as it now exists—and not as those things can be imagined to be in some utopian scheme—we can find means of fostering a richer and more sustaining way of life. The book is an anthology of essays exploring the contemporary problems of place and placelessness in American society. The book includes contributions from distinguished scholars and writers such as poet Dana Gioia (former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts), geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, urbanist Witold Rybczynski, architect Philip Bess, essayists Christine Rosen and Ari Schulman, philosopher Roger Scruton, transportation planner Gary Toth, and historians Russell Jacoby and Joseph Amato.

Author : Anthony Roche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408166003
Total Pages : 273 pages
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Download or read book The Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939 written by Anthony Roche and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish Dramatic Revival was to radically redefine Irish theatre and see the birth of Ireland's national theatre, the Abbey, in 1904. From a consideration of such influential precursors as Boucicault and Wilde, Anthony Roche goes on to examine the role of Yeats as both founder and playwright, the one who set the agenda until his death in 1939. Each of the major playwrights of the movement refashioned that agenda to suit their own very different dramaturgies. Roche explores Synge's experimentation in the creation of a new national drama and considers Lady Gregory not only as a co-founder and director of the Abbey Theatre but also as a significant playwright. A chapter on Shaw outlines his important intervention in the Revival. O'Casey's four ground-breaking Dublin plays receive detailed consideration, as does the new Irish modernism that followed in the 1930s and which also witnessed the founding of the Gate Theatre in Dublin. The Companion also features interviews and essays by leading theatre scholars and practitioners Paige Reynolds, P.J. Mathews and Conor McPherson who provide further critical perspectives on this period of radical change in modern Irish theatre.

Author : Joel Spring
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136583432
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education Networks written by Joel Spring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education Networks is a critical analysis of the emerging intersection among the global power elite, information and communication technology, and schools. Joel Spring documents and examines the economic and political interests and forces —including elite networks, the for-profit education industry, data managers, and professional educators — that are pushing the use of ICT for online instruction, test preparation and tutoring, data management, instructional software packages, and more , and looks closely at the impact this is having on schools, students, and learning. Making a distinction between "mind" (as socially constructed) and "brain" (as a physiological entity), Spring draws on recent findings from comparative psychology on the possible effects of ICT on the social construction of the minds of students and school managers, and from neuroscience regarding its effect on students’ brains. Throughout, the influence of elite networks and powerful interest groups is linked to what is happening to children in classrooms. In conclusion Spring offers bold suggestions to change the course of the looming technological triumph of ICT in the "brave new world" of schooling.

Author : Michele J. Gelfand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199336709
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 4 written by Michele J. Gelfand and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of culture and psychology is one of the fastest growing areas in the social sciences. Advances in Culture and Psychology: Volume 4 belongs to an annual series that is the first to offer state-of-the-art reviews of scholarly research programs in the growing field of culture and psychology.

Author : John Saltmarsh
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439900396
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education and Democracy written by John Saltmarsh and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful collection of essays on the democratic potential of education

Author : Larry G. Daniel
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1641132418
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle Grades Research Journal written by Larry G. Daniel and published by IAP. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle Grades Research Journal (MGRJ) is a refereed, peer reviewed journal that publishes original studies providing both empirical and theoretical frameworks that focus on middle grades education. A variety of articles are published quarterly in March, June, September, and December of each volume year.

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470390123
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 2 written by and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past fifty years, scholars of human development have been moving from studying change in humans within sharply defined periods, to seeing many more of these phenomenon as more profitably studied over time and in relation to other processes. The Handbook of Life-Span Development, Volume 2: Social and Emotional Development presents the study of human development conducted by the best scholars in the 21st century. Social workers, counselors and public health workers will receive coverage of the social and emotional aspects of human change across the lifespan.

Author : Ebenezer Obadare
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1847010865
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civic Agency in Africa written by Ebenezer Obadare and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the variety of mostly unorganized and informal ways in which Africans exercise agency and resist state power in the 21st century, through citizen action and popular culture, and how the relationship between ruler and ruled is being reframed.

Author : Deborah Gray White
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1457637626
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom on My Mind, Volume II written by Deborah Gray White and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning scholars and veteran teachers Deborah Gray White, Mia Bay, and Waldo E. Martin Jr. have collaborated to create a fresh, innovative new African American history textbook that weaves together narrative and a wealth of carefully selected primary sources. The narrative focuses on the diversity of black experience, on culture, and on the impact of African Americans on the nation as a whole. Every chapter contains two themed sets of written documents and a visual source essay, guiding students through the process of analyzing sources and offering the convenience and value of a "two-in-one" textbook and reader.

Author : Laura Weldon
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1935387324
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Range Learning written by Laura Weldon and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more kids at home now . . . here is a book for parents, family members and friends who want to maximize this time for a deeper learning experience for their children and themselves. Free Range Learning will encourage and excite those who want their children to reap important benefits from this period of “sheltering in place,” learning at home. This is a book for anyone simply wanting some fresh ideas at this time, or those who wonder if a commitment to ongoing homeschooling might actually result in longer term benefits! The material in this book is backed by scientific and educational studies, along with the testimonies of scores of parents and kids from around the world. The work here is applicable for young people from pre-school through high school. Studies indicate that adults who were homeschooled are: * More likely to vote, volunteer and be involved in their communities than graduates of conventional schools. * Read more books than average. * More likely to have taken college level courses than the population as a whole. * Tend to be independent and self-reliant. Children are naturally “free range” learners. They build knowledge and skills naturally, within the full spectrum of their daily lives, while observing, exploring and pursuing their interests. This book guides any parent or educator in assisting that process.