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Book Synopsis Learning Communities and Imagined Social Capital by : Jocey Quinn
Download or read book Learning Communities and Imagined Social Capital written by Jocey Quinn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume critically explores themes of belonging, learning and community, drawing on a range of research studies conducted with adult learners in formal and informal contexts and employing interdisciplinary theory from education, feminist theory, cultural studies and human geography. Dominant but simplistic and regulatory ideas and practices of learning community in higher education and lifelong learning are critiqued. Instead, Jocey Quinn argues that learners gain most benefit from creating their own symbolic communities and networks, which help to produce imagined social capital. A rich variety of empirical data is used to explore and demonstrate how such imagined social capital works.
Book Synopsis My Freshman Year by : Rebekah Nathan
Download or read book My Freshman Year written by Rebekah Nathan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After fifteen years of teaching anthropology at a large university, Rebekah Nathan had become baffled by her own students. Their strange behavior—eating meals at their desks, not completing reading assignments, remaining silent through class discussions—made her feel as if she were dealing with a completely foreign culture. So Nathan decided to do what anthropologists do when confused by a different culture: Go live with them. She enrolled as a freshman, moved into the dorm, ate in the dining hall, and took a full load of courses. And she came to understand that being a student is a pretty difficult job, too. Her discoveries about contemporary undergraduate culture are surprising and her observations are invaluable, making My Freshman Year essential reading for students, parents, faculty, and anyone interested in educational policy.
Author :John Smyth Publisher :Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN 13 : Total Pages :228 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis Critically Engaged Learning by : John Smyth
Download or read book Critically Engaged Learning written by John Smyth and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book - the finale in a trilogy by the authors - traces the way in which a number of disadvantaged schools and communities were able to move beyond deficit, victim-blaming and pathologizing approaches and access resources of trust, relationships, connectedness and hope. It describes how these Australian schools and communities were able to benefit from working with 'street-level' bureaucrats who had reinvented themselves around notions of socially just forms of capacity-building. The book provides a set of insights into what is possible from a critical engagement for school and community renewal perspective, by working with the resources that exist within disadvantaged contexts, even in damaging neoliberal policy times. Critically Engaged Learning breaks new and important ground across urgent and fractured boundaries.
Book Synopsis Professional Capital by : Andy Hargreaves
Download or read book Professional Capital written by Andy Hargreaves and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of learning depends absolutely on the future of teaching. In this latest and most important collaboration, Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan show how the quality of teaching is captured in a compelling new idea: the professional capital of every teacher working together in every school. Speaking out against policies that result in a teaching force that is inexperienced, inexpensive, and exhausted in short order, these two world authorities--who know teaching and leadership inside out--set out a groundbreaking new agenda to transform the future of teaching and public education. Ideas-driven, evidence-based, and strategically powerful, Professional Capital combats the tired arguments and stereotypes of teachers and teaching and shows us how to change them by demanding more of the teaching profession and more from the systems that support it. This is a book that no one connected with schools can afford to ignore. This book features: (1) a powerful and practical solution to what ails American schools; (2) Action guidelines for all groups--individual teachers, administrators, schools and districts, state and federal leaders; (3) a next-generation update of core themes from the authors' bestselling book, "What's Worth Fighting for in Your School?" [This book was co-published with the Ontario Principals' Council.].
Download or read book Inside Culture written by David Halle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there differences in artistic preferences between social classes or races or between urban and suburban homes? Similarities? How do choices in art works - and the way we display them - speak to our dreams, desires, pleasures, and fears? And what do they say about the real cultural boundaries between elite and popular, high and low?
Book Synopsis Imagined Communities by : Benedict Anderson
Download or read book Imagined Communities written by Benedict Anderson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2006-11-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.
Book Synopsis Roadblocks to Equality by : Jeffery Klaehn
Download or read book Roadblocks to Equality written by Jeffery Klaehn and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes on the Contributors Patrizia Albanese is Associate Professor of sociology at Ryerson University, and author of Mothers of the Nation: Women, Families and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Europe (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and co-editor (with Tepperman and Curtis) of Sociology: A Canadian Perspective, 2nd ed. She is currently doing (SSHRC-funded) research on Quebec's $7/day child care program and is working on a project on household work and lifelong learning (with Dr. Margrit Eichler, OISE/UT). She has published chapters in edited collections on motherhood and nationalism, Canadian families, and childcare in Canada. She is currently working on a book on childhood in Canada (expected 2009, Oxford University Press), and is co-director of the Centre for Children, Youth and Families at Ryerson University. Susan Bryant is Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Windsor, where she has been teaching since 1999. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Simon Fraser University and a Master's in Environmental Studies from York University. Her research interests focus on gender and labour, gender and technology, critical theories of technology, and culture and the natural environment. Walter S. DeKeseredy is professor of criminology, justice, and policy studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. He has written 12 scholarly books and more than 60 scientific journal articles on a variety of topics, including woman abuse in intimate relationships and crime in public housing. He also jointly received (with Martin D. Schwartz) the 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology's (ASC's) Division on Women and Crime, and in 1995, he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the ASC's Division on Critical Criminology. In 2007, he won the UOIT Research Excellence Award for his many contributions to a social scientific understanding of woman abuse and other social problems. Natalie Dias is a fourth year undergraduate student majoring in Honors Sociology and Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Waterloo, Canada. Her research interests include gender, advertising, popular culture, social theory, and social inequality. Peter Eglin is Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo where he has taught since 1976. He is author of Talk and Taxonomy: A Methodological Comparison of Ethnosemantics and Ethnomethodology ... (1980). With Stephen Hester he is co-author of The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003), A Sociology of Crime (Routledge, 1992), and co-editor of Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis (University Press of America, 1997). As a student of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis he investigates the use of categories for describing persons in practical reasoning in talk and texts in various settings, most recently gender categories and the category "feminist." He is currently beginning a study of university-specific work as an interactional accomplishment. He is also exercised by the question of intellectual responsibility in a number of human rights issues, notably state terrorism in El Salvador in Jeffery Klaehn's Filtering the News (2005), near-genocide in East Timor in Jeffery Klaehn's Bound By Power (2005), and Israeli crimes in Palestine. Danielle Fagen is a prevention/intervention professional at a private non-profit organization that works with individuals and families affected by drug and alcohol issues in Athens, Ohio. She has published an article related to her M.A. thesis in Feminist Criminology, which the official journal of the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women and Crime and she is an adjunct instructor at Ohio University. Kathleen Gotts is a graduate of Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication. Her thesis was a woman-centered, qualitative communication study of the campaign strategies and discourse used to advocate the legalization of midwifery in the province of Ontario, Canada, from 1979 to 1989. Besides her research in women's political activism and communication, another of her key interests is how risk is communicated in public health messaging. Sylvia Hale is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at St. Thomas University. Her major publications include the widely influential Controversies in Sociology textbook (Copp Clark, 1995) as well as The Elusive Promise: The Struggle of Women Development Workers in Rural North India (McGill University, 1987). She is also an award-winning educator. Her research interests include the family, development, and political-economy. Mandy Hall is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She has published refereed articles in Feminist Criminology and Critical Criminology, which is the official journal of the American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology. Her areas of concentration are critical criminology, violence against women, juvenile delinquency, and drugs and crime. Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center http: //thirdcoastactivist .org. His latest book is Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007). http: //www.southendpress.org/2007/items/87767. Jensen is also the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Race, Racism, and White Privilege and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (both from City Lights Books); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang). He can be reached at [email protected] and his articles can be found online at http: //uts.cc.utexas.edu/ rjensen/index.html. Neetin Kalsi is completing her MA in Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research interests include race and ethnicity, knowledge, cultural practices, and social inequalities. Jeffery Klaehn is widely published as a cultural commentator and critic. His scholarly writings have been published in national and international peer-reviewed journals, including the European Journal of Communication, International Communication Gazette and Journalism Studies, and are required reading for many media-related courses at the MA and PhD levels throughout North America and the United Kingdom. He is the editor of and main contributor to Filtering the News: Essays on Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model (2005), Bound by Power: Intended Consequences (2006) and Inside the World of Comic Books (2006). His research interests include popular culture, media, discourse, politics, universities, education, and human rights. Michèle Martin is a professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Toronto, an M.A. from the Université de Montréal and a B.A. from the UQAM, both in communication. Her research is in the historical sociology of technological development, political economy of communication and socio-cultural analysis of the media. Her particular area of interest is the political economic development of forms of communication and their impact on society. Martin's books include Images at War: 19th Century Illustrated Periodicals and the Development of National Identities (University of Toronto Press, 2006), Victor Barbeau, pionnier de la critique culturelle journalistique (Presse de l'université Laval, 1997), and Hello Central? Gender, Culture and Resistance in the Formation of Telephone Systems (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991). Her articles appear in such journals as Réseaux, Histoire sociale/Social History, Labour/Le travail and Journal of Communication Inquiry. She also presented many papers in various international conferences. Michèle Martin has been visiting professor in different universities: the Goldsmith College, Oxford University; the London School of Economics and Political Sciences; the Institut Français de Presse, Uninversité Paris II; the University of Bucarest, Romania. She teaches the political economic development of communication technologies, socio-historical study of the media, politics of visual representation, feminism and communication theories. Claudia Mitchell is a James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, and an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research focuses on visual and other participatory methodologies particularly in addressing gender and HIV and AIDS, teacher identity and gender, and the culture of girlhood within broader studies of children and popular culture and media studies. She is a co-founder of the Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change at UKZN which focuses on visual methods and media education. She is the co-author/co-editor of eight books including several books on girlhood, Seven Going on Seventeen: Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood (with J. Reid-Walsh), Girlhood: Redefining the Limits (with Y. Jiwani and C. Steenbergen) and Combating gender violence in and around schools (with F. Leach). Michael Parenti is a political scientist, historian and media critic. His books include The Culture Struggle (Seven Stories, 2006), Superpatriotism (City Lights), The Assassination of Julius Caesar (New Press), and Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader (City Lights). For more information visit: www.michaelparenti.org. Richard Poulin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa and is an expert in globalization, sex trafficking and the sex industries. He has been researching and writing about pornography and prostitution for more than twenty years and has published a range of books, book chapters and journal articles in all of these areas. Jocey Quinn is a Professor of Education at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) London Metropolitan University. Her work takes a cultural approach to Higher Education and Lifelong Learning and she is particularly interested in the relationships between knowledge transformation and social justice. She has published widely and has conducted national and international research in this field. This includes research on the impact of the mass participation of women in Higher Education and on working class 'drop out' from HE. She is currently writing two books Culture and Education (Routledge) and Learning Communities and Imagined Social Capital: Learning to Belong (Continuum). Jacqueline Reid-Walsh is a specialist in historical and contemporary children's literature, culture and media and fascinated by girls culture. In these areas she has published on topics ranging from early moveable books and Jane Austen's' juvenilia to Nancy Drew mysteries and girls websites. She is co-author of Researching Children's PopularCulture (Routledge: 2002), co-editor of Seven Going on Seventeen (Peter Lang, 2005), and currently co-editing an encyclopedia of girls popular culture (with Claudia Mitchell). She teaches at Université Laval and Bishop's University. Carole Roy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Adult Education at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia. Her book, The Raging Grannies: Wild Hats, Cheeky Songs, and Witty "
Book Synopsis Social Epidemiology by : Lisa F. Berkman
Download or read book Social Epidemiology written by Lisa F. Berkman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the important links between social conditions and health and begins to describe the processes through which these health inequalities may be generated. It reviews a range of methodologies that could be used by health researchers in this field and proposes innovative future research directions.
Book Synopsis Literacy Learning Communities by : ReLeah Cossett Lent
Download or read book Literacy Learning Communities written by ReLeah Cossett Lent and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why just "sit and get" professional development when you can take charge of it? Schools nationwide are using professional learning communities to revitalize staff development, and Literacy Learning Communities shows you how to adapt this powerful framework to target the literacy strengths and needs of students in secondary schools. Whether you're an administrator, a staff developer, or a member of a teacher-study group, Literacy Learning Communities shows you how to make them happen, why they work, and how to get the most from them. In Literacy Learning Communities veteran staff developer ReLeah Cossett Lent shows how LLCs can energize the professional community of any middle or high school. She offers concrete steps toward success: a thorough review of the unambiguous research supporting both collaborative professional development models and the importance of authentic approaches to literacy learning and teaching specific steps for creating an initial literacy learning community to assess your school's reading and writing needs and to develop a three-year plan for authentic, sustained, and embedded staff development practical ideas for meeting your schools' challenges through professional development methods such as action research, peer coaching, and study groups. Throughout Literacy Learning Communities Lent provides smart suggestions for working with resistant faculty, overcoming a school-wide culture of isolation (a particular problem in secondary schools), and strengthening the professional relationships in your school to improve the efficacy of your LLCs. She even presents Questions for Reflection at the end of each chapter to stimulate your thinking and help you move toward relevant and sustained professional learning. Built on a combination of research and real-world experience, Literacy Learning Communities can help you build a culture of professional learning, peer support, and teacher engagement that will improve the performance of every learner - teachers and students alike.
Book Synopsis Critical Race Counterstories Along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline by : Tara Joy Yosso
Download or read book Critical Race Counterstories Along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline written by Tara Joy Yosso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Professional Learning Communities by : Louise Stoll
Download or read book Professional Learning Communities written by Louise Stoll and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2007-03-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “All who are interested and concerned about educational reform and the improvement of schools will find this book a must read. It stimulates, it challenges, and it informs, such that the reader is most surely enriched by its plenitude.” Dr Shirley Hord, Scholar Emerita “At last we have a book of international cases to add to the literature on networks! Policymakers and practitioners alike will find the reasons why networks are fast becoming the reform organizations of choice. The book elevates network understanding to a new level.” Ann Lieberman, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundationfor the Advancement of Teaching What is a professional learning community? What are the key challenges facing these communities and how might they be resolved? Is it time to extend our thinking about professional learning communities? There is great interest internationally in the potential of professional learning communities for enhancing educational reform efforts and sustaining improvement. This international collection expands perceptions and understanding of professional learning communities, as well as highlighting frequently neglected complexities and challenges. Drawing on research, each chapter offers a deeper understanding of topics such as distributed leadership, dialogue, organisational memory, trust, self-assessment and inquiry, and purpose linked to learning. The last section of the book focuses upon three of the most challenging dilemmas that face developing professional learning communities - developing professional learning communities in secondary school, building social capital, and sustaining professional learning communities. The authors provide pointers on why these challenges exist, offering rays of hope for ways forward. Professional Learning Communities is key international reading for education professionals, school practitioners, policymakers, academics and research students. It is a must-read for anyone interested in building capacity for sustainable learning and the ability to harness your community as a resource for change.
Book Synopsis Narratives of Learning and Teaching EFL by : Paula Kalaja
Download or read book Narratives of Learning and Teaching EFL written by Paula Kalaja and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-08-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of Learning and Teaching EFL can thus function as a source of ideas - and also as a tool kit."--BOOK JACKET.
Author :David Robinson Publisher :Institute of Policy Studies Victoria University of Welling ISBN 13 :9780908935222 Total Pages :180 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (352 download)
Book Synopsis Social Capital and Policy Development by : David Robinson
Download or read book Social Capital and Policy Development written by David Robinson and published by Institute of Policy Studies Victoria University of Welling. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers attempting to define "social capital" and consider its usefulness in the development of social policy.
Book Synopsis Imagining Communities in Thailand by : Shigeharu Tanabe
Download or read book Imagining Communities in Thailand written by Shigeharu Tanabe and published by Silkworm Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores newly emerging communities and the new practices, knowledge, and power relations that can no longer be explained adequately by the conventional conception of community. In the early 1980s, Benedict Anderson coined the term "imagined communities" to examine the creation and global spread of the nation-state as a collective fiction constructed in the homogeneous and empty time of modernity. Set against this conceptual background, the present volume focuses on the processes of "imaging communities" to explore how people imagine and create their own sense of knowledge, power, and identity. The essays in this volume consider the communal relations and properties of newly emerging or transforming communities, associations, and networks: the "imagined family" in shaping the modern Thai nation-state, the Asoke community of a new Buddhist movement, a Karen millenarian Buddhist community on the Thai-Myanmar border, networks of producers and sellers in the Night Bazaar of Chiang Mai, female factory workers in Lamphun, and HIV/AIDS self-help groups of northern Thailand. Taken together, these case studies demonstrate the possibilities of new communities in Thailand and provide a key reference for both students and scholars concerned with a critical approach to sociology, history, development studies, Southeast Asian studies, and anthropology.
Book Synopsis Engaging the Whole of Service-learning, Diversity, and Learning Communities by : Joseph Galura
Download or read book Engaging the Whole of Service-learning, Diversity, and Learning Communities written by Joseph Galura and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appalachian Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A regional studies review.
Book Synopsis Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning by :
Download or read book Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: