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Power, Politics, and the Playground

Author : Don Carter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040046517
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Power, Politics, and the Playground written by Don Carter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented as a series of case studies, this book offers the reader an insider’s account of the power dynamics in Australian education and how the application of that power influences education policymaking. The authors, Adrian Piccoli and Don Carter, have been in the room when some of the biggest decisions in Australian education have been made. This book traverses various theories of power and authority to explore the selected experiences of the authors who come from opposing sides of the political spectrum (a former National Party minister for education and a former teacher, union member and left-leaning academic) to share a behind-the-scenes story of education in Australia not readily available to the public. The chapters capture their personal experiences in senior education leadership roles, where they made key decisions on diverse topics such as how to allocate multibillion-dollar education budgets, the split of school funding between education sectors, contentious curriculum decisions and other policy and political objectives. Drawing on organisational theory, international relations and education, a variety of resources such as hard and soft power, credibility, persuasion and notions of capital are used to make sense of their experiences in education. Through this, the authors explain who has the biggest influence over those decisions and why these complex power dynamics, when not used properly, can mean that the best interests of students are not always at the heart of the decision-making process. Written for teachers, school leaders and other education professionals, this book presents a rare insight into power and authority in the Australian education system.

POWER, POLITICS, AND THE PLAYGROUND

Author : DON. CARTER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032320298
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book POWER, POLITICS, AND THE PLAYGROUND written by DON. CARTER and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Union

Author : David Walter
Publisher : Little Brown and Company (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Union written by David Walter and published by Little Brown and Company (UK). This book was released on 1984 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cities in Motion

Author : Su Lin Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107108330
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Cities in Motion written by Su Lin Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia's ethnically diverse port cities, seen within the global context of the interwar era.

Satan's Playground

Author : Paul J Vanderwood
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082239166X
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Satan's Playground written by Paul J Vanderwood and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satan’s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town “Satan’s Playground,” unintentionally increasing its licentious allure. The area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons (three Americans and one Mexican) in 1928. Diplomats, royalty, film stars, sports celebrities, politicians, patricians, and nouveau-riche capitalists flocked to Agua Caliente’s luxurious complex of casinos, hotels, cabarets, and sports extravaganzas, and to its world-renowned thoroughbred racetrack. Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Louis B. Mayer, the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, and the boxer Jack Dempsey were among the regular visitors. So were mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel, who later cited Agua Caliente as his inspiration for building the first such resort on what became the Las Vegas Strip. Less than a year after Agua Caliente opened, gangsters held up its money-car in transit to a bank in San Diego, killing the courier and a guard and stealing the company money pouch. Paul J. Vanderwood weaves the story of this heist gone wrong, the search for the killers, and their sensational trial into the overall history of the often-chaotic development of Agua Caliente, Tijuana, and Southern California. Drawing on newspaper accounts, police files, court records, personal memoirs, oral histories, and “true detective” magazines, he presents a fascinating portrait of vice and society in the Jazz Age, and he makes a significant contribution to the history of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Digital Playgrounds

Author : Sara M. Grimes
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442668202
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Digital Playgrounds written by Sara M. Grimes and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Playgrounds explores the key developments, trends, debates, and controversies that have shaped children’s commercial digital play spaces over the past two decades. It argues that children’s online playgrounds, virtual worlds, and connected games are much more than mere sources of fun and diversion – they serve as the sites of complex negotiations of power between children, parents, developers, politicians, and other actors with a stake in determining what, how, and where children’s play unfolds. Through an innovative, transdisciplinary framework combining science and technology studies, critical communication studies, and children’s cultural studies, Digital Playgrounds focuses on the contents and contexts of actual technological artefacts as a necessary entry point for understanding the meanings and politics of children’s digital play. The discussion draws on several research studies on a wide range of digital playgrounds designed and marketed to children aged six to twelve years, revealing how various problematic tendencies prevent most digital play spaces from effectively supporting children’s culture, rights, and – ironically – play. Digital Playgrounds lays the groundwork for a critical reconsideration of how existing approaches might be used in the development of new regulation, as well as best practices for the industries involved in making children’s digital play spaces. In so doing, it argues that children’s online play spaces be reimagined as a crucial new form of public sphere in which children’s rights and digital citizenship must be prioritized.

Power Politics in Haryana

Author : Bhim S. Dahiya
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788121210072
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Power Politics in Haryana written by Bhim S. Dahiya and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an interesting account of Haryana Politics from the time of Ch. Chhotu Ram, upto Ch. Bhupinder Singh Hooda, when it has come of age. Dr. Dahiya s book offers valuable insights into different political personalities and different sociological forces. The book traces the complex political growth of Haryana with its various caste and community interests working at crossroad.

The Office Politics Handbook

Author : Jack Godwin
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601635133
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Office Politics Handbook written by Jack Godwin and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Office Politics Handbook is for business executives, managers, consultants, lawyers, agents, editors, and anyone who wants to become more politically astute, more powerful, and more successful. This is not a book on political game playing; it is for people who hate power games but who know that politics takes place in every organization and want to make sure they wind up on top of the heap...not at the bottom of the barrel. This book will explain why people are political animals, and why they engage in power-seeking behavior. It will also discuss different instruments of power to help you understand the cultural and collective forces at work in human nature, and the occasionally aggressive characteristics of the political animal. The Office Politics Handbook will show you how to: Cultivate your political skill Exercise power beyond your place in the organizational chart Defend yourself against political attacks Know when to fight, when to retreat, and when to lead

Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank

Author : Rachel Z. Feldman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228019540
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank written by Rachel Z. Feldman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Israel conquered the West Bank, formerly held by Jordan, in 1967, over 400,000 settlers have moved into the territory. In recent years, Israeli settler organizations and allied American-Jewish lobbyists have responded to international condemnation of the occupation by mobilizing narratives of indigeneity, claiming sovereign and divine rights to the land. Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank asks what Israeli settlers mean when they say they are indigenous; how settler indigeneity is felt, performed, and mediated; and what the implications of indigeneity claims are on the international stage. Building on foundational scholarship that has come out of post-colonial and indigeneity studies, the volume theorizes settler-indigeneity as a cultural phenomenon and product of transnational settler-colonial histories, while also interrogating the dialectic of “settler” and “indigenous” to illustrate their co-constitution. Considering agriculture, clothing, food, language, and religious practices, the chapters explore how feelings of indigeneity are fashioned and how these feelings continue to transform the landscape of the West Bank. Offering a series of original ethnographic accounts of these cultures and communities, Settler-Indigeneity in the West Bank intimately documents and discusses the processes of settler-nativization in conversation with a variety of related literature in anthropology, cultural studies, Israel studies, religious studies, and settler-colonial studies.

Winner-Take-All Politics

Author : Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416588701
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Winner-Take-All Politics written by Jacob S. Hacker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the growing divide between the incomes of the wealthy class and those of middle-income Americans, exonerating popular suspects to argue that the nation's political system promotes greed and under-representation.

America's Park and Recreation Heritage

Author : Carlton S. Van Doren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Park and Recreation Heritage written by Carlton S. Van Doren and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Power, Politics and Confrontation in Eurasia

Author : Roger E. Kanet
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137523670
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Power, Politics and Confrontation in Eurasia written by Roger E. Kanet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central objective of this edited volume is to help unlock a set of intriguing puzzles relating to changing power dynamics in Eurasia, a region that is critically important in the changing international security landscape.

India - From Regional to World Power

Author : Ashok Kapur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134335768
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book India - From Regional to World Power written by Ashok Kapur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth account of India's role in world politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author shows how the approach laid down by Nehru and followed by his successors (an approach that included nuclear self-restraint, the search for friendly relations with Pakistan and China, seeking the high ground in moral and diplomatic spheres, and giving a lead to the non-aligned Third World) has been replaced. The new, more self-confident and assertive approach of this book is based on India's growing economic strength and has a more strategic and pro-Western orientation. Meticulous in approach, this book discusses this change, shows how it has come about, and explores how India's role in world politics might develop going forward. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian studies, Asian politics, international relations, and security studies.

Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics

Author : Andreja Zevnik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317274911
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics written by Andreja Zevnik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to re-think the way in which the subject is inscribed in the modern political, and does so by exploring the potentiality of Lacano-Deleuzian theoretical framework. It concerns a different ontology and a non-dualist understanding of political and legal existence, by focusing on questions such as how to think alternative notions of political existence and what kind of political, social and legal order do these come to create. This investigation into political appearance of subjects through concepts of law, body and life is led and influenced by the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan, as well as Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri and Slavoj Žižek. The book takes on various conceptualisations of life, explores the relationship between law and life and develops an alternative notion of legal and political existence in particular in the context of rights. On the back of Guantánamo’s legal and political discourses this work aims to show why and how the problems of world politics or the limitations of (human) rights discourse require an engagement with questions such as what it means to exist as a human being, what forms of life are politically recognised, which are not, and why this distinction. By pointing to a different ontology for thinking and understanding global politics and demonstrating how a trans-disciplinary and philosophical approaches can foster the debates in world politics, this book will be of interest to postgraduates and scholars working on critical normative ideas in international politics, critical security studies and critical legal studies.

Getting from Here to There? Power, Politics and Urban Sustainability in North America

Author : Ernest J. Yanarella
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1627345809
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Getting from Here to There? Power, Politics and Urban Sustainability in North America written by Ernest J. Yanarella and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting from Here to There? seeks to take the study of sustainable cities into a realm of analysis and critique that has not been seriously investigated in any explicit and systematic manner: the sphere of power and politics. Using detailed case studies of selected urban sustainability programs-some stillborn or short-lived, others celebrated, still others most promising-it focuses on the political agencies shaping them and the structural elements either impeding or facilitating efforts to build sustainable cities. To accomplish this task, the authors utilize three theories or models of urban power-growth coalition, urban regime, and neo-Gramscian hegemonic-to explore the dynamics of power and politics to better understand these cases and to derive important lessons about getting from here to there. These models offer valuable lessons for ongoing or future sustainable city programs, community or business groups, key policy makers, grassroots organizations, mayors, and urban planners involved in or contemplating moving urban sustainability projects forward, as well as students of urban politics and environmental and sustainability researchers.

Cold Anger

Author : Mary Beth Rogers
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0929398130
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (293 download)

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Download or read book Cold Anger written by Mary Beth Rogers and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the importance which Latinos will have on American culture and politics in the 21st century, very little of a nonscholarly nature has been written about them. Rogers fills the gap somewhat with this journalistic biography of Ernesto Cortes,a grass-roots leader who teaches Latinos how to use the political system. A man who combines religion and secular ideology, Cortes is doing for the Latino communities nationally what Jesse Jackson did in Chicago a decade earlier. The book effectively captures the flavor of the movement in small, rural locales and in major urban centers, conveying Cortes's ideology and energy, as well as the issues close to the Latino heart. A welcome look at minority politics in the 1990s.

The Infinite Playground

Author : Bernard De Koven
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262543869
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Infinite Playground written by Bernard De Koven and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his final work, a visionary game designer reveals how a surprising range of play-based experiences can unlock our imagination and help us capture the power of fun and delight. Bernard De Koven (1941–2018) was a pioneering designer of games and theorist of fun. He studied games long before the field of game studies existed. For De Koven, games could not be reduced to artifacts and rules; they were about a sense of transcendent fun. This book, his last, is about the imagination: the imagination as a playground, a possibility space, and a gateway to wonder. The Infinite Playground extends a play-centered invitation to experience the power and delight unlocked by imagination. It offers a curriculum for playful learning. De Koven guides the readers through a series of observations and techniques, interspersed with games. He begins with the fundamentals of play, and proceeds through the private imagination, the shared imagination, and imagining the world—observing, “the things we imagine can become the world.” Along the way, he reminisces about playing ping-pong with basketball great Bill Russell; begins the instructions for a game called Reception Line with “Mill around”; and introduces blathering games—Blather, Group Blather, Singing Blather, and The Blather Chorale—that allow the player's consciousness to meander freely. Delivered during the last months of his life, The Infinite Playground has been painstakingly cowritten with Holly Gramazio, who worked together with coeditors Celia Pearce and Eric Zimmerman to complete the project as Bernie De Koven's illness made it impossible for him to continue writing. Other prominent game scholars and designers influenced by De Koven, including Katie Salen Tekinbaş, Jesper Juul, Frank Lantz, and members of Bernie's own family, contribute short interstitial essays.