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The Miracle of Hospitality

Author : Luigi Giussani
Publisher : Slant Books
ISBN 13 : 1639821317
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Miracle of Hospitality written by Luigi Giussani and published by Slant Books. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his introduction, Fr. Julián Carrón asks: "Why is hospitality a miracle? It seems like something we should take for granted-opening the door of our home and letting someone in should be normal." And yet, he notes, "it is so exceptional that when it happens, everyone is amazed." In the talks and interviews collected in The Miracle of Hospitality, Fr. Luigi Giussani, founder of the international lay movement Communion and Liberation (CL), delves into the source of this miracle-the free gift we call charity. He writes: "Only if we are aware that we are loved-with clarity or confusion, implicitly or explicitly-can we love, which means to embrace, to welcome within us, and to share." Fr. Giussani's words were shaped by a long-running dialogue with the Welcoming Families Association, an organization that emerged out of the lived experience of CL and which has for many years promoted foster care and adoption, as well as support for migrants, the elderly, and the disabled. Given the ever-present phenomena of war, mass migration, and the many threats facing millions of children today, the miracle of hospitality is more urgently needed than ever.

Educational Transactional Analysis

Author : Giles Barrow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317416147
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Educational Transactional Analysis written by Giles Barrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are a small number of titles exploring Transactional Analysis in specific educational settings, there is no comprehensive account of this practical psychology for learning. Educational Transactional Analysis draws together a team of contributors from the international educational TA community, offering perspectives from Europe, India, South Africa, Australia, Japan and the United States to explain and illustrate the practice of this exciting development in education. Establishing a seminal overview that will make it the ‘go to’ text, the book covers four key sections: Philosophy, Politics, Principles & Educational Transactional Analysis The Identity of the Teacher Educational Transactional Analysis and Schooling Educational Transactional Analysis: Adult learning and community development Aimed at educators in all contexts, researchers, students and trainers, this book will be an essential resource for those that wish to deepen their understanding of educational TA or are involved in formal TA training.

The Archipelago

Author : John Foot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 140884351X
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Archipelago written by John Foot and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light' Sunday Times Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some people claimed had ceased to exist. And yet, as rural society disappeared almost overnight, by the 1960s, it could boast the fastest-growing economy in the world. In The Archipelago, historian John Foot chronicles Italy's tumultuous history from the post-war period to the present day. From the silent assimilation of fascists into society after 1945 to the artistic peak of neorealist cinema, he examines both the corrupt and celebrated sides of the country. While often portrayed as a failed state on the margins of Europe, Italy has instead been at the centre of innovation and change – a political laboratory. This new history tells the fascinating story of a country always marked by scandal but with the constant ability to re-invent itself. Comprising original research and lively insights, The Archipelago chronicles the crises and modernisations of more than seventy years of post-war Italy, from its fields, factories, squares and housing estates to Rome's political intrigue.

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire

Author : Heather Ellis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350239143
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire written by Heather Ellis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories. The period between 1800 and 1920 was pivotal in the global history of education and witnessed many of the key developments which still shape the aims, context and lived experience of education today. These developments included the spread of state sponsored mass elementary education; the efforts of missionary societies and other voluntary movements; the resistance, agency and counter-initiatives developed by indigenous and other colonized peoples as well as the increasingly complex cross border encounters and movements which characterized much educational activity by the end of this period. An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education.

The Gospel According to St. Paul

Author : Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini SJ
Publisher : The Word Among Us Press
ISBN 13 : 1593254202
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Gospel According to St. Paul written by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini SJ and published by The Word Among Us Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pope Benedict XVI has proclaimed a year dedicated to St. Paul, beginning on June 29, 2008. Readers can celebrate the “Year of St. Paul” by praying through this unique collection of meditations by renowned biblical scholar and retired archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini. In simple and moving language, Martini weaves together St. Paul’s life, character, and teachings in such a way that we come to know the apostle as a human being with the same hopes and struggles that we have. At the end of each chapter, Cardinal Martini leads us through a series of questions to help us reflect on our own lives in light of St. Paul’s experiences. The depth and significance of St. Paul’s New Testament teachings—and their relevance to our lives today—come to light in these meditations, most of which are being published in English for the first time.

New Trends in Astronomy Teaching

Author : L. Gouguenheim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521623735
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book New Trends in Astronomy Teaching written by L. Gouguenheim and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do students learn astronomy? How can the World-Wide Web be used to teach? And how do planetariums help with educating the public? These are just some of the timely questions addressed in this stimulating review of new trends in the teaching of astronomy. Based on an international meeting hosted by the University of London and the Open University (IAU Colloquium 162), this volume presents articles by experts from around the world. The proceedings of the first IAU Colloquium (105), The Teaching of Astronomy, edited by Percy and Pasachoff, were first published in 1990 and soon became established as the definitive resource for astronomy teachers. Astronomy education has advanced enormously in the intervening 7 years, and this sequel will inspire and encourage teachers of astronomy at all levels and provide them with wealth of ideas and experience on which to build.

Thinking about Provincialism in Thinking

Author : Krzysztof Brzechczyn
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209006
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Thinking about Provincialism in Thinking written by Krzysztof Brzechczyn and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2015-06-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material /Editors Thinking about Provincialism in Thinking -- INTRODUCTION /Katarzyna Paprzycka and Krzysztof Brzechczyn -- ON THE HIDDEN UNITY OF SOCIAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES (1998) /Leszek Nowak -- THE STRUCTURE OF PROVINCIAL THOUGHT. HALF ESSAY, HALF THESIS (1998) /Leszek Nowak -- MODELS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (1976) /Leszek Nowak -- NATIONS AND PHILOSOPHIES. REFLECTIONS ON TWARDOWSKI'S VIEWS /Jan Woleński -- FROM COSMOPOLITISM TO NATIONAL-POPULAR CULTURE. GRAMSCIAN ATTEMPT AT OVERCOMING PROVINCIALISM /Giacomo Borbone -- HUMAN ON THE PERIPHERY OF COMMUNITY. WITOLD GOMBROWICZ ON PROVINCIALISM /Mieszko Ciesielski -- HISPANIC-AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY IN THE FRINGES OF THE EMPIRE /Adolfo García de la Sienra and Leandro Rodríguez Medina -- DOES HISTORIOGRAPHY NEED TO BE PROVINCIAL?. INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION OF IDEAS AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE COOPERATION OF POLISH AND FRENCH HISTORIANS IN THE PERIOD OF THE PEOPLE'S OF REPUBLIC OF POLAND /Patryk Pleskot -- METHODOLOGICAL UNIVERSALISM IN SCIENCE AND ITS LIMITS. IMPERIALISM VERSUS COMPLEXITY /Wenceslao J. Gonzalez -- ORIENTALISM AS A SIGN OF PROVINCIALISM /Eliza Karczyńska -- THE CONTEXT OF THE 'THIRD MISSION ' IN THE 'PERIPHERAL UNIVERSITIES '. A CASE STUDY OF THE 'CROSS-BORDER UNIVERSITY ' /Cezary Kościelniak -- ON COURAGE OF ACTIONS AND COWARDICE OF THINKING. LESZEK NOWAK ON THE PROVINCIALISM OF THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SOLIDARNOŚĆ /Krzysztof Brzechczyn -- PARADIGMS, MARKETS, AND POLITICS. FROM PROVINCE TO METROPOLIS AND RETOUR /Max Urchs and Uwe Scheffler -- SOME REMARKS ON THE SPACE-TIME OF CULTURE /Barbara Przybylska-Czajkowska and Waldemar Czajkowski -- THE INTELLECTUAL SUPERPOWER. AN ATTEMPT AT A CORRECTION OF NOWAK'S MODEL OF PROVINCIALISM /Katarzyna Paprzycka.

Annuario 2014-2015

Author : Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "San Francesco" di Mantova
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291840923
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Annuario 2014-2015 written by Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose "San Francesco" di Mantova and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'offerta formativa dell'Istituto Superiore di Scienze religiose di Mantova prevede due cicli, uno triennale per il conseguimento della Laurea in Scienze Religiose (o Baccalaureato), e uno specialistico biennale per il conseguimento della Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Religiose (o Licenza). Il secondo ciclo comprende due indirizzi di specializzazione: uno pedagogico-didattico per la scuola e uno pastorale-ministeriale.

Enhancing Crop Genepool Use

Author : Nigel Maxted
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1780646135
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Enhancing Crop Genepool Use written by Nigel Maxted and published by CABI. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintaining food security in the face of human population increase and climate change is one of the critical challenges facing us in the 21st Century. Utilisation of the full range of agrobiodiversity will be a necessary tool in addressing this challenge. In this book a team of international contributors review all aspects of utilization and conservation of crop wild relative (CWR) and landrace (LR) diversity as a basis for crop improvement and future food security. This book will appeal to a wide array of specialists and postgraduate students, such as those working in the fields of agrobiodiversity conservation and use, conservation, ecology, botany, genetics, plant breeding and agriculture.

Italy and the Environmental Humanities

Author : Serenella Iovino
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813941083
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Italy and the Environmental Humanities written by Serenella Iovino and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches--including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal and landscape studies--to move past cliché and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place. Among the topics investigated are post-seismic rubble and the stratifying geosocial layers of the Anthropocene, the landscape connections in the work of writers such as Calvino and Buzzati, the contaminated fields of the ecomafia’s trafficking, Slow Food’s gastronomy of liberation, poetic birds and historic forests, resident parasites, and nonhuman creatures. At a time when the tension between the local and the global requires that we reconsider our multiple roots and porous place-identities, Italy and the Environmental Humanities builds a creative critical discourse and offers a series of new voices that will enrich not just nationally oriented discussions, but the entire debate on environmental culture. Contributors: Marco Armiero, Royal Institute of Technology at Stockholm * Franco Arminio, Writer, poet, and filmmaker * Patrick Barron, University of Massachusetts * Damiano Benvegnù, Dartmouth College and the Oxford Center for Animal Ethics * Viktor Berberi, University of Minnesota, Morris * Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University * Luca Bugnone, University of Turin * Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia *Almo Farina, University of Urbino * Sophia Maxine Farmer, University of Wisconsin-Madison * Serena Ferrando, Colby College * Tiziano Fratus, Writer, poet, and tree-seeker * Matteo Gilebbi, Duke University * Andrea Hajek, University of Warwick * Marcus Hall, University of Zurich * Serenella Iovino, University of Turin * Andrea Lerda, freelance curator * Roberto Marchesini, Study Center of Posthuman Philosophy in Bologna * Marco Moro, Editor-in-Chief of Edizioni Ambiente, Milan * Elena Past, Wayne State University * Carlo Petrini, Founder of International Slow Food Movement * Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, Miami University (Ohio)* Monica Seger, College of William and Mary * Pasquale Verdicchio, University of California, San Diego

The Landschutz of the Adriatic Coast (OZAK)

Author : Paolo Crippa
Publisher : Soldiershop Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8893277018
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Landschutz of the Adriatic Coast (OZAK) written by Paolo Crippa and published by Soldiershop Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Armistice and the consequent German occupation of the Julian regions, which were in fact annexed to the German Reich with the creation of the Zone of Operations of the Adriatic Coast, the German military authorities decreed the establishment of territorial self-defense units, formed by Italian, Slovenian and Croatian citizens, to flank the German units in the fight against the partisan phenomenon. The Landschutz was thus organized, an ethnically based corps, which had to “contribute to the maintenance of order and security”, and was formally established by Supreme Commissioner Rainer on October 1, 1943. In the varied panorama of units created during the war with non-German personnel, not enough importance has ever been given to these small units of Territorial Defense, and this volume attempts to provide as in-depth an analysis as possible of the life of the Landschutz.

Conserving Biodiversity Outside Protected Areas

Author : Patricia Halladay
Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 9782831702933
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Conserving Biodiversity Outside Protected Areas written by Patricia Halladay and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1995 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limits to expansion of protected area systems underline the importance of seeking new ways to conserve biodiversity. The twelve case studies ranging from the High Andes to Viet Nam support the view that certain traditional agricultural and pastoral systems can succeed in attaining a sustainable level of production while at the same time maintaining both a high level of biodiversity and most functional aspects of the ecosystems.

Itinerari di storia sociale dell’educazione occidentale - Volume Secondo

Author : Rita Minello
Publisher : Edizioni Nuova Cultura
ISBN 13 : 8868121913
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Itinerari di storia sociale dell’educazione occidentale - Volume Secondo written by Rita Minello and published by Edizioni Nuova Cultura. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nel momento in cui si parla di crisi dell’istruzione, eppure si realizza – almeno nelle aree occidentali del benessere – l’obiettivo, per tanti secoli considerato utopico, dell’educazione per tutta la vita, dell’accesso a tutti alla lettura, alla cultura, che conoscenze abbiamo in materia di storia dell’istruzione, dell’educazione, della formazione? Quali conoscenze e competenze ci sono state tramandate come appartenenti a coloro – genitori, educatori, insegnanti, formatori, facilitatori, e tante altre figure di adulti – che sono stati, in un momento o un altro della loro vita, in posizione di educatori, formatori, coach, etc.? I tradizionali manuali di storia della pedagogia, da questo punto di vista, segnano il passo, poiché concepiscono la storia educativa sostanzialmente come storia delle idee e del pensiero dei grandi Autori e Ideologi del passato, non tanto come storia di fatti ed eventi educativo-formativi che hanno segnato realmente i passaggi epocali della trasmissione dei saperi, delle pratiche, dell’identità stessa. Ma la ricerca contemporanea nasce ancora da quella storica, dove lo studio delle esperienze socio-educative fondamentali dell'uomo o la storia della mentalità formativa sono inevitabilmente fonte di esperienza per costruire o ricostruire le azioni formative del presente. A partire dalla modernità, gli orientamenti formativi ratificano un’esigenza percepita diffusamente, di responsabilità (umanesimo metodologico: Barocco, Scienza Nuova, Illuminismo) e di intenzionalità formative (umanesimo storico e dialettico: Romanticismo e movimenti dell’Ottocento e Primo Novecento), di valorizzazione delle potenzialità del singolo, che rifiuta le forme di omologazione e standardizzazione di pensiero e atteggiamenti che frammentano e impoveriscono la condizione esistenziale degli individui. Lanciando uno sguardo al futuro sulla base del passato la ricerca storico-educativa si conclude con la proposta di un framework dinamico dell’eco-identità inteso come contributo per elaborare un nuovo progetto di uomo per la formazione contemporanea.

A Franciscan Discipleship Handbook

Author : Jim F. Day
Publisher : Gorgias Handbooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Franciscan Discipleship Handbook written by Jim F. Day and published by Gorgias Handbooks. This book was released on 2010 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "St. Francis of Assisi is as popular today as ever before. This book deals with the training St. Francis received in undertaking the life of discipleship to Christ and the training St. Francis gave to others to help them live their vocation as disciples of Christ. St. Francis of Assisi was constantly aware of God's hand being ever operative in his own life. Helping others perceive God's direct and personal intervention in their lives highlights St. Francis'way of training others in Christian discipleship."--Publisher.

Education, Urban Development, and Local Initiatives

Author : Centre for Educational Research and Innovation
Publisher : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; [Washinton, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Center
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Education, Urban Development, and Local Initiatives written by Centre for Educational Research and Innovation and published by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; [Washinton, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Center. This book was released on 1983 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative practices in education and local development in Western Europe, Australia, and the United States are described and analyzed in this report. Part One reviews urban problems, their impact on education, and the need for a new approach. Part Two explores how schools and institutes of adult education can provide information about the local community and in the process teach children and adults how to analyze the community's situation and needs. It also describes community service projects that both address the problems of local development and help individual students to choose careers. Examples given include involvement in social services programs and housing rehabilitation programs. Part Three discusses a variety of projects in which schools and colleges concern themselves with improving the local community's economic situation. Examples presented here are school-based youth enterprises, school-business consulting activities, employment training and skills training programs, and college contributions at the teaching, research, and service levels. Part Four stresses the need for an effective alliance between education and development and offers suggestions for aiding this alliance through changes in teaching methods and curricula. Finally, general issues for analysis and themes for further work are indicated. (CMG)

Calcio

Author : John Foot
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calcio written by John Foot and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2006 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calcio is John Foot's love letter to Italian football and its absorbing history. 'Calcio' tells the story of Italian football from its origins in the 1890s to the present day. It takes us through a history of great players and teams, of style, passion and success, but also of violence, cynicism, catenaccio tactics and corruption. We meet the personalities that have shaped this history - from the Italian heroes to the foreigners that failed, the model professionals to the mavericks. 'Calcio' evokes the triumphs (the 1982 World Cup victory) and the tragedies (Meroni, the 'Italian George Best', killed by his number one fan), set against a backdrop of paranoia and intrigue, in a country where the referee is seen as corrupt until proven otherwise. Calcio is no longer a game. It is sometimes difficult to define it as a sport. It is certainly big business and a fanatical civic religion. There is no moral code here. Winners are always right, losers always wrong. This history of Italian football - the first written in English - is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties, riots and scandals in the richest and toughest league in the world.

Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems

Author : O. Ravera
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems written by O. Ravera and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: