Download or read book Beyond the Status Quo written by Cato Institute and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 1985 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond Status Quo written by Frank William Nielsen Wright and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of Early Childhood Teacher Education written by Leslie J. Couse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook synthesizes both contemporary research and best practices in early childhood teacher education, a unique segment of teacher education defined by its focus on child development, the role of the family, and support for all learners. The first volume of its kind, the Handbook of Early Childhood Teacher Education provides comprehensive coverage on key topics in the field, including the history of early childhood teacher education programs, models for preparing early childhood educators, pedagogical approaches to supporting diverse learners, and contemporary influences on this quickly expanding area of study. Appropriate for early childhood teacher educators as well as both pre- and in-service teachers working with children from birth through 8, this handbook articulates the unique features of early childhood teacher education, highlighting the strengths and limitations of current practice as based in empirical research. It concludes by charting future directions for research with an aim to improve the preparation of early childhood educators.

Download or read book GRASPED Beyond the Status Quo written by Steven Brough and published by GRASPED Digital. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GRASPED Beyond the Status Quo Innovating Marketing Practices for the Digital Age embarks on a transformative journey, inviting readers to reimagine the realm of marketing in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. This comprehensive guide offers a deep dive into the innovative approaches that challenge traditional marketing dogmas, urging businesses to embrace change and harness the potential of digital advancements to stay ahead in a competitive marketplace. Insightful Analysis and Practical Strategies GRASPED Beyond the Status Quo is not just another marketing manual; it is a clarion call for marketers and businesses to break free from conventional strategies that no longer suffice in the digital age. The book meticulously analyses the limitations of traditional marketing methods and presents a compelling argument for embracing new media, technologies, and mindsets. Each chapter, from exploring digital advertising to leveraging advanced CRM technologies, is enriched with real-world examples, case studies, and actionable insights that bridge the gap between theory and practice. Forward-Thinking and Comprehensive Approach One of the book's strengths lies in its comprehensive approach to redefining the marketing mix for the digital age. It extends beyond the conventional 4Ps to incorporate elements such as people, process, and physical evidence, demonstrating a deep understanding of how digital transformation affects every aspect of marketing. This holistic view empowers readers to craft marketing strategies that are not only effective but also adaptable and resilient in the face of technological advancements. Engaging and Inspirational Tone The author's ability to infuse motivational rhetoric throughout the narrative transforms the book from a mere instructional guide to an inspirational manifesto for innovation in marketing. This engaging tone encourages readers to view the challenges of digital transformation as opportunities for growth and innovation, making the book a valuable resource for marketers, business leaders, and entrepreneurs alike.

Download or read book European Constitutionalism Beyond the State written by J. H. H. Weiler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars of European constitutionalism highlight different facets of the constitutional discussion.

Download or read book Reframing Drag written by Kayte Stokoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reframing Drag provides a critical survey of French and Anglo-American queer and feminist theorizations of drag performance, placing these approaches in a dialogue with contemporary drag practice and the representation of drag in three literary texts. Challenging pervasive assumptions circulating in existing queer and feminist analyses of drag performance, the author identifi es and questions three recurring ideas which have shaped the landscape of drag research: the argument that drag performances either uphold or subvert oppressive gender norms, the assumption that drag involves performing as the ‘opposite sex’, and the belief that drag can shed light on gender performativity. Informed by a range of gender and queer theory, this work contends that an intersectional, transfeminist approach to drag performance can provide richer, more nuanced understandings of drag and, unlike the ‘opposite sex’ narrative, acknowledges the gender diversity at work in current drag scenes.

Download or read book From Status Quo to Creativity written by Ijeoma Nwankwo and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first book, From Status Quo to Creativity, Ijeoma Nwankwo encourages her readers to push past complacency and strive for something greater. “The goal here,” she writes, “is to be bold while staying aware of the importance of creativity, which can advance you as an individual and add greater value to the overall work you take part in.” Through a straightforward, step-by-step process, readers explore the keys to creativity, learn how to conquer everyday obstacles, and embrace innovation. With in-depth explanations on ROI, customer—unsung hero, automation, problem solving and SMART goals, From Status Quo to Creativity guides the reader through exercises designed to help everyone from beginners to experts dig deeper and reach higher. For those looking to push ahead in the business world and break through the barriers of the mundane, Nwankwo has a powerful message: “You can do it!”

Download or read book Beyond Equality written by Madeleine Kunin and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond Price written by J. David Velleman and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nine lively essays, bioethicist J. David Velleman challenges the prevailing consensus about assisted suicide and reproductive technology, articulating an original approach to the ethics of creating and ending human lives. He argues that assistance in dying is appropriate only at the point where talk of suicide is not, and he raises moral objections to anonymous donor conception. In their place, Velleman champions a morality of valuing personhood over happiness in making end-of-life decisions, and respecting the personhood of future children in making decisions about procreation. These controversial views are defended with philosophical rigor while remaining accessible to the general reader. Written over Velleman's 30 years of undergraduate teaching in bioethics, the essays have never before been collected and made available to a non-academic audience. They will open new lines of debate on issues of intense public interest.

Download or read book This Is Where You Belong written by Melody Warnick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Gretchen Rubin’s megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you live The average restless American will move 11.7 times in a lifetime. For Melody Warnick, it was move #6, from Austin, Texas, to Blacksburg, Virginia, that threatened to unhinge her. In the lonely aftermath of unpacking, she wondered: Aren’t we supposed to put down roots at some point? How does the place we live become the place we want to stay? This time, she had an epiphany. Rather than hold her breath and hope this new town would be her family’s perfect fit, she would figure out how to fall in love with it—no matter what. How we come to feel at home in our towns and cities is what Warnick sets out to discover in This Is Where You Belong. She dives into the body of research around place attachment—the deep sense of connection that binds some of us to our cities and increases our physical and emotional well-being—then travels to towns across America to see it in action. Inspired by a growing movement of placemaking, she examines what its practitioners are doing to create likeable locales. She also speaks with frequent movers and loyal stayers around the country to learn what draws highly mobile Americans to a new city, and what makes us stay. The best ideas she imports to her adopted hometown of Blacksburg for a series of Love Where You Live experiments designed to make her feel more locally connected. Dining with her neighbors. Shopping Small Business Saturday. Marching in the town Christmas parade. Can these efforts make a halfhearted resident happier? Will Blacksburg be the place she finally stays? What Warnick learns will inspire you to embrace your own community—and perhaps discover that the place where you live right now . . . is home.

Download or read book Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform written by Charles Hugh Smith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our status quo-the pyramid of wealth and power dominated by the few at the top-has failed and is beyond reform. This failure is not rooted in superficial issues such as politics or governmental regulations; the failure is structural. The very foundation of the status quo has rotted away, and brushing on another coat of reformist paint will not save our societal house from collapse. Yet those who benefit from our status quo naturally deny it has failed, for the reason that it has yet to fail them personally-either pretending to not understand all unsustainable systems eventually collapse, or hoping to postpone it. The writing is on the wall for us to read: We are doing more of what has failed spectacularly. We are implementing emergency measures as permanent policies. We receive diminishing returns on status quo solutions. We suffer declining social mobility. We have a loss of social cohesion/shared purpose. Our status quo is not only failing to solve humanity's six core problems-it has become the problem. Since this failure is now inevitable, something is coming to replace it. It is urgent that each of us understand why our status quo has failed, and why the usual menu of reforms can't stop this failure, so we can prepare ourselves for the radical transformations ahead.

Download or read book Beyond D tente written by Nils Bertel Einar Andrén and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1976-07-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on international relations between capitalist countries and socialist countries in Europe - discusses political ideology in Eastern Europe-Western Europe relations, the role of NATO and the EC in western policy-making, east-west economic cooperation, international organizations and negotiations, etc. References and statistical tables.

Download or read book Common Standards for K 12 Education written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standards-based accountability has become a central feature of the public education system in each state and is a theme of national discussions about how achievement for all students can be improved and achievement gaps narrowed. Questions remain, however, about the implementation of standards and accountability systems and about whether their potential benefits have been fully realized. Each of the 50 states has adopted its own set of standards, and though there is overlap among them, there is also wide variation in the ways states have devised and implemented their systems. This variety may have both advantages and disadvantages, but it nevertheless raises a fundamental question: Is the establishment of common K-12 academic standards, which states could voluntarily adopt, the logical next step for standards-based reform? The goal of this book is not to answer the policy question of whether or not common standards would be a good idea. Rather, the book provides an objective look at the available evidence regarding the ways in which standards are currently functioning, the strategies that might be used to pursue common standards, and the issues that doing so might present.

Download or read book Beyond Accompaniment written by William A. Nordenbrock and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a community experiences a fracture in its communal life, what tools can be used to foster reconciliation? How can right relationship be restored when there is conflict in the Body of Christ? In Beyond Accompaniment, William Nordenbrock proposes the use of a process that is based in the theory of Appreciative Inquiry as a ministerial method to guide a community from brokenness to communion. His practical application of this process in his work with St. Agatha Catholic Church in Chicago? A community whose pastor had been accused and convicted of sexually abusing minors in the parish? Will be beneficial for communities experiencing conflict of any kind. Nordenbrock helps us focus on the positive aspects of our communities in order to discover that our redemption and reconciliation with God, won for us by Christ, is inseparable from the reconciliation and communion that Christians are to live with one another." William A. Nordenbrock, CPPS, is an ordained member of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. He is on staff at the Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation in Chicago (pbmr.org). Nordenbrock has served his congregation in a number of administrative roles and is currently a member of their General Council. "

Download or read book Beyond Optimizing written by Michael Slote and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy, economics, and decision theory have long been dominated by the idea that rational choice consists of seeking or achieving one's own greatest good. Beyond Optimizing argues that our ordinary understanding of practical reason is more complex than this, and also that optimizing/maximizing views are inadequately supported by the considerations typically offered in their favor. Michael Slote challenges the long-dominant conception of individual rationality, which has to a large extent shaped the very way we think about the essential problems and nature of rationality, morality, and the relations between them. He contests the accepted view by appealing to a set of real-life examples, claiming that our intuitive reaction to these examples illustrates a significant and prevalent, if not always dominant, way of thinking. Slote argues that common sense recognizes that one can reach a point where "enough is enough," be satisfied with what one has, and, hence, rationally decline an optimizing alternative. He suggests that, in the light of common sense, optimizing behavior is often irrational. Thus, Slote is not merely describing an alternative mode of rationality; he is offering a rival theory. And the numerous parallels he points out between this common-sense theory of rationality and common-sense morality are then shown to have important implications for the long-standing disagreement between commonsense morality and utilitarian consequentialism. Beyond Optimizing is notable for its use of a much richer vocabulary of criticism than optimizing/maximizing models ever call upon. And it further argues that recent empirical investigations of the development of altruism and moral motivation need to be followed up by psychological studies of how moderation, and individual rationality more generally, take shape within developing individuals.

Download or read book Beyond the Status Quo written by Nicola and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start a trip that will change your life with "Beyond the Status Quo: The Struggle to Break New Ground," an interesting look at how people are strong, how they come up with new ideas, and how they never stop trying to make things better. In this fascinating book, Nicola dives into the complexities of going against the grain, revealing the social and psychological factors that make people unwilling to change. Find fascinating case studies that shed light on people and businesses that are stuck in the comfort trap and show how small moments of dissatisfaction can lead to big changes. Nicola expertly moves between historical and modern times, showing remarkable people who were brave enough to break the rules and change the world. As the story goes on, it's clear that discontent is a key factor in driving creativity and social progress. In her detailed profiles, Nicola looks at visionaries who dared to challenge the status quo and made a lasting impact on their areas. Find out the mindset and traits that set these trailblazers apart, which will give you deep insights into the structure of transformative thought. As the trip goes on, the book deals with the many kinds of resistance that come up when you try something new. Nicola skillfully combines strategies with real-life examples, giving readers priceless information on how to get past problems and handle the complicated nature of change. The book "Beyond the Status Quo" does more than just break new ground; it also deeply explores the art of keeping motion going, giving people and groups a way to avoid the pull of the status quo. Nicola shows successful projects that have changed industries and pushed humanity forward. These projects focus on teamwork, innovation, and the importance of working together. This groundbreaking work is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how change works, push the limits of what they know, and help create a world where progress is always being made. "Beyond the Status Quo" is more than just a book; it's a guide to reaching your full potential, breaking down barriers, and adding to the story of human progress.

Download or read book Beyond Babylon written by Igiaba Scego and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes Argentina's horrific dirty war, the chaotic final years of brutal dictatorship in Somalia, and the modern-day excesses of Italy's right-wing politics through the words of two half-sisters, their mothers, and the elusive father who ties their stories together"--