Download or read book Building Bridges and Colonial Resisdues written by Christopher Kirchgasler and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores how Bridge International Academies in Kenya and other transnational school reforms are "haunted" by colonial residues of who and what are seen and acted on as the "problems" of individual and social development to be resolved. The study's historicizing method identifies, describes, and relates the practices and theories (i.e., the "reason" of schooling) as generating the differences in human kinds that compare and make people administrable to schooling. The dissertation's key historical comparison juxtaposes the practices of a present-day school reform in Kenya--Bridge International Academies--with the Jeanes School, Kabete of early 20th century Kenya Colony. The comparison focuses attention on historical continuities in the principles, practices, and concepts in making the child who is to transform intolerable social conditions in "their" communities. The comparison of past and present makes visible how difference, exclusion, and abjection are generated as particular populations who are made the targets of educational expertise in order to instill qualities they are assumed to lack. The dissertation offers several contributions to the study of education. First, it makes visible the historical qualities of commonsense notions of ontological hierarchies, developmental narratives, and humanitarian warrants to intervene as the political of schooling. Second, its historicizing approach offers a method for studying what is being said and made sensible in school reforms without attempting to reinscribe "proper" identities or redefine the human anew. Finally, the study offers an alternative methodology to comparative and international studies of schooling--not as qualitative and quantitative analyses of policies or programs, but as a scrutiny of the practices that travel and compose shifting notions of "the reason" of schooling itself. In so doing, the study makes it possible to contest the authority of existing systems of reason and consider alternatives other than those already present
Download or read book Folds of Past Present and Future written by Sarah Van Ruyskensvelde and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together important theoretical and methodological issues currently being debated in the field of history of education. The contributions shed insightful and critical light on the historiography of education, on issues of de-/colonization, on the historical development of the educational sciences and on the potentiality attached to the use of new and challenging source material.
Download or read book The Impracticality of Practical Research written by Thomas Stanley Popkewitz and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an alluring desire that research should lead us to find the practical knowledge that enables people to live a good life in a just and equitable society. This desire haunted the 19th century emergence of the social sciences as a discipline, then became more pronounced in the postwar mobilizations of research. Today that desire lives on in the international assessments of national schools and in the structure of professional education, both of which influence government modernization of schools and also provide for people’s well-being. American policy thus reflects research in which reforms are verified by “scientific, empirical evidences” about “what works” in experiments, and “will work” therefore in society. The book explores the idea that practical and useful knowledge changes over time, and shows how this knowledge has been (re)visioned in contemporary research on educational reform, instructional improvement, and professionalization. The study of science draws on a range of social and cultural theories and historical studies to understand the politics of science, as well as scientific knowledge that is concerned with social and educational change. Research hopes to change social conditions to create a better life, and to shape people whose conduct embodies these valued characteristics—the good citizen, parent, or worker. Yet this hope continually articulates the dangers that threaten this future. Thomas Popkewitz explores how the research to correct social wrongs is paradoxically entangled with the inscription of differences that ultimately hamper the efforts to include.
Download or read book Building Bridges written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theories of Resistance written by Marcelo Lopes de Souza and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space is never a neutral ‘stage’ on which social actors play their roles, sometimes cooperating with each other, sometimes struggling against each other. Space has multiple and complex functions in the development of social relations, it is a reference for identity-building, a material condition for existence, and an instrument of power. This book explores the ways in which space has been used for resistance, especially in left-libertarian contexts. From the early anarchist organizing efforts in the 19th century to the contemporary social movements of the Mexican Zapatistas, the chapters examine a range of cases to illustrate both the limits and potentialities of utilizing space within anarchist practice. By theorizing the production of anarchist spaces, the book aims to foster new geographical imaginations that energetically cultivate alternative practices to challenge the status quo. It shows that spatial re-organization, spatial practices and spatial resources are also a basic condition for human emancipation, autonomy and freedom.
Download or read book The Fourth Circle written by John Fitzgerald McCarthy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the political, legal, and economic dynamics shaping environmental outcomes across two districts in Aceh, one of the richest and most expansive areas of tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia. Its central theme is that the present cycle of ecological decline can best be understood in terms of the way political, economic and social forces operate at the district level.
Download or read book Student Vocabulary Companion written by Okyere Bonna and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most words used in the English language today were borrowed (taken) from other languages. Many English words are made up of a root (or base word) and a prefix. Some words also have a suffix. This book ofers basic understanding of word formation and extensive vocabulary, especially for students preparing for standardized tests including SAT, GRE, GMAT and End of Grade exams. At the end of each chapter you will find various worksheets to help you practice and master your vocabulary.
Download or read book The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636 1776 written by Connecticut and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building Bridges Carving Niches written by Grace Loh and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideals and thinking of Tan Chin Tuan were instrumental in the successful transformation of the traditional family bank into a modern economic institution. This is the lasting legacy bequeathed by the merchant banker, business leader, institutional builder and public figure. In writing this book, the authors conducted numerous exclusive interviews with Tan and had exclusive access to his private papers, and to many documents and materials hitherto unavailable to researchers. This volume adds immensely to the limited literature on the history of local banks in Singapore."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Documents Relating to the Colonial and Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social History of Epidemics in the Colonial Punjab written by Sasha and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the earliest times, epidemics have broken out at regular intervals killing a large number of people. They have presented peculiar problems both to the state and to the society. The colonial India in general and the Punjab in particular were affected intermittently by epidemics. The Punjab was one of the worst affected provinces of the colonial India in which several lakhs of people fell prey to the deadly epidemics. Punjab was the wheat basket of the British empire and the leading recruitment centre for military service in British Indian army. Due to its strategic and military importance, the British handled the epidemics with great vigour. However, in their attempt to contain the epidemic, the British impinged on the privacy and religious susceptibilites of the natives. The present work discusses the role of the state in handling the epidemics and the response of the society to such measures. Sasha: The author is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Panjab University, Chandigah.She did her doctorate in the faculty of Arts under UGC fellowship from the Panjab University. She has to her credit several publications both in international and national journals on the issues of health, medicine and society in the colonial period.
Download or read book You Are Us written by Gareth Gwyn and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perils of Polarization and How Self-Liberation Transforms Leadership Through candid accounts of stereotypically vilified individuals—a jihadist, gang member, and white supremacist—as well as additional interviews with people who have been equally cruel and those who have experienced profound victimization, we learn how rigorous inner work can shift even deeply polarized social issues for the better. Piercing the often unconscious and destructive patterns that arise from a legacy of abuse gives rise to a clear leadership methodology, one that heals individuals across racial, political, social, and cultural divides. These stories of reckoning with trauma, pain, and socialized identity reveal how inner change can affect societal reconciliation; how it in fact directly transforms community, workplace culture, and society as a whole.
Download or read book Colonial Reformers and Canada 1830 1849 written by Peter Burroughs and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1969-01-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During these years of rebellion and political crisis in Canada, the traditional political and economic bases of Britain's colonial system were being revised with the coming of free trade and the acceptance of responsible government. This collection of documents presents the views of a small, influential group of Englishmen on Canadian questions and imperial relations.
Download or read book Building written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecology Cosmos and Consciousness written by Mark A. Schroll and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-05-26 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ecology, Cosmos, and Consciousness is a pioneering work that attempts to shift current paradigms. Its editor and lead author, Mark A. Schroll, incisively identifies the problems humanity faces as a result of philosophies, sciences, and religious movements that ignore the importance of an earth-based focus of humanistic and transpersonal inquiry...The result is a transpersonal, post-modern, systems-oriented approach to cultural theory that is both provocative and well-argued, both visionary and practical, both scholarly and whimsical."
Download or read book Building the Health Bridge written by Fred Lowe Soper and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stavans Unbound written by Bridget Kevane and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years ago, Ilan Stavans published his first book, Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage (1993). Since then, Stavans has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal measure, a commanding if contested intellectual whose work as a cultural critic has been influential in the fields of Latino and Jewish studies, politics, immigration, religion, language, and identity. He can be credited for bringing attention to Jewish Latin America and issues like Spanglish, he has been instrumental in shaping a certain view of Latino Studies in universities across the United States as well abroad, he has anthologized much of Latino and Latin American Jewish literature and he has engaged in contemporary pop culture via the graphic novel. He was the host of a PBS show called Conversations with Ilan Stavans, and has had his fiction adapted into the stage and the big screen. The man, as one critic stated, clearly has energy to burn and it does not appear to be abating. This collection celebrates twenty-five years of Stavans’s work with essays that describe the good and the bad, the inspired and the pedestrian, the worthwhile and the questionable.
