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Book Watchdogs or Visionaries

Download or read book Watchdogs or Visionaries written by Ann Keane and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains why and how schools and colleges in Wales have been inspected from 1839 to the present. It offers insights into the history of education and education policy making and describes how the ethos of the inspectorate changed over time. In the Victorian period, many inspectors condemned the use of Welsh in the school curriculum but later became active promoters of the teaching of the Welsh language, Welsh history and culture. It analyses the value and impact of inspection in the context of accountability and school improvement. This book critiques the debate about the future of inspection in Wales.

Book Watchdogs Or Visionaries

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Keane
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Release : 2022-11-15
  • ISBN : 1786839415
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Watchdogs Or Visionaries written by Ann Keane and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Watchdog That Didn t Bark

Download or read book The Watchdog That Didn t Bark written by Dean Starkman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter details “how the U.S. business press could miss the most important economic implosion of the past eighty years” (Eric Alterman, media columnist for The Nation). In this sweeping, incisive post-mortem, Dean Starkman exposes the critical shortcomings that softened coverage in the business press during the mortgage era and the years leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. He examines the deep cultural and structural shifts—some unavoidable, some self-inflicted—that eroded journalism’s appetite for its role as watchdog. The result was a deafening silence about systemic corruption in the financial industry. Tragically, this silence grew only more profound as the mortgage madness reached its terrible apogee from 2004 through 2006. Starkman frames his analysis in a broad argument about journalism itself, dividing the profession into two competing approaches—access reporting and accountability reporting—which rely on entirely different sources and produce radically different representations of reality. As Starkman explains, access journalism came to dominate business reporting in the 1990s, a process he calls “CNBCization,” and rather than examining risky, even corrupt, corporate behavior, mainstream reporters focused on profiling executives and informing investors. Starkman concludes with a critique of the digital-news ideology and corporate influence, which threaten to further undermine investigative reporting, and he shows how financial coverage, and journalism as a whole, can reclaim its bite. “Can stand as a potentially enduring case study of what went wrong and why.”—Alec Klein, national bestselling author of Aftermath “With detailed statistics, Starkman provides keen analysis of how the media failed in its mission at a crucial time for the U.S. economy.”—Booklist

Book The Visionary

    Book Details:
  • Author : K Angello-Mayfield
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2010-02-03
  • ISBN : 1449079164
  • Pages : 710 pages

Download or read book The Visionary written by K Angello-Mayfield and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second installment of The Visionary series and Taodore Bentley's emotions have increased his abilities to a new level. Begging his best friend, Michael, to give him the trust to deal with what was wrong, Taodore makes a promise to keep Michael safe, no matter what. But as Michael turns to face him, he is given more of a secret than he had bargained for. As the secret brings them closer, Taodore realizes that everything he needed, all his courage to become normal, lies within Michael's ability to hear him and calm the beast. As they learn more about each other, the two become more connected through the beast and Taodore becomes more aware of everything around them. With this new ability, Taodore has become less obliging and more belligerent towards Markum and begins to think up a plan for he and Michael to leave together - that is until Markum learns Michael's secret. As they question Taodore, the beast reveals Markum's plan for them both causing his love for Michael to make his promise more important than anything else, even if that means sacrificing himself.

Book Bartlett s Roget s Thesaurus

Download or read book Bartlett s Roget s Thesaurus written by and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplies synonyms and antonyms for words in over 800 categories, arranged thematically, providing information on parts of speech, cross-references, and including quotations that use the featured word.

Book Spiritual and Visionary Communities

Download or read book Spiritual and Visionary Communities written by Timothy Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring religious and spiritual intentional communities active in the world today, Spiritual and Visionary Communities provides a balanced introduction to a diverse range of communities worldwide. Breaking new ground with its focus on communities which have had little previous academic or public attention, the authors explore a part of contemporary society which is rarely understood. Communities studied include: Israeli kibbutzim, Mandarom, the Twelve Tribes, ’The Farm’ and the Camphill movement. Written from a range of perspectives, this collection includes contributions from members of the groups themselves, former members, and academic observers, and as such will offer a unique and invaluable discussion of religious and spiritual communities in the U.S., Europe, and beyond.

Book Spiritual and Visionary Communities

Download or read book Spiritual and Visionary Communities written by Professor Timothy Miller and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring religious and spiritual intentional communities active in the world today, Spiritual and Visionary Communities provides a balanced introduction to a diverse range of communities worldwide. Breaking new ground with its focus on communities which have had little previous academic or public attention, the authors explore a part of contemporary society which is rarely understood. Communities studied include: Israeli kibbutzim, Mandarom, the Twelve Tribes, ‘The Farm’ and the Camphill movement. Written from a range of perspectives, this collection includes contributions from members of the groups themselves, former members, and academic observers, and as such will offer a unique and invaluable discussion of religious and spiritual communities in the U.S., Europe, and beyond.

Book Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese

Download or read book Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese written by Vilma De Gasperin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the vre of Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998) from her first literary writings in the Thirties to her great novels in the Nineties. The analysis focusses on two interweaving core themes, loss and the Other. It begins with the shaping of personal loss of an Other following death, separation, abandonment, coupled with melancholy for life's transience as depicted in autobiographical works and in her masterpiece Il porto di Toledo. The book then addresses Ortese's literary engagement with social themes in realist stories set in post-war Naples in her collection Il mare non bagna Napoli and then explores her continuing preoccupation with socio-ethical issues, imbued with autobiographical elements, in non-realist texts, including her masterful novels L'Iguana, Il cardillo addolorato and Alonso e i visionari The book combines theme and genre analysis, highlighting Ortese's adoption and hybridization of diverse literary forms such as poetry, the novel, the short story, the essay, autobiography, realism, fairy tales, fantasy, allegory. In her work Ortese weaves an ongoing dialogue with literary and non-literary works, through direct quotations, allusions, echoes, adoption of motifs and topoi. The book thus highlights the intertextual relationship with her sources: Leopardi, Dante, Petrarch, Manzoni, Collodi, Montale, Serao; Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Blake, Joyce, Conrad, Melville, Poe, Hawthorne, Hardy; Manrique, Gongora, de Quevedo, Villalón, Bello, Cantar del mio Cid; Heine, Valery, Puccini's Madam Butterfly, folklore, popular songs, and the Bible. Ortese thus shapes her literary themes in the background of social, political and economic upheavals over six decades of Italian history, culminating in an allegorical critique of modernity and a call for a renewed bond between humans and the Other.

Book Visionary Wolf   Code Wolf

Download or read book Visionary Wolf Code Wolf written by Linda O. Johnston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two edge-of-your-seat shifter romances from Harlequin Nocturne! Visionary Wolf by Linda O. Johnston Lieutenant Liam Corland is the newest member of an elite military unit for shape-shifters. A tech expert, his task is to counter reports of Alpha Force’s existence spreading online. When the rumors take a dark turn, his mission grows more urgent. His greatest ally is Dr. Rosa Jontay—the woman who’s seen him at his most vulnerable, the woman he knows he can never have…but can’t possibly live without. Code Wolf by Linda Thomas-Sundstrom When Seattle detective and alpha werewolf Derek Miller meets Riley Price, the bond is instant. Feral. Their connection entails enormous risk, for he must keep the existence of his kind secret at all costs. But the forces of darkness have Riley in their sights. Now Derek must choose between the Were code of silence and saving the woman who’s set him on fire.

Book Arthur Lismer  Visionary Art Educator

Download or read book Arthur Lismer Visionary Art Educator written by Angela N. Grigor and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-05-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur Lismer, well-known member of the Group of Seven, was also one of Canada's most innovative educators. Using previously untapped correspondence and papers as well as interviews with Lismer's teaching colleagues, child students, and art students, Angela Nairne Grigor examines Lismer's Arts and Crafts Movement background in his native England, the evolution of the humanistic ideas and ideals that guided his work as both an artist and a teacher, and his international influence as an educator. She gives a vivid portrait of his approach to teaching in an illustrious fifty-year career that took him from Toronto to Halifax, Montreal, New York, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and during which he played a pivotal role in the development of some of Canada's most important art schools and museums. Lismer pioneered new progressive ideas in art education through his work with children as educational supervisor at the Art Gallery of Toronto and, later, at Montreal's Museum of Fine Arts. In exploring Lismer's development as an educator, Grigor traces the history of art education in twentieth-century Canada and charts changing attitudes towards children and art. Lismer emerges as an artist with a social conscience who captured the hearts and minds of the thousands who heard him speak or were fortunate enough to have been his students. Arthur Lismer, Visionary Art Educator includes over a dozen drawings from Lismer's teaching and lecture notes that have not been previously published.

Book Agastya  Young Visionary of the 21st Century

Download or read book Agastya Young Visionary of the 21st Century written by Pashant Rathi and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcending from different stages of age, events, hierarchical and societal status, economic dignity and expressions of art of life, people in this rich and bizarre land of conscience, Bharata, experience and have experienced transitions in the governing system at its every outset. No wonder history of Bharata takes us into the unending realm of time and the creativity in the future possibilities. Advancing towards the 21st century, Bharata and its people despite making improvements in every nooks and corners of human growth, lag behind to lead the cultures of governance to new era of technically and prosperously managed land of skilled forces, 'DAKSHGRAM'. This inception is rediscovered by a young character, AGASTYA, who, by his name, onsets his journey of synchronising the whole system of humane behavior and polity in this century. This novel will let you come out of the darkness under the deep sea however, the story behind plunging down the sea awaits your review for itself.

Book The Art Direction Handbook for Film

Download or read book The Art Direction Handbook for Film written by Michael Rizzo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you'd like to be an art director or already are one, this book contains valuable solutions that will help you get ahead. This comprehensive, thorough professional manual details the set-up of the art department and the day-to-day job duties: scouting for locations, research, executing the design concept, constructing scenery, and surviving production. You will not only learn how to do the job, but how to succeed and secure future jobs. Rounding out the text is an extensive collection of useful forms and checklists, along with interviews with prominent art directors, relevant real-life anecdotes, and blueprints, sketches, photographs, and stills from Hollywood sets.

Book Wilderness Visionaries

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Dale Vickery
  • Publisher : NorthWord Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9781559714358
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Wilderness Visionaries written by Jim Dale Vickery and published by NorthWord Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Visionary   Part 3

    Book Details:
  • Author : K Angello-Mayfield
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2011-02-24
  • ISBN : 1456744771
  • Pages : 682 pages

Download or read book The Visionary Part 3 written by K Angello-Mayfield and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Michael falls to the ground and hears Tad's press-run, Taodore turns to open the door to face the facility and his fate. But the one thing the facility has never paid attention to is Taodore Bentley. As he opens the door, will his beast have the strength to get him free? Will Alexander be able to get himself and Michael away? Will Tad be ready when Weaver arrives, or will the facility capture all of them? As Taodore is weakened by his attempts to escape, the thought he clings to is his hope his friends got away - but did they? As the series continues you will learn how strong Alexander Benson is in his devotion to his best friends and the sacrifices both he and Taodore make in order to keep Michael safe. As Taodore decides to give up, he is surprised as he learns during his struggle to get away that he is more important to the facility then he was lead to believe. All of the control, deceit, and lies are revealed as Alexander Benson sacrifices everything he knows, and gives everything he has in order to get Taodore free.

Book Visionary and Dreamer

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Cecil
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-10-17
  • ISBN : 0691252173
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Visionary and Dreamer written by David Cecil and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eminent literary biographer and critic shows how poetry enriched the art of two representative English Romantic painters In Visionary and Dreamer, David Cecil evokes the century of the poet-painter, when painting drew much of its inspiration from imaginative literature. Samuel Palmer (1805–1881), an unworldly visionary, obscure in his lifetime but now a recognized master, and Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898), the Pre-Raphaelite daydreamer, once revered as a great painter but later admired chiefly for his work in applied art, emerge as artists who turned to their own inner lives to interpret Shakespeare, Milton, and Keats.

Book The Visionary Director  Second Edition

Download or read book The Visionary Director Second Edition written by Margie Carter and published by Redleaf Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring and practical guide to creating a larger vision in early child care.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Mary

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Mary written by Chris Maunder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Mary offers an interdisciplinary guide to Marian Studies, including chapters on textual, literary, and media analysis; theology; Church history; art history; studies on devotion in a variety of forms; cultural history; folk tradition; gender analysis; apparitions and apocalypticism. Featuring contributions from a distinguished group of international scholars, the Handbook looks at both Eastern and Western perspectives and attempts to correct imbalance in previous books on Mary towards the West. The volume also considers Mary in Islam and pilgrimages shared by Christian, Muslim, and Jewish adherents. While Mary can be a source of theological disagreement, this authoritative collection shows Mary's rich potential for inter-faith and inter-denominational dialogue and shared experience. It covers a diverse number of topics that show how Mary and Mariology are articulated within ecclesiastical contexts but also on their margins in popular devotion. Newly-commissioned essays describe some of the central ideas of Christian Marian thought, while also challenging popularly-held notions. This invaluable reference for students and scholars illustrates the current state of play in Marian Studies as it is done across the world.