Download or read book Growing Critical written by John R. Morss and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1996, and now with a new preface, Growing Critical is an introduction to critical psychology, focusing on development. It takes a fresh look at infancy, childhood and adulthood and makes the startling claim that ‘development’ does not exist. John R. Morss guides the reader from the early critical movements of the 1970s which gave rise to the ‘social construction of development’ through the wide range of more recent approaches. He looks in turn at Vygotsky’s ‘social context of development’, Harré’s ‘social constructionism’, Marxist critique of developmental psychology, psychoanalytic interpretations of development, and finally post-structuralist approaches following Foucault and Derrida. He surveys the range of alternative positions in the critical psychology of development and evaluates the achievements of Newman and Holzman, Broughton, Tolman, Walkerdine and others. Marxism, psychoanalysis and post-structuralism – as well as such movements as feminism – challenge our understanding of human development. Morss looks beyond the laboratory to Marx and Freud, to Lacan and Foucault. What sets Growing Critical apart from orthodox psychology is the seriousness with which he has thought through the implications of these challenges. Contemporary and ‘reader-friendly’, Growing Critical will be of value to both undergraduate and advanced students, as well as to anyone interested in human development, in psychology, sociology or education.
Download or read book Growing Critical written by John R. Morss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Critical is an introduction to critical psychology, focussing on development. It takes a fresh look at infancy, childhood and adulthood and makes the startling claim that 'development' does not exist. John Moss guides the reader from the early critical movements of the 1970s which gave rise to the 'social construction of development' through the wide range of more recent approaches. He looks in turn at Vygotsky's 'social context of development, at Harre's 'social construction', Marxist critique of development psychology, psychoanalytic interpretations of development, and finally post-structuralist approaches following Foucault and Derrida. He surveys the range of alternative positions in the critical psychology of development and evaluates the achievements of Newman and Holzman, Broughton, Tolman, Walkerdine and others. Marxism, psychoanalysis and post-structuralism - as well as such movements as feminism - challenge our understandings of human development. Morss looks beyond the laboratory, to Marx and Freud, to Foucault and Lacan. What sets Growing Critical apart from orthodox psychology is the seriousness with which he has thought through the implications of these challenges. Contemporary and 'reader-friendly', Growing Critical will be of value to both undergraduate and to advanced students, as well as to anyone interested in human development, in pyschology, sociology or education.
Download or read book Raising Critical Thinkers written by Julie Bogart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for parents to help children of all ages process the onslaught of unfiltered information in the digital age. Education is not solely about acquiring information and skills across subject areas, but also about understanding how and why we believe what we do. At a time when online media has created a virtual firehose of information and opinions, parents and teachers worry how students will interpret what they read and see. Amid the noise, it has become increasingly important to examine different perspectives with both curiosity and discernment. But how do parents teach these skills to their children? Drawing on more than twenty years’ experience homeschooling and developing curricula, Julie Bogart offers practical tools to help children at every stage of development to grow in their ability to explore the world around them, examine how their loyalties and biases affect their beliefs, and generate fresh insight rather than simply recycling what they’ve been taught. Full of accessible stories and activities for children of all ages, Raising Critical Thinkers helps parents to nurture passionate learners with thoughtful minds and empathetic hearts.
Download or read book Growing Tomorrow s Citizens in Today s Classrooms written by Cassandra Erkens and published by Solution Tree. This book was released on 2018-12-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Promote student mastery of essential 21st century skills, including collaboration, critical and creative thinking, digital citizenship, and more. Learn the qualities of the most important soft skills and how we can assess and measure them" -- provided by publisher.
Download or read book Growing Tomorrow s Citizens in Today s Classrooms written by Cassandra Erkens and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Critical Few written by Jon R. Katzenbach and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a global survey by the Katzenbach Center, 80 percent of respondents believed that their organization must evolve to succeed. But a full quarter of them reported that a change effort at their organization had resulted in no visible results. Why? The fate of any change effort depends on whether and how leaders engage their culture: the self-sustaining patterns of behaving, feeling, thinking, and believing that determine how things are done in an organization. Culture is implicit rather than explicit, emotional rather than rational--that's what makes it so hard to work with, but that's also what makes it so powerful. For the first time, this book lays out the Katzenbach Center's proven methodology for identifying your culture's four most critical elements: traits, characteristics that are at the heart of people's emotional connection to what they do; keystone behaviors, actions that would lead your company to succeed if they were replicated at a greater scale; authentic informal leaders, people who have a high degree of "emotional intuition" or social connectedness; and metrics, integrated, thoughtful measures to track progress, encourage the self-reinforcing cycle of lasting change and link to business performance. By leveraging these critical few elements, you can tap into a source of catalytic change within your organization. People will make an emotional, not just a rational, commitment to new initiatives. You will elicit enthusiasm and creativity and build the kind of powerful company that people recognize for its innate value and effectiveness.
Download or read book White Kids written by Margaret A. Hagerman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an increased awareness surrounding diversity and inclusion. In this heated context, sociologist Margaret A. Hagerman zeroes in on affluent, white kids to observe how they make sense of privilege, unequal educational opportunities, and police violence. In fascinating detail, Hagerman considers the role that they and their families play in the reproduction of racism and racial inequality in America. White Kids, based on two years of research involving in-depth interviews with white kids and their families, is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking account of how white kids learn about race. In doing so, this book explores questions such as, “How do white kids learn about race when they grow up in families that do not talk openly about race or acknowledge its impact?” and “What about children growing up in families with parents who consider themselves to be ‘anti-racist’?” Featuring the actual voices of young, affluent white kids and what they think about race, racism, inequality, and privilege, White Kids illuminates how white racial socialization is much more dynamic, complex, and varied than previously recognized. It is a process that stretches beyond white parents’ explicit conversations with their white children and includes not only the choices parents make about neighborhoods, schools, peer groups, extracurricular activities, and media, but also the choices made by the kids themselves. By interviewing kids who are growing up in different racial contexts—from racially segregated to meaningfully integrated and from politically progressive to conservative—this important book documents key differences in the outcomes of white racial socialization across families. And by observing families in their everyday lives, this book explores the extent to which white families, even those with anti-racist intentions, reproduce and reinforce the forms of inequality they say they reject.
Download or read book Expanding Addiction Critical Essays written by Robert Granfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of addiction is dominated by a narrow disease ideology that leads to biological reductionism. In this short volume, editors Granfield and Reinarman make clear the importance of a more balanced contextual approach to addiction by bringing to light critical perspectives that expose the historical and cultural interstices in which the disease concept of addiction is constructed and deployed. The readings selected for this anthology include both classic foundational pieces and cutting-edge contemporary works that constitute critical addiction studies. This book is a welcome addition to drugs or addiction courses in sociology, criminal justice, mental health, clinical psychology, social work, and counseling.
Download or read book The New Jerusalem Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Journal of the Massachusetts Association of the New Jerusalem Church.
Download or read book End Of Knowing written by Fred Newman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. This volume discusses the notion of whether there is a limit to knowledge and 'One Way to Know', in addition to the suggestion that that we no longer need to know, and whether our continued employment of knowing (cognition, epistemology) is useful or useless and destructive of human life and development.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rover Second Edition written by Aphra Behn and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1999-02-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly Aphra Behn—the first woman professional writer—is also regarded as one of the most important writers of the 17th century. The Rover, her most famous and most accomplished play, is in many ways firmly in the tradition of Restoration drama; Willmore, the title character, is a rake and a libertine, and the comedy feeds on sexual innuendo, intrigue and wit. But the laughter that the play insights has a biting edge to it and the sexual intrigue an unsettling depth. As Anne Russell points out in her introduction to this edition, there are three options for women in the society represented in The Rover: marriage, the convent, or prostitution. In this marriage economy the witty and pragmatic virgin Hellena learns how to survive, while the prostitute Angellica Bianca can retain her autonomy only so long as she remains free from romantic love. It seems that in this world women can only be free by the anonymity of disguise—yet the mask is also the mark of the prostitute. And, paradoxically, disguise is the device that in many ways drives the plot towards marriage. Enormously popular through the eighteenth century, The Rover is now once again widely performed. Filled with the play of ideas, it is one of the most amusing, entertaining—and unsettling—of comedies.
Download or read book Inclusive Growth Development and Welfare Policy written by Reza Hasmath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent global financial crisis has increased the scope of poverty and inequality. The gap between the richest and poorest nations has become wider. National income inequality has also been on the rise. The prospect of a shift in designing and implementing development and welfare policies is strong in this new environment. The neoliberal policies of the Washington Consensus are giving way to development models which look to a more active government role in both economic and social policies. Meanwhile, in the parallel universe of welfare policy a fundamental realignment is already taking place. Faced with the current economic and social challenges, policy communities have turned to a variety of instruments to ensure that growth and social inclusion go together. This book offers a systematic analysis of the growing convergence on these matters in the development and welfare state literatures, utilizing the experiences of a myriad of jurisdictions around the world. Drawing upon the expertise of leading international policymakers, practitioners, and academics in the field, this book critiques the theoretical underpinning of growth and development, examine welfare state perspectives on inclusive growth and social/economic development, and presents lessons learned and best/worst practices from the experiences of developing and developed nations.
Download or read book Growing Up Queer written by Mary Robertson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LGBTQ kids reveal what it’s like to be young and queer today Growing Up Queer explores the changing ways that young people are now becoming LGBT-identified in the US. Through interviews and three years of ethnographic research at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, Mary Robertson focuses on the voices and stories of youths themselves in order to show how young people understand their sexual and gender identities, their interest in queer media, and the role that family plays in their lives. The young people who participated in this research are among the first generation to embrace queer identities as children and adolescents. This groundbreaking and timely consideration of queer identity demonstrates how sexual and gender identities are formed through complicated, ambivalent processes as opposed to being natural characteristics that one is born with. In addition to showing how youth understand their identities, Growing Up Queer describes how young people navigate queerness within a culture where being gay is the “new normal.” Using Sara Ahmed’s concept of queer orientation, Robertson argues that being queer is not just about one’s sexual and/or gender identity, but is understood through intersecting identities including race, class, ability, and more. By showing how society accepts some kinds of LGBTQ-identified people while rejecting others, Growing Up Queer provides evidence of queerness as a site of social inequality. The book moves beyond an oversimplified examination of teenage sexuality and shows, through the voices of young people themselves, the exciting yet complicated terrain of queer adolescence.
Download or read book Hero Maker written by Dave Ferguson and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hero Maker, you will learn how to bring real change to your church and community by developing the practical skills to help others reach their leadership potential. Drawing on five powerful practices found in the ministry of Jesus, Hero Maker presents the key steps of apprenticeship that will build up other leaders and provide strategies for how you can: activate the gifts of those around you help others take ownership of their mission develop a simple scorecard for measuring your kingdom-building progress With rich insights from the Gospels, Hero Maker is packed with real-life ministry stories ranging from paid staff to volunteer leaders--from established churches to new church plants. Whether you lead ten people or ten thousand, Hero Maker will not only help you maximize your leadership impact; but, in doing so, you will also help shift today's church culture to a model of reproduction and multiplication. Chicago pastor and church planter Dave Ferguson and award-winning writer Warren Bird make a compelling case that God's power and purpose are best revealed when we train and release others to further advance the Kingdom of God. By becoming a hero maker and investing in others, you can join a movement of influencers that are impacting thousands of people around the world. Everybody wants to be a hero, but few understand the power of being a hero maker.
Download or read book The Right Way to Teach a Child written by DR. TARUN PAL and published by TARUN PAL. This book was released on 2024-10-20 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author’s Pen: As I sit down to write The Right Way to Teach a Child, I reflect on the countless hours I’ve spent observing children, the youth of today, and the educational systems that shape their futures. While I may not be a professional teacher, my observations and interactions with students have revealed a truth that educators and parents alike must embrace: teaching is not merely about passing on information. It is about understanding a child’s natural abilities, recognizing their unique potential, and guiding them with care and thoughtfulness toward a love of learning. Children are naturally curious and full of questions, but without the right environment and encouragement, their excitement for learning can fade. Over the years, I’ve witnessed how personalized attention, tailored approaches, and emotional support can make all the difference in transforming how a child learns and grows. My observations of young people have shown me that teaching goes beyond textbooks; it’s about inspiring minds, cultivating critical thinking, and allowing each child to thrive in their own way. This book stems from my deep passion for education and my belief that every child deserves the opportunity to be nurtured in a way that speaks to their strengths. My goal is to share insights and ideas that will empower parents, educators, and anyone involved in a child's development to rethink how we approach learning. It’s not about following a rigid formula but about recognizing and nurturing the individuality of each child. Whether you are a parent looking for ways to support your child or an educator eager to inspire the next generation, I hope the pages of this book will offer you new perspectives and practical approaches to making a meaningful difference in a child’s life. With warmth and commitment, Dr. Tarun Pal Introduction: Why This Book Matters Education is the foundation of a child’s development, shaping not just their future, but also the adults they will eventually become. Yet, not every child learns in the same way, and the traditional one-size-fits-all approach often leaves many children behind. The Right Way to Teach a Child is my attempt to bridge the gap between conventional education methods and the individual learning needs of each child. Although I am not a professional teacher, my years of observing students, the youth generation, and the education system have given me unique insights into the complexities of how children learn. I’ve witnessed the transformative power of personalized, thoughtful teaching, and the profound impact it can have on a child's emotional, social, and intellectual growth. This book is a guide for both parents and educators, offering strategies, insights, and practical methods to tailor education in ways that ignite curiosity, creativity, and confidence in every child. What You Will Learn In this book, you will discover a holistic approach to teaching—one that transcends traditional textbooks and exams. You will learn how to: Understand a child’s unique learning style and adapt teaching methods accordingly. Create a positive, engaging learning environment at home and in the classroom. Integrate emotional and social development into your teaching process. Use technology wisely to complement traditional learning methods. Support children with learning challenges by nurturing their individual strengths. Why Now? The world is changing at an unprecedented pace. New technologies, societal shifts, and global challenges demand that we rethink how we educate our children. While today’s education system has its strengths, it often overlooks the individuality of each child. This book represents my contribution to a new era of education—one where children are not just taught, but inspired to explore, grow, and thrive in their own unique ways. Whether you are a parent hoping to help your child succeed or an educator looking for fresh, effective strategies, The Right Way to Teach a Child offers a comprehensive guide to nurturing a love of learning that will last a lifetime.
Download or read book Key Thinkers in Critical Communication Scholarship written by John A. Lent and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal anecdotes and candid reflections on the lives and work of these important critical scholars, and their predictions on the future of the field, make this book a valuable resource for scholars and students of communication, media studies, political economy, political science, and those interested in critical theoretical approaches.
