Download or read book Learning Communities and Imagined Social Capital written by Jocey Quinn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume critically explores themes of belonging, learning and community, drawing on a range of research studies conducted with adult learners in formal and informal contexts and employing interdisciplinary theory from education, feminist theory, cultural studies and human geography. Dominant but simplistic and regulatory ideas and practices of learning community in higher education and lifelong learning are critiqued. Instead, Jocey Quinn argues that learners gain most benefit from creating their own symbolic communities and networks, which help to produce imagined social capital. A rich variety of empirical data is used to explore and demonstrate how such imagined social capital works.

Download or read book Social Epidemiology written by Lisa F. Berkman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the important links between social conditions and health and begins to describe the processes through which these health inequalities may be generated. It reviews a range of methodologies that could be used by health researchers in this field and proposes innovative future research directions.

Download or read book Social Capital Lifelong Learning and the Management of Place written by Michael Osborne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from around the world, this book brings together inter-related research from three fields: social capital, place management and lifelong learning regions. Providing valuable insight into the management of place and the development of learning at a regional level, the book presents international research that underpins the development and implementation of policies and practices that improve the quality of living and working circumstances at both local and regional levels. International in scope and at the cutting edge of research into this growing field that links lifelong learning to place, the book will appeal both to academics undertaking research in this burgeoning field and to those involved in lifelong learning at local, national and international level.

Download or read book Imagined Communities and Educational Possibilities written by Yasuko Kanno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Relationships Capital in Living Learning Communities written by Leslie Nicole Woltenberg and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Schools as Imagined Communities written by S. Dorn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government forces mean the notion of a 'community' school has become less defined by decisions on core curriculum. This collection explores the extent to which collective notions of school-community relations have prevented citizens from speaking openly about the tensions created where schools are imagined as communities.

Download or read book Defining Learning Communities written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper explores the ways in which learning communities are defined, and the commonalities, blurred boundaries and close associations that are apparent between learning communities and other contemporary areas of interest, such as lifelong learning, social capital, communities of practice and distributed cognition. [Author abstract, ed].

Download or read book Professional Capital written by Andy Hargreaves and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of learning depends absolutely on the future of teaching. In this latest and most important collaboration, Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan show how the quality of teaching is captured in a compelling new idea: the professional capital of every teacher working together in every school. Speaking out against policies that result in a teaching force that is inexperienced, inexpensive, and exhausted in short order, these two world authorities--who know teaching and leadership inside out--set out a groundbreaking new agenda to transform the future of teaching and public education. Ideas-driven, evidence-based, and strategically powerful, Professional Capital combats the tired arguments and stereotypes of teachers and teaching and shows us how to change them by demanding more of the teaching profession and more from the systems that support it. This is a book that no one connected with schools can afford to ignore. This book features: (1) a powerful and practical solution to what ails American schools; (2) Action guidelines for all groups--individual teachers, administrators, schools and districts, state and federal leaders; (3) a next-generation update of core themes from the authors' bestselling book, "What's Worth Fighting for in Your School?" [This book was co-published with the Ontario Principals' Council.].

Download or read book Inside Culture written by David Halle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there differences in artistic preferences between social classes or races or between urban and suburban homes? Similarities? How do choices in art works - and the way we display them - speak to our dreams, desires, pleasures, and fears? And what do they say about the real cultural boundaries between elite and popular, high and low?

Download or read book Imagined Communities written by Benedict Anderson and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2006-11-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and transformed by populist movements in nineteenth-century Europe. It became the rallying cry for anti-Imperialism as well as the abiding explanation for colonialism. In this scintillating, groundbreaking work of intellectual history Anderson explores how ideas are formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, and the way that they can make people do extraordinary things. In the twenty-first century, these debates on the nature of the nation state are even more urgent. As new nations rise, vying for influence, and old empires decline, we must understand who we are as a community in the face of history, and change.

Download or read book Critically Engaged Learning written by John Smyth and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book - the finale in a trilogy by the authors - traces the way in which a number of disadvantaged schools and communities were able to move beyond deficit, victim-blaming and pathologizing approaches and access resources of trust, relationships, connectedness and hope. It describes how these Australian schools and communities were able to benefit from working with 'street-level' bureaucrats who had reinvented themselves around notions of socially just forms of capacity-building. The book provides a set of insights into what is possible from a critical engagement for school and community renewal perspective, by working with the resources that exist within disadvantaged contexts, even in damaging neoliberal policy times. Critically Engaged Learning breaks new and important ground across urgent and fractured boundaries.

Download or read book Social Capital and Health written by Ichiro Kawachi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As interest in social capital has grown over the past decade—particularly in public health —so has the lack of consensus on exactly what it is and what makes it worth studying. Ichiro Kawachi, a widely respected leader in the field, and 21 contributors (including physicians, economists, and public health experts) discuss the theoretical origins of social capital, the strengths and limitations of current methodologies of measuring it, and salient examples of social capital concepts informing public health practice. Among the highlights: Measurement methods: survey, sociometric, ethnographic, experimental The relationship between social capital and physical health and health behaviors: smoking, substance abuse, physical activity, sexual activity Social capital and mental health: early findings Social capital and the aging community Social capital and disaster preparedness Social Capital and Health is certain to inspire a new generation of research on this topic, and will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in public health, health behavior, and social epidemiology.

Download or read book Roadblocks to Equality written by Jeffery Klaehn and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notes on the Contributors Patrizia Albanese is Associate Professor of sociology at Ryerson University, and author of Mothers of the Nation: Women, Families and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Europe (University of Toronto Press, 2006) and co-editor (with Tepperman and Curtis) of Sociology: A Canadian Perspective, 2nd ed. She is currently doing (SSHRC-funded) research on Quebec's $7/day child care program and is working on a project on household work and lifelong learning (with Dr. Margrit Eichler, OISE/UT). She has published chapters in edited collections on motherhood and nationalism, Canadian families, and childcare in Canada. She is currently working on a book on childhood in Canada (expected 2009, Oxford University Press), and is co-director of the Centre for Children, Youth and Families at Ryerson University. Susan Bryant is Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Windsor, where she has been teaching since 1999. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Simon Fraser University and a Master's in Environmental Studies from York University. Her research interests focus on gender and labour, gender and technology, critical theories of technology, and culture and the natural environment. Walter S. DeKeseredy is professor of criminology, justice, and policy studies at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. He has written 12 scholarly books and more than 60 scientific journal articles on a variety of topics, including woman abuse in intimate relationships and crime in public housing. He also jointly received (with Martin D. Schwartz) the 2004 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology's (ASC's) Division on Women and Crime, and in 1995, he received the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award from the ASC's Division on Critical Criminology. In 2007, he won the UOIT Research Excellence Award for his many contributions to a social scientific understanding of woman abuse and other social problems. Natalie Dias is a fourth year undergraduate student majoring in Honors Sociology and Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, in Waterloo, Canada. Her research interests include gender, advertising, popular culture, social theory, and social inequality. Peter Eglin is Professor of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo where he has taught since 1976. He is author of Talk and Taxonomy: A Methodological Comparison of Ethnosemantics and Ethnomethodology ... (1980). With Stephen Hester he is co-author of The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003), A Sociology of Crime (Routledge, 1992), and co-editor of Culture in Action: Studies in Membership Categorization Analysis (University Press of America, 1997). As a student of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis he investigates the use of categories for describing persons in practical reasoning in talk and texts in various settings, most recently gender categories and the category "feminist." He is currently beginning a study of university-specific work as an interactional accomplishment. He is also exercised by the question of intellectual responsibility in a number of human rights issues, notably state terrorism in El Salvador in Jeffery Klaehn's Filtering the News (2005), near-genocide in East Timor in Jeffery Klaehn's Bound By Power (2005), and Israeli crimes in Palestine. Danielle Fagen is a prevention/intervention professional at a private non-profit organization that works with individuals and families affected by drug and alcohol issues in Athens, Ohio. She has published an article related to her M.A. thesis in Feminist Criminology, which the official journal of the American Society of Criminology's Division on Women and Crime and she is an adjunct instructor at Ohio University. Kathleen Gotts is a graduate of Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication. Her thesis was a woman-centered, qualitative communication study of the campaign strategies and discourse used to advocate the legalization of midwifery in the province of Ontario, Canada, from 1979 to 1989. Besides her research in women's political activism and communication, another of her key interests is how risk is communicated in public health messaging. Sylvia Hale is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at St. Thomas University. Her major publications include the widely influential Controversies in Sociology textbook (Copp Clark, 1995) as well as The Elusive Promise: The Struggle of Women Development Workers in Rural North India (McGill University, 1987). She is also an award-winning educator. Her research interests include the family, development, and political-economy. Mandy Hall is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. She has published refereed articles in Feminist Criminology and Critical Criminology, which is the official journal of the American Society of Criminology's Division on Critical Criminology. Her areas of concentration are critical criminology, violence against women, juvenile delinquency, and drugs and crime. Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center http: //thirdcoastactivist .org. His latest book is Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007). http: //www.southendpress.org/2007/items/87767. Jensen is also the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Race, Racism, and White Privilege and Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (both from City Lights Books); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang). He can be reached at [email protected] and his articles can be found online at http: //uts.cc.utexas.edu/ rjensen/index.html. Neetin Kalsi is completing her MA in Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research interests include race and ethnicity, knowledge, cultural practices, and social inequalities. Jeffery Klaehn is widely published as a cultural commentator and critic. His scholarly writings have been published in national and international peer-reviewed journals, including the European Journal of Communication, International Communication Gazette and Journalism Studies, and are required reading for many media-related courses at the MA and PhD levels throughout North America and the United Kingdom. He is the editor of and main contributor to Filtering the News: Essays on Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model (2005), Bound by Power: Intended Consequences (2006) and Inside the World of Comic Books (2006). His research interests include popular culture, media, discourse, politics, universities, education, and human rights. Michèle Martin is a professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Toronto, an M.A. from the Université de Montréal and a B.A. from the UQAM, both in communication. Her research is in the historical sociology of technological development, political economy of communication and socio-cultural analysis of the media. Her particular area of interest is the political economic development of forms of communication and their impact on society. Martin's books include Images at War: 19th Century Illustrated Periodicals and the Development of National Identities (University of Toronto Press, 2006), Victor Barbeau, pionnier de la critique culturelle journalistique (Presse de l'université Laval, 1997), and Hello Central? Gender, Culture and Resistance in the Formation of Telephone Systems (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991). Her articles appear in such journals as Réseaux, Histoire sociale/Social History, Labour/Le travail and Journal of Communication Inquiry. She also presented many papers in various international conferences. Michèle Martin has been visiting professor in different universities: the Goldsmith College, Oxford University; the London School of Economics and Political Sciences; the Institut Français de Presse, Uninversité Paris II; the University of Bucarest, Romania. She teaches the political economic development of communication technologies, socio-historical study of the media, politics of visual representation, feminism and communication theories. Claudia Mitchell is a James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University, and an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research focuses on visual and other participatory methodologies particularly in addressing gender and HIV and AIDS, teacher identity and gender, and the culture of girlhood within broader studies of children and popular culture and media studies. She is a co-founder of the Centre for Visual Methodologies for Social Change at UKZN which focuses on visual methods and media education. She is the co-author/co-editor of eight books including several books on girlhood, Seven Going on Seventeen: Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood (with J. Reid-Walsh), Girlhood: Redefining the Limits (with Y. Jiwani and C. Steenbergen) and Combating gender violence in and around schools (with F. Leach). Michael Parenti is a political scientist, historian and media critic. His books include The Culture Struggle (Seven Stories, 2006), Superpatriotism (City Lights), The Assassination of Julius Caesar (New Press), and Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader (City Lights). For more information visit: www.michaelparenti.org. Richard Poulin is Professor of Sociology at the University of Ottawa and is an expert in globalization, sex trafficking and the sex industries. He has been researching and writing about pornography and prostitution for more than twenty years and has published a range of books, book chapters and journal articles in all of these areas. Jocey Quinn is a Professor of Education at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) London Metropolitan University. Her work takes a cultural approach to Higher Education and Lifelong Learning and she is particularly interested in the relationships between knowledge transformation and social justice. She has published widely and has conducted national and international research in this field. This includes research on the impact of the mass participation of women in Higher Education and on working class 'drop out' from HE. She is currently writing two books Culture and Education (Routledge) and Learning Communities and Imagined Social Capital: Learning to Belong (Continuum). Jacqueline Reid-Walsh is a specialist in historical and contemporary children's literature, culture and media and fascinated by girls culture. In these areas she has published on topics ranging from early moveable books and Jane Austen's' juvenilia to Nancy Drew mysteries and girls websites. She is co-author of Researching Children's PopularCulture (Routledge: 2002), co-editor of Seven Going on Seventeen (Peter Lang, 2005), and currently co-editing an encyclopedia of girls popular culture (with Claudia Mitchell). She teaches at Université Laval and Bishop's University. Carole Roy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Adult Education at St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia. Her book, The Raging Grannies: Wild Hats, Cheeky Songs, and Witty "

Download or read book Key Concepts in Community Studies written by Tony Blackshaw and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is both insightful and engaging, enriched with diverse and up-to-date readings. Tony Blackshaw lays bare debates surrounding the uses and abuses of key concepts of community studies and breathes new life into community as theory and community studies as method." - Peter Bramham, Leeds Metropolitan University "I would highly recommend this book to any student who is studying communities and groups in society. The book and chapters are structured in a way that students will find it easy to move from one theme to another; to dip into relevant chapters when needed; to gain a good understanding of concepts and how and why they are applied to individuals and communities. The book encompasses both breadth and depth of key concepts and issues. This book will be compulsory reading on our Community Studies degree." - Lesley Groom, University of Bolton This book defines the current identity of community studies, provides a critical but reliable introduction to its key concepts and is an engaging guide to the key social research methods used by community researchers and practitioners. Concise but clear, it caters for the needs of those interested in community studies by offering cross-referenced, accessible overviews of the key theoretical issues that have the most influence on community studies today. It incorporates all of the important frames of reference including those which are: theoretical research focused practice and policy oriented political concerned about the place of community in everyday life. The extensive bibliographies and up-to-date guides to further reading reinforce the aim of the book to provide an invaluable learning resource. Interdisciplinary in approach and inventive in its range of applications this book will be of value to students studying sociology, social policy, politics and community development.

Download or read book Nurturing Social Capital in Excluded Communities written by Julia Preece and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 Nurturing Social Capital in Communities: The Bridge Centre -- Introduction -- Human Capital -- The Global/Local Interface -- Citizenship -- Social Capital -- Subjectivities -- 11 But is it Higher? -- Political and Financial Implications for Higher Education which Engages with Social Capital -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index

Download or read book Literacy Learning Communities written by ReLeah Cossett Lent and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why just "sit and get" professional development when you can take charge of it? Schools nationwide are using professional learning communities to revitalize staff development, and Literacy Learning Communities shows you how to adapt this powerful framework to target the literacy strengths and needs of students in secondary schools. Whether you're an administrator, a staff developer, or a member of a teacher-study group, Literacy Learning Communities shows you how to make them happen, why they work, and how to get the most from them. In Literacy Learning Communities veteran staff developer ReLeah Cossett Lent shows how LLCs can energize the professional community of any middle or high school. She offers concrete steps toward success: a thorough review of the unambiguous research supporting both collaborative professional development models and the importance of authentic approaches to literacy learning and teaching specific steps for creating an initial literacy learning community to assess your school's reading and writing needs and to develop a three-year plan for authentic, sustained, and embedded staff development practical ideas for meeting your schools' challenges through professional development methods such as action research, peer coaching, and study groups. Throughout Literacy Learning Communities Lent provides smart suggestions for working with resistant faculty, overcoming a school-wide culture of isolation (a particular problem in secondary schools), and strengthening the professional relationships in your school to improve the efficacy of your LLCs. She even presents Questions for Reflection at the end of each chapter to stimulate your thinking and help you move toward relevant and sustained professional learning. Built on a combination of research and real-world experience, Literacy Learning Communities can help you build a culture of professional learning, peer support, and teacher engagement that will improve the performance of every learner - teachers and students alike.

Download or read book Professional Learning Communities written by Louise Stoll and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2007-03-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “All who are interested and concerned about educational reform and the improvement of schools will find this book a must read. It stimulates, it challenges, and it informs, such that the reader is most surely enriched by its plenitude.” Dr Shirley Hord, Scholar Emerita “At last we have a book of international cases to add to the literature on networks! Policymakers and practitioners alike will find the reasons why networks are fast becoming the reform organizations of choice. The book elevates network understanding to a new level.” Ann Lieberman, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundationfor the Advancement of Teaching What is a professional learning community? What are the key challenges facing these communities and how might they be resolved? Is it time to extend our thinking about professional learning communities? There is great interest internationally in the potential of professional learning communities for enhancing educational reform efforts and sustaining improvement. This international collection expands perceptions and understanding of professional learning communities, as well as highlighting frequently neglected complexities and challenges. Drawing on research, each chapter offers a deeper understanding of topics such as distributed leadership, dialogue, organisational memory, trust, self-assessment and inquiry, and purpose linked to learning. The last section of the book focuses upon three of the most challenging dilemmas that face developing professional learning communities - developing professional learning communities in secondary school, building social capital, and sustaining professional learning communities. The authors provide pointers on why these challenges exist, offering rays of hope for ways forward. Professional Learning Communities is key international reading for education professionals, school practitioners, policymakers, academics and research students. It is a must-read for anyone interested in building capacity for sustainable learning and the ability to harness your community as a resource for change.