Exploring Childhood in a Comparative Context meets an increasing need for students focusing on early childhood to be familiar with alternative practices in other countries. Providing a ready-made source of information about a wide range of countries including Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, the United States, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and many more, the book clearly describes the way each country understands and conceptualises childhood.
Each chapter includes contextual information about the country, an introduction to the theory that has shaped practice and describes the...
Exploring Childhood in a Comparative Context meets an increasing need for students focusing on early childhood to be familiar with alternative prac...
Throughout history cities have been locations of human encounter. Equally they have been contexts for the trade of goods and services, for the evolution of various forms of urban space, and for the production, development, and enrichment of culture and technology. Many cities grew up along shorelines, which themselves constitute some of the globe's most important cultural boundaries. For above all else, it is water that has separated but also connected different communities, races, religions and nations, down through recorded time. With the rapid advance in technologies of communication,...
Throughout history cities have been locations of human encounter. Equally they have been contexts for the trade of goods and services, for the evoluti...
Elizabeth Kaufer Busch Jonathan White John Agresto
The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education aimed to cultivate enlightened, informed, and vigilant citizens who could perpetuate and improve the nation. Unfortunately, America's contemporary youth seem to lack adequate opportunities, if not also the ability or will, to critically examine the foundations of this nation. An even larger problem is an increasing ambivalence toward education in general. Stepping into this void is a diverse group of educators, intellectuals, and businesspeople, brought...
The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education aimed to cultiva...
Elizabeth Kaufer Busch Jonathan White John Agresto
The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education aimed to cultivate enlightened, informed, and vigilant citizens who could perpetuate and improve the nation. Unfortunately, America's contemporary youth seem to lack adequate opportunities, if not also the ability or will, to critically examine the foundations of this nation. An even larger problem is an increasing ambivalence toward education in general. Stepping into this void is a diverse group of educators, intellectuals, and businesspeople, brought...
The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education aimed to cultiva...
For a century at least, parties have been central to the study of politics. Yet their typical conceptual reduction to a network of power-seeking elites has left many to wonder why parties were ever thought crucial to democracy. This book seeks to retrieve a richer conception of partisanship, drawing on modern political thought and extending it in the light of contemporary democratic theory and practice. Looking beyond the party as organization, the book develops an original account of what it is to be a partisan. It examines the ideas, orientations, obligations, and practices constitutive of...
For a century at least, parties have been central to the study of politics. Yet their typical conceptual reduction to a network of power-seeking elite...
THE SEQUEL TO THE ACCLAIMED FIRST BOOK Following the success of his first book, Jon is back with more true life adventures of a well-lived, vivid and sometimes precarious life. "I must say, I really enjoyed this book. I'm not a sailing person, but I am a traveler and so for that reason, I loved reading about Jon's adventures. His short stories were all very worth telling," one lady reviewer wrote. Venture with him (and his wife) as he runs from angry, wild monkeys on an island off Panama. Get locked up in jail in Iran Experience the magic of carnival in Brazil and an encounter with Jimmy...
THE SEQUEL TO THE ACCLAIMED FIRST BOOK Following the success of his first book, Jon is back with more true life adventures of a well-lived, vivid and...
During the 1980s and 90s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and writers from an array of disciplines. Over ten years, White conducted interviews, gathered in this collection, with the writers, scientists, and environmentalists who gathered on board to explore our relationship to the wild. White describes the conversations as the roots of an integrated community: "While at first these roots may not appear to be linked, a closer look reveals that they are sustained in common...
During the 1980s and 90s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner fea...
