In a world where racial tensions and racial and ethnic inequality seem to be increasing, it is instructive to look back over the decade of the 1990s to examine what academic researchers have had to say about the global nature of race, racism, and racial inequality. Almost every country with a multiethnic population faces these problems. This collection of essays provides an eclectic but accessible mix of readings on perspectives from such countries as Australia, Russia, France, Chile, West Africa, India, and the United States. Emphasis is placed on positive strategies to help reduce or...
In a world where racial tensions and racial and ethnic inequality seem to be increasing, it is instructive to look back over the decade of the 1990s t...
One hallmark of social science is to discover how parts of a social system such as families and other institutions fit together; the accounts of such being marked as a promising direction for the acquisition of knowledge of social phenomena including family-institution interaction. Family-Institution Interaction: New Refrains describes the results of decades of efforts in assessing cognitive and social behaviors associated with the long-term success of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers learning and development. A collection of lessons learned about language and interaction from...
One hallmark of social science is to discover how parts of a social system such as families and other institutions fit together; the accounts of such ...
Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect argues for re-thinking the thinking process and for urban education reform. Weems s work lives in the moment of creation. Her imagination-intellect theory chapters frame this book; she posits that the imagination and intellect are inextricably linked; that like Freire s architect all ideas are first imagined, then intellectually developed in an interconnected process that mirrors the blood s circulation through the body. The two plays and the collection of poems are rich, layered landscapes of African American culture and meanings. They...
Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect argues for re-thinking the thinking process and for urban education reform. Weems s work lives i...
Clearing a Space for Human Action demonstrates how Karl Barth s concern for ethical description cannot be separated from his concern for a proper theological description of the God-human relationship. Early in his career, Barth attempted to describe human ethical agency in terms that respected the co-inherence of dogmatics and ethics, but in such a way that neither human nor divine agency suffered absorption into the other. This book s conclusion calls for a treatment of Barth s Dogmatics as a sustained theological ethical ontology. Only then can we hope to understand Barth s...
Clearing a Space for Human Action demonstrates how Karl Barth s concern for ethical description cannot be separated from his concern for a prop...
Recreating heart is a reinvention of the passion for the love of learning that seems to be missing in our standards-driven curriculum. Based on postmodern logics of relationship, systems, and meaning, (emerging from process philosophies, complex adaptive systems, learning organization theories, and language-games approaches), a dynamic curriculum is conveyed that will allow us to change our way of seeing. This -change of aspect- is necessary for transforming schooling and rejecting the underlying logic of domination inherent in our existing social structures and pervading current...
Recreating heart is a reinvention of the passion for the love of learning that seems to be missing in our standards-driven curriculum. Based on...
The overarching crisis of our times is a crisis of the way we think. There is an underlying separation of mind from body, from emotions, from spirit fundamental to many Westerners ways of knowing the world, contributing to alienating beliefs and practices that fail to be personally fulfilling or ecologically sustainable. Education could be means to foreground the sacred character of human-earth relations and mediate ecological imbalances between humans and the natural world. Ecology, Spirituality, and Education draws on ecofeminist theory, deep ecology, and postmodern process theory to...
The overarching crisis of our times is a crisis of the way we think. There is an underlying separation of mind from body, from emotions, from spirit f...
Liberal Constitutionalism, Marriage, and Sexual Orientation: A Contemporary Case for Dis-Establishment uses constitutional theory and political philosophy to shed light on an elusive feature of American jurisprudence: the establishment of a sectarian preference in the law to the detriment of American citizens who happen to be gay or lesbian and who wish to exercise their fundamental right to marry. Reviewing aspects of liberal-democratic theory, marriage law, and pertinent analogies that deal with the right to marry, Gordon Albert Babst presents the notion of the -shadow establishment,...
Liberal Constitutionalism, Marriage, and Sexual Orientation: A Contemporary Case for Dis-Establishment uses constitutional theory and political...
Lusophone playwrights who wrote under repressive regimes and during politically chaotic times often depicted events in their nations histories that were oppressive in nature including the Inquisition, slavery, and colonialism. Using techniques derived from Bertolt Brecht, the playwrights intended to make their audiences reconsider not only the action taking place onstage, but also its relevance to the contemporary sociopolitical situation. This characteristic can be observed in Brazilian and Portuguese plays written during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as Angolan plays written in the 1980s....
Lusophone playwrights who wrote under repressive regimes and during politically chaotic times often depicted events in their nations histories that we...
