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Understanding Higher Education

Alternative Perspectives

By: Chrissie Bowie,Sioux McKenna

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Understanding Higher Education

Alternative Perspectives

By: Chrissie Bowie,Sioux McKenna

Drawing on the South African case, this book looks at shifts in higher education around the world in the last two decades. In South Africa, calls for transformation have been heard in the university since the last days of apartheid. Similar claims for quality higher education to be made available to all have been made across the African continent. In spite of this, inequalities remain and many would argue that these have been exacerbated during the Covid pandemic. Understanding Higher Education responds to these calls by arguing for a social account of teaching and learning by contesting dominant understandings of students as decontextualised learners premised on the idea that the university is a meritocracy. This book tackles the issue of teaching and learning by looking both within and beyond the classroom. It looks at how higher education policies emerged from the notion of the knowledge economy in the newly democratic South Africa, and how national qualification frameworks and other processes brought the country more closely into conversation with the global order. The effects of this on staffing and curriculum structures are considered alongside a proposition for alternative ways of understanding the role of higher education in society.

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African Books Collective

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1928502229

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9781928502227

Intellectual Disability and Being Human

A Care Ethics Model

By: Chrissie Rogers

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Intellectual Disability and Being Human

A Care Ethics Model

By: Chrissie Rogers

Intellectual disability is often overlooked within mainstream disability studies, and theories developed about disability and physical impairment may not always be appropriate when thinking about intellectual (or learning) disability. This pioneering book, in considering intellectually disabled people's lives, sets out a care ethics model of disability that outlines the emotional caring sphere, where love and care are psycho-socially questioned, the practical caring sphere, where day-to-day care is carried out, and the socio-political caring sphere, where social intolerance and aversion to difficult differences are addressed. It does so by discussing issue-based everyday life, such as family, relationships, media representations and education, in an evocative and creative manner. This book draws from an understanding of how intellectual disability is represented in all forms of media, a feminist ethics of care, and capabilities, as well as other theories, to provide a critique and alternative to the social model of disability as well as illuminate care-less spaces that inhabit all the caring spheres. The first two chapters of the book provide an overview of intellectual disability, the debates surrounding disability, and outline the model. Having begun to develop an innovative theoretical framework for understanding intellectual disability and being human, the book then moves onto empirical and narrative driven issue-based chapters. The following chapters build on the emergent framework and discuss the application of particular theories in three different substantive areas: education, mothering and sexual politics. The concluding remarks draw together the common themes across the applied chapters and link them to the overarching theoretical framework. An important read for all those studying and researching intellectual or learning disability, this book will be an essential resource in sociology, philosophy, criminology (law), social work, education and nursing in particular.

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Routledge

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1317271858

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Reckless

My Life as a Pretender

By: Chrissie Hynde

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Reckless

My Life as a Pretender

By: Chrissie Hynde

Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/ undisputed leader of the Pretenders, is a justly legendary figure. Few other rock stars have managed to combine her swagger, sexiness, stage presence, knack for putting words to music, gorgeous voice and just all-around kick-assedness into such a potent and alluring package. From “Tatooed Love Boys” and “Brass in Pocket” to “Talk of the Town” and “Back on the Chain Gang,” her signature songs project a unique mixture of toughness and vulnerability that millions of men and women have related to. A kind of one- woman secret tunnel linking punk and new wave to classic guitar rock, she is one of the great luminaries in rock history. Now, in her no-holds-barred memoir Reckless, Chrissie Hynde tells, with all the fearless candor, sharp humor and depth of feeling we’ve come to expect, exactly where she came from and what her crooked, winding path to stardom entailed. Her All-American upbringing in Akron, Ohio, a child of postwar power and prosperity. Her soul capture, along with tens of millions of her generation, by the gods of sixties rock who came through Cleveland—Mitch Ryder, David Bowie, Jeff Back, Paul Butterfield and Iggy Pop among them. Her shocked witness in 1970 to the horrific shooting of student antiwar protestors at Kent State. Her weakness for the sorts of men she calls “the heavy bikers” and “the get-down boys.” Her flight from Ohio to London in 1973 essentially to escape the former and pursue the latter. Her scuffling years as a brash reviewer for New Musical Express, shop girl at the Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood boutique 'Craft Must Wear Clothes But The Truth Loves To Go Naked', first-hand witness to the birth of the punk movement, and serial band aspirant. And then ,at almost the last possible moment, her meeting of the three musicians who comprised the original line-up of The Pretenders, their work on the indelible first album “The Pretenders,” and the rocket ride to “Instant” stardom, with all the disorientation and hazards that involved. The it all comes crashing back down to earth with the deaths of lead guitarist James Honeyman Scott and bassist Peter Farndon, leaving her bruised and saddened, but far from beaten. Because Chrissie Hynde is, among other things, one of rock’s great survivors. We are lucky to be living in a golden age of great rock memoirs. In the aptly titled Reckless, Chrissie Hynde has given us one of the very best we have. Her mesmerizing presence radiates from every line and page of this book.

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0385540620

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How to Read Your Horoscope in 5 Easy Steps

By: Chrissie Blaze

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How to Read Your Horoscope in 5 Easy Steps

By: Chrissie Blaze

Have you ever tried to learn astrology but been put off by the symbols, squiggles and unpronounceable jargon? Have you got so far but given up because of the increasing complexity? Chrissie Blaze, astrologer, author, broadcaster and international speaker, has spent twenty-five years teaching complex subjects in an easily-understandable way. This practical workbook shows you how to stop reading books (except this one) and start reading charts. It will navigate you through the complexity of the cosmos to understanding your own birth chart in five easy steps.

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John Hunt Publishing

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178279459X

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9781782794592

Superstar Signs

Sun Signs of Heroes, Celebrities and You

By: Chrissie Blaze

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Superstar Signs

Sun Signs of Heroes, Celebrities and You

By: Chrissie Blaze

In our modern culture, everyone is fascinated by the lives of celebrities and they have become our modern day heroes. In this astrological guide to the Sun Signs, brief bios of these modern celebrities as well as heroes of the past, are used to illustrate the different qualities of the Sun Signs, Aries through Pisces. The aim of this book is as a fascinating guide to understanding more about the role of the Sun Signs.

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1789049210

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Understanding Higher Education

Alternative Perspectives

By: Chrissie Bowie,Sioux McKenna

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Alternative Perspectives

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Reckless

My Life as a Pretender

By: Chrissie Hynde

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My Life as a Pretender

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