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Computers, Curriculum, and Cultural Change

An Introduction for Teachers

By: Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.,Arlene Brett,Gary N. McCloskey

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Computers, Curriculum, and Cultural Change

An Introduction for Teachers

By: Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.,Arlene Brett,Gary N. McCloskey

Computers, Curriculum, and Cultural Change: An Introduction for Teachers, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to using computers in educational settings. What distinguishes this text from others on the topic is its focus on: *the issue of how computers are redefining our culture and society and the work of schools; *the idea of using the computer as a tool for increasing efficiency and productivity in curriculum; and *the concept of the computer as a tool not only for efficiency, but actually as a means of enhancing intelligence. This text provides students with an introduction to basic computer skills and experience, enhanced by helpful pedagogical aids, including case studies and highlighted features, such as Portfolio Development, Reflective Practice, Computing Timelines, Filmographies, bibliographical sources, and a text-linked glossary of key computer terms. New in the Second Edition: In addition to being thoroughly updated, a new section has been added to Chapter 1, "Creating an Electronic Portfolio," with activities linked to the standards for educational computing established by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Electronic portfolio activities at the end of each chapter give students the hands-on practical skills they need and, at the same time, cover the necessary theoretical and conceptual material for an introductory educational computing course.

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Routledge

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113562707X

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Flourishing Lives

Exploring Natural Law Liberalism

By: Gary Chartier

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Flourishing Lives

Exploring Natural Law Liberalism

By: Gary Chartier

Elaborates and illustrates a radical version of political and social liberalism rooted in a rich understanding of fulfilment and flourishing.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108493041

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Cents and Sensibility

What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities

By: Gary Saul Morson,Morton Schapiro

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Cents and Sensibility

What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities

By: Gary Saul Morson,Morton Schapiro

In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities—especially the study of literature—offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that Adam Smith’s heirs include Austen, Chekhov, and Tolstoy as much as Keynes and Friedman, Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro trace the connection between Adam Smith’s great classic, The Wealth of Nations, and his less celebrated book on ethics, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. The authors contend that a few decades later, Jane Austen invented her groundbreaking method of novelistic narration in order to give life to the empathy that Smith believed essential to humanity. More than anyone, the great writers can offer economists something they need—a richer appreciation of behavior, ethics, culture, and narrative. Original, provocative, and inspiring, Cents and Sensibility demonstrates the benefits of a dialogue between economics and the humanities and also shows how looking at real-world problems can revitalize the study of literature itself. Featuring a new preface, this book brings economics back to its place in the human conversation.

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Princeton University Press

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0691183228

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Christianity and the Nation-State

A Study in Political Theology

By: Gary Chartier

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Christianity and the Nation-State

A Study in Political Theology

By: Gary Chartier

In Christianity and the Nation-State, Gary Chartier provocatively offers readers unexpected critical distance from some familiar ways of understanding, justifying, and navigating existing political arrangements. People in multiple societies are posing important questions about the authority and functions of the contemporary nation-state and about potential alternatives to this seemingly inescapable institution. Chartier seeks to develop a distinctive theological response to the conditions prompting these questions. Affirming liberalism and cosmopolitanism, he reflects critically on nationalism, localism, religious establishment, and theological accounts of political authority. He highlights links between sin and state power and underscores deficiencies in democratic rhetoric and theory. He rejects the idea of a global government, advocating a nonterritorial alternative he labels 'radical consociationalism. Moreover, he presents concrete suggestions for life under the rule of the state.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009344625

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The Politics of Postmodernity

Essays in Applied Hermeneutics

By: Gary Brent Madison

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The Politics of Postmodernity

Essays in Applied Hermeneutics

By: Gary Brent Madison

The Politics of Postmodernity outlines in a clear and coherent manner the implications for political theory that are inherent in philosophical hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is not only a general theory of human understanding, it is also, in terms of its practical consequences, a general Theory of Democracy. This book demonstrates, with reference to current debates, how hermeneutical theory provides the ultimate philosophical justification for democratic practice and universal human rights. One of the book's most significant features is the way in which it attempts to work through postmodernism and the way in which throughout it shows how hermeneutics, while fully a form of `postmodern' thought, is nevertheless distinctive in this regard in eschewing all forms of relativism and in resolutely defending a nonessentialist universalism. This book will be of interest to all those concerned with the fate of the core values traditionally defended by philosophy and, indeed, with the future of philosophy itself after postmodernity.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401007500

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9789401007504

The Bankruptcy of Economics: Ecology, Economics and the Sustainability of the Earth

By: Joseph Wayne Smith,Graham Lyons,Gary Sauer-Thompson

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The Bankruptcy of Economics: Ecology, Economics and the Sustainability of the Earth

By: Joseph Wayne Smith,Graham Lyons,Gary Sauer-Thompson

We live in times of uncertainty and insecurity, at a personal, national and global level. Writers such as Samuel P. Huntington and Robert D. Kaplan, respectively, have spoken of an emerging 'clash of civilizations' and of 'coming anarchy'. This book is also concerned with the future of civilization, in particular with the conflict between economic growth and the sustainability of the biophysical lifesupport systems of the planet, arguing that the flawed system of orthodox neo-classical economics has justified the modernist belief in the necessity of unending economic growth and the ceaseless exploitation of nature.

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Springer

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1349275697

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The Political Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights

By: Gary B. Madison

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The Political Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights

By: Gary B. Madison

Madison uses the concept of civil society and his distinctive version of 'communicative rationality' to provide a closely-argued and robust defence of the neo-liberal political and economic tradition. Writing with considerable elegance and humour, the author draws on the hermeneutical and neo-pragmatist traditions, and on a diverse range of evidence and discussion, mainly concerning transitional economies and societies in Eastern Europe and around the world. Providing a systematic analysis of the multi-faceted notion of civil society, this book shows in detail how the three main orders of civil society - the moral-cultural, the political, and the economic - constitute 'spheres of autonomy'. At the same time, it illustrates how these different orders are closely interrelated and interact in a synergetic manner. A unique feature of this study is the way in which the author demonstrates how the logic of the various orders of civil society is, in a way appropriate to the distinct nature of each order, a logic of communicative rationality. The work concludes by arguing that the only sure way of achieving international justice is by the construction of civil society world-wide.

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Routledge

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1134706472

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Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman

A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade

By: Gary Kates

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Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman

A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade

By: Gary Kates

A fascinating book. Monsieur d'Eon Is a Woman is instructive and a delight to read all at the same time."—Quentin Crisp Born in 1728, French aristocrat Charles d'Eon de Beaumont had served his country as a diplomat, soldier, and spy for fifteen years when rumors that he was a woman began to circulate in the courts of Europe. D'Eon denied nothing and was finally compelled by Louis XVI to give up male attire and live as a woman, something d'Eon did without complaint for the next three decades. Although celebrated as one of the century's most remarkable women, d'Eon was revealed, after his death in 1810, to have been unambiguously male. Gary Kates's acclaimed biography of d'Eon recreates eighteenth-century European society in brilliant detail and offers a compelling portrait of an individual who challenged its conventions about gender and identity.

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JHU Press

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0801867312

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Book's by Gary N. McCloskey

Computers, Curriculum, and Cultural Change

Computers, Curriculum, and Cultural Change

Flourishing Lives

Flourishing Lives

Cents and Sensibility

Cents and Sensibility

Christianity and the Nation-State

Christianity and the Nation-State

The Politics of Postmodernity

The Politics of Postmodernity

The Bankruptcy of Economics: Ecology, Economics and the Sustainability of the Earth

The Bankruptcy of Economics: Ecology, Economics and the Sustainability of the Earth

The Political Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights

The Political Economy of Civil Society and Human Rights

Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman

Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman

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