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Participatory Action Research

Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

By: Jacques M. Chevalier,Daniel J. Buckles

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Participatory Action Research

Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

By: Jacques M. Chevalier,Daniel J. Buckles

Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Participatory Action Research (PAR) provides new theoretical insights and many robust tools that will guide researchers, professionals and students from all disciplines through the process of conducting action research ‘with’ people rather than ‘for’ them or ‘about’ them. PAR is collective reasoning and evidence-based learning focussed on social action. It has immediate relevance in fields ranging from community development to education, health, public engagement, environmental issues and problem solving in the workplace. This new edition has been extensively revised to create a user-friendly textbook on PAR theory and practice, including: updated references and a comprehensive overview of different approaches to PAR (pragmatic, psychosocial, critical); more emphasis on the art of process design, especially in complex social settings characterized by uncertainty and the unknown; developments in the use of Web2 collaborative tools and digital strategies to support real-time data gathering and processing; updated examples and stories from around the world, in a wide range of fields; critical commentaries on major issues in the social sciences, including stakeholder theory, systems thinking, causal analysis, monitoring and evaluation, research ethics, risk assessment and social innovation. This modular textbook provides novel perspectives and ideas in a longstanding tradition that strives to reconnect science and the inquiry process with life in society. It provides coherent and critical treatment of core issues in the ongoing evolution of PAR, making it suitable for a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. It is intended for use by researchers, students and working professionals seeking to improve or rethink their approach to co-creating knowledge and supporting action for the well-being of all.

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Half-Brain Fables and Figs in Paradise

The 3D Mind, Volume 1

By: Jacques M. Chevalier

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Half-Brain Fables and Figs in Paradise

The 3D Mind, Volume 1

By: Jacques M. Chevalier

Half-Brain Fables and Figs in Paradise starts the trilogy on the lateral plane and explores the tendency of each hemisphere to specialize but also to complement or supplement the other hemisphere. Brain and sign processing is thus shown to involve bimodal weavings or reticles of right-hemispheric similarities and left-hemispheric differences. Chevalier goes on to illustrate how whole-brain connectivity generates the crisscrossings of oppositions and metaphors in language, using symbolically rich material ranging from Western naming practices to expressions of ethnobotany in the bible (figs in Genesis), poetry (Longfellow's Evangeline), and native Mexican mythology. Three major philosophical implications follow from Chevalier's "theoreticle" perspective on the weavings of signs and synapse. First, the integrative concept of "nervous sign processing" should be substituted for models of the brain and the intellect that separate biology from mental and cultural activity. The subject matter of "semiosis" is both physical and communicational. Second, sign reticles are orderly and chaotic at the same time. They are subject to patterns of convergence but also to lines of divergence that defy simple modeling, whether analytical or dialectical. Third, sign events are governed by the principle of conferencing, not referencing. They do not refer to things or thoughts signified through representational means. Rather they confer meaning through "signaptic" conversations, reticles of fine lines evolving in language and in neural cells alike.

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0773570160

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The Ethics of Courage

Volume 1: From Greek Antiquity to the Middle Ages

By: Jacques M. Chevalier

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Volume 1: From Greek Antiquity to the Middle Ages

By: Jacques M. Chevalier

This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval periods, as well as the modern era. Volume 1 begins with Homeric poetry and the politics of fearless demi-gods thriving on war. The tales of lion-hearted Heracles, Achilles, and Ulysses, and their tragic fall at the hands of fate, eventually give way to classical views of courage based on competing theories of rational wisdom and truth. Fears of the enemy and anxieties about suffering and death are addressed through the lenses and teachings of medicine, geography, military history, moral philosophy, and metaphysics. For early Christian thinkers, the ethics of fear, fate, and fealty to the Almighty supplant the voice of reason and the wisdom of virtue. Much of Christian doctrine's history is a long journey towards bridging the gap between Greek philosophy and devotion to God and spirits in heaven. Some Church Fathers attempt to dispel the fear of suffering through a joyful craving for martyrdom and the eternal blessings that follow. Others show openness to one or more of the following principles: the abstractions of moral philosophy, the metaphysics of Gnostic enlightenment, the gift of free will and intentionality, the growth of church authority and hegemony, and the intrinsic worth of life on Earth. Augustine, Ambrose, Cassian, and Chrysostom play a central role in revisiting the foundations of Christian fortitude along some or all of these lines. They lay the groundwork for the scholastic adaptations of faith-based rationalism proposed by Peter Lombard, Philip the Chancellor, Albert the Great, and Thomas of Aquinas. The mediaeval period ends with church dissidents and Protestant Reform leaders condemning Rome’s corruption and calling for a return to early Christian faith and the courage of godly fear, submission, suffering, and fate.

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Springer Nature

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303132739X

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The Hot and the Cold

Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico

By: Jacques M. Chevalier,W. Andrés Sánchez Bain,Andrés Sánchez Bain

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Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico

By: Jacques M. Chevalier,W. Andrés Sánchez Bain,Andrés Sánchez Bain

Examines indigenous worldview and myth to challenge the prevailing notion that hot-cold reasoning of health and illness in Latin America is a product of the Hippocratic humoral doctrine brought by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802036910

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Scorpions and the Anatomy of Time

The 3-D Mind

By: Jacques M. Chevalier

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Scorpions and the Anatomy of Time

The 3-D Mind

By: Jacques M. Chevalier

Chevalier (anthropology, Carleton U., Canada), in the third volume of the trilogy, concludes his investigation into links between neuroscience and philosophical semiotics. While the first two volumes respectively concentrated on lateral and vertical dimensions of brain and sign activity and the bihemispheric interactions underlying most tasks, this volume explores the connections between the coronal, or front-rear, planes of the brain, governing remembrance and anticipation. Distributed in the US by CUP Services. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0773523596

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SAS2

A Guide to Collaborative Inquiry and Social Engagement

By: Jacques M Chevalier,Daniel J Buckles

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SAS2

A Guide to Collaborative Inquiry and Social Engagement

By: Jacques M Chevalier,Daniel J Buckles

SAS[superscript 2]: A Guide to Collaborative Inquiry and Social Engagement represents a groundbreaking international effort to support the creation and mobilization of practical, authentic knowledge for social change. The guiding principle behind SAS[superscript 2] (Social Analysis Systems, www.sas2.net) is that group dialogue and social inquiry are crucial for local and global development. Social issues must be addressed socially and in a multistakeholder mode, not by private interests and experts alone, and the insights that emerge fully integrated into processes of knowledge production, planning, and decision-making." "This book will be an invaluable resource for researchers, consultants, facilitators, and activists working with people to solve problems and support inclusive inquiry and decision-making. It will also be useful to scholars and academics studying and teaching participatory action research in the social sciences."--BOOK JACKET.

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A Land Without Gods

Power and Destruction in the Mexican Tropics

By: Jacques M Chevalier,Daniel Buckles

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A Land Without Gods

Power and Destruction in the Mexican Tropics

By: Jacques M Chevalier,Daniel Buckles

In this theoretically innovative study of maldevelopment and power relations among the Nahuas of southern Veracruz, Chevalier and Buckles explore the impact of Mexico's cattle ranching and petrochemical industries on milpa agriculture and rainforest environment. They also examine how national politics and economics affect native patterns of patrimonial culture and social organization. In the concluding chapter, an ascetic worldview illustrated through corn god mythology points to meaningful ways of countering current trends of social and ecological impoverishment. This major work of scholarship tackles key issues in ecology and development, theories of the state, gender analysis and symbolic anthropology. Against rigid conceptions of capitalism and native society, the authors apply their own theory of process to the orderly and contradictory features of social history. Established ways of doing things - a mode of government, a way of livelihood, a kinship and narrative tradition - are shown to reflect the imposition of a ruling order, an unequal distribution of the proceeds of society, and the confrontation of classes and parties, genders and age-groups, spirits and humans struggling for power.

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1856493261

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Participatory Action Research

Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

By: Jacques M. Chevalier,Daniel J. Buckles

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Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry

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The Ethics of Courage

Volume 2: From Early Modernity to the Global Age

By: Jacques M. Chevalier

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Volume 2: From Early Modernity to the Global Age

By: Jacques M. Chevalier

This two-volume work examines far-reaching debates on the concept of courage from Greek antiquity to the Christian and mediaeval periods, as well as the modern era. Volume 1 explains how competing accounts of epistêmê, rational wisdom, and truth dominated classical antiquity. Early Christian and mediaeval thinkers, in contrast, favoured fortitude founded on faith and fear of God over philosophical reasoning left to its own devices. Volume 2 turns to theories of courage from the early modern period to the present. It shows how the twin laws of polis and physis are at the heart of post-medieval thought. Courage is found at the crossroads of love and dread, freedom and fate, happiness and suffering, as well as power and submission to the ruling order. The later influence of evolutionism, existentialism, and the social and natural sciences on moral philosophy is also addressed at some length. The protection of people's best interests, the passions and powers of the human will, and the rule of active energy in all aspects of life supplant courage formerly viewed through the lens of reason or faith, or a combination of the two. These new ideas, paradoxically, herald the end of the ethics of courage. They also undermine the courage of ethical thinking. Courage is no longer an end in itself, nor is it a means to happiness "at the end." Regardless of what Gandhi, Tillich, and Foucault have to say about the topic, late modernity and the global age witness a marked loss of interest in courage as an idea worthy of conceptual investigation. Debates about the moral implications of courage give way to the value-free science of resilience, which studies how people can recover from past trauma and find wellness, primarily in the realm of physis.

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The Ethics of Courage

Volume 1: From Greek Antiquity to the Middle Ages

By: Jacques M. Chevalier

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Volume 1: From Greek Antiquity to the Middle Ages

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A Postmodern Revelation

Signs of Astrology and the Apocalypse

By: Jacques M. Chevalier

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A Postmodern Revelation

Signs of Astrology and the Apocalypse

By: Jacques M. Chevalier

Chevalier reveals that the Book of Revelation was written as a polemical response to ancient astromythology and shows that concerns with natural and cultural history have supplanted the future-oriented visions of astrology and Christian prophecy.

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0802079768

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The Hot and the Cold

Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico

By: Jacques M. Chevalier,W. Andrés Sánchez Bain,Andrés Sánchez Bain

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Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico

By: Jacques M. Chevalier,W. Andrés Sánchez Bain,Andrés Sánchez Bain

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Participatory Action Research

Participatory Action Research

Half-Brain Fables and Figs in Paradise

Half-Brain Fables and Figs in Paradise

The Ethics of Courage

The Ethics of Courage

The Hot and the Cold

The Hot and the Cold

Scorpions and the Anatomy of Time

Scorpions and the Anatomy of Time

SAS2

SAS2

A Land Without Gods

A Land Without Gods

Participatory Action Research

Participatory Action Research

The Ethics of Courage

The Ethics of Courage

The Ethics of Courage

The Ethics of Courage

A Postmodern Revelation

A Postmodern Revelation

The Hot and the Cold

The Hot and the Cold

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