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Radical Possibilities

Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement

By: Jean Anyon

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Radical Possibilities

Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement

By: Jean Anyon

The core argument of Jean Anyon’s classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail. With every chapter thoroughly revised and updated, this edition picks up where the 2005 publication left off, including a completely new chapter detailing how three decades of political decisions leading up to the “Great Recession” produced an economic crisis of epic proportions. By tracing the root causes of the financial crisis, Anyon effectively demonstrates the concrete effects of economic decision-making on the education sector, revealing in particular the disastrous impacts of these policies on black and Latino communities. Going beyond lament, Radical Possibilities offers those interested in a better future for the millions of America’s poor families a set of practical and theoretical insights. Expanding on her paradigm for combating educational injustice, Anyon discusses the Occupy Wall Street movement as a recent example of popular resistance in this new edition, set against a larger framework of civil rights history. A ringing call to action, Radical Possibilities reminds readers that throughout U.S. history, equitable public policies have typically been created as a result of the political pressure brought to bear by social movements. Ultimately, Anyon’s revelations teach us that the current moment contains its own very real radical possibilities.

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1136202218

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Theory and Educational Research

Toward Critical Social Explanation

By: Jean Anyon

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Theory and Educational Research

Toward Critical Social Explanation

By: Jean Anyon

Most empirical researchers avoid the use of theory in their studies, providing data but little or no social explanation. Theoreticians, on the other hand, rarely test their ideas with empirical projects. As this groundbreaking volume makes clear, however, neither data nor theory alone is adequate to the task of social explanation—rather they form and inform each other as the inquiry process unfolds. Theory and Educational Research bridges the age-old theory/research divide by demonstrating how researchers can use critical social theory to determine appropriate empirical research strategies, and extend the analytical, critical – and sometimes emancipatory – power of data gathering and interpretation. Each chapter models a theoretically informed empiricism that places the data research yields in constant conversation with theoretical arsenals of powerful concepts. Personal reflections following each chapter chronicle the contributors’ trajectories of struggle and triumph utilizing theory and its powers in research. In the end this rich collection teaches education scholars how to deliberately engage with critical social theory in research to produce work that is simultaneously theoretically inspired, politically engaged, and empirically evocative.

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1135854432

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Ghetto Schooling

A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform

By: Jean Anyon

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Ghetto Schooling

A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform

By: Jean Anyon

In this disturbing but ultimately hopeful personal account, Jean Anyon provides compelling evidence that the economic and political devastation of America's inner cities has robbed schools and teachers of the capacity to successfully implement current strategies of educational reform. She argues that without fundamental change in government and business policies and the redirection of major resources back into the schools and the communities they serve, urban schools are consigned to failure, and no effort at raising standards, improving teaching, or boosting achievement can occur. Based on her participation in an intensive four-year school reform project in the Newark, New Jersey public schools, the author vividly captures the anguish and anger of students and teachers caught in the tangle of a failing school system. Ghetto Schooling offers a penetrating historical analysis of more than a century of government and business policies that have drained the economic, political, and human resources of urban populations. Provocative and controversial, this book reveals the historical roots of the current crisis in ghetto schools and what must be done to reverse the downward spiral.

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Teachers College Press

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0807736627

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Marx and Education

By: Jean Anyon

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Marx and Education

By: Jean Anyon

This concise, introductory book by internationally renowned scholar Jean Anyon centers on the ideas of Marx that have been used in education studies as a guide to theory, analysis, research, and practice.

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Taylor & Francis

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1136816569

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Theory and Educational Research

Toward Critical Social Explanation

By: Jean Anyon

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Toward Critical Social Explanation

By: Jean Anyon

Throughout U.S. history, education policies, practices, and politics have been described and tested to yield empirical data, often with little attempt to place findings in a larger theoretical infrastructure that could provide them with increased explanatory, critical, or even liberatory power. This collection fills that void by taking the point of view that neither research nor theory alone is adequate to the task of social explanation. Instead, Jean Anyon and her collaborators argue that they imbricate and instantiate one another, forming and informing each other as the inquiry process unfolds.

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1135854440

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Fashionable Nonsense

Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

By: Alan Sokal,Jean Bricmont

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Fashionable Nonsense

Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

By: Alan Sokal,Jean Bricmont

In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious debate in academic circles and made the headlines of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Sokal and his fellow physicist Jean Bricmont expand from where the hoax left off. In a delightfully witty and clear voice, the two thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantle the pseudo-scientific writings of some of the most fashionable French and American intellectuals. More generally, they challenge the widespread notion that scientific theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions.

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Picador

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1466862408

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Radical Possibilities

Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement

By: Jean Anyon

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Radical Possibilities

Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement

By: Jean Anyon

Anyon discusses the influence of federal and metropolitan policies and practices on the poverty that plagues schools and communities in American cities and segregated, low-income suburbs. She argues that these public policies...such as those regulating the minimum wage, job availability, tax rates, federal transit, and affordable housing...all create conditions in urban areas that no education policy as currently conceived can transcend, and that we must replace these federal and metro-area policies with more equitable ones so that urban school reform can have positive life consequences for students. Anyon reminds us that historically, equitable public policies have been typically created as a result of the political pressure brought to bear by social movements. Basing her analysis on new research in civil rights history and social movement theory, she explains how the current moment offers serious possibilities for the creation of such a force. – from publisher description.

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0415950988

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Process Engineering Renewal 1

Background and Training

By: Éric Schaer,Jean-Claude André

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Process Engineering Renewal 1

Background and Training

By: Éric Schaer,Jean-Claude André

Process engineering emerged at the beginning of the 20th Century and has become an essential scientific discipline for the matter and energy processing industries. Its success is incontrovertible, with the exponential increase in techniques and innovations. Rapid advances in new technologies such as artificial intelligence, as well as current societal needs sustainable development, climate change, renewable energy, the environment are developments that must be taken into account in industrial renewal. Process Engineering Renewal 1 the first volume of three focuses on training, demonstrating the need for innovation in order for the field to have a framework that is sustainable, in a highly changeable world.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1786305534

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Journeys in Narrative Inquiry

The Selected Works of D. Jean Clandinin

By: D Jean Clandinin

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Journeys in Narrative Inquiry

The Selected Works of D. Jean Clandinin

By: D Jean Clandinin

Organized around a metaphor of an academic journey, D. Jean Clandinin offers published tracings of an unfolding journey over 40 years that, at its outset, appeared to focus only on questions of epistemology. However, the book illuminates how that apparent beginning focus shape-shifted to questions of methodology, ethics, ontology, and subsequently, political concerns. Clandinin shows that, even at the outset, her research wonders were grounded in relational understandings of experience, understandings that were simultaneously ontological, methodological, epistemological and ethical. Jean’s work is collaborative, an engagement alongside others and within the contexts in which they and she lived and worked, including those who were participants in the research. She continues to acknowledge that narrative inquiry changes people’s ways of being in the world, and those changes have ethical significance. While what she and her colleagues now call relational ethics has always been central, recently her sense of ethics has become more explicitly political. She shows the development of ideas over time, beginning as she entered doctoral work and continuing through 2019 and onward. Jean’s work, centered on relational understandings of experience, highlights ethical dimensions, and has come to define narrative understandings for generations of researchers. This book will be an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students, and professional researchers in both educational and healthcare settings. .

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1000690555

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Moving Shape Analysis and Control

Applications to Fluid Structure Interactions

By: Marwan Moubachir,Jean-Paul Zolesio

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Moving Shape Analysis and Control

Applications to Fluid Structure Interactions

By: Marwan Moubachir,Jean-Paul Zolesio

Problems involving the evolution of two- and three-dimensional domains arise in many areas of science and engineering. Emphasizing an Eulerian approach, Moving Shape Analysis and Control: Applications to Fluid Structure Interactions presents valuable tools for the mathematical analysis of evolving domains. The book illustrates the efficie

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CRC Press

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1420003240

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Organic Conductors

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Jean-Pierre Farges

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Organic Conductors

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Jean-Pierre Farges

This work examines all aspects of organic conductors, detailing recent theoretical concepts and current laboratory methods of synthesis, measurement, control and analysis. It describes advances in molecular-scale engineering, including switching and memory systems, Schottky and electroluminescent diodes, field-effect transistors, and photovoltaic devices and solar cells.

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1000715760

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How Communities Build Stronger Schools

Stories, Strategies, and Promising Practices for Educating Every Child

By: Anne Wescott Dodd,Jean L. Konzal

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How Communities Build Stronger Schools

Stories, Strategies, and Promising Practices for Educating Every Child

By: Anne Wescott Dodd,Jean L. Konzal

A new vision of our public schools that looks beyond their four walls.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0312238916

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Ghetto Schooling

A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform

By: Jean Anyon

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A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform

By: Jean Anyon

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Western America

The National Parks

By: Jean-Yves Montagu

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Western America

The National Parks

By: Jean-Yves Montagu

This book takes the traveller through the breathtaking landscapes of western America, most of which have now been designated National Parks: from the Rocky Mountains, down into Yellowstone, past the Grand Canyon and over to White Sands, New Mexico. Clearly divided into individual regions and parks, with tips for travellers, useful addresses and 152 stunning illustrations, this is the ideal book for planning a tour of the Great American West and for anyone yearning for nature on a grand scale. Book jacket.

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3822877557

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Peninsula Trails

Outdoor Adventures on the San Francisco Peninsula

By: Jean Rusmore,Frances Spangle

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Peninsula Trails

Outdoor Adventures on the San Francisco Peninsula

By: Jean Rusmore,Frances Spangle

A comprehensive guide to more than 150 hikes on over 500 miles of trails in public parks and preserves on the San Francisco Peninsula. From San Bruno Mountain just south of the City by the Bay, all the way down to Ao Nuevo State Reserve, the San Francisco Peninsula offers numerous scenic wonders, all within a short drive of major Bay Area cities. Includes detailed descriptions for each trip, new maps for every area described, driving directions, elevation change and duration of each hike. "The only way to experience the beauty, character, and diversity of the San Francisco Peninsula is with a copy of Peninsula Trials in your hand." - Audrey Rust, President Peninsula Open Space Trust

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Book's by Jean Anyon

Radical Possibilities

Radical Possibilities

Theory and Educational Research

Theory and Educational Research

Ghetto Schooling

Ghetto Schooling

Marx and Education

Marx and Education

Theory and Educational Research

Theory and Educational Research

Fashionable Nonsense

Fashionable Nonsense

Radical Possibilities

Radical Possibilities

Process Engineering Renewal 1

Process Engineering Renewal 1

Journeys in Narrative Inquiry

Journeys in Narrative Inquiry

Moving Shape Analysis and Control

Moving Shape Analysis and Control

Organic Conductors

Organic Conductors

How Communities Build Stronger Schools

How Communities Build Stronger Schools

Ghetto Schooling

Ghetto Schooling

Western America

Western America

Peninsula Trails

Peninsula Trails

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