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Stability and Change

Innovation in an Educational Context

By: Sheila Rosenblum,Karen Seashore Louis

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Stability and Change

Innovation in an Educational Context

By: Sheila Rosenblum,Karen Seashore Louis

Nearly a century ago, Emile Durkheim founded the sociology of educa tion on the French cultural and structural premise that the function of educators is to transmit culture from one generation to the next. The clarity of his vision was aided by the era, the place, and the actors in the learning environment. His was an era when the relatively seamless web of western culture, although ripping and straining, was still intact. The place, post-Napoleonic France, was vertically stratified and elaborately structured. And the teachers had reason to think they were agents of authority, whereas most students, during school hours at least, behaved as if they were the objects of that authority. Underlying the very notion of a sociology of education, then, was a visible and pervasive aura of a system and order that was culturally prescribed. Scholars of American education have yearned for such systems before and since Durkheim. Every European and English model has been emulated in a more or less winsome manner, from the Boston Latin School of the 1700s to the Open Education programs of the 1960s. In the last quarter century of research, it has begun to dawn on us, however, that no matter how hard American educators try, they do not build a system.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461332346

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Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, Third Edition

By: David B. Oppenheimer,Sheila R. Foster,Sora Y. Han,Richard T. Ford

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Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, Third Edition

By: David B. Oppenheimer,Sheila R. Foster,Sora Y. Han,Richard T. Ford

This revised and updated casebook comprehensively compares the U.S. legal approach to problems of inequality and discrimination with the approaches of a variety of other legal systems around the world.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1788979214

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9781788979214

Circle in the Square Theatre

A Comprehensive History

By: Sheila Hickey Garvey

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Circle in the Square Theatre

A Comprehensive History

By: Sheila Hickey Garvey

Based on years of research as well as interviews conducted with Circle in the Square's major contributing artists, this book records the entire history of this distinguished theatre from its nightclub origins to its current status as a Tony Award-winning Broadway institution. Over the course of seven decades, Circle in the Square theatre profoundly changed ideas of what American theatre could be. Founded by Theodore Mann and Jose Quintero in an abandoned Off-Broadway nightclub just after WWII, it was a catalyst for the Off-Broadway movement. The building had a unique arena-shaped performance space that became Circle in the Square theatre, New York's first Off-Broadway arena stage and currently Broadway's only arena stage. The theatre was precedent-setting in many other regards, including operating as a non-profit, contracting with trade unions, establishing a school, and serving as a home for blacklisted artists. It sparked a resurgence of interest in playwright Eugene O'Neill's canon, and was famous for landmark revivals and American premieres of his plays. The theatre also fostered the careers of such luminaries as Geraldine Page, Colleen Dewhurst, George C. Scott, Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Cecily Tyson, Dustin Hoffman, Irene Papas, Alan Arkin, Philip Bosco, Al Pacino, Amy Irving, Pamela Payton-Wright, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Christie, John Malkovich, Lynn Redgrave, and Annette Bening.

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McFarland

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1476639493

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9781476639499

Connecting with the Enemy

A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence

By: Sheila H. Katz

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Connecting with the Enemy

A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence

By: Sheila H. Katz

“Highlights the significance of those Israelis and Palestinians who have chosen connection and dialogue as a practical alternative to the use of force.” —Euphrates Institute Thousands of ordinary people in Israel and Palestine have engaged in a dazzling array of daring and visionary joint nonviolent initiatives for more than a century. They have endured despite condemnation by their own societies, repetitive failures of diplomacy, harsh inequalities, and endemic cycles of violence. Connecting with the Enemy presents the first comprehensive history of unprecedented grassroots efforts to forge nonviolent alternatives to the lethal collision of the two national movements. Bringing to light the work of over five hundred groups, Sheila H. Katz describes how Arabs and Jews, children and elders, artists and activists, educators and students, garage mechanics and physicists, and lawyers and prisoners have spoken truth to power, protected the environment, demonstrated peacefully, mourned together, stood in resistance and solidarity, and advocated for justice and security. She also critiques and assesses the significance of their work and explores why these good-will efforts have not yet managed to end the conflict or occupation. This previously untold story of Palestinian-Israeli joint nonviolence will challenge the mainstream narratives of terror and despair, monsters and heroes, that help to perpetuate the conflict. It will also inspire and encourage anyone grappling with social change, peace and war, oppression and inequality, and grassroots activism anywhere in the world. “A profoundly important study of the history and ongoing efforts for Israeli-Palestinian peace by ordinary Israelis and Palestinians . . . A genuinely balanced perspective.” —Stephen Zunes, author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism

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Univ of TX + ORM

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1477310282

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Acts of Conspicuous Compassion

Performance Culture and American Charity Practices

By: Sheila C. Moeschen

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Acts of Conspicuous Compassion

Performance Culture and American Charity Practices

By: Sheila C. Moeschen

Charity has been a pervasive and influential concept in American culture, and has also served an important ideological purpose, helping people articulate their sense of individual and national identity. But what, exactly, compels our benevolence? In a social moment when countless worthy causes and deserving groups clamor for attention, it is worth examining how our culture generates the exchange of sympathy commonly experienced as “charity.” Acts of Conspicuous Compassion investigates the historical and continuing relationship between performance culture and the cultivation of charitable sentiment, exploring the distinctive practices that have evolved to make the plea for charity legible and compelling. From the work of 19th-century melodramas to the televised drama of transformation and redemption in reality TV’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the book charts the sophisticated strategies that various charity movements have employed to make organized benevolence seem attractive, exciting, and seemingly uncomplicated. Sheila C. Moeschen sheds new light on the legacy and involvement of disabled people within charity—specifically, the articulation of performance culture as a vital theoretical framework for discussing issues of embodiment and identity, a framework that dislodges previously held notions of the disabled existing as passive “objects” of pity. This work gives rise to a more complicated and nuanced discussion of the participation of the disabled community in the charity industry, of the opportunities afforded by performance culture for disabled people to act as critical agents of charity, and of the new ethical and political issues that arise from employing performance methodology in a culture with increased appetites for voyeurism, display, and complex spectacle.

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351

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University of Michigan Press

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0472029274

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9780472029273

Distrust American Style

Diversity and the Crisis of Public Confidence

By: Sheila Suess Kennedy

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Distrust American Style

Diversity and the Crisis of Public Confidence

By: Sheila Suess Kennedy

In this informative discussion of Americans' growing distrust, Kennedy argues that diversity is not the reason people trust less. The culprit is a loss of faith in the social and governing institutions, and the remedy is to make them trustworthy once more.

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Prometheus Books

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1615923845

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9781615923847

Organizational Improvement and Accountability

Lessons for Education from Other Sectors

By: Brian M. Stecher,Sheila Nataraj Kirby,Heather Barney,Marjorie L. Pearson,Marc Chow

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Organizational Improvement and Accountability

Lessons for Education from Other Sectors

By: Brian M. Stecher,Sheila Nataraj Kirby,Heather Barney,Marjorie L. Pearson,Marc Chow

Examines five accountability models--two from the manufacturing sector; a performance incentive model used in the evaluation of job training programs for the poor; accountability in the legal sector; and accountability in health care as shown by clinical practice guidelines, use of statistical risk-adjustment methods, and the public reporting of health performance measures. The authors summarize the models' effectiveness and draw lessons for implementing the No Child Left Behind Act.

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155

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Rand Corporation

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0833035959

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9780833035950

The New Leadership Challenge

Creating the Future of Nursing

By: Sheila C. Grossman,Theresa M. Valiga

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The New Leadership Challenge

Creating the Future of Nursing

By: Sheila C. Grossman,Theresa M. Valiga

What is leadership? How do you develop your leadership abilities? How is leadership different from management? How does leadership contribute to professional and personal success…improve patient care…and affect the future of nursing? An easy-to-read, interactive approach helps you to identify the characteristics of leaders and followers and illustrates not only how, but also when to use the qualities associated with each to achieve professional and personal success. Excellent book for nurse leadership. “This should be mandatory reading for all nurses.”—John P., Online Reviewer

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F.A. Davis

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1719645124

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9781719645126

Directory of World Cinema: Africa

By: Sheila Petty

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Directory of World Cinema: Africa

By: Sheila Petty

Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in the Directory of World Cinema series instead looks at African film as representing Africa for its own sake, values, and artistic choices. With a film industry divided by linguistic heritage, African directors do not have the luxury of producing comedies, thrillers, horror films, or even love stories, except perhaps as DVDs that do not travel far outside their country of production. Instead, African directors tend to cover serious sociopolitical ground, even under the cover of comedy, in the hopes of finding funds outside Africa. Contributors to this volume draw on filmic representations of the continent to consider the economic role of women, rural exodus, economic migration, refugees and diasporas, culture, religion and magic as well as representations of children, music, languages and symbols. A survey of national cinemas in one volume, Directory of World Cinema: Africa is a necessary addition to the bookshelf of any cinephile and world traveller.

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Intellect Books

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1783203927

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9781783203925

Thanks for the Feedback

The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

By: Douglas Stone,Sheila Heen

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Thanks for the Feedback

The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well

By: Douglas Stone,Sheila Heen

The coauthors of the New York Times–bestselling Difficult Conversations take on the toughest topic of all: how we see ourselves Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen have spent the past fifteen years working with corporations, nonprofits, governments, and families to determine what helps us learn and what gets in our way. In Thanks for the Feedback, they explain why receiving feedback is so crucial yet so challenging, offering a simple framework and powerful tools to help us take on life’s blizzard of offhand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited input with curiosity and grace. They blend the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology with practical, hard-headed advice. Thanks for the Feedback is destined to become a classic in the fields of leadership, organizational behavior, and education.

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Penguin

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0143127136

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9780143127130

The Pursuit of Perfection

The Promise and Perils of Medical Enchancement

By: Sheila Rothman,David Rothman

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The Pursuit of Perfection

The Promise and Perils of Medical Enchancement

By: Sheila Rothman,David Rothman

What does it mean to live in a time when medical science can not only cure the human body but also reshape it? How should we as individuals and as a society respond to new drugs and genetic technologies? Sheila and David Rothman address these questions with a singular blend of history and analysis, taking us behind the scenes to explain how scientific research, medical practice, drug company policies, and a quest for peak performance combine to exaggerate potential benefits and minimize risks. They present a fascinating and factual story from the rise of estrogen and testosterone use in the 1920s and 1930s to the frenzy around liposuction and growth hormone to the latest research into the genetics of aging. The Rothmans reveal what happens when physicians view patients’ unhappiness and dissatisfaction with their bodies—short stature, thunder thighs, aging—as though they were diseases to be treated. The Pursuit of Perfection takes us from the early days of endocrinology (the belief that you are your hormones) to today’s frontier of genetic enhancements (the idea that you are your genes). It lays bare the always complicated and sometimes compromised positions of science, medicine, and commerce. This is the book to read before signing on for the latest medical fix.

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322

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Vintage

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0307767132

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9780307767134

Epilepsy in Children, 2E

By: Sheila J Wallace,Kevin Farrell

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Epilepsy in Children, 2E

By: Sheila J Wallace,Kevin Farrell

Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder of childhood, occurring both in children whose physical and cognitive states are otherwise normal as well as being a facet of a more generalised and severe brain disease. There are many manifestations of epilepsy and, therefore, a diversity of factors in underlying pathology, responses to treatment

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CRC Press

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1444114085

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9781444114089

The Development of Children

By: Michael Cole,Sheila R. Cole,Cynthia Lightfoot

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The Development of Children

By: Michael Cole,Sheila R. Cole,Cynthia Lightfoot

Development is best understood as a fusion of biological, social, and psychological processes interacting in the unique medium of human culture. [In this text, the authors] have tried to show not only the role of each of these factors considered separately but also how they interact in diverse cultural contexts to create whole, unique human beings.-Pref.

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Macmillan

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0716755556

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9780716755555

The Individual and Society

By: Eric P. Seelau,Sheila M. Seelau,Carolyn Morgan

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The Individual and Society

By: Eric P. Seelau,Sheila M. Seelau,Carolyn Morgan

This text presents a broad overview of anthropology, sociology, and psychology. It includes coverage on research methods, culture and religion, stratification, gender, the family, and deviance and abnormal behavior.

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530

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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0074289314

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9780074289310

Leadership Skills for Jewish Educators

A Casebook

By: Sheila Rosenblum

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Leadership Skills for Jewish Educators

A Casebook

By: Sheila Rosenblum

A casebook for leaders of Jewish educational and communal organizations. addresses both the theory of leading and the practical issues facing anyone who has to manage an organization.

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Behrman House, Inc

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0874415551

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9780874415551

Stability and Change

Innovation in an Educational Context

By: Sheila Rosenblum,Karen Seashore Louis

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Stability and Change

Innovation in an Educational Context

By: Sheila Rosenblum,Karen Seashore Louis

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Stability and Change

Stability and Change

Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, Third Edition

Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, Third Edition

Circle in the Square Theatre

Circle in the Square Theatre

Connecting with the Enemy

Connecting with the Enemy

Acts of Conspicuous Compassion

Acts of Conspicuous Compassion

Distrust American Style

Distrust American Style

Organizational Improvement and Accountability

Organizational Improvement and Accountability

The New Leadership Challenge

The New Leadership Challenge

Directory of World Cinema: Africa

Directory of World Cinema: Africa

Thanks for the Feedback

Thanks for the Feedback

The Pursuit of Perfection

The Pursuit of Perfection

Epilepsy in Children, 2E

Epilepsy in Children, 2E

The Development of Children

The Development of Children

The Individual and Society

The Individual and Society

Leadership Skills for Jewish Educators

Leadership Skills for Jewish Educators

Stability and Change

Stability and Change

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