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Poor Participation

Fighting the Wars on Poverty and Impoverished Citizenship

By: Thomas A. Bryer,Sofia Prysmakova-Rivera

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Poor Participation

Fighting the Wars on Poverty and Impoverished Citizenship

By: Thomas A. Bryer,Sofia Prysmakova-Rivera

This book argues that active citizenship and poverty are inextricably linked. A common sentiment in discussions of poverty and social policy is that decisions made about those living in poverty or near-poverty are illegitimate, inadvisable, and non-responsive to the needs and interests of the poor if the poor themselves are not involved in the decision-making process. Inside this intuitively appealing idea, however, are a range of potential contradictions and conflicts. These conflicts are at the nexus between active citizenship and technical expertise, between promotion of stability in governance and empowerment of people, between empowerment that is genuine and sustainable and empowerment that is artificial, and between a “war on poverty” that is built on the ideas of collaborative governance and one that is built on an assumption of rule of the elite. The poor have long been consigned to a group of “included-out” citizens. They are legally living in a place, but they are not afforded the same courtesies, entrusted with the same responsibilities, or respected in parallel processes as those citizens of greater means and those who behave in manners that are more consistent with “middle class” values. Poor citizens engaged in the “war on poverty” of the 1960s started to emerge and force their agenda through adversarial action and social protest. This book explores the clear linkages between engaged citizenship and poverty in the United States, revealing a war on poverty and impoverished citizenship that continues to develop in the twenty-first century.

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Lexington Books

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1498538940

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Higher Education beyond Job Creation

Universities, Citizenship, and Community

By: Thomas A. Bryer

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Higher Education beyond Job Creation

Universities, Citizenship, and Community

By: Thomas A. Bryer

Higher education in the United States and elsewhere is being forced to respond to several disparate social and economic pressures: social trust and connectedness is down, empathy across citizens is deteriorating, political awareness and participation are low, and job prospects and financial security are sobering for many citizens, even the college educated. The response to these pressures is not to double down on one mission of higher education, namely job creation. Instead, higher education marching into the next decades requires an integrative approach that promotes job creation, skill development, citizen cultivation, and knowledge dissemination—all oriented towards strengthening communities and providing opportunity for all citizens to pursue the good life. Across eight chapters, this book provides historical and theoretical analyses of the role of higher education in society across these four missions, as well as applied mini and extended case examples demonstrating how the four missions can be successfully integrated. The extended cases consist of one pedagogy example, a teaching initiative labeled “joined up service learning” that represents deep partnership between the university and community, and an institutional design case of an academic research center and its work conducted in partnership with community stakeholders. Recommendations are advanced for an integrated approach to performance funding of higher education institutions, tenure and promotion expectations for faculty, and graduation requirements for students, among others.

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0739191152

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2 (900-1050)

By: David Thomas,Alexander Mallett

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2 (900-1050)

By: David Thomas,Alexander Mallett

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 2 (CMR2) is the second part of a general history of relations between the faiths. Covering the period from 900 to 1050, it comprises a series of introductory essays, together with the main body of more than one hundred detailed entries on all the works by Christians and Muslims about and against one another that are known from this period. These entries provide biographical details of the authors where known, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between leading scholars in the field, CMR2 is an indispensable basis for research in all elements of the history of Christian-Muslim relations.

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BRILL

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9004216189

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Higher Education beyond Job Creation

Universities, Citizenship, and Community

By: Thomas A. Bryer

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Poor Participation

Poor Participation

Higher Education beyond Job Creation

Higher Education beyond Job Creation

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2 (900-1050)

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 2 (900-1050)

Higher Education beyond Job Creation

Higher Education beyond Job Creation

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