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Science Education and Citizenship
Fairs, Clubs, and Talent Searches for American Youth, 1918–1958
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2012
Science fairs, clubs, and talent searches are familiar fixtures in American education, yet little is known about why they began and grew in popularity. In Science Education and Citizenship, Sevan G. Terzian traces the civic purposes of these extracurricular programs for youth over four decades in...
by Ewan Harrison, S. Mitchell, Sara McLaughlin Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This book explores the paradox of the worldwide spread of democracy and capitalism in an era of Western decline. The rest is overtaking the West as Samuel Huntington predicted, but because it is adopting Western institutions. The emerging global order offers unprecedented opportunities for the expansion...
Nationalism and Human Rights
In Theory and Practice in the Middle East, Central Europe, and the Asia-Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
By critically addressing the tension between nationalism and human rights that is presumed in much of the existing literature, the essays in this volume confront the question of how we should construe human rights: as a normative challenge to the excesses of modernity, particularly those associated...
Social Change and Intersectional Activism
The Spirit of Social Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Reading texts in relation to feminist, queer, and race theory and Buddhist philosophy, this book argues that an understanding of spirit is critical to explaining the power that social movements have to change hearts, minds, and social structures.
Civilized Oppression and Moral Relations
Victims, Fallibility, and the Moral Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This book discusses how civilized oppression (the oppression that involves neither violence nor the law) can be overcome by re-examining our participation in it. Moral community, solidarity and education are offered as vibrant strategies to overcome the hurt and marginalization that stem from civilized oppression.
Constitutional Literacy
A Twenty-First Century Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
This book considers the status of constitutional literacy in the United States along with ways to assess and improve it. The author argues that pervasive constitutional illiteracy is a problem for both law enforcement agencies and for ordinary citizens. Based on the author’s decades of teaching...
Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education
Forging New Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
This volume argues for reexamination of the field of community engagement, suggests that the most effective way forward requires rethinking the structures of traditional higher education, and points to the growing emergence of evidence-based best practices that can catalyze a renaissance in community engagement and in higher education.
Education and Global Cultural Dialogue
A Tribute to Ruth Hayhoe
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Cultural and spiritual resources are arguably essential to achievement of educational goals, both as economic and political initiatives and as human rights. This book addresses questions surrounding education and inter-cultural understanding in a broad global framework.
International Mobility and Educational Desire
Chinese Foreign Talent Students in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This book examines the Singapore government’s controversial practice of recruiting students from China and granting them full scholarships on the condition of a service “bond”. It offers detailed ethnographic accounts of the Chinese “foreign talent” students’ educational and cross-cultural...
Chicana/o Subjectivity and the Politics of Identity
Between Recognition and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
This book traces the influence of Hegel's theory of recognition on different literary representations of Chicano/a subjectivity, with the aim of demonstrating how the identity thinking characteristic of Hegel's theory is unwillingly reinforced even in subjects that are represented as rebelling against liberal-humanist ideologies.
Transmesis
Inside Translation’s Black Box
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This study compares modern and contemporary literary works from around the globe that have translation as a central theme, and that treat one of four of said black-box issues: language as embodiment; unknown language; conversion; and postcolonial derivations.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
This accessible and compelling collection of faculty reflections examines the tensions between the arts and academics and offers interdisciplinary alternatives for higher education. With an eye to teacher training, these artist scholars share insights, models, and personal experience that will engage...
Education as Civic Engagement
Toward a More Democratic Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
A collection of the finest works of scholarship examining education - mostly higher education - as civic engagement published over the last decade in JAC, an award-winning journal of rhetoric, politics, and culture.
by W. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Public Universities and the Public Sphere argues that two crises facing America - a crisis of public discourse and a crisis of public higher education - are closely connected. Part of the solution, Smith argues in this timely work, to both crises lies in understanding and building on the connection.