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With all that we know about how students learn, the nature of the
world they will face after graduation, and the educational
inequities that have existed for centuries, maintaining a
traditional, one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning is
tantamount to instructional malpractice. International security,
the success of global economies, and sustainability as a global
society all depend on the success of our education system in the
years to come. It's our obligation to prepare our students for
their future-not our past. Authors Eric C. Sheninger and Thomas C.
Murray outline eight keys-each a piece of a puzzle for transforming
the K-12 education system of teaching and learning-to intentionally
design tomorrow's schools so today's learners are prepared for
success . . . and stand ready to create new industries, find new
cures, and solve world problems. The traditional model of schooling
ultimately prepares students for the industrial model of the past.
If we want our students to become successful citizens in a global
society, we must dramatically shift to a more personal approach.
Failure is not an option. We can no longer wait. Let Learning
Transformed show you how you can be a part of the solution. The
authors encourage you to use the hashtag #LT8Keys to continue the
discussion online.
Available as single volumes or as a complete set, this collection
traces the evolution of a literary genre: the British speculative
future war novel. Taking science fiction from the 1890s, this set
explores the various ways in which the science fiction tradition
can be interpreted.
This ground-breaking volume considers what it means to make claims
of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights
movement, the rich areas of academic inquiry into disability,
increased philosophical attention to the nature and significance of
disability, a vibrant disability culture and disability arts
movement, and advances in biomedical science and technology. By
focusing on the statement, "We are all disabled", the book explores
the following questions: What are the philosophical, political, and
practical implications of making this claim? What conceptions of
disability underlie it? When, if ever, is this claim justified, and
when or why might it be problematic or harmful? What are the
implications of claiming "we are all disabled" amidst this global
COVID-19 pandemic? These critical reflections on the boundaries of
disability include perspectives from the humanities, social
sciences, law, and the arts. In exploring the boundaries of
disability, and the ways in which these lines are drawn
theoretically, legally, medically, socially, and culturally, the
authors in this volume challenge particular conceptions of
disability, expand the meaning and significance of the term, and
consider the implications of claiming disability as an identity. It
will be of interest to a broad audience, including disability
scholars, advocates and activists, philosophers and historians of
disability, moral theorists, clinicians, legal scholars, and
artists.
This title was first published in 2001. Addressing a range of key
theoretical and practical issues, this volume is the latest in an
important series proceeding from the Annual Conference on the
Promotion of Mental Health. It will be essential reading for policy
makers, researchers and practitioners in the field.
Why did the male nude come to occupy such an important place in
ancient Greek culture? Despite extended debate, the answer to this
question remains obscure. In this book, Sarah Murray demonstrates
that evidence from the Early Iron Age Aegean has much to add to the
discussion. Her research shows that aesthetics and practices
involving male nudity in the Aegean had a complicated origin in
prehistory. Murray offers a close analysis of the earliest male
nudes from the late Bronze and Early Iron Ages, which mostly take
the form of small bronze votive figurines deposited in rural
sanctuaries. Datable to the end of the second millennium BCE, these
figurines, she argues, enlighten the ritual and material contexts
in which nude athletics originated, complicating the rationalizing
accounts present in the earliest textual evidence for such
practices. Murray's book breaks new ground by reconstructing a
scenario for the ritual and ideological origins of nudity in Greek
art and culture.
Who has what and why in our societies is a pressing issue that has
prompted explanation and exposition by philosophers, politicians
and jurists for as long as societies and intellectuals have
existed. It is a primary issue for a society to tackle this and
these answers have been diverse. This collection of essays
approaches some of these questions and answers to shed light on
neglected approaches to issues of distribution and how these issues
have been dealt with historically, socially, conceptually, and
practically. The volume moves away from the more dominating and
traditionally cast understandings of distributive justice and shows
novel and unique ways to approach distributive issues and how these
can help enlighten our course of action and thought today by
creating new pathways of understanding. The editors and
contributors challenge readers by exploring the role and importance
of restorative justice within distributive justice, exploring the
long shadow of practices of trusteeship, and concepts of social and
individual rights and obligations in welfare and economic systems,
social protection/provision schemes, egalitarian practices and
post-colonial African political thought. Distributive Justice
Debates in Political and Social Thought empowers the reader to cast
a more critical and historically complete light on the idea of a
fair share and the implications it has on societies and the
individuals who comprise them.
This title was first published in 2001. Addressing a range of key
theoretical and practical issues, this volume is the latest in an
important series proceeding from the Annual Conference on the
Promotion of Mental Health. It will be essential reading for policy
makers, researchers and practitioners in the field.
This ground-breaking volume considers what it means to make claims
of disability membership in view of the robust Disability Rights
movement, the rich areas of academic inquiry into disability,
increased philosophical attention to the nature and significance of
disability, a vibrant disability culture and disability arts
movement, and advances in biomedical science and technology. By
focusing on the statement, "We are all disabled", the book explores
the following questions: What are the philosophical, political, and
practical implications of making this claim? What conceptions of
disability underlie it? When, if ever, is this claim justified, and
when or why might it be problematic or harmful? What are the
implications of claiming "we are all disabled" amidst this global
COVID-19 pandemic? These critical reflections on the boundaries of
disability include perspectives from the humanities, social
sciences, law, and the arts. In exploring the boundaries of
disability, and the ways in which these lines are drawn
theoretically, legally, medically, socially, and culturally, the
authors in this volume challenge particular conceptions of
disability, expand the meaning and significance of the term, and
consider the implications of claiming disability as an identity. It
will be of interest to a broad audience, including disability
scholars, advocates and activists, philosophers and historians of
disability, moral theorists, clinicians, legal scholars, and
artists.
This volume wades into the fertile waters of Augustan Rome and the
interrelationship of its literature, monuments, and urban
landscape. It focused on a pair of questions: how can we
productively probe the myriad points of contact between textual and
material evidence to write viable cultural histories of the ancient
Greek and Roman worlds, and what are the limits of these kinds of
analysis? The studies gathered here range from monumental absences
to monumental texts, from canonical Roman authors such as Cicero,
Livy, and Ovid to iconic Roman monuments such as the Rostra,
Pantheon, and Solar Meridian of Augustus. Each chapter examines
what the texts in, on, and about the city tell us about how the
ancients thought about, interacted with, and responded to their
urban-monumental landscape. The result is a volume whose
methodological and heuristic techniques will be compelling and
useful for all scholars of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Although most people have some knowledge of the essential structure
of the Solar System, few are familiar with the large and varied
array of objects that travel with and between the planets in their
journeys around the Sun. Imaging techniques from Earth continue to
improve, while missions such as Voyager, Galileo and the Hubble
Space Telescope have yielded many excellent images. Most
significantly of all, several missions in recent years have shown a
huge diversity of objects in close-up for the first time. The book
will take advantage of the rich pool of images that is available,
to tell a story of the Solar System that has not been told before.
Smaller Bodies will be a collection of approximately 72 stunning
images, all from the public domain but not hitherto gathered into a
coherent collection, with supporting text and graphics. Each main
image will be accompanied by a graphic showing the location in the
Solar System of the featured object. All of these graphics will be
based in a simple template providing a simple representation of the
Solar System. Text will not be extensive, allowing page design to
have a high priority, and will be of three kinds. 'Main text'
(approximately 200 words) will provide stimulating introduction and
some key ideas. Text headed 'The object(s)' (25-75 words) will
provide a brief description of featured objects. Text headed 'The
image' (25-75 words) will provide information on the source of the
image and some brief technical information where required (such as
in describing use of false color). The book is intended for anybody
who lives in solar orbit and takes a general interest in the solar
neighborhood.
Who has what and why in our societies is a pressing issue that has
prompted explanation and exposition by philosophers, politicians
and jurists for as long as societies and intellectuals have
existed. It is a primary issue for a society to tackle this and
these answers have been diverse. This collection of essays
approaches some of these questions and answers to shed light on
neglected approaches to issues of distribution and how these issues
have been dealt with historically, socially, conceptually, and
practically. The volume moves away from the more dominating and
traditionally cast understandings of distributive justice and shows
novel and unique ways to approach distributive issues and how these
can help enlighten our course of action and thought today by
creating new pathways of understanding. The editors and
contributors challenge readers by exploring the role and importance
of restorative justice within distributive justice, exploring the
long shadow of practices of trusteeship, and concepts of social and
individual rights and obligations in welfare and economic systems,
social protection/provision schemes, egalitarian practices and
post-colonial African political thought. Distributive Justice
Debates in Political and Social Thought empowers the reader to cast
a more critical and historically complete light on the idea of a
fair share and the implications it has on societies and the
individuals who comprise them.
Why are young people alienated from television news? This book
argues that contemporary trends indicating deepening disconnection
from news about public life reflect both problems in the way
television news covers politics - the single biggest item on the
news - and problems with the nature of politics itself under
neo-liberal capitalism.
This book is an exploration of the extent to which young people in
the UK are disaffected with traditional politics, and particularly
the role played by televisual representations of the political
process. The authors look at how television represents young people
themselves, and at how young people use new forms of media to
inform themselves politically --
In this book, Sarah Murray provides a comprehensive treatment of
textual and archaeological evidence for the long-distance trade
economy of Greece across 600 years during the transition from the
Late Bronze to the Early Iron Age. Analyzing the finished objects
that sustained this kind of trade, she also situates these
artifacts within the broader context of the ancient Mediterranean
economy, including evidence for the import and export of
commodities as well as demographic change. Murray argues that our
current model of exchange during the Late Bronze Age is in need of
a thoroughgoing reformulation. She demonstrates that the
association of imported objects with elite self-fashioning is not
supported by the evidence from any period in early Greek history.
Moreover, the notional 'decline' in trade during Greece's purported
Dark Age appears to be the result of severe economic contraction,
rather than a severance of access to trade routes.
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