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Democracy should enable citizens to play an informed role in
determining how power is exercised for their common wellbeing, but
this only works if people have the understanding, skills and
confidence to engage effectively in public affairs. Otherwise, any
voting system can be subverted to serve the interests of
propagandists and demagogues. This book brings together leading
experts on learning for democracy to explore why and how the gap in
civic competence should be bridged. Drawing on research findings
and case examples from the UK, the US and elsewhere, it will set
out why change is necessary, what could be taught differently to
ensure effective political engagement, and how a lasting impact in
improving citizens' learning for democratic participation can be
made.
Published in 1994. Integrating cross-curricular themes into the
curriculum has emerged as a major challenge for all schools. What
is their relevance to the specialist subject teacher? How can the
hard-pressed teacher ensure their coverage through the statutory
programmes of study and statements of attainment? How does a school
ensure that each pupil's experience makes sense - across the
curriculum, at any one time, and in the course of time? How can a
school link with partners in the local community to enhance
cross-curricular work? This challenge remains as National
Curriculum content and procedures are streamlined. Primary and
secondary school teachers will find here a book filled with
practical suggestions from a wide range of subject-specialist
viewpoints. These highlight opportunities for developing economic
and industrial understanding (EIU) and economic awareness through
work in the other cross-curricular areas, through the National
Curriculum core and foundation subjects and through other areas of
study. Whatever the shape of the National Curriculum in years to
come, this book and its companion volumes provide - for heads and
deputies, teachers engaged in curriculum coordination and delivery,
school inspectors, advisers, initial teacher trainers, INSET
providers and those in the community - a wealth of ideas to embed
cross-curricular issues into the whole school and its curriculum.
Published in 1994. Integrating cross-curricular themes into the
curriculum has emerged as a major challenge for all schools. What
is their relevance to the specialist subject teacher? How can the
hard-pressed teacher ensure their coverage through the statutory
programmes of study and statements of attainment? How does a school
ensure that each pupil's experience makes sense - across the
curriculum, at any one time, and in the course of time? How can a
school link with partners in the local community to enhance
cross-curricular work? This challenge remains as National
Curriculum content and procedures are streamlined. Primary and
secondary school teachers will find here a book filled with
practical suggestions from a wide range of subject-specialist
viewpoints. These highlight opportunities for developing economic
and industrial understanding (EIU) and economic awareness through
work in the other cross-curricular areas, through the National
Curriculum core and foundation subjects and through other areas of
study. Whatever the shape of the National Curriculum in years to
come, this book and its companion volumes provide - for heads and
deputies, teachers engaged in curriculum coordination and delivery,
school inspectors, advisers, initial teacher trainers, INSET
providers and those in the community - a wealth of ideas to embed
cross-curricular issues into the whole school and its curriculum.
Addressing education for citizenship and the teaching of democracy
in schools, the final report of the advisory group set up by the
Secretary of State for Education notes a need for citizenship
education as a distinct part of the curriculum, but also recognizes
that "it can be taught in combination with other subjects". It
highlights history as one of the key subjects. This book defines
the contribution that history can make to citizenship and democracy
education, and which it must make if citizenship education is to be
effective in a crowded curriculum. It addresses both the ways in
which the content and the pedagogy of the secondary history
curriculum can contribute to the teaching of citizenship and ways
in which the proposed content of the curriculum for citizenship can
be addressed through history. Theoretical discussion is used to
provide a platform for the presentation of practical teaching
suggestions. The use of case studies in the final section clarifies
classroom issues.
Citizenship through Secondary History reveals the potential of
history to engage with citizenship education and includes: a review
of the links between citizenship education and the teaching and
learning of history an analysis of how citizenship education is
characterised, raising key issues about what could and should be
achieved a critique of the discipline and the pitfalls to avoid in
teaching citizenship through history case studies offering
practical teaching suggestions. History teaching is at the vanguard
of citizenship education - the past is the springboard from which
citizens learn to think and act. This book offers positive and
direct ways to get involved in the thinking that must underpin any
worthwhile citizenship education, for all professional teachers,
student teachers in history, policy-makers, heads of department and
principals.
Explores the range of vibrant cultural production and political
activism of youth in Africa today, as expressed through art, music,
theater, and online media. This edited collection focuses on the
links between youth and African popular culture. Contributions by a
distinguished group of scholars explore popular culture produced
and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. Essays cover a
variety of cultural representations--visual, oral, written,
performative, fictional, social, and virtual--created by African
youth, mostly about their lives and their immediate societies, and
for themselves, but also consumed by the larger public and shared
locally and globally. The volume examines the range of music, art,
and media African youth produce, under what conditions or contexts
they produce such work, and the aesthetic dimensions of these texts
as cultural artifacts. Essays further explore why these textual
practices matter as social facts, as interpretive acts, and as
symbols of the cultural activism of young people in a rapidly
changing world-a world where the global cultural economy is the
prime terrain for the relentless struggles over the meanings that
come to shape political-economic and social systems.
This book provides an introduction to the ergodic theory and
topological dynamics of actions of countable groups. It is
organized around the theme of probabilistic and combinatorial
independence, and highlights the complementary roles of the
asymptotic and the perturbative in its comprehensive treatment of
the core concepts of weak mixing, compactness, entropy, and
amenability. The more advanced material includes Popa's cocycle
superrigidity, the Furstenberg-Zimmer structure theorem, and sofic
entropy. The structure of the book is designed to be flexible
enough to serve a variety of readers. The discussion of dynamics is
developed from scratch assuming some rudimentary functional
analysis, measure theory, and topology, and parts of the text can
be used as an introductory course. Researchers in ergodic theory
and related areas will also find the book valuable as a reference.
The advent of the World Wide Web has changed the perspectives of
groupware systems. The interest and deployment of Internet and
intranet groupware solutions is growing rapidly, not just in
academic circles but also in the commercial arena. The first
generation of Web-based groupware tools has already started to
emerge, and leading groupware vendors are urgently adapting their
products for compatibility and integration with Web technologies.
The focus of Groupware and the World Wide Web is to explore the
potential for Web-based groupware. This book includes an analysis
of the key characteristics of the Web, presenting reasons for its
success, and describes developments of a diverse range of Web-based
groupware systems. An emphasis on the technical obstacles and
challenges is implemented by more analytical discussions and
perspectives, including that of Information Technology managers
looking to deploy groupware solutions within their organizations.
Written by experts from different backgrounds - academic and
commercial, technical and organizational - this book provides a
unique overview of and insight into current issues and future
possibilities concerning extension of the World Wide Web for group
working.
This book collects the notes of the lectures given at an Advanced
Course on Dynamical Systems at the Centre de Recerca Matematica
(CRM) in Barcelona. The notes consist of four series of lectures.
The first one, given by Andrew Toms, presents the basic properties
of the Cuntz semigroup and its role in the classification program
of simple, nuclear, separable C*-algebras. The second series of
lectures, delivered by N. Christopher Phillips, serves as an
introduction to group actions on C*-algebras and their crossed
products, with emphasis on the simple case and when the crossed
products are classifiable. The third one, given by David Kerr,
treats various developments related to measure-theoretic and
topological aspects of crossed products, focusing on internal and
external approximation concepts, both for groups and C*-algebras.
Finally, the last series of lectures, delivered by Thierry
Giordano, is devoted to the theory of topological orbit
equivalence, with particular attention to the classification of
minimal actions by finitely generated abelian groups on the Cantor
set.
The advent of the World Wide Web has changed the perspectives of
groupware systems. The interest and deployment of Internet and
intranet groupware solutions is growing rapidly, not just in
academic circles but also in the commercial arena. The first
generation of Web-based groupware tools has already started to
emerge, and leading groupware vendors are urgently adapting their
products for compatibility and integration with Web technologies.
The focus of Groupware and the World Wide Web is to explore the
potential for Web-based groupware. This book includes an analysis
of the key characteristics of the Web, presenting reasons for its
success, and describes developments of a diverse range of Web-based
groupware systems. An emphasis on the technical obstacles and
challenges is implemented by more analytical discussions and
perspectives, including that of Information Technology managers
looking to deploy groupware solutions within their organizations.
Written by experts from different backgrounds - academic and
commercial, technical and organizational - this book provides a
unique overview of and insight into current issues and future
possibilities concerning extension of the World Wide Web for group
working.
Diabetes Digital Health and Telehealth explains, from technologic,
economic and sociologic standpoints how digital health and
telehealth have come to dominate the management of diabetes. The
book also includes information on improved telemedicine tools and
platforms for communicating with patients, reviewing medical
records, and interpreting data from wearable devices. In addition,
evolving wearable sensors such as continuous glucose monitors,
closed loop automated insulin delivery systems, cuffless blood
pressure monitors, exercise monitors and smart insulin pens are
covered.
It’s almost impossible to overstate the benefits of creating a
well-planned pond in your garden or field. This detailed and
practical guide will give the novice and experienced gardener alike
a straightforward explanation of how to plan, construct and plant a
thriving pond, avoiding common problems and establishing a haven
for wildlife.
This book will contain lectures given by four eminent speakers at
the Recent Advances in Operator Theory and Operator Algebras
conference held at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore,
India in 2014. The main aim of this book is to bring together
various results in one place with cogent introduction and
references for further study.
This book provides an introduction to the ergodic theory and
topological dynamics of actions of countable groups. It is
organized around the theme of probabilistic and combinatorial
independence, and highlights the complementary roles of the
asymptotic and the perturbative in its comprehensive treatment of
the core concepts of weak mixing, compactness, entropy, and
amenability. The more advanced material includes Popa's cocycle
superrigidity, the Furstenberg-Zimmer structure theorem, and sofic
entropy. The structure of the book is designed to be flexible
enough to serve a variety of readers. The discussion of dynamics is
developed from scratch assuming some rudimentary functional
analysis, measure theory, and topology, and parts of the text can
be used as an introductory course. Researchers in ergodic theory
and related areas will also find the book valuable as a reference.
This book provides an overview of Data Monitoring Committees(DMC) -
what was done in the past, what is currently being done, and
thoughts on improvements for the future. Previous works focused
primarily on large cardiovascular studies (where DMCs originated
more than 30 years ago) but updated references are needed that
discuss smaller, more flexible studies in areas such as oncology.
The authors have attended ~800 DMC meetings from ~200 distinct
studies across all areas of clinical studies (oncology,
rheumatology, rare diseases, cardiology, immunology, etc.) This
wide range of expertise will be used, as well as the expertise that
comes from working with virtually every large biotechnology
and pharmaceutical company and CRO for DMC work. The reader
of the book will know when DMCs are needed or helpful, how to form
the DMC, how to work with external CROs and with sponsor teams and
the DMC to create needed DMC outputs, how the DMC meetings are
conducted, and - especially for DMC members - what are
considerations within the Closed Session to review safety/efficacy
outputs to assess risk/benefit to make appropriate recommendations
that protect the patient safety and trial integrity. This is a
practical hands-on book on how to decide if a DMC is necessary, how
to form the DMC, how to expertly create the necessary materials for
the DMC and have smooth running DMC meetings. There is no
specialized training in school about how DMCs work - frequently
people may have been in industry for many years without ever
needing to work with a DMC. This book is the helpful reference for
those new to these DMCs. The DMC work is critical to be
correctly implemented as the impact of DMC activity on safeguarding
the trial is so important.This book provides the following:
Provides thorough instructions on the steps needed to form and
implement a Data Monitoring Committee for clinical trial
evaluation; Includes practical and hands-on information on DMC
implementation; Discusses a wide range of clinical trial – by
phase and therapeutic area.
An overview of African popular theatre, its history and
contemporary forms In this survey of theatre forms in sub-Saharan
Africa from pre-colonial times to the present day, popular theatre
is interpreted widely to include not only conventional drama, but
such non-literary forms of performance as dance, mime, dramatised
story-telling, masquerades, improvised urban vaudeville theatre,
and the theatre of resistance and social action. The book also
considers theatre embedded in the modern media of film, radio and
television. Kenya: EAEP
Diabetes Digital Health brings together the multifaceted
information surrounding the science of digital health from an
academic, regulatory, industrial, investment and cybersecurity
perspective. Clinicians and researchers who are developing and
evaluating mobile apps for diabetes patients will find this
essential reading, as will industry people whose companies are
developing mobile apps and sensors.
Examines the impact of new media (such as video and YouTube) and
the use of multi-media on live and recorded performance in Africa.
Focuses on the ways African theatre and performance relate to
various kinds of media. Includes contributions on dance; popular
video, with an emphasis on video drama and soaps from Eastern and
Southern Africa, and the Nigerian 'Nollywood' phenomenon; the
interface between live performance and video (or still
photography), and links between on-line social networks and new
performance identities. As a group the articles raise, from
original angles, the issues of racism, gender, identity, advocacy
and sponsorship. Volume Editor: DAVID KERR is Professor of English
in the University of Botswana, and is the author of African Popular
Theatre Series Editors: Martin Banham, Emeritus Professor of Drama
& Theatre Studies, University of Leeds; James Gibbs, Senior
Visiting Research Fellow, University of the West of England; Femi
Osofisan, Professor of Drama at the University of Ibadan; Jane
Plastow, Professor of African Theatre, University of Leeds; Yvette
Hutchison, Associate Professor, Department of Theatre &
Performance Studies, University of Warwick
Directors and collaborators assess and comment on the production of
plays by West Africa's Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and East
Africa's most influential author Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Wole Soyinka
and Ngugi wa Thiong'o are the pre-eminent playwrights of West and
East Africa respectively and their work has been hugely influential
across the continent. This volume features directors' experiences
of recent productions of their plays, the voices of actors and
collaborators who have worked with the playwrights, and also
provides a digest of their theatrical output. Contributors provide
new readings of Ngugi and Soyinka's classic texts, and astimulating
new approach for students of English, Theatre and African studies.
The playscript for this volume is a previously unpublished radio
play by Wole Soyinka entitled A Rain of Stones, first broadcast
onBBC Radio 4 in 2002. Volume Editors: MARTIN BANHAM & FEMI
OSOFISAN Guest Editor: KIMANI NJOGU Series Editors: Martin Banham,
Emeritus Professor of Drama & Theatre Studies, University of
Leeds; James Gibbs,Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of
the West of England; Femi Osofisan, Professor of Drama at the
University of Ibadan; Jane Plastow, Professor of African Theatre,
University of Leeds; Yvette Hutchison, Associate Professor,
Department of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of
Warwick
Separated from his wife, adrift in New York City, Ollie Morton
returns to Pittsfield, his hometown in the Berkshire Hills, for his
mother's funeral and decides to stay. He joins the law firm of his
father and brother Ben - a state senator with a thriving practice.
But old sibling rivalries threaten to re-ignite as the two brothers
get back together. More disturbing is the ghost Ollie encounters, a
ghost from over a hundred years before, with Ollie's name, and
whose past life mirrors Ollie's present. The story shifts to
Pittsfield in 1861 where two brothers, Oliver and Ben Morton, are
heading off to war, and dealing with their own growing rivalry,
played out on the battlefields of the Civil War. As Ollie's own
problems with Ben head to their climax, is he doomed to repeat the
mistakes of his family's past? Do the bad acts of one brother ever
justify the bad acts of another? Will the ghosts of his family's
past lead Ollie to safety, or push him into a fight that echoes
down the generations?
Fresh from college graduation and a break-up with his long-time
girlfriend, Tom Reardon now has to decide what to do with the rest
of his life. He heads off to the tiny Berkshire town of Chilton
Falls, where he can think through the clean slate life has given
him. He takes a job at the Iron Bear Inn, and old bar with a new
owner, Gino, who has his own dreams of a new life. The world of the
Iron Bear provides Tom with examples of life lessons to be
followed. . . and avoided. Life at the Iron Bear also offers up its
own complications for Tom. It is up to him to sort them out and
choose his life's path. But there are so many paths to choose from
- how does he know which is the right one? Are any of them the
right one?
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