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This book provides a rich range of case studies and theoretical and methodological perspectives on the practical leadership tasks that underpin educational change. Section 1 focuses on the nature of professional learning and the policy context in which educational reform takes place. Section 2 explores the forms of leadership relevant to the differing contexts of professional development. Section 3 explores mentoring, peer coaching, team and group work. These processes are examined through international experience and by reference to work in other professions. Section 4 analyses the experience of evidence based work in medicine and the health service and the potential of applying this to education. The section reviews contested views on this theme. Section 5 looks at the potential role that interactive technologies can play in professional development.
The Audience in Everyday Life argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone - their interaction with media does not simply end when the set is turned off. Instead, we must study the daily lives of audiences to find the undercurrents of media influence in everyday life. Applying new developments in cultural anthropology and folklore to media studies, S.Elizabeth Bird offers a series of empirically based audience studies of phenomena that include media scandals, fan culture, representations of race and ethnicity, tabloid journalism, and runaway media hoaxes. Bird provides a range of useful tools and methods for scholars and students interested in the ways media is consumed in everyday life.
The Audience in Everyday Life argues that a media audience cannot
be studied in front of the television alone - their interaction
with media does not simply end when the set is turned off. Instead,
we must study the daily lives of audiences to find the
undercurrents of media influence in everyday life. S. Elizabeth
Bird offers a series of empirically based audience studies of
phenomena that include media scandals, fan culture, representations
of race and ethnicity, tabloid journalism and runaway media hoaxes.
Bird provides a host of useful tools and methods for scholars and
students interested in the ways media is consumed in everyday life.
One hundred members of NatChat, an electronic mail discussion group
concerned with Native American issues, responded to the recent
Disney release "Pocahontas" by calling on parents to boycott the
movie, citing its historical inaccuracies and saying that "Disney
has let us down in a cruel, irresponsible manner." Their anger was
rooted in the fact that, although Disney claimed that the film's
portrayal of American Indians would be "authentic," the Pocahontas
story their movie told was really white cultural myth. The actual
histories of the characters were replaced by mythic narratives
depicting the crucial moments when aid was given to the white
settlers. As reconstructed, the story serves to reassert for whites
their right to be here, easing any lingering guilt about the
displacement of the native inhabitants.To understand current
imagery, it is essential to understand the history of its making,
and these essays mesh to create a powerful, interconnected account
of image creation over the past 150 years. The contributors, who
represent a range of disciplines and specialties, reveal the
distortions and fabrications white culture has imposed on
significant historical and current events, as represented by
treasured artifacts, such as photographic images taken of Sitting
Bull following his surrender, the national monument at the
battlefield of Little Bighorn, nineteenth-century advertising, the
television phenomenon "Northern Exposure, " and the film "Dances
with Wolves."Well illustrated, this volume demonstrates the
complacency of white culture in its representation of its troubled
relationship with American Indians.
One hundred members of NatChat, an electronic mail discussion group
concerned with Native American issues, responded to the recent
Disney release Pocahontas by calling on parents to boycott the
movie, citing its historical inaccuracies and saying that ?Disney
has let us down in a cruel, irresponsible manner.? Their anger was
rooted in the fact that
This first comprehensive study of the Nigeria-Biafra War
(1967-1970) through the lens of gender explores the valiant and
gallant ways women carried out old and new responsibilities in
wartime and immediate postwar Nigeria. The book presents women as
embodiments of vulnerability and agency, who demonstrated
remarkable resilience and initiative, waging war on all fronts in
the face of precarious conditions and scarcities, and maximizing
opportunities occasioned by the hostilities. Women's experiences
are highlighted through critical analyses of oral interviews,
memoirs, life histories, fashion and material culture,
international legal conventions, music, as well as governmental and
non-governmental sources. The book fills the gap in the war
scholarship that has minimized women's complex experiences fifty
years after the hostilities ended. It highlights the cost of the
conflict on Nigerian women, their participation in the hostilities,
and their contributions to the survival of families, communities
and the country. The chapters present counter-narratives to
fictional and nonfictional accounts of the war, especially those
written by men, which often peripheralize or stereotypically
represent women as passive spectators or helpless victims of the
conflict; and also highlight and exaggerate women's moral laxity
and sensationalize their marital infidelities.
In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops
entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army,
slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins.
News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government,
with the complicity of Britain, and its significance in the
subsequent progress of that conflict was misunderstood. Drawing on
archival sources on both sides of the Atlantic and interviews with
survivors of the killing, pillaging and rape, as well as with
high-ranking Nigerian military and political leaders, S. Elizabeth
Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli offer an interdisciplinary
reconstruction of the history of the Asaba Massacre, redefining it
as a pivotal point in the history of the war. Through this, they
also explore the long afterlife of trauma, the reconstruction of
memory and how it intersects with justice, and the task of
reconciliation in a nation where a legacy of ethnic suspicion
continues to reverberate.
In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops
entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army,
slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins.
News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government,
with the complicity of Britain, and its significance in the
subsequent progress of that conflict was misunderstood. Drawing on
archival sources on both sides of the Atlantic and interviews with
survivors of the killing, pillaging and rape, as well as with
high-ranking Nigerian military and political leaders, S. Elizabeth
Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli offer an interdisciplinary
reconstruction of the history of the Asaba Massacre, redefining it
as a pivotal point in the history of the war. Through this, they
also explore the long afterlife of trauma, the reconstruction of
memory and how it intersects with justice, and the task of
reconciliation in a nation where a legacy of ethnic suspicion
continues to reverberate.
The Anthropology of News and Journalism is the first book to
explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture
from an anthropological perspective as a form of cultural
meaning-making in its creation, content, and dissemination.
Anthropology's global, comparative perspective and ethnographic
methods provide powerful insights for analyzing case studies from
around the world. Essays by leading scholars explore communities of
professional and nonprofessional journalists. They describe
news-making processes ranging from the local to the global digital
environment, as well as how news is disseminated and received in a
variety of cultural settings.
Contributors are S. Elizabeth Bird, Amahl Bishara, Dominic C.
Boyer, Dorle Drackle, Zeynep Devrim Gursel, Jennifer Hasty, Joseph
C. Manzella, Kerry McCallum, Mark Pedelty, Mark Allen Peterson,
Ursula Rao, Adrienne Russell, Christina Schwenkel, Jonathan
Skinner, Debra Spitulnik, Maria D. Vesperi, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen,
and Leon I. Yacher."
Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of
media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public
figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV
shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the
standards of the mass media. This increasing interest in private
lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often
described as Otabloidization.O The essays in this book are the
first serious scholarly studies of what is going on and what its
implications are. Reality, it turns out, is much more complex than
some of the laments suggest. As the contributors show, this is not
just a U.S. problem but is repeated in country after country, and
it is not certain that the media anywhere are getting more tabloid.
What is more, there is no consensus about whether tabloidization is
just Odumbing downO or whether it is a necessary tactic for the
mass media to engage with new audiences who do not have the news
habit. Tabloid Tales will be of interest to students and scholars
in journalism, mass communication, political science, and cultural
and media studies.
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2001 Bird is not a
former tabloid "insider," but an academic: assistant professor of
humanities and anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She
discusses tabloid history, beginning as far back as oral "folklore"
and urban legends. She interviewed tabloid editors, writers, and
readers for this book, and analyzes tabloid stories within the
context of folklore theory. She claims that tabloid readers are
savvier and better-educated than is assumed, that they "interact
and contribute" to with what they read (through gossip and
fantasy), and that working class readers (as much as upper class
readers) realize that many tabloid stories are false or
exaggerated. Released in 1992, by the University of Tennessee
Press. An easy read, despite its academic author and publisher.
Contemporary education systems face significant challenges.
Increasing emphasis is being placed on the importance of
high-quality leadership to meet these challenges. This book
provides a range of case studies and theoretical and methodological
perspectives on the practical leadership tasks that underpin
educational change. Section 1 focuses on the nature of professional
learning and the policy context in which educational reform takes
place. Section 2 explores the forms of leadership relevant to the
differing contexts of professional development. Section 3 explores
mentoring, peer coaching, team and group work. These processes are
examined through international experience and by reference to work
in other professions. Section 4 analyzes the experience of evidence
based work in medicine and the health service and the potential of
applying this to education. Section 5 looks at the potential role
that interactive technologies can play in professional development
This book should be of use to anyone involved in leading
professional development, including advisors and inspectors and
senior and middle managers in schools and colleges.
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