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Morris Isaacson High School (MIHS) is widely known as the epicentre of the 1976 Soweto uprising. However, its legacy extends far beyond this event. This insightful book explores the rich, untold story of the school, revealing its profound impact on secondary education in Soweto.
While the 1976 uprising cemented MIHS’s place in history, Clive Glaser argues that its true significance lies in its unwavering commitment to quality education during a tumultuous period. Located in the heart of Soweto, MIHS faced immense challenges – poverty, a repressive education system (Bantu Education) and political unrest. Yet, it defied the odds, nurturing generations of successful professionals throughout the 1960s and 1970s. How did MIHS flourish under Bantu Education, and why did its performance not reach its full potential in the democratic era? By examining the interplay between dedicated leadership, a strong alumni network and shifting socio-economic realities, the book provides some compelling answers.
This book is not just about MIHS; it is a testament to the enduring power of education in the fight for social justice. MIHS’s story serves as an inspiration, demonstrating the transformative potential of education, even under the most challenging circumstances.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. Providing a comprehensive overview of the current and future
uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare, this Advanced
Introduction discusses the issues surrounding the implementation,
governance, impacts and risks of utilising AI in health
organizations Key Features: Advises healthcare executives on how to
effectively leverage AI to advance their strategies and plans and
support digital transformation Discusses AI governance, change
management, workforce management and the organization of AI
experimentation and implementation Analyzes AI technologies in
healthcare and their impacts on patient care, medical devices,
pharmaceuticals, population health, and healthcare operations
Provides risk mitigation approaches to address potential AI
algorithm problems, liability and regulation Essential reading for
policymakers, clinical executives and consultants in healthcare,
this Advanced Introduction explores how to successfully integrate
AI into healthcare organizations and will also prove invaluable to
students and scholars interested in technological innovations in
healthcare.
Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful
introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and
law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to
be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of
the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject
areas. Providing a comprehensive overview of the current and future
uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare, this Advanced
Introduction discusses the issues surrounding the implementation,
governance, impacts and risks of utilising AI in health
organizations Key Features: Advises healthcare executives on how to
effectively leverage AI to advance their strategies and plans and
support digital transformation Discusses AI governance, change
management, workforce management and the organization of AI
experimentation and implementation Analyzes AI technologies in
healthcare and their impacts on patient care, medical devices,
pharmaceuticals, population health, and healthcare operations
Provides risk mitigation approaches to address potential AI
algorithm problems, liability and regulation Essential reading for
policymakers, clinical executives and consultants in healthcare,
this Advanced Introduction explores how to successfully integrate
AI into healthcare organizations and will also prove invaluable to
students and scholars interested in technological innovations in
healthcare.
Volume 3 deals with the crucial period of the 1950s and the early
1960s. These were years of mass passive resistance to apartheid;
years when the ANC was able to rally hundreds of thousands of
supporters for its strategy of non-violent protest. This was the
period when the increasingly brutal repressive measures of the
state, culminating in the Sharpeville massacre and the banning of
the ANC and PAC, finally turned the movement away from its proud
tradition of non-violence into the difficult and protracted path of
armed struggle.
Claude has the most beautiful shell of all the crabs on the beach.
It makes him feel special and he's determined never, ever to part
with it. Of course, hermit crabs change their shells as they
grow-in fact they often swap with each other. But when it's time to
swap, Claude says 'NO!'. His decision spins the hermit crab
community into chaos and it means that little Alphonso's shell is
much too big. At the seaside this is dangerous. Can Claude give up
his selfish ways in time to save his friend?
'Brilliant' Jenni Murray 'Liberating, intoxicating' Zoe Williams
'Why, after decades of social progress, is motherhood still so much
harder than it needs to be?' Before they become mothers, women are
repeatedly reminded that their biological clock is ticking. Once
pregnant, a woman's body becomes public property: she is
patronised, panicked, and forbidden from exercising her autonomy.
In labour, women's wishes are overridden, resulting in potentially
life-changing injuries and trauma. When the baby comes home, women
begin a life of pay cuts, lost job opportunities, heavier
housework, unequal emotional loads, and judgement from all sides.
State support and family networks have fallen away, and mothers are
censured for every 'choice' they make - if they are given real
choices at all. In this searing and vital book, Eliane Glaser asks
why mothers are idealised, yet treated so poorly; why campaigns for
mothers have become so unfashionable; and what we need to do to
shift the needle and improve the business of child-rearing for
everyone.
The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st
Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when
their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their
lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes
to stay in their beloved home and convince the dreaded Beiderman
just how wonderful they are. And all is fair in love and war when
it comes to keeping their home.
This book tells the story of the ANC Youth League from its origins
in the 1940s to the controversies of the Malema era. It analyses
the ideology and tactics of its founders, some of whom (notably
Mandela and Tambo) later became iconic figures in South African
history. It also shows how the early Youth League gave birth not
only to the modern ANC but also to its rival, the Pan Africanist
Congress. Dormant for many years, the Youth League re-emerged in
the transition era under the leadership of Peter Mokaba - infused
with the tradition of the militant youth politics of the 1980s.
Throughout its history the Youth League has tried to 'dynamise' and
criticise the ANC from within, while remaining devoted to, and
dependent on, the mother body. This book argues that in all this
time the Youth League has struggled to find a balance between
loyalty and rebellion.
A probing reading of leftist Jewish poets who, during the interwar
period, drew on the trauma of pogroms to depict the suffering of
other marginalized peoples. Between the world wars, a generation of
Jewish leftist poets reached out to other embattled peoples of the
earth—Palestinian Arabs, African Americans, Spanish
Republicans—in Yiddish verse. Songs in Dark Times examines the
richly layered meanings of this project, grounded in Jewish
collective trauma but embracing a global community of the
oppressed. The long 1930s, Amelia M. Glaser proposes, gave rise to
a genre of internationalist modernism in which tropes of national
collective memory were rewritten as the shared experiences of many
national groups. The utopian Jews of Songs in Dark Times
effectively globalized the pogroms in a bold and sometimes fraught
literary move that asserted continuity with anti-Arab violence and
black lynching. As communists and fellow travelers, the writers
also sought to integrate particular experiences of suffering into a
borderless narrative of class struggle. Glaser resurrects their
poems from the pages of forgotten Yiddish communist periodicals,
particularly the New York–based Morgn Frayhayt (Morning Freedom)
and the Soviet literary journal Royte Velt (Red World). Alongside
compelling analysis, Glaser includes her own translations of ten
poems previously unavailable in English, including Malka Lee’s
“God’s Black Lamb,” Moyshe Nadir’s “Closer,” and Esther
Shumiatsher’s “At the Border of China.” These poets dreamed
of a moment when “we” could mean “we workers” rather than
“we Jews.” Songs in Dark Times takes on the beauty and
difficulty of that dream, in the minds of Yiddish writers who
sought to heal the world by translating pain.
Transform your career or your business with these simple tips and tricks to make virtual working easier than ever before – office no longer required.
The remote work revolution is here. Even before COVID-19 created the largest remote work experiment in history, the business world was already gravitating toward virtual workplaces. Suddenly organizations as big as Twitter are learning that their employees don’t need an office in order to get great results. How to Thrive in the Virtual Workplace shows how to stay productive, feel like part of a team and make the most of remote working.
Robert Glazer shares the principles, tactics and tools his company has developed in more than a decade of successfully working as a joined-up but 100 per cent remote workforce, as well as interviewing other leaders in the sector about what works for them. As founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners, an organization with 170 employees who all work from home, Glazer has been recognized with dozens of awards for its industry performance and company culture. Here, he shares a step-by-step guide to building a culture of flexibility and trust, hiring and communicating effectively – both internally and externally – as a successful remote business.
Why do women choreographers chose to create the dances they do in the manner they do? How do women in dance work independently and organizationally? How do women set up institutions? How has higher education helped or hindered women in the world of dance? These are the questions this work seeks to address.;In dealing with some of the tensions, joys, frustrations and fears women experience at various points of their creative lives, the contributors strike a balance between a theoretical sense of feminism and its practice in reality. This book aims to present answers to questions about women, power and action.
This volume documents the growth of a new kind of interdisciplinary
teamwork that is evolving among practitioners, researchers, teacher
educators, and community partners. Its premise: the design of
learning environments and the development of theory must proceed in
a mutually supportive fashion. Scientific researchers have learned
that a prerequisite to studying the kinds of learning that matter
is helping to shoulder the responsibility for ensuring that these
forms of learning occur. To support and study learning, researchers
are increasingly making major and long-term investments in the
design and maintenance of contexts for learning. Practitioners are
assuming new roles as well, reflecting an increasing awareness of
the need to move beyond skillful doing. If developing learning
contexts are to be protected within and expanded beyond the systems
that surround them, it is necessary to foster professional
communities that will support reflection about practice, including
the generation and evaluation of rich and flexible environments for
student thinking. One consequence of recent reforms is that
teachers are increasingly regarding such tasks as central to their
professional development.
"Innovations in Learning: New Environments for Education"
describes coordinated interaction between educational design on the
one hand, and the development of learning theory on the other,
through a series of examples. These examples have been chosen
because they are continuing, proven programs with evidence of
success. Contributors to the volume are researchers and
practitioners who have played a role in inventing these programs
and have guided their development over a period of years. Rather
than choosing illustrations of a pipeline or "application model of
research" from research and then to practice, the editors of this
volume have selected interventions in which researchers and
practitioners work together persistently to forge common
understanding. Such activity is necessarily interdisciplinary,
often encompassing long spans of time, and is more akin to
engineering in the field than to laboratory science. The common
themes that emerge from this activity -- for example, the role of
tools, talk, and community -- belong exclusively neither to theory
nor to practice, but to their intersection in commitment to
specific contexts of learning and continuing contributions to
practice and underlying theory.
This volume is organized into three sections that reflect
different levels and kinds of learning contexts. Each of these
levels has been the focus of recent cognitive and reform
applications to learning and schooling. The first offers examples
of effective learning in informal settings; the second discusses
innovative approaches to schooling at the classroom level; and the
third reviews reforms that regard the entire school as the
appropriate unit of change.
In recent years, the use of technology for the purposes of
improving and enriching traditional instructional practices has
received a great deal of attention. However, few works have
explicitly examined cognitive, psychological, and educational
principles on which technology-supported learning environments are
based. This volume attempts to cover the need for a thorough
theoretical analysis and discussion of the principles of system
design that underlie the construction of technology-enhanced
learning environments. It presents examples of technology-supported
learning environments that cover a broad range of content domains,
from the physical sciences and mathematics to the teaching of
language and literacy.
The emphasis in this book is not on the design of educational
software but on the design of learning environments. A great deal
of research on learning and instruction has recently moved out of
the laboratory into the design of applications in instructional
settings. By designing technology-supported learning environments
instructional scientists attempt to better understand the theories
and principles that are explicit in their theories of learning. The
contributors to this volume examine how factors such as social
interaction, the creation of meaningful activities, the use of
multiple perspectives, and the construction of concrete
representations influence the acquisition of new information and
transfer.
The contributors to this volume address reasoning and problem
solving as fundamental to learning and teaching and to modern
literacy. The research on expertise and the development of
competence makes it clear that structures of knowledge and
cognitive process should be tightly linked throughout education to
attain high levels of ability. The longstanding pedagogical
assumption that the attainment of useful knowledge proceeds from
lower level learning based on the practice of fundamental skills
that demand little thought, to higher level competence in which
problem solving finally plays an increasing role, is no longer
tenable. It is now clear that thinking is not an outcome of basic
learning, but is part of the basic acquisition of knowledge and
skill. In learning to read, for example, decoding the printed word
and understanding simple texts is an act of problem solving,
requiring inference and elaboration by the reader. The prevalence
of reasoning with information at all levels makes the details of
its involvement a fundamental influence on learning and instruction
-- a recurring theme in each of the chapters.
A rich variety of topics is addressed including:
*an analysis of the components of teaching competence
*the evolution of a learner's mathematical understanding
*the use of causal models for generating scientific explanations
*the facilitation of meaningful learning through text
illustrations
*the competence of children in argumentative interaction that
results in conceptual change.
An adjunct to the increased emphasis on developing students'
critical thinking and higher order skills is the need for methods
to monitor and evaluate these abilities. These papers provide
insight into current techniques and examine possibilities for the
future. The contributors to Diagnostic Monitoring of Skill and
Knowledge Acquisition focus on two beliefs: that new kinds of tests
and assessment methods are needed; and that instruction and
learning can be improved by developing new assessment methods based
on work in cognitive science.
The chapters in this collection illustrate how current concepts and
principles from various disciplines can be viewed from the
perspective of their value to educational process thinking. While
not providing specific prescriptions for educational problems, the
articles provide relevant experimental and theoretical knowledge
has accumulated in many fields including learning theory, cognitive
development, motivation, and intellectual abilities and attitudes.
First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
John Glaser has been an astute observer and recognized leader in
the health care industry for over thirty years. He has written a
regular column for Hospitals & Health Networks in which he
comments on a wide range of topics, including improving
organizational performance through health information technology
(HIT), changes in HIT architecture, challenges in leveraging data,
and the evolution of the role of IT leadership. Glaser on Health
Care IT: Perspectives from the Decade that Defined Health Care
Information Technology is a collection of some of the most widely
read articles that have been published in H&HN Daily, H&HN
Weekly, and Most Wired Online in the past decade (2005-2015). The
columns are dated to show their original publication dates, and the
material is organized into four broad themes: HIT Applications and
Analytics Challenges Improving Organizational Performance through
HIT IT Management Challenges HIT Industry Observations Each section
offers readers an intimate look at the myriad issues associated
with getting IT "right" and the organizational performance gains
that can be achieved in doing so. Moreover, the book examines the
power and potential of the technologies available to health care
providers today, as well as the transformative nature of those we
have yet to fully embrace. From seasoned CIOs and consultants to
software developers and nurses, this book provides invaluable
insights and guidance to all those seeking to make the delivery of
care safer, more effective, and more efficient through the
application of health care IT. Foreword by Russ Branzell, President
and CEO, College of Healthcare Information Management Executives
(CHIME) Co-published with Health Forum, Inc.
The members of the Domestic Workers United (DWU)
organization-immigrant women of color employed as nannies,
caregivers, and housekeepers in New York City-formed to fight for
dignity and respect and to "bring meaningful change" to their work.
Alana Lee Glaser examines the process of how these domestic workers
organized against precarity, isolation, and exploitation to help
pass the 2010 New York State Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, the
first labor law in the United States protecting in-home workers.
Solidarity & Care examines the political mobilization of
diverse care workers who joined together and supported one another
through education, protests, lobbying, and storytelling. Domestic
work activists used narrative and emotional appeals to build a
coalition of religious communities, employers of domestic workers,
labor union members, and politicians to first pass and then to
enforce the new law. Through oral history interviews, as well as
ethnographic observation during DWU meetings and protest actions,
Glaser chronicles how these women fought (and continue to fight) to
improve working conditions. She also illustrates how they endure
racism, punitive immigration laws, on-the-job indignities, and
unemployment that can result in eviction and food insecurity. The
lessons from Solidarity & Care along with the DWU's
precedent-setting legislative success have applications to workers
across industries. All royalties will go directly to the Domestic
Workers United
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