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This book presents innovative instructional interventions designed
to support inquiry project-based learning as an approach to equip
students with 21st century skills. Instructional techniques include
collaborative team-based teaching, social constructivist game
design and game play, and productive uses of social media such as
wikis and other online communication affordances. The book will be
of interest to researchers seeking a summary of recent empirical
studies in the inquiry project-based learning domain that employ
new technologies as constructive media for student synthesis and
creation. The book also bridges the gap between empirical works and
a range of national- and international-level educational standards
frameworks such as the P21, the OECD framework, AASL Standards for
the 21st Century Learner, and the Common Core State Standards in
the US. Of particular interest to education practitioners, the book
offers detailed descriptions of inquiry project-based learning
interventions that can be directly reproduced in today's schools.
Further, the book provides research-driven guidelines for the
evaluation of student inquiry project-based learning. Lastly, it
offers education policymakers insight into establishing anchors and
spaces for applying inquiry project-based learning opportunities
for youth today in the context of existing and current education
reform efforts. The aim of this book is to support education
leaders', practitioners' and researchers' efforts in advancing
inspiring and motivating student learning through transformative
social constructivist inquiry-based knowledge-building with
information technologies. We propose that preparing students with
inquiry mindsets and dispositions can promote greater agency,
critical thinking and resourcefulness, qualities needed for
addressing the complex societal challenges they may face.
"This collection looks at the growing rapprochement between
contemporary theory and early modern English literary-cultural
studies. With sections on posthumanism and cognitive science,
political theology, and rematerialism and performance, the essays
incorporate recent theoretical inquiries into new readings of early
modern texts"--
Drawing on hands-on experience from workshops and interviews,
"Performance Practice and Process" explores the work of eight
gender aware theater and performance artists and companies; Bobby
Baker, Curious, SuAndi, Sarah Daniels, Split Britches, Rebecca
Prichard, Vayu Naidu, and Jenny Eclair. Aston and Harris offer rare
insights into the processes, as well as the practice, of these
internationally renowned artists and employ an inside, practical
approach to understanding their ground-breaking and politically
radical theater and performance work.
Transversal Subjects, now in paperback, proposes a combined theory
of consciousness, subjectivity and agency stemming from analyses of
junctures in Western philosophical and critical discourses that
have greatly influenced the development of present-day
understandings of perception, identity, desire, mimesis,
aesthetics, education and human rights.
To 'rematerialize' in the sense of Rematerializing Shakespeare:
Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage is
not to recover a lost material infrastructure, as Marx spoke of,
nor is it to restore to some material existence its priority over
the imaginary. Indeed, this collection of work by some of the most
highly-regarded critics in Shakespeare studies does not offer a
single theoretical stance on any of the various forms of critical
materialism (Marxism, cultural materialism, new historicism,
transversal poetics, gender studies, or performance criticism), but
rather demonstrates that the materiality of Shakespeare is
multidimensional and consists of the imagination, the intended, and
the desired. Nothing returns in this rematerialization, unless it
is a return in the sense of the repressed, which, when it comes
back, comes back as something else. An all-star line-up of
contributors includes Kate McLuskie, Terence Hawkes, Catherine
Belsey and Doug Bruster.
A progressive resurgence is happening across the United States.
This book shows how long-lasting coalitions have built progressive
power from the regional level on up. Anchored by the "think and
act" affiliate organizations of the Partnership for Working
Families (PWF) these regional power building projects are putting
in place the vision, policy agenda, political savvy, and grassroots
mobilization needed for progressive governance. Through six
sections, the book explores how Partnership for Working Families
projects are a core part of the defeat of the right-wing in states
such as California; the challenge to corporate neoliberalism in
traditionally "liberal" areas; and contests for power in such
formally solid red states as Arizona, Georgia, and Colorado. This
book considers how these PWF groups work on economic, racial and
environmental justice challenges, equitable development, and other
critical issues. It addresses how, at their core, they bring
together labor, community, environmental, and faith-based
organizations and the coalitions and campaigns that they developed
have won and continue to win substantial victories for their
communities. Igniting Justice and Progressive Power will be of
interest to activists and concerned citizens looking to understand
how lasting political change actually happens as well as all
scholars and students of social work, urban geography, political
sociology, community development, social movements and political
science more broadly.
Transversal Enterprises in the Drama of Shakespeare and his
Contemporaries further develops the pioneering critical theory,
methodology and aesthetics of "transversal poetics" as it
progresses beyond both traditional parameters for analysis of early
modern English literature and culture and recent trends in
literary, theater, and performance studies to offer new readings of
plays by Shakespeare, Peele, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker,
Rowley, Webster, and Greene. To elucidate their theoretical and
historical claims about hermeneutics, phenomenology, theology,
consciousness, subjectivity, social identity, theatre and
performance, Reynolds and his collaborators move
"investigative-expansively" across a broad range of typically
separated fields within and outside of the humanities while giving
critical attention to topics that are often marginalized within the
fields. http: //www.bryanreynolds.com
This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern
English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new
directions in which the field is going as well as the value of
crossing disciplinary boundaries within and beyond the humanities.
Topics studied include posthumanism, ecological studies, and
historical phenomenology.
Since the early 2000s, state-led and innovation-focused strategies
have characterized the approach to development pursued in countries
around the world, such as China, India, and South Korea. Brazil,
the largest and most industrialized economy in Latin America,
demonstrates both the opportunities and challenges of this
approach. Over the course of nearly 20 years, the Brazilian
government enacted various policies and programs designed to
strengthen the country's capacity to innovate. It increased
spending on science and technology, encouraged greater
collaboration between industry and universities, and fostered the
creation of new institutions whose primary aim was to facilitate
greater private research and development (R&D) spending. In
this book, the editors unite a diverse array of empirical
contributions around a few key themes, including public policies,
institutions and innovation ecosystems, and firms and industries,
that collectively make the case for a new, forward-looking
innovation agenda aimed at addressing persistent challenges and
exploiting emerging opportunities in Brazil. Its conclusions offer
valuable lessons for other developing and emerging economies
seeking to accelerate innovation and growth in the modern age. With
its interdisciplinary and wide-ranging contribution to the study of
innovation, as well as attention to broader policy implications,
this book will appeal to scholars and professionals alike.
A progressive resurgence is happening across the United States.
This book shows how long-lasting coalitions have built progressive
power from the regional level on up. Anchored by the "think and
act" affiliate organizations of the Partnership for Working
Families (PWF) these regional power building projects are putting
in place the vision, policy agenda, political savvy, and grassroots
mobilization needed for progressive governance. Through six
sections, the book explores how Partnership for Working Families
projects are a core part of the defeat of the right-wing in states
such as California; the challenge to corporate neoliberalism in
traditionally "liberal" areas; and contests for power in such
formally solid red states as Arizona, Georgia, and Colorado. This
book considers how these PWF groups work on economic, racial and
environmental justice challenges, equitable development, and other
critical issues. It addresses how, at their core, they bring
together labor, community, environmental, and faith-based
organizations and the coalitions and campaigns that they developed
have won and continue to win substantial victories for their
communities. Igniting Justice and Progressive Power will be of
interest to activists and concerned citizens looking to understand
how lasting political change actually happens as well as all
scholars and students of social work, urban geography, political
sociology, community development, social movements and political
science more broadly.
Since the early 2000s, state-led and innovation-focused strategies
have characterized the approach to development pursued in countries
around the world, such as China, India, and South Korea. Brazil,
the largest and most industrialized economy in Latin America,
demonstrates both the opportunities and challenges of this
approach. Over the course of nearly 20 years, the Brazilian
government enacted various policies and programs designed to
strengthen the country's capacity to innovate. It increased
spending on science and technology, encouraged greater
collaboration between industry and universities, and fostered the
creation of new institutions whose primary aim was to facilitate
greater private research and development (R&D) spending. In
this book, the editors unite a diverse array of empirical
contributions around a few key themes, including public policies,
institutions and innovation ecosystems, and firms and industries,
that collectively make the case for a new, forward-looking
innovation agenda aimed at addressing persistent challenges and
exploiting emerging opportunities in Brazil. Its conclusions offer
valuable lessons for other developing and emerging economies
seeking to accelerate innovation and growth in the modern age. With
its interdisciplinary and wide-ranging contribution to the study of
innovation, as well as attention to broader policy implications,
this book will appeal to scholars and professionals alike.
This book presents a vision for farreaching economic change in
America connected to practical grassroots steps. It points to an
economic system in which corporate success merges with the
long-term welfare of the workers and the general population. The
author examines the continued reality of social democracy in Europe
and what lessons can be learned for the U.S. He demonstrates how
progressive economic change is already being fought for by labor
and community groups throughout America in such efforts as the
Living Wage Movement and the emerging battle against sprawl. And he
provides a wealth of concrete examples, tools, and ideas that
everyone can use to organize for economic and social justice in
their own communities.
This book presents innovative instructional interventions designed
to support inquiry project-based learning as an approach to equip
students with 21st century skills. Instructional techniques include
collaborative team-based teaching, social constructivist game
design and game play, and productive uses of social media such as
wikis and other online communication affordances. The book will be
of interest to researchers seeking a summary of recent empirical
studies in the inquiry project-based learning domain that employ
new technologies as constructive media for student synthesis and
creation. The book also bridges the gap between empirical works and
a range of national- and international-level educational standards
frameworks such as the P21, the OECD framework, AASL Standards for
the 21st Century Learner, and the Common Core State Standards in
the US. Of particular interest to education practitioners, the book
offers detailed descriptions of inquiry project-based learning
interventions that can be directly reproduced in today's schools.
Further, the book provides research-driven guidelines for the
evaluation of student inquiry project-based learning. Lastly, it
offers education policymakers insight into establishing anchors and
spaces for applying inquiry project-based learning opportunities
for youth today in the context of existing and current education
reform efforts. The aim of this book is to support education
leaders', practitioners' and researchers' efforts in advancing
inspiring and motivating student learning through transformative
social constructivist inquiry-based knowledge-building with
information technologies. We propose that preparing students with
inquiry mindsets and dispositions can promote greater agency,
critical thinking and resourcefulness, qualities needed for
addressing the complex societal challenges they may face.
This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern
English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new
directions in which the field is going as well as the value of
crossing disciplinary boundaries within and beyond the humanities.
Topics studied include posthumanism, ecological studies, and
historical phenomenology.
Transversal Subjects, now in paperback, proposes a combined theory
of consciousness, subjectivity and agency stemming from analyses of
junctures in Western philosophical and critical discourses that
have greatly influenced the development of present-day
understandings of perception, identity, desire, mimesis,
aesthetics, education and human rights.
This study expands on Reynolds' "transversal poetics" -- the
theory, methodology, and aesthetics developed in response to the
need for an approach that fosters agency, creativity and
conscientious scholarship and pedagogy. It offers new readings of
plays by, amongst others, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, Webster
and Greene.
To 'rematerialize' in the sense of Rematerializing Shakespeare:
Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage is
not to recover a lost material infrastructure, as Marx spoke of,
nor is it to restore to some material existence its priority over
the imaginary. Indeed, this collection of work by some of the most
highly-regarded critics in Shakespeare studies does not offer a
single theoretical stance on any of the various forms of critical
materialism (Marxism, cultural materialism, new historicism,
transversal poetics, gender studies, or performance criticism), but
rather demonstrates that the materiality of Shakespeare is
multidimensional and consists of the imagination, the intended, and
the desired. Nothing returns in this rematerialization, unless it
is a return in the sense of the repressed, which, when it comes
back, comes back as something else. An all-star line-up of
contributors includes Kate McLuskie, Terence Hawkes, Catherine
Belsey and Doug Bruster.
In this volume, ten leading scholars harvest the best of Western
thinking on religious liberty. An opening chapter shows how
religious liberty emerged slowly in the West through centuries of
cruel experience and growing enlightenment. Separate chapters
thereafter take up the unique roles of such titans as Marsilius,
Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Tocqueville, and
the American framers in the Western drama of religious liberty.
From widely divergent experiences, these titans discovered the
cardinal principles of religious liberty--religious pluralism and
toleration, religious equality and non-discrimination, liberty of
conscience and association, freedom of expression and exercise.
From widely discordant convictions, they distilled the most
enduring models of church and state and of religion and law in the
West--from the organic models of earlier centuries to the dualistic
models of more recent times.
From two authors who embrace technology in the classroom and value
the role of collaborative learning comes "College Geometry Using
The Geometer's Sketchpad." The book's truly discovery-based
approach guides readers to learn geometry through explorations of
topics ranging from triangles and circles to transformational,
taxicab, and hyperbolic geometries. In the process, readers hone
their understanding of geometry and their ability to write rigorous
mathematical proofs.
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