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Christopher Brown
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A volume in Contemporary Perspectives on Capital in Educational
Contexts Series Editor RoSusan D. Bartee, University of Mississippi
The edited volume, Contemporary Perspectives on Capital in
Educational Contexts, is timely in its unique and appropriate
analyses of the prevailing internal and external dynamics of
capital as indicative of the type of currency within institutional
structures or the currency among individual stakeholders of
education. The intersection of capital and currency emerges
similarly and differently within the American compulsory-based
system of K-12 and the choice-based system of higher education.
More specifically, Contemporary Perspectives on Capital in
Educational Contexts disentangles the broader challenges and
opportunities of the institution of education and the individuals
who comprise. Emerging insights from the analyses provide an
informed basis for ascertaining the rules of engagement and means
of negotiation for the respective constituencies. With that said,
this volume essentially responds to three important questions: 1)
What are the tenets of capital and currency in public schools and
higher education?; 2 ) How do institutions and individuals navigate
those tenets?; and 3) What general and specific implications do
capital hold for the educational pipeline and beyond? These
questions provide a useful framework for engaging critical
conversations about the dynamics of capital while offering
perspectives about how to improve the quality of currency in K-12
or colleges and universities. These questions further serve as a
basis for eliciting more questions toward the consideration capital
as both a conceptual construct and applicable model. Contemporary
Perspectives on Capital in Educational Contexts, too, is an
expansion of the work of School matters: Why African American
students need multiple forms of capital, where Bartee & Brown
(2006) examines how the acquisition and possession of capital
equips African American students in a highperforming,
high-achieving magnet school in Chicago for competitiveness in
school-generated and non-school generated activities. Success
experienced by the students and the school become associated with
the academic rigor and reputation while any shortcomings reflect an
inadequate capacity of the school or the student to appropriately
engage the other. School matters: Why African American students
need multiple forms of capital (2006) further introduces an initial
exploration of different forms of capital as producer (improve the
status quo through inputs), consumer (participant based upon
outputs), and regulator (maintain the status quo through the
process) within the educational system. The multifaceted role of
capital demonstrates its span of influence for institutional and
individual capacities.
African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of
Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps. This book
emerges at a time when new social dynamics of race and other
identities are shaping, but also shaped by, education. Educational
settings consistently perpetuate racial and other forms of
privilege among students, personnel, and other participants in
education. For instance, differential access to social networks
still visibly cluster by race, continuing the work of systemic
privilege by promoting outcome inequalities in education and
society. The issues defining the relationship between African
American males and education remain complex. Although there has
been substantial discussion about the plight of African American
male participants and personnel in education, only modest attempts
have been made to center analysis of identity and identity
intersections in the discourse. Additionally, more attention to
African American male teachers and faculty is needed in light of
their unique cultural experiences in educational settings and
expectations to mentor and/or socialize other African Americans,
particularly males.
A volume in Research on African American Education Series Editors:
Carol Camp Yeakey, Washington University in St. Louis and Ronald D.
Henderson, National Education Association The failure of American
education to achieve racial diversity has resulted from the
inability of educational researchers, policy makers, and judicial
officials to disentangle the complex definitions that have emerged
in a post-segregated society. Broken Cisterns provides snapshots of
educational occurrences that have shaped current phenomena in
schools and the larger society. Theoretical and empirical
discussions related to segregation, desegregation, and integration
provides a contextual framework for understanding their resulting
effects. In response, the book examines the historic and community
contexts of academic performance in both public and higher
educational settings. The book also examines content aspects
involving student achievement and the diverse elements that impact
the strategies that should be used to enhance outcomes. Broken
Cisterns examines the African American education experience
post-Brown v. Board of Education, as well as the long-term effects
that result from failure to achieve racial equity. The American
education system demands new political and social agendas despite
the seeming infinite cycle of persisting racial inequalities in
educational settings. This book does just that.
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Reflected Love (Hardcover)
Christopher Brown; Afterword by Irene Alexander
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R885
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Contemporary Practice in Studio Art Therapy discovers where studio
practice stands in the profession today and reflects on how
changing social, political, and economic contexts have influenced
its ethos and development. This is the first UK volume devoted to
studio art therapy, and the writers explore what is meant by a
studio approach and how they are adapting art-based practices in
radical new ways and settings. It comprises three parts - Part I:
Frames of reference explores how particular social, cultural, and
political contexts have led to the discourses within practice; Part
II: Models of practice gives accounts of current studio art therapy
practice, describing rationale for working methods and providing a
resource for practitioners; Part III: Curating, exhibiting and
archiving considers how the display and disposal of artworks,
particularly relevant to studio approaches, may be thought about
and implemented. The book includes chapters from North American
authors who illustrate a trajectory of practice that has the
potential to point to future developments. The book will be
essential reading for practitioners and students who are interested
in taking a fresh perspective on art therapy and will be encouraged
by new ways of thinking about the studio approach in today's
changing world.
First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Contemporary Practice in Studio Art Therapy discovers where studio
practice stands in the profession today and reflects on how
changing social, political, and economic contexts have influenced
its ethos and development. This is the first UK volume devoted to
studio art therapy, and the writers explore what is meant by a
studio approach and how they are adapting art-based practices in
radical new ways and settings. It comprises three parts - Part I:
Frames of reference explores how particular social, cultural, and
political contexts have led to the discourses within practice; Part
II: Models of practice gives accounts of current studio art therapy
practice, describing rationale for working methods and providing a
resource for practitioners; Part III: Curating, exhibiting and
archiving considers how the display and disposal of artworks,
particularly relevant to studio approaches, may be thought about
and implemented. The book includes chapters from North American
authors who illustrate a trajectory of practice that has the
potential to point to future developments. The book will be
essential reading for practitioners and students who are interested
in taking a fresh perspective on art therapy and will be encouraged
by new ways of thinking about the studio approach in today's
changing world.
In Race and the Senses, Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown
explore the sensorial and phenomenological materiality of race as
it is felt and sensed by the racialized subjects. Situating the
lived body as an active, affective, and sensing participant in
racialized realities, they argue that race is not simply marked on
our bodies, but rather felt and registered through our senses. They
illuminate the sensorial landscape of racialized world by combining
the scholarship in sensory studies, phenomenology, and
intercultural communication. Each chapter elaborates on the felt
bodily sensations of race, racism, and racialization that
illuminate how somatic labor plays a significant role in the
construction of racialized relations of sensing. Their
thought-provoking theorizing about the relationship between race
and the senses include race as a sensory assemblage, the
phenomenology of the racialized face and tongue, kinesthetic
feelings of blackness, as well as the possibility of cross-racial
empathy. Race is not merely socially constructed, but
multisensorially assembled, engaged, and experienced. Grounded in
the authors' experiences, one as a Japanese woman living in the
USA, and the other as an African American man from Chicago, Race
and the Senses is a book about how we feel the racialized world
into being.
Black colleges are central to the delivery of higher education.
Notwithstanding, there is scant treatment of these key institutions
in the research literature. There is a need for a comprehensive and
cogent understanding of the primary characteristics of the policies
and practices endemic to black colleges. This book provides the
scholarly basis requisite to organize, give meaning to, and shape
the analyses and applications of policy and practice within the
black college. The collected chapters respond to the paucity of
research literature addressing these institutions. In each chapter,
the authors acknowledge the specific characterisics of black
colleges that make them unique. Understanding the fundamental
characteristics that shape black colleges is critical to gaining a
comprehensive understanding of higher education at large. The
policy and praxis challenges exhibited at black colleges serve as
exemplars to how all colleges perform their respective functions in
society. Black colleges serve as testimonies to the transformative
power of adversity, and beacons of possibility in and era of
retrenchment and ambiguity. These roles call on black colleges to
aid and assist in creating an opportunity for educational change.
Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic,
religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism
around the world. The book highlights the diversity of national,
regional and international environmental activism, showing that the
term "environmentalism" covers an entire range of perceptions,
values and interests. It demonstrates that each instance of
environmental activism is shaped by historically unique
circumstances, highlighting within each chapter the ideological,
social, and political origins of efforts to protect the
environment. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the
world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe
has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of
local, national, and international concerns, politics, and social
realities.
This book's predecessor, Black Sons to Mothers: Compliments,
Critiques, and Challenges for Cultural Workers in Education (Peter
Lang, 2000), sparked a decade of meaningful scholarship on the
educational experiences and academic outcomes of African American
males. Black Sons to Mothers proffered seminal contributions to the
academic literature on the achievement gap, differential
instruction, and minority schooling, and inspired further research
- countless books, articles and reports written since about the
educational challenges and successes of African American males
directly reference the work. Educating African American Males:
Contexts for Consideration, Possibilities for Practice continues,
extends, and advances the research and conversations introduced in
Black Sons to Mothers. The chapters in this volume were
commissioned by the Alphas in the Academy Committee (AAC) of Alpha
Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated. The AAC addresses issues
incident to collegiate life, employment in higher education, and
postsecondary performance among African American males. This book
reflects the fraternity's unshakable commitment to improving the
contexts and outcomes of African American males in educational
settings, and identifies important new territory for the next
decade of scholarship on this critical topic.
Building on constructivist approaches to international relations
this book develops a narrative theory of identity, action and
foreign policy, which is then applied to account for the evolution
of Finnish foreign policy. The book adopts an innovative approach
by showing how foreign policy orientations need to be seen as
grounded in overlapping and competing sets of identity narratives
that reappear in different forms through history. By emphasising
the dynamism implicit within identity narratives the book not only
challenges traditional rationalist materialist approaches to
foreign policy analysis, but also the current tendency to depict
the story of Finnish foreign policy, identity and history as one of
a gradual move towards a Western location. Rather the book
emphasises elements of multiplicity and contingency, whilst
re-establishing foreign policy as a highly political process
concerned with power and the right to define reality and national
subjectivity.
Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic,
religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism
around the world. The book highlights the diversity of national,
regional and international environmental activism, showing that the
term 'environmentalism' covers an entire range of perceptions,
values and interests. It demonstrates that each instance of
environmental activism is shaped by historically unique
circumstances, highlighting within each chapter the ideological,
social, and political origins of efforts to protect the
environment. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the
world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe
has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of
local, national, and international concerns, politics, and social
realities.
This special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education explores
issues of access and equity in post-secondary education.
London is the only city in the world where you could ever find
Gilbert and George sharing space with the Gherkin and the Globe
while the Great Fire burns and a gin drinker glugs her favorite
tipple, and where members of the Bloomsbury Group hail a black cab
while barrage balloons hover over Broadcasting House during the
Blitz. In A London Alphabet, Christopher Brown presents a series of
wonderfully whimsical linocuts illustrating every aspect of London
past and present, including personalities, buildings, monuments,
legends, historic events, and other metropolitan icons. From
Dickens, Dr Johnson, Tower Bridge, and the Shard to the Diamond
Jubilee, Wimbledon, pigeons, and jellied eels, all London life is
here. A born-and-bred Londoner, Brown recounts his own memories of
growing up in the capital, and also describes how he creates his
distinctive prints. His unique, often humorous take on London will
delight anyone who lives in or visits the city.
First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through
its examination of one of the key questions in colonial and African
history, that of commercial agriculture and its relationship to
slavery. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in
relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of
slavery within Africa itself, from the beginnings of European
maritime trade in the fifteenth century to theearly stages of
colonial rule in the twentieth century. From the outset, the export
of agricultural produce from Africa represented a potential
alternative to the slave trade: although the predominant trend was
to transport enslaved Africans to the Americas to cultivate crops,
there was recurrent interest in the possibility of establishing
plantations in Africa to produce such crops, or to purchase them
from independent African producers. Thisidea gained greater
currency in the context of the movement for the abolition of the
slave trade from the late eighteenth century onwards, when the
promotion of commercial agriculture in Africa was seen as a means
of suppressing the slave trade. At the same time, the slave trade
itself stimulated commercial agriculture in Africa, to supply
provisions for slave-ships in the Middle Passage. Commercial
agriculture was also linked to slavery within Africa, since slaves
were widely employed there in agricultural production. Although
Abolitionists hoped that production of export crops in Africa would
be based on free labour, in practice it often employed enslaved
labour, so that slaveryin Africa persisted into the colonial
period. Robin Law is Emeritus Professor of African History,
University of Stirling; Suzanne Schwarz is Professor of History,
University of Worcester; Silke Strickrodt is Visiting Research
Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology,
University of Birmingham.
Thomas Aquinas has always been viewed as a highly important figure
in Western civilization, and the chief philosopher of Roman
Catholicism. In recent decades there has been a renewed interest in
Aquinas's thought as scholars have been exploring the relevance of
his thought to contemporary philosophical problems. The book will
be of interest not only to historians of medieval philosophy, but
to philosophers who work on problems associated with the nature of
material objects. Because human beings are typically understood to
be a kind of material object, the book will also be of interest to
philosophers working on topics in the philosophy of religion,
philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of human nature. Although
the work contains the kinds of details that are necessary for a
work of historical scholarship, it is written in a manner that
makes it approachable for undergraduate students in philosophy and
so it would be a welcomed addition to any university library.
In recent years debates about the nature and future of the West
have been high on the political agenda. Prognoses of the West's
imminent demise have been countered by those arguing for its
continued relevance, or those arguing that while the West will
survive its nature, and the balance of power between its
constituent units, is transforming. This book argues that
understanding contemporary developments requires subjecting the
very idea of the West to critical scrutiny and in particular asking
what kind of concept it actually is. Locating the West as a
discursive concept the book argues attempts to save, fix or reclaim
the meaning of the West are illustrative of political agendas
rather than indicative of accurate claims about the essential
nature of the West. In contrast, the book argues that as a concept
the West is impregnated with various discursive legacies, the most
embedded of which are those of a civilisational, modern and
political West. However, while attempts to define the West's
essence are therefore doomed to fail, given the concept's
historical and discursive flexibility, such attempts reaffirm the
legitimising role which claims to the West continue to perform.
Beyond this, the book challenges traditional genealogies of the
West, which overwhelmingly depict the West as an inside-out
concept. In contrast, the book argues that historically outsiders
have played an important role in defining the nature of the West
and constituting it as a political subject; processes that remain
evident today. This book will particularly interest students of
critical security studies, critical geopolitics, European politics,
American politics and IR theory.
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