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In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of “the long
eighteenth century,†a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to
1832, consider what teaching means in this historical moment: one
of attacks on education, a global contagion, and a reckoning with
centuries of trauma experienced by Black, Indigenous, and immigrant
peoples. Taking up this challenge, each essay highlights the
intellectual labor of the classroom, linking textual and cultural
materials that fascinate us as researchers with pedagogical
approaches that engage contemporary students. Some essays offer
practical models for teaching through editing, sensory experience,
dialogue, or collaborative projects. Others reframe familiar texts
and topics through contemporary approaches, such as the health
humanities, disability studies, and decolonial teaching.
Throughout, authors reflect on what it is that we do when we
teach—how our pedagogies can be more meaningful, more impactful,
and more relevant. Published by Bucknell University Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Through close textual engagement, theological exposition, ethical
reflection, and interdisciplinary collaboration, this book presents
a constructive theology of divine speech in the Acts of the
Apostles and 1 Corinthians in critical conversation with
contemporary issues of sociopolitical, ecclesial, and theological
importance. In particular, the authors attend to pericopes in Acts
and Paul that open up fresh ways of thinking about divine
discourse, preaching, and advocacy in light of contemporary matters
of theological and ethical import. In addition to classical modes
of textual and theological analysis, the authors attend to the
sociopolitical and sociolinguistic aspects of speech as they arise
in these pericopes. As such, the authors are simultaneously
deconstructing these texts through postcolonial and post-structural
analyses to expose these texts to an alterity at work therein, an
alterity that has been muted by centuries of biblical
interpretation.
A solid introduction to the field of surfactant science, this new
edition provides updated information about surfactant uses,
structures, and preparation, as well as seven new chapters
expanding on technology applications. Offers a comprehensive
introduction and reference of the science and technology of surface
active materials Elaborates, more fully than prior editions,
aspects of surfactant crystal structure as well as their effects on
applications Adds more information on new classes and applications
of natural surfactants in light of environmental consequences of
surfactant use
Come and Read introduces numerous hermeneutical approaches to
biblical literature and includes examples of those approaches in
action through the contributions of top scholars in the field. The
book takes up three different passages throughout John's
Gospel-John 1:1-18, John 10, and John 20-setting different
approaches to each passage side-by-side. The sections of this
collection are interconnected by virtue of their association with
John's story. In addition, each section of the book will include
readings of the focus passage from the same four interpretive
perspectives. These four umbrella perspectives (intertextual,
ideological, rhetorical, and narrative) are intentionally broadly
conceived so that a variety of particular reading strategies are
surveyed in the collection. Overall, this book will provide insight
into current hermeneutical practices on the Gospel of John, and
implicitly the rest of the Bible as well. It will also demonstrate
how to use these methods effectively, illustrating not only the
value of using a variety of approaches for interpreting the text,
but also the impact various methods have on the interpretations
rendered.
Innovative Learning Analytics for Evaluating Instruction covers the
application of a forward-thinking research methodology that uses
big data to evaluate the effectiveness of online instruction.
Analysis of Patterns in Time (APT) is a practical analytic approach
that finds meaningful patterns in massive data sets, capturing
temporal maps of students' learning journeys by combining
qualitative and quantitative methods. Offering conceptual and
research overviews, design principles, historical examples, and
more, this book demonstrates how APT can yield strong, easily
generalizable empirical evidence through big data; help students
succeed in their learning journeys; and document the extraordinary
effectiveness of First Principles of Instruction. It is an ideal
resource for faculty and professionals in instructional design,
learning engineering, online learning, program evaluation, and
research methods.
In this timely collection, teacher-scholars of “the long
eighteenth century,†a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to
1832, consider what teaching means in this historical moment: one
of attacks on education, a global contagion, and a reckoning with
centuries of trauma experienced by Black, Indigenous, and immigrant
peoples. Taking up this challenge, each essay highlights the
intellectual labor of the classroom, linking textual and cultural
materials that fascinate us as researchers with pedagogical
approaches that engage contemporary students. Some essays offer
practical models for teaching through editing, sensory experience,
dialogue, or collaborative projects. Others reframe familiar texts
and topics through contemporary approaches, such as the health
humanities, disability studies, and decolonial teaching.
Throughout, authors reflect on what it is that we do when we
teach—how our pedagogies can be more meaningful, more impactful,
and more relevant. Published by Bucknell University Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Over the past 20 years, the field of information systems has grown
dramatically in theoretical diversity and global reach. This growth
is reflected in the language that policy makers and organizational
stakeholders use when they talk about their IT plans. As
information technology penetrates further into organizational and
global life, it becomes ever more important to articulate
assumptions embedded in the discourse. This will help to clarify
the complex and yet conceptually improvised or pasted-up worldview
that becomes embodied in systems. The assumptions point to
particular domains of discourse. The discourse sets up conventions
and boundaries. It thus shapes what can or cannot legitimately be
talked about, researched, addressed, or solved within the scope of
IT. A number of practical and theoretical topics are discussed in
detail, including: *Globalization, development, and space;
*Mobilization of power; *ERP systems; *IS planning and projects;
*Critical research and the study of discourse; *Public
institutions; *Analytical frameworks. This book contains the
selected proceedings of the Working Conference on Global and
Organizational Discourse About Information Technology, sponsored by
the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and
held in Barcelona, Spain in December 2002.
A number of relatively new technologies, such as Enterprise
Resource Planning systems, the Internet and intranets, have entered
the organizational landscape. These technologies have not only
enabled a wide range of social and organizational transformations,
but have also challenged much of the received wisdom that operates
in academic and industrial discourses. This book attempts to
capture some of these strands by discussing the social and
organizational issues surrounding the implementation and use of
these new technologies in organizational processes. Some of the
contributions are critical and reflexive by nature, while others
offer rich insights through the analysis of cases. The book
represents a wide scope of traditions of thought, as well as
research approaches, in addressing these emerging issues. A number
of practical and theoretical topics are discussed in detail,
including: * Implementation of ERP; * Electronic commerce; *
Intranet implementation; * The management of standards; * Issues of
organizational analysis; * Understanding BPR tools; * Collaborative
technologies; * Knowledge work environments.This book contains the
selected proceedings of the International Working Conference on New
Information Technologies in Organizational Processes: Field Studies
and Theoretical Reflections on the Future of Work, organized by the
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held
in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, in August 1999. This valuable new
title will be essential reading for researchers working in
information systems and management, technology, social and
organization studies.
The aim of this book is to provide a single reference source for
the wealth of geometrical formulae and relationships that have
proven useful in the descrip tion of atomic nuclei and nuclear
processes. While many of the sections may be useful to students and
instructors it is not a text book but rather a reference book for
experimentalists and theoreticians working in this field. In
addition the authors have avoided critical assessment of the
material presented except, of course, by variations in emphasis.
The whole field of macroscopic (or Liquid Drop Model) nuclear
physics has its origins in such early works as [Weizsacker 35] and
[Bohr 39]. It continued to grow because of its success in
explaining collective nuclear excitations [Bohr 52] and fission
(see the series of papers culminating in [Cohen 62]). These develop
ments correspond to the first maximum in the histogram below,
showing the distribution by year of the articles cited in our
Bibliography. After the Liquid Drop Model had been worked out in
some detail the development of the Struti nsky approach [Strutinsky
68] (which associates single particle contributions to the binding
energy with the shape of the nucleus) gave new life to the field.
The growth of interest in heavy-ion reaction studies has also
contributed.
Over the past 20 years, the field of information systems has
grown dramatically in theoretical diversity and global reach. This
growth is reflected in the language that policy makers and
organizational stakeholders use when they talk about their IT
plans. As information technology penetrates further into
organizational and global life, it becomes ever more important to
articulate assumptions embedded in the discourse. This will help to
clarify the complex and yet conceptually improvised or pasted-up
worldview that becomes embodied in systems. The assumptions point
to particular domains of discourse. The discourse sets up
conventions and boundaries. It thus shapes what can or cannot
legitimately be talked about, researched, addressed, or solved
within the scope of IT.
A number of practical and theoretical topics are discussed in
detail, including:
*Globalization, development, and space;
*Mobilization of power;
*ERP systems;
*IS planning and projects;
*Critical research and the study of discourse;
*Public institutions;
*Analytical frameworks.
This book contains the selected proceedings of the Working
Conference on Global and Organizational Discourse About Information
Technology, sponsored by the International Federation for
Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Barcelona, Spain in
December 2002.
A number of relatively new technologies, such as Enterprise
Resource Planning systems, the Internet and intranets, have entered
the organizational landscape. These technologies have not only
enabled a wide range of social and organizational transformations,
but have also challenged much of the received wisdom that operates
in academic and industrial discourses. This book attempts to
capture some of these strands by discussing the social and
organizational issues surrounding the implementation and use of
these new technologies in organizational processes. Some of the
contributions are critical and reflexive by nature, while others
offer rich insights through the analysis of cases. The book
represents a wide scope of traditions of thought, as well as
research approaches, in addressing these emerging issues. A number
of practical and theoretical topics are discussed in detail,
including: Implementation of ERP; Electronic commerce; Intranet
implementation; The management of standards; Issues of
organizational analysis; Understanding BPR tools; Collaborative
technologies; Knowledge work environments. This book contains the
selected proceedings of the International Working Conference on New
Information Technologies in Organizational Processes: Field Studies
and Theoretical Reflections on the Future of Work, organized by the
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held
in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, in August 1999. This valuable new
title will be essential reading for researchers working in
information systems and management, technology, social and
organization studies.
Insurance is affordable protection for ourselves, our loved ones,
and our belongings. As most people maintain some kind of insurance,
it is also an extremely lucrative industry, generating billions of
dollars annually. Investigative reporter Kenneth D. Meyers thinks
that the profits have turned the insurance industry into a bad
business.
In False Security, Myers chronicles numerous untold abuses of the
insurance industry-exposing the inside story of bad investments,
naive executives, bilked clients, collapsed companies, and
staggering financial losses. He paints a frightening picture of
greed, incompetence, and corruption that rivals the savings and
loan scandal in scope. Myers reveals how insurance executives
jeopardized their companies by trying to price gouge the
competition out of business, only to go under themselves. Myers
writes of the many hostile takeovers, the extravagant use of stolen
profits, the many tax "safe havens," squandering millions of
dollars by executives who failed at one company after another.
The result of thousands of hours of investigation and many
interviews, False Security outlines never-before-reported details
of greed, and corruption gathered from state and federal
prosecutors, industry officials, and the criminals themselves, some
in prison and others free and now involved in other questionable
enterprises, many of whom will be familiar from the savings and
loan scandal.
From the reviews of the First Edition: "The book has admirably met its stated goal. The whole gamut of surface and colloid science has been presented in a comprehensive manner without any undue oversimplification. The author should be congratulated for his clarity." —Advanced Materials Now in its second edition, this work remains the single most useful introduction available to the complex area of surface and colloids science. Industry expert Drew Myers walks readers through concepts, theories, and applications—keeping the mathematics to a minimum and presenting real-world case studies to illustrate key technological and biological processes. He substantially reorganizes and updates the material to reflect the current state of knowledge in the field, offering new chapters on absorption and biological systems in addition to the important areas of colloid stability, emulsions and foams, monolayer films, surfactants, and wetting. This revision also boasts an improved index, more than 200 new line drawings, general and specific chapter bibliographies, and end-of-chapter problems. Geared to scientists, technologists, and students dealing with colloidal and surface systems and their numerous industrial applications, the book imparts an understanding of the fundamental aspects of surfaces, interfaces, and colloids, which is essential for effective solutions in diverse areas of chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, engineering, and material sciences.
Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV provides a
research-based description of the current state of instructional
theory for the learner-centered paradigm of education, as well as a
clear indication of how different theories and models interrelate.
Significant changes have occurred in learning and instructional
theory since the publication of Volume III, including advances in
brain-based learning, learning sciences, information technologies,
internet-based communication, a concern for customizing the student
experience to maximize effectiveness, and scaling instructional
environments to maximize efficiency. In order to complement the
themes of Volume I (commonality and complementarity among theories
of instruction), Volume II (diversity of theories) and Volume III
(building a common knowledge base), the theme of Volume IV is
shifting the paradigm of instruction from teacher-centered to
learner-centered and integrating design theories of instruction,
assessment, and curriculum. Chapters in Volume IV are collected
into three primary sections: a comprehensive view of the
learner-centered paradigm of education and training, elaborations
on parts of that view for a variety of K-12 and higher education
settings, and theories that address ways to move toward the
learner-centered paradigm within the teacher-centered paradigm.
Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV is an essential
book for anyone interested in exploring more powerful ways of
fostering human learning and development and thinking creatively
about ways to best meet the needs of learners in all kinds of
learning contexts.
This accessible and expansive, yet remarkably concise textbook is
designed to help readers with their research project. As well as
guiding them through the key methods of collecting and analysing
qualitative data, this book provides invaluable information on
writing up their research and how to get published. Now in its
third edition, Qualitative Research in Business and Management has
been fully updated to include a range of recent examples of aspects
of qualitative research in action, and a new look at the methods
and ethics of using social media data.
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