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A fascinating look at the lives of women who bore the heat of day
in Christian mission, but who were often forgotten by history until
now.
This book focuses on neuroethics in higher education in the United
States. After introducing readers to the philosophical and policy
foundations of the neuroethics of higher education, this book
explores essential conundrums in the neuroethical practice of
higher education in modern democracies. Focusing on neuroethics
from the perspective of universally designed learning and policy
design sets this project apart from other work in the field.
Advances in neuroscience and changes in attitudes towards
disability have identified mechanisms by which higher education
infrastructures interact with both individuals considered
neurotypical and those with identified disabilities to diminish
students' capacity to enter, persist, and complete higher
education. Policy to date has focused on identified disabilities as
a requirement for accommodations. This strategy both underestimates
the effect of ill-fitting infrastructures on those considered
neurologically typical and serves to stratify the student body. As
a result, neuroethical gaps abound in higher education.
This book focuses on neuroethics in higher education in the United
States. After introducing readers to the philosophical and policy
foundations of the neuroethics of higher education, this book
explores essential conundrums in the neuroethical practice of
higher education in modern democracies. Focusing on neuroethics
from the perspective of universally designed learning and policy
design sets this project apart from other work in the field.
Advances in neuroscience and changes in attitudes towards
disability have identified mechanisms by which higher education
infrastructures interact with both individuals considered
neurotypical and those with identified disabilities to diminish
students' capacity to enter, persist, and complete higher
education. Policy to date has focused on identified disabilities as
a requirement for accommodations. This strategy both underestimates
the effect of ill-fitting infrastructures on those considered
neurologically typical and serves to stratify the student body. As
a result, neuroethical gaps abound in higher education.
Law and Neurodiversity offers invaluable guidance on how autism
research can inform juvenile justice policies in Canada and the
United States. In Canada, the diversion of youth away from formal
processing has fostered community-based strategies for serving
those with autism. US policies rely more heavily on formal
responses, often employing juvenile custody facilities. Building on
a rigorous exploration of how assessment, rehabilitation, and
community re-entry differ between the two countries, Law and
Neurodiversity offers a much-needed comparative analysis of autism
and juvenile justice policies on both sides of the forty-ninth
parallel.
The stereotype of the woman missionary has ranged from that of the
longsuffering wife, characterized by the epitaph "Died, given over
to hospitality", to that of the spinster in her unstylish dress and
wire-rimmed glasses, alone somewhere for thirty years teaching
heathen children. Like all caricatures, those of the exhausted wife
and frustrated old maid carry some truth: the underlying message of
the sterotypes is that missionary women were perceived as marginal
to the central tasks of mission. Rather than being remembered for
preaching the gospel, the quintessential male task, missionary
women were noted for meeting human needs and helping others,
sacrificing themselves without plan or reason, all for the sake of
bringing the world to Jesus Christ.
Historical evidence, however, gives lie to the truism that women
missionaries were and are doers but not thinkers, reactive
secondary figures rather than proactive primary ones. The first
American women to serve as foreign missionaries in 1812 were among
the best-educated women of their time. Although barred from
obtaining the college education or ministerial credentials of their
husbands, the early missionary wives had read their Jonathan
Edwards and Samuel Hopkins. Not only did they go abroad with
particular theologies to share, but their identities as women
caused them to develop gender-based mission theories. Early
nineteenth-century women seldom wrote theologies of mission, but
they wrote letters and kept journals that reveal a thought world
and set of assumptions about women's roles in the missionary task.
The activities of missionary wives were not random: they were part
of a mission strategy that gave women a particular role inthe
advancement of the reign of God.
By moving from mission field to mission field in chronological
order of missionary presence, Robert charts missiological
developments as they took place in dialogue with the urgent context
of the day. Each case study marks the beginning of the mission
theory. Baptist women in Burma, for example, are only considered in
their first decades there and are not traced into the present.
Robert believes that at this early stage of research into women's
mission theory, integrity and analysis lies more in a succession of
contextualized case studies than in gross generalizations.
Romance is the last thing on Kitty's mind when she discovers a
super-handsome cowboy in her running store, and helps him trade his
boots for the latest from Nike. Her best friend and store manager
tells her the guy is Levi McCrory, a major country music star-and
to her surprise, he wants to see more of her while he's in town for
the week. She tries to tell herself their romance will surely end
when Levi's tour moves on. But will his songs change her mind . . .
and her heart? The Pretty Lady and the Cowboy is the first novel in
Dana Lee's "Songs from the Heart" series.
Law and Neurodiversity offers invaluable guidance on how autism
research can inform juvenile justice policies in Canada and the
United States. In Canada, the diversion of youth away from formal
processing has fostered community-based strategies for serving
those with autism. US policies rely more heavily on formal
responses, often employing juvenile custody facilities. Building on
a rigorous exploration of how assessment, rehabilitation, and
community re-entry differ between the two countries, Law and
Neurodiversity offers a much-needed comparative analysis of autism
and juvenile justice policies on both sides of the forty-ninth
parallel.
Uncle Alan once said his day was "Very good Except for the parts
that were very bad " This wee book is about those second kind of
moments.
This volume focuses on the emergent field of neuroethics comparing
and contrasting how two democracies, Canada and the United States,
have begun adapting public policy design to better fit human minds.
The book focuses on issues relevant to all members of the general
population and discusses a series of policy issues arranged roughly
in the order in which they become relevant in a typical person's
lifetime. After the introductory chapter each chapter considers an
area of public policy particularly relevant to a different stage of
life-from early childhood education policy, to policies for higher
education and the workplace, to end of life decisions in living
wills and advance directives. The author puts forth that making the
shift towards more neurologically appropriate policy will likely be
a gradual process hampered primarily by two issues. The first is
the inability of neuroscientists to come to agreement on
increasingly sophisticated research findings. The second issue
points out that bringing policy and neurology into a more
synchronous relationship requires a commitment to prolonged effort
involves the largely unrecognized reality of entrenched
neurological interests. The first chapter introduces the concept of
disconnect between policy design with traditional understandings of
the brain and goes on to highlight developments in the science of
human neurology in recent years. To help contextualize the book,
examples of neurological misperceptions are explored in this
introductory chapter. Chapters Two through Eleven each explores a
specific type of policy, incorporating understandings of the human
brain which, modern neuroscience suggests, are debatable.
More than 1 billion people worldwide have a disability, and they
are all affected by politics. This two-volume work explores key
topics at the heart of disability policy, such as voting, race,
gender, age, health care, social security, transportation, abuse,
and the environment. Disability policy is no longer an area that
can be adequately addressed within major areas of public policy
such as welfare, health, labor, and education. Disability has
become widely acknowledged in recent decades, partly because of the
increasing number of disabled citizens across all demographic
populations. Advocates argue that diversity of all kinds deserves
recognition and accommodation. This set examines policies targeting
disability to provide a multifaceted description of the political
participation of people with disabilities as well as disability
policy development in the United States. The first volume focuses
on political participation and voting issues, and the second volume
covers disability public policy. In these two volumes, numerous
scholars and experts in the social sciences and humanities explore
timely topics that are key to disability policy questions,
including activism, voting, race, gender, age, health care, social
security, civil rights, abuse, the environment, and even death.
Readers will better understand the challenges that policymakers
face in grappling with controversies over issues of social
engineering and public policy, often attempting to reconcile
majority experience with minority rights. The chapters analyze the
history of disability politics, describe the disability policy
infrastructure as it currently exists in the United States, and
provide insight into current disability-related controversies.
Explains all stages of disability policy development, including the
framing of issues in the political participation of disability,
current policy, retired policy, and cutting-edge issues likely to
motivate policy in decades to come Includes material from
contributors who represent a range of academic disciplines and
employ varied thought about disability across fields of study and
professional expertise Ideally suited for students taking
undergraduate courses in sociology, education, human development,
social work, disability studies, and public affairs
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