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This book brings together diverse, international scholarly
perspectives on education and democracy in response to contemporary
challenges for educational leadership, policy and practice. The
contributions meaningfully engage with a range of local and global
issues regarding democratic participation and agency, with a
particular focus on implications for educational access, engagement
and justice. Each chapter considers the complex tensions and
interplay between education histories, policies, practices and
research to better understand how education can be for democracy in
the twenty-first century. There is much work to be done in the
field of democratic education, whether it be in the search of a
better understanding of education and democracy’s relationship to
one another, questions of how education might be for democracy, the
importance of teaching young people about democracy, and whether
education can be more democratic. This book makes a small, but
important, contribution to these struggles for more democratic and
socially just futures through education. Education, Policy and
Democracy: Contemporary Challenges and Possibilities will be a key
resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of
education leadership and policy, educational administration,
politics, research methods, and sociology. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the Journal of Educational
Administration and History.
Organised Crime and Law Enforcement: A Network Perspective examines
organised crime and law enforcement through the conceptual lens of
networks. The book takes stock of the many ways in which network
theories and concepts, including social network analysis, can apply
to studying both organised crime and law enforcement responses to
organised crime. It is the first attempt to bring these diverse
network perspectives and distinct fields of research together. The
book is organised into two parts. The first part uses network
perspectives to advance our understanding of the interconnected
social structure of organised criminal groups, to expose their
strengths and vulnerabilities, and to illuminate factors that
enable such groups to undertake complex criminal activities. The
second part uses a network lens to examine the challenges that
organised criminal groups present for a wide range of law
enforcement agencies, and the utility of network theories and
concepts in understanding and informing their responses to
organised crime. Written in a clear and direct style, the book will
appeal to scholars and practitioners of criminology, sociology, law
enforcement, and all those interested in learning more about
theories of organised crime and its relationship with law
enforcement.
Organised Crime and Law Enforcement: A Network Perspective examines
organised crime and law enforcement through the conceptual lens of
networks. The book takes stock of the many ways in which network
theories and concepts, including social network analysis, can apply
to studying both organised crime and law enforcement responses to
organised crime. It is the first attempt to bring these diverse
network perspectives and distinct fields of research together. The
book is organised into two parts. The first part uses network
perspectives to advance our understanding of the interconnected
social structure of organised criminal groups, to expose their
strengths and vulnerabilities, and to illuminate factors that
enable such groups to undertake complex criminal activities. The
second part uses a network lens to examine the challenges that
organised criminal groups present for a wide range of law
enforcement agencies, and the utility of network theories and
concepts in understanding and informing their responses to
organised crime. Written in a clear and direct style, the book will
appeal to scholars and practitioners of criminology, sociology, law
enforcement, and all those interested in learning more about
theories of organised crime and its relationship with law
enforcement.
New Perspectives on Education for Democracy brings together diverse
communities of education research in an innovative way to develop a
nuanced understanding of the relationship between education and
democracy. This book synthesises a range of theoretical,
conceptual, and empirical approaches to address the complex
challenges faced by young people and societies in the 21st century.
Each chapter provides accounts of local democratic encounters in
education, while engaging with global debates and issues, such as
de-democratisation and growing social, economic, and educational
inequality. This book presents new ways of thinking about
democracy, local-global enactments of democracy through teaching
and learning, and future thinking for a new era of democracy. This
book will be relevant for educators, researchers, and policymakers
who are interested in educational sociology, critical pedagogy, and
democratic education.
New Perspectives on Education for Democracy brings together diverse
communities of education research in an innovative way to develop a
nuanced understanding of the relationship between education and
democracy. This book synthesises a range of theoretical,
conceptual, and empirical approaches to address the complex
challenges faced by young people and societies in the 21st century.
Each chapter provides accounts of local democratic encounters in
education, while engaging with global debates and issues, such as
de-democratisation and growing social, economic, and educational
inequality. This book presents new ways of thinking about
democracy, local-global enactments of democracy through teaching
and learning, and future thinking for a new era of democracy. This
book will be relevant for educators, researchers, and policymakers
who are interested in educational sociology, critical pedagogy, and
democratic education.
Becoming a Master Manager is appropriate for management and
organizational behavior courses that emphasize critical management
skills that yield sound organizational results. Developed from both
theory and empirical evidence, the text provides a compelling case
for why managerial and leadership competencies are essential for
employee engagement, effective communication, and sustainable
organizational success. The competing values framework offers
future managers a foundation for analyzing, understanding and
executing the behavior that will achieve positive performance,
productivity and profitability.
The concept of difference occupies a central place in the
philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. In this work, David Bright explores
how Deleuze's difference can be put to work in critical qualitative
research. The book explores research and writing as a creative
process of dynamically pursuing problems. Following Deleuze's
advice not to think of problems in terms of solutions, the book
offers important methodological insights into the ways the
subjects, objects, and processes of research might be conceived and
represented in writing, exploring the problem of thinking and
writing about difference in complex ways without reducing thought
to static representations of identity. Bright uses the example of
foreign teachers and international schooling in Vietnam to show us
how Deleuze's difference can be used in critical qualitative
research, demonstrating the limits of traditional ways of thinking
about difference in learning and teaching. Exploring Deleuze's
Philosophy of Difference is a book that will interest all those
with an interest in the application of Deleuze's philosophy to
critical qualitative research.
Television, movies, news, and social media; we're living in a world
where we're inundated with stories and information. Yet somehow,
instead of learning about each other and coming together, our
nation is more divided than ever. Despite our access to facts and
information, research indicates that our distrust of others is at a
record high. In everyday interactions, we deal with people who seem
to be operating in an entirely different reality than us-because
they are. In Context is Everything: How to Navigate Life in
Multiple Realities, author David James Bright explains how each of
us is raised in our own unique context and how that context shapes
our identity, narratives, beliefs, and willingness to interpret
facts. Bright pulls from his extensive work as a mental health,
career, and school counselor to help readers better understand how
we create our own social narratives and identities. Through
personal anecdotes, real-world examples, case studies, doses of
humor, and research, you'll learn how our personal biases and
tendencies can affect how we interact with others, especially those
with different life experiences or those of different social
classes, ethnic backgrounds, sexual identities, or political
affiliations. By facilitating greater levels of personal
understanding and self-reflection, Context is Everything encourages
readers of all backgrounds to recognize our common thread of
humanity and to come together despite our varying worldviews and
perspectives. The book is an ideal supplementary text for courses
in sociology, psychology, and counseling, especially those with
focus on human services professional identity, social justice,
social constructivism, and capstone experiences.
K-12 Career Development: An Integrative Social Justice Approach
provides school counselors-in-training with a clear and
comprehensive theoretical model to help them build and maintain a
K-12 career development program within schools that feature a
holistic focus on applied social justice principles. Filling a
necessary gap in the literature, this text recognizes that social
justice is at the core of all school counseling work and that
career development is a major focus of the school counselor. It is
designed to empower the next generation of school counselors to
provide quality and equitable services to all students. The book
begins with coverage of the history of career development in
schools, key theories within the discipline, and community-based
considerations. Later chapters focus on practical applications,
presenting the steps, actions, and programming involved in
implementing and sustaining an effective and social
justice-oriented K-12 career development program, with
interventions provided for specific grade ranges. Closing chapters
examine advanced considerations, including social justice and
community partnerships, anti-racist practices, trauma-informed
career development, data collection for program maintenance and
evaluation, and more. An innovative and essential text, K-12 Career
Development is an exemplary resource for school
counselors-in-training and in practice.
Updated a decade after its original publication, this memoir by
Jean Hay Bright chronicles the years in the 1970s when the author
and her first husband, a traumatized Vietnam veteran, homesteaded
on 25 rugged Maine acres sold to them by Living the Good Life
authors Helen and Scott Nearing, and the aftermath of that
experience in the decades that followed. Jean also used her
investigative reporting skills to try to resolve some long-standing
and nagging questions about the Nearings, focusing particularly on
their finances over the decades. Her research also turned up some
surprising and enlightening facts about how Helen and Scott Nearing
actually lived and died. The revised edition has a new Prologue by
Susan Hand Shetterly, more family photos, an expanded Afterword, as
well as details and a new chapter pulled from Scott Nearing's FBI
file, including documentation of Scott's listing in J. Edgar
Hoover's Custodial Detention program.
Bedside and Community is the inside story of fifty years of health
care and health research at the University of Calgary. Drawing on
the first--person accounts of researchers, administrators, faculty,
and students along with archival research, and faculty histories.
This collection celebrates the many significant contributions the
University of Calgary has made to the health of Albertans. With
contributions from the Cummings School of Medicine, the Faculty of
Nursing, Faculty of Kinesiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,
Faculty of Environmental Design, Department of Psychology, and
Indigenous Health Initiatives Bedside and Community is a truly
collaborative history. Addressing the links between departments,
the relationship between the university and the community, and
evolving research and teaching methods, this book places the
University of Calgary within a wider national context and shows how
it has addressed the unique health needs of Southern Alberta. With
a pioneering focus on primary care and commitment to
interdisciplinary connections, the University of Calgary has made
strides in heath research, health education, and community
outreach. Bedside and Community tells the story of a tradition of
excellence that will light the way to future outreach and discovery
In a few short decades before the First World War, Calgary was
transformed from a frontier outpost into a complex industrial
metropolis. With industrialization there emerged a diverse and
equally complex working class. David Bright explores the various
levels of class formation and class identity in the city to argue
that Calgary’s reputation as a prewar centre of labour
conservatism is in need of revision.
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