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Helen Keller and her famous teacher, Annie Sullivan, up to the
present have consistently appeared near the top of lists of
best-known American women. But few Americans know much about the
history of how Anne Sullivan, once a pauper in a large
Massachusetts poorhouse, came to her role as the miracle worker who
taught the deaf and blind Helen Keller. Nor do most contemporaries
know how controversial the education of Helen Keller by Annie
Sullivan was in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Leading philanthropists, for example, attacked both Sullivan and
Keller for more than twenty years.Portraying the contrasting lives
of Sullivan and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, the era s prominent
transcendentalist, abolitionist, and founder of many national
organizations, this book sheds new light on the ethnic and
religious tensions that haunted the notoriety of Sullivan and the
gender and disability expectations that affected the public
reception of both Sullivan and Keller. The book places into
historical context the Anglo-Saxon reformers exemplified by Sanborn
who, on the one hand, saved Sullivan from the poorhouse, but who
ultimately could not accept Sullivan s hero status. While
highlighting the story of Sullivan, Keller, and Sanborn, Wagner
also seeks to shed light on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
America in which battles over class, ethnicity, gender, and
disability were fought by both genteel and by more belligerent
means."
The war on drugs ? the campaigns against smoking cigarettes ?
v-chips to control what children watch on TV ? censoring the
Internet and Calvin Klein jeans ads?bipartisan lectures about the
dangers of teen sex ? constant warnings about food and fat ? all
are examples of what David Wagner terms the ?New Temperance.?The
New Temperance contrasts the ne
This book shows how the poor often become homeless through
resistance to the discipline of the workplace, authoritarian
families, and the bureaucratic social welfare system. It also shows
how street people develop their own self-consciousness, culture,
and alternative community.
During the past decade, homelessness became a widespread phenomenon
in the United States for the first time since the Great Depression.
The public frequently blamed the poor for their plight.
Journalistic and academic accounts, in contrast, often evoked
pathos and pity, regarding the homeless primarily as objects of
treatment and rehabilitation. David Wagner challenges both of these
dominant images, offering an ethnographic portrait of the poor that
reveals their struggle not only to survive but also to create
communities on the streets and to develop social movements on their
own behalf. Definitely not passive victims, the homeless of
Checkerboard Square survive within an alternative street culture,
with its own norms and social organization, in a world often hidden
from the view of researchers, journalists, and social workers.
Checkerboard Square reveals the daily struggle of street people to
organize their lives in the face of rejection by employers,
government, landlords, and even their own families. Looking beyond
the well-documented causes of homelessness such as lack of
affordable housing or unemployment, Wagner shows how the poor often
become homeless through resistance to the discipline of the
workplace, authoritarian families, and the bureaucratic social
welfare system. He explains why the crisis of homelessness is not
only about the lack of services, housing, and jobs but a result of
the very structure of the dominant institutions of work, family,
and public social welfare.
Helen Keller and her famous teacher, Annie Sullivan, up to the
present have consistently appeared near the top of lists of
best-known American women. But few Americans know much about the
history of how Anne Sullivan, once a pauper in a large
Massachusetts poorhouse, came to her role as the miracle worker who
taught the deaf and blind Helen Keller. Nor do most contemporaries
know how controversial the education of Helen Keller by Annie
Sullivan was in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Leading philanthropists, for example, attacked both Sullivan and
Keller for more than twenty years.Portraying the contrasting lives
of Sullivan and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, the era s prominent
transcendentalist, abolitionist, and founder of many national
organizations, this book sheds new light on the ethnic and
religious tensions that haunted the notoriety of Sullivan and the
gender and disability expectations that affected the public
reception of both Sullivan and Keller. The book places into
historical context the Anglo-Saxon reformers exemplified by Sanborn
who, on the one hand, saved Sullivan from the poorhouse, but who
ultimately could not accept Sullivan s hero status. While
highlighting the story of Sullivan, Keller, and Sanborn, Wagner
also seeks to shed light on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
America in which battles over class, ethnicity, gender, and
disability were fought by both genteel and by more belligerent
means."
David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three
decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies
of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large
almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to
follow their later lives. "Ordinary People" develops a more fluid
picture of poverty as people 's lives change over the course of
time. The voices of the inmates of the infamous Massachusetts State
Almshouse at Tewksbury resonate in remarkable ways today, helping
us to understand that many individuals living in poverty make
inventive, bold moves to escape it.
David Wagner explores the lives of poor people during the three
decades after the Civil War, using a unique treasure of biographies
of people who were (at one point in time) inmates in a large
almshouse, combined with genealogical and other official records to
follow their later lives. "Ordinary People" develops a more fluid
picture of poverty as people 's lives change over the course of
time. The voices of the inmates of the infamous Massachusetts State
Almshouse at Tewksbury resonate in remarkable ways today, helping
us to understand that many individuals living in poverty make
inventive, bold moves to escape it.
This book considers some of the outstanding questions regarding
language and communication in the teaching and learning of
mathematics - an established theme in mathematics education
research, which is growing in prominence. Recent research has
demonstrated the wide range of theoretical and methodological
resources that can contribute to this area of study, including
those drawing on cross-disciplinary perspectives influenced by,
among others, sociology, psychology, linguistics, and semiotics.
Examining language in its broadest sense to include all modes of
communication, including visual and gestural as well as spoken and
written modes, it features work presented and discussed in the
Language and Communication topic study group (TSG 31) at the 13th
International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13). A joint
session with participants of the Mathematics Education in a
Multilingual and Multicultural Environment topic study group (TSG
32) enhanced discussions, which are incorporated in elaborations
included in this book. Discussing cross-cutting topics it appeals
to readers from a wide range of disciplines, such as mathematics
education and research methods in education, multilingualism,
applied linguistics and beyond.
This book considers some of the outstanding questions regarding
language and communication in the teaching and learning of
mathematics - an established theme in mathematics education
research, which is growing in prominence. Recent research has
demonstrated the wide range of theoretical and methodological
resources that can contribute to this area of study, including
those drawing on cross-disciplinary perspectives influenced by,
among others, sociology, psychology, linguistics, and semiotics.
Examining language in its broadest sense to include all modes of
communication, including visual and gestural as well as spoken and
written modes, it features work presented and discussed in the
Language and Communication topic study group (TSG 31) at the 13th
International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13). A joint
session with participants of the Mathematics Education in a
Multilingual and Multicultural Environment topic study group (TSG
32) enhanced discussions, which are incorporated in elaborations
included in this book. Discussing cross-cutting topics it appeals
to readers from a wide range of disciplines, such as mathematics
education and research methods in education, multilingualism,
applied linguistics and beyond.
This book explores the connection between the ways people speak
in mathematics classrooms and their opportunities to learn
mathematics. The words spoken, heard, written and read in
mathematics classrooms shape students sense of what mathematics is
and of what people can do with mathematics. The authors employ
multiple perspectives to consider the means for transformative
action with respect to increasing opportunities for traditionally
marginalized students to form mathematical identities that resonate
with their cultural, social, linguistic, and political beings."
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Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Richard Heinrich, Elisabeth Nemeth, Wolfram Pichler, David Wagner
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R6,645
Discovery Miles 66 450
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Diagrams are an essential part of the most diverse processes of
communication and cognition. Indeed, today the production of all
kinds of text (including this one) is mediated by diagrammatic
tools to be found on computer desktops. Not surprisingly, then,
diagrams have become the object of much historical and theoretical
work. This book--volume 2 of the Proceedings of the 33rd
International Wittgenstein Symposium--is dedicated to this quickly
growing field of interdisciplinary research. It includes
contributions from philosophy, sociology (space syntax), art
history, and history of science. Historically, there is a focus on
Otto Neurath and his famous visual language (ISOTYPE), while the
new attempts at theorizing diagrams presented here are mainly
inspired by Charles Sanders Peirce and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Richard Heinrich, Elisabeth Nemeth, Wolfram Pichler, David Wagner
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R6,654
Discovery Miles 66 540
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What is an image? How can we describe the experience of looking at
images, and how do they become meaningful to us? In what sense are
images like or unlike propositions? Participants of the 33rd
International Wittgenstein Symposium--philosophers as well as
historians of art, science, and literature--provide many
stimulating answers. Some of the contributions are dedicated to
Wittgenstein's thoughts on images while others testify to the
important role notions coined or inspired by Wittgenstein--"seeing
as", "picture games" and the dichotomy of "saying and
showing"--play in the field of picture theory today. This first
volume of the Proceedings of the 2010 conference addresses readers
interested in the history and theory of images, and in the
philosophy of Wittgenstein.
The war on drugs ... the campaigns against smoking cigarettes ...
v-chips to control what children watch on TV ... censoring the
Internet and Calvin Klein jeans ads...bipartisan lectures about the
dangers of teen sex ... constant warnings about food and fat ...
all are examples of what David Wagner terms the "New
Temperance.""The New Temperance" contrasts the new obsession with
personal behavior in America during the last two decades with the
brief period of relative freedom in the 1960s and early 1970s and
suggests strong consistencies with our past. In particular, the
late twentieth century appears to have re-created the mood of the
Victorian and Progressive Periods, when social movements such as
the Temperance, Social Purity, and Vice and Vigilance movements
held sway. "The New Temperance" questions the constant mantra in
the media and in political debates about the dangers of personal
behavior and challenges America's love affair with repression.
This unique book depicts the stories of Americans born in poverty,
who achieved national or international fame. Accessible to students
and lay readers, this scholarly study describes poverty as a
disability that typically stunts important areas of growth in
childhood. Wagner shows how poverty hampers individuals and groups
for their entire lives, even many of those who emerge from poverty.
Examples of individuals with difficult childhoods who faced
residual lifelong challenges are presented in the stories of 27
Americans, including athlete Babe Ruth, birth control advocate
Margaret Sanger, singer Billie Holliday, author Jack London,
actress Marilyn Monroe, black leader Malcolm X, singer Johnny Cash,
comedian Richard Pryor, author Stephen King, and entertainer Oprah
Winfrey. In over 200 engaging and accessible pages, Unlikely Fame
yields insight into successful individuals and how they coped,
adapted and ultimately achieved success.
This unique book depicts the stories of Americans born in poverty,
who achieved national or international fame. Accessible to students
and lay readers, this scholarly study describes poverty as a
disability that typically stunts important areas of growth in
childhood. Wagner shows how poverty hampers individuals and groups
for their entire lives, even many of those who emerge from poverty.
Examples of individuals with difficult childhoods who faced
residual lifelong challenges are presented in the stories of 27
Americans, including athlete Babe Ruth, birth control advocate
Margaret Sanger, singer Billie Holliday, author Jack London,
actress Marilyn Monroe, black leader Malcolm X, singer Johnny Cash,
comedian Richard Pryor, author Stephen King, and entertainer Oprah
Winfrey. In over 200 engaging and accessible pages, Unlikely Fame
yields insight into successful individuals and how they coped,
adapted and ultimately achieved success.
This issue of Dental Clinics of North America focuses on The
Journey to Excellence in Esthetic Dentistry and is edited by Drs.
Yair Whiteman and David Wagner. Articles will include: Becoming an
Expert in Minimally-Invasive Esthetic Dentistry: The Road Map;
Building your Brand in Esthetic Dentistry: Developing your Style,
Reputation, and Marketing; Photography: The Complete Guide and
Workflow for Esthetic Dentistry; Dentist-Ceramist Communication:
Building an Effective Esthetic Treatment Team; Training your Eye to
Understand SHAPE--the Ultimate Determiner of Esthetic Dentistry
Success; Implementing Digital Dentistry into your Esthetic Dental
Practice; Review of the Latest Adhesive Materials and Techniques
for Esthetic Dentistry in the Minimally-Invasive Age; Review of the
Latest Restorative Materials and Techniques for Esthetic Dentistry
in the Minimally-Invasive Age; Orthodontic-Restorative
Multidisciplinary Cases: A Communication Guide; and more!
This book explores the connection between the ways people speak
in mathematics classrooms and their opportunities to learn
mathematics. The words spoken, heard, written and read in
mathematics classrooms shape students' sense of what mathematics is
and of what people can do with mathematics. The authors employ
multiple perspectives to consider the means for transformative
action with respect to increasing opportunities for traditionally
marginalized students to form mathematical identities that resonate
with their cultural, social, linguistic, and political beings.
Research suggests that between 6 and 14 percent of the US
population has been homeless at some point in their lives-a huge
number of people. No Longer Homeless shares the stories of people
who have formerly been homeless to examine how they transition off
the streets, find housing, and stay housed. No Longer Homeless
offers a unique perspective of people who have managed to change
their lives, the resources they needed, and the factors that
contributed to lasting change. The book profiles men and women of
different races and ages across the country, and it shares stories
of people who have been off the streets from two months to twenty
years. It addresses topics such as addiction, mental health,
income-from formal employment and off-the-books work, and community
resources. No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of
people we rarely hear about-those who have formerly been on the
streets-sharing the details of their lives to help individuals,
organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing
challenges of homelessness.
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