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"Education Reform and Social Change" is about addressing and
changing the structures, policies, and practices of schools that
differentially advantage white, middle class, native English
speakers over students of color for whom English may be a second or
additional language. It is also about helping people to think
critically about what it is schools do and to consider more
democratic, participatory, and equitable approaches.
The chapters in the text provide first-hand documentation of the
voices, struggles, and visions of students, parent activists,
advocates, attorneys, and educators involved in educational and
social change processes. It chronicles real-life efforts of people
challenging the status quo and working to build a more
participatory, equitable, and transformative future.
The goal of this book is twofold: first, to consider the
structures, policies, and practices that shape and limit
educational change, and learning and teaching; and second, to
document grassroots collaborative and creative efforts to change
them. It offers a critical framework both for conceptualizing and
for actualizing educational change.
Organized into four sections, this book provides a theoretical and
practical framework for thinking about educational reform and
social change -- one that moves from the broader structural
concerns that are embedded in policy, to case studies that document
activism and collaborative efforts to change school, city, and
state policies, to classroom-based directions and initiatives, and
to the construction of personal and collective visions for a more
democratic, equitable, and just education. Each section includes an
overview of the chapters, necessary background information to help
the reader contextualize what follows, and guiding questions to
encourage reflective thought and engagement with the text and to
invite personal linkages. Two resource sections are included at the
end of the volume: "Radical Educational Reform, Critical Pedagogy,
and Multicultural Education: Selected Readings and Resources" and
"National Organization Networks and Resources with a Critical
Perspective."
Co-written by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for his
research on imperfect markets, and Carl E. Walsh, one of the
leading monetary economists in the field, Principles of
Microeconomics is the most modern and accurate text available.
In Rising Up, Living On, Catherine E. Walsh examines struggles for
existence in societies deeply marked by the systemic violences and
entwinements of coloniality, capitalism, Christianity, racism,
gendering, heteropatriarchy, and the continual dispossession of
bodies, land, knowledge, and life, while revealing practices that
contest and live in the cracks of these matrices of power. Through
stories, narrations, personal letters, conversations, lived
accounts, and weaving together the thought of many-including
ancestors, artists, students, activists, feminists, collectives,
and Indigenous and Africana peoples-in the Americas, the Global
South, and beyond, Walsh takes readers on a journey of decolonial
praxis. Here, Walsh outlines individual and collective paths that
cry out and crack, ask and walk, deschool, undo the nation-state,
and break down boundaries of gender, race, and nature. Rising Up,
Living On is a book that sows re-existences, nurtures
relationality, and cultivates the sense, hope, and possibility of
life otherwise in these desperate times.
Co-written by Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize for his
research on imperfect markets, and Carl E. Walsh, one of the
leading monetary economists in the field, Principles of
Macroeconomics is the most modern and accurate text available.
"Education Reform and Social Change" is about addressing and
changing the structures, policies, and practices of schools that
differentially advantage white, middle class, native English
speakers over students of color for whom English may be a second or
additional language. It is also about helping people to think
critically about what it is schools do and to consider more
democratic, participatory, and equitable approaches.
The chapters in the text provide first-hand documentation of the
voices, struggles, and visions of students, parent activists,
advocates, attorneys, and educators involved in educational and
social change processes. It chronicles real-life efforts of people
challenging the status quo and working to build a more
participatory, equitable, and transformative future.
The goal of this book is twofold: first, to consider the
structures, policies, and practices that shape and limit
educational change, and learning and teaching; and second, to
document grassroots collaborative and creative efforts to change
them. It offers a critical framework both for conceptualizing and
for actualizing educational change.
Organized into four sections, this book provides a theoretical and
practical framework for thinking about educational reform and
social change -- one that moves from the broader structural
concerns that are embedded in policy, to case studies that document
activism and collaborative efforts to change school, city, and
state policies, to classroom-based directions and initiatives, and
to the construction of personal and collective visions for a more
democratic, equitable, and just education. Each section includes an
overview of the chapters, necessary background information to help
the reader contextualize what follows, and guiding questions to
encourage reflective thought and engagement with the text and to
invite personal linkages. Two resource sections are included at the
end of the volume: "Radical Educational Reform, Critical Pedagogy,
and Multicultural Education: Selected Readings and Resources" and
"National Organization Networks and Resources with a Critical
Perspective."
There's no such thing as an easy divorce. On top of the emotional
turmoil, there are also numerous other concerns - from organising
finances and splitting property, to breaking the news to children,
and picking the best lawyer. This comprehensive guide shows that,
with a clear-head and straight-talking advice, divorce can be
swifter and easier than expected, letting you make a clean break
and move on with confidence. Divorce For Dummies includes the most
up-to-date information on:* What to Do First When Things Start to
Go Wrong* Separation: A Healthy Breather or a Prelude to Divorce?*
Helping Your Children Get Through Your Divorce* Pre-marital
Agreements* Same-sex and DIY divorces About the author Elizabeth
Walsh is a legal expert and the Editor of Family Law, recently
voted 'Legal Journal of the Year'. Thelma Fisher is a former chair
of the UK College of Family Mediators and has been involved in
mediation for over twenty years.
In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh
explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its
origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the
crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and
what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with local histories and
perspectives of struggle, they illustrate the conceptual and
analytic dynamism of decolonial ways of living and thinking, as
well as the creative force of resistance and re-existence. This
book speaks to the urgency of these times, encourages delinkings
from the colonial matrix of power and its "universals" of Western
modernity and global capitalism, and engages with arguments and
struggles for dignity and life against death, destruction, and
civilizational despair.
In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh
explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its
origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the
crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and
what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with local histories and
perspectives of struggle, they illustrate the conceptual and
analytic dynamism of decolonial ways of living and thinking, as
well as the creative force of resistance and re-existence. This
book speaks to the urgency of these times, encourages delinkings
from the colonial matrix of power and its "universals" of Western
modernity and global capitalism, and engages with arguments and
struggles for dignity and life against death, destruction, and
civilizational despair.
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Immersive Education - 4th European Summit, EiED 2014, Vienna, Austria, November 24-26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Martin Ebner, Kai Erenli, Rainer Malaka, Johanna Pirker, Aaron E. Walsh
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R1,972
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European
Immersive Education Summit, EiED 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, in
November 2014. The 11 revised full papers presented were carefully
reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The papers are organized
in topical sections on innovation and technological advancements in
e-learning; immersive and emerging technologies for cultural and
digital heritage.
In Rising Up, Living On, Catherine E. Walsh examines struggles for
existence in societies deeply marked by the systemic violences and
entwinements of coloniality, capitalism, Christianity, racism,
gendering, heteropatriarchy, and the continual dispossession of
bodies, land, knowledge, and life, while revealing practices that
contest and live in the cracks of these matrices of power. Through
stories, narrations, personal letters, conversations, lived
accounts, and weaving together the thought of many—including
ancestors, artists, students, activists, feminists, collectives,
and Indigenous and Africana peoples—in the Americas, the Global
South, and beyond, Walsh takes readers on a journey of decolonial
praxis. Here, Walsh outlines individual and collective paths that
cry out and crack, ask and walk, deschool, undo the nation-state,
and break down boundaries of gender, race, and nature. Rising Up,
Living On is a book that sows re-existences, nurtures
relationality, and cultivates the sense, hope, and possibility of
life otherwise in these desperate times.
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Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce V - Designing Mechanisms and Systems, AAMAS 2003 Workshop, AMEC 2003, Melbourne, Australia, July 15. 2003, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Peyman Faratin, David C. Parkes, Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, William E. Walsh
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R1,577
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The design of intelligent trading agents, mechanisms, and systems
has received growingattentionin the
agentsandmultiagentsystemscommunities in ane?ort to address the
increasing costs of search, transaction, and coordination which
follows from the increasing number of Internet-enabled distributed
electronic markets. Furthermore, new technologies and supporting
business models are - sulting in a growing volume of open and
horizontally integrated markets for trading of an increasingly
diverse set of goods and services. However, growth of technologies
for such markets requires innovative solutions to a diverseset of -
isting and novel technical problems which we are only beginning to
understand. Speci?cally, distributed markets present not only
traditional economic problems but also introduce novel and
challenging computational issues that are not r- resentedin the
classiceconomicsolution concepts.Novelto agent-mediatedel- tronic
commerce are considerations involving the computation substrates of
the agents and the electronic institutions that supports, and
trading, and also the human-agent interface (involving issues of
preference elicitation, representation,
reasoningandtrust).Insum,agent-mediatedelectronictraderequiresprincipled
design(fromeconomicsandgametheory)andincorporatesnovelcombinationsof
theories from di? erent disciplines such as computer science,
operations research, arti?cial intelligence and distributed
systems. The collection of above-mentioned issues and challenges
has crystallized into a new, consolidated agent research ?eld that
has become a focus of attention in recent years: agent-mediated
electronic commerce.
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Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce IV. Designing Mechanisms and Systems - AAMAS 2002 Workshop on Agent Mediated Electronic Commerce, Bologna, Italy, July 16, 2002, Revised Papers (Paperback, 2002 ed.)
Julian Padget, Onn Shehory, David Parkes, Norman Sadeh, William E. Walsh
bundle available
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce, AMEC 2002, held in Bologna, Italy in July 2002 during the AAMAS 2002 conference. The 20 revised full papers presented together with an introductory survey by the volume editors were carefully selected and improved during two rounds of reviewing and revision. The book gives a unique overview of the state of the art of designing mechanisms and systems for agent-mediated e-commerce- The papers are organized in topical sections on electronic auctions, negotiations, and electronic markets.
I wholeheartedly recommend Food Allergies.
--Christopher M. Foley, M.D.
""A powerful key to health. Dr. Walsh's principles have
revolutionized my personal health.""
--Margaret L. Williams, D.C.
""The information in this book demystifies food and chemical
allergies and gives patients courage.""
--Loren C. Stockton, D.C.
""This book will help many people with symptoms and discomforts
they have had for a long time.""
--Walid A. Mikhail, M.D.
Food allergies can be subtle, insidious, and dangerous. Every year
millions of people suffer from migraine headaches, persistent
coughs, sore throats, eczema, abdominal discomfort, tiredness, and
irritability-and don't realize that their symptoms come from the
food they eat. This book-the first comprehensive book on food
allergies written by a noted allergist-helps us understand how
different foods cause pain and discomfort and tells us how to
identify the foods that have been afflicting us-so we can avoid
them before the symptoms strike. In Food Allergies, Dr. William
Walsh shares his extensive knowledge about the cause of food
allergies, which foods and chemicals to avoid, and, ultimately,
which foods will help you feel your very best. Filled with dozens
of enlightening case studies and engaging writing, this unique
guide offers a detailed, easy-to-follow diet tailored for adults
and children who may be prone to allergies. It also includes
clinically tested plans for cooking and advice on how to avoid
troublesome foods at the store and when eating out.
Here is the inspiring story behind the Veterans Day red poppy, a
symbol that honors the service and sacrifices of our veterans. When
American soldiers entered World War I, Moina Belle Michael, a
schoolteacher from Georgia, knew she had to act. Some of the
soldiers were her students and friends. Almost single-handedly,
Moina worked to establish the red poppy as the symbol to honor and
remember soldiers. And she devoted the rest of her life to making
sure the symbol would last forever. Thanks to her hard work, that
symbol remains strong today. Author Barbara Elizabeth Walsh and
artist Layne Johnson worked with experts, primary documents, and
Moina's great-nieces to better understand Moina's determination to
honor the war veterans. A portion of the book's proceeds will
support the National Military Family Association's Operation Purple
(R), which benefits children of the US Military.
The new edition of a comprehensive treatment of monetary economics,
including the first extensive coverage of the effective lower bound
on nominal interest rates. This textbook presents a comprehensive
treatment of the most important topics in monetary economics,
focusing on the primary models monetary economists have employed to
address topics in theory and policy. Striking a balance of insight,
accessibility, and rigor, the book covers the basic theoretical
approaches, shows how to do simulation work with the models, and
discusses the full range of frictions that economists have studied
to understand the impacts of monetary policy. For the fourth
edition, every chapter has been revised to improve the exposition
and to reflect recent research. The new edition offers an entirely
new chapter on the effective lower bound on nominal interest rates,
forward guidance policies, and quantitative and credit easing
policies. Material on the basic new Keynesian model has been
reorganized into a single chapter to provide a comprehensive
analysis of the model and its policy implications. In addition, the
chapter on the open economy now reflects the dominance of the new
Keynesian approach. Other new material includes discussions of
price adjustment, labor market frictions and unemployment, and
moral hazard frictions among financial intermediaries. References
and end-of-chapter problems allow readers to extend their knowledge
of the topics covered. Monetary Theory and Policy continues to be
the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of monetary
economics, not only the leading text in the field but also the
standard reference for academics and central bank researchers.
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I Read A Book (Paperback)
Lauren Petiti; Susan E Walsh
bundle available
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R265
Discovery Miles 2 650
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In this paper, I explore the optimal extent to which the central
bank should disseminate information among private agents.
Individual firms are assumed to have diverse private information,
and the central bank provides public information either implicitly,
by setting its policy instrument, or explicitly, by making
announcements about its short-run targets. The optimal degree of
economic transparency is affected differently by cost and demand
shocks. More-accurate central bank forecasts of demand shocks
reduce optimal transparency, while more-accurate forecasts of cost
shocks increase optimal transparency. Increased persistence in
demand (cost) disturbances increases (reduces) optimal
transparency.
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