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This book details a three-year, multi-stranded study of teacher
education programs that prepare future teachers to work with
multilingual learners. The book examines how racism and linguicism
collaborate to shape the conditions under which teacher candidates
learn how to teach. The analysis traces dynamic shifts in thinking
and practice as participants reflected on their personal,
professional and academic experiences in relation to formal
curriculum and assessment policies to interpret what it means to
work with multilingual learners in the classroom. The book offers
guiding principles – above all,
learning from multilingual learners, not
only about them – and presents a suite of
teacher-education practices to disrupt the interplay of language
and race that so deeply shapes teacher-candidate learning about
multilingual learners.
This book details a three-year, multi-stranded study of teacher
education programs that prepare future teachers to work with
multilingual learners. The book examines how racism and linguicism
collaborate to shape the conditions under which teacher candidates
learn how to teach. The analysis traces dynamic shifts in thinking
and practice as participants reflected on their personal,
professional and academic experiences in relation to formal
curriculum and assessment policies to interpret what it means to
work with multilingual learners in the classroom. The book offers
guiding principles – above all,
learning from multilingual learners, not
only about them – and presents a suite of
teacher-education practices to disrupt the interplay of language
and race that so deeply shapes teacher-candidate learning about
multilingual learners.
The Burden of Being a Boy: Bolstering Educational Achievement and
Emotional Well-Being in Young Males is written for everyone who has
a stake in the health and well-being of contemporary American boys
and adolescents—parents, educators, counselors, educational
administrators, student services personnel, higher education
faculty, and students studying education and psychology. Mainly
though, this is a book for those who are committed to seeing all
boys grow and thrive while avoiding what has been termed as toxic
male culture in this, and other, countries. While this book largely
focuses on understanding the roles that schooling and upbringing
play on boys’ development, it explores this complex topic with a
clear belief that there are myriad factors that influence each
boy’s developmental trajectory and that there are many ways to
promote healthy, prosocial development among all young men.
Contemporary society has imposed a set of unrealistic and confusing
rules for men over 18 to follow. With post-adolescent men
experiencing lower rates of academic success at the post-secondary
level and escalating rates of violence perpetrated by this age
group, jobs, careers and life itself are in crisis. These men in
transition have emotional, social, academic, and career struggles
that affect every aspect of their lives. Masculinity in the Making:
Managing the Transition to Manhood; therefore, will examine these
issues and offer strategies and examples of what is possible for
the post-adolescent male; more specifically, attention will be paid
to theories and health issues specific to this population, social
and cultural issues, academic and career interventions, aggression
and violence, and media portrayals. The reader will be left with a
deep and clear understanding of the needs of men as well as how
mentoring and counseling can provide them with the support needed
to be successful and productive members of society.
The Burden of Being a Boy: Bolstering Educational Achievement and
Emotional Well-Being in Young Males is written for everyone who has
a stake in the health and well-being of contemporary American boys
and adolescents—parents, educators, counselors, educational
administrators, student services personnel, higher education
faculty, and students studying education and psychology. Mainly
though, this is a book for those who are committed to seeing all
boys grow and thrive while avoiding what has been termed as toxic
male culture in this, and other, countries. While this book largely
focuses on understanding the roles that schooling and upbringing
play on boys’ development, it explores this complex topic with a
clear belief that there are myriad factors that influence each
boy’s developmental trajectory and that there are many ways to
promote healthy, prosocial development among all young men.
From Cradle to Classroom: A Guide to Special Education for Young
Children is a book written for regular and special education
teachers, school administrators, school psychologists, related
educational personnel, day care providers, parents, graduate
students, and policy makers who work on behalf of infants,
toddlers, and preschoolers to ensure they are ready for formal
education when they reach age 5. It reflects a keen understanding
that early interventions are most effective in reducing the
potential for special education or other support services later in
a child's development. Research shows the benefits of investing in
early intervention and high-quality preschool as a way to mitigate
educational gaps in learning and to improve the development of
children across all domains (Executive Office of the President of
the United States, 2015; Lynch & Vaghul, 2015; Yoshikawa et
al., 2013). Throughout the book, readers will find strategies to
help atypical children navigate the world as they move from infancy
to toddlerhood, and to preschool and beyond. The chapters dig deep
and offer expansive understandings of the components necessary to
ensure young children, especially those with exceptionalities,
become successful students.
Contemporary society has imposed a set of unrealistic and confusing
rules for men over 18 to follow. With post-adolescent men
experiencing lower rates of academic success at the post-secondary
level and escalating rates of violence perpetrated by this age
group, jobs, careers and life itself are in crisis. These men in
transition have emotional, social, academic, and career struggles
that affect every aspect of their lives. Masculinity in the Making:
Managing the Transition to Manhood; therefore, will examine these
issues and offer strategies and examples of what is possible for
the post-adolescent male; more specifically, attention will be paid
to theories and health issues specific to this population, social
and cultural issues, academic and career interventions, aggression
and violence, and media portrayals. The reader will be left with a
deep and clear understanding of the needs of men as well as how
mentoring and counseling can provide them with the support needed
to be successful and productive members of society.
This book tells the story of local-level controls on liquor
licensing ('local option') that emerged during the anti-alcohol
temperance movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It
offers a new perspective on these often-overlooked smaller
prohibitions, arguing local option not only reshaped the hotel
industry but has legacies for, and parallels with, questions facing
cities and planners today. These range from idiosyncratic dry
areas; to intrinsic ideas of residential amenity and neighbourhood,
zoning separation, and objection rights. The book is based on a
case study of temperance-era liquor licensing changes in Victoria,
their convergence with early planning, and their continuities.
Examples are given of contemporary Australian planning debates with
historical roots in the temperance era - live music venues, bottle
shops, gaming machines, fast food restaurants. Dry Zones uses new
archival research and maps; and includes examples from family
histories in Harcourt and Barkers Creek, a district with a
temperance reputation and which closed all its hotels during the
temperance era. Suggesting 'wowsers' are not so easily relegated to
history books, Taylor reflects on tensions around individual and
local rights, localism and centralism, direct democracy, and
domestic violence, that continue to be re-enacted. Dry Zones visits
a forgotten by-way of licensing history, showing the early 21st
century is a useful time to reflect on this history as while some
temperance-era controls are being scaled back, similar controls are
being put forward for much the same reasons.
In Show Time, Lee Ann Fujii asks why some perpetrators of political
violence, from lynch mobs to genocidal killers, display their acts
of violence so publicly and extravagantly. Closely examining three
horrific and extreme episodes—the murder of a prominent Tutsi
family amidst the genocide in Rwanda, the execution of Muslim men
in a Serb-controlled village in Bosnia during the Balkan Wars, and
the lynching of a twenty-two-year old Black farmhand on Maryland's
Eastern Shore in 1933—Fujii shows how "violent displays" are
staged to not merely to kill those perceived to be enemies or
threats, but also to affect and influence observers, neighbors, and
the larger society. Watching and participating in these violent
displays profoundly transforms those involved, reinforcing
political identities, social hierarchies, and power structures.
Such public spectacles of violence also force members of the
community to choose sides—openly show support for the goals of
the violence, or risk becoming victims, themselves. Tracing the
ways in which public displays of violence unfold, Show Time reveals
how the perpetrators exploit the fluidity of social ties for their
own ends.
Including handy maps and photographs, this illustrated guide tells
the story behind the many and varied plaques to be found adorning
buildings, monuments, and statues around the university city of
Oxford. This is a unique publication, featuring the lives of the
amazing Oxford men and women whose contributions to the arts and
the sciences, as well as to the greater good of mankind, are
commemorated around the city. Impeccably researched, this
comprehensive book by an Oxford Blue Badge Guide provides a fresh
and enlightening insight into the lives of such luminaries as
J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Isaiah Berlin, and Jane Morris, to name
but a few. With fascinating biographical anecdotes on the eminent
personalities to whom the plaques are dedicated, it will delight
visitors and residents alike.
Political representation lies at the core of modern politics.
Democracies, with their vast numbers of citizens, could not operate
without representative institutions. Yet relations between the
democratic ideal and the everyday practice of political
representation have never been well defined and remain the subject
of vigorous debate among historians, political theorists, lawyers,
and citizens. In this volume, an eminent group of scholars move
forward the debates about political representation on a number of
fronts. Drawing on insights from political science, history,
political theory, economics, and anthropology, the authors provide
much-needed clarity to some of the most vexing questions about
political representation. They also reveal new and enlightening
perspectives on this fundamental political practice. Topics
discussed include representation before democracy, political
parties, minorities, electoral competition, and ideology. This
volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the ideal and
the reality of political representation.
Elisabeth Wood's account of insurgent collective action in El Salvador is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who supported the insurgency and those who did not, as well as on interviews with military commanders from both sides. She explains how widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action. Those who supplied tortillas, information, and other aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did not.
Elisabeth Wood's account of insurgent collective action in El Salvador is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who supported the insurgency and those who did not, as well as on interviews with military commanders from both sides. She explains how widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action. Those who supplied tortillas, information, and other aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did not.
Political representation lies at the core of modern politics.
Democracies, with their vast numbers of citizens, could not operate
without representative institutions. Yet relations between the
democratic ideal and the everyday practice of political
representation have never been well defined and remain the subject
of vigorous debate among historians, political theorists, lawyers,
and citizens. In this volume, an eminent group of scholars move
forward the debates about political representation on a number of
fronts. Drawing on insights from political science, history,
political theory, economics, and anthropology, the authors provide
much-needed clarity to some of the most vexing questions about
political representation. They also reveal new and enlightening
perspectives on this fundamental political practice. Topics
discussed include representation before democracy, political
parties, minorities, electoral competition, and ideology. This
volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the ideal and
the reality of political representation.
The recent replacement of authoritarian rule by democracy in both South Africa and El Salvador poses a puzzle: why did the powerful, anti-democratic elites of these countries abandon death squads, apartheid, and the other tools of political repression and take a chance on democracy? Forging Democracy From Below shows how popular mobilization--in El Salvador an effective guerilla army supported by peasant collaboration and in South Africa a powerful alliance of labor unions and poor urban dwellers--forced the elite to the bargaining table, and why a durable settlement and democratic government were the result.
The recent replacement of authoritarian rule by democracy in both
South Africa and El Salvador poses a puzzle: why did the powerful
and fervently anti-democratic elites of these countries abandon
death squads, apartheid, and the other tools of political
repression and take a chance on democracy? Forging Democracy from
Below, first published in 2000, shows how popular mobilization - in
El Salvador an effective guerilla army supported by peasant
collaboration and in South Africa a powerful alliance of labor
unions and poor urban dwellers - eventually forced the elite to the
bargaining table, and why both a durable settlement and democratic
government were the result. Using interviews with both insurgent
and elite actors as well as statistical analysis of macroeconomic
developments, Elisabeth Wood documents an 'insurgent path to
democracy' and challenges the view that democracy is the result of
compromise among elite factions or the modernizing influence of
economic development.
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