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This book draws from the successes of award-winning schools,
teachers, students, and parents to help leaders understand how they
can positively change the educational experience of Black students.
When Black Students Excel offers real-life examples of outstanding
elementary, middle, and high schools where teachers and school
leaders have rejected policies and practices built upon deficit
perceptions about the capacity of Black students. Chapters
highlight leadership implications and offer specific suggestions
for educators who are seeking to transform their schools in ways
that advance the success of Black students. This practical guide
includes questions to ask students and their parents,
self-assessment tools, and an array of leadership and teaching
practices that are effective to empower Black students, elevate
school attendance and academic engagement, and improve other
important outcomes. Unpacking important themes that influence the
success of Black students, this book is a useful tool for educators
who are seeking to understand how they can change programs,
procedures, and practices in ways that engage and empower Black
students.
This is a handbook of detailed step-by-step information, examples,
and suggestions for directing a school theatre program.
This book draws from the successes of award-winning schools,
teachers, students, and parents to help leaders understand how they
can positively change the educational experience of Black students.
When Black Students Excel offers real-life examples of outstanding
elementary, middle, and high schools where teachers and school
leaders have rejected policies and practices built upon deficit
perceptions about the capacity of Black students. Chapters
highlight leadership implications and offer specific suggestions
for educators who are seeking to transform their schools in ways
that advance the success of Black students. This practical guide
includes questions to ask students and their parents,
self-assessment tools, and an array of leadership and teaching
practices that are effective to empower Black students, elevate
school attendance and academic engagement, and improve other
important outcomes. Unpacking important themes that influence the
success of Black students, this book is a useful tool for educators
who are seeking to understand how they can change programs,
procedures, and practices in ways that engage and empower Black
students.
Examining Curriculum Studies from an international perspective,
this book focuses on the relations between the Anglo-Saxon and
Latin American educational traditions. Informed by William F.
Pinar's conceptualization of curriculum as currere,
Johnson-Mardones reconsiders curriculum as an international
conversation and advances an intercultural dialogue among
educational traditions to put forth a more comprehensive and
inclusive theory of curriculum. Moving beyond the Anglo-Saxon space
and into the Global South, Johnson-Mardones brings in his own
non-Western educational experience to the center of this inquiry,
and situates cosmopolitanism as a necessary but complex component
of Curriculum Studies.
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Arthurian Literature XXXIV (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by David Carlton, Lindy Brady, Neil M.R. Cartlidge, …
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The continued influence and significance of the legend of Arthur
are demonstrated by the articles collected in this volume. The
enduring appeal and rich variety of the Arthurian legend are once
again manifest here. Chretien's Erec et Enide features first in a
case study of the poet's endings and medieval theories of poetic
composition. Next follows an essay that comes to the rather
surprising-but- convincing conclusion that the "traitor" spoken of
in the opening lines of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is neither
Aeneas nor Antenor, but Paris. Another essay dealing with Sir
Gawain, this time in Malory's Morte Darthur, offers among other
things an answer to the question of how Gawain knows the exact hour
of his death. Few native Irish Arthurian tales have come down to
us: a discussion of "The Tale of the Crop-Eared Dog" shows it to be
both bizarre and popular, as witnessed by the many manuscripts in
which it is preserved. The materiality of the Arthurian legend is
represented here by a detailed treatment of the lead cross
supposedly found in the grave of King Arthur at Glastonbury Abbey
in 1191. Finally, this volume continues Arthurian Literature's
tradition of publishing unfamiliar or previously unknown Arthurian
texts, in this instance an original Middle English translation of
the story of the sword in the stone, from the Old French Merlin.
ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham
University, and Principal of StCuthbert's Society; DAVID F. JOHNSON
is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee.
Contributors: Lindy Brady, David Carlton, Neil Cartlidge, Nicole
Clifton, Oliver Harris, Richard Moll, Rebecca Newby.
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers
fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical
issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The richness and
interdisciplinarity of the Arthurian tradition are well represented
by the essays collected here, which range from early Celtic texts
to twentieth-century children's books, and include discussion of
Welsh, Irish,English, French and Latin material in both literary
and historical contexts. Many of the articles focus on less
well-known late medieval versions of the legend, a somewhat
neglected area until recently: an Irish Grail narrative, the
Burgundian prose Erec, the enormous prequel Perceforest, Ysaie le
Triste, Le Conte du Papegau, and Froissart's Melyador (the last
three discussed as exercises in nostalgia). Meanwhile,
anotherchapter approaches Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from the
perspective of forest ecology. The contributions represent expanded
and revised versions of selected papers given at the XXIIIrd
Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society held in
Bristol in July 2011; they include two of the plenary lectures, one
on "Celtic Magic" and one on the reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Elizabeth Archibald is
Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of
St Cuthbert's Society; David F. Johnson is Professor of English at
Florida State University, Tallahassee. Contributors: Richard
Barber, Nigel Bryant, Aisling Byrne, Carol J. Chase, Sian Echard,
Helen Fulton, Michael W. Twomey, Patricia Victorin.
Overuse of the internet is often characterized as problematic,
disruptive, or addictive, with stories frequently claiming that
online use interferes with relationships, or that 'excessive' time
in front of computer screens is unhealthy. The Multiplicities of
Internet Addiction contests the claim that computers - specifically
Internet use - are addictive, arguing that use of the Internet is
now a form of everyday leisure engaged in by many people in Western
society. Offering an analysis of the nature of addiction alongside
a detailed empirical study of home computer use, this book will be
of interest not only to sociologists of culture and popular
culture, but also to scholars of media, ICT and education.
Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book
addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. An
important contribution to the study of the history of economics,
this eagerly-awaited book will develop an unsurprisingly large
following.
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Urban Studies: Border and Mobility - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017), December 8-9, 2017, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia (Paperback)
Thor Kerr, Bekisizwe Ndimande, Daniel F. Johnson-Mardones, Jan Van Der Putten, Diah Arimbi, …
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This work contains a selection of papers from the International
Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual
periodical publication containing articles on urban cultural
studies based on the international conference organized by the
Faculty of Humanities at the Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. This
publication contains studies on issues that become phenomena in
urban life, including linguistics, literary, identity, gender,
architecture, media, locality, globalization, the dynamics of urban
society and culture, and urban history. This is an Open Access
ebook, and can be found on www.taylorfrancis.com.
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Arthurian Literature XXXI (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Erin Kissick, Irit Ruth Kleiman, Joan Tasker Grimbert, …
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Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers
fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical
issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The studies collected in this
volume demonstrate the enduring vitality of the Arthurian legend in
a wide range of places, times and media. Chretien's Conte du Graal
features first in a study of the poem's place in its Anglo-Norman
context, followed by four essays on Malory's Morte Darthur. Two of
these deal with the significance of wounds and wounding in Malory's
text, while the third explores the problematic aspects of sleep and
the "slepynge knight" in that same romance. The fourth considers
"transformative female corpses" as, quite literally, the embodiment
of critical comment on the chivalric community in the Morte
Darthur. There follow two studies of the Arthurian legend captured
in material objects: the first concerns the early twelfth-century
images on a marble column from the cathedral at Santiago de
Compostela, the second a twentieth-century tapestry created by Lady
Trevelyan for the family home at Wallington Hall. The volume closes
with an essay that brings us into the twenty-first century, with an
assessment of Kaamelott, an irreverent French Pythonesque
television series. ElizabethArchibald is Professor of English
Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's
Society; David F. Johnson is Professor of English at Florida State
University, Tallahassee. Contributors: Karen Cherewatuk,Tara
Foster, Joan Tasker Grimbert, Erin Kissick, Irit Ruth Kleiman,
Megan Leitch, Roger Simpson, K.S. Whetter.
Overuse of the internet is often characterized as problematic,
disruptive, or addictive, with stories frequently claiming that
online use interferes with relationships, or that 'excessive' time
in front of computer screens is unhealthy. The Multiplicities of
Internet Addiction contests the claim that computers - specifically
Internet use - are addictive, arguing that use of the Internet is
now a form of everyday leisure engaged in by many people in Western
society. Offering an analysis of the nature of addiction alongside
a detailed empirical study of home computer use, this book will be
of interest not only to sociologists of culture and popular
culture, but also to scholars of media, ICT and education.
New and fresh assessments of Malory's Morte Darthur. The essays
here are devoted to that seminal Arthurian work, Sir Thomas
Malory's Le Morte Darthur. Developments of papers first given at
the 'Malory at 550: Old and New' conference, they emphasise here
the second part of its remit. Accordingly, several contributors
focus new attention on Malory's style, using his stock phrases,
metaphors, characterization, or manipulation of sources to argue
for a deeper appreciation of his merits as an author. If, as others
illustrate, Malory is a much better artist than his
twentieth-century reputation allowed, then there is a renewed need
to re-assess the vexed question of the possible originality of his
'Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkeney'. Similarly fresh approaches
underlie those essays re-examining Malory's attitude to time and
the sacred in 'The Sankgreal', the manner in which the ghosts of
Lot and his sons highlight potential failures in the Round Table
Oath, or the pleasures and pitfalls of Arthurian hospitality. The
remaining contributions argue for new approaches to Malory's
narrative gaps, Launcelot's status as a victim of sexual violence,
and the importance of rejecting Victorian moral attitudes towards
Gwenyvere and Isode, moralizing that still informs much recent
scholarship addressing Malory's female characters. Contributors:
Joyce Coleman, Elizabeth Edwards, Kristina Hildebrand, Cathy Hume,
David F. Johnson, Megan Leitch, Andrew Lynch, Molly A. Martin, Cory
James Rushton, Fiona Tolhurst, Michael W. Twomey
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This work contains a selection of papers from the International
Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual
periodical publication containing articles on urban cultural
studies based on the international conference organized by the
Faculty of Humanities at the Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. This
publication contains studies on issues that become phenomena in
urban life, including linguistics, literary, identity, gender,
architecture, media, locality, globalization, the dynamics of urban
society and culture, and urban history. This is an Open Access
ebook, and can be found on www.taylorfrancis.com.
Today's high schools are increasingly based around the use of
digital technologies. Students and teachers are encouraged to
'Bring Your Own Device', teaching takes place through 'learning
management systems' and educators are rushing to implement
innovations such as flipped classrooms, personalized learning,
analytics and 'maker' technologies. Yet despite these developments,
the core processes of school appear to have altered little over the
past 50 years. As the twenty-first century progresses, concerns are
growing that the basic model of 'school' is 'broken' and no longer
'fit for purpose'. This book moves beyond the hype and examines the
everyday realities of digital technology use in today's high
schools. Based on a major ethnographic study of three contrasting
Australian schools, the authors lay bare the reasons underlying the
inconsistent impact of digital technologies on day-to-day
schooling. The book examines leadership and management of
technology in schools, the changing nature of teachers' work in the
digital age, as well as student (mis)uses of technologies in and
out of classrooms. In-depth case studies are presented of the
adoption of personalized learning apps, social media and 3D
printers. These investigations all lead to a detailed understanding
of why schools make use of digital technologies in the ways that
they do. Everyday Schooling in the Digital Age: High School, High
Tech? offers a revealing analysis of the realities of contemporary
schools and schooling - drawing on arguments and debates from
various academic literatures such as policy studies, sociology of
education, social studies of technology, media and communication
studies. Over the course of ten wide-ranging chapters, a range of
suggestions are developed as to how the full potential of digital
technology might be realized within schools. Written in a detailed
but accessible manner, this book offers an ambitious critique that
is essential reading for anyone interested in the fast-changing
nature of contemporary education.
In Occupied America, Donald F. Johnson chronicles the everyday
experience of ordinary people living under military occupation
during the American Revolution. Focusing on day-to-day life in port
cities held by the British Army, Johnson recounts how men and women
from a variety of backgrounds navigated harsh conditions, mitigated
threats to their families and livelihoods, took advantage of new
opportunities, and balanced precariously between revolutionary and
royal attempts to secure their allegiance. Between 1775 and 1783,
every large port city along the Eastern seaboard fell under British
rule at one time or another. As centers of population and commerce,
these cities—Boston, New York, Newport, Philadelphia, Savannah,
Charleston—should have been bastions from which the empire could
restore order and inspire loyalty. Military rule's exceptional
social atmosphere initially did provide opportunities for many
people—especially women and the enslaved, but also free men both
rich and poor—to reinvent their lives, and while these
opportunities came with risks, the hope of social betterment
inspired thousands to embrace military rule. Nevertheless, as
Johnson demonstrates, occupation failed to bring about a
restoration of imperial authority, as harsh material circumstances
forced even the most loyal subjects to turn to illicit means to
feed and shelter themselves, while many maintained ties to rebel
camps for the same reasons. As occupations dragged on, most
residents no longer viewed restored royal rule as a viable option.
As Johnson argues, the experiences of these citizens reveal that
the process of political change during the Revolution occurred not
in a single instant but gradually, over the course of years of
hardship under military rule that forced Americans to grapple with
their allegiance in intensely personal and highly contingent ways.
Thus, according to Johnson, the quotidian experience of military
occupation directly affected the outcome of the American
Revolution.
Skills in learning and studying are vital to ensure success in
higher education study, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate
level, in university, college or in the workplace. Skills are
needed in reflection, analysis, communication and recording
information to produce good work, to engage effectively in a group,
to carry out a project or perform well in exams; personal skills
are needed to handle time and pressure and to relate to others on a
course or in the workplace. This new guide builds on the hugely
successful materials the authors have developed over the last 15
years. Along with highly practical guidance on traditional learning
skills, The Guide to Learning and Study Skills provides direction
for students on learning in a blended environment; the increased
use of personal and professional development planning, continuing
professional development and work-based learning.
This book provides an interdisciplinary structure to critique
existing approaches that have failed to eradicate systemic
inequalities across helping professions. This timely contribution
offers helping professionals sought after resources that many are
clamoring for to improve their practice, their pedagogical stance,
and their knowledge as it relates to antiracism and antiracist
approaches. This collection of chapters that cover antiracist
research, theory and practice approaches is in direct response to
 Kendi’s (2019) call to action to examine and revise
institutional policies and practices to become antiracist.
Collectively this book advances existing research and resources by
providing interdisciplinary strategies for helping professionals to
engage in antiracism through critical evaluation of research,
practice, and policies. Doing so empowers helping professionals
across disciplines to employ antiracist strategies that deconstruct
and dismantle racism embedded within the foundational origins,
professional standards, and disciplinary practices of helping
professions while simultaneously merging research, practice, and
advocacy that employs antiracist practices.
Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools describes and
demystifies the qualities that successful leaders rely on to make a
difference at all levels of urban school leadership. Grounded in
research, this volume reveals the multiple challenges that real
urban elementary, middle, and high schools face as well as the
catalysts for improvement. This insightful resource explores the
critical leadership characteristics found in high-performing urban
schools and gives leaders the tools to move their schools to higher
levels of achievement for all students-but especially for those who
are low-income, English-language learners, and from various racial
and ethnic backgrounds. In shining a light on the essential
qualities for exceptional leadership at all levels of urban
schools, this book is a valuable guide for all educators and
administrators to nurture, influence, support, and sustain
excellence and equity at their schools.
In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the
world's newest country. Yet just two-and-a-half years after this
momentous decision, the country was in the grips of renewed civil
war and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as Special
Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United
Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan from July 2011 until
July 2014 and, as such, she was witness to the many challenges
which the country faced as it struggled to adjust to its new
autonomous state. In this book, she provides an unparalleled
insider's account of South Sudan's descent from the ecstatic
celebrations of July 2011 to the outbreak of the disastrous
conflict in December 2013 and the early, bloody phase of the
fighting. Johnson's frequent personal and private contacts at the
highest levels of government, accompanied by her deep knowledge of
the country and its history, make this a unique eyewitness account
of the turbulent first three years of the world's newest - and yet
most fragile - country.
There is consistent pressure on all academics to publish, publish,
publish. But not unless they have been awarded their PhD -
considered by most to be the starting step of an academic career.
So while the pressure is on to obtain the title, and then obtain a
permanent position, and then publish journal articles, there is
little support available to researchers in the nascent stage of
their careers. Publishing from your PhD precisely focuses on
providing early career researchers with emotional and collegial
support that is often not available in academe. It seeks to dispel
nepotistic notions of superiority that places Professors and such
on a pedestal. It specifically clarifies the difficulty in having
written the PhD thesis genre and rewriting it to suit the genre of
journal articles. It does not deal with the 'how' of academic
writing in general. This book endeavours to shed light on the path
one must take to navigate the jungles of academia. This is an
untrodden path which is unique to every researcher - especially
those who employ abstract or critical theories in their research -
and each journey through the jungle is different. However, because
there is little literature about this embryonic journey, this book
illuminates the processes and difficulties of publishing in
journals and culling one's finely honed thesis into small chunks -
a difficult task to which few admit.
Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book
addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. An
important contribution to the study of the history of economics,
this eagerly-awaited book will develop an unsurprisingly large
following.
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Arthurian Literature XXIX (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Bart Besamusca, Christopher Michael Berard, Dorsey Armstrong, …
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Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers
fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical
issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The influence and significance of
the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter
and time-span of articles here, ranging from a mid twelfth-century
Latin vita of the Welsh saint Dyfrig to the early modernArthur of
the Dutch. Topics addressed include the reasons for Edward III's
abandonment of the Order of the Round Table; the 1368 relocation of
Arthur's tomb at Glastonbury Abbey; the evidence for our knowledge
of the French manuscript sources for Malory's first tale, in
particular the Suite du Merlin; and the central role played by
Cornwall in Malory's literary worldview. Meanwhile, a survey of the
pan-European aspects of medieval Arthurian literature, considering
key characters in both familiar and less familiar languages such as
Old Norse and Hebrew, further outlines its popularity and impact.
Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English, University of
Durham;Professor David F. Johnson teaches in the English
Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee. Contributors:
Dorsey Armstrong, Christopher Berard, Bart Besamusca, P.J.C. Field,
Linda Gowans, Sjoerd Levelt, JulianM. Luxford, Ryan Naughton,
Jessica Quinlan, Joshua Byron Smith
Sudan is at a crossroads. The country could soon witness one of the
first partitions of an African state since the colonial era. The
2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement guarantees a referendum on self
determination for Southern Sudan, which is scheduled for January
2011. The agreement ended a 20-year old civil war pitting the
indigenous population against successive Arab Muslim regimes in
Khartoum. By the late 1990s the international community had largely
judged the war insoluble and turned its attention elsewhere.
Following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 a peace
process between the government of Sudan and the Sudan People's
Liberation Movement and Army (SPLM/A) took hold. This book shows
how that war, which ultimately claimed two million deaths and twice
as many displaced, was finally brought to an end. The talks were
facilitated by IGAD under Kenyan leadership, and supported by a
'Troika' of the US, UK, and Norway -- whose intense engagement in
the negotiations was critical for reaching the peace agreement in
January 2005. Although the cast of characters in this drama ranged
from President George W Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell to
unnamed officials in east African hotels, two figures stood out:
the SPLM/A Chairman, Dr John Garang, and Ali Osman Taha, First Vice
President of Sudan. Norwegian Minister of International Development
Hilde F Johnson's personal relationships with these two leaders
gave her unique access and provided the basis for her pivotal role
in the negotiations. She was party to virtually all their
deliberations throughout this crucial period of Sudanese and
African history. This book describes this process from a unique,
insider's perspective. Her account provides a level of detail
seldom achieved in works of contemporary African history and
diplomacy. As Sudan soon faces the most decisive moment in its
history, this book is indispensable reading.
In this issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics, guest editors Drs.
Romaine F. Johnson and Elton M. Lambert bring their considerable
expertise to the topic of Pediatric Otolaryngology. Top experts in
the field cover key topics such as single-sided deafness,
eustachian tube dysfunction, drug-induced sleep endoscopy; drooling
and aspiration; pediatric tracheostomy teams; 3-D printing in
otolaryngology; and more. Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented
topics including enhanced recovery after surgery; aerodigestive
approaches to chronic cough; slide tracheoplasty: tracheal rings
and beyond; COVID-19 and pediatric otolaryngology; and more.
Provides in-depth clinical reviews on pediatric otolaryngology,
offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the
latest information on this timely, focused topic under the
leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize
and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create
clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
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