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Profound changes in society, government policy and the political
landscape, as well as cataclysmic events such as 9/11, have greatly
altered perceptions of faith schools and their existence now causes
more controversy than ever. Taking a reflective practice approach,
this study by people working within faith schools and colleges
explores the new hot issues surrounding the subject in a
sophisticated way. Looking at the supposed secularisation of the
West, the nature of the multi-cultural and multi-faith society, the
role of women, the spiritual development of children and most of
all, the form that the tolerance of religious diversity should take
in liberal societies, this book encourages readers to re-examine
their assumptions and to consider faith schools as a part of the
future of the English schooling system, within a multi-cultural
society. This book was previously published as a special issue of
The International Journal of Children's Spirituality.
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Black River (Paperback, New)
Justin Clemens; Illustrated by Helen Johnson
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R426
R345
Discovery Miles 3 450
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Black River is the autobiography of a nonexistent personage.
Drawing on literary techniques developed by Beckett, Burroughs and
Borges, Black River plunges into a violent and surreal world from
which the last traces of the gods have vanished. The reader will
encounter such creatures as mouthers, pokers, the sucking lady,
white curls, the loved one, the magistrate, and the ambassador,
presented in spare, relentless prose. The text by Justin Clemens is
supplemented with Helen Johnson's extraordinary collages. Black
River is a work of hallucinatory materialism.
There's a crisis raging in America's schools, but it doesn't have
anything to do with our teachers-or our students. Free public
education was a grand experiment proposed in the mid 1800s by
progressive politicians who believed it would increase the growth
and development of an educated citizenry and strengthen the
nation's democracy. They were right. Public education in the United
States became the warp and weft of the nation's culture and
economic success. Today, confidence in public education has been
damaged by politicians and the financial interests that support
them. Now, schools are dramatically underfunded while being blamed
for a myriad of social and economic failures. Drawing on her
experiences as a student and a teacher, Helen Johnson repudiates
the attacks on public schools and sheds light on the remarkable
successes borne from the United States' education system.
Profound changes in society, government policy and the political
landscape, as well as cataclysmic events such as 9/11, have greatly
altered perceptions of faith schools and their existence now causes
more controversy than ever.
Taking a reflective practice approach, this study by people
working within faith schools and colleges explores the new hot
issues surrounding the subject in a sophisticated way. Looking at
the supposed secularisation of the West, the nature of the
multi-cultural and multi-faith society, the role of women, the
spiritual development of children and most of all, the form that
the tolerance of religious diversity should take in liberal
societies, this book encourages readers to re-examine their
assumptions and to consider faith schools as a part of the future
of the English schooling system, within a multi-cultural
society.
This book was previously published as a special issue of The
International Journal of Children's Spirituality.
Charles Andrew Hofling
Smithsonian-Utah Publications in American Indian Languages
Lyle Campbell and Ives Goddard
Linguistics
This is highly valuable dictionary of the Mopan (Mayan)
language. In addition to its many entries, it also provides an
introductory grammatical description, as well as general dictionary
features such as parts of speech, examples, cross-references,
variant forms, homophones, and indexes. The book also contains
special sections on orthography and pronunciation unique to this
important Mayan language, as well as translations into English and
Spanish.
The dictionary has the merits well known from other dictionaries of
indigenous languages of the Americas, preserving knowledge systems
as they are encoded in vocabulary and providing valuable
information for numerous fields, including Mayanists,
Mesoamericanists, American Indian scholars, anthropologists,
historians, linguists, students of Mayan hieroglyphic writing, and
members of modern Mayan communities, among others.
This is the second book in the new Smithsonian-Utah Publications in
American Indian Languages (SUPAIL) series, a joint venture of the
University of Utah Press and the Smithsonian Institution.
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