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Our ability to imagine and then invent new worlds for ourselves is
one of our greatest assets and the origin of all human achievement,
yet the importance of creativity in learning and achievement is
largely unrecognized in a higher education world that places more
value on critical and rational thinking. It is a vision of a higher
education world in which students' creativity is valued alongside
more traditional forms of academic achievement that provides the
driving force for this book.
"Developing Creativity in Higher Education "has grown out of the
Imaginative Curriculum network-based collaborative learning
project. It is the first book to systematically address the issue
of creativity in higher education. It features:
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an analysis of the problem of creativity in higher education and
rich perspectives on the meanings of creativity in different
teaching and subject contexts
- illustrative examples of teaching and assessment strategies,
augmentedby web-based, curriculum guides and aids to encourage
teachers to examine their own understandings of creativity in order
to help students to develop their own creativity
- practical advice on how to foster creativity at an individual and
an institutional level
"Developing Creativity in Higher Education "will appeal to
teachers, educational developers, and institutional managers who
want to enrich the higher education experiences of their students
and enable them to develop more of their potential.
The search for social democracy has not been an easy one over
the last three decades. The economic crisis of the 1970s, and the
consequent rise of neo-liberalism, confronted social democrats with
difficult new circumstances: tax-resistant electorates, the
globalization of capital and Western de-industrialization. In
response, a new bout of ideological revisionism consumed social
democratic parties. But did this revisionism simply amount to a
neo-liberalisation of the Left or did it propose a recognizably
social democratic agenda? Were these ideological adaptations the
only feasible ones or were there other forms of modernization that
might have yielded greater strategic dividends for the Left? Why
did some social democratic parties feel it necessary to take their
revisionism much further than others?
"In Search of Social Democracy" brings together prominent
scholars of social democracy to address these questions. Focusing
on the social democratic heartland of Western Europe (although
Australia and the United States also figure in the analysis), it
gives the first detailed assessment of how the new social
democratic revisionism has fared in government. The book begins by
considering the underlying causes of the end of social democracy's
golden age and the magnitude of the challenges faced by social
democratic parties after the 1970s. It then proceeds to examine
detailed case studies of how particular social democratic parties
responded to this changed political terrain. Finally, it
contributes to a broader conversation about the future of social
democracy by considering ways in which the political thought of
'third way' social democracy might be radicalized for the
twenty-first century. The contributors offer a variety of
perspectives -- some are skeptical of social democracy's prospects,
others more sanguine; some supportive of the performance of social
democratic parties in government, others bitingly critical. But
they are united by the conviction that the themes addressed in this
book are crucial to understanding the current politics of the
industrialized world and, in particular, to determining the
feasibility of more egalitarian and democratic social outcomes than
have been possible so far in the era of neo-liberalism.
Many health, environmental, and social challenges across the globe
– from diabetes to climate change – are regularly discussed in
terms of imbalances in biological, ecological, and social systems.
Yet, as contributions to this collection demonstrate, while the
pressures of modernity have long been held to be pathogenic,
strategies for addressing modern excesses and deficiencies of
bodies and minds have frequently focused on the agency of the
individual, self-knowledge, and individual choices. This volume
explores how concepts of ‘balance’ have been central to modern
politics, medicine, and society, analysing the diverse ways in
which balanced and unbalanced selfhoods have been subject to
construction, intervention, and challenge across the long twentieth
century. Through original chapters on subjects as varied as obesity
control, fatigue and the regulation of work, and the physiology of
exploration in extreme conditions, Balancing the self explores how
the mechanisms and meanings of balance have been framed
historically. Together, contributions examine the positive
narratives that have been attached to the ideals and practices of
‘self-help’, the diverse agencies historically involved in
cultivating new ‘balanced’ selves, and the extent to which
rhetorics of empowerment and responsibility have been used for a
variety of purposes, from disciplining bodies to cutting social
security. With contributions from leading and emerging scholars
such as Dorothy Porter, Alex Mold, Vanessa Heggie, Chris Millard,
and Natasha Feiner, Balancing the self generates new insights into
emerging fields of health governance, subjectivity, and balance. --
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Our ability to imagine and then invent new worlds for ourselves is
one of our greatest assets and the origin of all human achievement,
yet the importance of creativity in learning and achievement is
largely unrecognized in a higher education world that places more
value on critical and rational thinking. It is a vision of a higher
education world in which students' creativity is valued alongside
more traditional forms of academic achievement that provides the
driving force for this book.
"Developing Creativity in Higher Education "has grown out of the
Imaginative Curriculum network-based collaborative learning
project. It is the first book to systematically address the issue
of creativity in higher education. It features:
-
an analysis of the problem of creativity in higher education and
rich perspectives on the meanings of creativity in different
teaching and subject contexts
- illustrative examples of teaching and assessment strategies,
augmentedby web-based, curriculum guides and aids to encourage
teachers to examine their own understandings of creativity in order
to help students to develop their own creativity
- practical advice on how to foster creativity at an individual and
an institutional level
"Developing Creativity in Higher Education "will appeal to
teachers, educational developers, and institutional managers who
want to enrich the higher education experiences of their students
and enable them to develop more of their potential.
This history explores the story of federal contributions to dam
planning, design, and construction by carefully selecting those
dams and river systems that seem particularly critical to the
story. The history also addresses some of the negative
environmental consequences of dam-building, a series of problems
that today both Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
seek to resolve.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
These essays explore the nature and limits of individual autonomy
in law, policy and the work of regulatory agencies. Authors ask
searching questions about the nature and scope of the regulation of
'private' lives, from intimacies, personal relationships and
domestic lives to reproduction. They question the extent to which
the law does, or should, protect individual autonomy. Recent rapid
advances in the development of new technologies - particularly
those concerned with human genetics and assisted reproduction -
have generated new questions (practical, social, legal and ethical)
about how far the state should intervene in individual decision
making. Is there an inevitable tension between individual liberty
and the common good? How might a workable balance between the
public and the private be struck? How, indeed, should we think
about 'autonomy'? The essays explore the arguments used to create
and maintain the boundaries of autonomy - for example, the
protection of the vulnerable, public goods of various kinds, and
the maintenance of tradition and respect for cultural practices.
Contributors address how those boundaries should be drawn and
interventions justified. How are contemporary ethical debates about
autonomy constructed, and what principles do they embody? What
happens when those principles become manifest in law?
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