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Advance equity by learning to crack the system's codes We must act
now, using what we already know, to advance equity and raise the
achievement of every student. With three decades of leading equity
work across the country, George S. Perry Jr. issues a call to
action for educational leaders who are willing to fight the fight
for equity for all students. School and district leaders will
encounter roadblocks as they enact systemic change, but Equity
Warriors introduces practical, realistic, and strategic approaches
for navigating those barriers. Equity Warriors equips education
leaders with the moves they can make today to achieve the vision
that every student becomes a high achiever by Providing real school
and district examples of systemic equity efforts Demonstrating the
parallel work that school and district teams must do to achieve and
sustain systemic change Cracking the codes in the domains of
politics, diplomacy, and warfare to achieve the equity agenda.
Equity Warriors is a must read for leaders at all levels of the
system who have chosen to be in this fight and are ready to do what
it takes to make the system work for all students.
This book constitutes an exploration of an episode of change in a
tertiary educational institution. The change episode in question
concerns an educational product which is the Masters of Business
Information Technology (MBIT). This is a postgraduate coursework
program. A need has been discerned to continuously change this
product in an evolutionary manner in order to align it with market,
government and technological shifts and to accommodate the
diversity of students needs. The start and finish of the episode in
question are marked by validation of MBIT product change
information by the University Academic Development Committee (ADC)
governance process. The government, marketplace, industry,
university and students are stakeholders in the program change
process. The capacity of the systems and processes within the
university to support continuous alignment of program structure and
content change and ICT change in the external environment is
completed. This potentially provides an opportunity to identify the
characteristics of processes that ensure evolutionary change to
product and resultant sustainability.
Here are all of Stevens' published books of poetry, side-by-side
for the first time with the haunting lyrics of his later years and
early work that traces the development of his art. From the rococo
inventiveness of Harmonium, his first volume (including such
classics as "Sunday Morning", "Peter Quince at the Clavier", and
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"), through "Notes Toward a
Supreme Fiction", "Esthetique du Mal", "The Auroras of Autumn", and
the other large-scale masterpieces of his middle years, to the
austere final poems of "The Rock", Stevens' poetry explores with
unrelenting intensity the relation between the world and the human
imagination, between nature as found and nature as invented, and
the ways poetry mediates between them. This volume presents over a
hundred poems uncollected by Stevens, including early versions of
often discussed works like "The Comedian as the Letter C" and
"Owl's Clover". Also here is the most comprehensive selection
available of Stevens' prose writings. The Necessary Angel (1951),
his distinguished book of essays, joins nearly fifty shorter
pieces, many previously uncollected: reviews, speeches, short
stories, criticism, philosophical writings, and responses to the
work of Eliot, Moore, Williams, and other poets. The often dazzling
aphorisms Stevens gathered over the years are included, as are his
plays and selections from his poetic notebooks. Rounding out the
volume is a fifty-year span of journal entries and letters, newly
edited from manuscript sources, which provide fascinating glimpses
of Stevens' thoughts on poetry and the creative process.
Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant
introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson
charts the nineteenth-century origins of pragmatist thought and its
development through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries,
focusing on the major first- and second-generation figures and how
their contributions continue to influence philosophical discourse
today. At the same time, Richardson casts pragmatism as the method
it was designed to be: a way of making ideas clear, examining
beliefs, and breaking old habits and reinforcing new and useful
ones in the interest of maintaining healthy communities through
ongoing conversation. Through this practice we come to perceive, as
William James did, that thinking is as natural as breathing, and
that the essential work of pragmatism is to open channels essential
to all experience.
Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of
the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy:
pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various
branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of
Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth century through
modernism, following its pointings into the present. Richardson
combines strands from America's religious experience with
scientific information to offer interpretations that break new
ground in literary and cultural history. This book exemplifies the
value of interdisciplinary approaches to producing literary
criticism. In a series of highly original readings of Edwards,
Emerson, William and Henry James, Stevens, and Stein, A Natural
History of Pragmatism tracks the interplay of religious motive,
scientific speculation, and literature in shaping an American
aesthetic. Wide-ranging and bold, this groundbreaking book will be
essential reading for all students and scholars of American
literature.
Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of
the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy:
pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various
branches of the natural sciences and traces the development of
Jamesian pragmatism from the late nineteenth century through
modernism, following its pointings into the present. Richardson
combines strands from America's religious experience with
scientific information to offer interpretations that break new
ground in literary and cultural history. This book exemplifies the
value of interdisciplinary approaches to producing literary
criticism. In a series of highly original readings of Edwards,
Emerson, William and Henry James, Stevens, and Stein, A Natural
History of Pragmatism tracks the interplay of religious motive,
scientific speculation, and literature in shaping an American
aesthetic. Wide-ranging and bold, this groundbreaking book will be
essential reading for all students and scholars of American
literature.
How to Live, What to Do is an indispensable introduction to and
guide through the work of a poet equal in power and sensibility to
Shakespeare and Milton. Like them, Stevens shaped a new language,
fashioning an instrument adequate to describing a completely
changed environment of fact, extending perception through his poems
to align what Emerson called our "axis of vision" with the universe
as it came to be understood during his lifetime, 1879-1955, a span
shared with Albert Einstein. Projecting his own imagination into
spacetime as "a priest of the invisible," persistently cultivating
his cosmic consciousness through reading, keeping abreast of the
latest discoveries of Einstein, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Louis de
Broglie, and others, Stevens pushed the boundaries of language into
the exotic territories of relativity and quantum mechanics while at
the same time honoring the continuing human need for belief in some
larger order. His work records how to live, what to do in this
strange new world of experience, seeing what was always seen but
never seen before. Joan Richardson, author of the standard
two-volume critical biography of Stevens and coeditor with Frank
Kermode of the Library of America edition of the Collected Poetry
and Prose, offers concise, lucid captures of Stevens's development
and achievement. Over the ten years of researching her Stevens
biography, Richardson read all that he read, as well as his
complete correspondence, journals, and notebooks. She weaves the
details drawn from this deep involvement into the background of
American cultural history of the period. This fabric is further
enlivened by her preparation in philosophy and the sciences,
creating in these thirteen panels a contemporary version of a
medieval tapestry sequence, with Stevens in the place of the
unicorn, as it were, holding our attention and eliciting, as
necessary angel, individual solutions to the riddles of our
existence on this planet spinning and hissing around its cooling
star at 18.5 miles per second.
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