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In this book we considered new territory for educational leadership
by looking to music for lessons and inspiration that may inform the
next generation of schools leaders. Each chapter focuses on an
artist or group whose work serves to refine, extend, and challenge
our thinking in regards to educational leadership. You will find a
vast array of musical forms of expression analyzed and described by
an equally diverse collection of educational leadership scholars
and practitioners. There may be some who question the academic
appropriateness or relevance of a text such as this one. Our
response is that part of our ongoing mission should be to break
ourselves out of academic silos and forge meaningful connections
between seemingly disparate disciplines. Furthermore, educational
leadership stands to gain more by drawing from the arts and
specifically musical influences. Finally, music is an obvious part
of most of our lives; why not explore the ways in which it impacts
us on an academic level and not just a personal level? In sum, we
ask that as you read the chapters of this book, you reflect on your
own musical tastes and favorite artists.
In 1882, Kano opened his Kodokan dojo in Tokyo, where he taught
jujutsu to his first class of nine students. His choice of the name
'Kodokan' symbolizes precocity in one so young and is highly
significant, for it means 'the institute where one is guided along
the road to follow in life', that is to say, a road that one
travels as a means of self-cultivation, which Kano regarded as the
optimum way to live one's life. This cultivation, however, can only
be attained following long years of training made with vigorous
exertion in an effort to reach the ultimate goal:
self-perfection.
At the age of twenty-four, Kano abruptly gave up the teaching
of this ancient and altogether brutal activity and never taught
jujutsu again. In his attempt to create for the modern age a
non-violent, spiritually inspiring antagonistic art, he carried out
research on several styles of jujutsu. Primarily in the interests
of both safety and practicality, he altered and added his own
devices to the techniques that he was later to incorporate into his
newly conceived system of skills, which he named 'Kodokan judo'. In
lectures, Kano often stated the following: 'The ultimate object of
studying judo is to train and cultivate body and mind through
practice in attack and defense, and by thus mastering the
essentials of the art, to attain perfection of oneself and bring
benefits to the world.' He had sought to create in judo, therefore,
something positive out of something largely negative.
This book offers both an introduction to the vibrant field of
literary tourism studies and a selection of cutting-edge
cross-disciplinary research. Indispensable for students and
scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, it provides
fascinating insights into the reception of, among others,
Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron and Wordsworth.
There has been a notable upsurge of interest in the body in empirical and theoretical study and debate. Contributions to this book move these debates forward by considering a range of bodies as active in their own construction in social and economic processes. The authors consider the body as a site of agency, resistance, and compromise and reflect upon the reluctance of sociology to engage with the body and notions of embodiment.
This book's primary focus is on racially and ethnically diverse
women in educational leadership. Each chapter is written from a
unique conceptual or empirical lens as shared by international
female leaders. Of particular interest to readers is the ingenious
pairing of contributors for optimum scholarship, whereby the
majority of chapters are co-authored by at least one male in a
leadership role who shares in the crusade for social, cultural,
political, and economic gender and racial equality for effective
leadership that works. The general content is framed by but not
limited to theoretical frameworks such as Black / Feminist Thought,
Critical Race Theory, and Leadership for Social Justice. The
chapters range from a critical examination of global society and
cross-cultural collaboration, to the intersection of race, law, and
power. Each chapter illuminates the lives and experiences of
racially and ethnically diverse women in leadership positions in a
diverse range of educational settings and contexts.
Throne of Blood (1957), Akira Kurosawa's reworking of Macbeth, is
widely considered the greatest film adaptation of Shakespeare ever
made. In a detailed account of the film, Robert N. Watson explores
how Kurosawa draws key philosophical and psychological arguments
from Shakespeare, translates them into striking visual metaphors,
and inflects them through the history of post-World War II Japan.
Watson places particular emphasis on the contexts that underlie the
film's central tension between individual aspiration and the
stability of broader social and ecological collectives - and
therefore between free will and determinism. In his foreword to
this new edition, Robert Watson considers the central characters'
Washizu and his wife Asaji's blunder in viewing life as a ruthless
competition in which only the most brutal can thrive in the context
of an era of neoliberal economics, resurgent 'strongman' political
leaders, and myopic views of the environmenal crisis, with nothing
valued that cannot be monetized.
This original, witty, illustrated study offers the first analytical
history of the rise and development of literary tourism in
nineteenth-century Britain, associated with authors from
Shakespeare, Gray, Keats, Burns and Scott, the Bronte sisters, and
Thomas Hardy. Invaluable for the student of travel and literature
of the nineteenth century.
This original, witty, illustrated study offers the first analytical
history of the rise and development of literary tourism in
nineteenth-century Britain, associated with authors from
Shakespeare, Gray, Keats, Burns and Scott, the Bronte sisters, and
Thomas Hardy. Invaluable for the student of travel and literature
of the nineteenth century.
Often described as one of Shakespeare's 'problem plays', Measure
for Measure explores issues of mercy and justice in corrupt Vienna.
The Duke makes his strict moralistic deputy, Angelo, temporary
leader of Vienna, while he disguises himself as a friar to witness
all that ensues. In the comprehensive introduction to this new,
fully-illustrated Arden edition, with commentary and notes from A.
R. Braunmuller, Robert N. Watson explores the recent increased
attention to the play and the shifting judgements of key characters
such as the Duke and Isabella. He analyses the social foundations
of these changes, their validity as readings of the text, and their
manifestations in performance. It also explores the play's
implications on topics including love, marriage, sexuality,
consent, mortality, religion, statecraft, moderation, and theatre
itself.
The sharpest, funniest comedy about money and morals in the 17th
century is still the sharpest and funniest about those things in
the 21st. The full play text is accompanied by incisive commentary
notes which communicate the devastating comic energy of Volpone's
satire. The introduction provides a firm grounding in the play's
social and literary contexts, demonstrates how careful
close-reading can expand your enjoyment of the comedy, shows the
relevance of Jonson's critique to our modern economic systems, and
provides a clear picture of how the main relationships in the play
function on the page and stage. Supplemented by a plot summary and
annotated bibliography, it is ideal for students of Jonson, city
comedy and early modern drama.
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Zelda's Love (Paperback)
Victoria N Watson; Illustrated by Victoria N Watson
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Judo & Life (Paperback)
Brian N. Watson
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In this book we considered new territory for educational leadership
by looking to music for lessons and inspiration that may inform the
next generation of schools leaders. Each chapter focuses on an
artist or group whose work serves to refine, extend, and challenge
our thinking in regards to educational leadership. You will find a
vast array of musical forms of expression analyzed and described by
an equally diverse collection of educational leadership scholars
and practitioners. There may be some who question the academic
appropriateness or relevance of a text such as this one. Our
response is that part of our ongoing mission should be to break
ourselves out of academic silos and forge meaningful connections
between seemingly disparate disciplines. Furthermore, educational
leadership stands to gain more by drawing from the arts and
specifically musical influences. Finally, music is an obvious part
of most of our lives; why not explore the ways in which it impacts
us on an academic level and not just a personal level? In sum, we
ask that as you read the chapters of this book, you reflect on your
own musical tastes and favorite artists.
Everyone thinks a life on a cruise ship is the life to live. I can
tell you at first living on the QUEEN VICTORIA was amazing, but
after a while it turns from all that to complete boredom.
In 1882, Kano opened his Kodokan dojo in Tokyo, where he taught
jujutsu to his first class of nine students. His choice of the name
'Kodokan' symbolizes precocity in one so young and is highly
significant, for it means 'the institute where one is guided along
the road to follow in life', that is to say, a road that one
travels as a means of self-cultivation, which Kano regarded as the
optimum way to live one's life. This cultivation, however, can only
be attained following long years of training made with vigorous
exertion in an effort to reach the ultimate goal:
self-perfection.
At the age of twenty-four, Kano abruptly gave up the teaching
of this ancient and altogether brutal activity and never taught
jujutsu again. In his attempt to create for the modern age a
non-violent, spiritually inspiring antagonistic art, he carried out
research on several styles of jujutsu. Primarily in the interests
of both safety and practicality, he altered and added his own
devices to the techniques that he was later to incorporate into his
newly conceived system of skills, which he named 'Kodokan judo'. In
lectures, Kano often stated the following: 'The ultimate object of
studying judo is to train and cultivate body and mind through
practice in attack and defense, and by thus mastering the
essentials of the art, to attain perfection of oneself and bring
benefits to the world.' He had sought to create in judo, therefore,
something positive out of something largely negative.
Like all of Jonson's city comedies, this play - here given in the
1616 Folio version, in which Jonson rewrote and set it in England,
not Italy - is a kind of dramatised Do-It-Yourself kit on how to
bluff one's way in Elizabethan London. Although Roman New Comedy,
in which a crafty slave helps a wild youngster to marry the girl of
his choice against his father's wishes, supplies Jonson with his
basic plot, the world that he presents here is thoroughly
contemporary and mundane. The characters' 'humours' - their driving
obsessions - may vary, but all of them strive to represent
something greater, nobler, cleverer than their real selves. The
joke of the play, this editor suggests, is 'finally on all of us
who unconsciously equate the universe with a story in which we play
the hero'.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1994.
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