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Drawing on examples from nine countries across five continents,
this book offers anyone interested in the future of higher
education the opportunity to understand how communities become
marginalised and how this impacts on their access to learning and
their ability to thrive as students. Focusing on groups that suffer
directly through discriminatory practices or indirectly through
distinct forms of sociocultural disadvantage, this book brings to
light communities about which little has been written and where
research efforts are in their relative infancy. Each chapter
documents the experiences of a group and provides insights that
have a wider reach and gives voice to those that are often unheard.
The book concludes with a new conceptualisation of the social
forces that lead to marginalisation in higher education. This
cutting-edge book is a must read for higher education researchers,
policy makers, and students interested in access to education,
sociology of education, development studies, and cultural studies.
How do we understand and explain who has access to higher
education? How do we make sense of persisting and new forms of
inequality? How can global, national and institutional policymakers
and practitioners make higher education more inclusive? Access to
Higher Education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary
challenges seeks to update thinking on these questions, combining
new voices and emerging perspectives with established writers in
the field. This pioneering text highlights the contribution of
social theory to issues of access to education, with chapters
introducing and drawing on the works of key interdisciplinary
thinkers including Pierre Bourdieu, Margaret Archer, Amartya Sen
and Herbert Simon. It then moves to examines how theoretical
perspectives can be applied to the contemporary challenges of
forging more equal access, with examples drawn from a wide range of
contexts, including the UK, the US, Australia, South Africa and
Japan. Global in scope, this book documents the shared nature of
the access challenge in a period when higher education is growing
rapidly, but inequalities continue to be stark. It concludes by
proposing a new direction for research and a reassertion of the
role of the researcher as a social activist for disconnected and
disadvantaged groups, equipped with the thinking tools needed to
move the agenda forward. Access to Higher Education is a rigorous
text for the global research community, with relevance to
policymakers, practitioners and postgraduate students interested in
social justice and social policy. It provides those with an
academic interest in access and a commitment to enhancing policy
with theoretical and practical ideas for moving the access agenda
forward in their institutional, regional or national contexts.
Sustainable development is the central challenge of the 21st
Century. How can human civilization continue to develop without
destroying the natural systems on which it
depends?Environmentalists tell us that capitalism is the problem
because it feeds our self-interest. They tell us that we have to
restrain ourselves and only consume what the Earth can sustain. Or
governments must tell us what we can and cannot buy. This book uses
the science of complex systems to explain why governments cannot
deliver sustainability or happiness and how self-interest can be
used to make society sustainable. Capitalism won the Cold War;
until the Great Recession of 2008, it seemed to be the perfect
system. But more of us are unhappy even as it has ravaged the
planet. The central problem is the paradigm on which our social
systems are founded that more (consumption, production,
possessions) is always better. Based on research from political
economy, philosophy, and psychology, this book shows that the
problem is not self-interest. We are unhappy because we have been
taught that our interests are material and that buying 'stuff' will
make us happy. Yet, social pressure to consume only prevents us
from satisfying our basic psychological needs and fully enjoying
life. For that we need to pursue our personal well-being. Because
this also reduces our material consumption, environmental
sustainability comes from each of us knowing what's truly good for
our selves. Even without the constant economic growth that harms
the planet and damages our lives, capitalism also is sustainable.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of
sustainability;civil societyactivists and social entrepreneurs;
thought leaders and policymakers. .
How do we understand and explain who has access to higher
education? How do we make sense of persisting and new forms of
inequality? How can global, national and institutional policymakers
and practitioners make higher education more inclusive? Access to
Higher Education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary
challenges seeks to update thinking on these questions, combining
new voices and emerging perspectives with established writers in
the field. This pioneering text highlights the contribution of
social theory to issues of access to education, with chapters
introducing and drawing on the works of key interdisciplinary
thinkers including Pierre Bourdieu, Margaret Archer, Amartya Sen
and Herbert Simon. It then moves to examines how theoretical
perspectives can be applied to the contemporary challenges of
forging more equal access, with examples drawn from a wide range of
contexts, including the UK, the US, Australia, South Africa and
Japan. Global in scope, this book documents the shared nature of
the access challenge in a period when higher education is growing
rapidly, but inequalities continue to be stark. It concludes by
proposing a new direction for research and a reassertion of the
role of the researcher as a social activist for disconnected and
disadvantaged groups, equipped with the thinking tools needed to
move the agenda forward. Access to Higher Education is a rigorous
text for the global research community, with relevance to
policymakers, practitioners and postgraduate students interested in
social justice and social policy. It provides those with an
academic interest in access and a commitment to enhancing policy
with theoretical and practical ideas for moving the access agenda
forward in their institutional, regional or national contexts.
For the Love of God looks at the humorous, the serious, and, at
times, tragic experiences owners share with their dogs. Lyrical and
metaphorical, many poems in this collection recount the experiences
Harrison has shared with the dogs he’s had the pleasure and honor
of knowing through the years. His three Drahthaars were consecutive
companions for over forty years of hunting, fishing, and canoeing
adventures in some of the wilder parts of Nebraska, from the
Sandhills and the Pine Ridge, to the Platte, Loup, Niobrara, and
Elkhorn River valleys. Obviously, for this poet, the companionship
of a dog is about as close as one can get to the love of God.
See what reviewers at Slashdot.org originally had to say about
James and Neil's book!
""This is a remarkably wise book, full of pragmatic advice drawn
from real projects. Ultimately, software development is a human
experience, and Jim and Neil have captured the essence of that
experience in this work. The tapestry of patterns they have woven
is postively brillant, and each thread therein is a delight to
read.""
--Grady Booch, IBM Fellow
Do you want to really improve your software development
organization instead of complying with an arbitrary standard, or
trying the latest fad? This book presents the fundamentals of
creating sustainable organizations, based on in-depth studies of
over 100 real software development organizations.
The authors present nearly 100 organizational patterns to help
you create a highly effective organization. Case studies and
vignettes illustrate how these patterns work. This practical guide
shows you how to reshape critical parts of your organization.
Regardless of your role, you will find patterns that you can use to
make your organization more effective.
""This carefully researched, artfully described, and
extraordinarily useful handbook of deep wisdom on creating teams
that generate terrific software should be on every software
development manager's bookshelf.""
--Luke Hohmann, Hohmann Consulting
Author of "Beyond Software Architecture"
""As soon as I had worked through these patterns, I realized
that several of my clients engaged in process definition projects
could make use of them.""
--Ian Graham, Technical Director, trireme.com
Drawing on examples from nine countries across five continents,
this book offers anyone interested in the future of higher
education the opportunity to understand how communities become
marginalised and how this impacts on their access to learning and
their ability to thrive as students. Focusing on groups that suffer
directly through discriminatory practices or indirectly through
distinct forms of sociocultural disadvantage, this book brings to
light communities about which little has been written and where
research efforts are in their relative infancy. Each chapter
documents the experiences of a group and provides insights that
have a wider reach and gives voice to those that are often unheard.
The book concludes with a new conceptualisation of the social
forces that lead to marginalisation in higher education. This
cutting-edge book is a must read for higher education researchers,
policy makers, and students interested in access to education,
sociology of education, development studies, and cultural studies.
A spoof on the country house murder mystery story. With a nominal
setting and mimed props, the focus is mainly on the gallery of
unusual characters which include a wheelchair-bound tranvestite, a
madman, and an invisible professor.
Sustainable development is the central challenge of the 21st
Century. How can human civilization continue to develop without
destroying the natural systems on which it
depends?Environmentalists tell us that capitalism is the problem
because it feeds our self-interest. They tell us that we have to
restrain ourselves and only consume what the Earth can sustain. Or
governments must tell us what we can and cannot buy. This book uses
the science of complex systems to explain why governments cannot
deliver sustainability or happiness and how self-interest can be
used to make society sustainable. Capitalism won the Cold War;
until the Great Recession of 2008, it seemed to be the perfect
system. But more of us are unhappy even as it has ravaged the
planet. The central problem is the paradigm on which our social
systems are founded that more (consumption, production,
possessions) is always better. Based on research from political
economy, philosophy, and psychology, this book shows that the
problem is not self-interest. We are unhappy because we have been
taught that our interests are material and that buying 'stuff' will
make us happy. Yet, social pressure to consume only prevents us
from satisfying our basic psychological needs and fully enjoying
life. For that we need to pursue our personal well-being. Because
this also reduces our material consumption, environmental
sustainability comes from each of us knowing what's truly good for
our selves. Even without the constant economic growth that harms
the planet and damages our lives, capitalism also is sustainable.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of
sustainability;civil societyactivists and social entrepreneurs;
thought leaders and policymakers. .
Eleven-year-old Josh never expected to be a hero. But after finding
the Bergen Prophecy and discovering that his destiny has been
chosen for him, Josh's life is changed forever. Having previously
defeated the brutal Viking, Harald Greycloak, Josh and his friend
Rainbow must travel once more to the mythological Viking Mistworld
with the fate of Whitby resting on their shoulders. Josh's friend,
Anders, has been taken hostage by the evil Viking queen Gunnhild
and her son Greycloak. In return for his safety, they demand the
Cross of Caedmon as ransom. But the Cross guarantees the safety of
Whitby and to hand it over would place everyone in danger. Josh
must make an impossible decision. Will he be able to rescue his
friend and uphold his destiny? Or will Greycloak's long-awaited
revenge finally be enacted?
This accessible introductory text addresses the core knowledge
domain of biological psychology, with focused coverage of the
central concepts, research and debates in this key area. Biological
Psychology outlines the importance and purpose of the biological
approach and contextualises it with other perspectives in
psychology, emphasizing the interaction between biology and the
environment. Learning features including case studies, review
questions and assignments are provided to aid students'
understanding and promote a critical approach. Extended critical
thinking and skill-builder activities develop the reader's
higher-level academic skills.
The rapidly growing field of immunopsychiatry combines expertise
and insights from immunology, psychiatry and neuroscience to
understand the role of inflammation and other immune processes in
causing and treating mental illness. This represents a major shift
in mental health science, traditionally focused on psychological
and neuronal mechanisms of depression, psychosis and dementia. This
book provides the first comprehensive overview of recent,
inter-disciplinary research linking disordered function of the
immune system to the brain and mental illness. It offers a broad
and deep perspective on the implications of immune system
involvement in psychiatric disorders, including a balanced focus on
basic science and clinical applications. Chapters cover the
scientific evidence linking immune processes to major mental
illnesses such as schizophrenia, depression, anxiety and dementia.
An invaluable guide for graduate students, doctors in training,
scientific researchers and others interested in the link between
the immune system and mental health.
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