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The outbreak of the Coronavirus in early 2020 resulted in
unprecedented changes to health professions education. The
pervasive stay-at-home orders resulted in faculty, who were trained
for preparing the next generation of health professionals in a
traditional learning environment, throwing out their lesson plans
and starting anew. New approaches to teaching and learning were
created quickly, and without the typical extensive planning, which
introduced several challenges. However, lessons learned from these
approaches have also resulted in increased technology adoption,
innovative assessment strategies, and increased creativity in the
learning environment. The Handbook of Research on Updating and
Innovating Health Professions Education: Post-Pandemic Perspectives
explores the various teaching and learning strategies utilized
during the pandemic and the innovative approaches implemented to
evaluate student learning outcomes and best practices in
non-traditional academic situations and environments. The chapters
focus specifically on lessons learned and best practices in health
professions education and the innovative and exciting changes that
occurred particularly with the adoption and implementation of
technology. It provides resources and strategies that can be
implemented into the current educational environments and into the
future. This book is ideal for inservice and preservice teachers,
administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, medical trainers,
medical professionals, researchers, academicians, and students
interested in curriculum, course design, development of policies
and procedures within academic programs, and the identification of
best practices in health professions education.
From an unmissable voice in epic fantasy comes a sweeping tale of
clashing guilds, magic-fueled machines, and revolution. The nation
of Torwyn is run on the power of industry, and industry is run by
the Guilds. Chief among them are the Hawkspurs, whose
responsibility it is to keep the gears of the empire turning.
That's exactly why matriarch Rosomon Hawkspur sends each of her
heirs to the far reaches of the nation. Conall, the eldest son, is
sent to the distant frontier to earn his stripes in the military.
It is here that he faces a threat he could have never seen coming:
the first rumblings of revolution. Tyreta is a sorceress with the
ability to channel the power of pyrestone, the magical resource
that fuels the empire's machines. She is sent to the mines to learn
more about how pyrsetone is harvested - but instead, she finds the
dark horrors of industry that the empire would prefer to keep
hidden. The youngest, Fulren, is a talented artificer and finds
himself acting as a guide to a mysterious foreign emissary. Soon
after, he is framed for a crime he never committed. A crime that
could start a war. As the Hawkspurs grapple with the many threats
that face the nation within and without, they must finally prove
themselves worthy-or their empire will fall apart. "A heady blend
of action, arcana, and intrigue." -Gareth Hanrahan, author of The
Gutter Prayer
This book is the first to articulate and challenge the consensus on
the right and left that knowledge is the key to any problem,
demonstrating how the left's embrace of knowledge productivity
keeps it trapped within capital's circuits. As the knowledge
economy has forced questions of education to the forefront, the
book engages pedagogy as an underlying yet neglected motor of
capitalism and its forms of oppression. Most importantly, it
assembles new pedagogical resources for responding to the range of
injustices that permeate our world. Building on yet critiquing the
Marxist notion of the general intellect, Derek R. Ford theorizes
stupidity as a necessary alternative pedagogical logic, an
anti-value that is infinitely mute and unproductive.
In this volume, critical scholars and educational activists explore
the intricate dynamics between the enclosure of global commons and
radical visions of a common social future that breaks through the
logics of privatization, ecological degradation, and dehumanizing
social hierarchies in education. In its institutional and informal
configurations alike, education has been identified as perhaps the
key stake in this struggle. Insisting on the urgency of an
education that breaks free of the bonds of enclosure, the essays
included in this volume weave together bright threads of radical
thought into a vivid tapestry illustrating a critical framework for
enacting a global educational commons.
Democracy can mean a range of concepts, covering everything from
freedoms, rights, elections, governments, processes, philosophies
and a panoply of abstract and concrete notions that can be mediated
by power, positionality, culture, time and space. Democracy can
also be translated into brute force, hegemony, docility, compliance
and conformity, as in wars will be decided on the basis of the
needs of elites, or major decisions about spending finite resources
will be the domain of the few over the masses, or people will be
divided along the lines of race, ethnicity, class, religion, etc.
because it is advantageous for maintaining exploitative political
systems in place to do so. Often, these frameworks are developed
and reified based on the notion that elections give the right to
societies, or segments of societies, to install regimes,
institutions and operating systems that are then supposedly
legitimated and rendered infinitely just because formal power
resides in the hands of those dominating forces. This book is
interested in advancing a critical analysis of the hegemonic
paradigm described above, one that seeks higher levels of political
literacy and consciousness, and one that makes the connection with
education. What does education have to do with democracy? How does
education shape, influence, impinge on, impact, negate, facilitate
and/or change the context, contours and realities of democracy? How
can we teach for and about democracy to alter and transform the
essence of what democracy is, and, importantly, what it should be?
This book advances the notion of decency in relation to democracy,
and is underpinned by an analysis of meaningful, critically-engaged
education. Is it enough to be kind, nice, generous and hopeful when
we can also see signs of rampant, entrenched and debilitating
racism, sexism, poverty, violence, injustice, war and other social
inequalities? If democracy is intended to be a legitimating force
for good, how does education inform democracy? What types of
knowledge, experience, analysis and being are helpful to bring
about newer, more meaningful and socially just forms of democracy?
Throughout some twenty chapters from a range of international
scholars, this book includes three sections: Constructing Meanings
for Democracy and Decency; Justice for All as Praxis; and Social
Justice in Action for Democracy, Decency, and Diversity:
International Perspectives. The underlying thread that is
interwoven through the texts is a critical reappraisal of
normative, hegemonic interpretations of how power is infused into
the educational realm, and, importantly, how democracy can be
re-situated and re-formulated so as to more meaningfully engage
society and education.
The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and
their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in
connection with political economy. The phrase "free market" gives
the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the
rise of global free-market fundamentalism. It reaches into nearly
every aspect of our daily lives as it seeks to dominate and
eliminate the last vestiges of public domains through wanton
privatization and deregulation. It degrades all that is public. The
good news is that a global community of resistance continues to
struggle against neoliberal oppression. Formal and informal
education entities contribute to these struggles, offering visions
and strategies for creating a better future. The purpose of this
volume is twofold. Several contributors will highlight how the
neoliberal agenda is impacting educational policy formation,
teaching and learning, and relationships between institutions of
higher education and communities. Other contributors will highlight
how the global community has gradually become conscious of the
ideological doctrine and how it is responsible for human suffering
and misery. The volume is needed because the growing body of
educational research linked to exploring the impact of
neoliberalism on education and society fails to provide conceptual
or historical understanding of this ideology. It is also an
important scholarly intervention because it provides insights as to
why educators, scholars, and other global citizens have challenged
the intrusion of market forces over life inside universities and
colleges. Teaching faculty, research faculty, and anyone who yearns
to understand what is behind the debilitating trend of commercial
forces subverting humanizing educational projects would benefit
from this volume. Activists, educators, youth, and scholars who
seek strategies and visions for building democratic higher
education and a more democratic society would consider this volume
essential reading.
The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and
their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in
connection with political economy. The phrase "free market" gives
the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the
rise of global free-market fundamentalism. It reaches into nearly
every aspect of our daily lives as it seeks to dominate and
eliminate the last vestiges of public domains through wanton
privatization and deregulation. It degrades all that is public. The
good news is that a global community of resistance continues to
struggle against neoliberal oppression. Formal and informal
education entities contribute to these struggles, offering visions
and strategies for creating a better future.The purpose of this
volume is twofold. Several contributors will highlight how the
neoliberal agenda is impacting educational policy formation,
teaching and learning, and relationships between K-12 schools and
communities. Other contributors will highlight how the global
community has gradually become conscious of the ideological
doctrine and how it is responsible for human suffering and misery.
The volume is needed because the growing body of educational
research linked to exploring the impact of neoliberalism on schools
and society fails to provide conceptual or historical understanding
of this ideology. It is also an important scholarly intervention
because it provides insights as to why educators, scholars, and
other global citizens have challenged the intrusion of market
forces over life inside K-12 schools. Teacher educators,
schoolteachers, and anyone who yearns to understand what is behind
the debilitating trend of commercial forces subverting humanizing
educational projects would benefit from this volume. Activists,
educators, youth, and scholars who seek strategies and visions for
building democratic schools and a society would consider this
volume essential reading.
Learning with Lenin brings together, for the first time, Lenin's
classic texts and his speeches and writings on education. To
facilitate educators and activists' engagement with these works, a
study and discussion guide accompanies each text. Learning with
Lenin contributes to the rematerialization of a revolutionary
movement in the U.S. by focusing on the pedagogy of Lenin. After a
series of setbacks and attacks that seriously degraded its status
in both working-class struggles and educational theory, socialism
is once again on the rise. Like the generations before them,
organizers, activists, and educators are once again turning to
classic works of socialism to understand and respond to the
systematic depravities of imperialism, white supremacy, and
settler-colonialism. Learning with Lenin will assist anyone
interested in reading and applying Lenin's theories to our current
era, with all of its complexities and contradictions.
This book conceptualizes ecopedagogies as forms of educational
innovation and critique that emerge from, negotiate, debate,
produce, resist, and/or overcome the shifting and expansive
postdigital ecosystems of humans, machines, nonhuman animals,
objects, stuff, and other forms of matter. Contemporary postdigital
ecosystems are determined by a range of new bioinformational
reconfigurations in areas including capitalism, imperialism,
settler-colonialism, and ontological hierarchies more generally.
Postdigital ecopedagogies name a condition, a question, and a call
for experimentation to link pedagogical research and practice to
challenges of our moment. They pose living, breathing, expanding,
contracting, fluid, and spatial conditions and questions of our
non-chronological present. This book presents analyses of that
present from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including but not
limited to education studies, philosophy, politics, sociology,
arts, and architecture.
In the second edition of this groundbreaking work, Derek R. Ford
contends that radical politics needs educational theory, posing a
series of educational questions pertinent to revolutionary
movements: How can pedagogy bridge the gap between what is and what
can be, while respecting the gap and its uncertainty and
contingency? How can pedagogy accommodate ambiguity while remaining
faithful to the communist project? In answering these questions,
Ford develops a dyanmic pedagogical constellation that radically
opens up what education is and what it can mean for revolutionary
struggle. In charting this constellation, Ford takes the reader on
a journey that traverses disciplinary boundaries, innovatively
reading theorists as diverse as Lenin, Agamben, Marx, Lyotard,
Althusser, and Butler. Demonstrating how learning underpins
capitalism and democracy, Ford articulates a theory of communist
study as an alternative and oppositional logic that, perhaps
paradoxically, demands the revolutionary reclamation of testing.
Poetic, performative, and provocative, communist study is oriented
toward what Ford calls "the sublime feeling of being-in-common,"
which, as he insists, is always a commonness against.
This edited volume contributes to a burgeoning field of critical
scholarship on the news media and education. This scholarship is
based on an understanding that the news media has increasingly
applied a neoliberal template that mediates knowledge and action
about education. This book calls into question what the public
knows about education, how the public is informed, and whose
interests are represented and ultimately served through the
production and distribution of information by the news media about
education. The chapters comprising this volume serve to enlighten
and call to action parents, students, educators, academics and
scholars, activists, and policymakers for social, political, and
economic transformation. Moreover, as the neoliberal agenda in
North America intensifies, the chapters in this book help to deepen
our understanding of the logics and processes of the neoliberal
privatization of education and the accompanying social discourses
that facilitate the reduction of social relations to a transaction
in the marketplace. The chapters examine the news media and the
reproduction of neoliberal educational reforms (A Nation at Risk,
Teach For America, charter schools, think tanks, and PISA) and
resistance to neoliberal educational reforms (online activism and
radical Black press) while also broadening our conceptual
understanding of the marketization and mediatization of educational
discourses. Overall, the book provides an in-depth understanding of
the neoliberal privatization of education by extending critical
examinations to this underrepresented field of cultural production:
the news media coverage of education. The contribution of this
edited volume, therefore, helps to build an understanding of the
contemporary dynamics of capital accumulation to inform public
resistance for social transformation.
This book is based on the World War II diaries of Royal Australian
Air Force Flying Officer Reg Heffron. The reader follows Heffron
through initial training, his wartime posting to No.622 Squadron,
and the fear and trials of operational flying, off duty antics,
training rookie crews, and finally, the joyous return home to his
family in Australia.
In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, centrist Congressman
Melvin Laird (R-WI) agreed to serve as Richard Nixon's secretary of
defense. It was not, Laird knew, a move likely to endear him to the
American public - but as he later said, ""Nixon couldn't find
anybody else who wanted the damn job."" For the next four years,
Laird deftly navigated the morass of the war he had inherited.
Lampooned as a ""missile head,"" but decisive in crafting an exit
strategy, he doggedly pursued his program of Vietnamization,
initiating the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel and gradually
ceding combat responsibilities to South Vietnam. In fighting to
bring the troops home faster, pressing for more humane treatment of
POWs, and helping to end the draft, Laird employed a powerful blend
of disarming midwestern candor and Washington savvy, as he sought a
high moral road bent on Nixon's oft-stated (and politically
instrumental) goal of peace with honor.The first book ever to focus
on Laird's legacy, this authorized biography reveals his central
and often unrecognized role in managing the crisis of national
identity sparked by the Vietnam War - and the challenges, ethical
and political, that confronted him along the way. Drawing on
exclusive interviews with Laird, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, and
numerous others, author Dale Van Atta offers a sympathetic portrait
of a man striving for open government in an atmosphere fraught with
secrecy. Van Atta illuminates the inner workings of high politics:
Laird's behind-the-scenes sparring with Kissinger over policy, his
decisions to ignore Nixon's wilder directives, his formative impact
on arms control and health care, his key role in the selection of
Ford for vice president, his frustration with the country's
abandonment of Vietnamization, and, in later years, his unheeded
warning to Donald Rumsfeld that ""it's a helluva lot easier to get
into a war than to get out of one.
The Consequences of Governance Fragmentation explains the ongoing
legacy of Milwaukee's longstanding school voucher policy. The book
details the evolution of school choice in Milwaukee, its impacts on
student achievement, key externalities such as school closures and
political conflict, and the ways in which the Milwaukee voucher
program challenges traditional notions of accountability and
democratic control. Michael R. Ford concludes that the voucher
policy has fragmented public education to the point where true
aggregate level progress of pupils is impossible and proposes an
umbrella governance structure to bring funding and accountability
equity to all publicly funded Milwaukee schools.
Contending that radical politics needs educational theory,
Communist Study: Education for the Commons poses a series of
educational questions pertinent to revolutionary movements: How can
pedagogy bridge the gap between what is and what can be, while
respecting the gap and its uncertainty and figurality? How can
pedagogy accommodate ambiguity while remaining faithful to the
communist project? In answering these questions, educational
theorist Derek R. Ford develops a pedagogical constellation that
radically opens up what education is and what it can mean for
revolutionary struggle. To chart this constellation, Ford takes the
reader on a journey that traverses disciplinary and ideological
boundaries, innovatively reading theorists as diverse as Agamben,
Marx, Lyotard, Butler, and Lenin. Demonstrating that learning is
the educational logic that underpins capitalism and democracy, Ford
articulates a theory of communist study as an alternative and
oppositional logic. Poetic, performative, and provocative, this
theory of study is oriented toward what Ford calls "the sublime
feeling of being-in-common," which, as he insists, is always a
commonness against.
With the contradictions of capitalism heightening and intensifying,
and with new social movements spreading across the globe,
revolutionary transformation is once again on the agenda. For
radicals, the most pressing question is: How can we transform
ourselves and our world into something else, something just? In
Marx, Capital, and Education, Curry Stephenson Malott and Derek R.
Ford develop a "critical pedagogy of becoming" that is concerned
with precisely this question. The authors boldly investigate the
movement toward communism and the essential role that critical
pedagogy can play in this transition. Performing a novel and
educational reading of Karl Marx and radical theorists and
activists, Malott and Ford present a critical understanding of the
past and present, of the underlying logics and (often opaque)
forces that determine the world-historical moment. Yet Malott and
Ford are equally concerned with examining the specific ways in
which we can teach, learn, study, and struggle ourselves beyond
capitalism; how we can ultimately overthrow the existing order and
institute a new mode of production and set of social relations.
This incisive and timely book, penned by two militant teachers,
organizers, and academics, reconfigures pedagogy and politics.
Educators and organizers alike will find that it provides new
ammunition in the struggle for the world that we deserve.
This significant new book highlights a little acknowledged but
potentially catastrophic crisis of innovation in the global water
sector, which institutions and industries are frighteningly
ill-equipped to tackle or even accept. It suggests potential new
technology and policy approaches to overcome both current and
future problems. The book explores how technological innovation is
vital to help provide sustainable water in both the UK and
developing countries. However, innovation is being overlooked in
the face of global trends to privatize and regulate water
utilities. The authors highlight how the global water sector is
failing to respond to increasingly complex world needs and
continues to build largely unsustainable centralized
infrastructures, opposing more appropriate, distributed and local
modern technologies. The book also includes suggestions for
potentially innovative technology and policy solutions to meet
escalating global water and wastewater demands. Importantly, the
authors adopt a long-term perspective that crosses both
disciplinary and institutional boundaries, and include an
international comparative perspective, covering a diverse range of
examples and countries. This comprehensive book will have a broad
appeal amongst researchers and academics with an interest in
technology management, innovation studies, geography and
development studies. It will also be a valuable asset for water
regulators and governmental and non-governmental organisations
working in this field.
Those who are in shock that truth doesn't seem to matter in
politics miss the mark: politics has never corresponded with the
truth. Rather, political struggle is about the formulation and
materialization of new truths. The "post-truth" era thus offers an
important opportunity to push forward into a different world.
Embracing this opportunity, Derek R. Ford articulates a new
educational philosophy and praxis that emerges from within the
nexus of social theory and political struggle. Blocking together
aesthetics, queer theory, urbanism, postmodern philosophy, and
radical politics, Ford develops arguments and proposals on key
topics ranging from debt and time, to the death drive and forms of
political organization. Through forceful yet accessible prose, Ford
offers contemporary left politics an imaginative and potent set of
educational concepts and practices.
Drawing on macro-historical sociological theories, this book traces
the development of intellectual property as a new type of legal
property in the modern nation-state system. In its current form,
intellectual property is considered part of an infrastructure of
state power that incentivizes innovation, creativity, and
scientific development, all engines of economic growth. To show how
this infrastructure of power emerged, Laura Ford follows
macro-historical social theorists, including Michael Mann and Max
Weber, back to antiquity, revealing that legal instruments very
similar to modern intellectual property have existed for a long
time and have also been deployed for similar purposes. Using
comparative and historical evidence, this groundbreaking work
reflects on the role of intellectual property in our contemporary
political communities and societies; on the close relationship
between law and religion; and on the extent to which law's obliging
force depends on ancient, written traditions.
In 2000 the American electoral system was tested by a political
ordeal unlike any in living memory. Not since 1876-77 has the
outcome of a national election remained so unsettled for so long.
The past elections recount conundrum shook the nations faith in the
mechanisms that support the democratic process. Led by former
Presidents Ford and Carter, the National Commission on Federal
Election Reform undertook a study of the American electoral system.
The resulting report describes where and what went wrong during the
2000 election, and makes clear and specific recommendations for
reform, directed at state government, Congress, news organizations,
and others. This volume also includes the full text of the Task
Force Reports from the Commission.
This book conceptualizes ecopedagogies as forms of educational
innovation and critique that emerge from, negotiate, debate,
produce, resist, and/or overcome the shifting and expansive
postdigital ecosystems of humans, machines, nonhuman animals,
objects, stuff, and other forms of matter. Contemporary postdigital
ecosystems are determined by a range of new bioinformational
reconfigurations in areas including capitalism, imperialism,
settler-colonialism, and ontological hierarchies more generally.
Postdigital ecopedagogies name a condition, a question, and a call
for experimentation to link pedagogical research and practice to
challenges of our moment. They pose living, breathing, expanding,
contracting, fluid, and spatial conditions and questions of our
non-chronological present. This book presents analyses of that
present from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including but not
limited to education studies, philosophy, politics, sociology,
arts, and architecture.
Drawing on macro-historical sociological theories, this book traces
the development of intellectual property as a new type of legal
property in the modern nation-state system. In its current form,
intellectual property is considered part of an infrastructure of
state power that incentivizes innovation, creativity, and
scientific development, all engines of economic growth. To show how
this infrastructure of power emerged, Laura Ford follows
macro-historical social theorists, including Michael Mann and Max
Weber, back to antiquity, revealing that legal instruments very
similar to modern intellectual property have existed for a long
time and have also been deployed for similar purposes. Using
comparative and historical evidence, this groundbreaking work
reflects on the role of intellectual property in our contemporary
political communities and societies; on the close relationship
between law and religion; and on the extent to which law's obliging
force depends on ancient, written traditions.
Twelfth Night is one of the most accessible and yet elusive of
Shakespeare's plays. It has enjoyed enormous popularity in
performance, but it continues to challenge students. This guide
provides a thorough introduction to the play. Included are chapters
on the play's background, contexts, themes, dramatic art, critical
reception, and performance history. The volume cites current
scholarship and closes with a bibliography. Twelfth Night is one of
the most accessible yet elusive of Shakespeare's plays. It has
enjoyed enormous popularity in performance, but it continues to
challenge students. It has experienced numerous revivals and has
provoked some of the most brilliant critical responses from
Shakespeare's critics. Written for students and general readers,
this guide is a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare's play.
The volume begins with a look at the play's textual history. This
is followed by an exploration of its historical and cultural
contexts and its sources and analogues. The book next turns to
Shakespeare's dramatic art and then examines his themes of
identity, sexuality, and madness. The final chapters look at the
critical response to the play and give special attention to the
play's performance history. The guide closes with a bibliography.
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