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This book explores humanising practice within higher education
(HE). It provides a fresh perspective by bringing together expert
voices with empirical experience of humanising theory and practice
in various areas of higher education, in order to influence and
improve the way in which universities work. The book draws on
Todres et. al's humanisation framework, as well other relevant
theories such as positive organisational scholarship, Vygotsky's
socio-cultural theory and socio-emotional intelligence. Topics
include micro elements of humanisation such as transitions and the
student experience, and macro elements such as the policy impact of
humanising HE and sustainability. The authors demonstrate how a
humanising approach can provide the catalyst for wider change and
help to improve wellbeing in the community. This book offers an
invaluable resource for scholars interested in teaching and
learning in HE, and for HE practitioners and policy makers keen to
develop a more human practice.
Celebrating 100 years of Peter Pan, this fourth volume in the
Centennial Studies series explores the cultural contents of
Barrie's creation and the continuing impact of Peter Pan on
children's literature and popular culture today, especially
focusing on the fluctuations of time and narrative strategies. This
collection of essays on Peter Pan is separated into four parts. The
first section is comprised of essays placing Barrie's in its own
time period, and tackles issues such as the relationship between
Hook and Peter in terms of child hatred, the similarities between
Peter and Oscar Wilde, Peter Pan's position as an exemplar of the
Cult of the Boy Child is challenged, and the influence of pirate
lore and fairy lore are also examined. Part two features an essay
on Derrida's concept of the grapheme, and uses it to argue that
Barrie is attempting to undermine racial stereotypes. The third
section explores Peter Pan's timelessness and timeliness in essays
that examine the binary of print literacy and orality; Peter Pan's
modular structure and how it is ideally suited to video game
narratives; the indeterminacy of gender that was common to
Victorian audiences, but also threatening and progressive; Philip
Pullman and J.K. Rowling, who publicly claim to dislike Peter Pan
and the concept of never growing up, but who are nevertheless
indebted to Barrie; and a Lacanian reading of Peter Pan arguing
that Peter acts as "the maternal phallus" in his pre-Symbolic
state. The final section looks at the various roles of the female
in Peter Pan, whether against the backdrop of British colonialism
or Victorian England. Students and enthusiasts of children's
literature will find their understanding of Peter Pan immensely
broadened after reading this volume.
Building from a range of essays representing multiple fields of
expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this
important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing
the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between
the material and the digital? Its chapters address a range of
processes of mediation between the digital and the material from a
variety of perspectives and sub-disciplines within the field of
religion in order to theorize the implications of these two turns
in scholarship, offer case studies in methodology, and reflect on
various tools and processes. Authors attend to religious practices
and the internet, digital archives of religion, decolonization,
embodiment, digitization of religious artefacts and objects, and
the ways in which varied relationships between the digital and the
material shape religious life. Collectively, the volume
demonstrates opportunities and challenges at the intersection of
digital humanities and material religion. Rather than defining the
bounds of a new field of inquiry, the essays make a compelling
case, collectively and on their own, for the interpretive scrutiny
required of the humanities in the digital age.
This book explores humanising practice within higher education
(HE). It provides a fresh perspective by bringing together expert
voices with empirical experience of humanising theory and practice
in various areas of higher education, in order to influence and
improve the way in which universities work. The book draws on
Todres et. al's humanisation framework, as well other relevant
theories such as positive organisational scholarship, Vygotsky's
socio-cultural theory and socio-emotional intelligence. Topics
include micro elements of humanisation such as transitions and the
student experience, and macro elements such as the policy impact of
humanising HE and sustainability. The authors demonstrate how a
humanising approach can provide the catalyst for wider change and
help to improve wellbeing in the community. This book offers an
invaluable resource for scholars interested in teaching and
learning in HE, and for HE practitioners and policy makers keen to
develop a more human practice.
Organized in chronological order of the founding of each movement,
this documentary reader brings to life new religious movements from
the 18th century to the present. It provides students with the
tools to understand questions of race, religion, and American
religious history. Movements covered include the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), the Native American
Church, the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and more.
The voices included come from both men and women. Each chapter
focuses on a different new religious movement and features: - an
introduction to the movement, including the context of its founding
- two to four primary source documents about or from the movement -
suggestions for further reading.
Play Tennis Forever is a practical guide to slowing down the
gradual decline in your body as you get older. Suzanne Clark has 30
years' experience as both a Physiotherapist and a social tennis
player. She explains in layman's terms how your body works when you
play and what you can do to make it younger, fitter and healthier.
She describes how to strengthen key muscles as part of the everyday
tasks you already do and how this will help prevent injury. This
book is for all the over 50s who want to keep playing tennis.
In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual
experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of
African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic
New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of
Reconstruction. In this first comprehensive history of the Cercle,
Emily Suzanne Clark illuminates how highly diverse religious
practices wind in significant ways through American life, culture,
and history. Clark shows that the beliefs and practices of
Spiritualism helped Afro-Creoles mediate the political and social
changes in New Orleans, as free blacks suffered increasingly
restrictive laws and then met with violent resistance to suffrage
and racial equality. Drawing on fascinating records of actual
seance practices, the lives of the mediums, and larger citywide and
national contexts, Clark reveals how the messages that the Cercle
received from the spirit world offered its members rich religious
experiences as well as a forum for political activism inspired by
republican ideals. Messages from departed souls including Francois
Rabelais, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Robert E. Lee, Emanuel
Swedenborg, and even Confucius discussed government structures, the
moral progress of humanity, and equality. The Afro-Creole
Spiritualists were encouraged to continue struggling for justice in
a new world where ""bright"" spirits would replace raced bodies.
Gender in Modernism, conceived as a sequel to the now-classic
volume The Gender of Modernism, selects the best from the fifteen
years of feminist literary and modernist scholarship that has
appeared since the original's publication. Its fresh and diverse
texts examine new themes and reflect today's broader, more
inclusive understanding of modernism. The collection's modernist
works have been grouped into twenty-one thematic sections, with
theoretical introductions to the primary texts provided by the
scholars who have taken the lead in pushing both modernism and
gender in new directions. The selections enhance our understanding
of the complex intersections of gender with a large array of social
identifications, including global location, ideas of race, passing,
the queering of sexualities, medicine, and experiences of trauma
and war. It sees continental modernism in a different light, and
moves on to colonial and postcolonial sites. less-studied genres of
modernism, including writers on the left, suffragists, authors of
manifestos, mediums, authors dismissed as sentimental, artists,
dancers, dramatists, and filmmakers. Gender in Modernism will
quickly move from resource to springboard, furthering modernist
study well into the twenty-first century. Contributors include
Tuzyline Jita Allan, Ann Ardis, Nancy Berke, Julia Briggs, Pamela
L. Caughie, Mary Chapman, Suzanne Clark, Patrick Collier, Diane F.
Gillespie, Barbara Green, Leslie Kathleen Hankins, Suzette A.
Henke, Katherine Kelly, Colleen Lamos, Bette London, Janet Lyon,
Jayne Marek, Sonita Sarker, Carol Shloss, Susan Squier, Claire
Tylee, and Gay Wachman.
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