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Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the
emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an
accessible and readable way that community college leaders will
find both interesting and relevant. To further illustrate the
connections between research and practice, case studies are drawn
from community colleges that are engaging in reform. Morest offers
a three-pronged approach for community college leaders seeking to
improve the success of their students. First, community college
leaders need to look around at the technological transformation
that has occurred in other service sectors and import some of these
ideas to student services. Second, community college leaders need
to explicitly socialize their students to become college students
and to bond with their community college. Finally, improving the
quality of teaching is particularly important with regard to
developmental education, where students are attempting to master
material that they have ostensibly been taught in the past.
This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which
islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island
dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers
conceived of themselves and their relation to proximate mainlands,
and examines the fascination that islands have long held in the
European imagination.
The collection addresses the significance of islands in the
Atlantic economy of the eighteenth century, the exploration of the
Pacific, the important role played by islands in the process of
decolonisation, and island-oriented developments in postcolonial
writing.
Islands were often seen as natural colonies or settings for ideal
communities but they were also used as dumping grounds for the
unwanted, a practice which has continued into the twentieth
century. The collection argues the need for an island-based theory
within postcolonial studies and suggests how this might be
constructed. Covering a historical span from the eighteenth to the
twentieth century, the contributors include literary and
postcolonial critics, historians and geographers.
This innovative collection of essays explores the ways in which islands have been used, imagined and theorised, both by island dwellers and continentals. This study considers how island dwellers conceived of themselves and their relation to proximate mainlands, and examines the fascination that islands have long held in the European imagination. The collection addresses the significance of islands in the Atlantic economy of the eighteenth century, the exploration of the Pacific, the important role played by islands in the process of decolonisation, and island-oriented developments in postcolonial writing. Islands were often seen as natural colonies or settings for ideal communities but they were also used as dumping grounds for the unwanted, a practice which has continued into the twentieth century. The collection argues the need for an island-based theory within postcolonial studies and suggests how this might be constructed. Covering a historical span from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the contributors include literary and postcolonial critics, historians and geographers.
Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature
explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of childrenâs
violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects
within a long nineteenth century of fictional and educational
writing. As Vanessa Smith shows us, these scenes of aggression and
anxiety cannot be squared with the standard picture of domestic
childhood across that period. Instead, they seem to attest to the
kinds of enactments of infant distress we would normally associate
with post-psychoanalytic modernity, creating a ripple effect in the
literary texts that nest them: regressing developmental narratives,
giving new value to wooden characters, exposing Realismâs solid
objects to odd fracture, and troubling distinctions between
artificial and authentic interiority. Toy Stories is the first
study to take these scenes of anger and overwhelm seriously,
challenging received ideas about both the nineteenth century and
its literary forms. Radically re-conceiving nineteenth-century
childhood and its literary depiction as anticipating the scenes,
theories, and methodologies of early child analysis, Toy Stories
proposes a shared literary and psychoanalytic discernment about
childâs play that in turn provides a deep context for
understanding both the âdevelopmentâ of the novel and the keen
British uptake of Melanie Kleinâs and Anna Freudâs
interventions in child therapy. In doing so, the book provides a
necessary reframing of the work of Klein and Freud and their
fractious disagreement about the interior life of the child and its
object-mediated manifestations.
Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature
explores the stakes of recurrent depictions of childrenâs
violent, damaging, and tenuously restorative play with objects
within a long nineteenth century of fictional and educational
writing. As Vanessa Smith shows us, these scenes of aggression and
anxiety cannot be squared with the standard picture of domestic
childhood across that period. Instead, they seem to attest to the
kinds of enactments of infant distress we would normally associate
with post-psychoanalytic modernity, creating a ripple effect in the
literary texts that nest them: regressing developmental narratives,
giving new value to wooden characters, exposing Realismâs solid
objects to odd fracture, and troubling distinctions between
artificial and authentic interiority. Toy Stories is the first
study to take these scenes of anger and overwhelm seriously,
challenging received ideas about both the nineteenth century and
its literary forms. Radically re-conceiving nineteenth-century
childhood and its literary depiction as anticipating the scenes,
theories, and methodologies of early child analysis, Toy Stories
proposes a shared literary and psychoanalytic discernment about
childâs play that in turn provides a deep context for
understanding both the âdevelopmentâ of the novel and the keen
British uptake of Melanie Kleinâs and Anna Freudâs
interventions in child therapy. In doing so, the book provides a
necessary reframing of the work of Klein and Freud and their
fractious disagreement about the interior life of the child and its
object-mediated manifestations.
This unique guide to the huna mua teachings, the earliest known
form of Hawaiian huna, is an indepth exploration of the nature of
the soul, body and mind and what it means to be human. It is a book
about the active transformative power of love, which is the
fundamental nature of soul consciousness, and how it can change
your life. The teachings in this guide offer a unique perspective
on spiritual development; this being no less than the development
of an 'immortal spirit body. ' Filled with practical exercises to
enhance the health and vitality of the physical body, improve
sexual experience, balance the mind and expand soul consciousness,
it contains insights to help transform your life and relationships
and gives guidance on the nature of soul mates and twin souls. It
also challenges many of the current conceptions around immortality
and reincarnation. Phil Young and Morag Campbell are initiates of
the Order of Ku. They travel and share the huna mua teachings
worldwide. They also practice and teach the powerful healing arts
of ancient Kauai.
This 1998 book examines a range of nineteenth-century European
accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to
imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of
writing and print. Texts designed to present self-affirming images
of 'native' wonderment at European culture in fact betray the
emergence of more complex modes of appropriation and interrogation
by the Pacific peoples. Vanessa Smith argues that the Pacific
islanders called into question the material basis and symbolic
capacities of writing, even as they were first being framed in
written representations. Examining accounts by beachcombers and
missionaries, she suggests that complex modes of self-authorization
informed the transmission of new cultural practices to the Pacific
peoples. This shift of attention towards reception and
appropriation provides the context for a detailed discussion of
Robert Louis Stevenson's late Pacific writings.
When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was
struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo,
which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they
all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early
contact in Oceania against European traditions of thinking about
intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and
desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to
believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word
for friend. Her book encompasses forty years of encounters from the
arrival of the Dolphin in Tahiti in June 1767, through Cook's and
Bligh's voyages, to early missionary and beachcomber settlement in
the Marquesas. It unpacks both the political and emotional
significances of ideas of friendship for late eighteenth-century
European, and particularly British, explorations of Oceania.
This 1998 book examines a range of nineteenth-century European
accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to
imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of
writing and print. Texts designed to present self-affirming images
of 'native' wonderment at European culture in fact betray the
emergence of more complex modes of appropriation and interrogation
by the Pacific peoples. Vanessa Smith argues that the Pacific
islanders called into question the material basis and symbolic
capacities of writing, even as they were first being framed in
written representations. Examining accounts by beachcombers and
missionaries, she suggests that complex modes of self-authorization
informed the transmission of new cultural practices to the Pacific
peoples. This shift of attention towards reception and
appropriation provides the context for a detailed discussion of
Robert Louis Stevenson's late Pacific writings.
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