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This volume was written primarily for teachers who have developed
(or who are being encouraged to develop) an awareness of and
commitment to teaching mathematics for understanding. The research
findings presented in these chapters suggest instructional
implications worthy of these teachers' consideration. Often, the
authors in this volume describe instructional practices or raise
issues that have the potential to broaden views of teaching and
learning mathematics. These chapters provide interesting problems
and tasks used in the authors' work that readers can use in their
own classrooms. The volume can also be used with courses for
preservice and inservice teachers, collaborative teacher study
groups, and other professional activities. A hallmark of good
research is its connection to the relevant literature in the field,
and the authors of this volume have themselves drawn from the
research literature to inform their work. The reference lists
accompanying these chapters can be useful resources and should not
be overlooked. Most importantly for teacher education, this volume
showcases the variety of ways teachers can become engaged in
research, and we hope that readers will recognize that teacher
research can be both accessible and beneficial in the preparation
and professional development of teachers. This is not to suggest,
however, that this volume is intended only for teachers and teacher
educators. It is also intended to be an interesting, informative
resource for other researchers, school administrators, and policy
makers. The research presented in this volume is intended to
provide an opportunity for those outside the classroom to gain
insight into the kinds of issues that matter to teachers, the ways
in which those issues might be researched, and the contributions
that classroom research makes to mathematics education.
Water managers tend to have narrow views on what they consider to
be the value of water. However, not all water use is market driven;
therefore, a comprehensive understanding of local community values
associated with water can inform decision making by water managers.
We use the term 'water manager' to encompass not only the singular
person assigned this community duty but also the many councils and
institutions who make decisions regarding local water resources.
Regarding conventional values of water, an abundance of research
exists; yet, for intangible aspects such as conservation for its
own sake and spiritual connections, research involving value is
limited. There are volumes of works that estimate the monetary
values of water; however, intangible values are often overlooked.
In general, few studies endeavor to estimate worth for water that
encompasses more than a monetary value. We argue that it is the
inclusion of both monetary and non-monetary values that justifies
trust in the position of water manager.
It's More than Shootouts and Car Chases takes you inside the life
of a Montgomery Police Officer in the capital city of Alabama.
Corporal Smith began his career as a nineteen year old police cadet
working in an administrative capacity, until attending the police
academy in 1983. As a trainee, Smith started the police academy
with twenty fellow recruits and sixteen grueling weeks later,
graduating with only six. You experience from the beginning what it
takes to become a Montgomery police officer. This detailed, factual
account provides the reader with an inside look from being shot at
as a rookie officer while investigating a car burglary, to being
involved in two police shootings and working the deaths of two
fellow officers as an evidence technician. Throughout his twenty
year career, Corporal Steve Smith shares his experiences that will
have you laughing one moment and then a call of "shots fired" will
show you the true dangers of being a police officer. As Corporal
Steve Smith shares his true life experiences he also shares his
faith in the Lord as he serves and protects the citizens of
Montgomery.
A way of understanding the laws which govem the worId of elementary
particIes has not been found yet. Present-day theoretical
physicists have to be satisfied with compromises which, at the
best, promise some success at the expense of generality and unity.
U nder these circumstances a critical analysis of the basic
concepts of modem quantum theory may be timely and usefuI. It is
hoped that the value of such an analysis may be preserved even if,
in the near future, new ways of understanding the basis of
elementary particIe physics are discovered. In this monograph one
specific aspect of this analysis is treated, namely the problems of
geometry in the microworld. An out- line of geometrical
measurements in the macroworld was given pre- viously. These
measurements seem to be c1ear enough for at least a certain set of
problems to be considered as a starting point for discussing the
situation in the microworld. The concepts and methods which are
useful in the macroworld may only indirectly be carried over into
the microworld and they require a high degree of abstraction. In
comprehending the physical content of dynamic variables which have
geometric meaning, for example, the space-time partic1e coor-
dinates x, y, z, t it is of ten necessary to have recourse to
gedanken experiments which, although not feasible in practice, can
nevertheless be compatible with the basic principles of geometry
and quantum mechanics.
Photoscapes and the Egg is an intimate book to be savoured and kept
nearby, perhaps on a coffee table because of its sheer beauty.
Inside its robin egg blue cloth cover are improvised photos of
objects, nature, and art, each matched with a photo of an egg
inside a cosmic circle - eggs with personalities from the calm
ethereal to the hot aggressive. In full, there are more than 100
stunning colour photos, all taken with an iPhone. The match of
phenomena and eggs alludes to the dance of the material world with
the invisible "birthing source" represented by the egg.
Accompanying text and poems bring stories to the dance. The
juxtapositions evoke surprise, insight, emotions, hope, and
refreshment. They make wry jokes and touch on realities beyond the
obvious. This book contains unabashed gentleness and spiritual
toughness without pretence. Photoscapes and the Egg sprang from the
mind of Patricia Z. Smith, a 79-year-old photographer and writer
with extensive life experience and a pull since childhood to meld
the physical with the esoteric. The design by Louis Brody is modern
and serene. The book is a gift to the reader and her or his
friends. It is a resource for these times and our future.
Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory
theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the
role violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and
conversations derive from a conference that pursued the possibility
and utility of a general theory of religion and culture, especially
one based on violence. The special value of this volume is the
conversations as such--the real record of working scholars engaged
with one another's theories, as they make and meet challenges, and
move and maneuver.
Girard and Burkert present different versions of the same
conviction: that a single theory can account for ritual and its
social function, a theory that posits original acts of group
violence. Smith sharply questions both the possibility and the
utility of such a general theory. Among the highlights of this
stimulating interchange of ideas is a searching criticism of
Girard's theory of generative scapegoating, which he answers with
clarity and conviction, and a challenging of Burkert's theory of
the origin of sacrifice in the hunt by Smith's argument, posed as a
"jeu d'esprit, " that sacrifice originates with the domestication
of animals.
This open access book explores the role of religion in England's
overseas companies and the formation of English governmental
identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research
into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New
England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global
assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of
English overseas government and various models of religious
governance across England's emerging colonial empire. While these
approaches to governance varied from company to company, each
sought to regulate the behaviour of their personnel, as well as the
numerous communities and faiths which fell within their
jurisdiction. This book provides a crucial reassessment of the
seventeenth-century foundations of British imperial governance.
This open access book explores the role of religion in England's
overseas companies and the formation of English governmental
identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research
into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New
England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global
assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of
English overseas government and various models of religious
governance across England's emerging colonial empire. While these
approaches to governance varied from company to company, each
sought to regulate the behaviour of their personnel, as well as the
numerous communities and faiths which fell within their
jurisdiction. This book provides a crucial reassessment of the
seventeenth-century foundations of British imperial governance.
In this broad-ranging inquiry into ritual and its relation to
place, Jonathan Z. Smith prepares the way for a new approach to the
comparative study of religion.
Smith stresses the importance of place--in particular, constructed
ritual environments--to a proper understanding of the ways in which
"empty" actions become rituals. He structures his argument around
the territories of the Tjilpa aborigines in Australia and two sites
in Jerusalem--the temple envisioned by Ezekiel and the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre. The first of these locales--the focus of one of
the more important contemporary theories of religious
ritual--allows Smith to raise questions concerning the enterprise
of comparison. His close examination of Eliade's influential
interpretation of the Tjilpa tradition leads to a powerful critique
of the approach to religion, myth, and ritual that begins with
cosmology and the category of "The Sacred."
In substance and in method, "To Take Place" represents a
significant advance toward a theory of ritual. It is of great value
not only to historians of religion and students of ritual, but to
all, whether social scientists or humanists, who are concerned with
the nature of place.
"This book is extraordinarily stimulating in prompting one to think
about the ways in which space, or place, is perceived, marked, and
utilized religiously. . . . A provocative example of the
application of humanistic geography to our understanding of what
"takes place" in religion."--Dale Goldsmith," Interpretation
"
First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the
history of religions secured the North American reputation of the
Romanian emigre-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an
astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published
in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the
Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a
wide variety of archaic religious cultures. While acknowledging
that a return to their practices is impossible, Eliade passionately
insists on the value of understanding their views to enrich the
contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. This book
includes an introduction from Jonathan Z. Smith that provides
essential context and encourages readers to engage in an informed
way with this classic text.
One of the most influential theorists of religion, Jonathan Z.
Smith is best known for his analyses of religious studies as a
discipline and for his advocacy and refinement of comparison as the
basis for the history of religions. "Relating Religion" gathers
seventeen essays--four of them never before published--that
together provide the first broad overview of Smith's thinking since
his seminal 1982 book, "Imagining Religion,"
Smith first explains how he was drawn to the study of religion,
outlines his own theoretical commitments, and draws the connections
between his thinking and his concerns for general education. He
then engages several figures and traditions that serve to define
his interests within the larger setting of the discipline. The
essays that follow consider the role of taxonomy and classification
in the study of religion, the construction of difference, and the
procedures of generalization and redescription that Smith takes to
be key to the comparative enterprise. The final essays deploy
features of Smith's most recent work, especially the notion of
translation.
Heady, original, and provocative, "Relating Religion" is certain to
be hailed as a landmark in the academic study and critical theory
of religion.
With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed
the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one
neither theological nor willfully ideological.
Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the
Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of
Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as
conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of
imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the product of
historically and geographically situated human ingenuity,
cognition, and curiosity--simply put, as the result of human labor,
one of the decisive but wholly ordinary ways human beings create
the worlds in which they live and make sense of them.
"These seven essays . . . display the critical intelligence,
creativity, and sheer common sense that make Smith one of the most
methodologically sophisticated and suggestive historians of
religion writing today. . . . Smith scrutinizes the fundamental
problems of taxonomy and comparison in religious studies,
suggestively redescribes such basic categories as canon and ritual,
and shows how frequently studied myths may more likely reflect
situational incongruities than vaunted mimetic congruities. His
final essay, on Jonestown, demonstrates the interpretive power of
the historian of religion to render intelligible that in our own
day which seems most bizarre."--Richard S. Sarason, "Religious
Studies Review
"
Complements is a gem, an intimate book to be savoured on first
readings and held near as a resource on what is meaningful. It
contains 110 luscious photos of small objects juxtaposed in ways
that evoke emotions, thoughts, questions, and remembrance of
beauty. The photographs tell stories, make wry jokes, and allude to
the larger realities of the esoteric. As complements, the objects
are more than the sum of their parts. A sentence or two of text
accompanies each photograph, creating storylines that draw the
viewer into the world of the objects as strongly as if the objects
were human, except their not being human allows the viewer a purer
sense of the message of their story. David Hume Kennerly, the
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, says in the foreword, "The
narrative and pictures reunite twins separated at birth." The
photographs pull the viewer in with their emotional content, then
ask the viewer to step back for another look - to both feel and
think, to understand truths beyond words. Complements is a gem, an
intimate book to be savoured on first readings and held near as a
resource on what is meaningful. It contains 110 luscious photos of
small objects juxtaposed in ways that evoke emotions, thoughts,
questions, and remembrance of beauty. The photographs tell stories,
make wry jokes, and allude to the larger realities of the esoteric.
As complements, the objects are more than the sum of their parts. A
sentence or two of text accompanies each photograph, creating
storylines that draw the viewer into the world of the objects as
strongly as if the objects were human, except their not being human
allows the viewer a purer sense of the message of their story.
David Hume Kennerly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, says
in the foreword, "The narrative and pictures reunite twins
separated at birth." The photographs pull the viewer in with their
emotional content, then ask the viewer to step back for another
look-to both feel and think, to understand truths beyond words.
More book information can be found at: www.complementsthebook.com
It's More than Shootouts and Car Chases takes you inside the life
of a Montgomery Police Officer in the capital city of Alabama.
Corporal Smith began his career as a nineteen year old police cadet
working in an administrative capacity, until attending the police
academy in 1983. As a trainee, Smith started the police academy
with twenty fellow recruits and sixteen grueling weeks later,
graduating with only six. You experience from the beginning what it
takes to become a Montgomery police officer. This detailed, factual
account provides the reader with an inside look from being shot at
as a rookie officer while investigating a car burglary, to being
involved in two police shootings and working the deaths of two
fellow officers as an evidence technician. Throughout his twenty
year career, Corporal Steve Smith shares his experiences that will
have you laughing one moment and then a call of "shots fired" will
show you the true dangers of being a police officer. As Corporal
Steve Smith shares his true life experiences he also shares his
faith in the Lord as he serves and protects the citizens of
Montgomery.
This volume was written primarily for teachers who have developed
(or who are being encouraged to develop) an awareness of and
commitment to teaching mathematics for understanding. The research
findings presented in these chapters suggest instructional
implications worthy of these teachers' consideration. Often, the
authors in this volume describe instructional practices or raise
issues that have the potential to broaden views of teaching and
learning mathematics. These chapters provide interesting problems
and tasks used in the authors' work that readers can use in their
own classrooms. The volume can also be used with courses for
preservice and inservice teachers, collaborative teacher study
groups, and other professional activities. A hallmark of good
research is its connection to the relevant literature in the field,
and the authors of this volume have themselves drawn from the
research literature to inform their work. The reference lists
accompanying these chapters can be useful resources and should not
be overlooked. Most importantly for teacher education, this volume
showcases the variety of ways teachers can become engaged in
research, and we hope that readers will recognize that teacher
research can be both accessible and beneficial in the preparation
and professional development of teachers. This is not to suggest,
however, that this volume is intended only for teachers and teacher
educators. It is also intended to be an interesting, informative
resource for other researchers, school administrators, and policy
makers. The research presented in this volume is intended to
provide an opportunity for those outside the classroom to gain
insight into the kinds of issues that matter to teachers, the ways
in which those issues might be researched, and the contributions
that classroom research makes to mathematics education.
In "Map Is Not Territory," Jonathan Z. Smith engages previous
interpretations of religious texts from late antiquity, critically
evaluates the notion of sacred space and time as it is represented
in the works of Mircea Eliade, and tackles important problems of
methodology.
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