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Ida Greaves A Pioneer Development Economist

Ida Greaves A Pioneer Development Economist

Ida Greaves who was born in Barbados in 1907 is one of the missing female voices of early development economics. This biography the first for Ida Greaves attempts to construct her career and era before the past wholly disappears. The biography covers her early years in Barbados her time at boarding school in England at McGill University in Canada where she focused on human behaviour under the influence of changing social and political histories and also published an early path-breaking study of black migrants into Canada and her later research at Harvard and Columbia in the United States and at the London School of Economics. Individual chapters follow her career acting as economic adviser to the Colonial Office in London where she worked alongside Arthur Lewis and at the fledgling United Nations in New York. She published in top journals and produced an outstanding study of the influence of colonial monetary systems on poor countries. This accessible biography provides unexpected insights into personalities and institutions during a critical period in late colonial history. The issues it raises of class and race gender and inequality poverty and unemployment are of no less relevance today than they were in her lifetime. | Ida Greaves A Pioneer Development Economist

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Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis Influential Theories and Practices in Healthy Child Development

Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis Influential Theories and Practices in Healthy Child Development

This book describes the lives and theories of the pioneer child psychoanalysts who created the field of child psychoanalysis and contributed to the understanding of child development. It aims to expose emerging professionals in the field of psychoanalysis to theories of infant experiences. | Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis Influential Theories and Practices in Healthy Child Development

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Healthcare Education in Nigeria Evolutions and Emerging Paradigms

Healthcare Education in Nigeria Evolutions and Emerging Paradigms

This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of the training of health professionals in Nigeria looking back to how health care education has evolved in the country over time before investigating new and emerging trends. The book begins with a discussion of the fundamentals of health care education the art of teaching health care students and modeling professionalism in health care. The book highlights the work of pioneer Nigerian health care academics and explores the administration of health care education at departmental level. Finally it highlights the role of elite Nigerian health care academics in the diaspora chronicles contemporary challenges in health care education and makes recommendations for reform. This book will be of interest to students scholars and practitioners working on health care education in Africa. | Healthcare Education in Nigeria Evolutions and Emerging Paradigms

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Chaplaincy and Practical Theology Researching a Pioneering Ministry

Chaplaincy and Practical Theology Researching a Pioneering Ministry

Chaplaincy has emerged as a highly significant form of ministry in the twenty-first century and chaplaincy studies is growing as a field of study that learns from the experience and work of chaplains in their diverse sectors. Chaplains from a range of different faith traditions pioneer ministry within the secular yet religiously plural contexts of contemporary life with often considerable creativity and skill generating a wealth of insight to be gleaned for understanding the place of faith in the modern world. One of the disciplines that has been most concerned with gleaning those insights and developing the field of chaplaincy studies is practical theology. The journal Practical Theology (formerly Contact) is a key repository for much of the wisdom gained through such study and this book draws on the archive of the journal to trace the development of chaplaincy research and provide a resource for those seeking to join the conversation about the nature and significance of chaplaincy as a form of ministry and mission today. Drawing on different sectors of chaplaincy and different methodological approaches this book is invaluable for those engaged in chaplaincy work those seeking to research that work and for anyone interested in contemporary pioneering forms of ministry. | Chaplaincy and Practical Theology Researching a Pioneering Ministry

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The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small backward mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse a hub of innovation a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course of a single century. That a tiny landlocked country should become a dominant steamship builder for the rest of the world; that a country that had never seen a cotton plant should become the world’s second-largest textile producer; that a country with hardly any level terrain should come to boast the world’s most highly developed railway network; and that a country whose main export was impoverished emigrants should be transformed into one of the world’s major financial centres – these astonishing developments among many others are explored and explained both through the specific stories of individual innovators and through a prescient analysis of the political economic societal and cultural structures that formed the context in which Switzerland’s astonishing transformation took place. The book is a compelling read both for professional historians and for general readers with an interest in Switzerland; it highlights the roles of transport networks and individual pioneers in industrial and political development. | The Laboratory of Progress Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century Volume 1

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Afrofuturism and Digital Humanities Show Me and I Will Engage Differently

Afrofuturism and Digital Humanities Show Me and I Will Engage Differently

This book brings Afrofuturism into conversation with digital humanities to pioneer the field of Digital Africana Studies and shows how students and academics can engage with the vision of Afrofuturism both theoretically and practically in the classroom and through research. As Black people across the globe consider their place in the future following the past two decades of technological advancement Afrofuturism and its relevance for the humanities has become ever pertinent. While Afrofuturism has thus far been discussed through a literary artistic or popular culture lens growing use of new technologies and its resultant intersections with the reality of our racial experiences has created a need for approaching Afrofuturism from a digital studies perspective. Via detailed case studies Bryan W. Carter introduces the field of Digital Africana Studies to demonstrate how this new area can be experienced pedagogically. Alongside the book readers can also visit select Digital Africana Studies projects that exemplify the various technologies and projects described at the author’s website: ibryancarter. com/projects. Given its unique approach to the path-breaking tradition of Afrofuturism the book will be indispensable for scholars and students across fields such as digital humanities media studies black studies African American studies and Africana studies. | Afrofuturism and Digital Humanities Show Me and I Will Engage Differently

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The New Nationalism

The New Nationalism

Nationalism the state of mind in which the individual's supreme loyalty is owed to the nation-state remains the strongest of political emotions. As a historical phenomenon it is always in flux changing according to no preconceived pattern. In The New Nationalism Louis Snyder sees various forms of nationalism and categorizes them as a force for unity; a force for the status quo; a force for independence; a force for fraternity; a force for colonial expansion; a force for aggression; a force for economic expansion; and a force for anti-colonialism. In Snyder's opinion nationalism should be differentiated from Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism a phrase he borrowed from Herbert D. Croly's The Promise of American Life. Croly warned that giving too much power to big industry and finance would lead to the degradation of the masses and that state and federal intervention must be pursued on all economic fronts. Roosevelt expanded upon this concept and saw the flourishing of democratic government as a means of reviving the old pioneer sense of individualism and opportunity. Snyder in contrast extends the work of the two major pioneers in the study of modern nationalism Carlton J. H. Hayes and Hans Kohn in exploring this most powerful sentiment of modern times and showing how it relates to the political economic and psychological tendencies of historical development.

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Readings on the Psychology of Place Selected Works of David Canter

Readings on the Psychology of Place Selected Works of David Canter

In the World Library of Psychologists series international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their most interesting publications – extracts from books key articles research findings and practical and theoretical contributions. In this fascinating volume Professor David Canter refl ects on a career that has earned him an international reputation as one of the U. K. ’s most eminent applied social psychologists and a pioneer in the fi eld of environmental psychology through a selection of papers that illustrate one of the foundational themes of his research career: the psychology of place. Split into four parts each with a new introduction written by the author the book provides insights into theories methods and applications of place psychology. Covering a range of publications from early research in the 1960s up to recent explorations this volume provides the unfolding research that elaborates this seminal theory offering rich perspectives on how places gain their significance and meaning. Featuring specially written commentary by the author contextualizing the selections and providing an intimate overview of his career this collection of key publications offers a unique and compelling insight into decades of ground-breaking work making it an essential resource for all those engaged or interested in the study of places. | Readings on the Psychology of Place Selected Works of David Canter

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The Basics of Performance Measurement

The Basics of Performance Measurement

You can‘t understand manage or improve what you don‘t measure While every smart executive now knows the truth of those words perhaps more so than anyone it was Jerry Harbour who turned that adage into a science. Originally published in 1997 The Basics of Performance Measurement helped pioneer the science of performance measurement and continues to serve as an industry standard. Yet despite the book‘s continued relevancy Harbour is once again stepping ahead of the curve to fully update his little yellow book. In addition to adding the wisdom of lessons learned over the past decade he adds two new chapters to this second edition. One of these chapters discusses units of measurement. The other introduces ways to better interpret what has been measured and then translate those measurement-related interpretations into actionable knowledge. Harbour provides a six-step method for developing a performance measurement system. He shows how to design performance measurement families and how to build hierarchies tailored to different levels within an organization. He also covers collection and distribution as well as the value of performance measure displays. When you finish this book you will be able to undertake performance measurement with new confidence. You will also come away knowing how to present your findings with an authority that will convince stakeholders of the importance and accuracy of your results.

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Shirley Chisholm Catalyst for Change

Shirley Chisholm Catalyst for Change

A staunch proponent of breaking down racial and gender barriers Shirley Chisholm had the esteemed privilege of being a pioneer in many aspects of her life. She was the first African American woman from Brooklyn elected to the New York State legislature and the first African American woman elected to Congress in 1968. She also made a run for the Democratic Party nomination for president in 1972. Focusing on Chisholm's lifelong advocacy for fair treatment access to education and equal pay for all American minority groups this book explores the life of a remarkable woman in the context of twentieth-century urban America and the tremendous social upheaval that occurred after World War II. About the Lives of American Women series: Selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a woman's life that is emblematic of her time or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a 'good read' featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader. | Shirley Chisholm Catalyst for Change

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On Education

On Education

Jane Addams the founder of Hull House in Chicago may be best known as a social activist. She was also a brilliantly critical intellectual. Implicit in her many speeches articles and books is a view of education as a broad process of cultural transformation and renewal a view that remains as compelling today as when it was first presented. Addams sees education as the foundation of democracy the basis for the free expression of ideas. Addams's writings on education are interpreted in an enlightening bio-graphical introduction by Ellen Lagemann. After the initial publication of this work Barbara L. Jacquette of the Delta Group Inc. in Phoenix wrote Professor Lagemann has brought life and immediacy to Jane Addams's work. Better she has given us a context that shows us that some of our most pressing issues today are simply old problems in new guises problems for which some of the old solutions may still be of use. Gerald Lee Gutek of Loyola University of Chicago commented Lagemann's insightful and sensitive biography reveals Addams's transformation from a reserved graduate of a small women's college into the Progressive reformer and pioneer of the settlement house movement. The essays collected here span a significant portion of Jane Addams's life from the time she spent in college to her founding of Hull House and beyond. Addams's constant interest in education is reflected in her writings. This book also reveals the many influences on Addams's life including the philosopher and educator John Dewey. On Education is an important work for educators women's studies specialists social workers and historians.

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Women and Inequality in a Changing World Exploring New Paradigms for Peace

Women and Inequality in a Changing World Exploring New Paradigms for Peace

Women and Inequality in a Changing World explores the obstacles women continue to face to their equal participation in all areas of daily life—political social and economic—which persist despite the growth in the education of girls large-scale social movements and political waves. The volume widens and deepens understanding of women in relation to the inequalities they face based not only on gender but also on race class religion and more. It also highlights the progress that women have made and how this progress contributes to the creation of more peaceful and prosperous societies. This interdisciplinary book brings together leading scholars and practitioners from across the globe to provide a wide range of perspectives and experiences examine crucial questions and offer new ideas and innovative solutions to increasing the role of women moving forward. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of gender studies women’s studies and political science as well as practitioners working at the intersection of women and global issues. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. Please note that Chapter 6 is excluded from this Creative Commons license. Pieces of this chapter were previously published in: Golan G. ‘Autobiographical Note’ in Galia Golan: An Academic Pioneer on the Soviet Union Peace and Conflict Studies and a Peace and Feminist Activist (PAHSEP Vol. 22) published 2018 Springer International Publishing reproduced with permission of SNCSC. The author is grateful to the publisher for permission to reuse the material which is still copyright protected and owned by the publisher. | Women and Inequality in a Changing World Exploring New Paradigms for Peace

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Educating Language Minority Children

Educating Language Minority Children

READ Perspectives a refereed annual publication of the Institute for Research in English Acquisition and Development (READ) Washington D. C. begins its sixth year with the theme Educating Language Minority Children: An Agenda for the Future. Volume 6 features presentations from a Boston University conference organized by READ and the Pioneer Institute. The essays represent truly diverse viewpoints on the education of limited-English students rare in the complex and contentious arena of bilingual education. The lead article Rethinking Bilingual Education by Charles L Glenn of Boston University inspired the conference's organization. Dr. Glenn proposes new ways of schooling limited-English-speaking children that depart dramatically from the practices of the past 30 years. He proposes sound recommendations for revising Massachusetts bilingual education law ideas that could well be applied in other states. Also included areChristine Rossell's Mystery on the Bilingual Express a critique of the controversial study by Thomas and Collier; Rosalie Pedalino Porter's follow-up review of El Paso Texas's programs for English learners; Mark Lopez's Labor Market Effects of Bilingual Education; Bethlehem Pennsylvania's English Acquisition Program by Thomas J. Dolusio; Maria Estela Brisk's discussion on the need to restructure schools to incorporate the large non-English student population; several articles regarding educational reform in Massachusetts including two by school superintendents Eugene Creedon and Douglas Sears and one by Harold Lane Chairman of the Joint Education Committee in the Massachusetts Legislature; and finally Kevin Clark's From Primary Language Instruction to English Immersion: How Five California Districts Made the Switch. Kevin Clark's California study From Primary Language Instruction to English Immersion: How Five California Districts Made the Switch describes how radical changes are being carried out in a few representative school districts since passage of California Proposition 227 the English for the Children initiative. Educating Language Minority Children is a valuable selection of the most current thinking on policies programs and practices affecting limited-English students in U. S. public schools. It provides a wealth of practical information useful to educators parents legislators and policy analysts and is an essential addition to libraries nationwide.

GBP 145.00
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