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She Took Justice The Black Woman Law and Power – 1619 to 1969

Unity on the Global Left Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International

Barbara Egger Lennon Teacher Mother Activist

Functional Future for Bibliographic Control Transitioning into new communities of practice and awareness

Functional Future for Bibliographic Control Transitioning into new communities of practice and awareness

The quest to evolve bibliographic control to an equal or greater standing within the current information environment is on-going. As information organizers we are working in a time where information and communication technology (ICT) has pushed our status quo to its limits and where innovation often needs the pressure of do or die in order to get started. The year 2010 was designated as the Year of Cataloging Research and we made progress on studying the challenges facing metadata and information organization practices. However one year of research is merely a drop in the bucket especially given the results of the Resource and Description and Access (RDA) National Test and the Library of Congress’ decision to investigate the possibility of transitioning the MARC21 format. This book addresses how information professionals can create a functional environment in which we move beyond just representing information resources and into an environment that both represents and connects at a deeper level. Most importantly it offers insight on transitioning into new communities of practice and awareness by reassessing our purpose re-charting our efforts reasserting our expertise in the areas that information organizer have traditionally claimed but are losing due to stagnation and lack of vision. This book was published as a double special issue of the Journal of Library Metadata. | Functional Future for Bibliographic Control Transitioning into new communities of practice and awareness

GBP 31.99
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Ho Chi Minh

A Concise Guide to Writing a Thesis or Dissertation Educational Research and Beyond

A Concise Guide to Writing a Thesis or Dissertation Educational Research and Beyond

A Concise Guide to Writing a Thesis or Dissertation provides clear succinct and intentional guidelines about organizing and writing a thesis or dissertation. Part I provides an overview for writing a thesis or dissertation. It describes the big picture of planning and formatting a research study from identifying a topic to focusing on writing quality. Part II describes the framework and substance of a research study. It models the pattern generally found in a formal five-chapter research study. Each chapter of a thesis or dissertation has a specific purpose and this book focuses on each in an easy-to-follow structure. Chapter One reviews the headings and contents expected in the introduction of a study. Chapter Two provides advice for writing a literature review. Chapter Three discusses what to include when describing the methodology. These first three chapters form the proposal section of a study. Two additional chapters present results (Chapter Four) and provide discussion and conclusions (Chapter Five). Appendices offer resources for instructors and students including a rubric for evaluating writing exercises to strengthen skills in APA format sample purpose statements a research planning organizer and a guide for scholarly writing. The book is designed overall to be a practical guide and resource for students for their thesis or dissertation process. Note to readers: Due to publishing limitations some of the titles within the book do not accurately conform with APA format. For precise APA format please see the APA manual (2010 pp. 62-63) or refer to Table 1. 1 (p. 8) or Table D. 1 (p. 107) in this book. | A Concise Guide to Writing a Thesis or Dissertation Educational Research and Beyond

GBP 16.99
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Transformative Civic Engagement Through Community Organizing

Transformative Civic Engagement Through Community Organizing

Maria Avila presents a personal account of her experience as a teenager working in a factory in Ciudad Juarez to how she got involved in community organizing. She has since applied the its distinctive practices of community organizing to civic engagement in higher education demonstrating how this can help create a culture that values and rewards civically engaged scholarship and advance higher education’s public democratic mission. Adapting what she learned during her years as an organizer with the Industrial Areas Foundation she describes a practice that aims for full reciprocity between partners and is achieved through the careful nurturing of relationships a mutual understanding of personal narratives leadership building power analysis and critical reflection. She demonstrates how she implemented the process in various institutions and in various contexts and shares lessons learned. Community organizing recognizes the need to understand the world as it is in order to create spaces where stakeholders can dialogue and deliberate about strategies for creating the world as we would like it to be. Maria Avila offers a vision and process that can lead to creating institutional change in higher education in communities surrounding colleges and universities and in society at large. This book is a narrative of her personal and professional journey and of how she has gone about co-creating spaces where democracy can be enacted and individual institutional and community transformation can occur. In inviting us to experience the process of organizing and in keeping with its values and spirit she includes the voices of the participants in the initiatives in which she collaborated – stakeholders ranging from community partners to faculty students and administrators in higher education. | Transformative Civic Engagement Through Community Organizing

GBP 32.99
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