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Foucault's antihumanist historiography
Joseph Cronin
Introduces antihumanism as the pivotal element in Foucault's work, and reads his work from an Althusserian, structural Marxist perspective.
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Race Critical Theories: Text and Context
Philomena Essed
Race Critical Theories brings together many of the key contributors to critical theorizing about race and racism over the past twenty years. Each previously published text is accompanied by a fresh statement - in most cases written by the authors themselves - regarding the political context, implications and effects of the original contribution.
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School renewal : a spiritual journey for change
Torin Finser PhD
As a result of today's crisis in education, people are beginning to realize that schools involve far more than providing children with knowledge and skills. Schools are communities and, like all communities, may be healthy or unhealthy. School Renewal addresses the problems and challenges of a school community. Through the use of fairy tales, myths, and the personal experience of Waldorf education, Torin Finser describes how both teachers and parents can come to grips with common problems such as burnout, interpersonal conflicts, and the traps of routine. Most important, the author stresses that an educational community must come to terms with the many unseen dimensions of each individual. He shows how these little-understood aspects of the mind can be cultivated and nourished to keep the school and education alive. School Renewal does not offer formulas and slapdash solutions. Rather, it encourages a whole new way of thinking about education and personal growth - for children and for the adults who care about them. "...if one wish could be granted me on behalf of school renewal, I would ask for significant improvement in the quality of sleep afforded to parents and teachers. No other change has the potential to do more good than simply eliminating the state of chronic exhaustion found by the end of the week in most schools." - from Amazon.com
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The granite landscape : a natural history of America's mountain domes, from Acadia to Yosemite
Tom Wessels Professor Emeritus
This fascinating new book focuses on a rare and dramatic landscape: the granite summit balds of North American mountains. Tom Wessels synthesizes history, geology, biology, and personal narrative to enhance our understanding and appreciation of these high, wild places. He explores the unique and fragile ecosystem that is common to exposed granite expanses from Acadia to Yosemitehow it evolved slowly over millennia, and how it is threatened today by foot traffic and overuse. Wessels' dramatic photographs and Brian Cohen's beautifully detailed illustrations bring the denizens of the granite bald to life. The mountains they celebrate include: Acadia National Park in Maine; the White Mountains of New Hampshire; the Adirondacks of New York; the Wind Rivers of Wyoming; the Beartooths of Montana; the Enchantments of Washington; and Yosemite National Park in California.
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Fast Forward Leadership: How to Exchange Outmoded Leadership Practices for Forward-Looking Leadership Today
Mitchell Kusy PhD
Leaders at work today have heard plenty about the issues facing them in the 21st century. But many are still in need of practical guidance on how their day-to-day leadership practice needs to change.
Fast Forward Leadership is based on the idea of the "Leadership Exchange." This is a concept that offers a compelling new set of innovative practices leaders must quickly adopt.
The concepts developed in this book, enlightened with a wide range of high profile examples, enable readers to eliminate outdated practices and establish a highly effective strategy for the future.
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The meaning of movement : developmental and clinical perspectives of the Kestenberg Movement Profile
Susan Loman
CONTENTS: Introduction / K. Mark Sossin and Janet Kestenberg Amighi -- I. The Kestenberg Movement Profile Explained / Janet Kestenberg Amighi and Susan Loman. 1. Tension Flow Rhythms. 2. Tension Flow Attributes. 3. Precursors of Effort: Pre-Efforts. 4. Efforts. 5. Bipolar Shape Flow. 6. Unipolar Shape Flow. 7. Shape Flow Design. 8. Shaping in Directions. 9. Shaping in Planes -- II. Applications. 10. The KMP and Infant-Parent Psychotherapy / K. Mark Sossin. 11. The KMP as a Tool for Dance/Movement Therapy / Susan Loman and Hillary Merman. 12. Healing Early Child Abuse: The Application of the Kestenberg Movement Profile and Its Concepts / Penny Lewis. 13. The Interface Between the Kestenberg Movement Profile and Body-Mind Centering / Susan Loman, Amelia Ender and Kim Burden -- III. Interpretations. 14. Interpretation of an Adult Profile: Observations in a Parent-Child Setting / K. Mark Sossin. 15. Interpreting a KMP of Carlos, a Three-and-One-Half-Year-Old Boy: An Illustrative Case / Janet Kestenberg Amighi and Susan Loman. 16. Outline for the Clinical Interpretation of the Kestenberg Movement Profile with Adults / Penny Lewis -- App. The Body Attitude and Interpreting KMP Diagrams / Susan Loman and Janet Kestenberg Amighi.
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No-talk therapy for children and adolescents
Martha Straus PhD
"Weaving practical, hands-on ideas with theory and research about child development, child treatment, and the therapeutic relationship, this book describes an innovative approach to treatment of children and adolescents who won't or can't respond to traditional, conversation-based therapy." "For these children, therapists need an entirely new clinical language, one that doesn't depend on words. Within an interpersonal and developmental framework, Straus spells out the deceptively simple goals of no-talk therapy: someone to be close to, and something to be proud of. Through empathy and respect, games, activities, community involvement, a circle of adults, and little pleasures, this approach begins to provide these anxious, sullen, enraged, and confused kids with the self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-awareness to develop a voice of their own."--Jacket.
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Mapmaking with children : sense-of-place education for the elementary years
David Sobel MEd
The current crisis in geography education has spawned several new books on mapmaking, many of which advocate either recitation and drill or a conceptual top-down model that ignores children's interests. Mapmaking with Children presents an inspired alternative. Maintaining that there is no substitute for hands-on experience, David Sobel places the initial emphasis on local projects--projects that begin in students' own backyards and communities, projects that provide a sense of place.
As Sobel explains, "In the beginning, children's maps represent their experiences of beauty, secrecy, adventure, and comfort. With these affective endeavors as a foundation, I then gradually start to focus on scale, location, direction, and geographic relationships. The development of emotional bonds and cognitive skills needs to go hand in hand in my approach to developmentally appropriate social studies and geography." To that end, his book identifies each stage of development, presenting relevant theoretical issues and several appropriate projects.
In the beginning, students stay close to home, mapping their known world. Gradually, they move on to their neighborhood, developing a sense of place, scope, and perspective. Eventually, once students are older, they explore the nation, the world, even the solar system, creating raised relief maps and contour maps to develop visual literacy and spatial reasoning skills. Vivid illustrations of the students' work are provided throughout to let you observe each stage of development.
Mapmaking, as Sobel uses it, has relevance across the curriculum. In addition to appealing to social studies teachers, this book will be of interest to science teachers, language arts teachers, and math teachers looking for new ways to invigorate the curriculum.
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Spirited Leading and Learning: Process Wisdom for a New Age
Peter B. Vaill
For over twenty-five years, Peter Vaill has profoundly influenced what is studied and practiced in the field of leadership and organizational development. One of the early voices on spirituality in the workplace, Vaill has consistently broken new ground in such areas as adult learning, culture, and systems thinking. And now, for the first time, Spirited Leading and Learning brings together a wealth of classic writings and exclusive new offerings from this noted management teacher and consultant--all in one volume. All those who tackle the complex issues of modern organizations and management development will find Vaill's unique perspective and thoughtful observations as relevant today as ever before.
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Public Television: Politics and the Battle Over Documentary Film
B.J. Bullert
Public television's original mandate requires the system to address issues of controversy and facilitate the inclusion of voices and perspectives that lie outside the established consensus. But attempts to include these voices reveal to system riddled with conflicting obligations and agendas. Public Television looks at who in the world of public television is powerful, who is weak, and who cares.
Through detailed chronologies, B. J. Bullert traces how independently produced documentaries pushed the limits of public television between 1985 and 1993. She interviews the key players-film makers, programmers, journalists, and representatives of interest groups- to illuminate how together they sought to frame and constrain viewers’ perceptions of provocative works. Their stories are set against the backdrop of a larger story about the relationship between federal funding for the arts and public broadcasting and the promise of a democratic society. Bullert brings to light the subtle forces and interests that effectively control the style and content of documentaries that have been broadcast with the PBS logo.
When film makers brought uncommon realities to the public television airwaves, a complex collective response from station programmers, interest groups, journalists, and viewers ensued. Public Television charts the communication process through which visions of reality deemed threatening to some are packaged to make them more palatable for public television viewers. All of the documentaries examined-on topics including the nuclear arms industry, the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, gay rights, and corporate greed in the era of downsizing-eventually made their way onto public television, most of them on the national PBS schedule. The stories of their journeys, and the way the programs were ultimately framed by the broadcasters and then by the press, show how the collective effort of programmers, producers, interest groups, and journalist tell the public what to think about and how to think about it.
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Notes from a pragmatic idealist: Selected papers, 1985-1997
Alan Guskin
Series of essays and speeches by the former president and chancellor of Antioch University
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Diversity: Gender, Color, and Culture
Philomena Essed
Contemporary discussions of race, gender, and cultural identity often seem to presuppose an exclusively American context. Yet as Philomena Essed points out in this forcefully argued book, continuing migration has given rise to ever more diverse societies. At the same time, the erosion of traditional national identities has sparked a backlash against racial and ethnic minorities.
Essed examines these problems in a series of interrelated essays, urging us throughout the book to create a society in which diversity is accepted, encouraged, and made central to everyday life. -
Beyond ecophobia : reclaiming the heart in nature education
David Sobel MEd
Beyond Ecophobia speaks to teachers, parents, and others interested in nurturing in children the ability to understand and care deeply for nature from an early age. This expanded version of one of Orion's most popular articles includes descriptions of developmentally appropriate environmental education activities and a list of related children's books.
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Learning as a Way of Being: Strategies for Survival in a World of Permanent White Water
Peter B. Vaill
Offers a thoughtful critique of the roots of management education and argues that institutions of higher learning must teach managers how to integrate the discipline of learning into their very being. Such learning must be marked by strong self-direction, willingness to take risks, and integration of the learning that life teaches outside the classroom.
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An Antioch career : the memoirs of J. Dudley Dawson
Alan Guskin
Biography of J. Dudley Dawson, former president of Antioch College.
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School as a journey : the eight-year odyssey of a Waldorf teacher and his class
Torin Finser PhD
School as a Journey is a lively, colorful, absorbing account of one Waldorf's teacher's journey with his class through the curriculum from first through eighth grades. A moving story, told in a straightforward, anecdotal, humorous style, it is and excellent introduction to what goes on inside the classroom of a Waldorf school. School as a journey was written with both parents and educators in mind. Filled with pedagogical gems, it will be an invaluable resource for understanding the practical implications of Rudolf Steiner's in sight into child development. Extensively documented, it can serve as a study text for anyone wishing to go deeper into the works of Rudolf Steiner and others experienced in Waldorf education.
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The Body mind connection in human movement analysis
Susan Loman and Rose Brandt
This is the second volume of papers related to the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) and its potential for research, clinical practice and education. This volume demonstrates how well Dr. Kestenberg has inspired the talented individuals who have studied with her. The possibilities for the distinctive Kestenbergian view of movement analysis seem endless. Two papers are included on Action Profiling, which is something of a cousin to the KMP. They indicate how the theoretical framework and systeming coding developed by Judith Kestenberg can inform related research in fascinating ways.
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Managing as a Performing Art: New Ideas for a World of Chaotic Change
Peter B. Vaill
A collection of thought-provoking essays on management and leadership that propose radical new ways of thinking about what managers do and what organizations are.
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Everyday Racism: Reports from Women of Two Cultures
Philomena Essed
Racism in today's societies -- Surinamese women tell of their daily experiences with whites -- African-American women's experiences of racism.
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The Kestenberg Movement Profile : its past, present applications, and future directions
Susan Loman and Penny Lewis
Papers presented at the first annual Kestenberg Movement Profile Conference, entitled The KMP : the past and present, and its applications, sponsored by the Antioch New England Graduate School's Master's Program in Dance/Movement Therapy, held on April 29-30, 1989 in Keene, N.H.
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