Community Matters

Author : Margot Kempers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0830415688

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Community Matters by Margot Kempers Pdf

Community Matters is unique in its use of a contextualized, interactionist approach to analyze the nature and extent of community. Its theoretical discussion of community as process is expanded through the inclusion of arguments raised in political science and philosophy, and is balanced by descriptive analyses of a diverse selection of communities. This book helps bridge the divide between works of academic argument concerning civil society and community life and books explicitly focused on presenting practical information on what is and is not effective in community work. Community Matters shifts attention away from a conceptualization of community as a fixed evolutionary stage identified with specific types of settings, and instead provides numerous illustrations of the dynamic quality of social ties and community life. This book convinces readers that they can and should study community and community matters. A Burnham Publishers book

Author : Jennifer Gore,Sally Patfield,Leanne Fray,Jess Harris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000814941

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Community Matters by Jennifer Gore,Sally Patfield,Leanne Fray,Jess Harris Pdf

Working towards equity of access to higher education remains a fundamental issue of social justice. Despite substantial efforts to redress historical exclusions via a wealth of government and institutional policies, longstanding enrolment patterns persist and new forms of inequality have emerged in a deeply stratified system. Community Matters: The Complex Links Between Community and Young People’s Aspirations for Higher Education offers a new lens on equity of access. The policy focus, nationally and globally, on widening participation for under-represented target groups too readily treats such groups as if they have a singular voice, a singular history, and a singular set of concerns. Drawing on the perspectives of Australian school students, their parents/carers, teachers, and a vast array of residents from seven diverse communities, this book uses the lens of ‘community’ to reframe inequitable access. It does so by recognising the complex social and cultural forces at play locally that shape how young people form and articulate their post-school futures. In light of unprecedented challenges facing the higher education sector, this book interrogates dominant understandings of ‘widening participation’ and ‘aspiration,’ and offers timely insights about the broader economic, social, and cultural backdrop of aspiration formation. It is a valuable resource for academics and students interested in the sociology of higher education and for practitioners working at the forefront of equity policy and practice.

Author : Nicholas V. Longo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791479605

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Why Community Matters by Nicholas V. Longo Pdf

Providing a new perspective on the undeniable relationship between education reform and democratic revitalization, Nicholas V. Longo uncovers and examines practical models in which communities play an essential role in teaching the art of democracy.

Author : Mallika Bose,Paula Horrigan,Cheryl Doble,Sigmund C. Shipp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317907763

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Community Matters: Service-Learning in Engaged Design and Planning by Mallika Bose,Paula Horrigan,Cheryl Doble,Sigmund C. Shipp Pdf

Winner of the EDRA 2015 Book Award! Community Matters: Service Learning in Engaged Design and Planning explores issues that resonate with a diverse group of design and planning educators drawn to the challenge of supporting greater community building and empowerment while combining learning with practice. The book explores such questions as: How do we foster mutuality and reciprocity in community-academy partnerships? What conflicts, challenges, limits and obstacles do we face in our service-learning studios and projects? What evidence do we have of our impacts on students and communities and how are we responding? How are we being attentive to the contemporary environmental and societal issues? What is our role as both designers and agents of societal change? How are we innovating to enable greater capacities for individuals, future practitioners and communities? This book provides compelling evidence that educators should be adopting engaged pedagogies, research methods and theories through which they can bring together education, practice and scholarship at the boundary of community and academy.

Author : Mallika Bose,Paula Horrigan,Cheryl Doble,Sigmund C. Shipp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317907756

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Community Matters: Service-Learning in Engaged Design and Planning by Mallika Bose,Paula Horrigan,Cheryl Doble,Sigmund C. Shipp Pdf

Winner of the EDRA 2015 Book Award! Community Matters: Service Learning in Engaged Design and Planning explores issues that resonate with a diverse group of design and planning educators drawn to the challenge of supporting greater community building and empowerment while combining learning with practice. The book explores such questions as: How do we foster mutuality and reciprocity in community-academy partnerships? What conflicts, challenges, limits and obstacles do we face in our service-learning studios and projects? What evidence do we have of our impacts on students and communities and how are we responding? How are we being attentive to the contemporary environmental and societal issues? What is our role as both designers and agents of societal change? How are we innovating to enable greater capacities for individuals, future practitioners and communities? This book provides compelling evidence that educators should be adopting engaged pedagogies, research methods and theories through which they can bring together education, practice and scholarship at the boundary of community and academy.

Author : Ildikó Bellér-Hann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004166752

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Community Matters in Xinjiang, 1880-1949 by Ildikó Bellér-Hann Pdf

Drawing on a wide range of historical sources presenting both emic and etic views, this book offers an insight into aspects of social life among the Uyghur in pre-socialist Xinjiang and substantiates the concept of tradition which modern Uyghurs draw upon to construct their ethnic identity.

Author : Verna V. Gehring
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742549607

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Community Matters by Verna V. Gehring Pdf

Civic matters affect all members of a community and are thus of potential concern to all. In Community Matters: Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century, six distinguished scholars address three perennial challenges of civic life: the making of a citizen, how citizens are to agree (and disagree), and how to define the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The thought-provoking essays in this volume discuss integral civic concerns such as: how can we improve civic education? How do we address controversy within our communities? What are the responsibilities of a citizen? Should the national draft be re-instated in the U.S? These essays will encourage students, academics, and interested citizens outside the academy to go farther and dig deeper into these vital issues.

Author : Brenda A. LeFrançois,Robert Menzies,Geoffrey Reaume
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Mental illness
ISBN : 9781551305349

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Mad Matters by Brenda A. LeFrançois,Robert Menzies,Geoffrey Reaume Pdf

In 1981, Toronto activist Mel Starkman wrote: "An important new movement is sweeping through the western world.... The 'mad, ' the oppressed, the ex-inmates of society's asylums are coming together and speaking for themselves." Mad Matters is the first Canadian book to bring together the writings of this vital movement, which has grown explosively in the years since. With contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, as well as activists and psychiatric survivors, it presents diverse critical voices that convey the lived experiences of the psychiatrized and challenges dominant understandings of "mental illness." The connections between mad activism and other liberation struggles are stressed throughout, making the book a major contribution to the literature on human rights and anti-oppression.

Author : Kathleen McKune,Karen Dickson,Sharon Borde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578579693

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Remarkably Resilient by Kathleen McKune,Karen Dickson,Sharon Borde Pdf

Author : Rick Monture
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780887554667

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We Share Our Matters by Rick Monture Pdf

The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to understand its enduring intellectual traditions. Rick Monture’s We Share Our Matters offers the first comprehensive portrait of how the Haudenosaunee of the Grand River region have expressed their long struggle for sovereignty in Canada. Drawing from individualsas diverse as Joseph Brant, Pauline Johnson and Robbie Robertson, Monture illuminates a unique Haudenosaunee world view comprised of three distinct features: a spiritual belief about their role and responsibility to the earth; a firm understanding of their sovereign status as a confederacy of independant nations; and their responsibility to maintain those relations for future generations. After more than two centuries of political struggle Haudenosaunee thought has avoided stagnant conservatism and continues to inspire ways to address current social and political realities.

Author : Reginald Byron
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802084133

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Retrenchment and Regeneration in Rural Newfoundland by Reginald Byron Pdf

Set against the background of momentous economic changes over the last decade, Retrenchment and Regeneration in Rural Newfoundland examines the economic, political, and social circumstances that have led to the current crisis in rural Newfoundland. In this timely collection, ten social scientists explore how outporters are coping with uncertainty, the choices that they are now confronting, and the consequences of these choices in terms of their capacity to sustain livelihoods into the next generation and beyond. Offering both general overviews and specific case studies drawn from recent research, Retrenchment and Regeneration in Rural Newfoundland provides insight into the moral and political economy of Newfoundland, the background to the collapse of the fish stocks, and the effects of the crisis on outporter's occupational choices and migration decisions. Rich in detail and thought-provoking ideas, this collection is the first to examine the interconnected problems and opportunities in rural Newfoundland in light of global economic and social changes.

Author : Noel Keough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1773852485

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Sustainability Matters by Noel Keough Pdf

Calgary, Alberta is a culturally diverse urban metropolis. Sprawling and car-dependent, fast-growing and affluent, it is dominated by the fossil fuel industry. For 30 years, Calgary has struggled to turn sustainability rhetoric into reality. Sustainability Matters is the story of Calgary's setbacks and successes on the path toward sustainability. Chronicling two decades of public conversations, political debate, urban policy and planning, and scholarly discovery, it is both a fascinating case study and an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of urban sustainability. A clear-eyed view of the struggles of turning knowledge into action, this book illuminates the places where theory and reality converge and presents an approach to municipal development, planning, and governance that takes seriously the urgent need to address climate change and injustice. Addressing a wide variety of topics and themes, including energy, diversity, economic development, and ecological health, Sustainability Matters is both a critique of current practice and a vision for the future that uses the city of Calgary as a microcosm to address issues faced by cities around the world. This is essential reading not only for every Calgarian working for a vibrant and sustainable future, but for all those interested in in the future of cities in a post-carbon world.

Author : United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210014957441

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Author : Bettina Jansen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319948607

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Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story by Bettina Jansen Pdf

Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story offers the first systematic study of black British short story writing, tracing its development from the 1950s to the present with a particular focus on contemporary short stories by Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Suhayl Saadi, Zadie Smith, and Hari Kunzru. By combining a postcolonial framework of analysis with Jean-Luc Nancy’s deconstructive philosophy of community, the book charts key tendencies in black British short fiction and explores how black British writers use the short story form to combat deeply entrenched notions of community and experiment with non-essentialist alternatives across differences of ethnicity, culture, religion, and nationality.

Author : James Rees,Rob Macmillan,Chris Dayson,Chris Damm,Claire Bynner
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447365525

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COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK by James Rees,Rob Macmillan,Chris Dayson,Chris Damm,Claire Bynner Pdf

The voluntary sector was central to the COVID-19 response: fulfilling basic needs, highlighting new and existing inequalities and coordinating action where the state had been slow to respond. This book curates rigorous academic, policy and practice-based research into the response and adaptation of the UK voluntary sector during the pandemic. Contributions explore the ways the sector responded to new challenges and the longer-term consequences for the sector’s workforce, volunteers and beneficiaries. Written for researchers and practitioners, this book considers what the voluntary sector can learn from the pandemic to maximise its contribution in the event of future crises.