Critical Reflections On Development

Author : Moeke-Pickering, Taima,Cote-Meek, Sheila,Pegoraro, Ann
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799836209

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Critical Reflections and Politics on Advancing Women in the Academy by Moeke-Pickering, Taima,Cote-Meek, Sheila,Pegoraro, Ann Pdf

Women in the Academy are raising issues of pay parity, equal representation on committees, increased leadership positions, stories of resilience, and mentorship espousing changes at all levels including teaching, research, and administration. These strategies demand interrogation, and larger questions are being asked about the place of women empowerment worldviews in the dominant intellectual traditions of the Academy. Further, the trend to make changes requires an exploration of new transformational approaches that draw on critical theory to resist discrimination, sexism, and racism and support resistance and sustainable empowerment strategies. Critical Reflections and Politics on Advancing Women in the Academy is a critical scholarly publication that seeks to make the Academy responsive and inclusive for women advancement and sustainable empowerment strategies by broadening the understanding of why women in the Academy are overlooked in leadership positions, why there is a pay parity deficit, and what is being done to change the situation. Featuring a wide range of topics such as mentorship, curriculum design, and equality, this book is ideal for policymakers, academicians, deans, provosts, chancellors, administrators, researchers, and students.

Author : D. Kingsbury
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230389052

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Critical Reflections on Development by D. Kingsbury Pdf

Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics in an attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and critically reflecting on their own understanding of development.

Author : Teboho Pitso
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781991201201

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Contextualised Critical Reflections on Academic Development Practices by Teboho Pitso Pdf

"This book offers insightful reflections on academic development practices. The contributors engage the reader painstakingly in the dynamics of professional learning and effective teaching. This volume facilitates the examination of the need for reflection that leads to professional maturity. All educational institutions seek teachers who continuously search for effective strategies in improving student success. The contributors uncover a variety of approaches as they evince proven suggestions. The chapters are refreshing and edifying. This book is essential for all teachers, lecturers and trainers who want to improve their teaching practice immensely". Professor Vuyisile T. Msila Researcher at the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa.

Author : Trae Stewart,Nicole Webster
Publisher : IAP
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781617352119

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Problematizing Service-Learning by Trae Stewart,Nicole Webster Pdf

Interest in and research on civic engagement and service-learning have increased exponentially. In this rapid growth, efforts have been made to institutionalize pedagogies of engagement across both K-12 and higher education. As a result, increased positive attention has been complemented equally by well-founded critiques complicating experiential approaches’ claims and questioning if institutional, financial, and philosophical commitment is warranted. A key complaint from these critical voices is the tightly woven, protective insular core in the field of service-learning. This claim is not unfounded, nor necessarily bad. Initial efforts to legitimize service-learning and other forms of community-based education required group cohesion. The concern, however, is that the initial group cohesion has led to groupthink wherein group members have avoided critical analysis and evaluation. This book aims to prevent groupthink within the field of service-learning by allowing for the examination of effective alternatives by new voices who can serve as “critical evaluators” from within the field itself. Myriad perspectives are offered, including empirical, theoretical, practical, and community perspectives. Authors challenge preconceived notions of service-learning, who is benefited by this pedagogy, outcomes of participation and implementation, and most importantly the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological lenses through which service-learning is even considered. The book allows servicelearning’s major criticisms to be examined, challenges to be voiced, and research agendas to be laid. This book parallels service-learning’s presence and popularity across various disciplines/fields. Chapters are written from broad perspectives and are aimed to inform service-learning researchers and educators, community organizations, and policy makers who consider service-learning as a means to address civic responsibility. Authors expose theoretical and philosophical concerns circulating in the field, and often still occupying spaces on the fringe of discourse, action, and research. The book raises fundamental questions for undergraduate and graduate courses with social justice themes by considering the implications that pedagogies of engagement have on learners and communities.

Author : Bjorn Asheim,Philip Cooke,Ron Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134273591

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Clusters and Regional Development by Bjorn Asheim,Philip Cooke,Ron Martin Pdf

Using international examples, leading scholars present the first critical analysis of cluster theory, assessing the cluster notion and drawing out, not only its undoubted strengths and attractions, but also its weaknesses and limitations. Over the past decade the ‘cluster model’ has been seized on as a tool for promoting competitiveness, innovation and growth on local, regional and national scales. However, despite its popularity there is much about it that is problematic, and in some respects the rush to employ ‘cluster ideas’ has run ahead of many fundamental conceptual, theoretical and empirical questions. Addressing key questions on the nature, use and effectiveness of cluster models, Clusters and Regional Development provides the missing thorough theoretical and empirical evaluation.

Author : Aarnes Gudmestad,Amanda Edmonds
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263551

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Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition by Aarnes Gudmestad,Amanda Edmonds Pdf

This edited volume offers critical reflections on an essential component of research method in the field of second language acquisition – data. Scholars working on diverse areas (e.g., pragmatics, corrective feedback, phonology) and approaches (e.g., corpus linguistics, concept-oriented analyses, variationism) have come together to identify challenges researchers face when collecting, coding, and analyzing data and to provide guidance for making advancements regarding these aspects of research method. This volume also showcases three types of critical reflection. One involves building a relevant corpus of published investigations and using that database to identify methodological issues in existing research. Another consists of recoding and reanalyzing published work, before reflecting on the impact that these decisions have on observations made about interlanguage. The third begins with a particular area of or approach to second language acquisition and then offers a critical examination on the challenges that characterize the selected area or approach. Researchers and graduate students alike will benefit from an open discussion on methodological issues that are in need of improvement.

Author : Gary Rolfe,Dawn Freshwater
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781137488916

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Critical Reflection In Practice by Gary Rolfe,Dawn Freshwater Pdf

The terms 'critical reflection' and 'reflective practice' are at the heart of modern healthcare. But what do they really mean? Building on its ground-breaking predecessor, entitled Critical Reflection for Nursing and the Helping Professions, this heavily revised second edition analyses and explores reflection. It presents a structured method that will enable you to both challenge and develop your own practice. This book is the essential guide to critical reflection for all students, academics and practitioners. New to this Edition: - Expanded to meet the needs of all healthcare practitioners - Redefines self-evaluation as a catalyst for personal and professional development - Fully updated edition of a respected book: now includes a chapter on the rise of professional knowledge

Author : Jo Rowlands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8170339235

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Development Methods And Approaches: Critical Reflections by Jo Rowlands Pdf

Author : Jurian Edelenbos,Ingmar van Meerkerk
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783479078

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Critical Reflections on Interactive Governance by Jurian Edelenbos,Ingmar van Meerkerk Pdf

In many countries, government and society have undergone a major shift in recent years, now tending toward ‘smaller government’ and ‘bigger society’. This development has lent increased meaning to the notion of interactive governance, a concept that this book takes not as a normative ideal but as an empirical phenomenon that needs constant critical scrutiny, reflection and embedding in modern societies.

Author : Terry Osborn
Publisher : IAP
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9781607524793

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Critical Reflection and the Foreign Language Classroom by Terry Osborn Pdf

This book introduces pre-service and in-service foreign language teachers to the basic concepts of critical educational study as applied to the sociological position occupied by foreign language education in the United States. Although contemporary foreign language teachers typically know about second language acquisition and instructional methodology, they are not prepared to understand issues of power in relation to, for example, language variety, language status, and education. The author addresses issues such as the supposed "failure" of foreign language education, the educational filter role played by language classes, the concept of foreignness as seen in national standards, language curricula and textbooks, and the implications of these issues in terms of power relationships and cultural mediation both in and out of the classroom. The reader is encouraged to analyze the forms of cultural struggle which can be found within the foreign language classrooms of the United States including the likely impact those struggles have on members of the dominant and subordinate cultures. Teachers are led through the development of skills in critical reflection and pedagogical application geared to social justice.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015057013164

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Development Methods and Approaches Critical Reflections by Anonim Pdf

Many aid agencies advocate approaches to development which are people-centred, participatory, empowering and gender-fair. This volume of essays explores some of the middle ground between such values-based approaches and the methods and techniques that the agencies adopt. The selection offers critical assessments of fashionable tools such as Participatory Rural Appraisal and Logical Framework. It demonstrates how these are linked (conceptually and in practice) to the wider ideological environment in which they are used, and shows how they depend upon the skills of the fieldworker and/or organization applying them. Contributors argue that tools and methods will contribute to a values-based approach only if those using them have a serious commitment to a social agenda which is genuinely transformative.

Author : Gillian Bristow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135225209

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Critical Reflections on Regional Competitiveness by Gillian Bristow Pdf

Since the early 1990s, governments and development agencies have become increasingly preoccupied with the pursuit of regional competitiveness. However, there is considerable confusion around what exactly regional competitiveness means, how it might be achieved, whether and how it can be measured, and whether it is a meaningful and appropriate goal for regional economies. The central aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive and critical account of these debates with reference to theory, policy and practice, and thus to explore the meaning and value of the concept of regional competitiveness. The book is structured into three parts. Part one introduces the concept of regional competitiveness by tracing its origins and exploring its different meanings in regional economic development. This will critically engage with political economy approaches to understanding the nature and dominance of the competitiveness discourse. Part two interrogates the pursuit of regional competitiveness in policy and practice. This critically evaluates the degree to which the pursuit of competitiveness is encouraging convergence in policy agendas in regions through an examination of key determinants of policy sameness and difference, notably benchmarking and devolved governance. Part three explores the limitations to regional competitiveness and explores whether and how its predominance in the policy discourse might be challenged by alternative agendas such as sustainable development and wellbeing. This focuses on the developing qualitative character of regional development. This volume critically engages with the theory and policy of regional competitiveness, thus providing the first integrated critique of the concept for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics interested in regional development and policy. It will unpack the concept of regional competitiveness and explain its usefulness, limitations and policy appeal, as well as examining its sustainability in the light of evolving governance structures and the imperatives of broadening regional development agendas.

Author : Barrie A. Irving,Beatriz Malik
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Career education
ISBN : 041532453X

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Critical Reflections on Career Education and Guidance by Barrie A. Irving,Beatriz Malik Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Raju J. Das
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004415560

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Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India by Raju J. Das Pdf

In this book, Das deploys class theory to decipher India’s economic and political situation. It deals with the specificities of India’s capitalism and neoliberalism, and their economic consequences. It critically examines lower-class struggles led by the Left, and the fascistic politics of the Right.

Author : Jasmine Gideon,Elaine Unterhalter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000297133

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Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships by Jasmine Gideon,Elaine Unterhalter Pdf

This book argues that despite the hype within many policy circles, there is actually very little evidence to support the presumed benefits of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in reducing poverty and addressing inequalities in the provision of and access to public services. Taking a cross-sectoral comparative approach, this book investigates how PPPs have played out in practice, and what the implications have been for inequalities. Drawing on a range of empirical case studies in education, healthcare, housing and water, the book picks apart the roles of PPPs as financing mechanisms in several international and national contexts and considers the similarities and differences between sectors. The global COVID-19 pandemic has raised significant questions about the future of social provision and through its analysis of the emergence and expansion of the role of PPPs, the book also makes a vital contribution to current discussion over this rapidly changing landscape. Overall, this wide-ranging guide to understanding and evaluating the role of PPPs in the Global South will be useful to researchers within development, international relations, economics, and related fields, as well as to policy makers and practitioners working in development-related policy.