Reflections On The University Of California

Author : Neil J. Smelser
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520946002

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Reflections on the University of California by Neil J. Smelser Pdf

These invaluable essays offer an insider’s perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds new light on a full range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth century. Smelser considers student activism—in particular the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley—political surprises, affirmative action, multiculturalism and the culture wars, and much more. As one of the leading sociologists of his generation, Smelser is uniquely qualified to convey and analyze the complexities of administrating a first-rate and very large university as it encounters a highly politicized environment.

Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0520231244

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Spartan Reflections by Paul Cartledge Pdf

"This is a book that scholars will read with pleasure, and a book from which advanced undergraduates and graduates will gain a sense of what Sparta was like as a culture, and (just as important) the nature and state of play of contemporary Spartan studies. And it will be accessible for the well informed lay reader as well."—Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens "Paul Cartledge's aim, in this powerful collection of essays, is to shed light in dark places, to demythicize... Cartledge is shrewd, realistic, and far from starry-eyed. Over a quarter-century's exhaustive research, now updated, has gone into these densely documented and tightly argued essays. These Spartans, in the last resort, are exploitative slave-drivers, obsessed with keeping their serfs down (by annually killing off any resisters, among other things)... Modern idealizers of cold baths, black broth, mindless discipline and long route marches should read this book and, hopefully, have second thoughts."—Peter Green, author of Alexander to Actium

Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520942943

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Elephant Reflections by Dale Peterson Pdf

Elephant Reflections brings award-winning wildlife photographer Karl Ammann's gorgeous images together with a revelatory text by writer Dale Peterson to illuminate one of nature's greatest and most original works of art: the elephant. The photographs move from the purely aesthetic to the informative, depicting animals who are at once enigmatic, individual, mysterious, elusive, and iconic. In riveting prose, Peterson introduces the work of field scientists in Africa and explains their recent astonishing discoveries. He then explores the natural history and conservation status of African elephants and discusses the politics of ivory. Elephant Reflections is a book that could change the way the world thinks about elephants while we still have some measure of control over their fate.

Author : Staci M. Zavattaro,Shannon K. Orr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137600097

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Reflections on Academic Lives by Staci M. Zavattaro,Shannon K. Orr Pdf

This book brings together reflections from seventy academics – everyone from doctoral students to a retired provost – who share their lived experiences in graduate school and beyond. Career seekers, adjunct professors, those in or considering graduate school, and tenure-track professors alike will find truths revealed through these shared experiences of struggle, triumph, loss and hope.

Author : Paul Rabinow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520933897

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Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco by Paul Rabinow Pdf

In this landmark study, now celebrating thirty years in print, Paul Rabinow takes as his focus the fieldwork that anthropologists do. How valid is the process? To what extent do the cultural data become artifacts of the interaction between anthropologist and informants? Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint. In a new preface Rabinow considers the thirty-year life of this remarkable book and his own distinguished career.

Author : Manisha Priyam
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000552485

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Reclaiming Public Universities by Manisha Priyam Pdf

This book explores the nature of public universities and higher education reforms in emerging economies, with a focus on India, South Africa and Brazil. Drawing on context-based case studies, the essays in the volume highlight the state of public universities amongst the developing world with their shared colonial past and social, caste and race inequalities. Based on comparative and multidisciplinary studies, the book provides a critical account of the policy reforms and changes on account of globalization and markets in higher education in public universities of the Global South regions. The chapters also compare methodological approaches to university reform and restructuring of public universities and higher education systems in USA, Australia, the European Union and India, and examine the California model, the Bologna process, the Melbourne model, the University of Delhi reforms, and engage critically with the New Public Management inspired reform policies. The book further lays the groundwork for understanding 'massification' in a contextual way, and the possibilities for expansion of scale of mass higher education through public provision. With its empirical findings and social theory analyses by global experts, the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of education, higher education, sociology and social anthropology, development studies, public policy and administration, politics, political economy, and Global South studies. It will also be useful to educationists, policymakers and civil society organizations.

Author : Rita M. Gross
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 052094366X

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A Garland of Feminist Reflections by Rita M. Gross Pdf

Rita M. Gross has long been acknowledged as a founder in the field of feminist theology. One of the earliest scholars in religious studies to discover how feminism affects that discipline, she is recognized as preeminent in Buddhist feminist theology. The essays in A Garland of Feminist Reflections represent the major aspects of her work and provide an overview of her methodology in women's studies in religion and feminism. The introductory article, written specifically for this volume, summarizes the conclusions Gross has reached about gender and feminism after forty years of searching and exploring, and the autobiography, also written for this volume, narrates how those conclusions were reached. These articles reveal the range of scholarship and reflection found in Rita M. Gross's work and demonstrate how feminist scholars in the 1970s shifted the paradigm away from an androcentric model of humanity and forever changed the way we study religion.

Author : Robert Cohen,Reginald E. Zelnik
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520928619

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The Free Speech Movement by Robert Cohen,Reginald E. Zelnik Pdf

This is the authoritative and long-awaited volume on Berkeley's celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many movement veterans, this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates in fresh ways one of the most important events in the recent history of American higher education. The contributors—whose perspectives range from that of FSM leader Mario Savio to University of California president Clark Kerr—-shed new light on such issues as the origins of the FSM in the civil rights movement, the political tensions within the FSM, the day-to-day dynamics of the protest movement, the role of the Berkeley faculty and its various factions, the 1965 trial of the arrested students, and the virtually unknown "little Free Speech Movement of 1966."

Author : Dale Peterson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520266858

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Giraffe Reflections by Dale Peterson Pdf

Presents a cultural, historical, and pictorial history of giraffes, describing their biology and behavior and demonstrating their grace and elegance through over one hundred photographs.

Author : David G. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Continental shelf
ISBN : UCSD:31822006512107

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Structure, Litho-orogenic Units, and Postorogenic Basin Fill by Reflection Profiling: California Continental Borderland by David G. Moore Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCBK:C049713077

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High-resolution, Shallow, Seismic Reflection Surveys of the Northwest Reelfoot Rift Boundary Near Marston, Missouri by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816540693

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Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez Pdf

Taking us on a journey of remembering and rediscovery, anthropologist Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez explores his development as a scholar and in so doing the development of the interdisciplinary fields of transborder and applied anthropology. He shows us his path through anthropology as both a theoretical and an applied anthropologist whose work has strongly influenced borderlands and applied research. Importantly, he explains the underlying, often hidden process that led to his long insistence on making a difference in lives of people of Mexican origin on both sides of the border and to contribute to a “People with Histories.” In each chapter, Vélez-Ibáñez revisits a critical piece of his written work, providing a new introduction and discussion of ideas, sources, and influences for the piece. These are followed by the work, chosen because it accentuates key aspects of his development and formation as an anthropologist. By returning to these previously published works, Vélez-Ibáñez offers insight not only into the evolution of his own thinking and conceptualization but also into changes in the fields in which he has been so influential. Throughout his career, Vélez-Ibáñez has addressed why he does the work that he does, and in this volume he continues to address the personal and intellectual drives that have brought him from Netzahualcóyotl to Aztlán. Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist shows how both Vélez-Ibáñez and anthropology have changed and formed over a fifty-year period. Throughout, he has worked to understand how people survive and thrive against all odds. Vélez-Ibáñez has been guided by the burning desire to understand inequality, exploitation, and legitimacy, and, most importantly, to provide platforms for the voiceless to narrate their own histories.

Author : Jeffrey Hopkins
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dge-lugs-pa (Sect)
ISBN : 8120826108

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Reflections on Reality by Jeffrey Hopkins Pdf

This is the second volume in Jeffrey Hopkins' valuable series on the Mind-Only School of Buddhism and a focal description of it in Dzong-Ka-ba's The Essence of Eloquence. Dzong-Ka-ba (1357-1419) is generally regarded as one of the greatest Tibetan philosophers, and his Mind-Only discourse on emptiness is considered a landmark in Buddhist philosophy. In Volume I, Emptiness in the Mind-Only School of Buddhism, Hopkins provided a translation of the introduction and the section on the Mind-Only School in The Essence of Eloquence. The present volume places this enigmatic and influential exposition in its historical and philosophical contexts. Reflections on Reality conveys the intellectual vibrancy of the different cultural interpretations of this text and expands the key philosophical issues it addresses. Hopkins, one of the leading scholarly voices in Tibetan studies, begins this volume with two introductory chapters contextualizing Tibetan scholarship in general. He then goes on to discuss in detail the religious significance of the central topic of the three natures in the Mind-Only School. He also considers various views on the status of reality, including the doctrine of other-emptiness promulgated by the fourteenth century Jo-nang savant Shay-rap-gyel-tsen. Presenting accurate and insightful translations of a large amount of material that has never been available in English before, he shows how these topics have been debated among scholars in Tibet over six centuries. Comparing these with presentations in Europe, Japan, and the United States today, he created a lively conversation between normally disparate voices.

Author : Michael A. Evans,Martin J. Packer,R. Keith Sawyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1107659442

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Reflections on the Learning Sciences by Michael A. Evans,Martin J. Packer,R. Keith Sawyer Pdf

This volume offers a historical and critical analysis of the emerging field of the learning sciences, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and improving how children and adults learn. It features a wide range of authors, including established scholars who founded and guided the learning sciences through the initial turbulence of forming a new line of academic inquiry, as well as newcomers who are continuing to shape the field. This diversity allows for a broad yet selective perspective on what the learning sciences are, why they came to be, and how contributors conduct their work. Reflections on the Learning Sciences serves both as a starting point for discussion among scholars familiar with the discipline and as an introduction for those interested in learning more. It will benefit graduate students and researchers in computer science, educational psychology, instructional technology, science, engineering, and mathematics.

Author : Hos, Rabia,Santos, Brenda
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668465349

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Co-Constructing and Sustaining Service Learning in Graduate Programs: Reflections from the Field by Hos, Rabia,Santos, Brenda Pdf

Ensuring doctoral students receive a well-rounded and thorough education is critical for their future success. Service learning within the doctoral program is one of the many aspects that helps shape students’ experiences and prepares them for life after graduation. Co-Constructing and Sustaining Service Learning in Graduate Programs: Reflections from the Field captures the experiences of doctoral students who were involved in socially just and sustainable service-learning projects and what it meant for them to be engaged in scholarship through service-learning. The book also illustrates what service-learning looks like and should look like in higher education particularly given the inequities that exist in the field of education. Covering key topics such as online education, academic identity, and sustainable learning, this reference work is ideal for administrators, policymakers, researchers, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.