Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
23 Octobre 2015
9781454189961
In the Western world it is usually taken as given that we all want happiness, and our educational arrangements tacitly acknowledge this. Happiness, Hope, and Despair argues, however, that education has an important role to play in deepening our understanding of suffering and despair as well as happiness and joy. Education can be uncomfortable, unpredictable, and unsettling; it can lead to greater uncertainty and unhappiness. Drawing on the work of Søren Kierkegaard, Miguel de Unamuno, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Simone Weil, Paulo Freire, and others, Peter Roberts shows why these features of educational life need not be feared; to the contrary, they can be seen as a source of hope and human fulfilment. After years of negotiating an education system dominated by the language of competition, performance, and economic advancement, students and teachers often long for something different; they seek not just measurable success but also opportunities to ask searching questions of themselves and the world they encounter. Happiness, Hope, and Despair makes an important contribution toward meeting this need. It fosters a rethinking of the nature, purpose, and value of education, and opens up possibilities for further scholarly and professional inquiry.
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
4 Juillet 2022
9781433161278
This book provides a fresh perspective on the work of the influential educationist, Paulo Freire. The author emphasizes both the coherence and the dynamism in Freire's thought, with some consistent core concepts, but also a strong commitment to ongoing reflection and development. The book includes a detailed overview of Freire's biography, major publications, and key ideas, but also adds a distinctive voice to existing conversations in the new comparisons it makes with other writers and thinkers, its Freirean analysis of policy developments and pedagogical relationships at the tertiary level, and its consideration of ethical and educational questions in the light of lessons from literature. The Freirean virtues of openness, humility, tolerance, trust, and rigor are found to be highly relevant to today's world. The hope is that this book will provide a number of avenues for further inquiry in the future, while also addressing educational questions and themes of interest to a wide range of scholars and practitioners in the present.
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
10 Avril 2023
9781636670997
Often regarded as one of life's few certainties, death is both instantly familiar to us and deeply mysterious. Death is everywhere, yet few of us take the time to consider its significance in shaping human lives. This book addresses the difficult, complex, sensitive subject of death from a unique point of view. Drawing on insights from philosophers across the ages, the authors argue that death is a matter of profound educational importance. Paying particular attention to thinkers in the existentialist tradition, Philosophy, Death and Education shows that our understanding of death can play a key role in determining what, how and why we teach and learn. Death exerts an influence, often unnoticed, on our commitments and priorities, our ideals and relationships. A thoughtful examination of death, the authors suggest, can help us to see ourselves in a new light, and in so doing, allow us to better appreciate what others have to offer.
Urban Regeneration is widely discussed but less widely understood. Fully revised with important new policy, case studies and international analysis, the Second Edition of Urban Regeneration will correct that. The 16 chapters, written by leading experts, are organised into four sections: The Context for Urban Regeneration: The history and evolution Major Themes and Topics: Including Housing, Community, Employment and the Environment Key Issues in Managing Urban Regeneration: Including Legal and Organisational considerations Experience Elsewhere and a View of the Future: Expanded section now discussing Australia and the Celtic Fringe as well as Europe and the USA This is the essential handbook for practitioners involved in regeneration, as well as students of planning, urban studies, geography and architecture.
Best-seller mondial de la littérature manageriale dans les années 80, le livre de Tom Peters et Robert H. Waterman, alors consultants chez McKinsey, étudie les modèles de performance. Les auteurs analysent les ressorts de la réussite des entreprises et présentent 8 règles fondamentales de l'excellence :
Privilégier l'action
Rester à l'écoute du client
Favoriser l'autonomie et l'innovation
Asseoir la productivité sur la motivation du personnel
Se mobiliser autour de valeurs-clés
Préserver une structure simple
Allier souplesse et rigueur
S'en tenir à ce que l'on sait faire.
Si certaines des entreprises présentées en exemple n'ont pas tenu leurs promesses, les idées de bon sens sur les fondements de la réussite, et la simplicité du style demeurent totalement actuelles et font de ce texte un grand classique.
Après le décès des 4 oncles de Stéphane, celui-ci est le seul héritier d'un château en Vendée et de son domaine. Mais la propriété est en mauvais état et le notaire dévoile un codicille au testament : l'héritier devra garder, sur le domaine, un personnage qui y vit depuis 40 ans. Qui est-il ? A-t-il des liens familiaux avec Stéphane ? Des événements troublants se produisent. La vérité est bien gardée, mais elle finira par éclater.
L'histoire se déroule de nos jours, dans la Venise verte, sur les berges de l'Autise. Trois veufs y vivent avec leurs souvenirs, mais les mauvaises langues s'activent pour faire remonter de la vase des canaux des trahisons anciennes. Le tout avec le souvenir de Rabelais, qui fut moine en l'abbaye voisine de Maillezais, et dont les traces demeurent, sinon dans les mémoires, du moins dans le substrat de la rivière. Le tout géré par un bal de grenouilles et quatre Naïades dont les voix font chavirer les coeurs. Humour, malice, fantaisie, humanité.
William Steer est Anglais, bien intégré dans ce village du sud Vendée, jusqu'à cette altercation avec Didier Rapin qui lui reproche de venir "manger le pain des Français"... Mais la tenue des élections municipales où ces deux personnages vont se retrouver sur les deux listes adverses, l'étrange demande de Didier Rapin à William Steer d'apprendre l'anglais à sa femme, bouleversent la donne. Un roman où l'humour anglais le "dispute" à la finesse de l'analyse psychologique bienveillante des personnages.
The Antwerp painter Jan de Beer (c.1475-1527/28) was highly esteemed in his lifetime and still famous a couple of generations after his death, but then fell into oblivion until the early twentieth century. Only recently have his achievements been fully recognized and documented. The artist's known oeuvre consists of forty works, mainly devotional paintings and triptychs but also a dozen drawings and a stained glass window, after a lost design. De Beer's stylish and elegant art appealed to patrons and collectors, churches abroad, and copyists. His work is typically associated with that of the Antwerp Mannerists, a prominent group of mostly anonymous painters active in the city during his lifetime.
Few books on statistical data analysis in the natural sciences are written at a level that a non-statistician will easily understand. This is a book written in colloquial language, avoiding mathematical formulae as much as possible, trying to explain statistical methods using examples and graphics instead. To use the book efficiently, readers should have some computer experience. The book starts with the simplest of statistical concepts and carries readers forward to a deeper and more extensive understanding of the use of statistics in environmental sciences. The book concerns the application of statistical and other computer methods to the management, analysis and display of spatial data. These data are characterised by including locations (geographic coordinates), which leads to the necessity of using maps to display the data and the results of the statistical methods. Although the book uses examples from applied geochemistry, and a large geochemical survey in particular, the principles and ideas equally well apply to other natural sciences, e.g., environmental sciences, pedology, hydrology, geography, forestry, ecology, and health sciences/epidemiology. The book is unique because it supplies direct access to software solutions (based on R, the Open Source version of the S-language for statistics) for applied environmental statistics. For all graphics and tables presented in the book, the R-scripts are provided in the form of executable R-scripts. In addition, a graphical user interface for R, called DAS+R, was developed for convenient, fast and interactive data analysis. Statistical Data Analysis Explained: Applied Environmental Statistics with R provides, on an accompanying website, the software to undertake all the procedures discussed, and the data employed for their description in the book.
Cet ouvrage de référence dresse un panorama exhaustif de toutes les étapes de la réalisation d'un document imprimé, des premières phases de conception et de planification aux étapes techniques de fabrication et de finitions.
À la fois petite encyclopédie et guide pratique à garder à portée de main, ce livre très illustré sera d'une aide précieuse pour les étudiants des industries graphiques comme pour les professionnels (graphistes, fabricants, imprimeurs, etc.).
Toutes les notions théoriques indispensables abordées au fil des chapitres (polices, couleur, formats d'images, archivage, épreuvage, films, papiers, impression, finitions, etc.) sont accompagnées de conseils pratiques et d'exemples d'applications concrets. Et puisque ceux qui ont à concevoir des documents imprimés doivent savoir dialoguer avec leurs fournisseurs, La Chaîne graphique sera également un outil idéal pour tous les professionnels de la communication (services de communication, services marketing, agences de publicité).
Le vieil homme sur le toit est le premier roman publié de Peter Robert Scott. L'auteur y déploie un art consommé de l'observation humaine, une sensibilité extrême qui fait de ce récit une oeuvre pleine d'émotions et de profondeur de sentiments, construite avec habileté, sans oublier la marque de fabrique d'un auteur britannique : l'humour !
Le vieil homme sur le toit est lauréat du Prix 2016 Lions Club International.
Peter Robert Scott a découvert la Vendée en 1972, pour sa lune de miel. Dix-huit ans plus tard, il achetait une maison à Liez, près de Maillezais, dans le sud Vendée, la rénovait et s'y installait définitivement. Il laissait derrière lui, en Angleterre, une carrière d'acteur et de dramaturge développée dans la langue de Shakespeare. Il est né à Londres un 14 juillet, une date prédestinée pour choisir la France et y devenir romancier. Il écrit maintenant dans la langue de Molière.
Best-seller mondial de la littérature managériale des années 80, le livre de Tom Peters et Robert Waterman, alors consultants chez McKinsey, étudie les ressorts de la réussite des entreprises. Il présente les 8 règles fondamentales de l'excellence, toujours d'actualité.
Ils développent, sur la base de nombreux cas d'entreprises performantes, une théorie du management, dont les principes : coopération avec les parties prenantes (clients et salariés), souplesse de l'organisation, circulation de l'information (que l'on appellerait aujourd'hui « transparence »), mobilisation des salariés autour de valeurs, place centrale de l'humain dans l'entreprise... sont à la base des théories les plus contemporaines de « l'entreprise collaborative ».
Les exemples et le style clair font de ce texte de référence une lecture accessible et enrichissante.
Evidence-Based Practice and Intellectual Disabilities responds to the recent increased focus on, and need for, the use of evidence-based practice (EBP) in treating intellectual disabilities. The first book wholly dedicated to addressing EBP specifically in relation to intellectual disabilities Provides clinical guidelines based on the strength of evidence of treatments for a given problematic behavioral topography or disorder Highly relevant to a wide-ranging audience, including professionals working in community services, clinicians and parents and carers
Volume One of the thoroughly revised and updated guide to the study of biodiversity in insects The second edition of Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society brings together in one comprehensive text contributions from leading scientific experts to assess the influence insects have on humankind and the earth's fragile ecosystems. Revised and updated, this new edition includes information on the number of substantial changes to entomology and the study of biodiversity. It includes current research on insect groups, classification, regional diversity, and a wide range of concepts and developing methodologies. The authors examine why insect biodiversity matters and how the rapid evolution of insects is affecting us all. This book explores the wide variety of insect species and their evolutionary relationships. Case studies offer assessments on how insect biodiversity can help meet the needs of a rapidly expanding human population, and also examine the consequences that an increased loss of insect species will have on the world. This important text: Explores the rapidly increasing influence on systematics of genomics and next-generation sequencing Includes developments in the use of DNA barcoding in insect systematics and in the broader study of insect biodiversity, including the detection of cryptic species Discusses the advances in information science that influence the increased capability to gather, manipulate, and analyze biodiversity information Comprises scholarly contributions from leading scientists in the field Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society highlights the rapid growth of insect biodiversity research and includes an expanded treatment of the topic that addresses the major insect groups, the zoogeographic regions of biodiversity, and the scope of systematics approaches for handling biodiversity data.
Intensive tilapia co-culture is the commercial production of various species of tilapia in conjunction with one or more other marketable species. Tilapia are attractive as a co-cultured fish because of their potential to improve water quality, especially in penaeid shrimp ponds, by consuming plankton and detritus and by altering pathogenic bacterial populations while increasing marketable production. Following introductory chapters covering ecological aspects of co-culture, tilapia feeding habits, historical use, and new models, Tilapia in Intensive Co-Culture is divided into co-culture in freshwater and marine environments. Co-culture core information is presented on Vibrio control, high-rate aquaculture processes, aquaponics, tilapia nutrient profile, and tilapia niche economics and marketing in the U.S, and with carp, catfish, freshwater and marine shrimp in the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia. Tilapia in Intensive Co-Culture is the latest book in the prestigious World Aquaculture Society (WAS) Series, published for WAS by Wiley Blackwell. It will be of great use and interest to researchers, producers, investors and policy makers considering tilapia co-culture in terms of environmental and economic sustainability.
The 14th volume in the series will focus on cutting edge research at the interface of hypoxia and exercise. The work will cover the range from molecular mechanisms of muscle fatigue and muscle wasting to whole body exercise on the world's highest mountains. State of the art papers on training at high altitude for low altitude athletic performance will also be featured.
Despite the numerous benefits derived from major technological and medical innovations of the past century, we continue to live in a world rife with significant social problems and challenges. Children continue to be born into lives of poverty; others must confront daily their parent's mental illness or substance abuse; still others live amid chronic family discord or child abuse. For some of these children, life's difficulties become overwhelming. Their enduring trauma can lead to a downward spiral, until their behavioral and emotional problems become lifelong barriers to success and wellbeing.
Almost no one today would deny that the world is sometimes an inhospitable, even dangerous, place for our youth. Yet most children-even those living in high-risk environments-appear to persevere. Some even flourish. And this begs the question: why, in the face of such great odds, do these children become survivors rather than casualties of their environments? For many decades, scholars have pursued answers to the mysteries of resilience. Now, having culled several decades of research findings, the editors of this volume offer an in-depth, leading-edge description and analysis of Resilience in Children, Families and Communities: Linking Context to Practice and Policy.
The book is divided into three readily accessible sections that both define the scope and limits of resilience as well as provide hands-on programs that families, neighborhoods, and communities can implement. In addition, several chapters provide real-life intervention strategies and social policies that can be readily put into practice. The goal: to enable children to develop more effective problem-solving skills, to help each child to improve his or her self-image, and to define ways in which role models can affect positive outcomes throughout each child's lifetime.
For researchers, clinicians, and students, Resilience in Children,Families and Communities: Linking Context to Practice and Policy is an essential addition to their library. It provides practical information to inform greater success in the effort to encourage resilience in all children and to achieve positive youth development.
This integrated collection of perspectives on the spaces of teaching and learning uses `learning space' to place educational practice in context. It considers the complex relationships involved in the design, management and use of contemporary learning spaces. It sheds light on some of the problems of connecting the characteristics of spaces to the practices and outcomes of teaching and learning. The contributions show how research into learning spaces can inform broader educational practices and how the practices of teaching, learning and design can inform research. The selection of chapters demonstrates the value of gathering together multiple sources of evidence, viewed through different epistemological lenses in order to push the field forward in a timely fashion. The book provides both a broad review of current practices as well as a deep-dive into particular educational and epistemological challenges that the various approaches adopted entail. Contrasts and commonalities between the different approaches emphasise the importance of developing a broad, robust evidence-base for practice in context. This is the inaugural book in the series Understanding Teaching-Learning Practice.
