books about: participatory     books:       "Letting Them Die": Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail (African Issues) Catherine Campbell Indiana University Press, 2003 "In the old South Africa we killed people. Now we're just letting them die." —Pieter Dirk Uys, South African satirist Today in South Africa, HIV/AIDS kills about 5 in 10 young people. Many of the victims are miners and commercial sex workers who ply their trade in mining communities. In this critique of government-sponsored and privately funded HIV/AIDS prevention programs in South Africa, Catherine Campbell exposes why it has been so ...             Textual Poachers (Studies in Culture and Communication) Taylor & Francis, 2007 "Get a life," William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active producers and skilled manipulators of program meanings, as nomadic ...             The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Sage Publications, Inc, 2005 The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, Third Edition , represents the state of art for the theory and practice of qualitative inquiry. Built on the foundations of the landmark First and Second Editions (1994, 2000), the Third Edition moves qualitative research boldly into the 21st century. The editors and authors ask how the practices of qualitative inquiry can be used to address issues of social justice in this new century.               Promoting Positive Racial Teacher-Student Classroom Relationships Derrick L. Campbell Derrick L. Campbell, 2008 Most schools do not recognize the impact that our cultural differences have on student achievement.  The Promoting Positive Racial Teacher-Student Classroom Relationships book outlines the entire process that will increase student achievement by reducing student discipline. The book includes all research theories and administrator and teacher leadership qualities necessary to increase school effectiveness. Findings from this study contain ...             The Participatory Museum Nina Simon Museum 2.0, 2010 Visitor participation is a hot topic in the contemporary world of museums, art galleries, science centers, libraries and cultural organizations. How can your institution do it and do it well? The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to working with community members and visitors to make cultural institutions more dynamic, relevant, essential places. Museum consultant and exhibit designer Nina Simon weaves together innovative design ...             Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making Sam Kaner, Lenny Lind, ... New Society Pub, 1996 "The best book on collaboration ever written!" —Diane Flannery, founding CEO, Juma Ventures And now this classic book is even better—much better. Completely revised and updated, the second edition is loaded with new tools and techniques. Two powerful new chapters on agenda design A full section devoted to reaching closure More than twice as many tools for handling difficult dynamics 70 brand-new pages and over 100 pages ...             Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education: In Quest of a U.S. Democratic Politics of Literacy George Demetrion Routledge, 2004 The book provides a historical overview of adult literacy theory, policy, practice, and research from the mid-1980s to the present. The main focus is a descriptive analysis of three distinctive schools of literacy: the Freirean-based participatory literacy movement grounded in oppositional politics and grass-roots community activism; the British-based New Literacy Studies that focuses on the ways in which diverse students utilize various ...             The Art of Critical Pedagogy: Possibilities for Moving from Theory to Practice in Urban Schools Jeffrey M. Duncan-Andrade, Ernest Morrell Peter Lang Publishing, 2008 This book furthers the discussion concerning critical pedagogy and its practical applications for urban contexts. It addresses two looming, yet under-explored questions that have emerged with the ascendancy of critical pedagogy in the educational discourse: (1) What does critical pedagogy look like in work with urban youth? and (2) How can a systematic investigation of critical work enacted in urban contexts simultaneously draw upon and push the ...             Schools for the 21st Century: Leadership Imperatives for Educational Reform (Jossey-Bass Education Series) Phillip C. Schlechty Jossey-Bass, 1991 "Schlechty's common-sense approach to restructuring is combined with a strategic planner's vision and the translation of beliefs into action... A wide audience, including principals and superintAndents, can find in this book practical outlines for restructuring, and a distinctive and focused view of their role in the educational system sof the twenty-first century." --The School Administrator Schlechty provides an innovative, adaptable ...             Asian American Communities and Health: Context, Research, Policy, and Action (Public Health/Vulnerable ... Jossey-Bass, 2009 This ground-breaking textbook examines Asian American health from a public health perspective. It provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that influence the distribution of disease and illness in Asian American communities. The book explores the diversity within the Asian community with respect to health seeking behavior and knowledge, socioeconomic status, educational level, cultural traditions, and specific ...             Managing Business Complexity: Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation Michael J. North, Charles M. Macal Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS), a way to simulate a large number of choices by individual actors, is one of the most exciting practical developments in business modeling since the invention of relational databases. It represents a new way to understand data and generate information that has never been available before--a way for businesses to view the future and to understand and anticipate the likely effects of their decisions on ...             Media, Markets, and Democracy (Communication, Society and Politics) C. Edwin Baker Cambridge University Press, 2001 Giving people the media they want is thought to justify the move toward deregulation that has swept media policy circles. Freedom of the press is thought to require resistance to government interventions in the media realm. This book uses economic and democratic theory to undermine the premises of both beliefs. It also relies on these theories to evaluate journalistic practice, to recommend appropriate governmental policy toward the media, and ...             Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, With a New Preface by the Author James Miller Harvard University Press, 1994 On June 12, 1962, sixty young student activists drafted a manifesto for their generation— The Port Huron Statement —that ignited a decade of dissent. Democracy Is in the Streets is the definitive history of the major people and ideas that shaped the New Left in America during that turbulent decade. Because the 1960s generation is now moving into positions of power in politics, education, the media, and business, their early history is ...             Everyone Wants Your Money: Helping You Navigate Through Philanthropy Gray Keller AuthorHouse, 2010 Do you ever feel tired of everyone wanting your money? Do you ever get frustrated from sorting through the many charity letters, requesting you for more money? Do you ever wonder if your donation really helps? If you answer yes, then you know the burdens that come from giving. Whether it is a small grassroots nonprofit in your hometown or national appeals on television to dial in your donation, then you understand that it takes wisdom and ...             Joining In: An Anthology of Audience Participation Stories and How to Tell Them Teresa Miller, Anne Pellowski Yellow Moon Press, 1988 Now in its fifth printing, this anthology features stories by Heather Forest, Doug Lipman, Norma Livo, Anne Pellowski, Diane Wolkstein, Bill Harley, and 12 more tellers. The stories are from African, Indian, Native American, and other cultures; some are original. Each of the 18 stories includes notes by the contributor on how to encourage the audience to participate in the telling of the story. The first in our series, this anthology provides a ...             Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century Michael Albert, Robin Hahnel South End Press, 1999             Starving the Artist: How the Internet Culture of "Free" Threatens to Exterminate the Creative Class, and What ... William F. Aicher CreateSpace, 2010 For a lot of people, creation is their livelihood. For others, it's where their livelihood ought to be. As Richard Florida wrote in his 2004 book, The Rise of the Creative Class, "Stimulating and glamorous as it may sometimes be, creativity is in fact work...The creative ethos is built on discipline and focus, sweat and blood." All music, art, movies, writings and games were brought into being by their creators - and for these creators to have ...             Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry Sage Publications, Inc, 2007 Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry, Third Edition , the second volume in the paperback version of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd Edition , consists of Part III of the handbook (“Strategies of Inquiry”). Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry, Third Edition presents the major tactics-historically, the research methods-that researchers can utilize in conducting concrete qualitative studies. The chapter topics range ...             Hill Billy Highway: The Odyssey of an Ugly American Loose at the Dawn of the 21st Century Weird Load Media, 2011 Hillbilly Highway is a journey through the tattered American landscape at the end of the Bush Era. From Her bars, back streets, country roads, and awe inspiring big sky deserts, journalist Chad Nance takes a journey into the absurd heart of a nation he dearly loves. Come along on the misadventures…The last of the Yippies leads from Greenwich Village to a clandestine clinic in the Mexican border town of Agua Prieta. It’s Splinter Cell meets ...             The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation: Best Practices from the Leading Organization in Facilitation (J-B ... Jossey-Bass, 2005 Sponsored by the International Association of Facilitators, The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation offers the need-to-know basics in the field brought together by fifty leading practitioners and scholars. This indispensable resource includes successful strategies and methods, foundations, and resources for anyone who works with groups.  The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation provides an overview of the field for new and aspiring ...              search for books agent-based, association, communication, communities, complexity, conflicting, decision-making, democratic, discovering, educational, exterminate, facilitation, facilitator, facilitators, imperatives, international, jossey-bass, organization, participation, participatory, philanthropy, populations, possibilities, prevention, programmes, qualitative, relationships, simulation, strategies, teacher-student books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen outdoor living: Smart Solar 0400RM1 Solar Mole and Gopher Chaser home  impressum - about us