books about: participatory     books:       The Quest For Executive Effectiveness: Turning Vision Inside-Out: Charismatic-Participatory Leadership2 reviews PhD Ann M. O'Roark Blue Dolphin Publishing, Inc, 2000 Back to Basics A basic understanding of what makes people tick, fundamentals of emotion and motivation, are related to executive effectiveness in a way that anyone can understand by Ann O'Roark, who distills her many years of experience with managers in the workplace into perspectives useful to leaders and would-be leaders in any type of setting or organization. Her examples demonstrate clearly how a ...             The Art of Play: The New Genre of Interactive Theatre2 reviews Gary Izzo Heinemann Drama, 1997 The Art of Play is a wonderful tool! Very informative! The Art of Play is a marvelous tool to accompany any artisitic endeavor that involves actors dealing directly and intimately with their audience. I found the techniques in the book to be clear and useful. Nothing extraneous or difficult to understand. Suddenly the world of intereative improvisation makes sense to me. I would recommend this book and it's companion, "Acting Interactive Theater" ...             The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universe (Arkana)3 reviews Henryk Skolimowski Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995 A Theory of Becoming Henryk Skolimowski postulates that in order to usher in a new society propagating peace, harmony, and wholeness, we must change our perspectives of what is valued. To do so, we must look within ourselves, at our society, our culture, and the communal cosmos in which we all reside. We are all co-creting, he might say; making reality as we participate with everything around us in a holistic ...             Revisioning Transpersonal Theory : A Participatory Vision of Human Spirituality (Suny Series in Transpersonal ...3 reviews Jorge N. Ferrer, Richard Tarnas State University of New York Press, 2001 quesionning your quest this book is verry helpful to help you to ask yourself some good questions regarding your inner journey. It hilights many potential pittfals encountered in the transpersonal practices and anchor them in a tentative new encompassing approach. The most important point for me, after two years of practice of holotropic breathwork, was the dangers of an approach too exclusively experiential, which is ...             Participatory Workshops: A Sourcebook of 21 Sets of Ideas and Activities2 reviews Robert Chambers Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2002 Full of great ideas! This book apart from telling you what to use in your workshops, it also tells you what not to do and why! Being a professor for more than 20 years, I recommend this book.             Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making28 reviews Sam Kaner, Lenny Lind, ... New Society Pub, 1996 Easy to use, including both brilliant and basic techniques. Easy to use, including both brilliant and basic techniques. This is the kind of book an experienced facilitator can read and get a lot out of, and would provide an excellent foundation of both theory and skills for a novice. Also the kind of book you can just pick up with a specific meeting or issue in mind and find something to help you work it. I've been facilitating for years and bought myself ...             Participatory Employee Ownership : How It Works : Best Practices In Employee Ownership2 reviews John Logue, Karen Thomas, ... Kent Popular Pr, 1998 Wonderful primer on employee ownership This is a good beginning book on employee ownership that is written in a down-to-earth style that makes it easy to understand the technical financial and legal jargon. I highly recommend it !             Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)4 reviews Henry Jenkins Routledge, 1992 Dining at the Television Buffet Jenkins starts by dispelling the stereotype of the media fan as teenaged geek in Spock ears, and explores the very real and dynamic interactions between fans and their media. He has a clear understanding of the subject and a good relationship with the people whose culture he describes, as well as a readable and intelligent style of writing. The book is not only interesting but also fun to ...             Looking Forward: Participatory Economics for the Twenty First Century4 reviews Michael Albert, Robin Hahnel South End Press, 1999 Anarchist visions... Looking Forward is the introductory manifesto of the participatory economics movement. The book is meant to give anarchists, socialist-libertarians, and idealists in general a positive alternative to capitalism, centralized economies, and market socialism. It is always interesting how one can draw comparisons between the far right and the far left. Milton Friedman, in Capitalism and Freedom, ...             Theatre for Community Conflict and Dialogue: The Hope Is Vital Training Manual4 reviews Michael Rohd Heinemann Drama, 1998 Improvisational Theatre as an Aid to Society Michael Rohd is currently doing exciting work across the country, using improvisational theater techniques to connect with young people and communities in ways that echo Paul Sills' original intention when he founded The Compass Players and Second City: to connect viscerally with the community to create a dialogue for social change. As Jeffrey Sweet documented in his book "Something ...             Facilitating Sustainable Agriculture: Participatory Learning and Adaptive Management in Times of ...1 review Cambridge University Press, 1998 A much welcomed volume on sustainable agriculture This much welcomed volume begins with the disquieting fact that high-energy, chemical-input and intensive farming continues as the dominant model for agricultural development, with all its increasingly unacceptable hazards to human health, ecosystems and the landscape. As an alternative, the book looks to the development of more sustainable, productive and less destructive forms of resource ...             Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century2 reviews AK Press, 2008 Practical visions of the good society! Expanding upon Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel's theory of parecon, "Real Utopia" is an inspiring anthology of essays by left libertarian activists exploring the possibilities of a directly democratic, participatory, ecologically sustainable society based on egalitarianism, diversity, workers' self-management, solidarity, and the social ownership of the means of production. Rejecting the mandates ...             Social Capital and Internet Usage of Rural Guatemalan Teachers: Participatory Rural Appraisal Interviews and ...2 reviews Douglas Tedford VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009 A Superb Educational Resource! This book reveals the barriers facing rural Guatemalan educators seeking higher education online, including insufficient pay, distance and lack of experience with technology. Dr. Tedford's study makes obvious the need to concentrate on Internet training and access issues. Interviews in original Spanish with English translations are poignant and surprising, and shed light on educational barriers ...             Can the Poor Influence Policy: Participatory Poverty Assessments in the Developing World1 review, 1999 Experience-based review of the use and influence of PPAs Can the Poor Influence Policy? is a clear and authoritative review of experience with the major new phenomenon of Participatory Poverty Assesssments (PPAs). Caroline Robb documents the scale and depth of a quiet revolution in thinking and practice with profound implications for development professionalism and policy. She shows how participatory methods and approaches can enable poor people ...             Research Conversations and Narrative: A Critical Hermeneutic Orientation in Participatory Inquiry2 reviews Ellen A. Herda Praeger Publishers, 1999 Research Conversations and Narrative This excellent book provides a theoretical and ontological underpinning for action in the real world of work, particularly work that cuts across diverse peoples and cultures. It gives a historical perspective of hermeneutics and provides a comprehensive critical hermeneutic framework for thinking about organizational, socioeconomic and cultural agendas that enables adults to work together and ...             Why America Stopped Voting: The Decline of Participatory Democracy and the Emergence of Modern American ...2 reviews, 1999 Kornbluh is a great teacher. Mark Kornbluh was my history professor at Washington University in St. Louis and is the best teacher I've ever had. You'd be hard pressed to find an academic working today who is as good as Kornbluh at tying historical to current events and making historical subjects relevant and meaningful to today's audiences. With candidates gearing up for the 2000 election cycle and the Internet rapidly ...             Cultivating Inspired Leaders: Making Participatory Management Work1 review Bruce Lansdale Kumarian Press, 2000 A different slant on leadership It seems to me that there are two broad categories of leader - those seeking earthly rewards and those seeking heavenly rewards. There is a wealth of material on those in the first category and by going to university or wading through a multitude of books you can acquire the leadership skills required. There are not so many books available regarding the leadership skills of the second category. ...             Cancer on the Margins: Method and Meaning in Participatory Research1 review Judy Gould, Jennifer Nelson, ... University of Toronto Press, 2009 Highly recommended particularly for college and medical school library collections Compiled and collaboratively edited by the team of Jennifer J. Nelson, Judy Gould, and Sue Keller-Olaman, "Cancer on the Margins: Method and Meaning in Participatory Research" collects essays by diverse authors reporting the findings of the Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Initiative, an organization formed expressly to learn more about the experiences of women with breast cancer who ...             Aramis Deceives: Second in the Participatory Series1 review Richard A. Sockey IV CreateSpace, 2009 Literary Mind Trip This was an interesting book! I heard about it from a friend of a friend in my community. So, I decided to buy it. The author has a strange style of writing yet I became completely engaged after several chapters. I had a very distorted perspective of this world after completing my reading of this book. It is a good read for a candle-lit rainy day.             Adult ESL/Literacy From the Community to the Community: A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training1 review Elsa Auerbach, Byron Barahona, ... Routledge, 1996 Community Literacy Programs By and For the Community Elsa Auerbach is the leading practitioner in the U.S. of the theories of Brazilian educator Paolo Freire. In this book she discusses an adult ESL/Literacy project in Boston that involved training immigrants, who had themselves learned English, to become tutors. According to Auerbach, and Freire, the goal of literacy education is more than just teaching students to read and write. 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