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Creating diagrams is an art—a techne—shared across the several of the seven liberal arts. This richly illustrated volume explores how music has been conceived, taught, and imagined through diagrams from antiquity to the modern era. Musical diagrams can condense theory...
In this edited book we argue that we are now involved in a struggle over the soul of educators and that means resisting the neoliberalizing policy regime that mostly governs through asserting a narrow, technicist, and individualistic definition of what it means to be a...
Aus nachvollziehbaren Gründen hat sich die Wissenschaft von der nationalhistorischen Perspektive abgewandt, die die Entwicklung der modernen Philologien im 19. und in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts maßgeblich geprägt hat. Seit 1945 hat sich jedoch in den Kultur-...
This book explores how the cultural knowledge of Indigenous African Elders and educational practitioners can transform education in Canada and beyond. Drawing on research in Ghana, South Africa, and Canada, it examines how Elders’ wisdom rooted in Indigenous ontologies,...
What might research become if it began with reverence for Black women’s lives? This book explores how Black women and girls—when centered as both researchers and the researched—reshape the norms, ethics, and methodologies of qualitative inquiry. Blessed Positionality...
This book challenges the deficit narratives in science education that marginalize children from lower-income communities by failing to recognize their science know-how. Through personal narrative and critical practitioner inquiry, the author examines her own complicity...
Today, more than ever, there is an urgency to document the experiences of minoritized communities in education across the United States. The education scholars featured in this book use LatCrit as a theoretical framework to critically question structures, curricula, and...
Often equated with control and domination, mastery, if left unchecked, leads to annihilation and colonization of otherness. Mastery is also evident in intellectual humility, in conceding that humans will only ever have a partial understanding of the universe. This...
The Grand Song of the Dong Ethnic Group, often termed as the Dong grand songs for short, is an enchanting gem within the vast tapestry of human intangible cultural heritage. This comprehensive volume examines the Dong grand songs from the dual perspectives of the...
The book offers a thorough review of the historical evolution of the economic theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics since the reform and opening-up, systematically analyzing the substantial achievements and significant successes China has made over the past...
In the dynamic world of college athletics, a transformative shift is underway—one that revolves around the concept of "Name, Image, and Likeness" (NIL). This volume marks the commencement of our exploration into the profound changes sweeping through the collegiate...
En organologie, l’instrument de musique pose de multiples questions et peut être étudié sous de nombreux angles. Sur quels critères morphologiques distinguer un instrument d’autre?? Comment les techniques de jeu ont-elles évolué?? Comment les noms d’instruments...
The book is based on more than fifteen thousand pages of Ronald Reagan’s speeches, addresses, press conferences, memoranda, proclamations, and letters, as well as his autobiography.The first part is dedicated to detailed interpretations of the use, function, and meaning...
This book delves deep into the remarkable transformation of Chinese children, who now represent the nation’s future and hope. With “Chinese children” as the central focus and national policies and statistical data as the basis, it explores the Chinese government’s...
This book offers an innovative perspective on trilingual education (English, Spanish, and Catalan) in primary schools through the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) approach. Drawing on a large-scale study in the Valencian Community, it explores how...
For teachers, crafting effective explanations is a daily challenge, especially without a clear framework. This gap between theoretical constructivist principles and practical, actionable guidance often leaves educators unprepared. This book addresses that void...
The sciences of literacy and place-based education have historically been on two separate tracks. InThe Learning Landscape, Alvera McMillan persuasively brings them together. Working with “challenged readers,” she demonstrates that place-based approaches to literacy are...
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), artist, writer and adventurer, is one of the most celebrated American modernists, but he remains a controversial figure because of his political activism and personal life. This book emphasizes the interplay between Kent’s public persona and...
Debates and discourses surrounding migration—particularly in Europe—are dominated by narratives centred on security and crisis management. The distortion this creates in the public perception of migrants, alongside the xenophobia it indirectly fuels, obscures the...
In the Gettysburg Address of 1863, Abraham Lincoln famously declared that ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth’. Since then the phrase has become the proverbial definition of American democracy.In this book,...
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