Author: Michael StapletonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780600332374
Category : Mythology, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Hamlyn Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Mythology
Author: Michael StapletonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780600332374
Category : Mythology, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Greek and Roman Mythology, A to Z
Author: Kathleen N. DalyPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438128002
Category : Mythology, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Alphabetically listed entries identify and explain the characters, events, important places, and other aspects of Greek and Roman mythology.
The Pocket Guide to Saint Paul
Author: Peter LewisPublisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 9781862545625
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Guide to the life and travels of the Apostle Paul from both theological and numismatic perspectives. Traces his various missionary tours and the coins he would have encountered on his travels. Includes colour and black-and-white photos, maps, bibliography and index. Authors are numismatists specialising in coins relating to the early history of Christianity. Lewis has an honours degree in Divinity from the University of London and is a medical practitioner on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Bolden's expertise is in the area of coin restoration and identification. Both are members of the Australian Numismatic Society.
Trying to Teach in a Season of Great Untruth
Author: David Geoffrey SmithPublisher: Sense Publishers
ISBN: 9077874623
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
These essays address contemporary issues in teaching, curriculum and pedagogy through tensions arising from the processes of globalization and empire. Of particular significance are the prejudices of Homo Oeconomicus or Economic Man (sic) that reduce the most profound of human relations, like those between the young and their elders, to an evermore constraining grammar of profit and loss. The predations of empire in turn divide the world into a site of war between friends and enemies, winners and losers. The times are dangerous, and educators need to speak to the world from the wisdom of their experience of standing with the young, for whom alone the future may still be open.
Forms of Curriculum Inquiry
Author: Edmund C. ShortPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791406496
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This book presents an overview of seventeen forms of inquiry used in curriculum research in education. Conventional disciplinary forms of inquiry, such as philosophical, historical, and scientific, are described, as well as more recently acknowledged forms such as ethnographic, aesthetic, narrative, phenomenological, and hermeneutic. Interdisciplinary forms such as theoretical, normative, critical, deliberative, and action research are also included. These forms of inquiry are distinguished from one another in terms of purposes, types of research questions addressed, and the processes and logic of procedure employed in arriving at knowledge claims.
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Author: CONFLUENCES Intercultural Journeying in Research and Teaching
Author: David Geoffrey SmithPublisher: IAP
ISBN: 1641138262
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In this book, Canadian scholar David Geoffrey Smith reflects on over thirty years of research and teaching in the human sciences, including education. Written between 1986 and 2018, the essays are organized around four themes: Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences; The Poststructuralist Turn; Globalization and Its Discontents; East/West Encounters and the Search for Wisdom. As a historical guide through the defining discourses in the human sciences, this volume could well serve as an introductory text for graduate students in education and other cognate disciplines like nursing, recreation and cultural studies. The writing can be described as a form of meditative praxis, while the emphasis on interculturality addresses issues in literacy, pedagogy, politics, critical thinking, teacher education, and cultural healing from a geopolitical perspective, drawing on insights from both Western and Eastern traditions and the author’s personal experience of being born in China and raised in Central Africa (Northern Rhodesia/Zambia). Praise for CONFLUENCES: Careful study of the essays in this collection has been an inspiration, primarily because of Professor David Geoffrey Smith's deep commitments to the organic interpretability of life, and living in the interests of generativity, hope and good faith. In curricular and pedagogical terms, these commitments arise from sustained study of the various inheritances, philosophical and otherwise, that circulate around deliberations concerning children, education, and knowledge deemed of most value. As an Indigenous scholar, and someone committed to uncovering the unnamed colonial logics that continue to govern and structure formal education, I find especially helpful Professor Smith’s untangling of the roots of the Euro-American power nexus and its ongoing difficulties in creatively engaging traditions outside of its own self-determinations. As Professor Smith teaches through this work, it is in the careful hermeneutic practice of tracing out the lineages of the past, and revealing their potential for openness in the present, that the possibility of saying something hopeful about the future emerges. Dwayne Donald Ph.D. Associate Professor Curriculum Studies and Indigenous Wisdom Traditions Department of Secondary Education University of Alberta, Canada Now and then a clear and authentic voice emerges from the surrounding cacophony as the machinery of the education establishment relentlessly grinds away: a voice of conscience and wisdom rising above the babble of technocratic, bureaucratic, ideological, and market-driven survivalism that permeates educational discourse today. I recognize such a voice in this newest book by Canadian educator Professor David Geoffrey Smith. Smith’s “reading the world,” to use Paulo Freire’s expression, is particularly helpful to us in today’s world teeter-tottering between denial and panic. I firmly believe that any hope for sanity in our time rests in our collectively and individually investigating how we have gotten ourselves into this current material and existential predicament. Smith’s investigation shows an incredible intellectual depth of understanding gained through plumbing Western and Eastern philosophical traditions in an intercultural life journey on three continents through forty years of teaching and research. I delight in hearing his voice of wisdom that insists, for instance, that the nature of reality cannot be reduced to “any human construct, scientific or otherwise” and that we must “die into a new human freedom found in the joy of a new shared reality.” Ultimately, his is a voice of unwavering hopefulness and a gaze that courageously faces a challenging world. I value his work more than any others’ in the contemporary curriculum theory field. Heesoon Bai Professor, Philosophy of Education Simon Fraser University, Canada
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography
Author: Helene E. RobertsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787933
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Pedagon
Author: David Geoffrey SmithPublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Pedagon, a collection of essays by Canadian scholar David Geoffrey Smith, exemplifies a new genre of interdisciplinary writing. Drawing on such discourses as hermeneutics, literary theory, international relations theory, media and technology studies, Buddhism, and education, Professor Smith weaves a series of illuminating and provocative tapestries that find their focus in questions relating the practices of culture to the conduct of pedagogy.
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