City and Enterprise: Corporate Community Involvement in European and Us Cities (Euricur Series European Institute for Comparative Urban Research)

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On January 1 1995, Austria and Sweden joined the European Union (EU). This book analyzes why these two countries joined at such a moment when in fact the EU's development towards neo-liberal economic policy - embodied in the Internal Market and covergence criteria of the Economic and Monetary Union - endangered the traditional Keynesian economic policy making, and at a time when the steps towards a Common Foreign and Security Policy threatened their neutrality.

Integration Through Foreign Direct Investment: Making Central European Industries Competitive (Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies Series,)

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Integration Through Foreign Direct Investment: Making Central European Industries Competitive (Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies Series,)

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This book explores whether foreign direct investment can contribute to the competitiveness of industries in Central Europe and to narrowing the gap between these transition economies and countries within the European Union.

The Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia have attracted substantial FDI since the beginning of their transition to a market economy. Using exhaustive empirical data, the authors demonstrate that foreign investment enterprises in Central Europe have higher allocative efficiency, promote macro- and microeconomic restructuring and foster the restructuring of the manufacturing sector in accordance with the host countries' comparative advantages. The case of Austria is used to demonstrate the possible benefits of FDI. On the other hand, high foreign penetration leads to the concentration of production and exports and makes the economy more vulnerable to external shocks. In addition, there may be unwelcome pressures on economic policy in order to maintain the country's position as a frequented investment target. However, the analysis in this book suggests that, on the whole, economies in transition can become more competitive more rapidly and more profoundly with the help of foreign direct investment.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international economics, European studies, economies of transition and international business.

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A Practical Tool.......2006-06-28

Dr.Sheets has created a practical tool for operationalizing the pedagogy for effective instruction for culturally diverse students.The book shows the connection between Education That Is Multicultural and student achievment.
The book is an excellent resource for both pre-service and in-service teachers.

Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy

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Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy
elizabeth ellsworth
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ASIN: 0415931592

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Places of Learning considers the pedagogical force of "anomalous places of learning"--places outside of schools that provoke us to rethink and reshape the activities of education. Ellsworth explores what it might mean to think of pedagogy not in relation to knowledge as a "thing made," but to knowledge in the making. In so doing, she reconsiders the experience of the learning self and investigates how emerging understandings of human embodiment might be used to stage an interdisciplinary leap into the future of pedagogy.

Culture and Learning: Access and Opportunity in the Classroom (PB) (International Perspectives on Curriculum)

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Culture and Learning: Access and Opportunity in the Classroom (PB) (International Perspectives on Curriculum)

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A volume in International Perspectives on Curriculum

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A comprehensive treatment of the current concern with values in education. In six volumes, a team of over 120 contributors and experts from around the world examine the issues and place them in a context of culture and diversity. Volumes 1 to 3 provide a wide-ranging consideration of the diversity of values in education at all levels, and thus represents a framework for the focus of Volumes 4 to 6, which focus more specifically on values education (moral, religious, spiritual and political). Overall the six volumes bring together the fundamental domain of values with the important issue of pluralism and the world of independent cultural traditions, to generate new, fruitful and progressive reflection and exemplars of good practice. Handomsley bound and printed they are an essential reference tool and represent a significant contribution of interest and benefit to educators, policy makers, parents, academic, researchers and student teachers.
Volume 3 provides a focus on the classroom, pedagogy, curriculum development, such as mathematics and technology, as well as the more familiar terrain of literature and drama. A particularly useful section deals with aesthetic education.

Learning Desire: Perspectives on Pedagogy, Culture, and the Unsaid

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Learning Desire: Perspectives on Pedagogy, Culture, and the Unsaid
Sharon Todd
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What role can desire play in pedagogical interaction? In Learning Desire, contributors from the fields of education, cultural studies, psychoanalysis and literary theory explore the many ways desire intersects with knowledge, recognition, fantasy, and embodiment, and what this can mean for transformative pedagogical practice. While acknowledging the productive and destructive force desire can have on the learning experience, the authors offer engaging, innovative modes of thinking about teaching and thinking about desire as an education tool.

This volume, rooted in theory, is one also geared towards practice; in taking a fresh look at the limits and possibilities of a transformative pedagogy, it will also give teachers and students new languages for articulating their experiences in the classroom and beyond.

Learning Work: A Critical Pedagogy of Work Education (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series)

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Learning Work: A Critical Pedagogy of Work Education (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series)
Roger I. Simon , Don Dippo , and Arleen Schenke
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With increasing attention being given to the idea that education should include some type of vocational or career-related training, concerns have arisen over just how such programs can be effectively implemented to best meet the needs of the teachers, students, and community groups involved. Specifically, teachers and community-based educators have questioned how work education may proceed in a way that provides students with an understanding of "the realities" of life in the job market and at work, while at the same time helping them to increase their effective participation in determining the practices that will define their own working lives. Learning Work directly addresses this concern. Through discussions of teaching methods and actual lesson suggestions, the authors demonstrate how the viewpoint of a critical pedagogy can be used to develop a clear and principled practice of work education. Numerous examples drawn from interviews and classroom observations in a cross-section of urban, suburban, and rural schools are included to illustrate the practical implications of a theory of critical pedagogy. In their introduction, the authors provide a brief discussion of the relationship between a critical pedagogy and work education. The remainder of the book is divided into three parts and begins with chapters that explore the technical issues involved in work education. Separate chapters address the notion of working knowledge, the concepts of skills and work design, and ways in which the learning potential of worksites can be more fully developed through work education programs. The second section examines social relations and includes discussions of workplace relations, occupational health and safety, the interrelationships between work and leisure, and the question of unions. Finally, the authors look at work as an exchange relation and demonstrate how work education can be used to foster self-assessment, help students in the job search and salary negotiation processes, and prepare them for future work opportunities. Practical lesson suggestions are included in each section. An invaluable resource for both teachers and education students, this book makes a substantial contribution to current debates on the place and purpose of work education in our secondary schools, colleges, and community-based service agencies.

Literacy as Praxis: Culture, Language, and Pedagogy

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Catherine Walsh
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This book highlights the socio-political nature of literacy and illuminates the potential in literacy for the empowerment of individuals and communities subordinated by race/ethnicity, culture, language, gender, and class. It addresses the specific reality of literacy for both child and adult language minority populations; it argues that traditional discourses and approaches to literacy justify and maintain literacy deficits and poor school achievement and supports a divergent positioning of minorities and women within the social structure. The book proposes alternative discourses and approaches that draw from both whole language and critical pedagogy. Three major themes organize the volume: literacy, culture, and schooling; the development of language, reading, and writing; and pedagogy, empowerment, and social change. Through examples of child and adult learner-generated text, dialogues, and narratives, the chapters make clear the connection among literacy, knowledge, and power, the potentiality of agency and the transformative possibilities of pedagogy.

Literacy As Social Exchange: Intersections of Class, Gender, and Culture (S U N Y Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning)

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Literacy As Social Exchange: Intersections of Class, Gender, and Culture (S U N Y Series, Literacy, Culture, and Learning)
Maureen M. Hourigan
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The Pedagogical Contract: The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)

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The Pedagogical Contract: The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)
Yun Lee Too
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The Pedagogical Contract explores the relationship between teacher and student and argues for ways of reconceiving pedagogy. It discloses this relationship as one that since antiquity has been regarded as a scene of give-and-take, where the teacher exchanges knowledge for some sort of payment by the student and where pedagogy always runs the risk of becoming a broken contract. The book seeks to liberate teaching and learning from this historical scene and the anxieties that it engenders, arguing that there are alternative ways of conceiving the economy underlying pedagogical activities.

Reading ancient material together with contemporary representations of teaching and learning, Yun Lee Too shows that apart from being conceived as a scene of self-interest in which a professional teacher, or sophist, is the charlatan who cheats his pupil, pedagogy might also purport to be a disinterested process of socialization or a scene in which lack and neediness are redeemed through the realization that they are required precisely to stimulate the desire to learn. The author also argues that pedagogy ideally ignores the imperative of the conventional marketplace for relevance, utility, and productivity, inasmuch as teaching and learning most enrich a community when they disregard the immediate material concerns of the community.

The book will appeal to all those who understand scholarship as having an important social and/or political role to play; it will also be of interest to literary scholars, literary and cultural theorists, philosophers, historians, legal theorists, feminists, scholars of education, sociologists, and political theorists.

Yun Lee Too is Assistant Professor of Classics, Columbia University. She is the author of Rethinking Sexual Harassment; The Rhetoric of Identity in Socrates: Text, Power, Pedagogy; and The Idea of Ancient Literary Criticism, forthcoming; and coeditor, with Niall Livingstone, of Pedagogy and Power: Rhetorics of Classical Learning.

Reconstructing the Lifelong Learner: Pedagogies of Individual, Organisational and Social Change

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Reconstructing the Lifelong Learner: Pedagogies of Individual, Organisational and Social Change
Mark Tennant
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This accessible book theorizes education as a vehicle for self change and explores how such theorizing impacts on the practices of educators. The book takes a case-study approach in order to bring theories to practice and to demonstrate the unconscious learning processes of self-monitoring, self-evaluation, self-appraisal and critical reflection.

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