Emanzipation

The beautiful risk of education

by Biesta, Gert

fromInterventions (Paradigm Publishers)

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"This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W.B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there …

The beautiful risk of education

by Biesta, Gert

fromInterventions (Paradigm Publishers)

0 Type: Book

"This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W.B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there …

The beautiful risk of education

by Biesta, Gert

fromInterventions (Paradigm Publishers)

0 Type: Book

"This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W.B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there …

Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere: Re-Thinking Emancipation

by Hewlett, Nick

fromContinuum studies in American philosophy

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Examines the important contributions of three giants of contemporary French thought to the field of political theory: Alain Badiou, one of the most important continental thinkers; Etienne Balibar who has forged new approaches to democracy and citizenship; and, Jacques Ranciere w…

Black Camelot: African-American culture heroes in their times, 1…

by Van Deburg, William L.

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In the wake of the Kennedy era, a new kind of ethnic hero emerged within African-American popular culture. Uniquely suited to the times, burgeoning pop icons projected the values and beliefs of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and reflected both the possibility and th…

Black Camelot: African-American culture heroes in their times, 1…

by Van Deburg, William L.

0 Type: Book

In the wake of the Kennedy era, a new kind of ethnic hero emerged within African-American popular culture. Uniquely suited to the times, burgeoning pop icons, such as Muhammad Ali, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and Pam Grier, projected the values and beliefs of the Civil Rights …

Veiled Warriors. Allied nurses of the First World War

by Hallett, Christine E.

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Caring for the wounded of the First World War was tough and challenging work, demanding extensive knowledge, technical skill, and high levels of commitment. Although allied nurses were admired in their own time for their altruism and courage, their image was distorted by the len…

Lean in: women, work, and the will to lead

by Sandberg, Sheryl

fromA Borzoi book

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In "Lean In", Sheryl Sandberg -- Facebook COO and one of "Fortune" magazine's most powerful women in business -- looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale. She draws on her own experie…

After slavery: race, labor, and citizenship in the reconstructio…

by Kelly, Brian, Baker, Bruce E.

fromNew perspectives on the history of the South

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Focuses on labor and politics to help develop broader interpretive trends in the post-emancipation US South.

After slavery: race, labor, and citizenship in the reconstructio…

by Kelly, Brian, Baker, Bruce E.

fromNew perspectives on the history of the South

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This book moves beyond broad generalizations concerning Black life during Reconstruction in order to address the varied experiences of freed slaves across the South. This collection examines urban unrest in New Orleans and Wilmington, North Carolina, loyalty among former slave o…