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Transformative Critical Service-Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 183

Transformative Critical Service-Learning

A 2023 SPE Outstanding Book Honorable Mention Transformative Critical Service-Learning offers hands-on tools for implementing, reflecting on, and assessing critical service-learning in classrooms and community spaces. Answering a need from practitioners for a practical tool for making sense of critical service-learning, the authors introduce the Critical Service-Learning Implementation Model as a way to encourage conversations among stakeholders. Materials include specific criteria to examine, examples of application and context, and ways to incorporate the model into reflective practices. Valuing partnerships, reflection, and analysis of power dynamics, the research and strategies offered h...

Constructing the Image of Muhammad in Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

Constructing the Image of Muhammad in Europe

  • Categories: Art

thevolume represents a significant contribution to the complex history of the conceptualization and pictorialization of the Prophet Muhammad in the West. It gives a rapid and though deep overview of the history of the making of an image of the Prophet Muhammad in Europe and thus reflects the whole history of the making of the image of Islam in the Latin West, from the early medieval times till the 19th century. The book also provides the reader with ready access to the most recent scholarship concerning the image of Muhammad in Europe, in the form of comprehensive footnotes provided throughout the text and an extensive bibliography.

Acts of Resistance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Acts of Resistance

The first edition of Acts of Resistance: Subversive Teaching in the English Language Arts (ELA) Classroom won the 2021 Society of Professors of Education's Outstanding Book Award and garnered other nominations. The second edition includes a foreword by Ashley Hope Pérez, author of the young adult literature novel Out of Darkness, one of the most frequently banned books across U.S. classrooms. Four new chapters reflect sociopolitical changes since the book's publication, including a widespread, coordinated uptick in the banning of books centering authors and characters from marginalized communities; the COVID-19 pandemic and with it, increased acts of violence against folks identifying as As...

Muslim Heroes on Screen
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Muslim Heroes on Screen

If films drawing on Middle East tropes often highlight white Westerners, figures such as Sinbad and the Thief of Bagdad embody a counter-tradition of protagonists, derived from Islamic folklore and history, who are portrayed as ‘Other’ to Western audiences. In Muslim Heroes on Screen, Daniel O’Brien explores the depiction of these characters in Euro-American cinema from the silent era to the present day. Far from being mere racial masquerade, these screen portrayals are more complex and nuanced than is generally allowed, not least in terms of the shifting concepts and assumptions that inform their Muslim identity. Using films ranging from Douglas Fairbanks’ The Thief of Bagdad, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, El Cid, Kingdom of Heaven and The Message to The Wind and the Lion, O’Brien considers how the representational strategies of Western filmmakers may transcend such Muslim stereotypes as fanatic antagonists or passive victims. These figures possess a cultural significance which cannot be fully appreciated by Euro-American audiences without reference to their distinction as Muslim heroes and the implications and resonances of an Islamicized protagonist.

Problematizing Service-Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Problematizing Service-Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-12-01
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  • Publisher: IAP

Interest in and research on civic engagement and service-learning have increased exponentially. In this rapid growth, efforts have been made to institutionalize pedagogies of engagement across both K-12 and higher education. As a result, increased positive attention has been complemented equally by well-founded critiques complicating experiential approaches’ claims and questioning if institutional, financial, and philosophical commitment is warranted. A key complaint from these critical voices is the tightly woven, protective insular core in the field of service-learning. This claim is not unfounded, nor necessarily bad. Initial efforts to legitimize service-learning and other forms of com...

Exploring Cultural Dynamics and Tensions Within Service-Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 397

Exploring Cultural Dynamics and Tensions Within Service-Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-09-01
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  • Publisher: IAP

Service-learning is an exciting pedagogy and field of study, offering insight into how academic study and community engagement blend to create social change. In its most traditional conceptualization, servicelearning activities typically manifest within communities where outside individuals address a need. Service learning is purported to have a transforming effect on individual student perspectives by providing students the opportunity to interact with people and enter into situations that allow students to test their predisposition towards others. However, the literature on the impact of service-learning on participants' acceptance of diversity and development of open-mindedness reports mi...

Community Engagement Program Implementation and Teacher Preparation for 21st Century Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Community Engagement Program Implementation and Teacher Preparation for 21st Century Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-08-26
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Education in the 21st century has been tasked with preparing students to begin the journey towards a place in their communities in which they feel fulfilled and autonomous. Service learning is one way to introduce students to careers and knowledge that will prepare them for a successful life. Community Engagement Program Implementation and Teacher Preparation for 21st Century Education examines the many ways in which community engagement is carried out in all educational settings, from K-12 to higher education. This publication is unique in its mission to examine these topics from a holistic perspective. From online education to volunteer organizations, this book gives educators, administrators, community volunteers, and students a window into the successful deployment of such programs to prepare students for a global society.

Handbook of Research on Professional Development for Quality Teaching and Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 824

Handbook of Research on Professional Development for Quality Teaching and Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-16
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

As educational standards continue to transform, it has become essential for educators and pre-service teachers to receive the support and training necessary to effectively instruct their students and meet societal expectations. However, there is not a clear consensus on what constitutes teacher effectiveness and quality within the education realm. The Handbook of Research on Professional Development for Quality Teaching and Learning provides theoretical perspectives and empirical research on educator preparation and methods for enhancing the teaching process. Focusing on teacher effectiveness and support provided to current and pre-service educators, this publication is a comprehensive reference source for practitioners, researchers, policy makers, graduate students, and university faculty.

Find the Way Back to You with Lola Lola
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 151

Find the Way Back to You with Lola Lola

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-14
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  • Publisher: Balboa Press

Find The Way Back to You with Lola Lola is a self help guide that will take you back to some basic principles with the idea to reconnect to your true self and be able to embark in your journey to become the thriving you. As in Micheal Angelo painting in where he shows God reaching out to create human life, this self-help guide encourages you to be the sculptor and painter in the recreation of yourself. This guide will motivate you to indentify in what Find-The-Way phases you are in, the common hide outs, the importance of silence, sexual abuse impact over time and the importance of remaining curious in your journey and ask how other individuals were able to thrive despite the many hardships ...

The Resilient Apocalypse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

The Resilient Apocalypse

"Portraits of 'good battling evil' in the geography of Hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. Apocalyptic nightmares, fearful images of life, chaos and death are inclusive and interdepEndent, yet simultaneously project an exceptional quality. Where images remain unfulfilled in narrow allegiances to a proscribed End, this investigation explores how narrative logic may challenge unified notions of finalities. Redeploying transglobal character and narrative potential, it distinguishes itself by training the lens on New Beginnings. Its analysis embeds resilient formulas for combating the End through resistance in Latin America and Spain revealed in gilded illustration, decolonizing drama...