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The Nottingham Connection
Four women a potter, a caterer, a councillor and a teacher all have a connection with Nottingham. They tell of their Jamaican childhood and their lives resettling as early immigrants in England. The journeys, full of pathos and often laced with humour, provide insight into their inner strength, values, and triumph over adversity. Here, history becomes Her-story.
Schoolishness
In Schoolishness, Susan D. Blum continues her journey as an anthropologist and educator. The author defines "schoolishness" as educational practices that emphasize packaged "learning," unimaginative teaching, uniformity, constant evaluation by others, arbitrary forms, predetermined time, and artificial boundaries, resulting in personal and educational alienation, dependence, and dread. Drawing on critical, progressive, and feminist pedagogy in conversation with the anthropology of learning, and building on the insights of her two previous books Blum proposes less-schoolish ways of learning in ten dimensions, to lessen the mismatch between learning in school and learning in the wild. She asks, if learning is our human "superpower," why is it so difficult to accomplish in school? In every chapter Blum compares the fake learning of schoolishness with successful examples of authentic learning, including in her own courses, which she scrutinizes critically. Schoolishness is not a pedagogical how-to book, but a theory-based phenomenology of institutional education. It has moral, psychological, and educational arguments against schoolishness that, as Blum notes, "rhymes with foolishness."
The Nottingham Connection
Four womena potter, a caterer, a councillor and a teacherall have a connection with Nottingham. They tell of their Jamaican childhood and their lives resettling as early immigrants in England. The journeys, full of pathos and often laced with humour, provide insight into their inner strength, values, and triumph over adversity. Here, history becomes Her-story.
THE WINGS OF IERE
THE WINGS OF IERE is a collection of stories and songs, adapted from the Amerindian oral tradition and re-written to appeal to readers of all ages. Caribbean poetry, modern rap, traditional dances, interpretive dances have all been interwoven and presented in this book just the way the stories have been told by Doris Harper-Wills live on stage with audience participation. BOOK 1 AMERINDIAN LEGENDS are adaptations from oral tradition stories. These legends have been tweaked, elaborated, re-invented and re-mixed by the author during her educational workshops with schoolchildren across the continents. BOOK 2 AMERINDIAN MELODIES contains tunes from the oral tradition filled with original lyrics by the author - a mnemonic to facilitate learning about the past. Maps and photographs are also included.
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The London Gazette
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