1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140514503321

Autore

Standish Alex

Titolo

The false promise of global learning : why education needs boundaries / / Alex Standish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Continuum, , 2012

ISBN

1-4411-9839-3

1-4725-4506-0

1-4411-0017-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 pages)

Disciplina

371.39

Soggetti

Global method of teaching

International education

Education and globalization

Curriculum change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-195) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The origins of international and global education -- The making of global schools -- Global knowledge -- Global skills -- Global ethics -- The essential boundaries for teaching about the world -- Conclusion: avoiding responsibility for education.

Sommario/riassunto

Through the language of global learning, education is being reformed by corporations, political activists, and policy makers. Academic subject-based knowledge has been cast as elitist and outdated for a rapidly-changing world. The curriculum has been colonized in the name of teaching skills and attitudes for the global market and global citizenship. Can young people effectively contribute to society without an education in academic knowledge? Alex Standish argues that we can only educate children about the world if we are clear about the boundaries that provide education with its moral worth.

Through the language of global learning, education is being reformed by corporations, political activists, and policy makers. Academic subject-based knowledge has been cast as elitist and outdated for a rapidly-changing world. The curriculum has been colonized in the name of teaching skills and attitudes for the global market and global



citizenship. Can young people effectively contribute to society without an education in academic knowledge? Alex Standish argues that we can only educate children about the world if we are clear about the boundaries that provide education with its moral worth. These include the boundaries between: education and political activity, public and private realms, education and training, theoretical and everyday knowledge, communities, and subject disciplines. The False Promise of Global Learning demonstrates that the nature and purpose of education has become confused with social, economic, political, and therapeutic aims, and that control over the curriculum has been taken away from teachers and communities. This is a hard-hitting work that will resonate with all who have a stake in how - and why - we educate our children.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140525703321

Autore

Song Ligang

Titolo

Deepening reform for China's long-term growth and development / / Ligang Song, Ross Garnaut, Cai Fang, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

ANU Press, 2014

Canberra, Australi : , : ANU E Press, , 2014

©2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 567 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

China Update Series

Disciplina

337.951094

Soggetti

International economic relations

Economic development - China

Australia Foreign relations China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Chinese economy has entered a new phase of development in which sources of growth are not so much dependent upon pure increases in labour, investment and credit expansion, but from



productivity improvement, structural changes, technological progress and the benefits from improvement of the social security and welfare improvement. When market functions are fully established to become a main channel for allocating resources, the entrepreneurship will flourish engaging in more innovative activities, workers will move more freely and have more incentives to improve their skills, firms will become more productive through market entry and exit, the economic structure will become more balanced because of the improved resource allocation, and in the end, growth will become more spontaneous and sustainable. In this sense, reforms could deliver ‘dividend’ by raising China’s potential economic growth rates. For China to confront all the challenges it faces at present, the reforms undertaken now have to be deep, comprehensive and far-reaching in order to succeed in paving the way for China to complete the task of transformation in the long-term. There is no better alternative than deepening the market-oriented reform in advancing the course of China’s modernisation for future development and prosperity and lifting China to the status of a developed economy in the next two decades. The recent China update books have covered the topic of reform from different angles and this new book is another attempt to address this important issue.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959488103321

Autore

Henault Isabelle

Titolo

Asperger's Syndrome and sexuality : from adolescence through adulthood / / Isabelle Henault ; foreword by Tony Attwood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Jessica Kingsley, 2006

ISBN

9786610538119

9781280538117

1280538112

9781846422355

1846422353

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

208 p

Disciplina

616.8588

Soggetti

Asperger's syndrome - Patients - Sexual behavior

Autism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

COVER -- Asperger's Syndrome and Sexuality: From Adolescence through Adulthood -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Tony Attwood -- Introduction -- PART I: EXPLORING SEXUALITY AND ASPERGER'S SYNDROME -- 1. Asperger's Syndrome and sexual development -- Asperger's Syndrome -- Sexuality and Asperger's Syndrome -- Puberty -- Contraception -- Social influences -- Sexual behaviour -- 2. Inappropriate sexual behaviours: Comprehension and intervention -- Precipitating and maintaining factors -- Understanding inappropriate sexual behaviours -- Restricted interests and sexual obsessions -- Masturbation -- Sexual assault and criminal acts -- Sexual delinquency -- Conclusion -- 3. Social skills -- Tools to improve social skills -- Visual contact -- Affective behaviours -- Communication -- Emotions -- Automatic thoughts -- Theory of mind -- Conclusion -- 4. Sexual diversity and gender identity -- Sexual diversity -- Sexual orientation -- Gender identity -- 5. Couples, intimacy, and sexuality -- Intimacy -- Sexual desire -- Affective communication -- Couple dynamics -- Empathy -- Sexual intimacy -- 6. The sociosexual education programme -- Sexual education



programmes -- The structure of the sociosexual education programme for individuals with Asperger's Syndrome -- How the sociosexual education programme helps individuals with Asperger's Syndrome -- Evaluation of the programme and results -- PART 2: PROGRAMME FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIOSEXUAL SKILLS -- Introduction: How to use the programme -- Workshop 1: Assessment and introduction to the programme (60 minutes) -- Workshop 2 : Introduction to sexuality and communication exercises -- Workshop 3: Love and friendship -- Workshop 4: Physiological aspects of sexuality -- Workshop 5: Sexual relations and other sexual behaviours -- Workshop 6: Emotions -- Workshop 7: STDs,HIV, and prevention.

Workshop 8: Sexual orientation -- Workshop 9: Alcohol, drugs, and sexuality -- Workshop 10: Sexual abuse and inappropriate sexual behaviours -- Workshop 11: Sexism and violence in romantic relationships -- Workshop 12: Managing emotions, theory of mind, and intimacy -- Appendix: The sexual profile of adults with Asperger's Syndrome:The need for support and intervention -- Study -- Results -- Discussion -- Further analyses -- The need for education and support -- References, further reading, and resources -- Subject index -- Author index.

Sommario/riassunto

Hénault delivers practical information and advice on issues ranging from puberty and sexual development, gender identity disorders, couples' therapy to guidelines for sex education programs and maintaining sexual boundaries. This book will prove indispensable to parents, teachers, counsellors and individuals with AS themselves.