1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452581803321

Autore

Kumashiro Kevin K. <1970-, >

Titolo

Troubling education : queer activism and antioppressive pedagogy / / Kevin K. Kumashiro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-429-23580-1

0-203-81975-6

1-283-84287-4

1-136-74544-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

306.43

370

Soggetti

Homosexuality and education - United States

Sex discrimination in education - United States

Gay activists - United States

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

""TROUBLING EDUCATION Queer Activism and Antioppressive Pedagogy ""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Permissions""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction ""; ""Vignette 1 ""; ""Chapter 2 Theories and Practices of  Antioppressive Education""; ""Vignette 2 ""; ""Chapter 3 Readings and Rereadings of  Identity, Culture, and Oppression""; ""Vignette 3 ""; ""Chapter 4 Addressing Resistance  through Queer Activism""; ""Vignette 4 ""; ""Chapter 5 Conclusions ""; ""Vignette 5 ""; ""References""; ""About the Author""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

Few books have addressed research for teachers to turn to as a resource for classroom practice but here Kumashiro draws on interviews with gay activists as a starting point for discussion of models of reading and challenging oppression.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451149403321

Autore

Barbour Julian B

Titolo

The discovery of dynamics [[electronic resource] ] : a study from a Machian point of view of the discovery and the structure of dynamical theories / / Julian B. Barbour

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-280-83331-9

9786610833313

0-19-535110-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (775 p.)

Disciplina

531/.11

Soggetti

Astronomy

Dynamics

Motion

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Aristotle: first airing of the absolute/relative problem; 3 Hellenistic astronomy: the foundations are laid; 4 The Middle Ages: first stirrings of the scientific revolution; 5 Copernicus: the flimsy arch; 6 Kepler: the dominion of the sun; 7 Galileo: the geometrization of motion; 8 Descartes and the new world; 9 Huygens: relativity and centrifugal force; 10 Newton I: the discovery of dynamics; 11 Newton II: absolute or relative motion?; 12 Post-Newtonian conceptual clarification of Newtonian dynamics

Abbreviations for works quoted frequently in the ReferencesReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Introduction. 1. Preliminaries. 2. Aristotle: first airing of the absolute/relative problem. 3. Hellenistic astronomy: the foundation are laid. 4. The Middle Ages: first stirrings of the scientific revolution. 5. Copernicus: the flimsy arch. 6. Kepler: the dominion of the sun. 7. Galileo: the geometrization of motion. 8. Descartes and the new world. 9. Huygens: relativety and centrifugal force. 10. Newton I: the discovery



of dynamics. 11. Newton II: absolute or relative motion?. 12. Post-Newtonian conceptual clarification of Newtonian dynamics. Abbreviations for works quoted frequently in the