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Bolten Catherine E (Catherine Elizabeth), <1976-> |
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I did it to save my life [[electronic resource] ] : love and survival in Sierra Leone / / Catherine E. Bolten |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
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1-282-13419-1 |
9786613806772 |
0-520-95353-3 |
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1 online resource (293 p.) |
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California series in public anthropology ; ; 24 |
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War and society - Sierra Leone |
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Sierra Leone History Civil War, 1991-2002 Personal narratives |
Sierra Leone History Civil War, 1991-2002 Psychological aspects |
Sierra Leone History Civil War, 1991-2002 Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Sierra Leonean emotions, Sierra Leonean war -- Understanding Makeni and nested loyalties: marginality and collaboration in the northern capital -- "I must be grateful to them for freeing me": the soldier -- "They said nobody would hide from this war": the rebel -- "I held a gun but I did not fire it": the student -- The government brought death, the rebels allowed us to live": the trader -- "It was the Lord who wanted me to stay": the evangelist -- "They really damaged me": the father -- "The RUF thought I was on their side": the politician -- Epilogue and conclusions: Makeni, May 2010. |
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Utilizing narratives of seven different people-soldier, rebel, student, trader, evangelist, father, and politician-I Did it To Save My Life provides fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. Individuals in the town of Makeni narrate survival through the rubric of love, and by telling their stories and bringing memory into the present, create for themselves a powerful basis on which to reaffirm the rightness of their choices and orient themselves to a livable everyday. The book |
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illuminates a social world based on love, a deep, compassionate relationship based on material exchange and nurturing, that transcends romance and binds people together across space and through time. In situating their wartime lives firmly in this social world, they call into question the government's own narrative that Makeni residents openly collaborated with the rebel RUF during its three-year occupation of the town. Residents argue instead that it was the government's disloyalty to its people, rather than rebel invasion and occupation, which destroyed the town and forced uneasy co-existence between civilians and militants. |
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UNINA9910464096103321 |
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Engel Susan L. <1959-> |
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The end of the rainbow : how educating for happiness (not money) would transform our schools / / Susan Engel |
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New York, New York : , : The New Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Education - Aims and objectives - United States |
Education - Economic aspects - United States |
Education and state - United States |
Education - Philosophy |
Education - Psychological aspects |
Educational change - United States |
Electronic books. |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE; ONE The Money Trail; TWO How Money Impoverishes Education; THREE Rich or Poor, It's Good to Have Money; FOUR How Happiness Enriches Schools; FIVE A Blueprint for Well-Being; SIX What We Should Measure; AFTERWORD; NOTES; INDEX |
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Amid the hype of Race to the Top, online experiments such as Khan Academy, and bestselling books like The Sandbox Investment, we seem to have drawn a line that leads from nursery school along a purely economic route, with money as the final stop. But what price do we all pay for the increasingly singular focus on wage as the outcome of education? Susan Engel, a leading psychologist and educator, argues that this economic framework has had a profound impact not only on the way we think about education but also on what happens inside school buildings.The End of the Rainbow asks what would happen |
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