1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786701703321

Autore

Campbell Craig

Titolo

The Comprehensive Public High School [[electronic resource] ] : Historical Perspectives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Secondary Education in a Changing World

Altri autori (Persone)

SheringtonGeoffrey

Disciplina

371.01

373.1

Soggetti

Comparative education

Comprehensive high schools

Comprehensive high schools - Australia - History

Comprehensive high schools - Great Britain - History

Comprehensive high schools - History

Comprehensive high schools - United States - History

Education

Social Sciences

Theory & Practice of Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Origins; 2 Postwar Planning; 3 Going Comprehensive; 4 In Retreat; 5 The Market; Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book traces the decline of the public comprehensive high school. New educational markets emphasized school diversity and parental choice rather than social equity through common schooling, and they were criticized for declining standards. The book also considers government education policies and their regional manifestations.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910846101003321

Titolo

Mezzogiorno di scienza : ritratti d'autore di grandi scienziati del Sud / a cura di Pietro Greco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bari, : Dedalo, 2020

ISBN

978-88-220-6339-7

Descrizione fisica

252 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Collana

Nuova biblioteca Dedalo ; 339

Disciplina

509.2245

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

COLLEZ. 878 (339)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910411938703321

Autore

Carlisle Steven Grant

Titolo

Narrative Practice and Cultural Change : Building Worlds with Karma, Ghosts, and Capitalist Invaders in Thailand / / by Steven Grant Carlisle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030495480

3030495485

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 pages)

Collana

Culture, Mind, and Society, , 2634-517X

Disciplina

294.3373

150

Soggetti

Ethnopsychology

Ethnology

Southeast Asia - History

Religions

Ethnology - Asia

Culture

Cross-Cultural Psychology

Sociocultural Anthropology

History of Southeast Asia

Comparative Religion



Asian Culture

Ethnography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Beyond Conformity: An Anthropology of Empathy and Problem Solving for Understanding Complex Lives -- Part I: Narratives that Construct Linguistic Realities -- Chapter 2: How Do Shared Languages Create Personal Narratives? -- Chapter 3: How Do Stories Create Human Worlds? -- Chapter 4: How Are Differing Personal Realities Shared? -- Part II: Languages that Shape Thai Worlds -- Chapter 5: The Kohn and the Language of Social Obligation.-Chapter 6: Why Nirvana? The Manut and the Language of Solitude -- Chapter 7: Trans-National Solutions to a Local Problem: The Human Natures of Buddhist Consumers -- Chapter 8: The Meanings in Lives.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a unique approach to person-centered anthropology, providing a new form of practice theory that incorporates and explains sources of cultural change. Built around the learning and use of autobiographical narrative forms, it draws from, and expands on, phenomenological, psychological, and moral anthropological traditions. The author draws on extensive original fieldwork in Thailand to explore questions including: how Buddhism has dealt with the appearance of global capitalism; and why some Thais continue to pursue nirvana-oriented Buddhist practices when karma-oriented reward-systems seem to be more satisfying as a whole. Where previous person-centered ethnographies have explored the ways in which social forces cause individuals to conform to cultural norms, this work advances the analysis by focusing on how ideas are transmitted from individuals to into wider society. This book will provide fresh insights of particular interest to psychological, phenomenological and narrative anthropologists; as well as to researchers working in the fields of religious and Asian studies. Steven Grant Carlisle is Lecturer in Anthropology at California State University at San Marcos, USA. Dr. Carlisle specializes in anthropology of religion, psychological anthropology, and the study of narratives.