Airworld: Design And Architecture For Air Travel

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Hofkünstler. Zur Vorgeschichte des modernen Künstlers.
Martin Warnke
Manufacturer: DUMONT Literatur und Kunst Verlag
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ASIN: 3770138473

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Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as private business since business activities have widespread and sometimes far-reaching impacts on the community. The side-effects of entrepreneurial decision making - increasing unemployment, for instance, or pollution - increasingly expose corporations to the public gaze, with management in the limelight. Facing Public Interest opens up new vistas on business policy and corporate communications facing public interest. The relationship between private enterprise and public interest is subjected to an ethical examination, highlighting the role of the general public as a locus of morality for business and the guiding concept of a corporate dialogue between management and the concerned public. Instructive case studies are also presented. The volume not only proposes corporate dialogue: it puts into practice. Business leaders, representatives of citizens' groups, public affairs consultants, and academics discuss the topics thoroughly and thoughtfully in the best contributions to the seventh conference on the European Business Ethics Network, held at the University of St. Gallen in September 1994.

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After more than twenty years of orthodox economic policy in Europe, the scourge of unemployment remains. This impressive book goes beyond the neo-classical theory of employment and develops sound policy guidelines to tackle the global problem of unemployment. Employment, Technology and Economic Needs provides the latest thinking on issues of employment, unemployment and economic policy. The book is explicitly interdisciplinary in scope and international in coverage, including European and US country case studies. Its authors include economists, management scientists, sociologists and economic geographers. Together they provide the most comprehensive analysis to date of the problems of unemployment and poor economic performance from a broadly institutional and evolutionary perspective. The book reports the latest academic research, while clearly documenting the implications for public policy. The authors discuss the effectiveness of policy prescriptions such as negative income taxes, the International Labour Organization agenda, a fiscal system based on eco-taxation, a reduction of working time and developing a 'corporatist' system as a means to develop employment opportunities. Written in an accessible style, this book will be vital reading for all those interested in the fields of employment, technology and macroeconomic and industrial policy. It will also be of interest to anyone concerned with economic policy issues and human welfare.

Finance and Technological Change: Theory and Evidence

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Finance and Technological Change: Theory and Evidence
Enrico Santarelli
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0333636546

Technological Change in a Spatial Context: Theory, Empirical Evidence and Policy

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Technological Change in a Spatial Context: Theory, Empirical Evidence and Policy
E. Ciciotti , and N. Alderman
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0387529489

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This book provides a wide ranging review of current research and thinking about the spatial context of technological change. It brings together theoretical pieces of work, methodological developments, empirical evidence from differing national contexts, and discussions of policy formulation and implementation at a range of spatial scales. The book is divided into four parts. The first deals with theoretical and conceptual issues concerning technological change in regional and city systems and the role of technology in less developed countries and regions. Part two deals with a selection of methodological issues. Part three presents empirical evidence from a range of national contexts. Part four covers policy issues from the supra-national to the local or metropolitan scale. The book covers a broad range of essential concepts with treatments from different perspectives and disciplines. It should therefore appeal to a wide audience.

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This book provides a framework for Citizenship Education in the context of cultural diversity. Underpinning Citizenship Education has to be an understanding and practice of human rights. The contributors show how human rights principles are used by schools to challenge structural inequality, discrimination and exclusion and to support young people in developing confident identities in contexts of diversity. Case studies illustrate how students can realise their rights and responsibilities as citizens.

Leading researchers and expert teachers worked over two years in seminars funded by the ESRC and in debate with Bernard Crick, to produce this authoritative and coherent work. "Citizenship and Democracy in Schools" is the core text for continuing professional development courses in Citizenship Education and will also be required reading on initial teacher training. The book is essentially designed for the UK, but international and comparative approaches are provided by several contributors

Can education challenge Neo-Liberalism? The citizen school and the struggle for democracy in Porto Alegre, Brazil.: An article from: Social Justice

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Can education challenge Neo-Liberalism? The citizen school and the struggle for democracy in Porto Alegre, Brazil.: An article from: Social Justice
Luis Armando Gandin , and Michael W. Apple
Manufacturer: Crime and Social Justice Associates
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Social Justice, published by Crime and Social Justice Associates on December 22, 2002. The length of the article is 6985 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Can education challenge Neo-Liberalism? The citizen school and the struggle for democracy in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Author: Luis Armando Gandin
Publication: Social Justice (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2002
Publisher: Crime and Social Justice Associates
Volume: 29 Issue: 4 Page: 26(15)

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DEMOCRACY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - Civic Education and Political Participation.: An article from: Phi Delta Kappan

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DEMOCRACY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - Civic Education and Political Participation.: An article from: Phi Delta Kappan
William A. Galston
Manufacturer: Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Phi Delta Kappan, published by Phi Delta Kappa, Inc. on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3357 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: DEMOCRACY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - Civic Education and Political Participation.
Author: William A. Galston
Publication: Phi Delta Kappan (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.
Volume: 85 Issue: 1 Page: 29

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DEMOCRACY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - Reconnecting Education To Democracy: Democratic Dialogues.: An article from: Phi Delta Kappan

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DEMOCRACY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - Reconnecting Education To Democracy: Democratic Dialogues.: An article from: Phi Delta Kappan
Joel Westheimer , and Joseph Kahne
Manufacturer: Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Phi Delta Kappan, published by Phi Delta Kappa, Inc. on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3845 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: DEMOCRACY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT - Reconnecting Education To Democracy: Democratic Dialogues.
Author: Joel Westheimer
Publication: Phi Delta Kappan (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.
Volume: 85 Issue: 1 Page: 8

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Democratic Practice Workbook: Activities for the Field Experience

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Tips and Tools for Democratic Classroom Practices

Democratic Practice Workbook: Activities for the Field Experience
Caroline R. Pryor , Joel Spring , and Gary G. Bitter
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Binding: Paperback

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Democratic Practice Workbook first examines democratic teaching philosophy and then provides concrete, step-by-step techniques for teachers to apply this philosophy to field observations and reflective teaching. No other text uses the philosophy behind democratic practice to inform the field experience. This brief, hands-on field observation/participation guide features specific suggestions for reflection during field observation and uses case studies to further illustrate how democratic principles can be exercised in the classroom. The text is designed with a complete resource set of focused observation forms for the student to use out in the field. It offers a complete guide for students’ term projects, multiple formats for classroom discussions, a model for curriculum development in democratic practice, and a beginning set of student written lesson plans.

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Tips and Tools for Democratic Classroom Practices.......2001-04-28

Terrific observation forms for preservice teachers implementing democratic practices in the classroom!

Good for developing a democratic classroom environment

Good for practical workshops and seminars on democratic practice

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What should the aims of education policy be in the United States and other culturally diverse democracies? Should the foremost aim be to allow the flourishing of social and religious diversity? Or is it more important to foster shared political values and civic virtues?

Stephen Macedo believes that diversity should usually, but not always, be highly valued. We must remember, he insists, that many forms of social and religious diversity are at odds with basic commitments to liberty, equality, and civic flourishing. Liberalism has an important but neglected civic dimension, he argues, and liberal democrats must take care to promote not only well-ordered institutions but also well-ordered citizens. Macedo shows that this responsibility is incompatible with a neutral or hands-off stance toward diversity in general or toward the education of children in particular. Extending the ideas of John Rawls, he defends a "civic liberalism" that supports the legitimacy of reasonable efforts to inculcate shared political virtues while leaving many larger questions of meaning and value to private communities.

Macedo's tough-minded liberal agenda for civic education offers a fundamental challenge to free market libertarians, the religious right, parental rights activists, postmodernists, and many of those who call themselves multiculturalists. This book will become an important resource in the debate about the reform of public education, and in the culture war over the future of liberalism.

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from konigsberg to columbine.......2000-05-11

Macedo is the least apologetic of the political liberals. His project is to inculcate a sense of public virtue, recognizing that political liberalism will (and should) have effects on romantic sub-communities, especially those with illiberal tendencies. Macedo, like other political liberals, focuses on producing citizens that are capable of making competent individual political judgments. Since the burden of public reasonableness is shared universally, Macedo sees a particular brand of community developing. But I doubt that Macedo says enough about what a unifying public philosophy entails or how institutions (public schools aren't enough, he acknowledges in his conclusion) can cultivate (or coerce) citizens into prioritizing their public allegiances. In so far as policies such as religious exemptions encourage the formation of deeply felt private beliefs, they might actually encourage private citizens toward public action more effectively than diffuse liberal concepts such as 'mutual respect' or even 'public reasonableness.' Perhaps conflicts arising from particularistic beliefs-even from certain brands of intolerance-are the most effective means of mobilizing citizens to take their status in the polity seriously, to perceive a connection between their private interests and the good of the state. I am suggesting that Macedo's proposed focus on public virtue at the expense of private belief systems might result in less active and critical citizens than a theory that emphasizes cultural and religious differences, when such differences (and their attendant interests) encourage political participation in the first place. If we care about politics because it implicates our private beliefs, than religious or broad philosophical anomie must result in political apathy (or even antipathy). If Americans are more likely to participate politically because of sectarian interests than public civic principles, perhaps we should focus on preserving private belief systems before inculcating public moral principles. It is not obvious that a liberal society is more likely to survive with citizens who believe nothing deeply than it is with citizens who believe in certain principles (even when they border on the illiberal) with great conviction. Columbine is a powerful metonym for the ravages of the anomie Macedo risks.

Educating Citizens: A Democratic Socialist Agenda for Canadian Education (Our Schools Series)

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Educating Citizens: A Democratic Socialist Agenda for Canadian Education (Our Schools Series)
Ken Osborne
Manufacturer: Lorimer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0921908008
Release Date: 1988-01-01

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The Canadian left has over the years paid remarkably little attention to the actual content of education. Apart from occasional bursts of concern about militarism, sexism, racism, or anti-labour bias, the school curriculum has gone largely unquestioned.

Socialist values such as cooperation, participation, personal autonomy, and a sense of community do not appear out of thin air. They have to be acquired. Conservatives and liberals have long realized this and have shaped the schools accordingly, so that the capitalist ethic of competitive individualism is now strongly entrenched and is learned early in life. If the vision of cooperative commonwealth is to become a reality, then education will have an important role to play. This book is an attempt to outline what this role might be.

Educating Citizens outlines a working class curriculum designed to prepare students for participation in a socialist democracy.

An Our Schools/Our Selves book.

Educating the Democratic Mind (Suny Series, Democracy and Education)

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Educating the Democratic Mind

Educating the Democratic Mind (Suny Series, Democracy and Education)

Manufacturer: State Univ of New York Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0791427072

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Educating the Democratic Mind.......1999-12-15

James A. Banks is a prolific author of multicultultural education and gives insight into the kind of behavior we should strive for with respect to citizenship education.

In Defence of History: Teaching the Past and the Meaning of Democratic Citizenship (Our Schools Series)

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In Defence of History: Teaching the Past and the Meaning of Democratic Citizenship (Our Schools Series)
Ken Osborne
Manufacturer: Lorimer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0921908202
Release Date: 1995-01-01

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Gutfeeling: Instinct and Spirituality @ Work
Peter Urs Bender , and George Hancocks
Manufacturer: Achievement Group (CA)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0969506635

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Gutfeeling—instinct and intuition—is as important as reason, logic, analysis, and connections to be successful in business.

In business and in life, people act on hunches every day. After considering the options, there is a moment when it pays to stop, look, and listen to your feelings and emotions. Gutfeeling—instinct, intuition, emotions, feelings, spirituality—when allowed to play its proper role, can lead us to richer, fuller, more successful lives.

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