This book compares ways in which children’s rights in, to, and through education, formal and informal, are viewed and implemented in a variety of social and political contexts, aiming to shed light on
The author is Professor of Holistic and Aesthetic Education at the U. of Toronto and a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. In her preface she writes: "In addition to exploring the concep
Uses survey research, interviews, journalistic accounts, novels, and historical data to examine the extent to which Thatcherism succeeded in transforming British values in directions supportive of a m
Introduced by an essay exploring the importance of proverbial language in Dickens' works, provides a key-word index to the occurrence of proverbs in his writings, with the proverbs arranged according
A Piercing Cry, along with Artemisia, is a novel of female development. The question "who am I?," posed in Anna Banti's first novel Itinerario di Paolina, comes full circle in this, her final testimon
Through a close reading of Xin Qiji's (1140-1207) song lyrics, Lian (Chinese language and literature, Denison U.) reveals the aesthetic implications of the eccentricity of an unruly self within the Ru
A collection of ten essays breaking out of a cognitivist vocabulary to analyze signs and systems within an approach that emphasizes process, practice, and ritual over ideology. The discussions explor
Christopher Caldiero examines new ways of thinking about public relations practice in today’s technological and postmodern world. His concept of «Neo-PR» and its thought-provoking principles re-examin
Socially unjust circumstances continue to perpetuate inadequate classroom, school and system-level responses to longstanding social justice imperatives, shutting out power-sharing solutions to educati
Writing in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1848, Luise Buchner argued strongly for the reform of women's education in her best-known work, Women and Their Vocation. Although she accepted the ninete
Faith was not only the theme of Soren Kierkegaard's life, but also the systematic center of his thought. The studies collected in this volume represent an attempt to understand Kierkegaard's theory of