Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9087906366
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Getting involved' in society means becoming a human person by doing something for others and thus being connected to mankind and society. Youngsters who get involved, give meaning to life and develop a feeling of agency. But ‘getting involved’ is not easy. Getting involved’ is necessary for living together, creating democracy and sustainability of a global world. The paradox is that in a modern, multicultural society ‘getting involved’ is even more important than in a traditional, more monocultural society. ‘Getting involved’ relates to various scientific orientations. Political, sociological, psychological and pedagogical questions are at issue, and all of these will be consulted in this volume. The main perspective however remains the issue of identity development relating to ‘getting involved’, and will therefore be psychological. This book gives a broad overview of current research in the field of moral development and citizenship. It shows the diversity of concepts, research methodologies, and educational practices. The book also shows the influence of local social, cultural and political contexts. The book can help researchers, teacher educators, politicians and practitioners in finding new and better ways of supporting youngsters in their moral and civic identity development.
Getting Involved
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9087906366
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Getting involved' in society means becoming a human person by doing something for others and thus being connected to mankind and society. Youngsters who get involved, give meaning to life and develop a feeling of agency. But ‘getting involved’ is not easy. Getting involved’ is necessary for living together, creating democracy and sustainability of a global world. The paradox is that in a modern, multicultural society ‘getting involved’ is even more important than in a traditional, more monocultural society. ‘Getting involved’ relates to various scientific orientations. Political, sociological, psychological and pedagogical questions are at issue, and all of these will be consulted in this volume. The main perspective however remains the issue of identity development relating to ‘getting involved’, and will therefore be psychological. This book gives a broad overview of current research in the field of moral development and citizenship. It shows the diversity of concepts, research methodologies, and educational practices. The book also shows the influence of local social, cultural and political contexts. The book can help researchers, teacher educators, politicians and practitioners in finding new and better ways of supporting youngsters in their moral and civic identity development.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9087906366
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Getting involved' in society means becoming a human person by doing something for others and thus being connected to mankind and society. Youngsters who get involved, give meaning to life and develop a feeling of agency. But ‘getting involved’ is not easy. Getting involved’ is necessary for living together, creating democracy and sustainability of a global world. The paradox is that in a modern, multicultural society ‘getting involved’ is even more important than in a traditional, more monocultural society. ‘Getting involved’ relates to various scientific orientations. Political, sociological, psychological and pedagogical questions are at issue, and all of these will be consulted in this volume. The main perspective however remains the issue of identity development relating to ‘getting involved’, and will therefore be psychological. This book gives a broad overview of current research in the field of moral development and citizenship. It shows the diversity of concepts, research methodologies, and educational practices. The book also shows the influence of local social, cultural and political contexts. The book can help researchers, teacher educators, politicians and practitioners in finding new and better ways of supporting youngsters in their moral and civic identity development.
Getting People Involved in Life and Activities
Author: Jeanne Adams
Publisher: Venture Publishing (PA)
ISBN: 9780910251785
Category : Motivation (Psychology).
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This important book shows therapeutic recreation and other activity professionals how to motivate those they work with to become involved in meaningful leisure activity. Adams describes the most effective techniques for moving an individual or group toward greater involvement in life activity. This is a practical and thoughtful book based upon successful professional practice and can make a critical difference in both what recreation leaders do and why they do it on a daily basis.
Publisher: Venture Publishing (PA)
ISBN: 9780910251785
Category : Motivation (Psychology).
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This important book shows therapeutic recreation and other activity professionals how to motivate those they work with to become involved in meaningful leisure activity. Adams describes the most effective techniques for moving an individual or group toward greater involvement in life activity. This is a practical and thoughtful book based upon successful professional practice and can make a critical difference in both what recreation leaders do and why they do it on a daily basis.
Getting Involved with God
Author: Ellen F. Davis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1561011975
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God--what it takes, what it costs, what it looks and feels like, why anyone would want to do it anyway. It is at the same time a book about reading the Old Testament as a source of Good News and guidance for our life with God. The key piece of Good News that the Old Testament communicates over and over again is that God is involved with us, deeply and irrevocably so." --from the Introduction With sound scholarship and her own vivid translations from the Hebrew, Old Testament professor Ellen Davis teaches us a spiritually engaged method of reading scripture. Beginning with the psalms, whose frank prayers can be a model for our own, Davis reflects on the stories of the patriarchs and the pastoral wisdom of the book of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs in helping us cultivate those habits of the heart that lead to a rich relationship with God.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1561011975
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
"This is a book about getting, and staying, involved with God--what it takes, what it costs, what it looks and feels like, why anyone would want to do it anyway. It is at the same time a book about reading the Old Testament as a source of Good News and guidance for our life with God. The key piece of Good News that the Old Testament communicates over and over again is that God is involved with us, deeply and irrevocably so." --from the Introduction With sound scholarship and her own vivid translations from the Hebrew, Old Testament professor Ellen Davis teaches us a spiritually engaged method of reading scripture. Beginning with the psalms, whose frank prayers can be a model for our own, Davis reflects on the stories of the patriarchs and the pastoral wisdom of the book of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs in helping us cultivate those habits of the heart that lead to a rich relationship with God.
CauseWired
Author: Tom Watson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470460105
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Now in paperback, an eye-opening guide to the massive societal impact of online social networks For today's super-wired, always-on, live-life-in-public young Americans, the causes they support define who they are. Societal aspirations have so permeated the "net native" population that causes have become like musical tastes. CauseWired illustrates wired causes in action, bringing real-world stories to readers. Tracks the massive societal impact on causes of online social networks-from blogs, to video, to the rise of social networks Reveals the extraordinary influence of online social networks-in raising money for charity, in changing the political climate and electing candidates, and in raising consciousness for causes From Facebook causes and campaigns on MySpace, to a raft of new startups and innovative projects like Kiva, Change.org and DonorsChoose, this immensely relevant book delivers actionable research and recommendations to help readers launch their own successful wired social campaigns.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470460105
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Now in paperback, an eye-opening guide to the massive societal impact of online social networks For today's super-wired, always-on, live-life-in-public young Americans, the causes they support define who they are. Societal aspirations have so permeated the "net native" population that causes have become like musical tastes. CauseWired illustrates wired causes in action, bringing real-world stories to readers. Tracks the massive societal impact on causes of online social networks-from blogs, to video, to the rise of social networks Reveals the extraordinary influence of online social networks-in raising money for charity, in changing the political climate and electing candidates, and in raising consciousness for causes From Facebook causes and campaigns on MySpace, to a raft of new startups and innovative projects like Kiva, Change.org and DonorsChoose, this immensely relevant book delivers actionable research and recommendations to help readers launch their own successful wired social campaigns.
No Humans Involved
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553588370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Readers around the world have fallen for Kelley Armstrong’s intoxicating, sensual and wicked tales of the paranormal, in which demons and witches, werewolves and vampires collide – often hilariously, sometimes violently – with everyday life. In Armstrong’s first six novels, Elena, Paige and Eve have had their way with us. Now get ready for Jaime Vegas, the luscious, lovelorn and haunted necromancer. . . Jaime, who knows a thing or two about showbiz, is on a television shoot in Los Angeles when weird things start to happen. As a woman whose special talent is raising the dead, her threshold for weirdness is pretty high: she’s used to not only seeing dead people but hearing them speak to her in very emphatic terms. But for the first time in her life – as invisible hands brush her skin, unintelligible fragments of words are whispered into her ears, and beings move just at the corner of her eye–she knows what humans mean when they talk about being haunted. She is determined to get to the bottom of these manifestations, but as she sets out to solve the mystery she has no idea how scary her investigation will get, or to what depths ordinary humans will sink in their attempts to gain supernatural powers. As she digs into the dark underside of Los Angeles, she’ll need as much Otherworld help as she can get in order to survive, calling on her personal angel, Eve, and Hope, the well-meaning chaos demon. Jeremy, the alpha werewolf, is also by her side offering protection. And, Jaime hopes, maybe a little more than that. “As I knelt on the cobblestones to begin the ritual, I opened not some ancient leather pouch, but a Gucci make-up bag. . . . I know little about the geography and theology of the afterlife, but I do know that the worst spirits are kept secured, and my risk of “accidentally” tapping into a hell dimension is next to nil. Even if I do bring back some depraved killer’s spirit, what can it do to me? When you deprive someone of the ability to act in the living world, he’s pretty darned helpless. In death, even the worst killer plummets from lethal to merely annoying. Yet whatever had been trying to contact me apparently could cross that barrier, could act in the living world. . .at least on me. I added an extra helping of vervain to the censer.” —from No Humans Involved
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553588370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Readers around the world have fallen for Kelley Armstrong’s intoxicating, sensual and wicked tales of the paranormal, in which demons and witches, werewolves and vampires collide – often hilariously, sometimes violently – with everyday life. In Armstrong’s first six novels, Elena, Paige and Eve have had their way with us. Now get ready for Jaime Vegas, the luscious, lovelorn and haunted necromancer. . . Jaime, who knows a thing or two about showbiz, is on a television shoot in Los Angeles when weird things start to happen. As a woman whose special talent is raising the dead, her threshold for weirdness is pretty high: she’s used to not only seeing dead people but hearing them speak to her in very emphatic terms. But for the first time in her life – as invisible hands brush her skin, unintelligible fragments of words are whispered into her ears, and beings move just at the corner of her eye–she knows what humans mean when they talk about being haunted. She is determined to get to the bottom of these manifestations, but as she sets out to solve the mystery she has no idea how scary her investigation will get, or to what depths ordinary humans will sink in their attempts to gain supernatural powers. As she digs into the dark underside of Los Angeles, she’ll need as much Otherworld help as she can get in order to survive, calling on her personal angel, Eve, and Hope, the well-meaning chaos demon. Jeremy, the alpha werewolf, is also by her side offering protection. And, Jaime hopes, maybe a little more than that. “As I knelt on the cobblestones to begin the ritual, I opened not some ancient leather pouch, but a Gucci make-up bag. . . . I know little about the geography and theology of the afterlife, but I do know that the worst spirits are kept secured, and my risk of “accidentally” tapping into a hell dimension is next to nil. Even if I do bring back some depraved killer’s spirit, what can it do to me? When you deprive someone of the ability to act in the living world, he’s pretty darned helpless. In death, even the worst killer plummets from lethal to merely annoying. Yet whatever had been trying to contact me apparently could cross that barrier, could act in the living world. . .at least on me. I added an extra helping of vervain to the censer.” —from No Humans Involved
Opening Israel's Scriptures
Author: Ellen F. Davis
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190260548
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into the complexity and inexhaustibility of the Hebrew Scriptures as a theological resource. Based on more than two decades of lectures on Old Testament interpretation, Ellen F. Davis offers a selective yet comprehensive guide to the core concepts, literary patterns, storylines, and theological perspectives that are central to Israel's Scriptures. Underlying the whole study is the primary assumption that each book of the canon has literary and theological coherence, though not uniformity. In both her close readings of individual texts and in her broad demonstrations of the coherence of whole books, Davis models the best practices of contemporary exegesis, integrating the insights of contemporary scholars with those of classical theological resources in Jewish and Christian traditions. Throughout, she keeps an eye to the experiences and concerns of contemporary readers, showing through multiple examples that the critical interpretation of texts is provisional, open-ended work--a collaboration across generations and cultures. Ultimately what she offers is an invitation into the more spacious world that the Bible discloses, which challenges ordinary conceptions of how things "really" are.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190260548
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Opening Israel's Scriptures is a collection of thirty-six essays on the Hebrew Bible, from Genesis to Chronicles, which gives powerful insight into the complexity and inexhaustibility of the Hebrew Scriptures as a theological resource. Based on more than two decades of lectures on Old Testament interpretation, Ellen F. Davis offers a selective yet comprehensive guide to the core concepts, literary patterns, storylines, and theological perspectives that are central to Israel's Scriptures. Underlying the whole study is the primary assumption that each book of the canon has literary and theological coherence, though not uniformity. In both her close readings of individual texts and in her broad demonstrations of the coherence of whole books, Davis models the best practices of contemporary exegesis, integrating the insights of contemporary scholars with those of classical theological resources in Jewish and Christian traditions. Throughout, she keeps an eye to the experiences and concerns of contemporary readers, showing through multiple examples that the critical interpretation of texts is provisional, open-ended work--a collaboration across generations and cultures. Ultimately what she offers is an invitation into the more spacious world that the Bible discloses, which challenges ordinary conceptions of how things "really" are.
Preaching the Luminous Word
Author: Ellen F. Davis
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 146744605X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Insights from one of the most distinctive and eloquent scholar-preachers of our time Inviting serious theological engagement with texts from all parts of the Christian Bible, Preaching the Luminous Word is a collection of fifty-one sermons and five related essays from noted preacher and biblical scholar Ellen F. Davis. A brief preface to each sermon delineates its liturgical context and theological themes as well as distinctive elements of structure and style. Arranged in canonical order, the sermons treat a wide range of texts: Torah, Prophets, Writings, Gospels, Epistles, and Revelation. They are complemented by essays on various aspects of biblical interpretation for preaching. At once accessible, theologically informed, and rhetorically rich, this volume will engage preachers, teachers, seminarians, church leaders, and serious lay readers.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 146744605X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Insights from one of the most distinctive and eloquent scholar-preachers of our time Inviting serious theological engagement with texts from all parts of the Christian Bible, Preaching the Luminous Word is a collection of fifty-one sermons and five related essays from noted preacher and biblical scholar Ellen F. Davis. A brief preface to each sermon delineates its liturgical context and theological themes as well as distinctive elements of structure and style. Arranged in canonical order, the sermons treat a wide range of texts: Torah, Prophets, Writings, Gospels, Epistles, and Revelation. They are complemented by essays on various aspects of biblical interpretation for preaching. At once accessible, theologically informed, and rhetorically rich, this volume will engage preachers, teachers, seminarians, church leaders, and serious lay readers.
How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before You Get Involved
Author: Sandra L. Brown
Publisher: Hunter House
ISBN: 0897934474
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In this title, women are shown how to choose men wisely, and learn how not to make the same mistake twice. Brown covers all the red flags of a dangerous man, and offers stories of women's successes and failures dealing with each type.
Publisher: Hunter House
ISBN: 0897934474
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In this title, women are shown how to choose men wisely, and learn how not to make the same mistake twice. Brown covers all the red flags of a dangerous man, and offers stories of women's successes and failures dealing with each type.
Get Involved!.
Author: Gill Holley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781380064837
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781380064837
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Things Every American Should Know: Volume 1
Author: Chris Wellman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483490580
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
THINGS EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW is a great book for all Americans. Whether learning for the first time or just refreshing your memory. There are 20 questions, with answers, eye-popping pictures, some brief background info and a quick fun challenge. You can learn so much, in a fun, easy way, with this amazing nonfiction coffee table book. FLIP THROUGH REALLY QUICKLY and see if you know any of the answers. It is amazing how much we think we know, but when put to the test, realize we don't. There are wide ranging questions, from history, space, government, to your personal credit score, renewable energy, the periodic table, atoms and a lot more. Try these out... - HOW MANY AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION ARE THERE? - WHAT WEEK DOES A BABY'S HEART START BEATING? - NAME THE PLANETS IN ORDER FROM THE SUN - CAN YOU SAY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM FROM BEGINNING TO END? Greatly increase your knowledge about important topics and be confident when discussing them in everyday conversation!
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483490580
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
THINGS EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW is a great book for all Americans. Whether learning for the first time or just refreshing your memory. There are 20 questions, with answers, eye-popping pictures, some brief background info and a quick fun challenge. You can learn so much, in a fun, easy way, with this amazing nonfiction coffee table book. FLIP THROUGH REALLY QUICKLY and see if you know any of the answers. It is amazing how much we think we know, but when put to the test, realize we don't. There are wide ranging questions, from history, space, government, to your personal credit score, renewable energy, the periodic table, atoms and a lot more. Try these out... - HOW MANY AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION ARE THERE? - WHAT WEEK DOES A BABY'S HEART START BEATING? - NAME THE PLANETS IN ORDER FROM THE SUN - CAN YOU SAY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM FROM BEGINNING TO END? Greatly increase your knowledge about important topics and be confident when discussing them in everyday conversation!