Author: Gavin Carver
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135301859
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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New Visions in Performance features the work of twelve performers and academics who are concerned with the integration of digital technologies into theatrical performance.
Author: Lamar L. Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000476723
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Johnson’s visionary and much-needed book is a call for the transformation of English education to embrace rather than reject Blackness. Confronting the context of heightened racial violence against Black youth that continues to sweep across the United States, Johnson illuminates the interconnection between the physical and symbolic violence that unfolds in and outside the classroom and demonstrates the harm this causes to Black youth. Employing an original framework, Critical Race English Education, Johnson reveals how English education and ELA classrooms are dominated by eurocentric language and literacy practices, and provides a justice-oriented framework that combats anti-Black racism. Throughout the book, Johnson disperses love letters to Blackness, Black culture, and Black people, which serve as actions and practices for positive thinking and self-awareness about Blackness. Critical Race English Education is a movement for Black lives. A crucial resource for pre-service ELA teachers, researchers, professors, and graduate students in language and literacy education, and sociology of education, this book offers classroom lessons, thematic units, sample activities, and other pedagogical and curricula practices that reconceptualize ELA pedagogies in humanizing ways and cater to the needs of students who come from racially and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Author: Nicole R. Fleetwood
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226253058
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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Troubling Vision addresses American culture’s fixation on black visibility, exploring how blackness is persistently seen as a problem in public culture and even in black scholarship that challenges racist discourse. Through trenchant analysis, Nicole R. Fleetwood reorients the problem of black visibility by turning attention to what it means to see blackness and to the performative codes that reinforce, resignify, and disrupt its meaning. Working across visual theory and performance studies, Fleetwood asks, How is the black body visualized as both familiar and disruptive? How might we investigate the black body as a troubling presence to the scopic regimes that define it as such? How is value assessed based on visible blackness? Fleetwood documents multiple forms of engagement with the visual, even as she meticulously underscores how the terms of engagement change in various performative contexts. Examining a range of practices from the documentary photography of Charles “Teenie” Harris to the “excess flesh” performances of black female artists and pop stars to the media art of Fatimah Tuggar to the iconicity of Michael Jackson, Fleetwood reveals and reconfigures the mechanics, codes, and metaphors of blackness in visual culture. “Troubling Vision is a path-breaking book that examines the problem of seeing blackness—the simultaneous hyper-visibility and invisibility of African Americans—in US visual culture in the last half century. Weaving together critical modes and methodologies from performance studies, art history, critical race studies, visual culture analysis, and gender theory, Fleetwood expands Du Bois’s idea of double vision into a broad questioning of whether ‘representation itself will resolve the problem of the black body in the field of vision.’ With skilled attention to historical contexts, documentary practices, and media forms, she takes up the works of a broad variety of cultural producers, from photographers and playwrights to musicians and visual artists and examines black spectatorship as well as black spectacle. In chapters on the trope of ‘non-iconicity’ in the photographs of Charles (Teenie) Harris, the ‘visible seams’ in the digital images of the artist Fatimah Tuggar, and a coda on the un-dead Michael Jackson, Fleetwood's close analyses soar. Troubling Vision is a beautifully written, original, and important addition to the field of American Studies.”—Announcement of the American Studies Association for the 2012 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize
Author: Paula Randall
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788143496
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Profiles model arts-based substance abuse prevention programs for youth & communities in a variety of disciplines & settings. Highlighted programs include: Tuscon's Project Choli & Old Pascua Youth Artists; San Francisco's Vietnamese Youth Dev. Center Peer Resource Program; Bronx Council on the Arts, WritersCorp; CHIL'ART Playwrights Program of New Brunswick, N.J.; Little Rock's CornerStone Project NETworks Center; Chicago's Music Theater Workshop Under Pressure series; Iowa City's United Action for Youth Synthesis Arts Workshop; & Teen Resource Project/New Visions/Nueva Visiones Theater of Holyoke, MA.
Author: Deirdre Kelly Lavrakas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781619590861
Category : Children's plays
Languages : en
Pages :
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"New Visions/New Voices ... has been a vibrant, driving force in the creation of new plays for young people and families for 25 years ... With the groundbreaking work of The Yellow Boat leading the way, the plays here deal with sophisticated themes-race, gender, social justice, class, ability-all in a youth-centered, nondogmatic way. This is the anthology that tells the story of a field that grew up while still embracing the whimsy and wonder of childhood. Long live New Visions/New Voices-here's to the next 25 years!"-Rives Collins--back cover.
Author: John P. Kotter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439107602
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Going far beyond previous empirical work, John Kotter and James Heskett provide the first comprehensive critical analysis of how the "culture" of a corporation powerfully influences its economic performance, for better or for worse. Through painstaking research at such firms as Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, ICI, Nissan, and First Chicago, as well as a quantitative study of the relationship between culture and performance in more than 200 companies, the authors describe how shared values and unwritten rules can profoundly enhance economic success or, conversely, lead to failure to adapt to changing markets and environments. With penetrating insight, Kotter and Heskett trace the roots of both healthy and unhealthy cultures, demonstrating how easily the latter emerge, especially in firms which have experienced much past success. Challenging the widely held belief that "strong" corporate cultures create excellent business performance, Kotter and Heskett show that while many shared values and institutionalized practices can promote good performances in some instances, those cultures can also be characterized by arrogance, inward focus, and bureaucracy -- features that undermine an organization's ability to adapt to change. They also show that even "contextually or strategically appropriate" cultures -- ones that fit a firm's strategy and business context -- will not promote excellent performance over long periods of time unless they facilitate the adoption of strategies and practices that continuously respond to changing markets and new competitive environments. Fundamental to the process of reversing unhealthy cultures and making them more adaptive, the authors assert, is effective leadership. At the heart of this groundbreaking book, Kotter and Heskett describe how executives in ten corporations established new visions, aligned and motivated their managers to provide leadership to serve their customers, employees, and stockholders, and thus created more externally focused and responsive cultures.
Author: Deo Rwangoga
Publisher: Exceller Books
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages :
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The book looks at Decentralization governance of president Museveni era, that was registered in Uganda of the local government status(1987),resistance councils status(1993), as well as into the 1995 constitution, operationalized by the local government act(1997) that devolved legislative, fiscal planning & budgeting functions to districts ,Municipal councils, as well as their lower tier levels, whose idea was to involve the people in a way they were governed, the dream that have not been achieved looking at what the cries of people are as expressed in all sectors. This book analyses Decentralization from 1997 to 2019, and deduces that the first phrase of it (10 years), that is up to 2005, was a success that time the district were 69 in number, but beyond that time it was not at all, and up to now as it is continuously becoming harder to manage, those very many administrative units that jumped from just 39 districts in 1991 to 134 Districts in 2020, as well as municipalities created alongside districts , that now stand at 41(2018), all , contributing to formation of a Member of Parliament that total to 459 MPs(2018). All this has led Uganda to have a very poor governance system, as even primary sectors of health, education, agriculture and economy are in a dilemma state, leave alone local revenue collections that are directed from source to Centre before expenditure and the districts have to request back to do any activity, including emergencies like garbage management, repairs and salaries, making services delivery impossible to be efficient and effective in all ways at these levels. The book is based on secondary data that, reported on governance issues of the day as written in Ugandan media that were people’s feelings as issues of the time as well some Journals, observations and interviews. The book introduces decentralization &governance of Uganda, identifies current state of affairs of service delivery, presents why there was need for many new administrative units, and their state now, looks at history of parliament, feudalism, identifies lost pride of Ugandans ,proposes what regional tier governance can address as well as linking the past with today’s Ugandan governance. Finally the book proposes prerequisite regional tier power centres relevant to today’s Uganda and concludes with models that can help us achieve vision 2040 and therefore proposes immediate need to implement regional tier governance that will establish all three arms of government at regional centres of Uganda, remember it was agreed to be implemented by those that deemed it under article, 178(3). It is apparent that all regions should therefore implement it as a solution to service delivery that is very poor now.
Author: Angelo Letizia
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498525059
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 165
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Performance-Based Funding in Higher Education examines the touted aims of higher education policies over the past thirty years. The focus on job creation and increased graduation rates has distracted educators, students, and surrounding communities from an educator’s traditional and valued role as the promoter of democracy and critical citizenship. Letizia contends that institutions of higher education must redirect and promote their policies so that this aim is achieved and acknowledged. Recommended for scholars of education, sociology, political science, and philosophy.
Author: Bejaoui, Azza
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522582673
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Increasing globalization, cutthroat competition, recurrent financial crises, and new social media technology provide unimaginable strain on companies to rethink their human resources practices. Such ever-growing business environments particularly call upon companies to develop sustainable leadership practices and create a well-established organizational climate. By promoting an organizational value system, the leader can influence the work behavior and attitudes of the employees and results. Corporate Leadership and Its Role in Shaping Organizational Culture and Performance is an essential reference source that investigates the influence of corporate leadership on the organizational culture and performance of a company and ways in which this understanding can improve firm effectiveness, nurture entrepreneurial behavior and practices, and establish innovative processes. Featuring research on topics such as intellectual capital, job satisfaction, and gender inequality, this book is ideally designed for managers, executives, business leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, academicians, and students.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
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