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Focusing on the problems and conflicts of doing African diaspora research from various disciplinary perspectives, these essays situate, describe, and reflect on the current practice of diaspora scholarship. Tejumola Olaniyan, James H. Sweet, and the international group of contributors assembled here seek to enlarge understanding of how the diaspora is conceived and explore possibilities for the future of its study. With the aim of initiating interdisciplinary dialogue on the practice of African diaspora s

This text assembles in a single volume research, scholarship and practices from across relevant disciplines and professions to give a coherent picture of the communication and dissemination of behavioural science, the main actors, contemoporary themes and approaches, and key challenges

Mental Health Counselors at Work features the assessment of mental health workers, who are non-traditionally trained, as well as the implications for work force utilization of this study. This book first introduces the pilot training program, and then describes the settings in which mental health counselors (MHCs) were employed, as well as the characteristics of their work. MHCs expectations regarding future job functions are then presented. This text also looks into the evaluation of work of the featured MHCs, as well as into the reflections of the MHCs on their fieldwork experience. This boo

"Rhetorical Theory and Praxis in the Business Communication Classroom responds to a significant need in the emerging field of business communication as the first collection of its type to establish a connection between rhetorical theory and practice in the business communication classroom. The volume includes topics such as rhetorical grammar, genre awareness in business communication theory, the role of big data in message strategy, social media and memory, and the connection between rhetorical theory and entrepreneurship. These essays provide the business communication scholar, practitioner, and program administrator insight into the rhetorical considerations of the business communication landscape"--

Introduction: purposes and approaches -- Developmental sequence for presentation of the core concepts -- Early grades: laying the foundation for an appreciation of human dignity -- Kindergarten to grade three -- Middle grades: introducing standards and principles -- Grades four to six -- Junior high school: reflecting and valuing -- Grades seven to nine -- Senior high school: confronting the problems, taking responsibility -- Grades ten to twelve -- Resources for human rights education -- Appendix: selected human rights documents

"This book outlines the pedagogical practices necessary to inspire the next generation of peace-bringers by addressing strategies to include topics from human rights and environmental sustainability, to social justice and disarmament in a comprehensive method"--Provided by publisher

1. Contexts of transdisciplinarity : drivers, discourses and process / Gerard Mullally, Colin Sage and Edmond Byrne -- 2. Disciplines, perspectives and conversations / Gerard Mullally, Edmond Byrne and Colin Sage -- 3. Sustainability as contingent balance between opposing though interdependent tendencies : a process approach to progress and evolution / Edmond Byrne -- 4. Paradigmatic transformation across the disciplines : snapshots of an emerging complexity informed approach to progress, evolution and sustainability / Edmond Byrne -- 5. Fear and loading in the anthropocene : narratives of apocalypse and salvation in the irish media / Gerard Mullally -- 6. Bio-fuelling the Hummer? : transdisciplinary thoughts on techno-optimism and innovation in the transition from unsustainability / John Barry -- 7. The gulf between legal and scientific conceptions of ecological "integrity" : the need for a shared understanding in regulatory policy-making / Owen McIntyre and John O'Halloran -- 8. Precaution and prudence in sustainability : heuristic of fear and heuristic of love / Benedicte Sage-Fuller -- 9. Sustainable future ecological communities : on the absence and continuity of sacred symbols, sublime objects and charismatic heroes / Kieran Keohane -- 10. Using energy systems modelling to inform Ireland's low carbon future / Brian Gallachoir, Paul Deane and Alessandro Chiodi -- 11. Markets, productivism and the implications for irish rural sustainable development / Mary O'Shaughnessy and Colin Sage -- 12. Nanomaterials as an emerging category of environmental pollutants / David Sheehan -- 13. Sustaining interdisciplinarity? : reflections on an inter-institutional exchange by an early stage researcher / Stephan Maier, Michael Narodoslawsky and Gerard Mullally -- 14. In praise of intellectual promiscuity in the service of a "passion for sustainability" / John Barry -- 15. Transdisciplinarity within the university : emergent possibilities, opportunities, challenges and constraints / Edmond Byrne, Colin Sage and Gerard Mullally.