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"Randy Stoecker has been "practicing" forms of community-engaged scholarship, including service learning, for thirty years now, and he readily admits, "Practice does not make perfect." In his highly personal critique, Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement, the author worries about the contradictions, unrealized potential, and unrecognized urgency of the causes as well as the risks and rewards of this work. Here, Stoecker questions the prioritization and theoretical/philosophical underpinnings of the core concepts of service learning: 1. learning, 2. service, 3. community, and 4. change. By "liberating" service learning, he suggests reversing the prioritization of the concepts, starting with change, then community, then service, and then learning. In doing so, he clarifies the benefits and purpose of this work, arguing that it will create greater pedagogical and community impact. Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement challenges--and hopefully will change--our thinking about higher education community engagement"--

Introduction -- Contemporary approaches to supervision in the human services -- Human services : global context -- Human services : organisational and workplace context -- Human services : professional practice context -- Core concepts of a critical perspective -- Critical pedagogy and transformative learning -- Critical supervision : foundations -- Critical supervision : practice fundamentals -- Critical supervision : pedagogical skills and tools -- Critical supervision : using the process -- Critical supervision : practice examples -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- References

"Goedele A. M. De Clerck presents cross-cultural comparative research that examines and documents where deaf flourishing occurs and how it can be advanced. She spotlights collective and dynamic resources of knowledge and learning; the coexistence of lived differences; social, linguistic, cultural, and psychological capital; and human potential and creativity. Deaf Epistemologies, Identity, and Learning argues for an inclusive approach to the intrinsic human diversity in society, education, and scholarship, and shows how emotions of hope, frustration, and humiliation contribute to the construction of identity and community. De Clerck also considers global to local dynamics in deaf identity, deaf culture, deaf education, and deaf empowerment. She presents empirical research through case studies of the emancipation processes for deaf people in Flanders (a region of Belgium), the United States (specifically, at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC), and the West African nation of Cameroon. These three settings illuminate different phases of emancipation in different contexts, and the research findings are integrated into a broader literature review and subjected to theoretical reflection. De Clerck's anthropology of deaf flourishing draws from her critical application of the empowerment paradigm in settings of daily life, research, leadership, and community work, as she explores identity and well-being through an interdisciplinary lens. This work is centered around practices of signed storytelling and posits learning as the primary access and pathway to culture, identity, values, and change. Change driven by the learning process is considered an awakening--and through this awakening, the deaf community can gain hope, empowerment, and full citizenship. In this way, deaf people are allowed to shape their histories, and the result is the elevation of all aspects of deaf lives around the world"--

Although Gender Studies have found their way into most domains of academic research and teaching, they are not directly in the spotlight of foreign Language teaching pedagogy and research. However, teachers are confronted with gender issues in the Language classroom everyday. By the use of Language alone, they construct or deconstruct gender roles; with the choice of topics they shape gender identities in the classroom; and their ways of approaching pupils clearly mirrors their gender sensitivity. The book "Gender and Language Learning" aims at raising awareness towards gender issues in different areas of foreign Language teaching and learning. The primary objective of the book is to spark university students', trainee teachers' and in-service teachers' analysis and reflection of gender relations in the foreign Language learning and teaching section.

Introduction -- The background to the familial homicide of Peter Connelly -- The denial of crimes against children -- Exploring processes of blame, fear and denial from a psychosocial perspective -- The socio-political and cultural context of the death of Peter Connelly -- The narrative about Baby P emerges -- The identification of a cultural trope that blames social workers for harm to children -- Conclusions and main findings

"Faced with organizations that are more dispersed, a workforce that is more diverse and the pressure to reduce costs, CEOs and CFOs are increasingly asking what the return on investment is from training and development programmes. Learning Analytics provides a framework for understanding how to work with learning analytics at an advanced level. It focuses on the questions that training evaluation is intended to answer: is training effective and how can it be improved? It discusses the field of learning analytics, outlining how and why analytics can be useful, and takes the reader through examples of approaches to answering these questions and looks at the valuable role that technology has to play. Even where technological solutions are employed, the HR or learning and development practitioner needs to understand what questions they should be asking of their data to ensure alignment between training and business needs. Learning Analytics enables both senior L&D and HR professionals as well as CEOs and CFOs to see the transformational power that effective analytics has for building a learning organization, and the impacts that this has on performance, talent management, and competitive advantage. It helps learning and development professionals to make the business case for their activities, demonstrating what is truly adding value and where budgets should be spent, and to deliver a credible service to their business by providing metrics based on which sound business decisions can be made"--

The Meccan prison of 'Abdallah b. al-Zubayr and the imprisonment of Muhammad b. al-Hanafiyya / Sean W. Anthony -- Fragments of three Umayyad official documents / Fred M. Donner -- Single isnads or riwayas quoted books in Ibn 'Asakir's tarjama of Tamim al-dari / Jens Scheiner -- Friendship in the service of governance: makarim al-akhlaq in Abbasid political culture / Paul l. Heck -- Prinzen, Prinzessinnen, Konkubinen und Eunuchen am fatimidischen Hof / Heinz Halm -- A new Latin-Arabic document from Norman Sicily (November 595 h/1198 -- Ce) / Nadia Jamil and Jeremy Johns -- Religion, law, and Islamic thought: The rhetorical Qur'an or orality as a theologumenon / Angelika Neuwirth -- The "shearing of forelocks" as a penitential rite / Marion Holmes Katz -- Authority in Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani's Kitab al-nawadir wa-l-ziyadat: 'Ala ma fi l-mudawwana min ghayriha min al-ummahat: the case of "the Chapter of judgments" (kitab al-aqdiya) / Mohammad Fadel -- A segment of the genealogy of sunni hadith criticism: the mysterious relationship between al-Khatib al-Baghdadi and al-Hakim al-Naysaburi / Jonathan Brown -- Al-hakim al-Naysaburi and the companions of the Prophet: an original Sunni voice in the Shi'i century / Scott C. Lucas -- Ibn Rushd and Thomas Aquinas on education / Sebastian Gunther -- Teaching the learned: Jalal al-Din al-Dawani's ijaza to mu'ayyadzada : 'Abd al-Rahman Efendi and the circulation of knowledge between Fars and the Ottoman empire at the turn of the sixteenth century / Judith Pfeiffer -- Scholars in networks: 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi and his travels / John O. Voll -- Rhetorics of revival: al-Ghazali and his modern heirs / Kenneth Garden -- Language, literature, and heritage -- Grammarians on the af'al al-muqaraba: steps in the sources towards a subdivision of operants / Ramzi Baalbaki -- Reflections on the lives and deaths of two Umayyad poets: Layla al-Akhyaliyya and Tawba b. al-Humayyir / Aram A. Shahin -- Literature and thought: re-reading al-Tawhidi's transcription of the debate between logic and grammar / Wen-chin Ouyang -- The play of genre: a maqama of "ease after hardship" from the eighth/fourteenth century and its literary context / Maurice A. Pomerantz -- What's in a Mamluk picture? the hall of portraiture at the cairo Citadel remembered / Guo -- In defense of the use of Qur'an in adab: Ibn Abi l-Lutf's raf' al-iltibas 'an munkir al-iqtibas / Bilal Orfali -- Modes of existence of the poetry in the Arabian Nights / Wolfhart Heinrichs -- Modern Arabic literature and Islam / Stefan Wild -- Abraham and the sacrificial son: transtextual strategies in Jose Saramago's the gospel according to Jesus Christ and Elias Khoury's As though she were sleeping / Maher Jarrar -- The ideological and epistemological: contemporary readings in Arabo-Islamic classical heritage (turath) / Ridwan al-Sayyid (translated by Eman Morsi)

pt. 1. Critical Potential and Current Challenges -- Ch. 1. The Critical Tradition of Social Work -- Ch. 2. Current Contexts of Practice: Challenges and Possibilities -- pt. 2. Rethinking Ideas -- Ch. 3. New Ways of Knowing -- Ch. 4. Power -- Ch. 5. Discourse, Language and Narrative -- Ch. 6. Identity and Difference -- pt. 3. Redeveloping Practices -- Ch. 7. Critical Deconstruction and Reconstruction -- Ch. 8. Empowerment -- Ch. 9. Problem Conceptualisation and Assessment -- Ch. 10. Narrative Strategies -- Ch. 11. Contextual Practices: Strategies for Working in and with Contexts -- Ch. 12. Ongoing Learning

Fundamentals -- A short history of analytics -- Open source analytics -- The Hadoop ecosystem -- In-memory analytics -- Streaming analytics -- Analytics in the cloud -- Machine learning -- Self-service analytics -- Handbook for managers

NGOs and state development -- Theorizing NGOs and the state : territoriality, governance, capacity, legitimacy -- Kenya as case study : historical portraits of NGOs and the state -- Territoriality : NGOs and the broadcasting of state power -- NGOs' role in governance : changing patterns of policymaking and implementation -- NGOs, service provision and administrative capacity : isomorphism through learning in the civil service -- Have NGOs decreased perceptions of state legitimacy over time? -- NGOs : increase state legitimacy or undermine popular support? -- Blurring the boundaries between NGOs and the state : a comparative analysis

Care matters and mixed race children -- Fostering mixed race children -- Understanding mixedness: concepts, categories, and people -- Researching mixedness as a category of experience -- The first year in care and the matrix of classifications -- Family ties through the lens -- A portrait of transience through care -- The leaving care transition -- Learning from mixed race children in foster care

Health care systems in the United States and the United Kingdom: a lifetime of change -- Turbulence in the two systems -- Measuring and rewarding performance: imposing change from above in the United Kingdom -- Regulating the frontline from above: the joint commission and hospital regulation in the United States -- Pushing back from the frontline: staff responses to privatization in the National Health Service -- Building a safety culture from the frontline in the United States -- From the health care workplace to the health care system: learning from the United States and United Kingdom