Author: Cris Mayo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: cultures, curriculum, homo, sexualities, series, controversies, school, subject, sex, sexuality, public, disputing
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2007-04-26
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0742526593
ISBN-13: 9780742526594

Sexuality remains a hotly debated subject, nowhere more so than in education. This perceptive and balanced book shows that discussions of sexuality and schooling can be simultaneously polarizing and democratizing. Disputing the Subject of Sex examines controversies over sex, AIDS, and gay-inclusive multicultural education, which offer especially fruitful opportunities to explore instances when community membership, schooling, and sexuality have collided. Rather than choosing sides, this book uses case studies, interviews with queer youth, and analysis of curricular texts to help readers unders

Author: Daniel J. Mahoney
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: discontents, liberty, modern
Number of Pages: 246
Published: 1998-07-30
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0847690881
ISBN-13: 9780847690886

In this book, distinguished French philosopher Pierre Manent addresses a wide range of subjects, including the Machiavellian origins of modernity, Tocqueville’s analysis of democracy, the political role of Christianity, the nature of totalitarianism, and the future of the nation-state. As a whole, the book constitutes a meditation on the nature of modern freedom and the permanent discontents which accompany it. Manent is particularly concerned with the effects of modern democracy on the maintenance and sustenance of substantial human ties. "Modern Liberty and its Discontents" is both an

Author: Jonathan H. Turner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: evolution, societal, theory, institutions, human
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0742525597
ISBN-13: 9780742525597

In his newest book, leading social theorist Jonathan H. Turner offers a creative, richly grounded reinterpretation of social evolution.

Author: Fred R. Dallmayr
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: hegel
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0742521370
ISBN-13: 9780742521377

"With this innovative volume, Dallmayr presents Hegel as the preeminent philosopher of modernity and (more specifically) of a ’modern polis,’ that is as a thinker seeking to articulate a viable form of public life in the context of the modern emphasis on ’free enterprise’ and the pursuit of individual self-interest. While some decry its dehumanizing effects, Dallmayr offers Hegel’s political thought as clearing an alternative path--upholding the ’high road’ of modernity, a road marked by the vision of a socially and politically responsible political fr

Author: Karen Monkma
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: education, globalization
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2000-07-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0847699196
ISBN-13: 9780847699193

"The effects of globalization have long been dealt with in terms of economic and technological consequences, but what about the influence on education? Though still not a precise concept, what we understand as "globalization" is bringing forth numerous and profound changes in the economic, cultural, and political life of nations. With increased opportunities for interaction and learning, education around the world is rapidly becoming transformed. The essays contained in this comprehensive yet readable book, strive to provide a thorough examination of the impact these changes are having on how

Authors:Mark A. Abramson, Ian D. Littma,
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: innovation
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0742522660
ISBN-13: 9780742522664

"Innovation provides five in-depth studies on the state" of innovation in government today. Jonathan Walters analyzes what he has learned from studying winners of the Ford Foundation/Kennedy School Innovations in Government awards program. Sandford Borins examines the five building blocks of innovation. Janet Vinzant Denhardt and Robert Denhardt tell us how Phoenix created a culture of innovation within city government. William Eimicke studied San Diego County, California to find out how innovative programs can be implemented in a large county government. Scott Tarry presents five case studies

Author: David Mark
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: campaigning, negative, art, dirty, going
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-03-09
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0742545016
ISBN-13: 9780742545014

Going Dirty is a history of negative campaigning in American politics and an examination of how candidates and political consultants have employed this often-controversial technique. The book includes case studies on notable races throughout the television era in which new negative campaign strategies were introduced, or existing tactics were refined and amplified upon.