Learning Beyond the Classroom: Education for a Changing World

This book argues that if we want to create a genuine learning society, we must recognise that learning takes place in every part of society and not just in formal educational systems.

Politics & Social Sciences

Bentley, Tom

Sociology

Routledge

Empires of Remorse: Narrative, postcolonialism and apologies for colonial atrocity (Routledge Studies on Challenges, Crises and Dissent in World Politics)

Politics & Government

Viruses, hackers, fraud, crashes, eyestrain, data loss, aching wrists, identity theft . . . These are but a few of the horror stories that are part of the world of computers. But here, in this clear, easy-to-read book, is all the information you need to keep yourself and your property safe. Chapter Summaries and Action Sheets for each subject help you evaluate your needs, make a plan and take action to protect yourself, your computer, your money and your data. This book includes a free bonus CD-ROM filled with lots of software for both Macintosh and Windows, that puts your computer to work to help protect you and your property. You’ll learn: * How to protect and back up your data * How to avoid aches, pains and repetitive stress injuries * How to protect your computer from viruses, worms and Trojan horses * How to foil hackers and identity thieves * How to protect yourself from theft and fraud * How to preserve our personal privacy while surfing the Web * And much, much more! Safe Computing is part of the Advice from the Neighborhood Nerd™ series of leaning materials, created to help everyone understand and use computers and other technologies that have become a part of modern life. “You’re not a dummy. You’re not an idiot. All you need is a little advice from the Neighborhood Nerd.”

Safe Computing : How to Protect Your Computer, Your Body, Your Data, Your Money and Your Privacy in the Information Age

Computers & Technology

Untechnical Pr

Flowering

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

AM Ink Publishing

The Roaring Twenties were bellowing along—until they weren’t. In a splintered bar in Boston, Pinky deVroom, newspaperman, amateur cynic and would-be-novelist, clutches his sour Prohibition brandy and watches his world get sucked down into the vortex. Hope comes in the form of an astute, comely literary agent named Elfred. But hope can be its own form of hell. Watch game Pinky twist, squirm and waffle while the world wobbles. Literature has never had a hero named Pinky—but despite literature’s measured qualms, this is its greatest chance.The Depression and Prohibition’s consequences are fundamental to the work, as are the appearances of some real-life figures such as Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare &amp; Company and Alice Hamilton, the pioneering scientist. The effects of lead poisoning, the unfettered joys of the “banana messenger” and the glories of Telechron clocks also have their time in the sun. As do rigorous bartending practices and the perils of owning a hat. But all those tributaries of the story return to Pinky: Through continued tests and failures, through the comradeship of good friends, through his own lacerations and partial healings, will he find fulfillment? Will those friends, a mysterious secret society, and the judicious prodding of the remarkable Doctor Alice Hamilton help him get the girl, the book deal, or at least hang on to his job? Or his hat?

Swirled All the Way to the Shrub

Wilson, Rick

Literary

Gack&Bacon Publishing Ltd.

Education has become one of our major concerns, at the heart of any strategy for prosperity and social cohesion. But young people are having more difficulty than ever before in adapting to the world they will enter as adults. Tom Bentley argues that if education is to meet the emerging challenges of the twenty-first century, we must recognise that learning takes place far beyond the formal education sector. We cannot rely solely on dedicated teachers to deliver the understanding and personal qualities young people will need. Instead we must connect what happens in schools to wider opportunities for learning. Drawing on a wide-ranging review of educational innovation and on contemporary analysis of economic, social and technological change, this book shows that creating an education revolution requires us to think far more radically about young people and the options for reform, and outlines a vision of education fit for the twenty-first century. Tom Bentley is a senior researcher at Demos, the independent think-tank. He was born and educated in East London and at Oxford University. His research areas include: young people, education, the future of work and combating of social exclusion.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Until deep into the 20th century, empire remained a source of pride for European states and their politicians. The 21st century, however, has seen the unexpected emergence of certain European states apologising to their former colonies. Analysing apologies from Germany, Belgium, Britain and Italy, this book explores the shifting ways in which these countries represent their colonial pasts and investigates what this reveals about contemporary international politics, particularly relations between (former) coloniser and colonised. It is argued that, far from renouncing colonialism in its entirety, the apologies are replete with discourses that are reminiscent of the core legitimising tenets of empire. Specifically, the book traces how the apologies both illuminate and recycle many of the inequalities, mind-sets and ambivalences that circulated at the height of empire.  This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of peace and post-conflict resolution studies, memory studies, colonial studies and postcolonial theory. More broadly, it will be of interest to those studying political science, International Relations, sociology and development.

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