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Expanding Environmental Awareness in Education Through the Arts
This book presents diverse processes of crafting that bring humans, more than-humans and the environment closer to one another and, by doing so, addresses personal and educational developments towards ecological awareness. It discusses the human-material relationship, introduces posthuman theoretical entry points and reflects on the implementation of such theoretical perspectives in education. The practical examples of crafting-with the environment, the material practices and reflections posed in the book, provide insights into possible ways of levelling out human and material hierarchies. The chapters of this book give examples of artists' and crafts people's processes of thinking through m...
Joy Cometh in the Morning
The Mitchell family has seen their share of hardship. Tragedy and grief are never far away. As sharecroppers in 1940s North Carolina, they struggle just to survive. But the bright lights of New York City eventually lead Joseph Mitchell and his daughter, Tessa, from their Southern roots with the hope of a better life. Like the Mitchell family, the Hendersons are plagued by heartbreak and pain. Sydney Henderson is a chauffeur for a successful Atlanta businessman. When Sydney's boss needs to spend an extended period of time in New York City, he asks Sydney to go with him and continue to be his driver. Sydney and his wife, Ivory, have never been out of Georgia, and little do they know the adventures that await them in the Big Apple. Travel with the Henderson family on their long train ride from Atlanta to New York, and delve deeply into their lives as they carve out a new existence for themselves in New York City. Hope eventually springs as the two families are brought together by an unexpected love affair. Joy Cometh in the Morning is a story about life, death, and the heartache that accompanies our journey.
Re/centring Lives and Lived Experience in Education
Teaching and learning are profoundly personal experiences, yet systems of education often prioritize disembodied and decontextualized approaches that continue the historical marginalization of the lives they seek to represent. Re/centring teachers and learners places individuals at the heart of education and, in so doing, re/positions knowledge as contextual and constructivist. This approach, at once pedagogical and practical, has the capacity to transform the classroom from a place too often characterized by what is missing to a place of presence. Through critical, qualitative, creative, and arts-integrated approaches, this collection explores the co-curricular capacity of lived experience to re/centre human being in education.
Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion
This book explores the importance of the agriculturally-based fiber and textile industry, and how local, small-scale operations and markets, coupled with a connection to soil health, can lead the way to new transformative changes. It draws on a four-year research project on Norwegian wool, as well as similar studies in Poland and Portugal. It also explores the role of women and the Indigenous perspective: in Europe this will constitute Sami and Inuit, in Northern America the Inuit and First Nations in Canada, along with Native Americans. Born out of academic interest in the slow food movement, the importance of local raw materials has been put under the spotlight in recent years. Meanwhile, ...
Identity Landscapes
Beginning from the notion that self is constructed, contributors in Identity Landscapes: Contemplating Place and the Construction of Self are particularly interested in how relationships with place inform identity development. Locating identity inquiry in methodologies that encourage an explicit examination of self (e.g. autoethnography, self-study, autobiographical inquiry, a/r/tography, and reflexive inquiry), authors situate themselves epistemologically and geographically as they explore where place and identity converge. Through critical, qualitative, creative, and arts-integrated approaches, this collection aims to advance thought regarding the myriad ways that place informs identity development.
Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs!
As the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame says: "Before the world heard of KISS, the New York Dolls, Marilyn Manson or Ozzy Osbourne, there was Alice Cooper, the original shock-rock band." When Alice Cooper became the stuff of legend in the early '70s, their shows were monuments of fun and invention. Riding on a string of hits like "I'm 18" and "School's Out," they became America's highest-grossing act, producing four platinum albums and hitting number one on the U.S. and U.K. charts with Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. Their utterly original performance style and look, known as Shock Rock, was swiftly copied by countless bands. Dennis Dunaway, the bassist and co-songwriter for the band, tells a story ...
The American Voter: Stupid and Ignorant
Since Eve, stupid people have existed and multiplied. Far too many stumble through life, fortunate that breathing is involuntary, with ignorance and without common sense. It is not surprising then, that they bring their brainless way of life to the voting arena. The American Voter: Stupid and Ignorant, takes an anecdotal, historical, and statistical look at how the voters, from Eisenhower to Obama, through the eyes of the professionals, and nonprofessionals, who have reported on this nonsense, have stumbled into a voting booth with only slightly more cognitive ability than a vegetable. God Bless America!
An Actor Guide to the Talkies, 1965 Through 1974
Films are alphabetical by title, with an index to actors.
Finley L. Underwood and Mahala Dowden
Finley Lucky Underwood (1814-1893) was born in Henry County, Missouri, the son of John and Nancy Blackburn Underwood. He married Mahala Dowden (1817-1878), daughter of Nathaniel and Agnes (Nancy) McLane Dowden, in 1834 in Shelby County, Kentucky. They had twelve children, 1836-1860. They family migrated from Shelby County, Kentucky, to Boone County, Indiana, in 1839; and to Lawrence County, Missouri, in 1857. He married 2) Mary J. Coffinberry Cole (1846- 1918), widow of Alexander Cole, in 1879 in Jasper County, Missouri. They had three children, 1880-1882. Finley and Mahala Underwood are buried at Salem Cemetery, Mt. Vernon, Missouri. Descendants listed lived in Missouri, Indiana, California, Utah, and elsewhere.
