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From the Foreword by Captain Daniel Maurino: '...the authors direct their attention to applied research as well as to the search for practical tools to approach and deal with the relationship between culture, error and error management, and between culture and aviation human factors training for operational personnel. They devote particular attention to the link between culture and Crew Resource Management (CRM) training, a safety and prevention tool towards which few if any have contributed so much and so well..' '...The incorporation and management of cultural factors into aviation operations and practices simply represent another tool to contribute to the aviation system's production goals. Encouraging progress has been made, but there is need for improvement. This book presents one possible way to move forward' Vividly laced with numerous contributions from a range of practitioners and researchers from Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas, as well as case studies and practical examples, the book is designed to be accessible to practitioners and managers wishing to improve their own organization and to researchers with an interest in gaining a greater understanding of the types of culture.  Free Download Culturally Responsive Assessment in Classrooms and Large-Scale Contexts: Theory, Research, and Practice by Carla M. Evans, Catherine S. Taylor English | March 9, 2025 | ISBN: 1032504919 | 390 pages | PDF | 5.87 Mb Culturally Responsive Assessment in Classrooms and Large-Scale Contexts explores how scholars and professionals in educational measurement and assessment can use the unique cultural and social identities of students to shape assessment purpose, design, implementation, use, and validation processes. Despite the sheer diversity of student populations in the United States, the tools used to understand their performance and progress have not substantively changed in decades. Large-scale testing and related policies still privilege "culturally neutral" test content, standardization, and comparability. Classroom assessments often mimic these procedures, even though rich tasks and activities could easily be incorporated into curriculum and instruction to allow students to see themselves, their interests, communities, beliefs, and backgrounds represented and valued. This book collects the theory, research, and best practices that are essential to ensuring cultural responsiveness in classroom assessment and standardized testing procedures, policies, and practices. Chapters by assessment and measurement experts along with scholars who are experts in sociocultural learning theory, philosophy of education, critical theories, multilingual education, and Indigenous education, summarize findings from existing research and suggest how future research can move classroom and industry practice as well as federal, state, and local policy forward.  Free Download Cryocoolers 12 by Ronald G. Ross English | PDF | 2003 | 799 Pages | ISBN : 0306477149 | 97.6 MB  Free Download Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life by Dan Nadel English | April 15, 2025 | ISBN: 1982144009 | True EPUB | 480 pages | 64.2 MB The first biography of Robert Crumb-one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century-whose iconic, radically frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generations of readers and cartoonists, from Art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel.  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Here, Goran Miljan examines and analyzes for the first time the ideology, practices, and international connections of the Ustasha Youth organization. The Ustasha Youth was an all-embracing fascist youth organization, established in July 1941 by the `Independent State of Croatia' with the goal of reeducating young people in the model of an ideal `new' Croat. This youth organization attempted to set in motion an all-embracing, totalitarian national revolution which in reality consisted of specific interconnected, mutually dependent practices: prosecution, oppression, mass murder, and the Holocaust - all of which were officially legalized within a month of the regime's accession to power. To this end education, sport, manual work and camping took place in specially established Ustasha Youth Schools. In order to justify their radical policies of youth reeducation, the Ustasha Youth, besides emphasizing national character and the importance of cultural and national purity, also engaged in transnational activities and exchanges, especially with the Hlinkova mladez [Hlinka Youth] of the Slovak Republic. Both youth organizations were closely modelled after the youth organizations in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. This is a little studied part of the history of World War II and of Fascism, and will be essential reading for scholars of Central Europe and the Holocaust.  Free Download Critical Perspectives on the New Cold War By Bridey Heing 2018 | 234 Pages | ISBN: 0766098516 | EPUB | 1 MB In 2017, Donald Trump ascended to the highest political position in the United States amid cries that Russia had meddled in the presidential elections. Evidence that Russian operatives had hacked the email accounts of various U.S. political organizations only caused these cries to grow louder. As the relationship between the United States and Russia, along with other big players, such as China, has deteriorated, experts are stating that this constitutes a "new Cold War." In this text, political analysts, government officials, and advocates weigh in on the issue to allow readers to reach their own conclusions about these important political issues.  Free Download Critical Perspectives on Human Security : Rethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations By David Chandler; Nik Hynek 2010 | 217 Pages | ISBN: 0415567343 | PDF | 1 MB This new book presents critical approaches towards Human Security, which has become one of the key areas for policy and academic debate within Security Studies and IR. The Human Security paradigm has had considerable significance for academics, policy-makers and practitioners. Under the rubric of Human Security, security policy practices seem to have transformed their goals and approaches, re-prioritising economic and social welfare issues that were marginal to the state-based geo-political rivalries of the Cold War era. Human Security has reflected and reinforced the reconceptualisation of international security, both broadening and deepening it, and, in so doing, it has helped extend and shape the space within which security concerns inform international policy practices. However, in its wider use, Human Security has become an amorphous and unclear political concept, seen by some as progressive and radical and by others as tainted by association with the imposition of neo-liberal practices and values on non-Western spaces or as legitimizing attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is concerned with critical perspectives towards Human Security, highlighting some of the tensions which can emerge between critical perspectives which discursively radicalise Human Security within frameworks of emancipatory possibility and those which attempt to deconstruct Human Security within the framework of an externally imposed attempt to regulate and order the globe on behalf of hegemonic power. The chapters gathered in this edited collection represent a range of critical approaches which bring together alternative understandings of human security. This book will be of great interest to students of human security studies and critical security studies, war and conflict studies and international relations.  Free Download Critical Mathematics Education : Can Democratic Mathematics Education Survive under Neoliberal Regime? By Bülent Avci 2018 | 178 Pages | ISBN: 9004390227 | PDF | 1 MB Critical Mathematics Education offers classroom-based data to illustrate the ways in which critical mathematics education comprises a response to the tension between the needs of a neoliberal system and the needs of individual students to fulfil their potential, as human beings and citizens.  Free Download Matt Malpass, "Critical Design in Context: History, Theory, and Practice" English | ISBN: 1350125172 | 2019 | 168 pages | PDF | 2 MB Critical Design is becoming an increasingly influential discipline, affecting policy and practice in a range of fields. Matt Malpass's book is the first to introduce critical design as a field, providing a history of the discipline, outlining its key influences, theories and approaches, and explaining how critical design can work in practice through a range of contemporary examples. Critical Design moves away from traditional approaches that limit design's role to the production of profitable objects, focusing instead on a practice that is interrogative, discursive and experimental. Using a wide range of examples from contemporary practice, and drawing on interviews with key practitioners, Matt Malpass provides an introduction to critical design practice and a manifesto for how a radical and unorthodox practice might provide design answers in an age of austerity and ecological crisis. |
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