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 Critical Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices: Committing to Social Justice and Professional Improvement by Adrian D. Martin English | November 20, 2025 | ISBN: 3032081386 | 295 pages | PDF | 2.78 Mb This book builds upon the self-study of teacher education practices (S-STEP) literature, research in teacher education, and perspectives on criticality and social justice. It explores critical self-study of teacher education practices as the systematic investigation of professional practice for self-improvement and the advancement of social justice by resisting inequitable systems, practices, and deficit-based ideologies. The volume provides readers with a conceptual and practical guide on the research of practice as connected with, and part of, social justice movements and equity efforts. Its major contribution is the articulation of 3 guiding commitments, or principles, that undergird critical self-study research: The first is engaging with critical consciousness; followed by enabling equity through methodology; and the final one is enacting advocacy. The text attends to ways researchers can employ critical self-study to conceptualize, investigate, and report their practices and situate issues of power, privilege, and oppression. A distinct feature of the book is the articulation of equity-based considerations for the development, deployment, and dissemination of a critical self-study. Guiding prompts, exercises, and suggested readings are provided to support readers of the volume in designing their own critical self-studies.  Elizabeth Bearden, "Crip Authority: Disability and the Art of Consolation in the Renaissance " English | ISBN: 0472057618 | 2025 | 378 pages | EPUB | 2 MB Crip Authority explores how Renaissance writers and artists with disabilities drew on consolatory literature to enhance their authority and create a sense of disability community across the centuries. Elizabeth B. Bearden considers how Renaissance writers and artists understood their lived experiences of disability by drawing on the ancient genre of consolation, which aims to comfort people for a variety of hardships, including mental and physical disability. Renaissance writers used the art of consolation to resignify the mental and physical disabilities that their society frequently scorned into an expression of their military, spiritual, political, and most importantly for this study, writerly authority. Bearden names this kind of defiant authorial self-representation crip authority, thereby transgressively cripping our society's ableist notions of who has the ability and authority to write.  David A. Sklansky, "Criminal Justice in Divided America: Police, Punishment, and the Future of Our Democracy" English | ISBN: 0674293665 | 2025 | 256 pages | MOBI | 515 KB How a broken criminal justice system has fueled the crisis of American democracy, and how we can address both problems together.  Sanja Milivojevic, "Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet" English | ISBN: 036746800X | 2021 | 148 pages | AZW3 | 392 KB Crime and Punishment in the Future Internet is an examination of the development and impact of digital frontier technologies (DFTs) such as Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of things, autonomous mobile robots, and blockchain on offending, crime control, the criminal justice system, and the discipline of criminology. It poses criminological, legal, ethical, and policy questions linked to such development and anticipates the impact of DFTs on crime and offending. It forestalls their wide-ranging consequences, including the proliferation of new types of vulnerability, policing and other mechanisms of social control, and the threat of pervasive and intrusive surveillance.  Kai Lehikoinen, "Creativity, Society, and the Role of Socially Engaged Art in Higher Arts Education " English | ISBN: 1032692103 | 2025 | 222 pages | EPUB | 1511 KB This interdisciplinary book explores socially engaged art as a subject of study and its relevance in higher arts education institutions' third mission―giving back to society and engaging with the community―to build a sustainable higher arts education for the future.  Creative iPhone Photography Challenges: Unleash Your Inner Artist with Guided Prompts and Techniques for Stunning Mobile Photos by Dave Espino English | 2026 | ASIN: B0GHLB1XJG | 82 pages | pdf | 44 MB  Allan V. Horwitz, "Creating Mental Illness" English | ISBN: 0226353826 | 2003 | 315 pages | MOBI | 748 KB In this surprising book, Allan V. Horwitz argues that our current conceptions of mental illness as a disease fit only a small number of serious psychological conditions and that most conditions currently regarded as mental illness are cultural constructions, normal reactions to stressful social circumstances, or simply forms of deviant behavior.  Allan V. Horwitz, "Creating Mental Illness" English | ISBN: 0226353826 | 2003 | 315 pages | AZW3 | 669 KB In this surprising book, Allan V. Horwitz argues that our current conceptions of mental illness as a disease fit only a small number of serious psychological conditions and that most conditions currently regarded as mental illness are cultural constructions, normal reactions to stressful social circumstances, or simply forms of deviant behavior.  Baczynski, "Creating Consent Culture" English | ISBN: 1839971029 | 2022 | 240 pages | MOBI | 668 KB Can you imagine a world where no one feared a violation of their boundaries? A world where everyone felt safe in their bodies and confident in asking for what they wanted? Teaching consent education is the way to achieve this vision, and this entry level book for educators helps you teach and discuss consent issues to young adults, from 10+.The fun, interactive exercises in this book focus on consent in all interactions, not just sexual ones, and explores skills that help young people to increase their relational intelligence and build positive, reciprocal relationships.  Creating And Managing Experiences In Cultural Tourism English | 2019 | ISBN: 9813233672 | 454 pages | True PDF,EPUB | 14.26 MB A key tool in creating a destination experience is the experience economy. This is even more true for cultural tourism experiences since culture's intrinsic values are inherently linked to experiences. |
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