Becoming Somebody

Becoming Somebody
Author: Philip Wexler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2005-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135723265

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Becoming Somebody

Becoming Somebody
Author: Philip Wexler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2005-06-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135723257

Offers a social psychological account of social life in three high schools, combining theoretical analysis with reflective methodology. The emphasis of the book is on how social relations have varying effects on the feeling of self in young people from different socioeconomic environments.

Becoming Somebody in Teacher Education

Becoming Somebody in Teacher Education
Author: Kari Kragh Blume Dahl
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000344541

Becoming Somebody in Teacher Education explores the realities of contemporary teacher education in Kenya. Based on a long-term ethnographic fieldwork, it views the teacher training institution as a space to grow, become and be shaped as teachers in complex moral worlds. Drawing on a rich conceptual and theoretical vocabulary, the book shows how students in these teacher education institutions constantly negotiate and confront the complex constructions of ethnicity, gender and class, as well as moral, religious and academic issues and a lack of resources encountered in the different institutional cultures. It outlines a complex array of concerns affecting student teachers that shape what professional becoming means in a stratified and diverse culture. This story of the process of growing up and becoming a professional teacher in an African setting will appeal to researchers, academics and students in the fields of teacher education, organizational studies, international education and development, social anthropology and ethnography.

Becoming a Somebody

Becoming a Somebody
Author: Steven Nyczyk
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2019-09-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1459743792

Ignat Kaneff arrived in Canada in 1951 with a mere five dollars to his name, no English, and very little education. Within five years, he had started a construction company and broken ground on his first subdivision, kicking off a career as one of the country’s top businessmen. His is one of Canada’s great immigrant success stories.

"Dropping Out," Drifting Off, Being Excluded

Author: John Smyth
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780820455075

This book deals with one of the most urgent, damaging, and complex issues affecting young lives and contemporary society in general - the escalating high school dropout rate. Though against the wishes of teachers and school administrators, young people's decision to leave school is usually made under circumstances that provide little time or space for discussion. This book provides a disturbing account of how students' voices are over-ridden - lost in the imposition of curriculum and the rush to impose testing, accountability, and management regimes on schools. 'Dropping Out', Drifting Off, Being Excluded reveals the complex stories that surround identity formation in young lives and the «interactive trouble» as young people struggle to be heard within inhospitable schools and an equally unhelpful education system.

Becoming Someone New

Becoming Someone New
Author: Enoch Lambert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-07-17
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0192556959

Suppose you're offered an opportunity to experience something that is unlike anything you have ever encountered, but that's all you know—aside from the fact that the experience is physically safe and morally acceptable. How do you decide whether to take up the offer? Several philosophers have recently argued that we are in similar situations for more of our decisions than we usually recognize. Are they right? What resources can we draw on to create such situations? Are they enough to satisfy our aims of making the best decisions we can, especially in high stakes situations? This volume brings together philosophers and psychologists to investigate the phenomenon of transformative change and a host of fascinating questions it prompts. Taking their departure from seminal work on transformative choice and experience by L. A. Paul and Edna Ullmann-Margalit, the authors pursue fundamental questions concerning the nature of rationality, the limits of the imagination, and the metaphysics of the self. They also strike out into new areas, including value theory, aesthetics, moral and political philosophy. Several chapters present the results of experimental investigation into the psychology of transformation, self-concept, and moral learning.

To Be Unfree

To Be Unfree
Author: Christian Dahl
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3839421748

»To Be Unfree« is a collection of essays investigating how political unfreedom has been and can be articulated within the republican tradition of political thought. The book combines a theoretical discussion of how freedom and its opposites have been conceptualized in the republican tradition with a broader perspective on this tradition's impact on the representation of unfreedom in Western literature and cultural history. It thus complicates our understanding of what it means to be unfree and unveils a series of distinctions which also shape our modern notions of freedom.

Please, Somebody Love Me!

Please, Somebody Love Me!
Author: Jillian Ryan
Publisher: Spire
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1996-09
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780800786403

Ima Nobody Becomes Somebody!

Ima Nobody Becomes Somebody!
Author: Brenda Poage
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1449001580

Do you remember the Bully in first grade? Many children face this issue on a daily basis, as Ima Nobody does in the excerpt from the book, Ima Nobody Becomes Somebody! "Ima, I never knew a Nobody that was somebody! All you Nobodys will never amount to anything, just like your name." This made Ima feel sad. It was then and there that Ima decided that she was going to prove to that Billy Do-good that she would in fact amount to something and be somebody. You know these issues. Dealing with differences, and dealing with the reactions of those angered by it, are tough issues for young children to face. I encourage you and invite you to take the journey with Ima and her first grade classmates as they discover their own self worth, strengths, and weaknesses. You will find that this story does not tell children how to react to Ima's predicament. It does however show a positive way in which Ima deals with the situation. This is Book One in the Ima Nobody Series - be sure to follow along with Ima and her friends as they discover themselves and learn important life lessons along the way.