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Supporting Muslim Students: A Guide to Understanding the Diverse Issues of Today\u27s Classroom
No full textThis book provides school professionals - including teachers, principals, counselors, psychologists, and administrators - with a practical guide for supporting Muslim students in PK-12 schools. It is important that school professionals are culturally responsive and understand students’ backgrounds in planning effective instruction and creating safe schools. However, in the post-9/11 world, negative biases and stereotypes permeate mainstream discourses. Muslim students and their families often find themselves in conflict with school practices, procedures, and policies and do not often find themselves represented in the curriculum. This book provides a practical guide to the important issues that may impact the lives and education of Muslim students. This books give essential information about Islam and Muslim students from authentic perspectives. This text will support teachers and other school professionals in their advocacy for all students to provide equitable and just educational opportunities for all students. Beyond basics such as food and clothing requirement, this text advocates for the implementation of anti-bias pedagogy for diverse learners. Through school-based vignettes and case studies, we situate experiences of Muslim students in lived realities and help school professionals think deeply and critically about who their students are and how to engage their experiences in the curriculumhttps://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/education_books/1007/thumbnail.jp
The 11th Annual Eugene J. McCarthy Lecture: Conscience and Courage in Public Life
No full textFormer Florida Governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush will be interviewed for the 11th annual Eugene J. McCarthy Lecture at 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, in Saint John’s Abbey and University Church.
Governor Bush, the son of former President George H.W. Bush and the younger brother of former President George W. Bush, will be interviewed by award winning journalist Gary Eichten ’69.
Jeb Bush was the 43rd governor of the State of Florida, serving from 1999 through 2007. He was the third Republican elected to the state’s highest office and the first Republican in the state’s history to win reelection.
During Bush’s tenure as governor, he was praised for generating widespread economic growth in Florida. He also championed major reform of government, in areas ranging from health care and environmental protection to civil service and tax reform.
His top priority was the overhaul of the state’s failing education system. Under Governor Bush’s leadership, Florida established a bold accountability system in public schools and created the most ambitious school choice programs in the nation. Today, Florida remains a national leader in education and is one of the only states in the nation to significantly narrow the achievement gap.
Governor Bush has led a successful career in the private sector spanning more than three decades, and currently serves as Chairman of Dock Square Capital LLC, a merchant bank headquartered in Miami.
Governor Bush maintains his passion for improving the quality of education for students across the country by serving as the Chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a national nonprofit education reform organization he founded to transform education in America.
He has written three books, “Profiles in Character;” “Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution;” and “Reply All: A Governor’s Story 1999-2007.” Governor Bush lives in Miami with his wife Columba. They have three children and four grandchildren
The Leadership Style of U.S. President Donald J. Trump
Get PDFThis working paper presents a personality-based analysis of newly elected U.S. president Donald J. Trump’s likely leadership style as president, inferred from the results of an indirect personality assessment conducted 2015–2016 from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon.
Trump’s predominant personality patterns were found to be Ambitious/exploitative (a measure of narcissism) and Outgoing/impulsive, infused with secondary features of the Dominant/controlling pattern and supplemented by a Dauntless/adventurous tendency.
Ambitious individuals are bold, competitive, and self-assured; they easily assume leadership roles, expect others to recognize their special qualities, and often act as though entitled. Outgoing individuals are dramatic attention‑getters who thrive on being the center of social events, go out of their way to be popular with others, have confidence in their social abilities, tend to be impulsive and undisciplined, and become easily bored — especially when faced with repetitive or mundane tasks. Dominant individuals enjoy the power to direct others and to evoke obedience and respect; they are tough and unsentimental and often make effective leaders. Dauntless individuals tend to flout tradition, dislike following routine, sometimes act impulsively and irresponsibly, and are inclined to elaborate on or shade the truth and skirt the law.
Trump’s core personality-based leadership traits may be summarized as follows: an active-positive presidential character with mobilization — the ability to arouse, engage, and direct the public — as his key leadership asset; an overall leadership style that is distinctively charismatic and nondeliberative; and a high-dominance, extraverted, influential foreign policy orientation
Why ‘simple economics’ is often wrong, and other book recommendations for the econ lover in your life
Get PDFAgape Unbound in \u3ci\u3eSilence\u3c/i\u3e and \u3ci\u3eDeep River\u3c/i\u3e
No full textBook Description:Shusaku Endo is celebrated as one of Japan\u27s great modern novelists, often described as Japan\u27s Graham Greene, and Silence is considered by many Japanese and Western literary critics to be his masterpiece. Approaching Silence is both a celebration of this award-winning novel as well as a significant contribution to the growing body of work on literature and religion. It features eminent scholars writing from Christian, Buddhist, literary, and historical perspectives, taking up, for example, the uneasy alliance between faith and doubt; the complexities of discipleship and martyrdom; the face of Christ; and, the bodhisattva ideal as well as the nature of suffering. It also frames Silence through a wider lens, comparing it to Endo\u27s other works as well as to the fiction of other authors. Approaching Silence promises to deepen academic appreciation for Endo, within and beyond the West. Includes an Afterword by Martin Scorsese on adapting Silence for the screen as well as the full text of Steven Dietz\u27s play adaptation of Endo\u27s novel
Book Review: \u3ci\u3ePeak Oil: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture\u3c/i\u3e, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London (2015)
Get PDFEngaging Violent Words: Prophetic Ministry in Digital Discourses
No full textFaith-based engagement with digital culture calls communities of faith beyond an instrumental use of apps, gadgets, and platforms. Rather, engaging in digital culture calls for prophetic engagement that seeks to communicate truth and offer hope in and through digital communication. One salient area for such prophetic engagement is the reality of verbal violence online, especially as manifest in flaming comments in online public discourse. This article explores this prophetic approach and draws implications for Christian religious education