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    Inclusion?

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    Whilst inclusive education is a relatively recent advance in our thinking about schooling and pedagogy, it is rapidly establishing movement simultaneously reflected in and refracted by education policy, research, and scholarship. This is manifest in the proliferation of policy texts and programmes generated by education jurisdictions globally and locally, and in the burgeoning number of scholarly texts, academic conferences, and research grants dedicated to inclusive education

    'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.

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    PhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy, colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'

    Emerson and environmental ethics/ Susan L. Dunston.

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.This book shows the Emersonian arc in environmental ethics and nature writing extending into contemporary discussions of those topics. Dunston connects Emerson's nature literacy and natural philosophy to contemporary forms of eco-feminism, living systems theory, Native American science, Asian philosophy, and environmental activism.Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Emerson and Environmental Literacy; 2 Emerson Valuing Nature; 3 Emerson and Contemporary Environmentalism; 4 The Garden and the Wilderness; 5 Emerson and Ahimsa; Coda; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.1 online resourc

    Conversations across disability and difference: Teacher education seeking inclusion

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    This paper is directed at the scholars who locate themselves within the field of disability studies in education, which Leonard Davis (1997) reminds us is both a field of inquiry and a political activity. It begins by exploring the relationship between disability and other arenas of exclusion, including race, ethnicity, gender, religion, class and sexual orientation. It then considers ways in which scholars might be able to use disability studies in education to promote and extend conversations across these different contexts in their writing and research and in teacher education

    Book Review: Vital Questions Facing Disability Studies in Education

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    Editors: Scot Danforth and Susan L. Gabel Reviewer: Steven E. Brown, Ph.D. Publisher: New York: Peter Lang, 2006 Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-8204-7824-0, 383 pages Cost: $36.95 US

    Neither Victim nor Villain: Nurse Eunice Rivers, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, and Public Health Work

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    Project MUSE - Journal of Women's History - Neither Victim nor Villain: Nurse Eunice Rivers, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, and Public Health Work Project MUSE Journals Journal of Women's History Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 1996 Neither Victim nor Villain: Nurse Eunice Rivers, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, and Public Health Work Journal of Women's History Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 1996 E-ISSN: 1527-2036 Print ISSN: 1042-7961 Neither Victim nor Villain:Nurse Eunice Rivers, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, and Public Health Work Susan L. Smith Susan L. Smith Susan L. Smith is assistant professor of history and women's studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 (1995). Acknowledgement I thank the following for their comments on earlier versions: Andrea Friedman, Vanessa Northington Gamble, Linda Gordon, Susan Hamilton, Darlene Clark Hine, Judith Walzer Leavitt, Gerda Lerner, Donald Macnab, Leslie Reagan, Leslie Schwalm, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Women's History Dissertators' Group, the audience at the Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women at Vassar College, New York, June 1993, and my students at the University of Alberta. This research was supported by a Women's Studies Research Grant and a Rural Policy Fellowship, both from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. I also thank archivists Aloha South, at the...http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_womens_history/summary/v008/8.1.smith.htm

    Susan Stebbing and the Language of Common Sense

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    By Siobhan Chapman Reference: Susan Stebbing and the Language of Common Sense. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 221 pp. ISBN: 978-0-230-30290-7. Author: CHAPMAN, Siobhan. Professor of English, University of Liverpool. This first book-length study of the work and life of L. Susan Stebbing relates the development of her thought to the philosophical, social and political background of her life. It also assesses Stebbing's contribution in the light of developments both in analytic..
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