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  • Perspectives on the Ideas of Gregory Bateson, Ecological Intelligence, and Educational Reforms

    by C. A. Bowers ...
    It is widely acknowledged that Gregory Bateson's ideas have been influential in a number of fields. Unfortunately, the importance of his ideas for understanding why public schools and universities continue to perpetuate ecologically unsustainable ways of thinking has not been adequately recognized. Given the deepening ecological and economic crises, this book is particularly timely as it clarifies ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Grip of the Past: Educational Reforms That Address What Should Be Changed and What Should Be Conserved

    by C. a. Bowers ...
    With natural systems being exploited at an unsustainable rate, with technologies displacing the need for workers and now even professors, with print-based technologies undermining the intergenerational achievements in the areas of civil liberties and the cultural commons, it is now time for educational reformers to question the idea that students must be educated to become change agents. The ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perspectives on the Ideas of Gregory Bateson, Ecological Intelligence, and Educational Reforms

    by C. A. Bowers ...
    It is widely acknowledged that Gregory Bateson's ideas have been influential in a number of fields. Unfortunately, the importance of his ideas for understanding why public schools and universities continue to perpetuate ecologically unsustainable ways of thinking has not been adequately recognized. Given the deepening ecological and economic crises, this book is particularly timely as it clarifies ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Grip of the Past

    Educational Reforms That Address What Should Be Changed and What Should Be Conserved

    by C. a. Bowers ...
    With natural systems being exploited at an unsustainable rate, with technologies displacing the need for workers and now even professors, with print-based technologies undermining the intergenerational achievements in the areas of civil liberties and the cultural commons, it is now time for educational reformers to question the idea that students must be educated to become change agents. The ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revitalizing the Commons

    Cultural and Educational Sites of Resistance and Affirmation

    by C. A. Bowers ...
    The enclosure of the cultural and environmental commons has been going on for hundreds of years, privatizing what was previously available to all members of the community. Recently, however, the process of enclosure has been accelerated by the spread of economic globalization. This timely book champions the cultural and environmental commons as sites of resistance to this current trend, and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Ideological, Cultural, and Linguistic Roots of Educational Reforms to Address the Ecological Crisis

    The Selected Works of C.A. (Chet) Bowers

    by C. A. Bowers ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    In this volume C.A. (Chet) Bowers, whose pioneering work on education and environmental and sustainability issues is widely recognized and respected around the world, brings together a carefully curated selection of his seminal work on the ideological, cultural, and linguistic roots of the ecological crisis; misconceptions underlying modern consciousness; the cultural commons; a critique of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The False Promises of the Digital Revolution

    How Computers transform Education, Work, and International Development in Ways that are Ecologically Unsustainable

    by C.A Bowers ...
    Series Book 469 - Counterpoints
    The False Promises of the Digital Revolution examines what currently goes largely unnoticed because of the many important uses of digital technologies. While many people interpret digital technologies as accelerating the global rate of progress, C. A. Bowers focuses attention on how they reinforce the deep and ecologically problematic cultural assumptions of the West: the myth of progress, the ... Read more

    $170.79 USD

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  • Creating Better Futures

    Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow

    by James A. Ogilvy ...
    As a founder and managing director of Global Business Network, James Ogilvy helped develop the technique of scenario planning, which has become an integral part of strategic thinking in both business and government. Now Ogilvy shows how we can use this cutting-edge method for social change in our own neighborhoods. In Creating Better Futures, Ogilvy presents a profound new vision of how the world ... Read more

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  • Re-Thinking Science

    Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty

    by Helga Nowotny, Michael T. Gibbons, Peter B. Scott ...
    Re-Thinking Science presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, interactive relationship between society and science, current debate still seems to turn on the need to maintain a 'line' to demarcate them. The view persists that there is a one-way communication flow from science to society - with scant attention given ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Return to Meaning

    A Social Science with Something to Say

    by Mats Alvesson, Yiannis Gabriel, Roland Paulsen ...
    This book argues that we are currently witnessing not merely a decline in the quality of social science research, but the proliferation of meaningless research, of no value to society, and modest value to its authors - apart from securing employment and promotion. The explosion of published outputs, at least in social science, creates a noisy, cluttered environment which makes meaningful research ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of Management

    A Critical Introduction

    by Mats Alvesson, Hugh Willmott ...
    The first edition of Making Sense of Management set out to provide a fresh perspective on management that was both broad and critical, exploring how the disruptive and constructive potential of critical theory can be realized in organizations. Along the way, it has proven to be a landmark contribution to critical management studies. As well as setting the agenda for current research, this revised ... Read more

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