Hampton Press - Böcker

Illustrating the extent and diversity of the field of creative research, this handbook provides a comprehensive review of the area. The first section discusses theoretical approaches; the second discusses topics and issues; and the third discusses methodologies in creativity research.

This volume, one of three in the Creativity Research Handbook series, goes into creat depth about the research on creativity. It will bring the scholar up to date and the newcomer up to speed about what has been done in creativity research. These volumes cover long-standing areas of study, such as development and creativity, as well as new applications of creativity research, including economic research and studies of stress and creativity.

This book addresses the boundaries between teacher education scholarship and preparation for practice in a multicultural society. Teachers' voices as scholarly practitioners, capable of critiquing their profession, are brought to the forefront as key actors in the process of democratizing education. The author proposes connecting two research paradigms, critical ethnography and narrative inquiry, as tools for translating critical pedagogy into teacher education and K-12 practice.Chapter 1 examines the state of critical education and critical ethnography as a backdrop for understanding the void and need of critical ethnographies as leadership praxis in the field of education. It introduces the main thesis that narrative inquiry needs to be theoretically and practically built in the struggle for more democratic social relations both in schools as well as in teacher education. Chapter 2 presents a comprehensive literature review of critical theory in education and chapter 3 presents a history of critical ethnography and narrative inquiry in educational research. Chapter 4 serves as a transitional or border-crossing chapter between theory and practice. The remaining chapters focus on critical narrative ethnographic studies as examples of a kind of participatory action research. The final chapter continues to develop the concept of preservice teacher research development as integral to the process of becoming social agents of change.

This book addresses the boundaries between teacher education scholarship and preparation for practice in a multicultural society. Teachers' voices as scholarly practitioners, capable of critiquing their profession, are brought to the forefront as key actors in the process of democratizing education. The author proposes connecting two research paradigms, critical ethnography and narrative inquiry, as tools for translating critical pedagogy into teacher education and K-12 practice.Chapter 1 examines the state of critical education and critical ethnography as a backdrop for understanding the void and need of critical ethnographies as leadership praxis in the field of education. It introduces the main thesis that narrative inquiry needs to be theoretically and practically built in the struggle for more democratic social relations both in schools as well as in teacher education. Chapter 2 presents a comprehensive literature review of critical theory in education and chapter 3 presents a history of critical ethnography and narrative inquiry in educational research. Chapter 4 serves as a transitional or border-crossing chapter between theory and practice. The remaining chapters focus on critical narrative ethnographic studies as examples of a kind of participatory action research. The final chapter continues to develop the concept of preservice teacher research development as integral to the process of becoming social agents of change.

This edited volume - the first of its kind in the health communication field - presents a multifaceted analysis of the role of spiritual communication in health and healing. There are 14 chapters, including an introductory chapter that offers a new model of health inclusive of spirituality. Each chapter, addressing specific issues pertaining to religious and spiritual communication practices and the effects on individual health, is written by a contributing health communication scholar or health professional. Readers will find value in the variety of health communication contexts with analyses examining spiritual communication and its role in health behavior/outcomes in traditional contexts such as the church (pastor/health minister and parishioner) and the hospital (nurse/patient), and in alternative contexts such as holistic healing communities. As well, the scholars and health professionals contributing to this text investigate these issues using both qualitative and quantitative analyses, drawing from a variety of approaches including rhetorical criticism, behavioral analysis, ethnography, and cultural studies. More and more, the medical and scientific community recognizes the potential import of spirituality in health behavior and outcomes. An examination of spiritual communication and healing can ultimately assist health care practitioners in broadening their perspective on viable paths to wellness. It can assist individuals as well, informing and empowering them as they seek to recover, maintain, or enhance their overall health. Given the ongoing healthcare crisis and the ever-increasing diversity of our nation, broadening our conception of well being to include the spiritual component seems essential. As such, this book is an important addition to the literature devoted to health communication.

This edited volume - the first of its kind in the health communication field - presents a multifaceted analysis of the role of spiritual communication in health and healing. There are 14 chapters, including an introductory chapter that offers a new model of health inclusive of spirituality. Each chapter, addressing specific issues pertaining to religious and spiritual communication practices and the effects on individual health, is written by a contributing health communication scholar or health professional. Readers will find value in the variety of health communication contexts with analyses examining spiritual communication and its role in health behavior/outcomes in traditional contexts such as the church (pastor/health minister and parishioner) and the hospital (nurse/patient), and in alternative contexts such as holistic healing communities. As well, the scholars and health professionals contributing to this text investigate these issues using both qualitative and quantitative analyses, drawing from a variety of approaches including rhetorical criticism, behavioral analysis, ethnography, and cultural studies. More and more, the medical and scientific community recognizes the potential import of spirituality in health behavior and outcomes. An examination of spiritual communication and healing can ultimately assist health care practitioners in broadening their perspective on viable paths to wellness. It can assist individuals as well, informing and empowering them as they seek to recover, maintain, or enhance their overall health. Given the ongoing healthcare crisis and the ever-increasing diversity of our nation, broadening our conception of well being to include the spiritual component seems essential. As such, this book is an important addition to the literature devoted to health communication.

Looks at the challenges and triumphs of Black women academicians.

This collection brings together essays written from a rhetorical perspective that demonstrate how usability studies have impacted theory and practice in rhetoric and composition. The goal is to bring the study of usability into the broader arena of rhetoric and composition and to examine how usability is defined, how rhetorical theories and principles affect our understanding of usability, and how usability can affect our perspectives on writing and writing instruction. The collection includes essays that address connections between usability and issues such as course design, disability, universality, documentation styles, and pedagogical practice.

This collection brings together essays written from a rhetorical perspective that demonstrate how usability studies have impacted theory and practice in rhetoric and composition. The goal is to bring the study of usability into the broader arena of rhetoric and composition and to examine how usability is defined, how rhetorical theories and principles affect our understanding of usability, and how usability can affect our perspectives on writing and writing instruction. The collection includes essays that address connections between usability and issues such as course design, disability, universality, documentation styles, and pedagogical practice.

This book is about hopeful daydreams and their implications for action in the interwoven spheres of culture, environment, and education. In spite and because of the recent significant shift in concern for the environment around the globe, the editors believe there remains the urgent task of restorying the ways we live on this earth. Cultural understandings that value the individual over the collective, humans over other species, concept over experience, and progress as globalizing growth and change, are examples of the sorts of imaginaries that can be traced in the ecological and cultural losses we are currently experiencing and participating in around the world. This collection works across various fields of green, drawing together poetry, philosophy, journalism, sociology, curriculum studies, indigenous scholarship, feminist and social justice work, environmental ethics, and a range of other fields of inquiry and practice. Individually and cumulatively, the contributors search for, theorize, and practice approaches that probe education as an endeavour that imperfectly, yet hopefully, walks the blurred line between cultural determinism and resistance.

This book is about hopeful daydreams and their implications for action in the interwoven spheres of culture, environment, and education. In spite and because of the recent significant shift in concern for the environment around the globe, the editors believe there remains the urgent task of restorying the ways we live on this earth. Cultural understandings that value the individual over the collective, humans over other species, concept over experience, and progress as globalizing growth and change, are examples of the sorts of imaginaries that can be traced in the ecological and cultural losses we are currently experiencing and participating in around the world. This collection works across various fields of green, drawing together poetry, philosophy, journalism, sociology, curriculum studies, indigenous scholarship, feminist and social justice work, environmental ethics, and a range of other fields of inquiry and practice. Individually and cumulatively, the contributors search for, theorize, and practice approaches that probe education as an endeavour that imperfectly, yet hopefully, walks the blurred line between cultural determinism and resistance.

In this book, the author takes an in-depth look at the way people collaborate to provide services for two specific groups: Puerto Ricans and families. By observing and participating within the organizations, Milburn discovered how conversations and written discourse were used to establish and sustain both the vibrancy of the organizations and individual's sense of what is means to be a member of a voluntary nonprofit. The author skillfully blends ethnography of communication, membership categorization analysis, and ethnomethodology to explore typical organizational issues (such as negotiation and change) that occur in common business contexts like meetings and special events. This study reveals how unpaid participants' communication shapes a nonprofit organization's ability to fulfill its mission and serve its members.

In this book, the author takes an in-depth look at the way people collaborate to provide services for two specific groups: Puerto Ricans and families. By observing and participating within the organizations, Milburn discovered how conversations and written discourse were used to establish and sustain both the vibrancy of the organizations and individual's sense of what is means to be a member of a voluntary nonprofit. The author skillfully blends ethnography of communication, membership categorization analysis, and ethnomethodology to explore typical organizational issues (such as negotiation and change) that occur in common business contexts like meetings and special events. This study reveals how unpaid participants' communication shapes a nonprofit organization's ability to fulfill its mission and serve its members.

Constant Motion complicates the idea that European consciousness has shifted, from the ancient world to the modern era, from an oral/aural to a largely visualist mode. While not denying the reality of a macro-level shift in the tradition of the schools to a metaphor of knowing as seeing clearly and distinctly, Harp emphasizes that acts of knowing are, like politics, always local. On the local level, cognition must engage with a variety of senses, which exert their force in metaphor. It is only by a rustling and reconfiguring of sense metaphors that human discourse gains any legitimate purchase on actuality. Further, it is only by this constant motion of the senses and their metaphors that the broader shift in consciousness has worked. A singular focus on only one sense leaves cognition too impoverished to be of value. Harp anchors his analysis in the writing of Walter Ong, which he brings up to date with recent work on the complexities of writing and print in the early modern era. Emphasizing the constant motion of sense metaphors of cognition, Harp provides readings of Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"", Aemilia Lanyer's ""Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum"", and Descartes' ""Meditations on First Philosophy"". This study demonstrates that literary and philosophical traditions remain on the move in no small measure because of the shifts of sense metaphors in learned discourse. This work will be of interest to literary scholars and students of the early modern period, as well as scholars of media ecology, communications, and the history of consciousness.

Constant Motion complicates the idea that European consciousness has shifted, from the ancient world to the modern era, from an oral/aural to a largely visualist mode. While not denying the reality of a macro-level shift in the tradition of the schools to a metaphor of knowing as seeing clearly and distinctly, Harp emphasizes that acts of knowing are, like politics, always local. On the local level, cognition must engage with a variety of senses, which exert their force in metaphor. It is only by a rustling and reconfiguring of sense metaphors that human discourse gains any legitimate purchase on actuality. Further, it is only by this constant motion of the senses and their metaphors that the broader shift in consciousness has worked. A singular focus on only one sense leaves cognition too impoverished to be of value. Harp anchors his analysis in the writing of Walter Ong, which he brings up to date with recent work on the complexities of writing and print in the early modern era. Emphasizing the constant motion of sense metaphors of cognition, Harp provides readings of Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"", Aemilia Lanyer's ""Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum"", and Descartes' ""Meditations on First Philosophy"". This study demonstrates that literary and philosophical traditions remain on the move in no small measure because of the shifts of sense metaphors in learned discourse. This work will be of interest to literary scholars and students of the early modern period, as well as scholars of media ecology, communications, and the history of consciousness.

What do we mean when we talk about the Arts? Culture? Communication? Audiences? The authors in this book question the usual assumptions about these concepts and their relationships and offer a diversity of perspectives in the process. Among the highlights of the book are: arguments for new ways of thinking about arts and cultural policy; considerations of John Dewey's notion of 'art as experience'; reflections on the potential of museums as spaces for meaning-making; case study examples of active engagement with audiences of the performing arts; critiques of current practices in arts marketing; explorations of the distinctions between the arts and popular culture as well as between informal and formal arts practices; essays that zero in on the gap between arts institutions and the everyday lives of audience members; discussions of the importance of the arts for personal identity and expression; analyses of composition and performance from communication perspectives; and, discussions relevant to fundamental issues relating to communication with audiences and users in any context via any direct or mediated means. This is an excellent book for cultural policymakers, arts educators, arts administrators, cultural writers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, art-makers of every kind, supporters of the arts, volunteers, and anyone interested in the role of the arts and culture in society. The book is also relevant to any practitioner, researcher, or student focusing on issues regarding communication, public relations, and public information to audiences and users in any context.

What do we mean when we talk about the Arts? Culture? Communication? Audiences? The authors in this book question the usual assumptions about these concepts and their relationships and offer a diversity of perspectives in the process. Among the highlights of the book are: arguments for new ways of thinking about arts and cultural policy; considerations of John Dewey's notion of 'art as experience'; reflections on the potential of museums as spaces for meaning-making; case study examples of active engagement with audiences of the performing arts; critiques of current practices in arts marketing; explorations of the distinctions between the arts and popular culture as well as between informal and formal arts practices; essays that zero in on the gap between arts institutions and the everyday lives of audience members; discussions of the importance of the arts for personal identity and expression; analyses of composition and performance from communication perspectives; and, discussions relevant to fundamental issues relating to communication with audiences and users in any context via any direct or mediated means. This is an excellent book for cultural policymakers, arts educators, arts administrators, cultural writers, advanced undergraduate and graduate students, art-makers of every kind, supporters of the arts, volunteers, and anyone interested in the role of the arts and culture in society. The book is also relevant to any practitioner, researcher, or student focusing on issues regarding communication, public relations, and public information to audiences and users in any context.