Susan Walsh – författare

Highlighting an arts-based inquiry process that involves contemplation, mindful awareness, and artful writing, this book explores women’s difficult experiences in teaching. It weaves a strong autobiographical thread with artifacts from several research projects with female teachers. By linking innovative approaches to research that involve visual images and poetic writing with feminist poststructuralist theories and Buddhist-inspired practices, Walsh offers new understandings about what it means to be critical in research and teaching—and also what transformation, both social and personal, might entail.

This volume presents a scholarly investigation of the ways educators engage in artistic and contemplative practices – and why this matters in education. Arts-based learning and inquiry can function as a powerful catalyst for change by allowing spiritual practices to be present within educational settings, but too often the relationship between art, education and spirituality is ignored. Exploring artistic disciplines such as dance, drama, visual art, music, and writing, and forms such as writing-witnessing, freestyle rap, queer performative autoethnograph, and poetic imagination, this book develops a transformational educational paradigm. Its unique integration of spirituality in and through the arts addresses the contemplative needs of learners and educators in diverse educational and community settings.

In a compelling first-hand account of development assistance gone awry, Susan Walsh recounts how national, international, and multilateral organizations failed the Jalq'a people in the Bolivian Andes during the early millennium. Intent on assisting potato farmers, development organizations pushed for changes that ultimately served their own interests, paradoxically undermining local resilience and pushing farmers off their lands. Trojan-Horse Aid challenges the idea of Western capacity-building, particularly the notion that introduced technologies related to food production are essential ingredients for sustainable livelihoods among farmers. Walsh argues that the well-intentioned organizations working in Jalq'a communities paid insufficient attention to longstanding knowledge that has supported human survival in regions where the natural world has the upper hand. Walsh goes beyond a critical review of misguided aid to offer reflections on the relationship between indigenous knowledge and resilience theory, the hopeful future of development assistance, and the contradictions in her own hybrid role as researcher and development-practitioner. In light of growing global concern over the worsening food crisis and interconnected climate extremes, Trojan-Horse Aid offers an important critique of development practices that undermine peasant strategies as well as suggestions for more effective approaches for the future.

This volume presents a scholarly investigation of the ways educators engage in artistic and contemplative practices – and why this matters in education. Arts-based learning and inquiry can function as a powerful catalyst for change by allowing spiritual practices to be present within educational settings, but too often the relationship between art, education and spirituality is ignored. Exploring artistic disciplines such as dance, drama, visual art, music, and writing, and forms such as writing-witnessing, freestyle rap, queer performative autoethnograph, and poetic imagination, this book develops a transformational educational paradigm. Its unique integration of spirituality in and through the arts addresses the contemplative needs of learners and educators in diverse educational and community settings.

Highlighting an arts-based inquiry process that involves contemplation, mindful awareness, and artful writing, this book explores women’s difficult experiences in teaching. It weaves a strong autobiographical thread with artifacts from several research projects with female teachers. By linking innovative approaches to research that involve visual images and poetic writing with feminist poststructuralist theories and Buddhist-inspired practices, Walsh offers new understandings about what it means to be critical in research and teaching—and also what transformation, both social and personal, might entail.

Learn how to clean, organize and understand your data so your marketing and sales work smarter, not harder.Optimizing Sales and Marketing Data is a clear, friendly guide for early-career professionals who want to build confidence with data and learn the essentials of fixing common data problems. If you're just starting out in sales or marketing and need simple steps to clean data, categorize customers and improve your results, this book shows you exactly how to get there.Written by data expert Susan Walsh, it breaks data management into easy, practical tasks you can apply right away. Using real-world examples and beginner-friendly explanations, it helps you understand why clean data matters and how it can improve targeting, reduce wasted spend and make your campaigns more effective.You'll learn how to:- Understand the basics of data quality and spot issues quickly- Clean and organize your data using simple, repeatable steps- Build a clear taxonomy so you can segment customers with confidence- Apply easy data governance tips to keep your data accurate over time- Use real-world examples to see how better data leads to better resultsWith step-by-step how-to guides and practical tools, this book gives you the essentials to handle data with confidence and unlock stronger outcomes in your day-to-day role.Themes include: data essentials, data cleaning, customer segmentation, beginner data skills, marketing fundamentals, practical how-to guides

Learn how to clean, organize and understand your data so your marketing and sales work smarter, not harder.Optimizing Sales and Marketing Data is a clear, friendly guide for early-career professionals who want to build confidence with data and learn the essentials of fixing common data problems. If you're just starting out in sales or marketing and need simple steps to clean data, categorize customers and improve your results, this book shows you exactly how to get there.Written by data expert Susan Walsh, it breaks data management into easy, practical tasks you can apply right away. Using real-world examples and beginner-friendly explanations, it helps you understand why clean data matters and how it can improve targeting, reduce wasted spend and make your campaigns more effective.You'll learn how to:- Understand the basics of data quality and spot issues quickly- Clean and organize your data using simple, repeatable steps- Build a clear taxonomy so you can segment customers with confidence- Apply easy data governance tips to keep your data accurate over time- Use real-world examples to see how better data leads to better resultsWith step-by-step how-to guides and practical tools, this book gives you the essentials to handle data with confidence and unlock stronger outcomes in your day-to-day role.Themes include: data essentials, data cleaning, customer segmentation, beginner data skills, marketing fundamentals, practical how-to guides