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From mind/body relations to family relations, from the nature of art and poetry to the role of metaphor in the biological world, the nature of change and stability to the nature of the sacred, Bateson explores the natural history of the relationship between explicit, implicit and embodied ideas in the world of living things.

Contributing to the renewal of interest in Marshall McLuhan and his work, this book contains chapters providing a general discussion of his work, and examining it in light of theory and research.

This work calls attention to the ways that teachers of writing must attend to the idea of the classroom, must be conscious of the spaces in which they meet students and must be aware of the physical, material conditions that constrain or affect the teaching of writing.

We know intuitively that spiritual intelligence exists, but it is often harder to understand how this intelligence develops. This volume offers a dialogue across the great divide of science and spirit, describing the education of shamanic abilities within the Native American tradition.

This text situates media forms and processes as central foci of globalisation processes and gives communications researchers a chance to respond to the theories often devised by those without any intimate involvement in communications theory or practice.

This text contributes a perspective toward understanding and researching children's creativity. Theoretical and empirical studies distinguish adult and childhood creativity in the conceptual frameworks, research methods, and studies of identification, development and training of individuals.

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 is topical, containing six chapters, each of which focuses on one critical topic.

This volume builds on the first decade of work in new media research within English studies, following (and also breaking from) the longer history of hypertext theory. It defines new media only in as much as the individual chapters do so, setting the field as materially rich, ever-changing, and remediating itself, and kairotic.

This work takes up issues of concern in composition studies, sociolinguistics, and ESL - issues concerning academic literacy, critical literacy, expressive versus cognitive approaches to the teaching of writing, and the like.

Explores the impact of society on media. This book adopts a community structure approach, using modern national databases, to link selected city characteristics and nationwide newspaper reporting on critical issues.

Presenting a 6-year collection of student narratives on otherness, this book aims to determine from adult accounts what forms of otherness are experienced by school-aged children and young adults in school. The project culminated in multicultural lessons that equipped teachers to address conditions of prejudice, social alienation, and inequities.

Applies various social approaches investigations of real people as they function in specific context, the family. Of all our identities cultural identity is one of the most central. We learn our cultural identities first within families, and the authors all examine the families they know best - their own.

Makes a far-reaching, accessible case the positive impact that digital technologies will have on our ability to participate more actively and thoughtfully. This book includes not just examples but ideas and conclusions drawn based on years of experience watching these ideas become incorporated into academic, business, education and culture.

Takes up many critical question and explores how the discipline of communication can contribute in meaningful ways to produce more vibrant and responsive workplaces and how, in turn the engagement of communication scholars and practitioners in organizational contexts can enrich and deepen theory and scholarship.

Interprets press theory from the perspective of Eastern philosophy to derive a more humanocentric theoretical framework that reflects the integration of Eastern ontology with Western epistemology. This book's chapters focus on the nature of democracy and the future directions that communication inquiry should address.

Focuses on gender not only as a biological, but also as a socially constructed attribute, which permits the author to address the systemic biases that are inherent in the social reproduction of the journalism profession. This analysis of the journalism profession uses gender as a central explanatory variable.

This book offers chapters on the dialectics of gender and newsroom culture, bringing a feminist analysis to that relation. The text aims to bring coherence and insight to a still relatively under-researched topic

Contains debates surrounding the development, use and potential of the Internet. These debates are organized into questions regarding the role of the Internet as a mediator of communicative space. They are proceeded by a discussion on the contextual positioning of the medium in terms of arts, the market, gender, and education.

This book engages the formative influence on composition studies of the 1974 ""Students' Right"" to Their Own Language"" resolution. Combining elements of documentary history and a collection of original scholarship, it considers professional hopes for the teaching of writing.

This volume documents from historical and contemporary perspectives, the situations, trends and issues of cartooning in a number of African countries, and profiles the individuals, forms and phenomena that stand out. All types of cartooning are covered, including comic books, comic strips, gag and political cartoons, and humour magazines.

The essays in this volume provide an international perspective on persistent and emerging questions related to the use of online technologies for teaching and learning. They demonstrate that online literacy practices can be understood only when they are examined within their social, political, economic, cultural, and historical contexts.

This book examines the role that rhetoric plays in the creation and conceptualization of new knowledge claims. It highlights how scientists worked with the linguistic resources available to them to bring into existence abstract concepts and gain new insight into the subject of their study.

This text addresses the power of popular nonviolent action against repression, aggression and oppression. Three case studies are examined, and then attention is turned to theory. Surveys are made of nonviolence and communication theories, probing for insights in the nonviolence-communication nexus.

Here, the authors explore the position that systemic reform requires addressing the culture of individual schools, and that various reform efforts address school culture in different ways. The chapters promote that the key to success is the match between the strategy in use and the setting.

This collection of essays are on the cutting edge of contemporary ethnographic methods that are based in a critique of critical ethnography. It is based in the assumption that ethnography is the ultimate colonialist project and critical theory the ultimate modernist project.

This volume is a collective departmental effort to delineate what a politics of inclusion on a more structural/macro-level might look like and the inclusion of politics on more micro-levels are as related to urban and other sites, particularly in regard to preservice teachers.

This collection puts together the writings of Walter Ong, a scholar who has offered his own observations about voice, orality, speech, literacy, communication and culture.

Imagined interactions are a type of daydream in which individuals think about conversations in their minds in an attempt to simulate real-life conversations with others. This title describes their characteristics and functions.

Small-scale electronic media have experienced much turbulence and change in the 1990s. This volume is intended to consider these changes through an integrated series of contributions emphasizing theoretical perspectives, empirical research findings and developments regarding policy and practice.