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Just War Thinkers


Free Download Daniel R. Brunstetter, "Just War Thinkers "
English | ISBN: 1138122483 | 2017 | 282 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This volume offers a set of concise and accessible introductions to the seminal figures in the historical development of the just war tradition.

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A Socially Just Classroom Transdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing Across the Humanities


Free Download Kristin Coffey, "A Socially Just Classroom: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Writing Across the Humanities "
English | ISBN: 1648891756 | 2022 | 310 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This edited collection provides a range of transdisciplinary approaches to the teaching of writing across the Humanities through the lens of inclusion and equity in higher education. In three parts – From Disciplinary Practice to Transdisciplinary Application, The Collective We: Transparent Pedagogy in Praxis, Power in Presence: From Chalkboard to Pavement – the chapters focus on teaching triumphs and challenges, specific learning objectives and best practices, theories and their applications, and concrete examples of campus action within specific institutional or socio-historical contexts. In whole, the book represents what a socially just classroom looks like from first-year university writing classes, to advanced graduate studies, and the impact of learning beyond the university. Building on the scholarship of equity in higher education, the book forefronts transdisciplinary pedagogies with chapters representing language and literature, creative writing, cultural and ethnic studies, women and gender studies, and media studies.

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Socially Just Educational Leadership in Unjust Times A Bourdieusian Study of Social Justice Educational Leadership Prac


Free Download Katrina MacDonald, "Socially Just Educational Leadership in Unjust Times: A Bourdieusian Study of Social Justice Educational Leadership Prac"
English | ISBN: 3031476158 | 2023 | 190 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book offers a richly observed study of three principals working in some of the most disadvantaged primary schools in Victoria, Australia. It explores their social justice understandings and practices in working to improve the educational outcomes for children in their schools, through autobiography, biographical interviews, in-depth interviews and observations. The work looks into their life histories, the formation of their primary and secondary habitus, and uncovers and examines their encounters with the public education field. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice and his ‘thinking tools’, the book investigates how the principals’ understandings of social justice are shaped by the intersection of their life and work histories.

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Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition


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English | 2022 | ISBN: 1009098934 | PDF | pages: 370 | 3.4 mb
In this volume, Mark Douglas presents an environmental history of the Christian just war tradition. Focusing on the transition from its late medieval into its early modern form, he explores the role the tradition has played in conditioning modernity and generating modernity’s blindness to interactions between ‘the natural’ and ‘the political.’ Douglas criticizes problematic myths that have driven conventional narratives about the history of the tradition and suggests a revised approach that better accounts for the evolution of that tradition through time. Along the way, he provides new interpretations of works by Francisco de Vitoria and Hugo Grotius, and, provocatively, the Constitution of the United States of America. Sitting at the intersection of just war thinking, environmental history, and theological ethics, Douglas’s book serves as a timely guide for responses to wars in a warming world as they increasingly revolve around the flashpoints of religion, resources, and refugees.

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