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  • What is Wisdom and Can it be Taught?

    Philosophical, Psychological, and Pedagogical Perspectives

    Series series Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
    What is Wisdom and Can it be Taught? uses careful theoretical analysis and a well-argued ontological conception of the human being to present a new ‘Holistic Wisdom Model’, summarizing existing research and presenting fresh insights.Human wisdom is a complex phenomenon. Psychological research in this area has led to a wide range of fragmentary claims and models, and therefore, there is a need for ... Read more

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  • The International Handbook of Adult Development and Wisdom

    Research and theory in adult development offers ideas about emotional maturity and cognitive development in adult life as well as operational definitions and methods that might provide clarity and rigor in work on wisdom. The study of human development offers a scaffold for understanding the emergence of wisdom, or the “process” that includes several lines of development, which may begin in ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Diversity in Music Education

    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book examines the political structures and processes that frame and produce understandings of diversity in and through music education. Recent surges in nationalist, fundamentalist, protectionist and separatist tendencies highlight the imperative for music education to extend beyond nominal policy agendas or wholly celebratory diversity discourses. Bringing together high-level ... Read more

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  • Unusual Death and Memorialization

    Burial, Space, and Memory in the Post-Medieval North

    Most cultures and societies have their own customs and traditions of treating their dead. In the past, some deceased received a burial that deviated from tradition. The reasons for unusual burial could result from reasons such as outbreaks of epidemics or wars, or from premature births, distinctive social status, or disability. Authors present a selection of cases addressing the issue of unusual ... Read more

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    Hafiz: The Scent of Light

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    In modern-day Persia, the 14th-century poet Hafiz remains the most treasured voice of his homeland—a place where his work outsells Rumi, and even the Koran. Yet only recently have Westerners come to know this wild Sufi mystic's astonishing verses on love and spiritual longing.Now, with Hafiz: The Scent of Light, you will join Daniel Ladinsky—the acclaimed translator of The Gift—to revel in more ... Read more

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  • Development of Adult Thinking

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cognitive Development and Adult Learning

    Edited by Eeva K. Kallio ...
    Development of Adult Thinking is a timely synthesis and evaluation of the current knowledge and emerging issues relating to adult cognitive development and learning.Focusing on psychological and educational cutting-edge research as well as giving an overview of the key theorists such as Piaget and Kohlberg, Kallio and the team of expert contributors offer a holistic view on the development of ... Read more

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  • The Beginning of Politics

    Youthful Political Agency in Everyday Life

    The conventional wisdom according to which children’s lives should be safe from adult concerns tends to situate them categorically outside the political. Thus understood, children become political agents when they reach maturity and eligibility to formal participation. Alternatively, political skills and competences may be seen to develop gradually through political socialization. Both views are ... Read more

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  • Music, Education, and Religion

    Intersections and Entanglements

    Series series Counterpoints: Music and Education
    Essays examining the role of religion in music education from a variety of perspectives.Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements explores the critical role that religion can play in formal and informal music education. As in broader educational studies, research in music education has tended to sidestep the religious dimensions of teaching and learning, often reflecting ... Read more

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  • Primary and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease

    Results of New Trials

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence social policy at a national and local level. Among the many ramifications of these changes is ... Read more

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  • Art, Excess, and Education

    Historical and Discursive Contexts

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book concentrates on the deep historical, political, and institutional relationships between art, education, and excess. Going beyond field specific discourses of art history, art criticism, philosophy, and aesthetics, it explores how the concept of excess has been important and enduring from antiquity through contemporary art, and from early film through the newer interactive media. Examples ... Read more

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  • Difference and Division in Music Education

    Edited by Alexis Anja Kallio ...
    Series series ISME Series in Music Education
    Difference and Division in Music Education enriches existing diversity and social justice discourses by considering the responsibility of music education to respond to rising social discord and tensions. Although ‘hate’ is by no means a new concern for policymakers, educators, or musicians, the climate of fast communications, divisive politics, and intensified encounters with ‘difference’ has ... Read more

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  • The Stocked Kitchen

    One Grocery List . . . Endless Recipes

    We’ve all had that moment during the day when we ask with a pit in our stomach, “What am I going to make for dinner?” We stand in our kitchens having a conversation with ourselves (hopefully silently), “I don’t have anything to make.... What I planned doesn't sound good.... I don’t have any time to cook let alone get to the store.”Families across the country are continually searching for a way to ... Read more

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