Product Description: Book 1 New paradigms in gang solutions. Advanced info on origins and evolution of elevated levels of community violence. Researching, understanding and treating youth and gang violence (urban, school, ethnic, tribal, barrio, ghetto, hate, racial, drug) and other violence sub-cycles; six-stage process with traditional Cycle of Violence fourth and symbiotic Cycle of Maintenance fifth; Violence cycles cannot be ended until all six stages are acknowledged, fully understood and appropriately targeted; Redefines gangs and violent youth groups into three categories that conform to societal dynamics; Introduces Peace to Violence Continuum; Suggests interface between peace and violence studies and cyberinfrastructure using advanced data analytics and visualization technologies for knowledge discovery, and to "map" the "genome" of violence and peace status in communities, regions and nations; introduces provenance theory, societal and local elements and forces; Foreword by Edward James Olmos and Mike Farrell...read more

Product Description: Consisting of international case studies of art education, by scholars in different countries, this book analyzes the translation of cultural knowledge through curriculum policy and practice. Each chapter focuses on historical and cultural influences on educational ideas that have crossed national borders and been transformed in the process...read more

Product Description: Consisting of international case studies of art education by scholars in different countries, this book analyzes the translation of cultural knowledge through curriculum policy and practice. Each chapter focuses on historical and cultural influences on educational ideas that have crossed national borders and been transformed in the process...read more

Product Description: Esta nueva versión del libro actualiza algunos de los temas planteados incicialmente, aunque su núcleo central sigue siendo cómo abordar la relación entre lo que el profesorado pretende enseñar y lo que el alumnado puede aprender, pero sin reducirlo a una cuestión de la psicología, la pedagogía y las disciplinas académicas, y sin perder de vista que los cambios en educación responden también a intenciones políticas, económicas y de imposición de modelos sociales, temas que parecen olvidarse cuando se habla de reforma y de currículum...read more