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The definitive guide to CBPR concepts and practice, updated and expandedCommunity-Based Participatory Research for Health: Advancing Health and Social Equity provides a comprehensive reference for this rapidly growing field in participatory and community-engaged research. Hailed as effective by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CBPR and CEnR represent the link between researchers and community and lead to improved public health outcomes....

This second edition of the award-winning The SAGE Handbook of Conflict Communication emphasizes constructive conflict management from a communication perspective, identifying the message as the focus of conflict research and practice. Editors John G. Oetzel and Stella Ting-Toomey, along with expert researchers in the discipline, have assembled in one resource the knowledge base of the field of conflict communication; identified the best theories, ...

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Fay Yokomizo Akindes, Bryant K. Alexander, Timothy J. Anderson, Curtiss L. Bailey, Lisa Bradford, Benjamin J. Broome, Merry Buchanan, Nancy A. Burrell, Peter Chhuor, Susan Hafen, Kristin M. Langellier, Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Edward A. Mabry, Keturah D. McEwen, S Lily Mendoza, John Oetzel, Margarita Refugia Olivas, Jerry Pinkney, Steven B. Pratt, Anjali Ram, Debra-L Sequeira, Robert Westerfelhaus, Gust A. Yep, Natalie J. Dollar

This intercultural communication text reader brings together the many dimensions of ethnic and cultural identity and shows how they are communicated in everyday life. Introducing and applying key concepts, theories, and approaches_from empirical to ethnographic_the chapters look at the experiences of African Americans, Asians, Asian Americans, Latino/as, and Native Americans, as well as many cultural groups. The authors also explore issues such as gender, race, class, spirituality, alterna...

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Stella Ting-Toomey, John G. Oetzel

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Communicating Effectively in Multicultural Contexts

In this volume, Ting-Toomey and Oetzel accomplish two objectives: to explain the culture-based situational conflict model, including the relationship among conflict, ethnicity, and culture; and, second, integrate theory and practice in the discussion of interpersonal conflict in culture, ethnic, and gender contexts. While the book is theoretically directed, it is also a down-to-earth practical book that contains ample examples, conflict dialogues, and critical incidents. Managing Intercult...

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Carol McDonald, Marjorie McIntyre

In Realities of Canadian Nursing, influential scholars throughout Canada give voice to the unheard concerns of nurses and go to great lengths to ensure the text offers readers more than an update on current and pressing professional, legal, ethical, political, social, economic, and environmental issues in nursing and healthcare. In chapter 1 of the text, authors Carol McDonald PhD, RN and Marjorie McIntyre RN, PhD offer a Framework for Analysis, which gives students and educators a shared ...

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Karen A. Hacker

Community Based Participatory Research by Dr. Karen Hacker presents a practical approach to CBPR by describing how an individual researcher might understand and then actually conduct CBPR research. This how-to book provides a concise overview of CBPR theoretical underpinnings, methods considerations, and ethical issues in an accessible format interspersed with real life case examples that can accompany other methodologic texts in multiple discipli...

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Alfie Kohn

Few writers ask us to question our fundamental assumptions about education as provocatively as Alfie Kohn. Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests a fact of life in every U.S. school.'In this new collection of essa...

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Abigail J. Stewart, Virginia Valian

How colleges and universities can live up to their ideals of diversity, and why inclusivity and excellence go hand in hand.Most colleges and universities embrace the ideals of diversity and inclusion, but many fall short, especially in the hiring, retention, and advancement of faculty who would more fully represent our diverse world—in particular women and people of color. In this book, Abigail Stewart and Virginia Valian argue that diversity and excellence go hand...

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Meredith Minkler, Patricia Wakimoto, Lionel J. Beaulieu, Adam B. Becker, Lynn Blanchard, Anne Bluethenthal, Frances Dunn Butterfross, Lisa Cacari Stone, Caricia Catalani, Charlotte Yu-Ting Chang, Roxana Chen, Wayland X. Coleman, Chris M. Coombe, Jason Corburn, Lori Dorfman, Eugenia Eng, Nancy Epstein, Jessica Estrada, Jennifer Falbe, Stephanie A. Farquhar, Prisila Gonzalez, Joseph Griffin, Leslie Grover, Lorraine Gutiérrez, Trevor Hancock, Susana Hennesey Laverty, Reva Hines, Mark S. Homan, Lili Farhang, Solange Gould, Cheryl A. Hyde, Barbara A. Israel, Anthony B. Iton, Whitney Johnson, Michelle C. Kegler, Josh Kirschenbaum, John P. Kretzmann, Ronald Labonté, Blishda Lacet, Pam Tau Lee, Edith A. Lewis, Jennifer Lifshay, Laura Linnan, Shaw San Liu, Shaddai Martinez Cuestas, Marty Martinson, John L. McKnight, Christine Mitchell, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Mary Anne Morgan, Angela Ni, Barack Obama, Edith A. Parker, Susan Racine Passmore, Manuel Pastor, Amber Akemi Piatt, Cheri A. Pies, Clara Pinsky, R. David Rebanal, Kathleen M. Roe, Zachary Rowe, Alicia L. Salvatore, Shannon Sanchez-Youngman, Amy J. Shulz, Rinku Sen, Lee Staples, Celina Su, Makani Themba, Stephen B. Thomas, Maria Elena Torre, Evan Vandommelen-Gonzalez, Dierde Visser, Nina Wallerstein, Tom Wolff, Kirsten Wysen, Marisa Ruiz Asari, Nickie Bazell, Derek M Griffith, Heather Came

The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, community assessment, and the power of the arts, the Internet, social media, and policy ...

The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings. The book answers relevant questions such as: What are effective practices for promoting TL in the classroom? What is it about TL that is most helpful in informing practice? How does the teaching setting shape the practice of TL? What are the successes, strengths, and out...

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Stephen Duckett

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Queen's Policy Studies Series

Universal healthcare, perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Canada's public policy, is under fire, criticized for its heavy expense and questionable sustainability. In Where to From Here?: Keeping Medicare Sustainable, Stephen Duckett defends Canadian Medicare, addressing key concerns and refuting criticism, while also acknowledging flaws in the system and room for improvement.Duckett argues that while the fundamentals of Medicare are sound, a great deal of change is ...

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Anthony Muhammad, Sharroky Hollie

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Essentials for Principals

School improvement begins with self-examination and honest dialogue about socialization, bias, discrimination, and cultural insensitivity. The authors acknowledge both the structural and sociological issues that contribute to low-performing schools, and offer multiple tools and strategies to assess and improve classroom management, increase literacy, establish academic vocabulary, and contribute to a healthier school culture.