This book presents a political understanding of socio-economic rights by contextualising constitution-makers' and judges' decision-making in terms of Ireland's rich history of people's struggles for justice 'from below' between 1848 and the present. Its theoretical framework incorporates critical legal studies and world-systems analysis. It performs a critical discourse analysis of constitution-making processes in 1922 and 1937 as well as subsequent property, trade union, family and welfar...

About the BookA Kind of Justice tells the story of a financial manager who moonlights as a hired assassin by night. We enter the story as our protagonist decides to take revenge on the man who murdered an entire family, leaving only one woman alive, albeit alone and utterly traumatized. A Kind of Justice tells of a soul tortured by his religious, ethical, and moral upbringing. A man trying his best to navigate the river of life; balancing his individual needs against his families, h...

Silver Medal Winner of the 2023 Global Ebook Awards!Unlocking the Impact of Excessive Self-Control on Intimacy and SexualitySelf-control is admired by society. Yet, your success in regulating emotions, getting the work done, and being praised for being detail-oriented, planful, motivated, etc., hasn't translated to intimate relationships or the bedroom.You've heard that being naughty gets you in trouble and that following the rules helps you suc...

THE origin of the limerick — like so much of the merrier side of mankinds story — is lost, forgotten somewhere in the grim chaos of making history. No matter. Its perpetual rebirth suffices. It may be said, however, that the limerick is the most ancient verse form known, as it were, to the human ear. It has therefore won the sanction of time if not of the puritans, who, in a shrewd effort to avoid extinction, invented sin, toward which they appear remarkably ungrateful. Dr. Oscar Wells Too...

Why are fiberglass vaulting poles and hinged skates accepted in sport - while performance-enhancing drugs are forbidden? Are the rules that forbid them arbitrary? Should we level the playing field by allowing all competitors to use drugs that allow them to run faster or longer, leap higher, or lift more? In this provocative exploration of what draws us to sport as participants and spectators, Thomas Murray argues that the values and meanings embedded within our games provide the guidance w...

In Personal & Authentic, Thomas C. Murray reveals the power of designing awe-inspiring experiences that are grounded in relationships and learner-centered by design. Inherently relevant and contextualized, it is this kind of learning that lasts a lifetime.

Expert strategies for personalized, 21st Century professional learning!Empower teachers to take ownership of their own professional learning. Recognized EdTech leaders Murray and Zoul guide you step-by-step through the process. Confidently learn to build a values-driven school culture, personalized professional roadmaps, and a collaboration-minded staff. You’ll find concrete examples, leadership profiles, and a wealth of resources to help administrators an...

Authentic education ( genuine learning)Genuine learning will be learning intended to associate what understudies are shown in school to true issues, issues, and applications; growth opportunities ought to reflect the intricacies and ambiguities of reality. Understudies make progress toward creation of talk, items, and exhibitions that have worth or importance past outcome in school; this is advancing by doing approach (Valid realizing: what, why and how?).In training, the t...

How—and why—do humans develop as they do? This book clearly explains the key components of human development theories and describes how to compose novel theories regarding this age-old puzzle.As college students progress through bachelor's degree programs and then advance to their master's degree theses and doctoral dissertations, they are bombarded with studies of countless theories, often adopting some author's theory for interpreting information about human deve...

The federal government's No Child Left Behind Act has thrust high-stakes testing - its goals, methods, and consequences - into the educational limelight. The four-fold purpose of this book is to: describe the nature of high-stakes testing; identify types of collateral damage that have attended the testing programs; analyze methods different groups of people have chosen for coping with the damage and suggest lessons to be learned from the high-stakes-testing experience.The six group...

"This text moves beyond simplistic ′procedures to follow′ to in-depth discussions of stages in the research process, providing strong reference points and examples for students embarking on the disciplined inquiry of thesis and dissertation research. A valuable text for proposal writing classes, faculty members who direct dissertations and theses, and students throughout the research process."—Betty J. Alford, Chair of Secondary Education and Educational LeadershipSt...

Explaining Conversations offers a different way of interpreting people’s social exchanges than has been available in the past. The book is replete with examples of people’s verbal interactions in the form of chats, arguments, debates, and negotiations, both within a culture and across cultures. The volume’s subtitle, A Developmental Social-Exchange Theory, identifies a theme featured in Chapters 2 and 5—the typical pattern by which social-exchange skills evolve over the first two decades o...