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There is a growing realization that many of the problems afflicting American elections can be traced to the electoral system itself, in particular to our winner-take-all approach to electing officials. Douglas Amy demonstrates that switching to proportional representation elections--the voting system used in most other Western democracies, by which officials are elected in large, multimember districts according to the proportion of the vote won by their parties--would enliven democratic political debate, increase voter choice and voter turnout, ensure fair representation for third parties and minorities, eliminate wasted votes and "spoliers," and ultimately produce policies that better reflect the public will. Looking beyond new voting machines and other quick fixes for our electoral predicament, this new edition of Real Choices/New Voices offers a timely and imaginative way out of the frustrations of our current system of choosing leaders.
Local Voices, Local Choices: The Tacare Approach to Community-Led Conservation chronicles the stories behind Jane Goodall's holistic approach to conservation in Africa.
Women have experienced significant changes in various spheres of their lives during the last decades as Bangladesh made economic progress. Yet women’s economic engagement and empowerment are subdued, as they cannot make sufficient choices for themselves. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic developments in gender equality in Bangladesh. Through examining women’s participation in the labour force, ownership and control of household assets, use and control of financial assets, and opportunities for entrepreneurship, the authors have made concrete recommendations to overcome challenges that lie ahead for women’s economic empowerment. This book is an important contribution to the knowledge on interventions required by the policy makers and broader stakeholders towards narrowing gender gaps. --Fahmida Khatun, PhD, Executive Director, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Bangladesh The women’s story is central to Bangladesh’s economic and social transformation. There is an urgent need to deepen researched understanding of the multidimensional pathways of women’s economic empowerment and extent of real progress made. Voices to Choices is an important contribution to this story. Surely, the journey of women’s economic empowerment remains a long and challenging one. Realizing the full benefits of new opportunities is often hampered by both new and entrenched insecurities. The task is as much one of empowering women’s agency as of dismantling barriers. The responsibility is as much women’s as society’s. --Hossain Zillur Rahman, PhD, Executive Chairman, Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) This book provides critical insights and is timely, as it outlines how girls and women in Bangladesh have gained more opportunities in labor force participation, control over household and financial assets, as well as greater prospects for entrepreneurship. The findings will greatly contribute to future policy and planning for government and key stakeholders working to advance women’s economic empowerment in the country. --Sabina Faiz Rashid, PhD, Dean and Professor, BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health BRAC University
Thirteen-year-old Joey Johnson has a problem. He hears voices, only he can't find the people who belong to them. His curiosity leads him on a quest where he learns more than just history about "the Nation's Oldest City." He discovers he has a special connection to the past -- something that changes his life forever.
About the Book: This BOOK is for YOU…Whether you are an enthusiastic couple, a would-be parent, a single parent, a grandparent, a counsellor, a teacher, a trainer or one who deals with children around them all the time; this book will change your perspective towards children and open all the secrets to Conscious Parenting. Parenting Journeys begin with the idea of starting a family, pursuing the idea and bringing a child into your world or adopting, or even having a surrogacy to conceive and impregnate, followed by raising infants into toddlers, progressing into young kids and teenagers, finally sending them off on their way into the world. You remain in their lives as a friend and a guide forever. This book addresses all these stages of Parenting. Are you confused and always questioning your parenting techniques , Old school v/s the new? Are you trying to give the best of both worlds to your child? Do you wish to imbibe virtues and train the child in a pragmatic manner? And in the process are you burning out? Are you constantly trying to be the Best Parent, Best Coach, Best in Everything? And, is it working for you? Are you trying to raise your child in the present, from the rules of the past to live an independent life in the future? Is it time to enter into a communion with your child? This book equips you with practical tools to shift your mindset away from the traditional parent-to-child "know it all" approach and moves towards a mutual parent-with-child conscious relationship? It is never too late. You can begin at any age! The dynamic yet simple ideas and techniques in this book will assist you in achieving results with your child that you had always dreamt of/wished for. Using the tools herein, will inspire you and your child to create a lasting bond and thrive in this Special Relationship. These concepts form the core of the '7 Tools to Cool Conscious Parenting' workshop and 'Conscious Parenting Master Class', where you can interact with Meheck and receive pragmatic and result-oriented solutions to the roadblocks in your parenting journey. I hope this book contributes to your journey. Happy Parenting! About the Author: Meheck Mukherjee, an Author, Transformation Coach, Founder of AIKYA - The Oneness Program, Children and Relationships Counsellor. She has written two books on Conscious Parenting and a Coffee Table Book which is a compilation of Empowering Poetry and Travel Photography. She graduated as a Biomedical Engineer with a Honors Degree from the University of Mumbai. She excelled at school, college and university, be it the Arts, Literature, Sanskrit, Mathematics or Sciences as well as at Dance and the performing arts. Meheck has come a long way in the journey of her life from being a perfectionist, extremely logical and practical person to being pragmatic and a fully aware energy worker. She was born in an affluent business family with strong value systems and an orthodox mindset. As she carved her way from the conventional education and career path to a completely radical energetic one, she had one flame burning all along; her Passion. She gave up her decade long status as a Professor in Quantitative Statistics and Research at Business Schools to choose Counselling and transforming peoples’ lives. She has facilitated great transformations in single or divorced women, empowering them to pursue more choices and acknowledging themselves; teenagers and youngsters who had fallen prey to various addictions, alcohol, smoke, drugs or gaming and bringing the zest for real life back in them, bringing them abreast with more possibilities and multiple career options; special children - autistic, ADHD, ADD, OCD, being the catalyst in making their parents and them aware of their special potencies and facilitating them to create lives beyond what they could imagine; individuals who have given up on life and are depressed, motivating them and facilitating them to transform their personal, professional, mental and physical health. Meheck has one ask: To be able to touch numerous lives: Spread Consciousness in the world. This book is an attempt to work at the roots and empower the future generations and bring more consciousness on the planet.
Learner Choice, Learner Voice offers fresh, forward-thinking supports for teachers creating an empowered, student-centered classroom. Learner agency is a major topic in today’s schools, but what does it mean in practice, and how do these practices give students skills and opportunities they will need to thrive as citizens, parents, and workers in our ever-shifting climate? Showcasing authentic activities and classrooms, this book is full of diverse instructional experiences that will motivate your students to take an agile, adaptable role in their own learning. This wealth of pedagogical ideas – from specific to open-ended, low-tech to digital, self-expressive to collaborative, creative to critical – will help you discover the transformative effects of providing students with ownership, agency, and choice in their learning journeys.
Stance and Voice in Written Academic Genres brings together a range of perspectives on two of the most important and contested concepts in applied linguistics: stance and voice. International experts provide an accessible, yet authoritative introduction to key issues and debates surrounding these terms.
Compiling decades of fieldwork, two acclaimed scholars offer strategies for strengthening democracies by nurturing the voices of children and encouraging public awareness of their role as citizens. Voice, Choice, and Action is the fruit of the extraordinary personal and professional partnership of a psychiatrist and a neurobiologist whose research and social activism have informed each other for the last thirty years. Inspired by the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Felton Earls and Mary Carlson embarked on a series of international studies that would recognize the voice of children. In Romania they witnessed the consequences of infant institutionalization under the Ceaușescu regime. In Brazil they encountered street children who had banded together to advocate effectively for themselves. In Chicago Earls explored the origins of prosocial and antisocial behavior with teenagers. Children all over the world demonstrated an unappreciated but powerful interest in the common good. On the basis of these experiences, Earls and Carlson mounted a rigorous field study in Moshi, Tanzania, which demonstrated that young citizens could change attitudes about HIV/AIDS and mobilize their communities to confront the epidemic. The program, outlined in this book, promoted children’s communicative and reasoning capacities, guiding their growth as deliberative citizens. The program’s success in reducing stigma and promoting universal testing for HIV exceeded all expectations. Here in vivid detail are the science, ethics, and everyday practice of fostering young citizens eager to confront diverse health and social challenges. At a moment when adults regularly profess dismay about our capacity for effective action, Voice, Choice, and Action offers inspiration and tools for participatory democracy.
Voices in Texts and Contexts presents different perspectives of “voice”, a concept that emerges from language choices, social and cultural phenomena, and psychology. In weaving a tapestry of linguistic experiences, from analyses of language phenomena including localised English to explanations of human behaviour, this book offers insights into how we use language, construct discourse, and express ourselves in light of selected texts and specific contexts.