The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education
Author: David J. Elliott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 019005851X

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical and Qualitative Assessment in Music Education offers global, comprehensive, and critical perspectives on a wide range of conceptual and practical issues in music education assessment, evaluation, and feedback as these apply to various forms of music education within schools and communities. The central aims of this Handbook focus on broadening and deepening readers' understandings of and critical thinking about the problems, opportunities, spaces and places, concepts, and practical strategies that music educators and community music facilitators employ, develop, and deploy to improve various aspects of music teaching and learning around the world.

God: An Anatomy

God: An Anatomy
Author: Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0525520457

An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers—with a distinctly male body, and with superhuman powers, earthly passions, and a penchant for the fantastic and monstrous. "[A] rollicking journey through every aspect of Yahweh’s body, from top to bottom (yes, that too) and from inside out ... Ms. Stavrakopoulou has almost too much fun.”—The Economist The scholarship of theology and religion teaches us that the God of the Bible was without a body, only revealing himself in the Old Testament in words mysteriously uttered through his prophets, and in the New Testament in the body of Christ. The portrayal of God as corporeal and masculine is seen as merely metaphorical, figurative, or poetic. But, in this revelatory study, Francesca Stavrakopoulou presents a vividly corporeal image of God: a human-shaped deity who walks and talks and weeps and laughs, who eats, sleeps, feels, and breathes, and who is undeniably male. Here is a portrait—arrived at through the author's close examination of and research into the Bible—of a god in ancient myths and rituals who was a product of a particular society, at a particular time, made in the image of the people who lived then, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world. From head to toe—and every part of the body in between—this is a god of stunning surprise and complexity, one we have never encountered before.

Tainted Child

Tainted Child
Author: Shey Olivia Sullivan
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1477239057

One war, two angels and the modern world thrown into chaos. Belladona always knew of her lineage and because of it she has spent her entire life fi ghting. But when a long lost friend returns to her after years of solitude she has no choice but to go on the run, as the evil she had sworn to eradicate is now aware of her existence. When a women is brutally murdered inside her fathers temple, the life she once knew is turned upside down. Nightmares start to become reality, shadows from the past begin to immerge and the only thing standing between her and certain death is the strength of her own will.

An Innocent in His Bed Bundle

An Innocent in His Bed Bundle
Author: Lindsay Armstrong
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 725
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426821115

They've never experienced a man's love, never allowed any man the privilege of intimacy. But when these four spirited, independent women are swept away to exotic locales and introduced to a life of glamour and luxury, by men unlike any they've ever known--powerful, wealthy, wickedly attractive and utterly irresistible--they surrender their hearts...and their bodies...in the pursuit of a lifetime of love. Thrill to the magic, the drama, the passion in these four dazzling romances from Harlequin Presents. Bundle includes: The Cattle Baron's Virgin Wife by Lindsay Armstrong, The Greek Tycoon's Innocent Mistress by Kathryn Ross, Pregnant by the Italian Count by Christina Hollis and Angelo's Captive Virgin by India Grey.

Reverend Insanity 2 : The Demon Leaves The Mountain

Reverend Insanity 2 : The Demon Leaves The Mountain
Author: Gu Zhen Re
Publisher: Reverend Novel
Total Pages: 2474
Release: 2019-11-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Volume 2 - The Demon Leaves The Mountain "Kill them all, gain notoriety through killing. Kill until these people tremble in fear, only then will they not dare to lightly provoke us." A story of a villain, Fang Yuan who was reborn 500 years into the past with the Spring Autumn Cicada he painstakingly refined. With his profound wisdom, battle and life experiences, he seeks to overcome his foes with skill and wit! Ruthless and amoral, he has no need to hold back as he pursues his ultimate goals. In a world of cruelty where one cultivates using Gu - magical creatures of the world - Fang Yuan must rise up above all with his own power. Humans are clever in tens of thousands of ways, Gu are the true refined essences of Heaven and Earth. The Three Temples are unrighteous, the demon is reborn. Former days are but an old dream, an identical name is made anew. A story of a time traveler who keeps on being reborn. A unique world that grows, cultivates, and uses Gu. The Spring and Autumn Cicada, the Venomous Moonlight Gu, the Wine Insect, All-Encompassing Golden Light Insect, Slender Black Hair Gu, Gu of Hope… And a great demon of the world that does exactly as his heart pleases!

Introducing James H. Cone

Introducing James H. Cone
Author: Anthony G Reddie
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2022-07-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0334061083

It is rarely the case that an intellectual movement can point to an individual figure as its founder. Yet James Cone has been heralded as the acknowledged genius and the creator of black theology. In nearly 50 years of published work, James Cone redefined the intent of academic theology and defined a whole new movement in intellectual thought. In Introducing James H. Cone Anthony Reddie offers us an accessible and engaging assessment of Cone’s legacy, from his first book Black Theology and Black Power in 1969 through to his final intellectual autobiography I Said I wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody in 2018. It is an indispensable field guide to perhaps the greatest black theologian of recent times.

The Vanishing Voter

The Vanishing Voter
Author: Thomas E. Patterson
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009-09-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0307548678

From the award-winning author of Out of Order—named the best political science book of the last decade by the American Political Science Association—comes this landmark book about why Americans don’t vote. Based on more than 80,000 interviews, The Vanishing Voter investigates why—despite a better educated citizenry, the end of racial barriers to voting, and simplified voter registration procedures—the percentage of voters has steadily decreased to the point that the United States now has nearly the lowest voting rate in the world. Patterson cites the blurring of differences between the political parties, the news media’s negative bias, and flaws in the election system to explain this disturbing trend while suggesting specific reforms intended to bring Americans back to the polls. Astute, far-reaching, and impeccably researched, The Vanishing Voter engages the very meaning of our relationship to our government.

The End of the Mind

The End of the Mind
Author: DeSales Harrison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2005-02-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1135878587

This book seeks to include among accounts of modern lyric poetry a theory of the poem's relation to the unintelligible. DeSales Harrison draws a distinction between sites of unintelligibility and sights of difficulty; while much has been said about modernist difficulty, little has been said about the attention that poets give to phenomena that by definition arrest, impede, obscure, damage, or destroy the capacity for intelligible representation.

Analysing Performance

Analysing Performance
Author: Patrick Campbell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1996-04-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780719042508

A wide-ranging collection of specially commissioned essays by contributors of international standing about key aspects of the performing arts