The Ethics of Homelessness is a compilation of essays analysing the philosophical, legal and social implications of the seemingly intractable condition that people endure without a home, where their ...fundamental human rights, autonomy and privacy are compromised. Authors use literature and arguments to demonstrate the failings of public policy.
News Abbarno, G John; M
The Journal of value inquiry,
07/2012, Volume:
46, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
With over ve hundred sessions focusing on teaching practices, writing and literacy programs, language research, history, theory, information technologies, and professional and technical ...communication, the annual meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication provides a forum for thinking, learning, networking, and presenting research on teaching and learning how to write. The National Council of Teachers of English is opening nominations for the Nell Ann Pickett Service Award, an award made each year to an outstanding teacher whose vision and voice have had a major effect on two-year college professionalism and whose teaching exemplies such outstanding personal qualities as creativity, sensitivity, and leadership. Candidates will be screened according on the basis of a broad understanding of writing center scholarship and of rhetoric and composition studies, experience with writing center administration and board service with regional writing center associations or the International Writing Centers Association, ability to marshal institutional support to sponsor The Writing Center Journal and its editors, and a record of publication or editorial experience with peer-reviewed journals, which may include experience with managing the nancial and logistical aspects of journal production, serving as a manuscript reviewer or being involved in the production of an academic journal. To apply, candidates should present the selection committee with a written statement laying out the editorial vision of the candidate for the Writing Center Journal, a letter from an appropriate representative of the candidates home institution that outlines the kinds of support that will be provided to sponsor the Writing Center Journal, a current curriculum vitae, a sample of published writing, and a response to a sample manuscript to be provided once the other materials are on le or a sample editorial response that has been provided to a writer in the past.
News Abbarno, G John; M
The Journal of value inquiry,
04/2012, Volume:
46, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Educators will be hosting three conferences. All One Voice International Conferences are focused on unifying and amplifying of the voices of educators from ...all over the world. A selection of scholarly papers will be selected by a peer review committee for presentation at each One Voice event. Keynote speakers and activities including focus groups and brainstorming sessions focused on positive change and ethics in education make up the agenda of each conference. The One Voice conferences will be held in Philadelphia, 14 July 2012, in Montreal 28 to 29 September, and in New York City,17 November. News concerning other conferences is presented.
