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Automating Protest Event Analysis Using Digital Media in Contentious Politics addresses one of the most critical challenges in the field: the need for more efficient, reliable, and scalable data collection. Using Russia as a primary case study, author Bogdan Mamaev explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) and digital media are reshaping the methodology of protest event analysis (PEA). Investigating the transformative impact of Generative AI on data access and efficiency, Mamaev argues that state-of-the-art proprietary and open models address the cost and resource constraints of traditional manual and semi-automated approaches to PEA, enabling the creation of high-quality datasets. By employing techniques such as zero-shot classification, Named Entity Recognition (NER), and semantic deduplication, researchers can extract rigorous quantitative and qualitative data from various sources, including news archives and social media platforms. Focusing on Russia, this work explores the complexities of building the Russian Contentious Events Dataset for News and Social Media (RCED-NSM) within an authoritarian regime characterised by heavy censorship. The book also examines the limitations and biases of algorithmic tools, testing their generalisability through comparative applications in China and the United Kingdom. A pathbreaking contribution, this timely advancement in computational social science bridges interdisciplinary knowledge, offering researchers a reproducible framework to navigate the biases of digital media and utilise cutting-edge computational methods in the study of contentious politics.

“Possibility and Statistics” (P.S.) is a rigorously ethical, mixed-method way of knowing that centers lived experience, assets, and human agency; treats oral narratives as primary data; and designs measures, tools, and dissemination practices to cultivate flourishing rather than manage risk. Ivory A. Toldson’s Possibility and Statistics is more than a book about statistical methods; it is a profound and necessary intervention into the soul of education and social science. It is a methodological treatise and a deeply personal work of literary scholarship that redefines the purpose of data in a world saturated with it. By developing a new statistical language, Toldson demonstrates that the principles of possibility—care, context, and potential—can be as analytically rigorous as the principles of probability. Possibility and Statistics introduces a new analytical toolkit; formula-driven methods designed to quantify hope. Metrics like the Overcoming Adversity Index (OAI), which measures success relative to context; the Potential Realization Quotient (PRQ), which quantifies achievement beyond statistical expectations; and the Resource Parity Index (RPI), which measures inequities in resources, give practitioners tangible tools. Toldson crafts a powerful argument that the tools of statistics, so often used to document despair and predict failure, must be re-engineered to architect hope and cultivate human potential. The result is a work that is at once a rigorous academic text and a moral call to arms for researchers, educators, policymakers, and anyone who wields data that touches human lives.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Have you ever wanted to prioritize teacher well-being in your district, your school, or in your own professional life, but weren’t sure where to begin? The Ultimate Guide to Teacher Well-Being provides a roadmap grounded in solid research and enriched with real-world examples. Whether shaping policy, leading a school, or working in the classroom, readers will find practical tailored strategies. Chapters feature 39 evidence-based measures to strengthen teacher well-being, three levels of action – policy, school leadership, and individual teachers – and 55 inspiring good-practice examples from 27 countries. In contrast to self-help literature or individual narratives, The Ultimate Guide to Teacher Well-Being draws on research and theory to provide practical insights for policymakers, school leaders, and educators interested in supporting teacher well-being in sustainable ways.

Creating Learning Systems for Higher Education: A Quantum Field Framework presents a groundbreaking approach to education that integrates quantum physics, competence, differentiated thinking, and individual performance proficiencies into a multidimensional, dynamic, and self-organising learning field. This innovative work is designed to prepare learners to know, perform, and understand personal, professional, and social competence. Drawing on sciences, learning models, and human technologies, Moye's ‘Psychophysical Learning System’ propels learners toward success by bringing the competences required for specific disciplines into a coherent framework. This system is not discipline-specific, making it adaptable across various fields of study, making it a must-read for educators, curriculum designers, and anyone interested in the future of learning. Explore the interconnectedness and interdependencies within the knowledge, performance, and integration of information that generate competence. Delve into the concept of Proprioception of Thought, which emphasises the importance of competent thinking in driving competent actions. Understand the contingencies of performing within a discipline through Human Performance Technologies, and discover how Quantum Design Models can create a resonance between the learner and natural learning events.

Walk With Me: Lessons in Transcendent Leadership is a powerful exploration of leadership beyond position and performance—offering a visionary model rooted in spiritual intelligence, ethical courage, and communal elevation. Authored by Dr. Hakim J. Lucas, a transcendent higher education leader, this book reimagines what it means to lead in institutions facing complexity, constraint, and change—especially in the context of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), faith-based organizations, and social-impact institutions. Transcendent leadership, as defined in this work, is not hierarchical but relational. It is not driven by ego or authority, but by authenticity, resilience, and divine purpose. Through deeply reflective storytelling, institutional case studies, and African fables, Dr. Lucas offers a leadership framework that values transparency over perfection, process over position, and people over politics. More than a personal memoir or leadership manual, Walk With Me is an invitation: for presidents, provosts, pastors, and changemakers to lead with soul, serve with integrity, and walk with those they lead—not ahead or above, but beside. In a time when higher education, especially at mission-driven institutions, requires bold vision and prophetic imagination, this book is a guide for becoming the kind of leader who not only transforms—but transcends. This is not just leadership. This is a walk of purpose.

Academic Talk for Higher Education brings together several current debates around oracy, dialogic teaching, and the role that academic talk can play in both widening access to higher education and creating more equitable learning opportunities. Exploring the notion that a focus on purposefully using academic discourse in university classroom settings can support students to better engage, argue, and connect with their learning, peers, and educators, Academic Talk for Higher Education examines the relationship between spoken language, equity, and academic preparedness for higher education, and provides a theoretical and empirical account of policy drivers and widening participation cohorts. Working with extensive prior research conducted by the authors focused on ‘alternative pathway’ teaching contexts—Enabling Education in Australia and Foundation Year Programmes in the UK—chapters draw on teachers’ perspectives and experiences of academic literacies to conceptualise the need for more explicit pedagogic focus on academic talk. Concluding with an agenda for both policy and practice to value academic talk as a vehicle for equity, the authors offer recommendations for how to explicitly embed academic talk into the higher education curriculum, and particularly in academic preparation contexts. This is significant at a time of great turbulence in the higher education sectors in both the UK and Australia, and when activities to support widening participation, retention and progression of all university students are needed more than ever.

Rooted in ancient traditions, spiritual journeys have long served as powerful catalysts for self-reflection, cultural understanding, and personal growth. With an emphasis on the cognitive transformation that often accompanies such travels, this contributed volume provides both historical context and practical advice to navigate the complex landscape of contemporary spiritual tourism. A Guidebook to Ethical Spiritual Travel: Innovation and Global Insights synthesises age-old teachings with modern perspectives, offering readers a comprehensive framework for travellers on meaningful spiritual journeys. By presenting case studies and practical guidance, it encourages mindfulness and intentionality in travel, while addressing critical challenges like cultural appropriation, sustainability, and the commercialisation of sacred sites. Aimed at both academics and industry professionals, the international team of authors emphasises the importance of respect, responsibility, and cultural sensitivity, fostering global empathy and personal transformation through well-guided spiritual exploration.

Exploring how the boundary between the extremist far right and centre-right parties and politics became blurred, Normalization of the Global Far Right: Pandemic Disruption deconstructs one of the most pressing issues of today: the rise of the far right. Taking a critical look at the ‘normalisation’ of far-right thinking underpinned by gendered racisms, Vieten and Poynting trace the emergence of transnational far right populist movements and how these have been shaped by European colonialism, white supremacy, and ideological legacies of the Empire alike.

Rooted in ancient traditions, spiritual journeys have long served as powerful catalysts for self-reflection, cultural understanding, and personal growth. With an emphasis on the cognitive transformation that often accompanies such travels, this contributed volume provides both historical context and practical advice to navigate the complex landscape of contemporary spiritual tourism. Spiritual Tourism and Landscape synthesises age-old teachings with modern perspectives, offering readers a comprehensive framework for travellers on meaningful spiritual journeys. By presenting case studies and practical guidance, it encourages mindfulness and intentionality in travel, while addressing critical challenges like cultural appropriation, sustainability, and the commercialisation of sacred sites. Aimed at both academics and industry professionals, the international team of authors emphasises the importance of respect, responsibility, and cultural sensitivity, fostering global empathy and personal transformation through well-guided spiritual exploration.

Leadership Learning as a Way to Thrive explores the dynamic connection between personal thriving and leadership learning. This timely and thought-provoking book invites students to reimagine leadership learning as a catalyst for well-being. Rooted in the idea that thriving means evolving energetically, the book integrates key leadership theories with well-being science and positive psychology to support both leader and follower growth. Drawing on the work of scholars, the authors highlight essential elements of thriving, such as environmental mastery, adaptive leadership, growth mindset, emotional intelligence, meaning and purpose, relationships, accomplishments, innovation, engagement, resilience, and self-efficacy. Through a blend of research, reflection, and practical insight, this book offers a compelling framework for how leadership learning can foster holistic development. It also serves as a call to action for professionals seeking to create environments where students don’t just succeed - they thrive. Whether you're on your own leadership learning journey, designing leadership programs for peers, mentoring students, or shaping institutional strategy, Leadership Learning as a Way to Thrive will inspire you to spark new conversations, ignite fresh ideas, and champion well-being through leadership education.

The area of trauma-informed positive education (TIPE) is a recently emerging field in educational studies. Schools serving communities contending with educational inequity have many students identified as trauma-affected, with significant unmet learning and social emotional needs. This groundbreaking study and first book in the Emerald Studies in Trauma-Informed Education series is the first longitudinal research in trauma informed positive education, and the first research to link the professional learning and ongoing implementation of TIPE pedagogical practices to changed student perceptions of school and collective teacher efficacy over a four-year period. Providing examples of how schools implement TIPE and using case studies from two schools that were experiencing difficulty with their delivery of learning and wellbeing outcomes for students, the authors explore how implementing TIPE pedagogical practices can bring about school change. There is a focus on student wellbeing, collective teacher efficacy and assisting students to be ready to learn. The case studies that are explored will be of interest to school practitioners and system leaders working with students who are are not yet ready to learn and disengaged from school.

Recruitment and retention problems existed within the teaching sector before the COVID-19 pandemic, with an increasing number of teachers deciding to leave the profession for either early retirement, careers in other sectors, or for teaching jobs in other countries. However, the pandemic, and the period subsequent to it, have amplified the problems of a sector in crisis. Aimee Quickfall and Phil Wood offer insights into a profession overburdened by central diktat and performance management, and a system which is inefficient, overbearing and in many cases responsible for poor mental health and unsustainable pressures. Through a consideration of teachers’ experiences both during and after the pandemic they outline a policy direction concerning the work of teachers and leaders which is necessary to reorientate the education system in England to one which encourages individuals to become teachers, and which sustains them in a supportive professional environment once they are there. Transforming Teacher Work reflects on lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to consider how we might renew and revitalise a failing system.

A timely and updated second edition, this version of Crises and Popular Dissent moves on from a focus on the causes of populism to a wider analysis of the global struggle between liberal democracy and authoritarianism, including the continuing impact of populism. Within this epoch defining conflict, O’Donnell analyses related themes such as repression/liberty, identity-culture/social-political solidarity, climate change/immigration, the impact of digital revolution, and the late modern restructuring of power and wealth. O’Donnell outlines contemporary crises in a global context, mainly in relation to Europe and the Americas and with recurrent reference to the Global South. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, supported, but without major direct military engagement, by China, Iran, and North Korea, revives, in a different form, the ‘cold war’ ideological and territorial conflict between Russia and ‘the West’. Add the deeply disturbing humanitarian and democratic issues raised by the Israel-Hamas war, O’Donnell chronicles a liberal democracy in a state of crisis. Revitalising discussion around the ‘contradiction’ in liberal democracy between free market capitalism and social inequality in the politico-cultural crises of the current century: various extra-parliamentary protest movements, of left and right are discussed. Drawing partly on democratic forms adopted by a variety of populist. and non-populist social movements, ‘radical democracy’ is introduced as a way of reorienting the liberal progressive dynamic. Centring around three broad political groupings – liberal, authoritarian, and social movements of protest – the chapters represent the different ideologies and political strategies at the core of the crises discussed. Exploring their origins, outcomes, and extrapolating their likely trajectories, O’Donnell also makes suggestions for institutional change and socio-political policy reform.

In an ever-evolving educational landscape, traditional methods face unprecedented challenges. The Impact of ChatGPT on Higher Education takes you on a trailblazing journey into ChatGPT's transformative potential and the ethical considerations in higher education. Authored by experts at the forefront of educational transformation and technology's impact on learning, this book offers invaluable insights for educators, leaders, policymakers, and AI enthusiasts. Dive deep with the authors as they navigate from theory to practice, unravelling power dynamics, social structures, and ChatGPT's profound influence. Real-world examples and a captivating case study from MEF University provide tangible evidence of ChatGPT's impact on education. Explore how ChatGPT raises critical questions about course planning, assessments, teaching, and AI's role in education. The authors illuminate issues related to academic honesty, ethics, bias, misinformation, cost, equity, and data privacy. As AI technologies continue to evolve and impact education, The Impact of ChatGPT on Higher Education provides valuable guidance and insights for educators and researchers seeking to harness the power of ChatGPT in their work.

Developing Conscious Gratitude in Schools transforms how educators address systemic inequality in American education. Jerell Hill presents a comprehensive blueprint for creating inclusive, empowering learning environments that shift students from burdens to brilliance, particularly those from low-income and marginalized backgrounds. This book explores how neighborhood conditions, public health, housing policy, and segregation profoundly impact educational opportunities. Through compelling research, case studies, and practical strategies, Hill provides concrete approaches educators and administrators can implement immediately. Unlike theoretical works that merely describe problems, this offers actionable transformation. Conscious gratitude is not about avoiding hardship, but transforming it into purpose, resilience, and meaningful connection while honoring the sacred practice of teaching.

A logistics manager in Dubai reroutes ships through an AI-powered trade platform. A policymaker in Riyadh uses an AI-powered model of the national economy to test how fiscal choices affect growth, spending, and debt. A graduate in Astana is turning to an algorithmic jobs accelerator to find her path in global markets. Across economies and institutions, artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of decision-making, governance, and value creation. It marks the dawn of a new economic era that is powered by intelligence, driven by insight, and grounded in inclusion. AI Economics is where this transformation takes shape. It represents the fusion of data, technology, and policy into a living system of governance that anticipates shocks, adapts in real time, and empowers people through knowledge and inclusion. This timely book explores how nations can navigate this transformation through ten defining policy questions that range from redesigning labour markets to rethinking trade, fiscal policy, and institutional trust. Each question translates the promise of artificial intelligence into a practical pathway toward a more resilient, adaptive, and participatory governance, where data becomes foresight and foresight becomes action. AI Economics is not about replacing human judgment. It is about reimagining how intelligence, in all its forms, can serve society with precision and purpose. Provocative, precise and visionary, Governing the Future challenges policymakers, economists and citizens alike to rethink how nations govern in the new age of artificial intelligence.