Bøger af Jason Stanley

How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us-not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century. In How Propaganda Works, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy-particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality-and how it has damaged democracies of the past.Focusing on the shortcomings of liberal democratic states, Stanley provides a historically grounded introduction to democratic political theory as a window into the misuse of democratic vocabulary for propaganda's selfish purposes. He lays out historical examples, such as the restructuring of the US public school system at the turn of the twentieth century, to explore how the language of democracy is sometimes used to mask an undemocratic reality. Drawing from a range of sources, including feminist theory, critical race theory, epistemology, formal semantics, educational theory, and social and cognitive psychology, he explains how the manipulative and hypocritical declaration of flawed beliefs and ideologies arises from and perpetuates inequalities in society, such as the racial injustices that commonly occur in the United States.How Propaganda Works shows that an understanding of propaganda and its mechanisms is essential for the preservation and protection of liberal democracies everywhere.

A Complete Teaching and Management System Just imagine how it would feel if you could cut your busy time in half and double the effectiveness of your teaching time. This book is gives you the clear step-by-step teaching methodology process of exactly how to implement a fully integrated active brain based learning and teaching system that brings stellar teaching success. This series gives you all the tools you need so your students become wholly engaged, learn fully and deeply, and have great behavior because they want to be in your class. Teaching is hard isn't it? First you spend hours preparing for class. With your hard work complete and ready to teach, you realize you have to also be a disciplinarian, motivator, and counselor! Of course you didn't start teaching to become a disciplinarian, you did it to help kids learn and make the world a better place - right? You have probably looked at lots of teaching methods, teaching techniques and classroom management systems such as learning modalities, multiple intelligences and flipped classroom only to find that they just added many extra hours onto your already busy schedule with little or no real results except you being even more exhausted. So what are your options? Of course you can just keep on "battling on" doing what you do now. You can research and do trial and error to find a better way. Or you can learn from the dedicated efforts of a complete school faculty and staff team that has already been there. Sound good? Let me give you a little of what you will learn You will learn how to: - Optimize your student's understanding and learning. - Optimize your student's retention: Short term, working memory, long term memory. - Involve your students with engaged, active, and joyful learning. - Have the class that all the students in the school fight to get into! - Reduce your workload and stress so much you will love teaching every day! We were faced with a dismally failing school. Out of desperation the best teaching methods, classroom management techniques, ideas and education theory were sifted and distilled to build a successful teaching model for personal development and classroom success. There were no rock star teachers or over the top techies; just a dedicated team that needed something that would work for everyone in every classroom from physics to literature from 1st grade to 12th grade. We found a better way and now want to give it to you. What we did and how you can do it is inside.

Jason Stanley presents a series of essays which develop a theory of how the situation in which we speak interacts with the words we use to help produce what we say. Clear and concise throughout, Language in Context will be of interest to philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists who work on language acquisition, production, and interpretation.