Living by voices we shall never hear: seeing animals differently
- Mitchell, Pauline, Mitchell, Les
- Authors: Mitchell, Pauline , Mitchell, Les
- Date: 2011
- Language: English
- Type: Monograph
- Identifier: vital:12230
- Description: We live in the midst of animals; the products of their bodies and products made from their bodies are everywhere. Over thousands of years we have used these beings for our own ends; for hauling loads, grinding grain, making roads, carrying people, working in mines, powering machinery, ploughing land and making war. Each day of the year we kill, on average, in the food industry alone, the same number of animals as there are people in the whole of southern Africa. Animals have been our unpaid, unacknowledged and, for the most part, appallingly treated slaves, on whose backs, it is no exaggeration to say, our present world has been built. Perhaps it is time to consider our relationship with them. For this book we originally asked Quakers and people attending Quaker Meetings to write about ‘seeing animals differently’ and our contributors are Friends or attenders or people who have some association with Friends. The authors live in the UK, South Africa, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Australia and the United States. There is a saying that trying to organise Quakers is like trying to herd cats and the diversity in this small book clearly bears this out. We An introduction to the book Pauline and Les Mitchell Introduction have not made any attempt to impose uniformity or to ask authors to write to any formula, which means that what you read carries the original voice and style of the contributor. We feel that, rather than a weakness, this is a strength of the collection and shows how diverse yet interwoven our perspectives can be.
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- Date Issued: 2011
- Authors: Mitchell, Pauline , Mitchell, Les
- Date: 2011
- Language: English
- Type: Monograph
- Identifier: vital:12230
- Description: We live in the midst of animals; the products of their bodies and products made from their bodies are everywhere. Over thousands of years we have used these beings for our own ends; for hauling loads, grinding grain, making roads, carrying people, working in mines, powering machinery, ploughing land and making war. Each day of the year we kill, on average, in the food industry alone, the same number of animals as there are people in the whole of southern Africa. Animals have been our unpaid, unacknowledged and, for the most part, appallingly treated slaves, on whose backs, it is no exaggeration to say, our present world has been built. Perhaps it is time to consider our relationship with them. For this book we originally asked Quakers and people attending Quaker Meetings to write about ‘seeing animals differently’ and our contributors are Friends or attenders or people who have some association with Friends. The authors live in the UK, South Africa, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Australia and the United States. There is a saying that trying to organise Quakers is like trying to herd cats and the diversity in this small book clearly bears this out. We An introduction to the book Pauline and Les Mitchell Introduction have not made any attempt to impose uniformity or to ask authors to write to any formula, which means that what you read carries the original voice and style of the contributor. We feel that, rather than a weakness, this is a strength of the collection and shows how diverse yet interwoven our perspectives can be.
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- Date Issued: 2011
An organisation development intervention in a previously disadvantaged school in the Eastern Cape
- Authors: Mitchell, Pauline
- Date: 2005
- Subjects: Educational change -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Education and state -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Education -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Education -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape School improvement programs -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Case studies Education -- Aims and objectives -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1682 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003565
- Description: “We often spend too much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path” Peter Senge This study describes and analyses the implementation of Organisation Development (OD) to a previously disadvantaged school. OD is a relatively new method of planned change in South Africa. Unlike more traditional change initiatives, OD promotes collaboration; it tries to involve all members of an organisation in problem solving and decision-making. It is an applied behavioural science discipline dedicated to improving organisations and the people in them. Previously disadvantaged schools in South Africa continue to be disadvantaged. Ten years after the introduction of democracy there have been few changes in some of these schools and some seem to be getting worse. This study was an attempt to introduce a process of planned change to one such school. Since 1994 many changes have been imposed on our schools with new curricula, increased class sizes, changes in systems of assessment and teaching methods and the abolishment of past procedures such as corporal punishment. Teachers have had little say in any of these changes and this has resulted in resistance, resignation, frustration and in many cases a lack of ability to cope. OD was introduced to Acacia High School in the form of a Survey Data Feedback (SDF). An action research process followed and a diagnosis was made followed by action planning and then the execution of a plan. My study follows this process and the implementation of the plan describing its successes. Sadly change was not sustained and I highlight some of the challenges that face the school in order to bring about real long-term improvement in the culture of learning and teaching.
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- Date Issued: 2005
- Authors: Mitchell, Pauline
- Date: 2005
- Subjects: Educational change -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Education and state -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Education -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Education -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape School improvement programs -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Case studies Education -- Aims and objectives -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1682 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003565
- Description: “We often spend too much time coping with problems along our path that we forget why we are on that path” Peter Senge This study describes and analyses the implementation of Organisation Development (OD) to a previously disadvantaged school. OD is a relatively new method of planned change in South Africa. Unlike more traditional change initiatives, OD promotes collaboration; it tries to involve all members of an organisation in problem solving and decision-making. It is an applied behavioural science discipline dedicated to improving organisations and the people in them. Previously disadvantaged schools in South Africa continue to be disadvantaged. Ten years after the introduction of democracy there have been few changes in some of these schools and some seem to be getting worse. This study was an attempt to introduce a process of planned change to one such school. Since 1994 many changes have been imposed on our schools with new curricula, increased class sizes, changes in systems of assessment and teaching methods and the abolishment of past procedures such as corporal punishment. Teachers have had little say in any of these changes and this has resulted in resistance, resignation, frustration and in many cases a lack of ability to cope. OD was introduced to Acacia High School in the form of a Survey Data Feedback (SDF). An action research process followed and a diagnosis was made followed by action planning and then the execution of a plan. My study follows this process and the implementation of the plan describing its successes. Sadly change was not sustained and I highlight some of the challenges that face the school in order to bring about real long-term improvement in the culture of learning and teaching.
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- Date Issued: 2005
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