Tag: Roadblocks

White Educators Negotiating Complicity Roadblocks Paved with Good Intentions


Free Download Barbara Applebaum, "White Educators Negotiating Complicity: Roadblocks Paved with Good Intentions "
English | ISBN: 1666904155 | 2021 | 156 pages | EPUB | 284 KB
While there is a proliferation of research on white educators who teach courses around anti-racism, White Educators Negotiating Complicity: Roadblocks Paved with Good Intentions focuses on white educators who teach about whiteness to racially diverse groups of students, and who acknowledge and attempt to negotiate their complicity in systemic injustice. Scholars continue to remind white people of the paradox through which their endeavors to disrupt systemic white supremacy often reproduce it. In this book, Barbara Applebaum explores what it means to teach against whiteness while living that paradox.

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Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition Evidence from East Germany and Poland


Free Download Jutta Günther, "Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and Transition: Evidence from East Germany and Poland "
English | ISBN: 303137049X | 2024 | 347 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods when they transitioned to capitalism, the inability of socialist economies to modernize effectively and produce sustained economic growth is highlighted. Particular attention is given the role of technological progress in economic growth, peculiar institutions, the creation and transfer of knowledge, and post-socialist transformations.

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