Fire Up the Learner Within: The Art of Self-Directed Learning

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Whether you are preparing for an exam, or learning for a new job mandate, or learning more about a hobby, or you simply want to pursue learning for the sheer joy of it, this book will help you improve your self-directed learning skills. The book covers four topics: - To Learn: how to build your inner strength to learn - To Know: how to become better at acquiring knowledge of a subject matter - To Understand: how to develop modes of thinking that help you look at the world in a different way - To Perform - how to attain mastery

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Real Heat: Gender and Race in the Urban Fire Service

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In the struggle over affirmative action, no employment setting has seen more friction than urban fire departments. Thirty years of legal and political efforts have opened the doors of this historically white male preserve, but men of color have yet to consolidate their gains, and women's progress has been even more tenuous. In this unique and compelling account of affirmative action at the "street level," Carol Chetkovich explores the ways in which this program has succeeded and failed. Chetkovich follows the men and women of the Oakland Fire Department Class 1-91 through their academy training and eighteen-month probation. Real Heat explores how the process of becoming a firefighter interacts with the dimensions of race and gender to support some and discourage others.

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