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"SUNY Buffalo State is a unique urban comprehensive liberal arts public institution serving a large number of first generation college students. One flagship program at the college is the Professional Development Schools (PDS) consortium. Beginning in 1991 with one partner school, the SUNY Buffalo State PDS consortium now partners with approximately 45 schools locally, in Western New York, New York City, and across five continents. This book seeks to share the skills, knowledge, and examples of evidence-based practice of this innovative program to offer readers ideas for how teacher education and professional development might be re-conceptualized and re-energized. As many educators at all levels worry about external forces pushing the learning process toward greater standardization, the example of the SUNY Buffalo State PDS offers realistic and doable ways to meet the varying needs of educational communities through innovative practices that benefit all members of school partnerships - children, their families, practicing teachers, teacher candidates, administrators, and university faculty. While the PDS consortium aligns with the goals of the NCATE PDS Standards (2001), the NAPDS Nine Essentials (2008), and the NCATE Blue Ribbon Panel Report (2010) thereby providing an important structure to the large network, its design ensures flexibility and creative solutions to the real problems facing education. In an accessible and user-friendly way, the book includes specific examples to provide explanations and models, templates of tools we have successfully used, and resources to develop new programs or enhance existing ones"--

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Between the two World Wars, the radical innovations of African Catholic and Protestant evangelists repurposed Christianity to challenge local and foreign governments operating in the French-administered League of Nations Mandate of Cameroon. Walker-Said explores how African believers transformed foreign missionary societies into profoundly local religious institutions with indigenous ecclesiastical hierarchies and devotional social and charitable networks, devising novel authority structures to control resources and govern cultural and social life. She analyses how African Christian religious leaders transformed social and labour relations, contesting forced labour and authoritarian decentralized governance as threats to family stability and community integrity. Inspired by Catholic and Protestant doctrines on conjugal complementarity and social equilibrium, as well as by local spiritual and charismatic movements, African Christians re-evaluated and renovated family and community authority structures to address the devastating changes colonialism wrought in the private sphere. The history of these reform-minded believers reveals how family intimacies and kinship ties constituted the force of community resistance to oppression and also demonstrates the relevance of faith in the midst of a tumultuous series of forces arising out of the colonial situation peculiar to Cameroon. Charlotte Walker-Said is Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY).

Christianity and culture --- Religion and sociology --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Contextualization (Christian theology) --- Culture and Christianity --- Inculturation (Christian theology) --- Indigenization (Christian theology) --- Culture --- History --- Cameroon --- Cameron --- Camerun --- Camerŵn --- Federal Republic of Cameroon --- Gweriniaeth Camerŵn --- Jumhūrīyah al-Kāmīrūn --- Kamailong --- Kameroen --- Kameron --- Kameroun --- Kamerun (Republic) --- Kamerunská republika --- Kāmīrūn --- Republic of Cameroon --- Republica de Camerún --- Rèpublica du Cameron --- Republiek van Kameroen --- Republik Kameroun --- Republik Kamerun --- Republika Kamerun --- République du Cameroun --- République fédérale du Cameroun --- République unie du Cameroun --- Rėspublika Kamerun --- State of Cameroon --- United Republic of Cameroon --- Рэспубліка Камерун --- Република Камерун --- Камерун (Republic) --- جمهورية الكاميرون --- كاميرون --- 喀麦隆 --- Cameroun --- Kamerun --- Religion --- Religious life and customs --- Social conditions --- Colonization --- 1900-1999 --- African Catholic. --- Africana Religions. --- Africana Studies. --- Charlotte Walker-Said. --- Christian Conversion. --- Christianity. --- City University of New York. --- Colonial Situation. --- Colonialism. --- Community Integrity. --- Community Resistance. --- Conjugal Complementarity. --- Cultural Transformation. --- Devotional Networks. --- Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon. --- Faith. --- Family Intimacies. --- Family Stability. --- Family. --- French Cameroon. --- History. --- Indigenous Ecclesiastical Hierarchies. --- Indigenous Religion. --- John Jay College. --- Kinship Ties. --- Power. --- Protestant Evangelists. --- Religious Leaders. --- Religious Transformations. --- Social Change. --- Social and Charitable Networks.