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Part two, "Changing the Rules of Learning," looks at applying the ideas of mob rule to the learning process and to the classroom.
Mob Rule Learning: Camps, Unconferences, and Trashing the Talking Head
In this work, readers will also explore the workings of criminal masterminds struggling to rise up to power and how in the world of mob rule, everything is not what it seems.
Mafia Book Portrays the Deviant Face of Sex, Drugs and Violence
But now mob rule has ended, the chants have faded and another special session has been called.
Guest Column: When Mob Rule Overwhelmed Democracy
In the second half, she discusses learning environments in higher education and organizations, staff training and continuing education, how the idea of mob rule is changing how people learn and how to create this type of learning, and the benefits and challenges of moving beyond traditional classroom ideas, with case studies of universities.
Mob rule learning; camps, unconferences, and trashing the talking head
To this day, historians are unable to measure accurately the toll of this terrible and cowardly act of mob rule against innocent black people in the history of this country.
A heinous act: lynching is America's dirty secret of racial injustice and hatred
One such man warned us, "We can't have the country run by mob rule.
Foreign control of America
Democracy without discipline can incite mob rule and anarchy,'' he warned.
Myanmar leader says democracy to be smoothly implemented
The story is always the same: Periodically, a mainstream newspaper or magazine will run a "barbarians at the gate" story about blogs as purveyors of misinformation, calumny, and digital mob rule, and the Web will respond by summoning the unquiet ghost of disgraced New York Times reporter Jayson Blair and scoffing at the mainstream media's obvious fear of competition.
Smears in cyberspace: blogs and media ethics
Wells's On Lynchings: Southern Horrors, A Red Record, and Mob Rule in New Orleans (1892, 1969), Ralph Ginsburg's 100 Years of Lynching (1976), and photography collections such as James Allen's Without Sanctuary (2000), graphic photos and detailed newspaper documentations of the brutality of lynching assaulted the public eye throughout the 1920s and '30s.
Art, activism, and uncompromising attitude in Georgia Douglas Johnson's lynching plays
It is therefore a great disappointment to me that the city council has so pathetically stood aside and allowed mob rule to force the cancellation of the play Behzti.
Perspective: Your views on Behzti
They quoted Tanaka as saying, ''People who describe decision-making involving prefectural residents as mob rule or populism had better go to a place like North Korea.
Nagano assembly demands Gov. Tanaka apologize for remark
It also tells the story of conflict between the rule of law versus mob rule, and the importance of a free press in exposing social injustice.
From Canterbury to Little Rock: The Struggle for Educational Equality for African Americans. Teaching with Historic Places

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