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How do economic conditions such as poverty, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth impact youth violence? Economics and Youth Violence provides a much-needed new perspective on this crucial issue. Pinpointing the economic factors that are most important, the editors and contributors in this volume explore how different kinds of economic issues impact children, adolescents, and their families, schools, and communities. Offering new and important insights regarding the relationship between...
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Winner, 2016 Best Authored Book presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence This is what democracy looks like: Youth organizers in Colorado negotiate new school discipline policies to end the school to jail track. Latino and African American students march to district headquarters to protest high school closure. Young immigration rights activists persuade state legislators to pass a bill to make in-state tuition available to undocumented state residents. Students in an ESL class collect...
| Автор | Ben Kirshner |
The work of academics can matter and be influential on a public level, but the path to becoming a public intellectual, influential policy advisor, valued community resource or go-to person on an issue is not one that most scholars are trained for. The Public Professor offers scholars ways to use their ideas, research and knowledge to change the world. The book gives practical strategies for scholars to become more engaged with the public on a variety of fronts: online, in print, at council...
| Автор | M. V. Lee Badgett |
Explores the experiences of homeschooling mothers Mothers who homeschool their children constantly face judgmental questions about their choices, and yet the homeschooling movement continues to grow with an estimated 1.5 million American children now schooled at home. These children are largely taught by stay-at-home mothers who find that they must tightly manage their daily schedules to avoid burnout and maximize their relationships with their children, and that they must sustain a desire to...
| Автор | Jennifer Lois |
Beverly Naidus shares her passion and strategies for teaching socially engaged art, offering, as well, a short history of the field and the candid views of more than thirty colleagues. A provocative, personal look at the motivations and challenges of teaching socially engaged arts, Arts for Change overturns conventional arts pedagogy with an activist's passion for creating art that matters. How can polarized groups work together to solve social and environmental problems? How can art...
| Автор | Beverly Naidus |
Few world regions today are of more pressing social and political interest than the Middle East: hardly a day has passed in the last decade without events there making global news. Understanding the region has never been more important, yet the field of Middle East studies in the United States is in flux, enmeshed in ongoing controversies about the relationship between knowledge and power, the role of the federal government at universities, and ways of knowing “other”...
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That education should instill and nurture democracy is an American truism. Yet organizations such as the Business Roundtable, together with conservative philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Walmart’s owners, the Waltons, have been turning public schools into corporate mills. Their top-down programs, such as Common Core State Standards, track, judge, and homogenize the minds of millions of American students from kindergarten through high school. But corporate funders would not be able...
| Автор | Howard Ryan |
New revised 2020 version with bonus features<p>This hard-hitting verbatim play is based on a tragic drink drive accident that results in the death of the vehicle’s front seat passenger, Jo. Her sister Judy, driving the car, escapes physically unhurt – but can never escape the consequences of her own reckless behaviour.<p> Since its initial performances in 1987, Too Much Punch for Judy has toured non-stop all over the world to schools, colleges, prisons, young offenders’ institutes...
| Автор | Mark Wheeller |
Police officers, armed security guards, surveillance cameras, and metal detectors are common features of the disturbing new landscape at many of today’s high schools. You will also find new and harsher disciplinary practices: zero-tolerance policies, random searches with drug-sniffing dogs, and mandatory suspensions, expulsions, and arrests, despite the fact that school crime and violence have been decreasing nationally for the past two decades. While most educators, students, and...
| Автор | Aaron Kupchik |
Adult migrants who received little or no formal education in their home countries face a unique set of challenges when attempting to learn the languages of their new countries. Few adult migrants with limited or no literacy in their native languages successfully attain higher levels of literacy in their additional languages, even if they attain high levels of oral proficiency. This book, the result of a European- and United States-wide collaborative research project, aims to assist teachers...
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With beautifully crafted words and exuberant watercolor illustrations, Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty offers a poetic and empowering message for world peace. Recognizing «we are right on the edge of destroying ourselves,» this modern allegory inspires taking joyful steps to end violence. It expands upon the idea that «we are all in the circle together,» and presents a timeless parable for readers of all ages. The Haiku-like text delivers a call to «make a new earth grow beneath our...
| Автор | Anne Herbert |
Revised and updated 2020 version<p><i>Chequered Flags to Chequered Futures</i> tells the true story of Chris Gilfoy, the Rookie’s World Champion Banger Racer in 2000.<p>In 2006 Chris was being driven along a public road in a powerful BMW by a racing friend. She was thought to be driving at 90 mph in a 30 limit. None were wearing seatbelts and, unknown to Chris, the driver was uninsured. Disastrously, they crashed into a wall, narrowly avoiding killing another driver. The...
| Автор | Mark Wheeller |
New revised 2020 version<p> It’s Christmas. Tammy and Chris, cousins and best mates, are both thrilled to get cool new bikes. Give or take the odd unworn cycle helmet everything is great… that is until one morning when Chris has a puncture and Tammy agrees to walk with him. They’re late and in a hurry. They decide to race. Chris runs out across a busy main road and then flips open his smart phone to dare Tammy to do the same in front of a fast-approaching car…<p> ...
| Автор | Mark Wheeller |
Today's teachers face a daunting challenge: how to ensure a positive school experience for their students, many of whom carry the burden of adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse, poverty, divorce, abandonment, and numerous other serious social issues. Spurred by her personal experience and extensive exploration of brain-based learning, author Marilee Sprenger explains how brain science—what we know about how the brain works—can be applied to social-emotional...
| Автор | Marilee Sprenger B. |
Why do some conflicts escalate into violence while others dissipate harmlessly? Under what circumstances will people kill, and why? While homicide has been viewed largely in the pathological terms of «crime» and «deviance,» violence, Mark Cooney contends, is a naturally-occurring form of conflict found throughout history and across cultures under certain social conditions. Cooney has analyzed the social control of homicide within and across over 30 societies and interviewed several dozens of...
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This book follows four emergent bilingual students in an English-medium pre-kindergarten in the US as they navigate the social and linguistic demands of school. It illustrates how students’ differing classroom social positions shaped their participation in interaction and, in turn, their English language learning across a school year. With a unique focus on both processes and outcomes, the book highlights language strategies that are overlooked if the focus is solely on one language or on group...
| Автор | Katie A. Bernstein |
Beneficios al utilizar esta metodología: Presentar proyectos innovadores para participar en convocatorias estatales o nacionales.Presentar los resultados de su aplicación en congresos educativos en actividades como: trabajos de investigación, prácticas exitosas, taller o ponencia.Diseñar y presentar tesis de grado referida a temas sobre el juego y aprendizaje matemático.Realizar una presentación con el colectivo docente de los Consejos Técnicos Escolares para generar un proyecto escolar grupal...
| Автор | Horacio García Mata |
There is an urgent focus on education around the world, and this book is pushing directly into this territory. It will appeal to a wide range of readers – to anyone who is passionate about art and or education – and will have a strong international appeal as the contributors have international profiles and the book is poised to address global issues concerning contemporary art, education, and independent practice. In this collection of original essays, the writers engage with the work of the...
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El material desarrollado en este libro se divide en ocho cuentos fonéticamente balanceados que incluyen estímulos auditivos, pares mínimos, rimas, praxias faciales, labiales y linguales (para corregir patrones sistemáticos de error), breves diálogos por parte del narrador para ambientar cada narración y, en ese mismo sentido, la producción de fonemas como: oclusivo bilabial sordo y sonoro /p/ y /b/; oclusivo velar sordo y sonoro /k/ y /g/; oclusivo alveolar sordo /t/; fricativo labiodental y...
| Автор | Nicole García Romero |
Klassenlektüre und Textarbeit einfach gemacht: Die Reihe «Reclam XL – Text und Kontext» erfüllt alle Anforderungen an Schullektüre und Bedürfnisse des Deutschunterrichts: * Das Format ist größer als die gelben Klassiker der Universal-Bibliothek, mit ausreichend Platz für Notizen am Seitenrand. * Schwierige Wörter werden am Fuß jeder Seite erklärt, ausführlichere Wort- und Sacherläuterungen stehen im Anhang. * Zusatz-Materialien im Anhang erleichtern das Verständnis des Werkes und liefern...
| Автор | Wolfgang Borchert |
This edited volume brings together both established and emerging researcher voices from around the world to illustrate how complexity perspectives might contribute to new ways of researching and understanding the psychology of language learners and teachers in situated educational contexts. Chapter authors discuss their own perspectives on researching within a complexity paradigm, exemplified by concrete and original examples from their research histories. Moreover, chapters explore research...
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"Reclam Lektüreschlüssel XL" sind die idealen Helfer bei der Vorbereitung auf Unterrichtsstunden, Referate, Klausuren und Abitur − differenziert, umfangreich, übersichtlich! * Präzise Inhaltsangaben zum Einstieg in den Text * Klare Analysen von Figuren, Aufbau, Sprache und Stil * Zuverlässige Interpretationen mit prägnanten Textbelegen * Informationen zu Autor und historischem Kontext * Hilfreiche Infografiken, Abbildungen und Tabellen * Aktuelle Literatur- und Medientipps ...
| Автор | Bernd Völkl |
El padre Kentenich nunca deja de sorprender. Su visión de la realidad y ruta de progresión no queda entrampada en un par de décadas pretéritas. Siempre salta entre las líneas una novedad que responde hoy. El 'desafío social' que propuso a comienzos de los años 30, viene como anillo al dedo en esta etapa de resultados de los dos estereotipos –que no tienen por qué ser antagónicos- de una economía centralizada o de una sociedad del bienestar que configuran el perfil de las naciones....
| Автор | José Kentenich |
77 genial einfache Übungen rund um Zeichnen, Malen und Collage, zusammengestellt von der Illustratorin Katja Spitzer, laden zum kreativen Erfinden und Ausprobieren ein. Sie setzen auf Neugier, Fantasie und Originalität. Perfektionismus? – Hier lernt man anderes: Selbstvergessenheit und Konzentration, Schönes erkennen, Überflüssiges weglassen, Fehler machen und zulassen, Narration, Komposition, Technik … Gleichermaßen geeignet für Schülerinnen und Schüler der Sekundarstufe I und II,...
| Автор | Katja Spitzer |