Best of
Education

1993

The Book of Virtues


William J. Bennett - 1993
    Bennett's bestselling The Book of Virtues is an inspiring anthology that helps children understand and develop moral character—and helps parents teach it to them.Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from history. William J. Bennett has collected hundreds of stories in The Book of Virtues. From the Bible to American history, from Greek mythology to English poetry, from fairy tales to modern fiction, these stories are a rich mine of moral literacy, a reliable moral reference point that will help anchor our children and ourselves in our culture, our history, and our traditions—the sources of the ideals by which we wish to live our lives. Complete with instructive introductions and notes, The Book of Virtues is a book the whole family can read and enjoy—and learn from—together.

Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, [Book, CD & DVD]


Donald R. Bear - 1993
    I use Words Their Way both in my first grade classroom and with college students as a way to implement word study. ""Kristi McNeal, CSU Fresno" Words Their Way's developmentally-driven, hands-on instructional approach has been a phenomenon in word study, providing a practical way to study words with students. The keys to this research-based approach are to know your students' literacy progress, organize for instruction, and implement word study. This streamlined book and the DVD and CD-ROM that accompany it gives you all the tools you need to carry out word study instruction that will motivate and engage your students, and help them to succeed in literacy learning. Ordered in a developmental format, Words Their Way complements the use of any existing phonics, spelling, and vocabulary curricula." ""Knowing Your Students"Streamlined Chapter 2 provides step by step guidelines for assessing students. NEW Words Their Way Word Study Resources CD: Assessment Planning and Additional Interactive Word Sorts contains computerized assessments to gauge students' developmental levels. Word Study with English Learner sections in each chapter help you organize and adapt instruction to meet the needs of students whose first language is not English. "Organizing for Instruction"NEW Words Their Way DVD Tutorial: Planning for Word Study in K-8 Classrooms reinforces and illustrates classroom organization and management, as outlined in Chapter 3. Word Study Routines and Management sections in every chapter give you practical guidance on managing and implementing word study in your classroom. NEW Tech Notes throughout chapters pinpoint opportunities for you to use the DVD and CD-ROM to prepare for instruction. "Implementing Word Study "Classroom-proven, research-driven activities end each developmental chapter, giving you the instructional practices to get your word study instruction up and running immediately. NEW Words Their Way Word Study Resources CD: Assessment Planning and Additional Interactive Word Sorts provides more than just assessments. You'll also find hundreds of additional word and picture sorts, games and templates, and an interactive Create Your Own section. The Appendix at the back of the book contains a comprehensive bank of word lists, word sorts, picture sorts, games and templates." ""The theory behind and practice for word sorts allows even the novice teacher to understand how to use the assessments to organize instruction. The organization of the last five chapters creates a useful resource for teachers. Each begins with a research-based description and moves into sound instructional practices, giving the teacher a complete understanding of how to meet the needs of students. ""Cathy Blanchfield, CSU Fresno "" ""Meet the Authors"Donald Bear is Director of the E.L. Cord Foundation Center for Learning and Literacy at the University of Nevada, Reno, assessing and teaching students who experience difficulties learning to read and write. A former preschool and elementary teacher, Donald currently researches literacy development with a special interest in students who speak languages other than English, and he partners with schools and districts to consider assessment and literacy instruction. Marcia Invernizzi is Director of the McGuffey Reading Center at the University of Virginia exploring developmental universals in non-English orthographies. A former English and reading teacher, Marcia works with children experiencing difficulties learning to read and write in intervention programs such as Virginia's Early Intervention Reading Initiative and Book Buddies. Shane Templeton is Foundation Professor of Literacy Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. A former classroom teacher at the primary and secondary levels, he researches the development of orthographic and vocabulary knowledge Francine Johnston is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she teaches reading, language arts, and children's literature. A former first-grade teacher and reading specialist. Interested in extending your Words Their Way training? Learn more about the new Online Workshop at www.pearsoncourseconnect.com/wtw.

Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes


Alfie Kohn - 1993
    We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales commissions) in front of people in much the same way we train the family pet. Drawing on a wealth of psychological research, Alfie Kohn points the way to a more successful strategy based on working with people instead of doing things to them. "Do rewards motivate people?" asks Kohn. "Yes. They motivate people to get rewards." Seasoned with humor and familiar examples, Punished By Rewards presents an argument unsettling to hear but impossible to dismiss.

The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections


Carolyn Edwards - 1993
    Over the past forty years, educators there have evolved a distinctive innovative approach that supports children's well-being and fosters their intellectual development through a systematic focus on symbolic representation. Young children (from birth to age six) are encouraged to explore their environment and express themselves through many languages, or modes of expression, including words, movement, drawing, painting, sculpture, shadow play, collage, and music. Leading children to surprising levels of symbolic skill and creativity, the system is not private and elite but rather involves full-day child care open to all, including children with disabilities.This new Second Edition reflects the growing interest and deepening reflection upon the Reggio approach, as well as increasing sophistication in adaptation to the American context. Included are many entirely new chapters and an updated list of resources, along with original chapters revised and extended. The book represents a dialogue between Italian educators who founded and developed the system and North Americans who have considered its implications for their own settings and issues. The book is a comprehensive introduction covering history and philosophy, the parent perspective, curriculum and methods of teaching, school and system organization, the use of space and physical environments, and adult professional roles including special education. The final section describes implications for American policy and professional development and adaptations in United States primary, preschool, and child care classrooms.

Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground (Critical Studies in Russian Literature)


Richard Arthur Peace - 1993
    A full bibliography is included.

The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children


Gloria Ladson-Billings - 1993
    Through the stories and experiences of eight successful teacher-transmitters, The Dreamkeepers keeps hope alive for educating young African Americans. --ReverAnd Jesse L. Jackson, president and founder, National Rainbow Coalition In this beautifully written book Ladson-Billings illustrates the inspiring influence of a select group of teachers who keep the dreams alive for African American students. ?Henry M. Levin, David Jacks professor of Higher Education, Stanford University Ladson-Billing's portraits, interwoven with personal reflections, challenge readers to envision intellectually rigorous and culturally relevant classrooms that have the power to improve the lives of not just African American students but all children.

Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays


Thomas Sowell - 1993
    Sowell challenges all the assumptions of contemporary liberalism on issues ranging from the economy to race to education in this collection of controversial essays, and captures his thoughts on politics, race, and common sense with a section at the end for thought-provoking quotes.

The Power of Reading: Insights from the Research


Stephen D. Krashen - 1993
    Krashen also explores research surrounding the role of school and public libraries and the research indicating the necessity of a print-rich environment that provides light reading (comics, teen romances, magazines) as well as the best in literature to assist in educating children to read with understanding and in second language acquisition. He looks at the research surrounding reading incentive/rewards programs and specifically at the research on AR (Accelerated Reader) and other electronic reading products.

The Science of Love


John Baines - 1993
    Book by Baines, John

Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth & Midsumr Night'


William Shakespeare - 1993
    This text includes provocative essays written by scholars to refresh both teacher and student, successful and understandable techniques for teaching through performance, and teaching methods that engage students at all levels.

Open Space Technology: A User's Guide


Harrison Owen - 1993
    Written by the originator of the method - an effective, economical, fast, and easily-repeatable strategy for organizing meetings of between 5 and 1,000 participants - this is the first book to document the rationale, procedures, and requirements of OST. OST enables self-organizing groups of all sizes to deal with hugely complex issues in a very short period of time. This practical, step-by-step user's guide details what needs to be done before, during, and after an Open Space event.

Acts of Teaching: How to Teach Writing - A Text, a Reader, a Narrative


Joyce Armstrong Carroll - 1993
    While maintaining the best of Acts, Acts II moves the paradigm into the global age. Comprehensive, innovative, and practical, and with forewords by two of the most noted scholars in the field, Janet Emig and Edmund J. Farrell, this text offers educators a powerful approach to teaching writing. Rather than repetitive exercises, it focuses on engagement and interaction so students grapple with words and experiences to make meaning.In Acts II the writing process and assessment gain a new dimension. Recent research supports its content and strategies while cognitive development and neurological theories, early literacy, inquiry, and writing as a mode of learning across all disciplines and grade levels have been invigorated. Topics include students, shifts and skills for the global age, the writing process, and assessment, three chapters on how to teach grammar within the writing process, collaboration, post writing, and publishing. This book meets the needs of anyone writing or teaching writing. Grades PreK-12.

Basic Grammar in Use Without Answers: Reference and Practice for Students of English [With CD (Audio)]


Raymond Murphy - 1993
    Each unit in the Basic Grammar in Use Student's Book is presented in a two-page spread, with simple, clear explanations on the left-hand page and practice exercises to check understanding on the right. This edition includes an Audio CD with example sentences, 10 units of new material, more exercises per unit, and a section of Additional Exercises, which give students the opportunity to consolidate what they have learned. Basic Grammar in Use, Second Edition, can be used as a class text or for self-study. A Student's Book with an answer key is also available.

The Lexical Approach: The State of ELT and a Way Forward


Michael Lewis - 1993
    THE LEXICAL APPROACH develops current thinking, synthesizing the best insights of previous theory, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and modern approaches to grammar.

Reading Recovery


Marie M. Clay - 1993
    Children entering the "Reading Recovery" program are those from ordinary classes who have the most difficulty in reading and writing after one year at school.Since the "Reading Recovery" program is different for every child, the implementation of a successful program requires thorough teacher training. Using the child's competencies as a starting point, the program advances toward what the child is trying to accomplish. The teaching, therefore, must be individually designed and individually delivered. Using the guidelines in this book, teachers learn how to provide each child with an intensive program of daily instruction which supplements the regular class instruction activities.The goal of "Reading Recovery" is to help children acquire efficient patterns of learning to enable them to work at the average level of their classmates and to continue to progress satisfactorily in their own school's instructional program. When recognized training accompanies the use of procedures contained in this book, success rates are consistently high and surprising.

Radical Reflections: Passionate Opinions on Teaching, Learning, and Living


Mem Fox - 1993
    The internationally acclaimed children’s book writer and educator offers her insights into the learning process, language education, and the pleasure, growth, and power that reading and writing can bring.

Leipzig Connection (Basics in Education)


Paolo Lioni - 1993
    A latter-day disciple, B. F. Skinner, later wrote the book "Beyond Freedom and Dignity," arguing that such ancient conceptions as these are luxuries our brave new world can no longer afford. Another ardent follower--John Dewey, the "Father of American education"--took the new radical German redefinition of education to mean the reprograming of young brains and nervous systems, and applied it to his self-appointed task of creating in America the ideal socialist state. John D. Rockefeller, for purposes of his own, bankrolled what was in effect a hostile take-over of our educational establishment. "The Leipzig Connection" is a startling account of how and why these things came about. It lays out in concise detail the story of the development of the educational malaise which we have unknowingly dropped our children into, explaining not only declining SAT scores and the phenomenon of high school graduates who are barely literate, but also symptoms even more sinister: violence, prostitution and drug dealing in the schools, the self-mutilation of tattooing and body piercing, and teenage suicide.

Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes


Mary Santella-Johnson - 1993
    

CITIZENS RULE BOOK, A Palladium of Liberty


Webster Adams - 1993
    The fireworks are in the document itself: READ THE CONSTITUTION! WARNING: This document may be hazardous to bad laws. Courts may not welcome or approve of these truths, neither are they to be construed as legal advice. Therefore, to act on these facts is to do so at your own risk or opportunity.

An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement


Marie M. Clay - 1993
    It has introduced thousands of teachers to ways of observing children's progress in the early years of learning about literacy. It has also helped them determine which children need supplementary teaching. Now the revised Second Edition updates this important sourcework with new data, ideas, and implementations from U.S. and U.K. classrooms.

What Your 6th Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Sixth-Grade Education


E.D. Hirsch Jr. - 1993
    Grade by grade, these groundbreaking and successful books provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of a good education for first to sixth graders.B & W photographs, linecuts, and maps throughout; two-color printing.

The Joy of Inspired Teaching


Tim Lautzenheiser - 1993
    

To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience


Adalbert de Vogüé - 1993
    Monasticism appears to have abandoned it almost completely. It is said that modern men and women cannot fast as the ancients did. Is this true? Adalbert de Vogue, Benedictine monk and hermit, tried the ancient schedule for meals and found it liberating. In this book he traces the history, of fasting in Christian and other traditions, and shares his experience.

ACSM's Resource Manual for Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription


American College of Sports Medicine - 1993
    It provides readers with the necessary background information to address the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) set forth in ACSM's Guidelines. New topics covered and those with increased emphasis include assessment of physical activity, applied exercise programming, arthritic diseases and conditions, neuromuscular diseases and exercise, and more.

Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar


Gareth King - 1993
    Focusing on contemporary spoken Welsh, this new enlarged edition features a substantial new function-based section, explaining and exemplifying a wide range of sentence and phrase patterns. Notes on variations between dialects and between spoken and formal written forms have also been expanded.The Grammar presents the complexities of Welsh in a concise and readable form. Common grammatical patterns and parts of speech are discussed in detail, and extensive cross-references make the book comprehensive and easy to use.Features include*full use of authentic examples*particular attention to areas of confusion and difficulty*extensive index and cross referencing*initial consonant mutations marked throughout*separate additional section on communicative functions*notes on variation between dialects and on formal written language.

College Match: A Blueprint for Choosing the Best School for You!


Steven R. Antonoff - 1993
    With thousands of schools to choose from, how can students be sure they are applying to the "right" ones? College Match combines easy-to-use worksheets and loads of practical advice to guide students through the complicated process, and make sure they find the best school for them! About the Author: Steven Antonoff is the former Dean of Admission at the University of Denver, and past-President of the Independent Educational Consultants Association.

Exceptionally Gifted Children


Miraca U.M. Gross - 1993
    This new edition reviews these early years but also follows the young people over a subsequent 10 years into adulthood." No previous study has traced so closely and so sensitively the intellectual, social and emotional development of highly gifted young people. This twenty-year study reveals the ongoing negative, academic and social, effects of prolonged under-achievement and social isolation imposed on gifted children by inappropriate curriculum and class placement and shows clearly the long lasting benefits of thoughtfully planned individual educational programs. The young adults of this study speak out and show how what happened in school has influenced and still influences many aspects of their lives. Miraca Gross provides a clear, practical blueprint for teachers and parents who recognize the special learning needs of gifted children and seek to respond effectively.

Bridging English


Joseph O. Milner - 1993
    This book has been praised for its unique components: discussion of "four stages" of reading texts and "three phases" of teaching texts. The authors' many years of experience teaching English are obvious throughout the material, but nowhere more so than in their straightforward presentation of organization and planning for instruction and their firm stand on teaching grammar. This book covers the challenging and the controversial in English instruction and explores censorship, national standards, high-stakes testing, multi-lingual students, and multicultural literature. For professionals in the field of teaching.

Counseling the Gifted and Talented


Linda Kreger Silverman - 1993
    It presents a developmental model to enable counselors to orchestrate a program of prevention rather than remediation. It also provides specific strategies for individual and group counseling.

Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks


Arthur T. Benjamin - 1993
    Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and amazing number tricks. This book will teach you to do math in your head faster than you ever thought possible, dramatically improve your memory for numbers, and—maybe for the first time—make mathematics fun.Yes, even you can learn to do seemingly complex equations in your head; all you need to learn are a few tricks. You’ll be able to quickly multiply and divide triple digits, compute with fractions, and determine squares, cubes, and roots without blinking an eye. No matter what your age or current math ability, Secrets of Mental Math will allow you to perform fantastic feats of the mind effortlessly. This is the math they never taught you in school.Also available as an eBook

Fantasy Literature for Children and Young Adults: A Comprehensive Guide


Ruth Nadelman Lynn - 1993
    Librarians can build their collections and advise readers with Lynn's comprehensive guide, describing and categorizing fantasy novels and story collections published between 1900 and 2004. More than 7,500 titles--nearly 2,800 new to this volume--for readers grades 3-12 are organized in chapters based on fantasy subgenres and themes, including animal, alternate worlds, time travel, witchcraft, and sorcery. Lynn provides complete bibliographic information, grade level, a brief annotation, and a list of review citations, and notes recommended titles.

Toe by Toe: A Highly Structured Multi-sensory Reading Manual for Teachers and Parents


Keda Cowling - 1993
    Having four young children my time is limited and so many other systems seemed to ask the impossible - and to blame you as a parent if you were simply unable to provide the sort of help that really only parents of only children can! This system is different. Yes, you do need a few minutes of peace a day, but even I can do that. There is no huge barrier to overcome - it starts with the letters of the alphabet and moves on not step by step but as it says toe by toe. After three weeks on the system my son gained nearly six months in reading age and better still he looked forward to doing his exercises each day. I showed him the end of the book and explained that reading that was where we were going to get to - together, toe-by-toe. He wantes to make it and he can see that he can do it - little by little. Now we are two months in - we haven't reassessed his reading age but he read a whole page of Harry Potter to himself recently, just like his friends do. Nine weeks ago he couldn't read the word 'dam' or 'set'. He seems six inches taller almost! This has a lot to do with the fact that the book also implicitly boosts self confidence - there are no huge gaps to fill, and the exercises are each only minutely more advanced than the previous one so there is a good deal of familiar territory mixed in with the new things. I simply have no criticisms for this book. As far as I am concerned this book is IT for dyslexia. Buy it and use it!

Signs and Symbols: African Images in African-American Quilts


Maude Southwell Wahlman - 1993
    200 color photos.

Activities That Teach: Students Learn Best By Doing!


Tom Jackson - 1993
    These activities cover topics such as alcohol and drug prevention, communication, problem solving, working together, decision making, self esteem, character, goal setting, anger management, stress management, peer pressure, etc. These activities have worked successfully with inner city, suburban and rural kids whether they are at-risk or gifted students. The activities are designed for grades three through twelve. The activities require very little in the way of preparation and materials. You won't spend a lot of time getting them together or a lot of money buying supplies. Feedback from those who work with kids has been extremely positive and kids love participating because they are non-threatening, safe and most of all fun. You won't find any worksheets or word search papers in this book. It is full of activities that will get them engaged in their own learning process and will help them internalize the concept you are teaching. Use the activities as stand-alone modules or to add some spice to lesson plans you already teach. The activities have been helpful for those in the classroom, after-school programs, camps, church groups, scouts, mental health centers, counseling groups, etc. Each activity comes with the teaching concept explained, materials needed, activity described and suggested questions listed. Most of the activities are from 5 minutes to 30 minutes in length. Enjoy! Show More Show Less

My First Dictionary: 1,000 words, pictures, and definitions


Betty Root - 1993
    Children's Book of the Month Club Selection

Exploring Orff: A Teacher's Guide


Arvida Steen - 1993
    How can I form a curriculum that addresses my students' needs? How can I choose the best materials for my lessons from the abundance of materials avaliable? How can I plan lessons from the abundance of materials avaliable? How can I plan lessons that have a clear focus and are also open to frequent student contributions? "Exploring Orff" addresses these critical questions. Acknowledgements * Preface * Introduction * Planning your Curriculum * Lesson Planning * Kindergarten * First Grade * Second Grade * Third Grade * Fourth Grade * Fith Grade * Conclusion: Artistry in the Classroom * Appendices * Alphabetical Listing of Suggested Additional Resources * Indes * Sources

Materials and Methods in ELT


Jo McDonough - 1993
     Offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to central themes in the principles and practice of Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language. Features a number of new sections, including task-based learning, the use of the internet, and teacher-research, as well as new samples from current teaching materials. Includes an appendix with a selected list of key websites for teachers and students. This second edition has been completely revised and updated.

The Original 21 Rules of This House


Gregg Harris - 1993
    

The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer


Seymour Papert - 1993
    In The Children's Machine he now looks back over a decade during which American schools acquired more than three million computers and assesses progress and resistance to progress.

Spitwad Sutras: Classroom Teaching as Sublime Vocation


Robert Inchausti - 1993
    It provides a framework for stripping away the external and personal pressures that bleed intellectual content out of classroom teaching so that teachers may, in fact, experience their vocation as sublime. Written in the novelistic first-person narrative, it is a seasoned teacher's story of his initiation from graduate student at the University of Chicago to ninth-grade teacher in a Catholic high school where he manned the battle lines in provincial, petty, sometime even violent world of American secondary school. It is also the story of how a certain Brother Blake, a 67-year-old practitioner of the pedagogy of the sublime, passed on his vision of classroom teaching as a sublime vocation. A major contribution to the field by the acclaimed author of The Ignorant Perfection of Ordinary People.

All about Cotton: A Fabric Dictionary & Swatchbook


Julie Parker - 1993
    A detailed description of each fabric is illustrated with a real cloth sample, right there on the same page, which clarifies in the simplest way what a broadcloth, poplin, seersucker or voile actually looks and feels like. A comprehensive introduction covers fiber characteristics, history of cotton, the main sources of cotton and the cotton textile industry, followed by two-page descriptions of the main fabric types, each illustrated with a 2-1/2 x 4 cloth sample and simple black-and-white drawings. In the back of the book, space is provided for the reader to collect additional fabric samples and record personal notes, followed by a list of mail-order sources, glossary, bibliography and index. The 40 cotton fabric samples are packaged separately, layered in the same order as they appear in the book. It takes only a few minutes to mount the samples to the book's pages, using double-stick tape or a small spot of glue. Instructions are included. Samples include: batik, batiste, broadcloth, calico, canvas, chambray, chenille, chino, chintz, corduroy, damask, denim, dotted Swiss, double knit, drill, duck, eyelet, flannel, gauze, gingham, interlock, jersey, lawn, Madras, monk's cloth, muslin, organdy, osnaburg, oxford cloth, piqu , pliss , poplin, sateen, seersucker, shirting, terry cloth, ticking, twill, velveteen, voile. All About Cotton is packed with information about the different weaves, yarns and finishes used to make cotton fabrics. Terms such as pima cotton, combed cotton, Egyptian cotton, Sea Island cotton and Peruvian cotton are clearly explained. A must for anyone who works with fabric! The Fabric Reference Series has been featured in Crafter's Choice, a division of Book-of-the-Month Club. Other books in the series include All About Silk, with 32 silk samples, and All About Wool, with 35 wool samples.

The Peaceable Classroom


Mary Rose O'Reilley - 1993
    For Mary Rose O'Reilley it was a question that would not go away; The Peaceable Classroom records one attempt to answer it. Out of her own experience, primarily as a college English teacher, she writes about certain moral connections between school and the outside world, making clear that the kind of environment created in the classroom determines a whole series of choices students make in the future, especially about issues of peace and justice.Animated throughout by the spirit of the personal essayist, The Peaceable Classroom first defines a pedagogy of nonviolence and then analyzes certain contemporary approaches to rhetoric and literary studies in light of nonviolent theory. The pedagogy of Ken Macrorie, Peter Elbow, and the National Writing Project is examined. The author emphasizes that many techniques taken for granted in contemporary writing pedagogy -- such as freewriting and journaling -- are not just educational fads, but rather ways of shaping a different human being. "Finding voice," then, is not only an aspect of writing process, but a spiritual event as well. To find voice, and to mediate personal voice in a community of others, is one of the central dialectics of the peaceable classroom.The author urges teachers to foster critical encounters with the intellectual and spiritual traditions of humankind and to reclaim the revolutionary power of literature to change things.

Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School


Anne Haas Dyson - 1993
    This two-year ethnographic study of K-3 children focuses on six students who would normally be deemed "at-risk" and who do not tell stories in the written language format valued by most early literacy educators. Their literacy learning, particularly their writing development, is portrayed as a social process in a complex social world. Dyson's key theme is the link between composing a text and composing a place in this social world.

Sociology in Question


Pierre Bourdieu - 1993
    This volume offers an accessible but challenging introduction to Bourdieu′s ideas. In a series of discussions, lectures and interviews, the range of Bourdieu′s ideas is laid out and its relation to other disciplines and other sociological schools is explored. The issues developed include the sociology of culture, leisure and taste; the intrinsic reflexivity of social science; and the role of language in society and social sciences.

Lectures on the Icosahedron and the Solution of the Fifth Degree


Felix Klein - 1993
    Divided into two parts-"Theory of the Icosahedron" and "The Theory of Equations of the Fifth Degree"-The Icosahedron covers: . the regular solids and the theory of groups . introduction of (x + iy) . statement and discussion of the fundamental problem, according to the theory of functions . the algebraical character of the fundamental problem . general theorems and survey of the subject . the historical development of the theory of equations of the fifth degree . introduction of geometrical material . the canonical equations of the fifth degree . the problem of the A's and the Jacobian equations of the sixth degree . the general equation of the fifth degree Complete with detailed equations and instructive material, The Icosahedron will be valued by experts in higher mathematics and students of algebra alike. German mathematician FELIX KLEIN (1849-1925) specialized in function theory, group theory, and non-Euclidean geometry. His published works include Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Arithmetic, Algebra, Analysis; Elementary Mathematics from an Advanced Standpoint: Geometry; and Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry.

Medicinal Plants Coloring Book


Ilil Arbel - 1993
    Even such familiar “weeds” as the dandelion have their palliative uses. This informative coloring book, featuring 44 accurate drawings by botanical illustrator Ilil Arbel, focuses on such medicinal plants from around the world as foxglove, belladonna, mayapple, valerian, dandelion, chamomile, quinine, arnica, burdock, tamarind, lobelia, and many more. Each illustration is accompanied by an informative caption outlining the plant's coloration and physical characteristics, geographic distribution, and medicinal uses. Invaluable as an identification guide and pictorial reference, this volume will appeal to colorists of all ages as well as to artists and crafters in need of royalty-free plant illustrations.

Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past And Present


Alice Walker - 1993
    

A Post-Modern Perspective on Curriculum


William E. Doll Jr. - 1993
    In this book on the post-modern perspective on the curriculum, the author asserts that the post-modern model of organic change is not necessarily linear, uniform, measured and determined, but is one of emergence and growth, made possible by interaction, transaction, disequilibrium and consequent equilibrium. Transformation, not a set course, the book argues, should be the rule, and open-endedness is an essential feature of the post-modern framework. In the book, the author envisages a curriculum in which the teacher's role is not causal, but transformative. The curriculum is not the race course, but the journey itself; metaphors can be more useful than logic in generating dialogue in the community; and educative purpose, planning and evaluation is flexible and focused on process, not product.

Atomic Harvest: Hanford and the Lethal Toll of America's Nuclear Arsenal


Michael D'Antonio - 1993
    Photos.

How to Reach and Teach Children with ADD/ADHD: Practical Techniques, Strategies, and Interventions


Sandra F. Rief - 1993
    In addition, the book contains best teaching practices and countless strategies for enhancing classroom performance for all types of students. This invaluable resource offers proven suggestions for:Engaging students' attention and active participation Keeping students on-task and productive Preventing and managing behavioral problems in the classroom Differentiating instruction and addressing students' diverse learning styles Building a partnership with parents and much more.

Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football With an updated preface


Murray A. Sperber - 1993
    . .tackles the details, great and small, unearthing a treasure." —New York Times Book ReviewShake Down the Thunder traces the history of the Notre Dame football program—which has acquired almost mythical proportions—from its humble origins in the 19th century to its status as the paragon of college sports. It presents the true story of the program's formative years, the reality behind the myths. Both social history and sports history, this book documents as never before the first half-century of Notre Dame football and relates it to the rise of big-time intercollegiate athletics, the college sports reform movement, and the corrupt sporting press of the period. Shake Down the Thunder is must reading for all Fighting Irish fans, their detractors, and any reader engaged by American cultural history.

African Americans ~ Voices of Triumph ~ Perseverance ~ Songhai Empire * Slavery & Abolition * Surge Westward * Soldiers in the Shadows * Advocates for Change


Time-Life Custom Publishing - 1993
    167,000 first printing. $300,000 ad/promo.

Functional Assessment and Program Development for Problem Behavior: A Practical Handbook


Robert E. O'Neill - 1993
    Professionals and students alike will appreciate the way the authors help readers learn to conduct functional assessments and develop their own intervention programs.

Goofy Mad Libs


Roger Price - 1993
    The idea is simple. Someone asks for a part of speech: a verb, a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. We've included definitions and examples of the parts of speech in case you've forgotten. Players call out their ideas to fill in the blanks and in the end, you have a story reeling from one silly sentence to another until nothing makes sense. That's what you call a Mad Lib®, the world's greatest word game. Players have been howling with friends or laughing all to themselves for over 35 years!

Mister Rogers' Plan and Play Book


Patricia Honisek - 1993
    The book contains over 300 pages of clearly written and illustrated easy-to-do activities. Each activity is designed to complement the more than 500 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood television programs broadcast on your Public Television station. The book also includes: descriptions of each of the television programs; words to many of the songs from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; a special section with recipes and how-to's, and much more!

We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico (Repertorium Columbianum, Vol. 1)


James Lockhart - 1993
    We People Here reflects that concern, bringing together important and revealing documents written in the Nahuatl language in sixteenth-century Mexico. James Lockhart's superior translation combines contemporary English with the most up-to-date, nuanced understanding of Nahuatl grammar and meaning.The foremost Nahuatl conquest account is Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex. In this monumental work, Fray Bernardino de Sahagun commissioned Nahuas to collect and record in their own language accounts of the conquest of Mexico; he then added a parallel Spanish account that is part summary, part elaboration of the Nahuatl. Now, for the first time, the Nahuatl and Spanish texts are together in one volume with en face English translations and reproductions of the copious illustrations from the Codex. Also included are five other Nahua conquest texts. Lockhart's introduction discusses each one individually, placing the narratives in context.

CliffsAP English Literature and Composition


Allan Casson - 1993
    Review exercises, realistic practice exams, and effective test-taking strategies are the key to calmer nerves and higher AP* scores.CliffsAP English Literature and Composition is for students who are enrolled in AP English or who are preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination in English Literature and Composition. Inside, you’ll find hints for answering the essay and multiple-choice sections, a clear explanation of the exam format, a look at how exams are graded, and more: Six full-length practice tests An in-depth look at the types of literature covered by the exam Study strategies to help you prepare Comparison of this exam to the AP Language and Composition exam Explanation of how AP exams relate to college credits Sample questions (and answers!) and practice tests give you the best preparation bang for your buck, so that you'll have plenty of time left to read more of the literature that this exam is really all about. CliffsAP English Literature and Composition includes the following material to help you succeed: Poetry and prose analysis techniques Sample student essays How to approach the open essay question Definitions and terms used in AP Literature exams Actual passages used in previous exams Recommended authors to study for the exam This comprehensive guide offers a thorough review of key concepts and detailed answer explanations. It’s all you need to do your best — and get the college credits you deserve. *Advanced Placement Program and AP are registered trademarks of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse this product.

National Parks Coloring Book


Peter F. Copeland - 1993
    Today there are 50 national parks within the United States, encompassing an extraordinary diversity of terrain, animal life, and vegetation. From the dry deserts of Big Bend National Park in Texas to the icy wilderness of Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska, the wonderful natural heritage of America’s national parks is yours to color and enjoy in this exciting coloring book. Among the other parks features are Grand Canyon, Everglades, Great Smoky Mountains, Mammoth Cave, Petrified Forest, and many more. In addition to Peter Copeland’s detailed, carefully researched drawings, you’ll also find informative captions describing distinguishing features of each park, its wildlife, plants, and available activities for visitors. The result is not only an enjoyable and informative coloring book, but also a useful survey of the major attractions of these splendid preserves.

From the Child's Point of View


Denny Taylor - 1993
    Taylor's collection of related essays demonstrates the tremendous potential for real learning and real understanding when teachers sit side by side with their students and view the world from their perspective.

The Herb Walk


Learta A. Moulton - 1993
    She describes in botanical terms what the plants look like and explains a little about their medicinal properties.

Educational Psychology: Effective Teaching, Effective Learning


Stephen N. Elliot - 1993
    This updated text aims to arm students with the current, practical knowledge they need to become effective teachers through a case study approach, and real life context.

The Poetics of the Common Knowledge


Don Byrd - 1993
    This book is a call literally for a new poetry, a new making, that manifests the possibility for sense-making in a postmodern condition without universals or absolutes. In such a poetry, fragmentation bespeaks not brokenness but the richness of the world apprehended without the habits of recognition.

The Exhausted School: Bending The Bars Of Traditional Education


John Taylor Gatto - 1993
    Written by award-winning teachers and their students, these essays present successful teaching methods that work in both traditional and nontraditional classroom settings. Gattos voice is strong and unique. Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul

Active Parenting Today's Parent's Guide: For Parents of 2-12 Years Old


Michael H. Popkin - 1993
    Michael Popkin, founder and president of Active Parenting Publishers and one of the nation's foremost experts on parent education, shows you how to develop courage, responsibility and self-esteem in your children.

Pre K-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide


Project Learning Tree - 1993
    Birds and Worms. Pollution Search. These are some of the 96 hands-on interdisciplinary activities in PLT's PreK-8 guide. The PreK-8 Guide covers such topics as water and air quality, ecology, urban environments, and recycling. See the Topic Index from the PreK-8 Guide for a complete listing of activities that address various topics.Education ConnectionsThe guide is designed to meet the common components of national education reform by using the constructivist approach to learning, whole language teaching, cooperative learning, problem solving, and authentic assessments.In many states, the PreK-8 Guide and the secondary modules have been correlated to state learning standards. At the national level, the curriculum has been correlated to the National Science Standards, National Social Studies Standards, Excellence in EE Guidelines, and Girl Scout (badge) program activities.Before making the guide widely available, PLT commissioned a formal evaluation. The results confirmed that PLT is effective in helping students become more environmentally literate citizens.What's Inside the GuideThe activities are organized into five main themes: diversity, interrelationships, systems, structure and scale, and patterns of change.The guide is designed so you can use a single activity or many over the course of a quarter or school year. Each activity includes an overview, background content, a teachers' step-by-step guide, and provides: * Grade level recommendations * Incorporating subjects, such as math or language arts * Concepts, skills, and curriculum objectives * Needed materials, many of which are easy to obtain, free or low-cost * A timeline - how long it will take to prepare and conduct the activity * Related Activities * Assessment opportunities for students * Reproducible student pages (for most activities) that are also available in Spanish (for editions prior to 2006) * Reading Connections listed at the end of each activity * Technology Connections in most activities * Differentiating Instruction enhancements The PreK-8 Guide also featuers 16 Appendices that contain additional resources and other helpful information. One example includes advice for Teaching Controversial Issues.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Guide for Using in the Classroom


Concetta Doti Ryan - 1993
    "Curriculum connections, vocabulary, unit tests, critical thinking"--Cover.

Commonsense Methods for Children with Special Educational Needs


Peter Westwood - 1993
    Not only must teachers understand and accept students with disabilities and learning problems, but they must also possess a wide range of teaching and management strategies. Similar knowledge and skills are also required by classroom assistants and other personnel working in a support role in schools. This book offers sound practical advice on assessment and intervention based on the latest research evidence from the field.This fully revised and updated sixth edition includes chapters on:general and specific learning difficulties students with autism intellectual, physical or sensory impairments self-regulation social skills behaviour management literacy and numeracy curriculum adaptation teaching methods.In addition, the book presents a new chapter on the special needs of gifted and talented students.The practical advice the author gives throughout the book is embedded within a clear theoretical context supported by current research and classroom practice.

Basic Needs: A Year With Street Kids In A City School


Julie Landsman - 1993
    

What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Fifth-Grade Education


E.D. Hirsch Jr. - 1993
    With sixteen pages of full-color illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and a thoroughly updated curriculum, What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know, Revised Edition, reflects the Core Knowledge Foundation's ongoing commitment to providing a solid educational foundation for today's elementary school students.What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know, Revised Edition, covers the basics of language arts, history and geography, visual arts, music, math, and science. A collection of American speeches, tales from around the world, math problems, and biographies of famous scientists add to the book's usefulness and enhance the pleasure of both adult and child as they work together. Hundreds of thousands of children have benefited from the Core Knowledge Series. This revised edition gives a new generation of fifth graders the knowledge they need to make progress in school and establish an approach to learning that will last a lifetime.

Experience & Art: Teaching Children to Paint


Nancy R. Smith - 1993
    To deepen children's understanding, the book suggests meaningful tasks for each phase of imagery and offers methods for encouraging children to discuss the concepts involved in their work. Focusing on children from 1-1/2 to 11, the authors include in this second edition: a more detailed discussion about painting in the preschool; an expanded description of techniques effective in motivating five- and six-year-olds; and a stronger emphasis on painting as a more central, rather than occasional, activity in all classrooms.

Playing Boal


Jan Cohen-Cruz - 1993
    It explores the possibilities of these tools for "active learning and personal empowerment; co-operative education and healing; participatory theatre and community action."This collection is designed to illuminate and invigorate discussion about Augusto Boal's work and the transformative potential of theatre. It includes two interviews with Boal, and two pieces of his own writing.

Paulo Freire: Pedagogue of Liberation


John L. Elias - 1993
    Presenting an analytical and critical study of the contemporary adult educator, Paulo Freire, this book deals with all aspects of his thought, placing at the centre of consideration his educational philosophy.

The Green Sprout Journey: Exploring Home-based, Ecological Activities with Children


Satoko Chatterjee - 1993
    

Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets


John P. Kretzmann - 1993
    A revolutionary approach to improving one's community through local institutions, including the parish.

Climbing Rock and Ice: Learning the Vertical Dance


Jerry Cinnamon - 1993
    The book includes up-to-date information on techniques, knots, equipment, belaying, leading, anchor systems, steep ice, avalanches, and climbing leadership. Twenty-five years ago, rock and ice climbers were considered eccentrics, dare-devils, or lunatics. Now, climbing is a major growth area in outdoor sports, and the ever-increasing numbers of climbers have moved from fringe to mainstream. A recent survey of outdoor enthusiasts showed that over 4 million people in the U.S. climbed rock and mountains in 1991.

The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance


K. Anders Ericsson - 1993
    In most domains of expertise, individuals begin in their childhood a regimen of effortful activities (deliberate practice) designed to optimize improvement. Individual differences, even among elite performers, are closely related to assessed amounts of deliberate practice. Many characteristics once believed to reflect innate talent are actually the result of intense practice extended for a minimum of 10 yrs. Analysis of expert performance provides unique evidence on the potential and limits of extreme environmental adaptation and learning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)

Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education


David Elkind - 1993
    

Winnie & Charlotte: A Study Guide for Children for Charlotte's Web, Winnie-The-Pooh & the House at Pooh Corner (Classics at Home Series)


Ann Ward - 1993
    Includes suggestions for further learning and discussion questions based on readings from the Bible.

Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 1993 Edition


Charles Brooks - 1993
    Sparks from the Rodney King trial set fires throughout Los Angeles as rioters took to the streets. A basketball championship led to an overtime of overturning police cars in the Windy City, while critics accused the White House of turning a deaf ear on the civil war in Yugoslavia and U.N. relief missions to Sarajevo were met by gunfire and shelling.Back at home, the rights of women were a continuing issue as allegations of sexual harassment forced resignations from the Navy, and Olympic heroes brought home world records and gold medals from Barcelona and Albertville.These are just a few of the subjects satirized, analyzed, and characterized by some of the world's top editorial cartoonists. For more than twenty years, The Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Series has been one of the nation's most-read collections with nearly 200,000 copies in print. This latest addition to the series continues to present the best of the award-winners, the newcomers, and not-yet-famous. From the editorial page at the breakfast table to the pages of this compilation, the featured cartoons and their artists are sure to inspire and humor readers.Aimed at readers with a comic sense of history and those in the political know, The Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Series is also a must for libraries, schools, and classrooms that teach current events. Often funny, but at times sobering, the collection of works in this latest edition recount the events of 1992 with clarity, creativity, and endless chuckles.ABOUT THE EDITOREditor Charles Brooks is past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and was a cartoonist for the Birmingham (AL) News for thirty-eight years. He has been the recipient of thirteen Freedom Foundation awards, a national VFW award, two Vigilante Patriot awards, and a Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial cartooning. Brooks' cartoons appear in more than eighty books, including textbooks on political science, economics, and history, as well as encyclopedias and yearbooks. His original cartoons are on display in the archives of many libraries.

The Princeton Review Grammar Smart CD: An Audio Guide to Perfect Usage (LL(R) Prnctn Review on Audio)


Julian Fleisher - 1993
    but the way you put them together says even more. Your grammar makes an immediate -- and lasting -- impression on friends, co-workers, and teachers.   Unfortunately, learning the nuts and bolts of English usage has always been boring. That's why the folks at The Princeton Review created Grammar Smart, a witty, irreverent, even entertaining approach to grammar that will help you write and speak with clarity and confidence. Grammar Smart will teach you how to choose between that and which, decide when to use like instead of as, and know for sure if this is between you and I or between you and me.   The Princeton Review, the nation's leader in test preparation, based the Grammar Smart cassette program on its revolutionary courses and best-selling study guides.Here's what GRAMMAR SMART includes: The basic parts of speech -- nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. Pronoun-verb agreement, parallel construction Misplaced modifiers, dangling participles Lively, humorous examples and stories to illustrate correct usage Brief, interactive question-and-answer reviewsAlso available from Living Language and The Princeton Review: WORD SMART cassettes

Developing Through Relationships


Alan Fogel - 1993
    Alan Fogel demonstrates that human development is driven by a social dynamic process called co-regulation—the creative interaction of individuals to achieve a common goal. He focuses on communication—between adults, between parents and children, among non-human animals, and even among cells and genes—to create an original model of human development. Fogel explores the origins of communication, personal identity, and cultural participation and argues that from birth communication, self, and culture are inseparable. He shows that the ability to participate as a human being in the world does not come about only with the acquisition of language, as many scholars have thought, but begins during an infant's earliest nonverbal period. According to Fogel, the human mind and sense of self start to develop at birth through communication and relationships between individuals. Fogel weaves together theory and research from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and cognitive science. He rejects the objectivist perspective on development in favor of a relational perspective: to treat the mind as an objective, mechanical thing, Fogel contends, is to ignore the interactive character of thinking. He argues that the life of the mind is a dialogue between imagined points of view, like a dialogue between two different people, and he uses this view to explain his relational theory of human development. Developing through Relationships makes a substantial contribution not only to developmental psychology but also to the fields of communication, cognitive science, linguistics, and biology.

Approaches to Teaching Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (Approaches to Teaching World Literature (Paperback))


Diane Long Hoeveler - 1993
    Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text. Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, student teachers, education specialists, and teachers in all humanities disciplines will find these volumes particularly helpful.

The Myth of Race/The Reality of Racism


Mahmoud El-Kati - 1993
    In this second edition, El-Kati adds several key essays addressing ideas that are often confusing to many such as nationality, culture and ways to address "man's most dangerous myth"-race. His critical analysis of race, racism and the doctrine of white supremacy provide profound insight into the destruction caused to human dignity and the impact on society's growth.

Social Skills Activities for Special Children


Darlene Mannix - 1993
    For all teachers of children with special needs, here are 142 ready-to-use lessons and reproducible line master activity sheets to help children become aware of acceptable social behavior and develop proficiency in acquiring basic social skills.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Level 2: 2,100 Word Vocabulary


D.H. Howe - 1993
    Readability has been ensured by means of specially designed computer software. Words that are above level but essential to the story are explained within the text, illustrated, and then reused for maximum reinforcement.

Math Smart (Princeton Review Series)


Marcia Lerner - 1993
    A decimal here and an exponent there and they've gone from a balanced checkbook to a multi-trillion-dollar national debt. That's why The Princeton Review created Math Smart.Math Smart's approach is easy to follow. It will show readers how to perform basic math operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Once they've got that down, The Princeton Review will teach them how to handle the scary stuff like exponents, square roots, geometry, and algebra.How does Math Smart work? It teaches user-friendly techniques that break down complicated problems and equations into their basic parts. Readers won't waste their time memorizing dozens of long formulas and equations.

Cracking the Armour: Power, Pain and the Lives of Men


Michael Kaufman - 1993
    

Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools


Lois Weis - 1993
    They explore the policies and practices of structuring exclusions; they listen hard to youth living at the margins of race, class, ethnicity, and gender; and they wrestle with fundamental inequalities of space in order to educate for change. Written from the perspective of researchers, policy analysts, teachers, and youth workers, the book reveals a shared belief in education that could be, and a shared concern about schools that currently reproduce class, race and gender relations, and privilege.

Implicit Learning and Tacit Knowledge: An Essay on the Cognitive Unconscious


Arthur S. Reber - 1993
    Implicit learning is defined as the acquisition of knowledge that takes place independently of theconscious attempts to learn and largely in the absence of explicit knowledge about what was acquired. One of the core assumptions of this argument is that implicit learning is a fundamental, root process, one that lies at the very heart of the adaptive behavioral repertoire of every complexorganism. The author's goals are to outline the essential features of implicit learning that have emerged from the many studies that have been carried out in a variety of experimental laboratories over the past several decades; to present the various alternative perspectives on this issue that havebeen proposed by other researchers and to try to accommodate these views with his own; to structure the literature so that it can be seen in the context of standard heuristics of evolutionary biology; to present the material within a functionalist approach and to try to show why the experimentaldata should be seen as entailing particular epistemological perspectives; and to present implicit processing as encompassing a general and ubiquitous set of operations that have wide currency and several possible applications. Chapter 1 begins with the core problem under consideration in this book, a characterization of implicit learning as it has come to be used in the literature. Reber puts this seemingly specialized topic into a general framework and suggests a theoretical model based on standard heuristics of evolutionary biology. In his account, Reber weaves a capsule history ofinterest in and work on the cognitive unconscious. Chapter 2 turns to a detailed overview of the experimental work on the acquisition of implicit knowledge, which currently is of great interest. Chapter 3 develops the evolutionary model within which one can see learning and cognition as richlyintertwining issues and not as two distinct fields with one dominating the other. Finally, Chapter 4 explores a variety of entailments and speculations concerning implicit cognitive processes and their general role in the larger scope of human performance.

American, African, and Old European Mythologies


Yves Bonnefoy - 1993
    These volumes reproduce the articles, introductory essays, and illustrations as they appeared in the full Mythologies set, and each includes a new Preface by Wendy Doniger.This volume gathers eighty articles on mythologies from around the world. A section on the Americas and the South Pacific covers myths of native Americans, from the Inuit to the Mesoamericans, about such topics as the cosmos, fire, and the creation of the world. Essays on African mythology range from the 266 basic signs of West Africa to themes such as twins, the placenta, and masks. The final section, covering Celtic, Norse, and Slavic traditions opens with an overview of the Indo-Europeans and concludes with an essay on the religion and myths of Armenia.

Special Educational Needs: A Guide for Inclusive Practice


Lindsay Peer - 1993
    Covering contemporary policy issues, perspectives from practice and a range of common syndromes and barriers Special Educational Needs presents a wealth of information and guidance for students and professionals on how to achieve effective, inclusive practice.Second edition features include:·        fully revised annotated further readings and links to useful websites;·        a new chapter on Autism and Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)·        a new chapter on Down Syndrome·        updated reference to legislation, including the SEND Code of Practice (2014)·        updated case studies covering 0-18 age rangeThis comprehensive course text is ideal for students, teachers, practitioners and specialists, and provides a solid foundation for understanding and supporting learners with additional needs.

Race, Identity, and Representation in Education


Cameron McCarthy - 1993
    New chapters take into account the more current backdrop of globalization, particularly events such as 9/11, and attendant developments that make a reconsideration of race relations in education quite urgent.

Teaching Secondary Students Through Their Individual Learning Styles: Practical Approaches for Grades 7-12


Rita Dunn - 1993
    This book is designed to assist teachers, administrators, college professors, and parents to discover the learning style of each youngster and then to suggest practical approaches for teaching students through their individual learning style strengths.

Gender Basics: Feminist Perspectives on Women and Men


Anne Minas - 1993
    Feminist in approach, the topics and writings focus on the experiential basics of readers' lives. The articles are varied but offer unity in that raising one issue brings to mind other articles in the collection. Minas includes writings by thoughtful men and women who exhibit awareness in reacting to the feminist perspective.

Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies


Henry A. Giroux - 1993
    Giroux, Ava Collins, Nancy Fraser, Carol Becker, bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, Roger I. Simon, Chandra Talpede Mohanty, Simon Watney, Michele Wallace, Peter McLaren, David Trend, Abdul R. JanMohamed and Kenneth Mostern.

The History and Folklore of North American Wildflowers


Timothy Coffey - 1993
    This highly entertaining reference book presents the popular lore, social history, and practical uses of nearly seven hundred native flowers.

Foundation Mathematics


Dexter J. Booth - 1993
    For use either as a self-teaching text or to accompany a lecture course, this book encourages mathematical understanding and develops manipulative skills through many worked examples, self-tests questions and exercises. This second edition includes many small improvements throughout the text and a new chapter on sets and probability providing the background to a course on statistics.

Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations


Gavriel Salomon - 1993
    This book reexamines the nature of cognition and proposes that a clearer understanding of human cognition would be achieved if it were conceptualized and studied as distributed among individuals; knowledge is socially constructed through collaborative efforts toward shared objectives within cultural surroundings, and that information is processed among individuals and the tools and artifacts provided by culture. The contributors to this thought-provoking text enhance their arguments by offering examples from daily life and educational activities. Researchers in a number of social and scientific fields will welcome this book.

Playing for Their Lives


Dorothy G. Singer - 1993
    Presents stories of troubled children drawn from the author's private therapy practice, showing the effects of common social problems on children and explaining how they can be healed.

Talking Science: Language, Learning, and Values


Jay L. Lemke - 1993
    It identifies and analyzes the many strategies teachers and students use to communicate about science and to influence one another's beliefs and behavior. Special emphasis is placed on analyzing patterns of social interaction, the role of language and semantics in communicating scientific concepts, and the social values and interests which lie behind these patterns of communication. Working from transcripts of recordings made in real science classrooms, this volume goes beyond previous work on the organization of classroom discourse to show how the conceptual content of a specialized subject is actually communicated through the semantic patterns that teachers and students weave with language. Modern techniques of discourse analysis are used to place the communication of science in the context of classroom lessons, debates, and disruptions. Critical analysis further shows how a mystique of science is perpetuated in classrooms and identifies the hidden social interests it serves.