Janet Bruce: 13 books
by Janet Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
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Makers
A History of American Studio Craft
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Here is the first comprehensive survey of modern craft in the United States. Makers follows the development of studio craft--objects in fiber, clay, glass, wood, and metal--from its roots in nineteenth-century reform movements to the rich diversity of expression at the end of the twentieth century.
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So Much Better
How Thousands of Pastors Help Each Other Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Meant to both inspire and inform pastoral leaders, So Much Better examines the impact of peer group participation on pastoral leaders, their families, and ministries.
This book goes beyond numbers and data by breathing life into the statistical bones. At this book's heart are seven peer group...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
by Hilary Bergsieker, Daniele Conversi, Emilian Kavalski
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Nationalism remains one of the key political, societal, and sociopsychological phenomena in contemporary Europe. Its significance for the justification of state policies and the stability of political systems, particularly in the context of advanced democracies, and its significance for people's basic...
by Bill Thrall, John Lynch, Bruce McNicol
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Parenting begins with us, the parents. It always involves earning our children's trust. Whether we are overwhelmed at being parents, planning to be parents, reacting to our parents, or learning to stand with our kids as they now parent, we need to know there is always a way home, convinced God is...
Understanding the Power and Politics of Public Education
Implementing Policies to Achieve Equal Opportunity for All
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Understanding the Power and Politics of Public Education researches the history and trends of educating the populace in the United States. Demographic changes and socio-economic diversity have altered the needs for traditional approaches. Policy makers are implored to become familiar with proven educational...
Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience
A socio-cultural and critical guide to action
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience the stories of 60 graduate teachers are documented as they grapple with some of the most persistent and protracted personal and professional struggles facing teachers today. Narratives emerge detailing feelings of frustration, disillusionment and even outrage...
Early Career Teachers
Stories of Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
This book addresses one of the most persistent issues confronting governments, educations systems and schools today: the attraction, preparation, and retention of early career teachers. It draws on the stories of sixty graduate teachers from Australia to identify the key barriers, interferences and...
Blurring The Lines
Charter, Public, Private and Religious Schools Come Together
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book, Blurring the Lines, has immediate appeal to policymakers, and analysis in public and private sectors, as well as legal scholars and practitioners. It will be of interest, too, to university teachers working in the areas of "School Law," "School Policy and Politics,"...
Education is Special for Everyone
How Schools can Best Serve all Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Reform in education has focused mainly on development of new programs and procedures to increase the achievement of the student in the classroom. Teacher evaluations are now based on how students perform in their classrooms on yearly standardized tests. The advent of integrating students with special...
Researching Conflict, Drama and Learning
The International DRACON Project
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
This book offers a comprehensive and critical guide to research and practice in the field of arts education and conflict management. The DRACON project explores the relationship between drama and conflict transformation. This international, interdisciplinary and comparative action research project,...
Getting and Keeping New Teachers
Six Essential Steps from Recruitment to Retention
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Retaining new teachers has never been easy and when the teachers are on the fast track in urban settings, turnover and retention are real problems. This book examines how schools can work to recruit, support, and somehow hold on to new teachers, many of whom have only limited formal preparation and...