Michael Wolff: 40 books
After the Tall Timber
Collected Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. In her essays and long-form journalism, she has captured the cultural zeitgeist, distrusted the accepted wisdom, and written stories that would otherwise go untold. As a staff...
by Michael WOLFF
Language: French
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: June 6, 2019
Après le best-seller international Le Feu et la Fureur, voici la saison 2 de la présidence la plus extravagante de l'histoire des États-Unis.
Deux ans au sommet du monde n'ont pas assagi Donald Trump, plus impulsif et versatile que jamais. Mais la roue de la fortune a tourné : les procureurs...
Moving Every Child Ahead
From NCLB Hype to Meaningful Educational Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Acting as a counterbalance to the current unworkable law, this book proposes a more realistic way to achieve NCLB’s inspiring vision by ensuring the right to “meaningful educational opportunity” for all students. This timely volume tackles specific provisions in NCLB head-on, such as the popular,...
Talking Science
Language and Learning in Science Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
This book is about the fundamental nature of talk in school science. Language as a formal system provides resources for conducting everyday affairs, including the doing of science. And while writing science is one aspect, talking science may in fact constitute a much more important means by which...
Non Profit Law Yearbook 2013/2014
Das Jahrbuch des Instituts für Stiftungsrecht und das Recht der Non-Profit-Organisationen
Language: German
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Das Non Profit Law Yearbook 2013/2014 enthält folgende Beiträge:
- Michael Droege: Stiftungssteuerung durch Neuausrichtung der Stiftungsaufsicht
- Reinmar Wolff: Ein passendes Rechtskleid für kleinkooperative Vereinigungen? Zum Referentenentwurf eines Gesetzes zur Einführung der Kooperationsgesellschaft...
by Ring Bunsen, Pat Anne Sirs, Rachel Cassidy
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Twenty-one short stories - sometimes satirical, sometimes, frightening, and mostly humorous, imagining of life under President Donald Trump!
by Wolff-Michael Roth
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Psychology, quantitative or qualitative, tends to conceive of the human person using metaphysical concepts and to separate the practical, affective, and intellectual aspects of participation in everyday life. Lev S. Vygotsky, however, was working towards a "concrete human psychology," a...
Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication
A South African perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
To date, there has been no published textbook which takes into account changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society. Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication breaks new ground in this arena. The scope of this book ranges from macro-sociolinguistic questions pertaining...
Authentic School Science
Knowing and Learning in Open-Inquiry Science Laboratories
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
According to John Dewey, Seymour Papert, Donald Schon, and Allan Collins, school activities, to be authentic, need to share key features with those worlds about which they teach. This book documents learning and teaching in open-inquiry learning environments, designed with the precepts of these educational...
The Criminalization of States
The Relationship between States and Organized Crime
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
This volume examines the relationship between states and organized crime. It seeks to add to the theoretical literature for analyzing the criminalization of the state. The volume also explores the nature of organized crime in countries throughout the Americas from Central America to the Southern Cone.
Understanding Educational Psychology
A Late Vygotskian, Spinozist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book takes up the agenda of the late (but unknown) L. S. Vygotsky, who had turned to the philosopher Spinoza to develop a holistic approach to psychology, an approach that no longer dichotomized the body and mind, intellect and affect, or the individual and the social. In this approach, there...
Uncertainty and Graphing in Discovery Work
Implications for and Applications in STEM Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
This book deals with uncertainty and graphing in scientific discovery work from a social practice perspective. It is based on a 5-year ethnographic study in an advanced experimental biology laboratory. The book shows how, in discovery work where scientists do not initially know what to make of graphs,...
by Wolff-Michael Roth, Angela Calabrese Barton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Rethinking Scientific Literacy presents a new perspective on science learning as a tool for improving communities. By focusing on case studies inside and outside of the classroom, the authors illuminate the relevance of science in students' everyday lives, offering a new vision of scientific literacy...
Curriculum*-in-the-Making
A Post-constructivist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Curriculum*-in-the-Making theorizes about the living curriculum as an event that is in the making, for the enacted curriculum is something finished, which, only as an object, can be compared to another object. A living curriculum, understood as an event*-in-the-making, leads to a very different appreciation...