Learning Moments Press: 6 books

This book offers teachers and teacher-educators an inspiring alternative to narrowly conceived prescriptions for instruction.  Through this collection of contemplative essays, the author explores the meaning of school classrooms as sacred spaces for nurturing student growth and learning.  Narrative...

At the age of 38, the author and her husband adopted an 11 year old boy.  During the early years of their life together, the author wrote short vignettes about moments that challenged her assumptions about parenting.  Many of the vignettes are reflections on ironic discrepancies between actually...

Marjorie Barrett Logsdon, a teacher of high school English literature and composition, explores the experiences that led to her decision to transform her authoritarian pedagogical practice. Believing that sharing power with students is more conducive to writing-as-process (as opposed to wrtiing-as-product),...

The death of an adult sibling precipitates a flood of emotions in the surviving sisters and brothers.  Feelings of grief are not easily "gotten over" in neatly ordered stages.  Neither are efforts to make sense of the loss and come to terms with an irreparable hole in one's family constellation....

In this book, scholar-practitioners offer alternatives to the five-chapter thesis crafted in the tradition of science reports. As authors of meritiorious and award-winning dissertations, they provide insights into the challenging process of conceptualizing interpretive methods of inquiry including...

This book challenges the traditional dichotomy between scholars and practitioners and argues that Scholar-Practitioner is a mindset that educators bring to their work. This mindset comprises six qualities that can be cultivated over the course of one's professional life: Pedagogical Wisdom, Theoretical...