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by Jim Peters and Ian Thurlow
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2003
Be constructive. The Building Resiliency series takes a strengths-based approach that will help teachers gain an understanding of resiliency and how to build and nurture it. It works on the premise that resiliency-based practices assist young people to direct their energies towards achieving...
by Glynis Kozma
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Moving out for the first time is an exciting experience – but it also takes a lot of organisation. So how can you make sure your first solo move runs smoothly?
This easy-to-read guide will take you through the entire process: from working out what you can afford and deciding whether to...
Learner's Privilege and Responsibility
A Critical Examination of the Experiences and Perspectives of Learners from Chinese Backgrounds in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book is about the learner side of the teaching and learning equilibrium, centering on the educational experiences and perspectives of Chinese students in the United States. These students ranged from kindergarteners, adolescents, undergraduate, graduate, to adult learners, across the educational...
The Science Education of American Girls
A Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The Science Education of American Girls provides a comparative analysis of the science education of adolescent boys and girls, and analyzes the evolution of girls' scientific interests from the antebellum era through the twentieth century. Kim Tolley expands the understanding of the structural and...
Necessary Spaces
Exploring the Richness of African American Childhood in the South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In Necessary Spaces: Exploring the Richness of African American Childhood in the South, Saundra Murray Nettles takes the reader on a journey into neighborhood networks of learning at different times and places. Using autobiographical accounts, Nettles discusses the informal instructional practices...
Integrating Prosocial Learning with Education Standards
School Climate Reform Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Integrating Prosocial Learning with Education Standards demonstrates how to meet educational standards that privilege cognitive aspects of learning while also advancing prosocial or Whole Child efforts (e.g., social emotional learning, character education, and mental health promotion). The book utilizes...
Education Unchained
What it takes to Restore Schools and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Are we going about education the wrong way? The somewhat shocking demonstration of this book is that "we" simply cannot reform "our" schools "together". We don't actually even know what schools or education really are. Education can only be improved the same way we improve...
African Students Studying in America
Their Experiences and Adjustment Problems at an Hbcu
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
This book explores the adjustment problems and experiences of international students who have studied in the United States of America.
First, it examines the varied adjustments that international students have had to deal with in general, and second, it investigates the experiences of African...
African American Males and Education
Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps. This book emerges at a time when new social dynamics of race and other identities are shaping, but also shaped by, education. Educational settings consistently perpetuate racial...
The Company He Keeps
A History of White College Fraternities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Tracing the full history of traditionally white college fraternities in America from their days in antebellum all-male schools to the sprawling modern-day college campus, Nicholas Syrett reveals how fraternity brothers have defined masculinity over the course of their 180-year history. Based on extensive...
Getting the Best Out of College, Revised and Updated
Insider Advice for Success from a Professor, a Dean, and a Recent Grad
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
I WISH I’D KNOWN THAT IN COLLEGE
Your time as an undergrad has the potential to be incredibly fun, rewarding, and life changing in ways you may not yet even imagine–that is, if you play your cards right and take full advantage of what your university has to offer. Sadly, very few students ever...
Self-Smart
The Little Book with Big Ideas to Help Kids Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Kids today are at risk for becoming disconnected from their own learning and even from themselves in the high-pressure academic culture they're steeped in. Geared for high school students but useful for college undergraduates as well, this book will give budding young adults the opportunity to catch...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Initiative inédite, motivée par l’expression des attentes et besoins concrets des doctorants, cet ouvrage s’est fixé comme objectif de donner aux doctorants en sciences humaines et sociales de fin de 1ère année (et au-delà), un ensemble construit d’outils transversaux, théoriques, méthodologiques...
How to Become Inspired and Inspirational
The Importance of Nurturing Talent
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Your Community Of Educational Helpers: How To Become Inspired And Inspirational is a source of information to help allow enough time and space for you to develop your talent above and beyond your regular day of responsibilities. You can feel that you are accomplishing something just for yourself....