Elizabeth Meyer: 10 books
by Elizabeth Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Elizabeth Meyer’s “sweet, touching, and funny” (Booklist) memoir reads as if “Carrie Bradshaw worked in a funeral home a la Six Feet Under” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Good Mourning offers a behind-the-scenes look at a legendary funeral chapel on New York City’s Upper East...
Gender, Bullying, and Harassment
Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While there have been countless studies of bullying and harassment in schools, none have examined the key gender issues related to these behaviors. In her new book, Meyer does just that and offers readers tangible and flexible suggestions to help them positively transform the culture of their school...
A Tyranny of Petticoats
15 Stories of Belles, Bank Robbers & Other Badass Girls
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
From an impressive sisterhood of YA writers comes an edge-of-your-seat anthology of historical fiction and fantasy featuring a diverse array of daring heroines.
Crisscross America — on dogsleds and ships, stagecoaches and trains — from pirate ships off the coast of the Carolinas to the...
This America of Ours
The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America. Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin America's first Nobel Laureate in 1945. Ocampo, a stunning...
by Elizabeth J. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Issues related to gender and sexual diversity in schools can generate a lot of controversy, with many educators and youth advocates under-prepared to address these topics in their school communities. This text offers an easy-to-read introduction to the subject, providing readers with definitions and...
Alternative Approaches in Music Education
Case Studies from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Explore the creative ways music educators across the country are approaching emerging practices in music teaching and learning. Outlined in twenty-five unique case studies, each program offers a new perspective on music teaching and learning, often falling outside the standard music education curriculum....
New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy
The Play of Poiesis
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
This collection reflects on the theory and application of expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social and ecological change.
Bringing the understanding of expressive arts into its contemporary theoretical framework, the book reveals the expansion of the field from its initial...
Composing a Teacher Study Group
Learning About Inquiry in Primary Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
There has been a flurry of writing about teachers as inquirers and researchers as well as books about children as inquirers. This volume brings these two areas together -- teachers and students are inquiring at Ridgeway Elementary School. It demonstrates the importance of thought collectives as forums...
Gotas que agrietan la roca
Crónicas, entrevistas y diálogos sobre territorios y acceso a la justicia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Con un prólogo del nobel de literatura José Saramago, en este libro encontramos una serie de crónicas sobre la historia del Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo. 'Gotas que agrietan la roca' es una invitación a conocer esas "salas de urgencia" de la convulsa historia reciente...
Cristero, hombre de liberación
Memoria y raigambre identitaria en Cristóbal Acevedo Martínez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 8, 2017
A través del análisis de la historia de vida de Cristóbal Acevedo Martínez, hijo de Aurelio Acevedo Robles —un importante personaje implicado en la guerra cristera—, la autora presenta algunas de las experiencias y consecuencias de la Cristiada, un hecho que aún vive en la memoria colectiva...