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Manchester University Press Refiguring Childhood: Encounters with Biosocial
Book SynopsisRefiguring childhood stages a series of encounters with biosocial power, which is a specific zone of intensity within the more encompassing arena of biopower and biopolitics. Assembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present, taking hold of life in the form of childhood, thereby bridging being and becoming while also shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. Taking up a critical perspective that is attentive to the contingency of childhoods – the ways in which particular childhoods are constituted and configured – this book offers a transversal genealogy that moves between past and present while also crossing a series of discourses and practices framed by children’s rights (the right to play), citizenship, health, disadvantage, and entrepreneurship education. The overarching analysis converges on contemporary neo-liberal enterprise culture, which is approached as a conjuncture that helps to explain, and also to trouble, the growing emphasis on the agency and rights of children. It is against the backdrop of this problematic that the book makes its case for refiguring childhood, focusing on the how, where and when of biosocial power.Table of Contents1 Introduction: biosocial power and normative fictions2 Governing the future: childhood between the prior to and the not yet3 The playground as biosocial technology4 The right to play and the freedom to pay5 Empowering the young citizen6 Childhood as a national asset: the medical and moral framing of ‘health’7 Disadvantaged childhoods and the neuroliberal fix8 Casting the subject of enterprise: children as ‘architects of their futures’9 Refiguring childhoodIndex
£76.50
Cengage Learning, Inc Teaching for Student Learning
Book SynopsisTEACHING FOR STUDENT LEARNING: BECOMING A MASTER TEACHER, Fourth Edition, offers practical tools, skills and advice that pre-service and in-service teachers can implement immediately. Written by a team of experienced educators and authors, this trusted text promotes ambitious and powerful teaching and high levels of engagement and interaction. Ideal for both current and aspiring educators, this innovative text helps readers achieve their goals by focusing on essential teaching tasks and covering topics such as instruction, assessment and classroom management. The text also aids in teacher preparation by emphasizing get-the-job-done problem-solving skills and focused advice. Modules are presented in an easy-to-read and -reference format, giving readers ready access to the fundamental information and professional insights today's teachers need to succeed. The current edition also features a strong focus on interactivity, with videos embedded directly within the eBook to facilitate multimTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Reflective Teaching for Student Learning. 2. Understanding Student Differences. 3. Teaching Every Student in Your Classroom. 4. Responsive Classroom Environments. 5. Planning Instruction. 6. How to Teach. 7. Assessing Student Learning. 8. Understanding School Culture. 9. School Effectiveness: Governance, Funding and Oversight. 10. Educational Law and the Ethics of Teaching. 11. Professionalism in Teaching and The First Year.
£59.84
John Wiley & Sons Inc Building Character in Schools Resource Guide
Book SynopsisOffers school administrators and teachers a practical handbook for developing, assessing, improving, and institutionalizing character education in their schools.Table of ContentsPreface xi 1 Character Education: What Is It and Why Is It Important? 1 2 Views, Values, or Virtues 10 3 Building a Community of Virtue 30 4 Cultivating Character Through the Curriculum 38 5 Engaging Parents in Character Education 51 6 The Teacher's Work: Nurturing Character 64 7 Helping Students Take Command 74 Appendices Part 1: Good Ideas 83 A The Character Education Manifesto 85 B Character Education Reading List 89 Appendices Part 2: Action Strategies 93 C Internalizing Virtue: An Instructional and Schoolwide Framework 95 D 100 Ways to Bring Character Education to Life 97 E Friendship and Character in Film 105 F Virtue in Action: A K-8 Guide 107 G Helping Younger Students Understand the Virtue of Respect 109 H Columbine Elementary School, Grades K-5: Personal and Social Responsibility Standards 111 I Stepping Stone Activities for Grade 7: Justice 119 J Benjamin Franklin Classical Character School Discipline Reflection Form 121 K Sample Survey of Perceived School Environment: For Teachers, Parents, and Students 123 Appendices Part 3: Curriculum 127 L The Great depression: learning Courage and Hopw 129 M Sojourner's Example: Developing Courage 131 N Peppe the Lamplighter: Envisioning Diligence 135 O Developing a Yearlong Theme: Our Choices Reveal Our Character 139 P Elizabeth Barker, Prison Educator: Thinking About Choice 143 Notes 149 The Authors 153 Index 155
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Cengage Learning, Inc Those Who Can Teach
Book SynopsisThinking about entering the field of teaching? When you enter a teacher education program, be sure to read THOSE WHO CAN, TEACH, 14th Edition. This book's state-of-the-art and reader-friendly approach will help you make an informed decision about becoming a teacher while inspiring and welcoming them to a rewarding, high-impact career. Using multiple sources, including biographies, narratives, profiles, and interviews with top educators and scholars, the text shows you the realities of teaching. Written by an acclaimed author team, the book's direct, conversational tone invites you to reflect on the satisfactions and problems of teaching in the United States, and casts a teaching career as a positive challenge.Table of ContentsPreface. So Let's Get Started. Part I: SCHOOL AND STUDENTS. 1. Why Teach? 2. What Is a School and What Is It For? 3. Who Are Today's Students in a Diverse Society? 4. What Social Problems Affect Today's Students? 5. What Is Taught? Part II: TEACHERS. 6. What Makes a Teacher Effective? 7. What Should Teachers Know about Technology and Its Impact on Schools? 8. What Are the Ethical and Legal Issues Facing Teachers? Part III: FOUNDATIONS AND THE FUTURE. 9. What Are the Philosophical Foundations of American Education? 10. What Is the History of America's Struggle for Educational Opportunity? 11. How Are Schools Governed, Influenced, and Financed? 12. How Should Education Be Reformed? Part IV: THE TEACHING PROFESSION. 13. What Are Your Job Options in Education? 14. What Can the New Teacher Expect? 15. What Does It Mean to Be a Professional? Before You Close the Book. Appendix. Endnotes. Glossary. Index.
£75.99
Turner Publishing Company Almost Home Helping Kids Move from Homelessness
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Bernard Babani Publishing Build Your Own Website with WordPress
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Tuttle Publishing Happiness and Virtue Beyond East and West: Toward
Book SynopsisDiscover global perspectives on happiness through this series of essays.Happiness and Virtue Beyond East and West presents an important series of essays from Japanese and American authors that examine essential virtues shared by both Eastern and Western cultures. Its ultimate goal is for happiness to be realized in a globally and socially responsible manner.Each chapter examines the importance of one of nine virtues:Courage Justice Benevolence Gratitude Wisdom Reflection Respect Responsibility TemperanceThese essays demonstrate that the virtues and happiness associated with living a good life know no national boundaries. It is the sincere hope of the editors and authors that this book will help its readers re-examine the timeless question of what constitutes true happiness and will therefore play some part in increasing international cooperation and good will.Perfect for readers interested in transculturalism, Happiness and Virtue Beyond East and Westis a thorough examination of global perspectives on happiness.Trade Review"Scholars from two universities, one in Boston USA and the other Kashiwa Japan, engage in paired reflections on nine virtues: courage, justice, benevolence, gratitude, wisdom, reflection, respect, responsibility and temperance. Characteristic differences of emphasis emerge, but in a spirit of complementarity not conflict. The substance of each virtue is vividly conjured in story--mythological, historical or biographical. The coherence of the end result is the more remarkable given twelve contributors. They explore the grounding of our shared humanity with its respective debt to Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian sources or to Buddhist, Confucian and Shinto ones. There is challenge here for both education and living." --Dr. Brian Gates, Emeritus Professor of Religious & Moral Education, University of Cumbria"This book is testament to the scholarship, excellence and collaborative spirit of the authors. I recommend it to those who wish to improve the quality of their lives and are willing to commit to the practice of kindness in their thoughts and courage in their actions. My hope is that this book will become a widely acknowledged, international reference used to educate and influence generations of youth. They need to appreciate that true improvement is the ethical implementation of knowledge, and differs from the misused term of 'progress' which is often the installation of technical advances for short term institutional profitability." --Professor Thomas Martin, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research), Australian Catholic University"In this unique and splendid contribution to cross-cultural understanding, nine virtues∙courage, justice, benevolence, gratitude, wisdom, reflection, respect, responsibility, and temperance--are reflected upon by scholars from Reitaku University and Boston University. Preceded by two excellent introductory essays and followed by an insightful conclusion, the nine chapters each treat a virtue, first from an Eastern and then a Western perspective. The Japanese writers emphasize the relational self, moral causality and one's responsibility to the community; the American writers, the autonomous self, pragmatic altruism and one's own character development. The result of the dialogical collaboration is a shared vision and deeper awareness of the rich network of interdependence that links us with others and with nature; and that reminds us of our moral duty to act for the common good." --Michael Palencia-RothTrowbridge Scholar in Literary Studies, Emeritus Professor of Comparative & World Literature, The University of Illinois
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