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Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief by Edited by Dennis Klass, Phyllis R. Silverman, Steven L. Nickman
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Series in Death Education, Aging & Health Care
This book gives voice to an emerging consensus among bereavement scholars that our understanding of the grief process needs to be expanded. The dominant 20th century model holds that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, thereby freeing the survivor to reinvest in new re ...Show more
Creativity Crisis: Toward a Post-Constructivist Educational Future by Robert Nelson
Category: Australiana | Series: Education Ser.
In Creativity Crisis, Robert Nelson argues that university education is systematically uncreative and suggests how this might be changed. Constructive alignment, the centrepiece of today's university pedagogy, promotes mechanistic thinking and the anxious gathering of manipulative skills. Learning happe ...Show more
Dance-Play and Drawing-Telling As Semiotic Tools for Young Children's Learning by Jan Deans; Susan Wright
Category: Parenting Pregnancy Childbirth | Series: Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education Ser.
Investigating children's learning through dance and drawing-telling, Dance-Play and Drawing-Telling as Semiotic Tools for Young Children's Learning provides a unique insight into how these activities can help children to critically reflect on their own learning. Promoting the concept of dance and drawin ...Show more
Dealing with Difficult People by Dr. Rick Brinkman & Dr. Rick Kirschner
Category: Business | Series: McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series
"Dealing with Difficult People" provides specific strategies and actions you can take to understand difficult people, recognize why they act the way they do, and influence them to change their behavior toward the positive. Written by Doctors Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner, today's most respected autho ...Show more
Defiance - Secrets of Your Midlife Crisis by Louise L. Kallaway
Category: Self Help & Personal Development | Series: Life Education Ser.
Designing Courses for Higher Education by Susan Toohey
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Society for Research into Higher Education Ser.
* What issues need to be considered in designing a course or unit of study in higher education? * Who should be involved in designing a course, and how can they best work together? * What should students get out of a course? Susan Toohey focuses not on teaching techniques but on the strategic decisions ...Show more
Digital Divas : Putting the Wow into Computing for Girls by Julie Fisher
Category: No Category | Series: Education Ser.
There is ample literature detailing lack of interest girls particularly in their later teen years show in computing generally and the subsequent decline in the number of women entering the IT workforce. In 2007, to address this problem, we trialled a new and revolutionary program designed to excite girl ...Show more
Discovery Education: STRIVING TO THE SUMMIT MOUNTAINEERING by Australian Geographic Staff
Category: Children's SPECIALS | Series: Discovery Education Ser.
Explore the real work, its history, peoples, animals and technology. Discover unusual topics and intriguing facts. Learn about recent advances and global events. The Discover Education programme is a high-quality illustrated series of books for young readers. 40 titles cover four popular subject areas ...Show more
ECHO OBJECTS : THE COGNITIVE WORK OF IMA by STAFFORD BARBARA
Category: Art | Series: National Society for the Study of Education Publication Ser.
Barbara Maria Stafford is at the forefront of a growing movement that calls for the humanities to confront the brain's material realities. In Echo Objects, she argues that humanists should seize upon the exciting neuroscientific discoveries that are illuminating the underpinnings of cultural objects. I ...Show more
Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities by Rosarii Griffin (Editor); Colin Brock (Contribution by); Piaras MacEinri (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Education As a Humanitarian Response Ser.
Education in Indigenous, Nomadic and Travelling Communities provides a thorough examination of up-to-date case studies of educational provision to travelling communities and indigenous people in their homelands or in host countries. Education is usually under-utilised during phases of transition. In man ...Show more
Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education by Alex Shervin Venet
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Equity and Social Justice in Education Ser.
In this comprehensive guide, Alex Shevrin Venet urges educators to adopt trauma-1 informed practices as part of a systemic effort to advance social justice rather than as a set of peripheral moves intended to help selected students who are perceived to be in need of rescue. Using a framework of six prin ...Show more
Force and Motion by Australian Geographic Staff
Category: Education | Series: Discovery Education Ser.
Explore the real work, its history, peoples, animals and technology. Discover unusual topics and intriguing facts. Learn about recent advances and global events. The Discover Education programme is a high-quality illustrated series of books for young readers. 40 titles cover four popular subject areas - ...Show more