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Be my Unicorn Alphabet Learning Activity Book for kids is a wonderful activity book with 70 pages that demonstrate the fact that learning letters can be fun. Every child loves to color. Now your child can learn by having fun. It is the perfect way for your child to learn all the letters from A to Z especially if he loves Unicorns.If you are checking for something different to spend the summer holiday, here is your way:This book has the followi...

Connecting the Dots: Anatomy of Verbal Interaction in Jamaican English Language Classrooms combines extensive ethnographic work on verbal interaction inside the Jamaican English language classroom with the contexts in which teachers of English receive their professional training in Jamaica. The text will not only enrich our understanding of the forces that help to shape teachers of English, but will also enrich our understanding of English lan...

This innovative resource offers a unique, multidisciplinary approach for the utilization of planning theory to eliminate health disparities in rural communities. The book provides tools in the public health, policy, and planning disciplines to help resolve significant differences in life expectancy and quality of life in these communities, concluding with a progressive vision for alleviating geographical health disparities on a local, national...

Two books in one!After five years of observation, documentation, and photography, it was aprivilege to preserve these fleeting moments in time. With over ninety close-upand beautifully detailed photographic images, you will learn about the amazingtransformation of the monarch butterfly and the elusive, nocturnal cecropia moth.This book features a spectacular photographic depiction of both the monarch butterflyand the cecropia moth through thei...

Two books in one!After five years of observation, documentation, and photography, it was aprivilege to preserve these fleeting moments in time. With over ninety close-upand beautifully detailed photographic images, you will learn about the amazingtransformation of the monarch butterfly and the elusive, nocturnal cecropia moth.This book features a spectacular photographic depiction of both the monarch butterflyand the cecropia moth through thei...

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This thought-provoking monograph analyzes the longstanding political and economic structures underlying entrenched health inequities in rural areas worldwide. Bypassing familiar data on the subject, it critiques existing approaches to why core social determinants of health are underrepresented in rural communities, and synthesizes knowledge from health behaviors to spatial politics to make creative, equitable suggestions for intervention. The ...

This book addresses the obesity epidemic from a political, economic and social perspective. Examining the populations that suffer the greatest from political and economic decision-making associated with obesity prevalence, this book utilizes a contemporary framework to discuss obesity. While it does examine the behavioral risks associated with rising obesity rates, it also explores the political level, by evaluating theories in social justice ...

Pete Seeger once said: "The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known." In many ways, writing a book about my family's experiences at Playhouse, a cooperative pre-school founded in 1951, is in fact telling an optimistic story that has the potential to inspire others, early childhood teachers and parents alike, to search for, create, or contribute to progressive learning environments for their ow...

Pete Seeger once said: "The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known." In many ways, writing a book about my family's experiences at Playhouse, a cooperative pre-school founded in 1951, is in fact telling an optimistic story that has the potential to inspire others, early childhood teachers and parents alike, to search for, create, or contribute to progressive learning environments for their ow...

As moral educators we are more used to teaching others and researching their learning and moral development than reflecting on and writing formally about our own moral learning. We are not just professionals with an interest and supposedly some expertise in morality and education, we also have gendered and culturally differentiated personal and professional lives, in which there are moral issues, puzzles, and conflicts. We are situated in dive...

This edited volume gives explicit attention to the influence of gender, feminism, and queer theory in self-study of teacher education practices. It builds on the self-study community's interest in social justice that has mostly been focused on race, ethnicity, gender, disability, and power, as well as broad conceptions that include multiculturalism and ways of knowing. This is the time to examine gender both because our community is growing an...

This edited volume gives explicit attention to the influence of gender, feminism, and queer theory in self-study of teacher education practices. It builds on the self-study community's interest in social justice that has mostly been focused on race, ethnicity, gender, disability, and power, as well as broad conceptions that include multiculturalism and ways of knowing. This is the time to examine gender both because our community is growing an...

This seminal collection brings together the multiple perspectives of whole language educators over the course of the past thirty-five years. The essays illustrate the complex ways in which whole language teachers have been and continue to be political activists through their interactions with students, the teachers' beliefs about teaching, learning, and curriculum, their commitment to critical thinking and social justice, their collaborative e...

This book weaves together voices of faculty, residents, mentors, administrators, community organizers, and students who have lived together in a third space urban teacher residency program in Newark as they reinvent math and science teaching and teacher education through the lens of inquiry. Each chapter includes narratives from multiple perspectives as well as tools we have used within the program to support and build change, providing reader...

This book weaves together voices of faculty, residents, mentors, administrators, community organizers, and students who have lived together in a third space urban teacher residency program in Newark as they reinvent math and science teaching and teacher education through the lens of inquiry. Each chapter includes narratives from multiple perspectives as well as tools we have used within the program to support and build change, providing reader...

A Model of Verbal Interaction presents a vivid portrait of the verbal encounters that constitute teaching and learning of English in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions in Jamaica. It describes the linguistic codes used by teachers and students in the normal course of teaching and learning in the classrooms studied, and explores their context and motivations. Against that background, the writer then uses script theory to execute a det...