All readers can build fluency by acting out this leveled script! This story about a puzzling, unique school includes six differentiated roles, allowing students at varying reading levels to all participate and feel successful.
From pharaohs to hieroglyphics, readers will learn all about the Egyptian dynasty in this fascinating book! Appealing photos and engaging text invite readers to learn about ancient Egypt.
A Developmental Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers
Beautiful Beginnings is a collection of developmental activities designed for individualized use with infants and toddlers from birth to 36 months. The program features activities to enhance children's development in 8 areas: communication, gross motor, fine motor, intellectual, discovery, social, self-help and pretend.
Doing Development Research is a comprehensive introduction to research in development studies, that provides thorough training for anyone carrying out research in developing countries. It brings together experts with extensive experience of overseas research, presenting an interdisciplinary guide to the core methodologies. Informed by years of research experience, Doing Development Research draws together many strands of action research and participatory methods, demonstrating their diverse applications and showing how they interrelate. The text provides: * an account of the theoretical approaches that underlie development work * an explanation of the practical issues involved in planning development research * a systematic overview of information and data collecting methods in three sub-sections: * methods of social research and associated forms of analysis * using existing knowledge and records * disseminating findings/research Using clear and uncomplicated language - illustrated with appropriate learning features throughout - the text guides the researcher through the choice of appropriate methods, the implementation of the research, and the communication of the findings to a range of audiences. This is the essential A-Z of development research.
Originating in 1795, the term Caucasian identifies both the peoples of the Caucasus Mountains region as well as those thought to be Caucasian. The author explores the history of the term and the category of the Caucasian race more broadly in light of the changing politics of racial theory and notions of racial identity.
`It is surely worth reading, not only by the author's fellow psychiatrists, but also by psychologists in general' - Contemporary Psychology `I found this book a joy to read. Each chapter sets out the orthodoxy in question, then proceeds to explain lucidly the author's difficulties with this orthodoxy and to suggest an alternative way of looking at the issues' - Self and Society Psychotherapy's influence seems all pervasive today. But to what end? Is helping people really therapy's main mission? This provocative book explores the alternatives to psychotherapeutic orthodoxies on such vital issues as sexuality; the self; the unconscious; creativity; and the dilemma of evil. Erensto Spinelli challenges psychotherapy, asking if it has retreated from its early promise of being a pivotal agent in our attempts to discover what it means to be human, in exchange for its current role as a pacifier of personal and social unease.
We do not understand music--it understands us. This aphorism by Theodor W. Adorno expresses the quandary and the fascination many listeners have felt in approaching Beethoven's late quartets. No group of compositions occupies a more central position in chamber music, yet the meaning of these works continues to stimulate debate. William Kinderman's ......
Within the social sciences, few matters are as significant as the study of human play--or as neglected. In Play Reconsidered, rather than viewing play simply as a preoccupation of the young and a vehicle for skill development, Thomas S. Henricks argues that it's a social and cultural phenomenon of adult life, enveloped by wider structures and ......
