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This book of parent-to-parent advice aims to encourage, support,
and bolster the morale of one of music's most important back-up
sections: music parents. Within these pages, more than 150 veteran
music parents contribute their experiences, reflections, warnings,
and helpful suggestions for how to walk the music-parenting
tightrope: how to be supportive but not overbearing, and how to
encourage excellence without becoming bogged down in frustration.
Among those offering advice are the parents of several top
musicians, including the mother of violinist Joshua Bell, the
father of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the parents of cellist Alisa
Weilerstein, and those of violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. The book
also features advice from music educators and more than forty
professional musicians, including Paula Robison, Sarah Chang,
Anthony McGill, Jennifer Koh, Jonathan Biss, Toyin Spellman-Diaz,
Marin Alsop, Christian McBride, Miguel Zenon, Stephanie Blythe,
Lawrence Brownlee, and Kelli O'Hara. The topics they discuss span a
wide range of issues faced by the parents of both instrumentalists
and singers, from how to get started to encouraging effective
practice habits, to how to weather the rough spots, cope with the
cost of music training, deal with college and career concerns, and
help young musicians discover the role that music can play in their
lives. The parents who speak here reach a unanimous and
overwhelming conclusion that music parenting is well worth the
effort, and the experiences that come with it - everything from
flying to New York on the weekends to searching a flute convention
for the perfect instrument - enrich family life with a unique joy
in music.
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The Great Schools of England
- an Account of the Foundation, Endowments, and Discipline of the Chief Seminaries of Learning in England; Including Eton, Winchester, Westminster, St. Paul's, Charter-House Merchant Taylors', Harrow, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Etc., E
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Howard Staunton
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R754
Discovery Miles 7 540
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The Great Schools of England
- an Account of the Foundation, Endowments, and Discipline of the Chief Seminaries of Learning in England; Including Eton, Winchester, Westminster, St. Paul's, Charter-House Merchant Taylors', Harrow, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Etc., E
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Howard Staunton
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R756
Discovery Miles 7 560
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The Great Schools of England
- an Account of the Foundation, Endowments, and Discipline of the Chief Seminaries of Learning in England; Including Eton, Winchester, Westminster, St. Paul's, Charter-House Merchant Taylors', Harrow, Rugby, Shrewsbury, Etc., E
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Howard Staunton
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R721
Discovery Miles 7 210
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one that began with him wanting to be a space engineer and ended
with him creating content that has been seen and read by millions.
His thoughts range from the importance of creating habits for
long-term success to the foundations of money management, from
embracing and accepting failure to the real truth about learning
empathy. This is a book to be read, and reread, a book whose lines
you will underline and think about again and again, a book you will
give your family and friends and strangers. Ankur hopes for this
book to become the most gifted book ever!
Now What? Is a reference book and guide offering practical advice
to teenagers as they approach the key decisions regarding their
futures, whether it be careers, university, apprenticeships or
something else. The follow up to the No. 1 bestselling Amazon
career guide, 'Is your school lying to you?' offers all new
insights into the need for self reliance, adaptability and
entrepreneurial spark to navigate and succeed in the new, post
pandemic marketplace they'll be entering as adults. An honest,
fresh and deliberately unacademic take on the evergreen issue of
how best to advise teens on their choices free from bias and
parental expectation. Now What? Challenges the myth that school
will take care of this and empowers students to embrace their
opportunities, achieve their goals and through self reliance,
realise their ambitions.
How do I make the absolute most of college?
What are the pitfalls and opportunities?
How do I walk away with more than just a piece of paper?
Adam Shepard pursued the American dream with only twenty-five
dollars in his pocket in Scratch Beginnings. Now he turns his
attention to higher education to help you make the most out of your
four (or five or six) years in college.
Drawing on his visits to campuses across the country, expert
advice, and his own rewarding college experience, Adam explores the
most pressing concerns of today's university students and examines
the many aspects (and surprises) of college living. From
transitioning to a life away from home to managing on a tight
budget; from the necessity of scheduling to taking your health
seriously; from the subtleties of campus social life to the dos and
don'ts of networking, Adam offers hope, motivation, and direction
to help you sail smoothly through the best four years of your life
and beyond.
Studying for your Policing Degree is PERFECT for anyone wanting to
train to become a police officer. After reading this fully
comprehensive guide you will understand: the structure and culture
of HE, and how policing fits into it what to expect, and what will
be expected of you, as a university student teaching and assessment
methods within policing, so that you can perform to the best of
your ability in an academic environment how to manage your policing
studies in an effective way and make the most of the resources
available to you. The books in our Critical Study Skills series
will help you gain the knowledge, skills and strategies you need to
achieve your goals. They provide support in all areas important for
university study, including institutional and disciplinary policy
and practice, self-management, and research and communication.
Packed with tasks and activities to help you improve your learning,
including learner autonomy and critical thinking, and to guide you
towards reflective practice in your study and work life. Uniquely,
this book is written by a subject specialist and an English for
Academic Purposes (EAP) expert.
In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff looks back to
our ancestors for solutions to our failing modern-day parenting
theories. When Dr Michaeleen Doucleff became a mother, she examined
the studies behind modern parenting guidance and found that the
evidence was frustratingly limited, and the conclusions often
ineffective. She began to wonder if an opposite approach was needed
- one founded on traditional wisdom, like the knowledge and
experience passed down over hundreds, even thousands, of years
within ancient cultures. With her young daughter in tow, she
travelled across the world to observe and practice parenting
strategies alongside families in three of the world's most
venerable communities: Maya families in Mexico, Inuit families
above the Arctic Circle, and Hadza families in Tanzania. Dr
Doucleff soon learned that these cultures don't have the same
problems with children that Western parents do. Most strikingly,
parents build a relationship with young children that is vastly
different from the one many Western parents develop, built on
co-operation instead of control; trust instead of fear; and
personalised needs instead of standardised development milestones.
In Hunt, Gather, Parent, Doucleff introduces us to families where
parents help little ones learn to control their emotions and reduce
tantrums by the parents themselves controlling their own
frustrations; foster self-sufficiency by safely giving kids the
autonomy to manage risks and explore their limits; and motivate
children to help with chores without using bribes or threats.
Doucleff also talks to psychologists, neuroscientists,
anthropologists, and sociologists and explains how the tools and
tips can impact children's mental health and development. . Packed
with practical takeaways, Hunt, Gather, Parent helps us rethink the
ways we relate to our children, and reveals a universal parenting
paradigm adapted for modern families.
Caribbean Discourse in Inclusive Education is an edited book series
that aims to give voice to Caribbean scholars, practitioners, and
other professionals working in diverse classrooms. The book series
is intended to provide an ongoing forum for Caribbean researchers,
practitioners, and academics, including those of the Diaspora, to
critically examine issues that influence the education of children
within inclusive settings. The book series is visionary, timely,
authoritative and presents pioneering work in the area of inclusive
education in the Caribbean, as part of the broader South?South
dialogue. It is essential reading for students in undergraduate and
postgraduate programmes, scholars, teachers, researchers and policy
makers at the regional and international level. The first book in
this series entitled Historical and Contemporary Issues will trace
the history and examine the Caribbean's trajectory towards the
development of inclusive education in the 21st Century. The main
premise of the book is that inclusion remains an ideologically
sound goal, which remains elusive in the Caribbean. It will also
provide a wider platform to discuss other factors that influence
the development of inclusive education such as school climate,
culture and ethos, LGBT issues, teacher training and professional
development, pedagogy, pupil perspective, curriculum, policy and
legislation.
Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart
of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty
'contingents' who work without basic job security, living wages or
benefits. Yet they have the incentive and, if organized, the power
to shape the future of higher education. Power Despite Precarity is
part history, part handbook and a wholly indispensable resource in
this fight. Joe Berry and Helena Worthen outline the four
historical periods that led to major transitions in the worklives
of faculty of this sector. They then take a deep dive into the
30-year-long struggle by California State University lecturers to
negotiate what is recognized as the best contract for contingents
in the US. The authors ask: what is the role of universities in
society? Whose interests should they serve? What are the necessary
conditions for the exercise of academic freedom? Providing
strategic insight for activists at every organizing level, they
also tackle 'troublesome questions' around legality, union
politics, academic freedom and how to recognize friends (and foes)
in the struggle.
Powerful Multicultural Essays for innovative Educators and Leaders
is written for this day, age, and time. We need to tear down our
walls of hatred to optimize "hearty" conversations. In addition, we
need to challenge ourselves and our institutions to do the right
things. We must revisit our inner spiritual connectivity--- there
are biblical allusions that could buttress our understanding about
multiculturalism. For instance, human valuing is the engine behind
the Parable of the Good Samaritan and the Parable of the Sower.
Should our goal not be to sow good seeds that bloom to be beautiful
flowers and even grow to be strong trees? Should our actions be
divorced from supporting those who are different from us? Reading
this book will help us to answer these questions. As often as
possible, we must be action-oriented and practical as we arrive at
our central hub and enhance our potential or existential
collaboration, consultation, and cooperation at all levels of our
human interactions. This is a book for students of life, which
means all of us! We are all learners whether we are students,
teachers, community leaders, university professors and leaders,
researchers, scholars, politicians, to mention a few. We all need
to read this book to optimize conversations, create open and
healthy environments, and advance our nations and world. The days
for hiding from discourses are over! We can no longer sweep our
problems and actions under the rug! And, we cannot divorce
ourselves from our own realities. Hopefully, this book will yield
remarkable fruitful dividends with regard to human valuing.
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