|
Showing 1 - 7 of
7 matches in All Departments
Talking about Leaving Revisited discusses findings from a five-year
study that explores the extent, nature, and contributory causes of
field-switching both from and among "STEM" majors, and what enables
persistence to graduation. The book reflects on what has and has
not changed since publication of Talking about Leaving: Why
Undergraduates Leave the Sciences (Elaine Seymour & Nancy M.
Hewitt, Westview Press, 1997). With the editors' guidance, the
authors of each chapter collaborate to address key questions,
drawing on findings from each related study source: national and
institutional data, interviews with faculty and students,
structured observations and student assessments of teaching methods
in STEM gateway courses. Pitched to a wide audience, engaging in
style, and richly illustrated in the interviewees' own words, this
book affords the most comprehensive explanatory account to date of
persistence, relocation and loss in undergraduate sciences.
Comprehensively addresses the causes of loss from undergraduate
STEM majors-an issue of ongoing national concern. Presents critical
research relevant for nationwide STEM education reform efforts.
Explores the reasons why talented undergraduates abandon STEM
majors. Dispels popular causal myths about why students choose to
leave STEM majors. This volume is based upon work supported by the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award No. 2012-6-05 and the National
Science Foundation Award No. DUE 1224637.
Talking about Leaving Revisited discusses findings from a five-year
study that explores the extent, nature, and contributory causes of
field-switching both from and among "STEM" majors, and what enables
persistence to graduation. The book reflects on what has and has
not changed since publication of Talking about Leaving: Why
Undergraduates Leave the Sciences (Elaine Seymour & Nancy M.
Hewitt, Westview Press, 1997). With the editors' guidance, the
authors of each chapter collaborate to address key questions,
drawing on findings from each related study source: national and
institutional data, interviews with faculty and students,
structured observations and student assessments of teaching methods
in STEM gateway courses. Pitched to a wide audience, engaging in
style, and richly illustrated in the interviewees' own words, this
book affords the most comprehensive explanatory account to date of
persistence, relocation and loss in undergraduate sciences.
Comprehensively addresses the causes of loss from undergraduate
STEM majors-an issue of ongoing national concern. Presents critical
research relevant for nationwide STEM education reform efforts.
Explores the reasons why talented undergraduates abandon STEM
majors. Dispels popular causal myths about why students choose to
leave STEM majors. This volume is based upon work supported by the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award No. 2012-6-05 and the National
Science Foundation Award No. DUE 1224637.
Song Junction features 40 appealing songs plus activities for the
elementary music classroom (grades K-2) and singers aged 5-7. It
includes new songs by music educators, traditional songs from
around the globe, and piano accompaniments for added variety.
Grouped into themes such as "All About Animals" and "Tell Me a
Story," the songs come with teaching notes describing the actions,
games, stories, and objectives, all carefully calibrated. A
versatile collection, Song Junction is a welcome resource for
practitioners the year round.
"As beguiling and delectable as France itself."
*Mimi Sheraton
"Ann Barry tells her tale directly and clearly, without cloying artifice or guile, so that it has the warmth, honesty, and force of a long letter from an old friend. She makes her reader a welcome house guest in her much-loved little cottage in the heart of France."
*Susan Allen Toth
Ann Barry was a single woman, working and living in New York, when she fell in love with a charming house in Carennac in southwestern France. Even though she knew it was the stuff of fantasy, even though she knew she would rarely be able to spend more than four weeks a year there, she was hooked. This spirited, captivating memoir traces Ms. Barry's adventures as she follows her dream of living in the French countryside: Her fascinating (and often humorous) excursions to Brittany and Provence, charmed nights spent at majestic chateaux and back-road inns, and quiet moments in cool Gothic churches become our own.
And as the years go by, and "l' Americaine," as she is known, returns again and again to her real home, she becomes a recognizable fixture in the neighborhood. Ann Barry is a foreigner enchanted with an unpredictable world that seems constantly fresh and exciting. In this vivid memoir, she shares the colorful world that is her France.
"AN INTELLIGENT MEMOIR."
*The New Yorker
"DELIGHTFUL . . . BARRY WRITES ENGAGINGLY. . . . [She] is very much at home in such fine company as M.F.K. Fisher's Two Towns in Provence, Robert Daley's Portraits of France, and Richard Goodman's French Dirt.
*St. Louis Post-Dispatch
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
Poor Things
Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, …
DVD
R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
|