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Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and
productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this
volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese,
and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the
Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Often described merely as a colonial construction, the phenomenon
of thuggee remains one of the more contentious and controversial
subjects of nineteenth-century south Asian history. Based largely
on new material, this book constitutes the first in-depth
examination of thuggee as a type of banditry, emerging in a
specific socio-economic and geographic context. The British usually
described the thugs as fanatic assassins and Kali-worshippers, yet
Wagner argues that the history of thuggee need no longer be limited
to the study of its representation.
This book provides an overview of current research on the
development of reading skills as well as practices to assist
educational professionals with assessment, prevention, and
intervention for students with reading difficulties. The book
reviews the Componential Model of Reading (CMR) and provides
assessment techniques, instructional recommendations, and
application models. It pinpoints specific cognitive, psychological,
and environmental deficits contributing to low reading skills, so
educators can accurately identify student problems and design and
implement appropriate interventions. Chapters offer methods for
assessing problems in decoding, word and sound recognition, and
comprehension. In addition, chapters emphasize the recognition of
student individuality as readers and learners, from understanding
distinctions between difficulties and disabilities to the effects
of first-language orthography on second-language learning. Topics
featured in this book include: Learning the structure of language
at the word level. Reading comprehension and reading comprehension
difficulties Assessing reading in second language learners.
Effective prevention and intervention for word-level reading
difficulties. The neurobiological nature of developmental dyslexia.
Reading Development and Difficulties is a must-have resource for
researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in varied fields,
including child and school psychology; assessment, testing, and
evaluation; social work; and special education. "I think the book
has the potential to be a game changer. It will certainly challenge
the expectations of policy makers, not to mention the teachers of
beginning readers. These chapters will enhance the knowledge base
of those in our schools who are charged with the lofty task of
assuring that children have the best possible opportunities to
acquire the skill of reading." Sir Jim Rose Chair and author of
Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading: Final Report
(2006)
The Power of Experience: Principals Talk about School Improvement
is a guide for principals, both aspiring and established, who hope
to make a measurable difference in the achievement of all students,
and who strive to create a positive, safe, and student-centered
learning environment in their schools. Gleaned from interviews with
more than fifty principals who have been either instrumental in
bringing a school to US Department of Education National Blue
Ribbon status or who were identified as National Distinguished
Principals by the National Association of Elementary School
Principals, this critical source draws on the wisdom and experience
of school leaders from across the nation and from select locations
around the world. From Kenya to California, Alaska to Wisconsin,
these principals reflect great diversity but unity of purpose:
reaching and teaching all children by building exceptional schools
through exemplary leadership. Whether new to the field or a veteran
principal, readers will benefit from the collective wisdom,
insight, and experience of principals who have built remarkable
schools designed to promote student achievement.
The Savvy Superintendent examines the art of district leadership
from the perspective of top practitioners in the field of
education. Insights and comments from in-depth interviews with over
fifty current and former successful superintendents_including
American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
Superintendents of the Year and runners up for the award_are woven
throughout the narrative to exemplify best-in-class, real-world
applications of the behaviors, attitudes, and attributes that great
instructional leaders employ as they carry out their most important
work: instructional leadership. This book provides practical,
hands-on advice for school district superintendents. It is designed
to provide needed but rarely taught ideas, insights, and
information that superintendents can use to incorporate effective
practices into their own school districts.
This path-breaking book reviews psychological research on practical intelligence and describes its importance in everyday life. The authors reveal the importance of tacit knowledge--what we have learned from our own experience, through action. Although it has been seen as an indispensable element of expertise, intelligence researchers have found it difficult to quantify. Based on years of research, Dr. Sternberg and his colleagues have found that tacit knowledge can be quantified and can be taught. This volume thoroughly examines studies of practical intelligence in the United States and in many other parts of the world as well, and for varied occupations, such as management, military leadership, teaching, research, and sales.
In all of baseball, one record shines as perhaps the most coveted:
four home runs by one player in a single game. If the pinnacle of
pitching is the perfect game, then the highpoint of hitting is four
home runs, and only eighteen players in the history of the sport
can boast this accomplishment. In The Four Home Runs Club: Sluggers
Who Achieved Baseball's Rarest Feat, Steven K. Wagner profiles the
select group of men who have accomplished the near impossible.
Drawing on interviews with dozens of current and former
major-league ballplayers, Wagner chronicles the lives of these few
who, in the space of a few hours, left an indelible mark on the
game. In doing so, the author draws attention to the unique
features that distinguished some of these events: one player
homered in three consecutive innings; another did it twice in the
same inning; a third hit two inside-the-park home runs; one added a
double and a single in the same game; and a fifth player drove in a
record-tying twelve runs. Among the men in this elite club are
legends Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, and Mike Schmidt, as well as
recent "inductees" Shawn Green, Scooter Gennett, and J. D.
Martinez. From the sandlots of Coushatta, Louisiana, to the suburbs
of New York City, this book examines the special batsmen who
parlayed four mighty swings into baseball immortality. A
fascinating look into this extraordinary exploit, The Four Home
Runs Club will appeal to baseball fans everywhere.
A guide to the safe handling of drums that contain hazardous waste.
This book provides an overview of current research on the
development of reading skills as well as practices to assist
educational professionals with assessment, prevention, and
intervention for students with reading difficulties. The book
reviews the Componential Model of Reading (CMR) and provides
assessment techniques, instructional recommendations, and
application models. It pinpoints specific cognitive, psychological,
and environmental deficits contributing to low reading skills, so
educators can accurately identify student problems and design and
implement appropriate interventions. Chapters offer methods for
assessing problems in decoding, word and sound recognition, and
comprehension. In addition, chapters emphasize the recognition of
student individuality as readers and learners, from understanding
distinctions between difficulties and disabilities to the effects
of first-language orthography on second-language learning. Topics
featured in this book include: Learning the structure of language
at the word level. Reading comprehension and reading comprehension
difficulties Assessing reading in second language learners.
Effective prevention and intervention for word-level reading
difficulties. The neurobiological nature of developmental dyslexia.
Reading Development and Difficulties is a must-have resource for
researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in varied fields,
including child and school psychology; assessment, testing, and
evaluation; social work; and special education. "I think the book
has the potential to be a game changer. It will certainly challenge
the expectations of policy makers, not to mention the teachers of
beginning readers. These chapters will enhance the knowledge base
of those in our schools who are charged with the lofty task of
assuring that children have the best possible opportunities to
acquire the skill of reading." Sir Jim Rose Chair and author of
Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading: Final Report
(2006)
Based largely on new material, this book examines thuggee as a type
of banditry, emerging in a specific socio-economic and geographic
context. The British usually described the thugs as fanatic
assassins and Kali-worshippers, yet Wagner argues that the history
of thuggee need no longer be limited to the study of its
representation.
The essays in Mind in Context serve as a bridge between the work of
radical constructivists, who propose that all cognition depends on
interaction with the outside world, and traditional cognitive
scientists, who feel that all cognition resides in the mind. Here,
concepts of distributed cognition and situated learning are
translated into constructs and methodologies that are accessible to
a broad range of psychology researchers and students. The volume is
divided into three main parts, containing chapters by leaders in
the fields of education, the study of intelligence, and
psychometrics. Part I, dealing with performances in academic and
test-like tasks, includes essays on novelty and intelligence, and
the effects of context on cognition. Part II addresses everyday
tasks, with essays on cognitive tests in job selection; and leader
intelligence, interpersonal stress, and task performance. In Part
III the essays move toward constructing an integrative framework
for understanding the volume as a whole. This volume is essential
reading for cognitive psychologists, social psychologists,
educational psychologists as well as scholars interested in
situated learning.
Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and
productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this
volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese,
and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the
Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
When we carry deep hurts by others, when we harbor resentment,
revenge, jealousy, anger, and hateful attitudes, when we are
unwilling to give or to receive forgiveness, we are positioning
ourselves for agonizing problems and a host of potential personal
illnesses. Whereas forgiveness is a key that opens the door to
avenues of good health and a more satisfying life, unforgiveness
keeps the door locked on a self-imposed, critical, unbending,
legalistic, I-know-I'm-right outlook on life. The truth is that
forgiveness blesses the giver more than it benefits the receiver.
(from the Introduction) James Wagner maintains that the most
crippling illness we face today is a resentful, unforgiving heart
and the intentional withholding of forgiveness. In fact, he notes
that in his experience people request healing prayer to relieve
their spiritual, emotional, and mental anguish over damaged and
fractured relationships as often as they do to seek comfort for
their physical pains and limitations. Though forgiveness it is at
the very heart of the gospel, it can be difficult to "forgive and
forget" -- so how can Christians become more merciful in their
daily lives? Wagner suggests that the answer to that question can
be found by examining the paradigm of forgiveness modeled by Jesus
-- and Forgiveness: The Jesus Way provides readers with a unique
understanding of forgiveness as taught and lived by Jesus. More
than just an academic study, this book offers practical guidelines
for developing healthier relationships and improving personal
wellness by learning to give and receive true forgiveness.
Structured in twelve sessions, Forgiveness: The Jesus Way is an
excellent personal and group study resource. Each biblically rooted
session explores several facets of forgiveness, and includes
questions for stimulating discussion and reinforcing key concepts.
Recommended resources and notes for the reader to ponder are also
provided. James K. Wagner is a retired United Methodist pastor now
residing in Galloway, Ohio. In addition to serving several Ohio
congregations during four decades of active ministry, Wagner spent
nine years as the director of The Upper Room Prayer and Healing
Ministries and the executive director of the Disciplined Order of
Christ. He is the author of numerous articles and books on healing
ministry, including The Spiritual Heart of Your Health (Upper Room
Books).
As vernacular writers of late medieval England navigated the
difficulties of composing orthodox texts, both religious and
otherwise, they encountered a limited lexicon. As a consequence,
English works of this era are innovative and creative in their use
of vocabulary. The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English
Literature examines the way in which these writers complemented
seemingly straightforward terms, like heretic, with a range of
synonyms that complicated the definitions of both those words and
orthodoxy itself. This text proposes four specific terms that
become synonymous with heretic in the parlance of medieval English
writers of the 14th and 15th centuries: jangler, Jew, Saracen, and
witch. These four labels are especially important insofar as they
represent the way in which medieval Christianity appropriated and
subverted the marginalized identities of women, illiterate laity,
Jews, and Muslims to promote an image of unity despite
constantly-shifting reality.
"Less, but better" The motto of the Frankfurt designer Dieter Rams
is still topical today - and very much so. In the face of rapid
globalization and an increasing number of premium product
consumers, the question on the resources and the longevity of
products inevitably arises. The book outlines the prevalent design
trends in Frankfurt and in the Rhine-Main-area from the 1920s to
the 1980s. For furniture, interior and graphic design made in and
around Frankfurt over seven decades, functionality, visual
strength, austerity, aesthetics in clear shapes and the visionary
element always played a major role. This first compact illustration
of regional design also raises the question, to what extent German
design in the 20th century defined itself through decentralized but
intensively interlinked places and institutions.
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