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Internationalizing Early Childhood Curriculum empowers teachers and
directors to internationalize their curriculums around the world in
their own unique and culturally specific ways. Serving as a guide
and catalyst for thinking about curriculum in our interconnected
world, this book explores how young children learn about the world
and describes how children develop intercultural understanding,
including how their teachers transform to expand their own global
awareness and citizenship. Stories from actual classroom curriculum
projects are featured, as well as suggested strategies and stages
for the process of implementation. Exploring the implications for
teacher education and professional development, this book gives
readers the tools they need to bring internationalization into
their own programs. Designed to apply to formal and informal early
childhood centers across the spectrum, Internationalizing Early
Childhood Curriculum is essential reading for professional
developers and trainers, as well as classroom teachers, directors,
policy-makers and NGO professionals providing early childhood
services in the U.S. and around the world.
Internationalizing Early Childhood Curriculum empowers teachers and
directors to internationalize their curriculums around the world in
their own unique and culturally specific ways. Serving as a guide
and catalyst for thinking about curriculum in our interconnected
world, this book explores how young children learn about the world
and describes how children develop intercultural understanding,
including how their teachers transform to expand their own global
awareness and citizenship. Stories from actual classroom curriculum
projects are featured, as well as suggested strategies and stages
for the process of implementation. Exploring the implications for
teacher education and professional development, this book gives
readers the tools they need to bring internationalization into
their own programs. Designed to apply to formal and informal early
childhood centers across the spectrum, Internationalizing Early
Childhood Curriculum is essential reading for professional
developers and trainers, as well as classroom teachers, directors,
policy-makers and NGO professionals providing early childhood
services in the U.S. and around the world.
Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom
many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a
remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their
world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted
mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not on drugs. Or
Daron, kicked out of his home by an abusive father. Challenged by
the pernicious factors of their environment-drugs, violence,
fatherless homes, and poor educational backgrounds-students at the
Dayton Early College Academy are nevertheless beating the odds. All
are headed for college, from which the vast majority will graduate.
The book reveals how this school is succeeding when so many fail.
It conveys the hopeful message that others can replicate much of
what "DECA" does and save a generation mired in despair. America's
failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful
statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak picture-and
it is-this is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking
the Cycle aims to do. For more information on the book, including
interviews with the author please check out www.nancybdiggs.com.
Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom
many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a
remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their
world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted
mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not on drugs. Or
Daron, kicked out of his home by an abusive father. Challenged by
the pernicious factors of their environment-drugs, violence,
fatherless homes, and poor educational backgrounds-students at the
Dayton Early College Academy are nevertheless beating the odds. All
are headed for college, from which the vast majority will graduate.
The book reveals how this school is succeeding when so many fail.
It conveys the hopeful message that others can replicate much of
what "DECA" does and save a generation mired in despair. America's
failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful
statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak picture-and
it is-this is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking
the Cycle aims to do. For more information on the book, including
interviews with the author please check out www.nancybdiggs.com.
After writing extensively about different cultures, Nancy Brown
Diggs chose to focus on one closer to her own, the Appalachian, and
was surprised to learn that it is her own-and quite different from
the image conveyed by the media. Rich in anecdotes and interviews
that bring her research to life, this book offers a study of
Appalachians today and explores what they are truly like, and why,
concluding that is a culture to be celebrated, not denigrated.
"Odyssey Of The Heart" is a book of heartfelt writings in
free-verse poetic form. It is the journey of one voice that expands
well over a half a century. Complied in this book are 590 poems
that will give the reader a new perspective on subjects ranging
from love, to nature, as well as sadness, war, abortion, illness,
corruption, and many other intense feelings that the author has
written about. Nancy considers herself to be a deep thinker, and
writes verbal and strong messages in the hope that her poetry will
stimulate and provoke the readers to respond with their own
thoughts. An empathetic writer, her verse reveals a passion for the
less fortunate, and for those who have no voice. This book will
take you to the center of her heart, as well as to many places
around the world, where injustice occurs far too often.
The medieval Catholic Church, widely considered a source of
intolerance and inquisitorial fervor, was not anti-science during
the Dark Ages,in fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading
mathematician and astronomer of his day. Called The Scientist
Pope," Gerbert of Aurillac rose from peasant beginnings to lead the
church. By turns a teacher, traitor, kingmaker, and visionary,
Gerbert is the first Christian known to teach math using the nine
Arabic numerals and zero. In The Abacus and the Cross , Nancy Marie
Brown skillfully explores the new learning Gerbert brought to
Europe. A fascinating narrative of one remarkable math teacher, The
Abacus and the Cross will captivate readers of history, science,
and religion alike.
Steel Butterflies: Japanese Women and the American Experience
examines the role of women in Japan as compared to the United
States, approaching the subject from a new and thought-provoking
angle. Not only does the reader learn how Japanese women view their
own country from the vantage point of living in the United States,
but their candid remarks also give Americans the opportunity to see
themselves as others see them.
Some of the topics discussed include education; ethics; the
freedom -- as well as the problems -- of living in the United
States; why Japanese women both envy and feel sorry for American
women; and the past and future status of women in Japan. Steel
Butterflies examines family life, women's responsibility in the
home, community involvement both here and in Japan, aspects of
Japanese culture they tried to keep alive in America, and their
children's experiences. Grounded in thorough research, the book
offers new insights into Japanese ways of thinking from those who
have experienced both cultures.
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