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This richly updated third edition of Math Instruction for Students
with Learning Difficulties presents a research-based approach to
mathematics instruction designed to build confidence and competence
in preservice and inservice PreK- 12 teachers. Referencing
benchmarks of both the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
and Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, this essential
text addresses teacher and student attitudes towards mathematics as
well as language issues, specific mathematics disabilities, prior
experiences, and cognitive and metacognitive factors. Chapters on
assessment and instruction precede strands that focus on critical
concepts. Replete with suggestions for class activities and field
extensions, the new edition features current research across topics
and an innovative thread throughout chapters and strands:
multi-tiered systems of support as they apply to mathematics
instruction.
This richly updated third edition of Math Instruction for Students
with Learning Difficulties presents a research-based approach to
mathematics instruction designed to build confidence and competence
in preservice and inservice PreK- 12 teachers. Referencing
benchmarks of both the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
and Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, this essential
text addresses teacher and student attitudes towards mathematics as
well as language issues, specific mathematics disabilities, prior
experiences, and cognitive and metacognitive factors. Chapters on
assessment and instruction precede strands that focus on critical
concepts. Replete with suggestions for class activities and field
extensions, the new edition features current research across topics
and an innovative thread throughout chapters and strands:
multi-tiered systems of support as they apply to mathematics
instruction.
Analysing the convergence of law and regulation with rapidly
evolving communications technologies, this interdisciplinary work
navigates the intricate balancing act between human rights
protection and technological innovation in a digital age, and
illuminates the comprehensive potential of human rights to frame
our intelligent use of technology. The authors address such
pressing questions as how to protect user privacy online, whether
digital pollution is a health hazard, who should have control and
be responsible for data technologies and how to maintain human
autonomy in a world of interconnected objects. By considering
specific cases, this book provides an in-depth exploration of the
many regulatory and technological choices citizens, states, civil
society organizations and the private sector should consider to
ensure that digital technology more fully serves human needs.
Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969), founder of the Japanese martial art of
Aikido, is one of the greatest and most beloved martial artists in
history. "Remembering O-Sensei " is a portrait of Ueshiba as told
by his "uchi-deshi, " the students who lived and trained with him
as his disciples. This collection of memories--gathered here for
the first time--captures the essence of this extraordinary martial
arts master and visionary, revealing Ueshiba's teaching style, his
daily habits, his philosophy of life, the lovably human aspects of
his personality, and his deep belief that Aikido could be used as a
means to creating peace and harmony in the world.
The book also provides a snapshot of a fascinating time in
Japanese history when a student would apprentice with his master by
essentially moving in with him and receiving instruction through
rigorous training sessions, and also by serving him and observing
his actions in daily life. Most of the students whose remembrances
are included in this book went on to spread the teaching of Aikido
throughout the world and became masters in their own right.
"From the Hardcover edition."
With their tonsured heads, white faces, and striking cowls, the
monkeys might vaguely resemble the Capuchin monks for whom they
were named. How they act is something else entirely. They climb
onto each other's shoulders four deep to frighten enemies. They
test friendship by sticking their fingers up one another's noses.
They often nurse--but sometimes kill--each other's offspring. They
use sex as a means of communicating. And they negotiate a
remarkably intricate network of alliances, simian politics, and
social intrigue. Not monkish, perhaps, but as we see in this
downright ethnographic account of the capuchins of Lomas Barbudal,
their world is as complex, ritualistic, and structured as any
society.
"Manipulative Monkeys" takes us into a Costa Rican forest
teeming with simian drama, where since 1990 primatologists Susan
Perry and Joseph H. Manson have followed the lives of four
generations of capuchins. What the authors describe is behavior as
entertaining--and occasionally as alarming--as it is recognizable:
the competition and cooperation, the jockeying for position and
status, the peaceful years under an alpha male devolving into
bloody chaos, and the complex traditions passed from one generation
to the next. Interspersed with their observations of the monkeys'
lives are the authors' colorful tales of the challenges of tropical
fieldwork--a mixture so rich that by the book's end we know what it
is to be a wild capuchin monkey or a field primatologist. And we
are left with a clear sense of the importance of these endangered
monkeys for understanding human behavioral evolution.
Fifty years ago, a troop of Japanese macaques was observed
washing sandy sweet potatoes in a stream, sending ripples through
the fields of ethology, comparative psychology, and cultural
anthropology. The issue of animal culture has been hotly debated
ever since. Now Kevin Laland and Bennett Galef have gathered key
voices in the often rancorous debate to summarize the views along
the continuum from "Culture? Of course!" to "Culture? Of course
not!" The result is essential reading for anyone interested in the
validity of animal culture, and what it might say about our
own.
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My Faith as an African (Paperback)
Jean-Marc Ela; Translated by John Pairman Brown, Susan Perry
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R717
R585
Discovery Miles 5 850
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The San Francisco Chronicle called the first edition of Natural
Menopause "the most authoritative and wide-ranging explanation of
the basics of menopause yet published." Now in this newly revised
edition, authors Susan Perry and Kate O'Hanlan include all the
latest information on hormone replacement therapy and breast
cancer, as well as new studies on menopause and osteoporosis, heart
disease, Alzheimer's, depression, exercise, diet and malnutrition,
natural remedies, skin patches, and much more.Without minimizing
the discomfort many women experience, Perry and O'Hanlan show that
good nutrition, a good exercise program, and good sex are often the
best prescriptions,and that hormone replacement therapy carries
risks and should be taken only after careful and informed
deliberation. Natural Menopause is the comprehensive reference
every woman should turn to before and during menopause for a safe
and healthy passage.
Socially maintained behavioural traditions in non-human species
hold great interest for biologists, anthropologists and
psychologists. This book treats traditions in non-human species as
biological phenomena that are amenable to the comparative methods
of inquiry used in contemporary biology. Chapters in the first
section define behavioural traditions, and indicate how they can
arise in non-human species, how widespread they may be, how they
may be recognized and how we can study them. The second part
summarizes cutting-edge research programmes seeking to identify
traditions in diverse taxa in contributions from leading
researchers in this area. The book ends with a comparison and
evaluation of the alternative theoretical formulations and their
applications presented in the book, and lays out recommendations
for future research building on the most promising evidence and
lines of thinking. The Biology of Traditions will be essential
reading for students and researchers in the fields of anthropology,
biology and psychology.
In exploring socially-maintained behavioral traditions in animals other than humans, this study treats traditions as biological phenomena amenable to comparative evaluation in the same way as other biological phenomena. Concerned with how widely shared features of social life and learning abilities can lead to traditions in many species, it differs from other books in its emphasis on explicit evaluation of alternative theories and methods, and in the breadth of species covered. It is essential reading for students and researchers in animal behavior, anthropology and psychology.
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