"After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." -- Paulo FreireIn Teaching to Tran
Many people who usually function well are thrown for a loop when a parent dies. They're surprised at the complex feelings of love, loss, anger, and guilt, and at the unresolved issues that emerge. Th
Consuming Technologies opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and def
`This reader is certainly worth a place in any consultant's start-up kit, and offers useful refreshment for all but the most expert' - Education SystemsThe articles in this book outline the main princ
Combines practical discussion with theoretical information on the rationale for active assessment, enabling classroom teachers to develop, interpret, and score their own assessments. Annotation copyri
The author describes how her sixth-grade students prepare portfolios of their work and present them at parent-teacher conferences, thereby assuming responsibility for their own learning
A complete resource guide for coping with physical and psychological adjustments of aging includes a catalog of products and services to provide independence, safety, and comfort, lists health resourc
'The crisis of liberal education is ... an intellectual crisis of the first magnitude, which constitutes the crisis of our civilization.' These doomsday words of Allan Bloom in The Closing of the Amer
The nationally syndicated columnist and childrearing expert presents a thought-provoking study of child-directed discipline, offering a straightforward, common-sense approach to the issue of discipli
Puts some of the best ideas about teaching and learning into action with innovative training tools and strategies. Helps teachers construct their own knowledge and respect their own learning styles so
Based on national studies of more than one thousand couples, a three-part program guarantees that each partner's feelings be expressed and understood, helps couples identify factors and underlying pri
Coming out is the process of acknowledging same-sex attractions to oneself and to others. It is both a personal and a public process. For many gay and bisexual students, college marks a pivotal point
From the earliest contributions of Native Americans in the colonial period to the workforce preparation crisis in the 1980s, this book explores the patterns, themes, and changing ideologies of learnin
Based on the experience of the restructuring of the MBA program at Case Western Reserve University, the book describes the transformation of a program from one where student learning was incidental to
Leadership by Design identifies the ideals that are essential to successful leadership in colleges and universities. It explains how values shape a leader's realities and shows how leadership is a con
