Barefoot Irreverence

Barefoot Irreverence
Author: James R. Delisle
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1882664795

In this book "Delisle tackles such crucial issues as standardized testing, differentiation, the theory of Multiple Intelligences, the social and emotional lives of gifted children, character education, and the portrayal of gifted children in the media."

The Leader's Edge

The Leader's Edge
Author: Charles J. Palus
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2002-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0787963836

Der ultimative Schritt-für-Schritt Leitfaden für Manager, die ihren Führungsqualitäten mehr Kreativität verleihen wollen. Er basiert auf jahrelanger Forschungsarbeit. Die Autoren stellen hier eine bewährte Methode für sicheren Führungserfolg vor. Sie beschreiben sechs unterschiedliche, aber miteinander verflochtene Kompetenzen für kreative Führung, die wichtige Aspekte menschlichen Verhaltens widerspiegeln, aber bislang nur unzureichend für eine funktionierende Unternehmensführung in Betracht gezogen wurden. Mit genauer Anleitung, welche Maßnahmen notwendig sind, um die jeweilige Kompetenz zu erwerben. Bietet eine Fülle von Hilfsmitteln und Beurteilungstests, mit deren Hilfe man die sechs Kompetenzen entwickeln kann. Enthält eine Fülle von Beispielen und Fallstudien sowie Tipps und Hinweise, wie man Missbrauch vermeidet. Ein neuer Band zum Thema Leadership vom renommierten Center for Creative Leadership.

The Ascent Of Man

The Ascent Of Man
Author: Jacob Bronowski
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011-07-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1446417158

Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science. First published in 1973 to accompany the groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one of the first works of 'popular science', illuminating the historical and social context of scientific development for a generation of readers. In his highly accessible style, Dr Bronowski discusses human invention from the flint tool to geometry, agriculture to genetics, and from alchemy to the theory of relativity, showing how they all are expressions of our ability to understand and control nature. In this new paperback edition, The Ascent of Man inspires, influences and informs as profoundly as ever.

Toxic Diversity

Toxic Diversity
Author: Dan Subotnik
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814739903

Toxic Diversity offers an invigorating view of race, gender, and law in America. Analyzing the work of preeminent legal scholars such as Patricia Williams, Derrick Bell, Lani Guinier, and Richard Delgado, Dan Subotnik argues that race and gender theorists poison our social and intellectual environment by almost deliberately misinterpreting racial interaction and data and turning white males into victimizers. Far from energizing women and minorities, Subotnik concludes, theorists divert their energies from implementing America's social justice agenda. Insisting, in the words of James Baldwin, that “not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced,” and that thoughtful Americans regardless of race and gender can handle frank conversations about difficult topics, Subotnik’s critique of race and gender theory pulls no punches as it confronts such inflammatory issues as single parenthood, the merit system in academic and business settings, gender privilege in the classroom, and crime.

Inspirations

Inspirations
Author: Tim Brighouse
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2010-07-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1855394421

This invigorating collection of writings, quotes and illuminating case studies based on the authors' own classroom observations is designed to provide inspiration for positive changes across the whole school, in teaching, learning, school management and beyond. It is perfect for busy head teachers, teachers, heads of department and subject co-ordinators keen to 'unlock the minds and open the shut chambers of the hearts' of the pupils they are anxious should enjoy their learning.

Without Walls

Without Walls
Author: Milton Toubkin
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1788035275

Without Walls is Milton’s Toubkin’s unique memoir, which begins with an impoverished, but generally happy, early childhood in South Africa and ends with Milton’s retirement. Like most people, Milton faced many difficulties throughout his life, ranging from the divorce of his parents, his mother’s suicide attempt and the death of his daughter at the age of just nineteen. But Without Walls also records the happiest moments of the author’s life, including meeting and marrying his wife Marj, becoming a father to two children and becoming a grandfather. The book also explores the huge impact that Milton had on the international educational system in London as a result of his founding Southbank International School with his colleagues. Milton describes the school’s modest beginnings, surviving with little money and no external support, before growing to become an outstanding educational institution with a unique programme. The story of this ‘school without walls’ forms a significant part of Milton’s life story. Inspired by The School without Walls by John Bremer and Michael von Moschzisker and Peter Godwin’s A White Boy in Africa, Without Walls is a unique biography that will appeal to readers interested in education, as well as those that enjoy memoirs. It will also be enjoyed by former pupils and associates of Southbank International School.

Out of the Labyrinth

Out of the Labyrinth
Author: Ellen Kaplan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1608198707

""Out of the Labyrinth" rejoices in the serious play of mathematics and explains how to think about math as a truly common pursuit... full of fun and full of the wisdom of a lifetime of teaching..."-- Barry Mazur, Gerhard Gade University Professory, Harvard University.

The Value of Academic Discourse

The Value of Academic Discourse
Author: Twyla Miranda
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475838549

How important is academic discourse that promotes new understandings and allows us to question what we know? In the current age of instant-messaging and Twitter®, does academic conversation have a place? Frankly, we think that academic discourse is more important now than ever. Our civil society functions best when students, instructors, neighbors, and communities come together to question the information before us, so that decisions and directions are viable, helpful, and ethical. Academic conversations help us sort through the important and not-so-important themes of our lives and how we are to live. Academic conversations show us other ways of viewing, and they grow our own repertoire of ideas. Academic conversations teach us wonder, tolerance, humility, and the important fact that the world is bigger than our backyard. Understanding the art and pragmatism of academic conversations requires a building of trust, a willingness to share, and a mind for critical thinking. Guidance for holding conversations with meaning and doing philosophy with learners is modeled, as well as how implementing classroom and collegial discourse benefits our society.