Wyniki wyszukiwania:

How has America's social welfare network benefited families living in poverty? In what ways has it failed to provide for their needs? The system of social welfare in the United States has been in place for most of this century-and although it has had lasting impact on the lives of many people in need, it is far from perfect in its handling of the nation's poor. Fragile Families, Fragile Solutions presents a historical perspective on one of the central components of the U.S. social welfare network-family services-and provides a unique look at the advances this service network has achieved,...

After-school programmes are becoming an important development support for low- and moderate-income children. This book describes the historical development, current status and critical issues facing these programmes.

Youth, Education, and the Role of Society examines the learning landscape currently available to American adolescents, arguing that we need to expand, enrich, and diversify the learning opportunities available to young people today.

Central to the book is Robert Halpern s view that we depend too exclusively on schools to meet the full range of young people s developmental needs. High school learning as typically structured is just too fragmented, isolated, and abstract to meet young people s developmental needs, he argues. It relies too much on century-old curriculum and...

In The Means to Grow Up, Robert Halpern describes the pedagogical importance of "apprenticeship"-a growing movement based in schools, youth-serving organizations, and arts, civic, and other cultural institutions. This movement aims to re-engage youth through in-depth learning and unique experiences under the guidance of skilled professionals. Employing a "pedagogy of apprenticeship," these experiences combine specific, visceral, and sometimes messy work with opportunity for self-expression, increasing responsibility, and exposure to the adult world.

Grounded in...

In The Means to Grow Up, Robert Halpern describes the pedagogical importance of "apprenticeship"-a growing movement based in schools, youth-serving organizations, and arts, civic, and other cultural institutions. This movement aims to re-engage youth through in-depth learning and unique experiences under the guidance of skilled professionals. Employing a "pedagogy of apprenticeship," these experiences combine specific, visceral, and sometimes messy work with opportunity for self-expression, increasing responsibility, and exposure to the adult world.

Grounded in...

Middle School Literary Anthology

This is the middle school anothology that makes middle school kids want to get in touch with their inner poet or pirate tale teller.

What do you do when you're the goddess of love, but you don't have arms? That's the trouble with the Venus de Milo, this crazy armless statue some guy found on an island called Milos about two hundred years back. You've probably seen the statue somewhere before... maybe on the cover of this book

Nobody's quite sure how the Venus de Milo lost her arms. The French sailors who bought...

This book shows students and researchers in psychology how to think critically about experimental research, statistical inference, case studies, and ethical judgments. Each chapter explains what critical thinking is and how to teach and assess it by supplying useful features, such as critical-thinking questions and definitions of key terms.

Youth, Education, and the Role of Society examines the learning landscape currently available to American adolescents, arguing that we need to expand, enrich, and diversify the learning opportunities available to young people today.

Central to the book is Robert Halpern s view that we depend too exclusively on schools to meet the full range of young people s developmental needs. High school learning as typically structured is just too fragmented, isolated, and abstract to meet young people s developmental needs, he argues. It relies too much on century-old curriculum and...