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America′s Youth in Crisis: Challenges and Options for Programs and Policies
ISBN: 9780803970687 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many adolescents in the United States are at risk from substance abuse, unsafe sexual practices, academic underachievement, crime and violence. What can be done to tackle these growing problems? The author of this thought-provoking book suggests the need to focus on young people's development in relation to specific features of the individual's environmental 'context' such as family, neighbourhood and culture. By effecting changes in these contexts, in the form of community programmes, researchers can test for differences in children's behaviour and development.
Many adolescents in the United States are at risk from substance abuse, unsafe sexual practices, academic underachievement, crime and violence. What c...
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America′s Youth in Crisis: Challenges and Options for Programs and Policies
ISBN: 9780803970694 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many adolescents in the United States are at risk from substance abuse, unsafe sexual practices, academic underachievement, crime and violence. What can be done to tackle these growing problems? The author of this thought-provoking book suggests the need to focus on young people's development in relation to specific features of the individual's environmental 'context' such as family, neighbourhood and culture. By effecting changes in these contexts, in the form of community programmes, researchers can test for differences in children's behaviour and development.
Many adolescents in the United States are at risk from substance abuse, unsafe sexual practices, academic underachievement, crime and violence. What c...
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Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators
ISBN: 9781891792328 / Angielski / Biblioteczna (library binding) / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship examines the challenge of creating innovative and productive entrepreneurial activity in American education.
In the course of exploring these challenges, the book considers a number of crucial issues and circumstances: existing barriers to entry that prohibit or obstruct entrepreneurial efforts; the availability and frequent lack of venture capital for fueling entrepreneurial activities; the effort to sponsor and create a sufficiently large population of talented educational entrepreneurs; and questions about research, development,... The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship examines the challenge of creating innovative and productive entrepreneurial activity in American ed...
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Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators
ISBN: 9781891792311 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adolescent development research and theory have tremendous potential to inform the work of high school teachers, counselors, and administrators. Understanding Youth bridges the gap between adolescent development theory and practice.
Nakkula and Toshalis explore how factors such as social class, peer and adult relationships, gender norms, and the media help to shape adolescents' sense of themselves and their future expectations and aspirations. Adolescent development research and theory have tremendous potential to inform the work of high school teachers, counselors, and administrators. Un...
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Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions
ISBN: 9781554586349 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators provide international insights grounded in educational and community practice and policy. They cover the range and intersections of marginalization: poverty, Aboriginal cultures, immigrants and newcomers, gay/lesbian youth, rural-urban divides, mental health, and so forth. Presenting challenges faced by marginalized youth alongside initiatives for mitigating their impact, the contributors critique existing systems and...
Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by...
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Through the Unknowable: Family Life with Mental Illness, Alcohol, Loss, and Love
ISBN: 9780533164974 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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In a Queer Voice: Journeys of Resilience from Adolescence to Adulthood
ISBN: 9781439908020 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Review: An important contribution to the argument for a more nurturing environment for young GLBT people. Publishers Weekly In this thoughtful study, Sadowski profiles six young people whom he interviewed in their adolescence and then revisited several years later to see how they transitioned from their early isolated... insular silence regarding their gender or sexuality to their 'queer voices' of strength, optimism, and defiance... An intellectual complement to the 'It Gets Better' project, this works as both a moving human document and a springboard for discussion and research in human...
Review: An important contribution to the argument for a more nurturing environment for young GLBT people. Publishers Weekly In this thoughtful study, ...
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REPAIR For Teens: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse
ISBN: 9781615991273 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever!
R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever!
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Cyberbullying: Development, Consequences, Risk and Protective Factors
ISBN: 9781848727625 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work offers important new findings on the development and consequences of cyberbullying and cyber-victimisation, and opens new and future directions of research.
This work offers important new findings on the development and consequences of cyberbullying and cyber-victimisation, and opens new and future directi...
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Adolescent Emotional Development and the Emergence of Depressive Disorders
ISBN: 9781107406599 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most striking aspects of the epidemiology of depressive disorders is the rapid rise in incidence observed between the ages of 11 and 14. This book explores the developmental changes occurring during the transition from childhood into early adolescence in order to understand how vulnerability to depression develops.
The authors focus on emotional development, which serves to encapsulate the cognitive, sexual, interpersonal and familial changes that occur during this life stage. This is an essential read for practicing psychiatrists and psychologists who work with early... One of the most striking aspects of the epidemiology of depressive disorders is the rapid rise in incidence observed between the ages of 11 and 14. Th...
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In a Queer Voice: Journeys of Resilience from Adolescence to Adulthood
ISBN: 9781439908013 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adolescence is a difficult time, but it can be particularly stressful for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identifying youth. In order to avoid harassment and rejection, many LGBTQ teens hide their identities from their families, peers, and even themselves.
a Educator Michael Sadowski deftly brings the voices of LGBTQ youth out into the open in his poignant and important book, In a Queer Voice. Drawing on two waves of interviews conducted six years apart, Sadowski chronicles how queer youth, who were often OC silencedOCO in school and elsewhere, now can approach adulthood... Adolescence is a difficult time, but it can be particularly stressful for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer-identifying youth. In order t...
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Tsaoism: A Simple Guide to Understanding Children and Adults
ISBN: 9781938467004 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ...a fun read. Serious yet prepared with a light and accessible touch. Highly informative. It covers a substantial range of material in a jargon-free manner while explaining core ideas, a rare trait The volume will appeal to a broad range of people including patients, parents and many practitioners of different stripes. It is filled with solid, superbly practical advice and wonderful nuggets....radiates interpersonal and emotional honesty which adds to its convincing nature....Rarely will one encounter someone who so thoroughly enjoys working with mildly as well as profoundly troubled and... ...a fun read. Serious yet prepared with a light and accessible touch. Highly informative. It covers a substantial range of material in a jargon-fr... |
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Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn
ISBN: 9781433110726 / Angielski / Twarda / 725 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn is a collage of educational psychology's specializations and research-based reflections. As a discipline, educational psychology is reinventing itself from its early and almost exclusive identification with psychometrics and taxonomy-styled classifications to a dynamic and multicultural collection of conversations concerning language acquisition, socially mediated learning, diverse learning modalities, motivation, the affective domain, brain-based learning, the role of ecology in increasing achievement, and many...
Educational Psychology Reader: The Art and Science of How People Learn is a collage of educational psychology's specializations and research-ba...
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Adolescent Romantic Relations and Sexual Behavior: Theory, Research, and Practical Implications
ISBN: 9780415645690 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developmental and clinical researchers have only just discovered the phenomenon of adolescent romance as a topic of serious scientific inquiry. This discovery may be related to the overwhelming evidence that adult romantic relationships are failing at alarming rates. Dramatic increases in the rates of divorce, out of wedlock childbirth, and relationship violence lead to questions about the developmental precursors of romantic love and commitment. What's wrong with love and can it be fixed? This book brings together a diverse group of experts from various disciplines to address a serious...
Developmental and clinical researchers have only just discovered the phenomenon of adolescent romance as a topic of serious scientific inquiry. This d...
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Growing Up Fast: Transitions to Early Adulthood of Inner-City Adolescent Mothers
ISBN: 9780415648158 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book the authors examine in depth the lives of inner-city adolescent mothers, going beyond stereotypes to illuminate the diverse pathways to young adulthood taken by these young women. The different ways they respond to becoming a parent reflect a range of abilities, aspirations, and supports. Their often-creative solutions to living in poverty, the intensity of their desires to make their children's lives better, the height of their youthful ambition when they succeed, and the depth of their pain when they fail, all show a surprising range. The authors argue that adolescent mothers...
In this book the authors examine in depth the lives of inner-city adolescent mothers, going beyond stereotypes to illuminate the diverse pathways to y...
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Lifelong Learning and Teacher Development
ISBN: 9783631624791 / Angielski / Twarda / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The papers in this collection contribute to our understanding of several aspects of lifelong learning. Two papers highlight the characteristics of reflection among teachers including self-evaluation and blogging. Two other papers study cooperation in lifelong learning one, the impact of communities on professional learning among university lecturers, and the other, teacher-principal-parent partnerships in early childhood education. Universities offer a variety of courses and one paper analyses the impact on students of a course in educational psychology.
The experience of dilemmas in... The papers in this collection contribute to our understanding of several aspects of lifelong learning. Two papers highlight the characteristics of ref...
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The Development and Treatment of Girlhood Aggression
ISBN: 9780415652353 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After decades of neglect, researchers have begun to focus attention on the development and outcomes of girlhood aggression. This comprehensive volume provides an account of some of the pioneering research in the field. Its central aims are to highlight current understanding, identify key components for preventing and treating the complex array of problems experienced by aggressive girls, and raise new questions for future research. The perspectives presented by the authors highlight the diverse factors that moderate the emergence of aggression while offering insight into how to target that...
After decades of neglect, researchers have begun to focus attention on the development and outcomes of girlhood aggression. This comprehensive volume ...
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Handbook of Adult Development
ISBN: 9781461351603 / Angielski / Miękka / 627 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is an outgrowth ofcontemporary research on development over the adult lifespan, which by now has burgeoned and developed both nationally and internationally. However, for us, the impetus to be involved in this area was spawned and nurtured by our initial association with the Society for Research in Adult Development (SRAD) with its origins some 15 years ago by Michael Commonsand his associates inCambridge, Massachusetts. Throughthegood will and support of this society, we also became, and are still, heavily involved with the Journal of Adult Development and the Kluwer-Plenum...
This volume is an outgrowth ofcontemporary research on development over the adult lifespan, which by now has burgeoned and developed both nationally a...
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Never Assume: Getting to Know Children Before Labeling Them
ISBN: 9781599323923 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In her book, Never Assume. Getting to Know Children Before Labeling Them. Dr. McGuire reminds us that children are born with a profile of temperament traits that rule how they behave or respond to what is occurring in their environment. We, as adults, do not always remember our own childhood differences and how they made us feel. Now living in a different time with more resources, education and science helping us through observations, stories of children can be a means of letting adults see children from a more objective eye, rather than the subjective eye colored by worry, fear or...
In her book, Never Assume. Getting to Know Children Before Labeling Them. Dr. McGuire reminds us that children are born with a profile of temperament ...
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Your Dad Didn't Have to Die
ISBN: 9781621540540 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores what led to the tragic, premature, and avoidable death of a young man in what seems -- on the surface -- to have been an accident. Born with at least a fair share of God-given challenges, Sean-Michael Hennelly was caught by external factors. Among those -- & arguably the most important factor -- was his being caught in the pincers of parental conflict. Sean had one parent who denied some of his challenges & who claimed the other challenges were "no big deal." While his other parent -- Sean's father & my friend -- repeatedly failed to win over Sean or his mother to the...
This book explores what led to the tragic, premature, and avoidable death of a young man in what seems -- on the surface -- to have been an accident. ...
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