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  • The Cultural Nature of Human Development

    by Barbara Rogoff ...
    Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with safety and some skill, although U.S. middle-class adults often do not trust young children with knives. What explains these marked differences in the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Cultural Nature of Human Development

    by Barbara Rogoff ...
    Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with safety and some skill, although U.S. middle-class adults often do not trust young children with knives. What explains these marked differences in the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Learning Together

    Children and Adults in a School Community

    by Barbara Rogoff, Carolyn Goodman Turkanis, Leslee Bartlett ...
    This book advances the theoretical account that Barbara Rogoff presented in her highly acclaimed book, Apprenticeship in Thinking. Here, Rogoff collaborates with two master teachers from an innovative school in Salt Lake City, Utah, to examine how students, parents, and teachers learn by being engaged together in a community of learners. Building on observations by participants in this school, ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Developing Destinies

    A Mayan Midwife and Town

    by Barbara Rogoff ...
    Series series Child Development in Cultural Context
    Born with the destiny of becoming a Mayan sacred midwife, Chona Pérez has carried on centuries-old traditional Indigenous American birth and healing practices over her 85 years. At the same time, Chona developed new approaches to the care of pregnancy, newborns, and mothers based on her own experience and ideas. In this way, Chona has contributed to both the cultural continuities and cultural ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors: A Cultural Paradigm

    by Maricela Correa-Chávez, Rebeca Mejía-Arauz, Barbara Rogoff ...
    Series Book 49 - Advances in Child Development and Behavior
    Children Learn by Observing and Contributing to Family and Community Endeavors, the latest in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior Series provides a major step forward in highlighting patterns and variability in the normative development of the everyday lives of children, expanding beyond the usual research populations that have extensive Western schooling in common. The book documents ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

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  • Punished By Rewards: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

    The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

    by Alfie Kohn ...
    Revised for the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication, Alfie Kohn's landmark challenge to carrot-and-stick psychology features updated reflections and research in a major new afterword by the author.Our basic strategy for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summed up in six words: Do this and you’ll get that. We dangle goodies (from candy bars to sales ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Hold Life Has

    Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community

    by Catherine J. Allen ...
    This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Rethinking School

    How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education

    by Susan Wise Bauer ...
    “If you read only one book on educating children, this should be the book.… With a warm, informative voice, Bauer gives you the knowledge that will help you flex the educational model to meet the needs of your child.” —San Francisco Book ReviewOur K–12 school system isn’t a good fit for all—or even most—students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Red Medicine

    Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing

    by Patrisia Gonzales ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    Patrisia Gonzales addresses "Red Medicine" as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Teaching & Assessing 21st Century Skills

    by Robert J. Marzano, Tammy Heflebower ...
    Series series What Principals Need to Know About
    As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of change in the world is accelerating. The authors believe a combination of cognitive skills (skills students will need to succeed academically) and conative skills (skills students will need to succeed interpersonally) is necessary for the 21st century. This clear, practical guide presents a model of instruction and assessment based on these skills. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Psychedelic Plant Medicines of the Americas

    History, Traditions, and Indigenous Voices

    Edited by Dr Henrique Fernandes Antunes, Nidia Olvera Hernández PhD, Clancy Cavnar PhD, Beatriz Caiuby Labate PHD ...
    An essential new collection that explores the cultural, medicinal, and spiritual traditions of marijuana, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and other psychedelics—informed by both Western and Indigenous knowledgePsychedelic Plant Medicines of the Americas is a collection of 23 psychedelic-specific articles, written by historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and those from other fields in the humanities. ... Read more

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  • Smart Girls in the 21st Century

    Understanding Talented Girls and Women

    by Barbara Kerr, McKay Robyn ...
    Drs. Barbara Kerr and Robyn McKay tackle what it means to live with, work with, and be a modern smart girl. Through their keen insights and academic research of real girls and women, they offer valuable information and advice on giftedness, achievement, self-actualization, and more. They examine bright girls' development, types of intelligence, differences in generations, eminent women, barriers ... Read more

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