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  • How to Use Writing for Teaching and Learning

    by Suzanne S. Hudd, Robert A. Smart, Andrew Delohery, J T Torres ...
    Series series How To Guides
    This interdisciplinary guide encourages faculty to use both formal and informal writing to promote deeper learning and problem solving. Using concentric thinking as a theoretical framework, the text outlines a systematic set of cognitive tasks that guide faculty to create and link writing assignments in ways that promote learning and deepen student understanding. Chapters are designed to be ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Nonviolent Response

    Strategies for Responding to Writing

    by Sheri Rysdam, JT Torres ...
    Series series Composition, Literacy, and Culture
    The words teachers write on student work have the power to help students think critically and to hone and project their voices with confidence. They also have the power to shut students down. These words may affect student identity, motivation, and improvement of writing skills. Research suggests that many of the types of comments teachers and other reviewers write on student papers are negative, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Teaching, Learning, and Caring in Higher Education

    How to Cultivate an Interdependent Classroom

    by JT Torres ...
    This practical resource illustrates how to establish and nurture relationships with intention, paving the way for meaningful student, instructor, and content engagement.Torres expertly peels back the layers of disengagement prevalent in today's college classroom and demonstrates how in-person and online courses can form ecologies that empower students and teachers rather than exhaust them. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance

    Performing the Entangled Histories of Cuba and West Africa

    by Jill Flanders Crosby, JT Torres ...
    Using storytelling and performance to explore shared religious expression across continentsThrough a revolutionary ethnographic approach that foregrounds storytelling and performance as alternative means of knowledge, Situated Narratives and Sacred Dance explores shared ritual traditions between the Anlo-Ewe people of West Africa and their descendants, the Arará of Cuba, who were brought to the ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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    by David C. Thomas, Kerr Inkson ...
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  • El Casino Y La Salsa En Cuba

    by Barbara Balbuena ...
    This is one of those books, that might be taken as essential for an understanding of the development of El Casino, the most favorite and important international cuban dance nowadays. As the music scientist Lino Arturo Neira Betancourt puts it: "The text deepens on the outstanding history of this dance and on the analysis, several evidence of its relation to contemporary Cuban popular music are ... Read more

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  • Intentional Interruption

    Breaking Down Learning Barriers to Transform Professional Practice

    by Steven Katz, Lisa Ain Dack ...
    Interrupt the status quo of activity-based PD to enable real professional learning by focusing on learning, collaborative inquiry, and instructional leadership in schools. ... Read more

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  • The Fate of Earthly Things

    Aztec Gods and God-Bodies

    by Molly H. Bassett ...
    Series series Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
    "Bassett at last provides a path to understand better the specifically Aztec characteristics of the teteoh and their ritual 'embodiments.'" — EthnohistoryFollowing their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "god" ( teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Assessing 21st Century Skills

    A Guide to Evaluating Mastery and Authentic Learning

    by Laura M. Greenstein ...
    Go beyond traditional paper-and-pencil tests!The Common Core State Standards clearly define the skills students need for success in college and the 21st century workplace. The question is, how can you measure student mastery of skills like creativity, problem solving, and use of technology? Laura Greenstein demonstrates how teachers can teach and assess 21st century skills using authentic learning ... Read more

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  • Transformative Learning in Practice

    Insights from Community, Workplace, and Higher Education

    Edited by Jack Mezirow, Edward W. Taylor ...
    The leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings. The book answers relevant questions such as: What are effective practices for promoting TL in the classroom? What is it about TL that is most helpful in informing practice? How ... Read more

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  • Maya or Mestizo?

    Nationalism, Modernity, and its Discontents

    by Ronald Loewe ...
    Series series Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
    The Maya of the Yucatán have long been drawn into the Mexican state's attempt to create modern Mexican citizens (mestizos). At the same time, they have contended with globalization pressures, first with hemp production and more recently with increased tourism and the fast-growing influence of American-based evangelical Protestantism. Despite these pressures to turn Maya into mestizo, the citizens ... Read more

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  • The Moral Imperative of School Leadership

    Edited by Michael Fullan ...
    Michael Fullan examines themoral purpose of school leadership and its critical role in "changing the context" in which the principalship is embedded.Michael Fullan examines themoral purpose of school leadership and its critical role in "changing the context" in which the principalship is embedded. ... Read more

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