They will be what we make of them Written as a collection of ideas, tips and suggestions for the education of primary school children, Not Goats... Children! contains three core messages for any teacher. Focusing firstly on the concept of respect, Callaghan explores the importance of adults respecting children – not just children respecting adults. The second message highlights the need for the teaching of the English language in England to be more heavily weighted within the curriculum. Thirdly, with a higher awareness of obesity in children, Callaghan looks at the importance of sport in education; encouraging good health, fighting obesity and teaching good 'sporting' behaviour. The book aims to provide helpful tips to make the classroom environment not only more productive and successful, but also a happier place – demonstrating that serious teaching doesn’t always need to be carried out in a solemn atmosphere! Not Goats... Children! will appeal to all teachers, old and young, as well as to those interested in education more generally, such as parents of young children. This book aims to provide support and a helping hand to any teacher looking to create the best atmosphere for learning.
Philosophers will be richly rewarded by reading John O’Callaghan’s new book, Thomistic Realism and the Linguistic Turn. Based on his broad knowledge of Aristotle and Aquinas, O’Callaghan provides not only an excellent treatment of Aquinas’s epistemology but also a superb demonstration of just how Aquinas might contribute to contemporary debates. Traditionally, the camps of realism and idealism fiercely engaged one another in the field of epistemology. Thomists participated in confronting idealism from their unique realist position. Post-Wittgenstein, the conflict has been dominated by a form of epistemology that grounds all knowledge in linguistic practice. Since Thomists work in a textual and historical mode, their response to the technical approach of the analytic philosophy in which most of the linguistic epistemologists write has been slow in coming. O’Callaghan expertly closes that gap by successfully bringing together these fields.
Mired in a world of errant wives, missing persons fleeing mundane bills, businesses pursuing dishonest staff and petty personal transgressions, Glasgow detective Stevie McCabe is suddenly asked to investigate the affairs of a Labour MP.Although he knows his client is lying, the commission gets his attention, especially because his unrequited lust for the owner of a jazz club has somehow turned into an asylum appeal for one of her singers and most especially because an old friend he can barely remember is asking him for a pro-bono investigation of the lurid death of his junkie brother.Through the peeling tower blocks and smart sandstone tenements of the city, from university to squalid bed and breakfast hotels, McCabe pursues the trails of the dead junkie and the questionable MP, knowing that they should be unconnected, yet knowing, too, that the strict limits of coincidence are being bent and broken by the ways in which the stories intertwine.A Stevie McCabe novel from www.glasgownoirfiction.com
A comprehensive account of ideology and its role in the foreign policy of the United States of America, this book investigates the way United States foreign policy has been understood, debated and explained in the period since the US emerged as a global force, on its way to becoming the world power. Starting from the premise that ideologies facilitate understanding by providing explanatory patterns or frameworks from which meaning can be derived, the authors study the relationship between ideology and foreign policy, demonstrating the important role ideas have played in US foreign policy. Drawing on a range of US administrations, they consider key speeches and doctrines, as well as private conversations, and compare rhetoric to actions in order to demonstrate how particular sets of ideas – that is, ideologies – from anti-colonialism and anti-communism to neo-conservatism mattered during specific presidencies and how US foreign policy was projected, explained and sustained from one administration to another. Bringing a neglected dimension into the study of US foreign policy, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of US foreign policy, ideology and politics.
This book examines the role of history teaching in Irish secondary schools in the period 1922-72. It assesses what objectives were the most important in history teaching and what interests school history was designed to serve. The emphasis is on the political, cultural, social and economic factors that determined the content of the history curriculum and its development. The primary focus is on the politics and policy of history teaching, including the respective contributions of church and state to the formulation of the history programmes. It is argued that a particular view of Ireland’s past as a Gaelic, Catholic-nationalist one informed the ideas of policy makers and thus provided the basis of state education policy, and history teaching specifically. The conclusion drawn is that history teaching was used by elite interest groups, namely the state and the church, in the service of their own interests. It was used to justify the state’s existence and employed as an instrument of religious education. History was exploited in the pursuit of the objectives of the cultural revival movement, being used to legitimise the restoration of Irish as a spoken language.
An examination of policy and programme in the key social democratic parties of Britain, France, Germany and Sweden since the 1970s. It situates change in the context of capitalist restructuring and shows how the radical Left initially responded to the unfolding crisis of the post-war order.
What is your life worth if you're nobody famous? What would you give to be somebody...anybody?Britain's most sensational TV show is under attack from a fanatical religious cult and Stevie McCabe is in a desperate race to discover what the sect is planning, while tracing a stalker whose threatening internet videos are increasingly disturbed.At the heart of the case - a charismatic young woman who embodies the spirit of Marilyn Monroe, a devious fantasist inventing new identities, the sleaziest tabloid reporter on the planet and an ex-magician planning his greatest trick - to fill his pockets with millions.As always, the city of Glasgow is a vivid backdrop for acts of mayhem, corruption and homicidal intent, in a landscape peopled by crooked police, gay brides, dying philosophers, spiritual gurus, teenage thugs and the missing.
The Doune family were old money, so old they had a motto and a coat of arms. But that didn't stop Lachlan Doune becoming a child killer twenty years ago, while still a child himself. Stevie McCabe knows nothing of why Lachlan, released from psychiatric care after a long incarceration, calls for his services, and has no chance to find out before the client is found hanging from a rowan tree outside the family mansion, his alcoholic sister too wasted to notice. When Lachlan's will is read, the shocking revelation is that his millions have been left to the mother of the child he killed decades before...but that bequest is worth nothing, because the fortune has already been stolen. McCabe, facing his own issues of family and relationships, begins to wade through the bleak, tortured history of a clan weighted down by decades of murder, wealth, suicide, infidelity and violence. Truth is illusory and nothing stays the same for long in their dark world of lies and fear. The veteran detective plunges into a world where money and privilege is overlaid on Glasgow's tapestry of drugs and crime, a convergence that breeds creatures breathing squalid life and miserable death over everything they touch. Can McCabe discover a seam of truth running through the mother lode of decay?
Here is what you'll discover: Two perfect statements to make to a prospective employer which will win you the job hands down. Or, if you already have the job, these statements will make it obvious to anyone that you ‘get it’ with regard to customer service and you’ll move up fast. Page 7. The 3 really simple and common things you have to be really, really good at to make sure you stand out from the crowd. Page 30. The one simple move you can learn to make which ensures you will never fail to greet your customer – no matter what you are doing. Page 11. How to start building instant rapport with your customers in a comfortable, non-threatening way. Page 14. 7 things that you cannot say or do if you expect customers to respond favorably to you. Page 34. 7 rules of proper conduct to make sure you not only keep your job, but set a shining example for those around you. Page 29. 5 ways to spot team shoplifting in action. Page 27. How to be a customer service fanatic. Page 48. The important connection between customer satisfaction and your work ethic. Page 7. How to use ‘sales talk’ to your best advantage. Page 44. The clear difference between sales orientation and task orientation. Page 43. Avoiding the cookie cutter approach to customers. Page 38. 13 tips on how to make sure you present a great image to your customers. Page 32. 5 things to do when you encounter a suspected shoplifter. Page 27. 3 statements that will help your customer out of an embarrassing situation. Page 21. Tips on how to handle telephone calls like an expert. Page 24. 11 must do’s when it comes to store maintenance standards. Page 26. The 6 steps of the sales process, fully explained. Page 13. Explanations and examples of open ended questions. Page 14. 4 examples of closing statements. Page 17. When to stop trying to overcome the customers’ objections, and why. Page 16. The 7 basics of a positive shopping experience. Page 9. 10 ways that you can personally impact the positive shopping experience. Page 10. 2 amazing facts about customer complaints. Page 22. Learn the golden rule of Customer Service and when it does not apply. Page 7. Success tip for learning the basics of the sales process in a comfortable, no anxiety way. Page 17. 6 ways to become an expert in handling multiple customers at the same time. Page 19. The 3 main ways to show customers that you value their time. Page 20. 2 things that must be done, at the check-out, to ensure that you leave a great lasting impression. Page 22. Learn how to know the difference between shoppers who are customers and shoppers who are not. Page 8 And so much more...
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