Karen Kear's Books

Online and Social Networking Communities

A Best Practice Guide for Educators

By: Karen Kear

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Online and Social Networking Communities

A Best Practice Guide for Educators

By: Karen Kear

Online and Social Networking Communities is a professional guide written for educational practitioners and trainers who wish to use online communication tools effectively in their teaching. Focusing on the student experience of learning in online communities, it addresses ‘web 2.0’ and other ‘social software’ tools and considers the role these technologies play in supporting student learning and building learning communities. The guide offers: real-world case studies and quality research must-have lists of useful resources guidance on building and supporting online learning communities discussion of how collaborative learning can be assessed coverage of wikis, forums, blogging, instant messaging, Second Life, Twitter, desktop videoconferencing and social networking sites such as Facebook. Online and Social Networking Communities helps educators and trainers develop a critical approach by exploring online learning from both the student’s and educator’s perspective. This practical guide provides the tools to help develop confident and thoughtful online educators, able to create successful and enjoyable learning experiences for their students.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136907831

ISBN 13

9781136907838

Serving Military Families

Theories, Research, and Application

By: Karen Rose Blaisure,Tara Saathoff-Wells,Amy Laura Dombro,Colonel Angela Pereira,Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Serving Military Families

Theories, Research, and Application

By: Karen Rose Blaisure,Tara Saathoff-Wells,Amy Laura Dombro,Colonel Angela Pereira,Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth

This text introduces readers to the unique culture of military families, their resilience, and the challenges of military life. Personal stories from nearly 70 active duty, reservists, veterans, and their families from all branches and ranks of the military bring their experiences to life. A review of the latest research, theories, policies, and programs better prepares readers for understanding and working with military families. Objectives, key terms, tables, figures, summaries, and exercises, including web based exercises, serve as a chapter review. The book concludes with a glossary. Readers learn about diverse careers within which they can make important differences for families. Engaging vignettes are featured throughout: Voices from the Frontline offer personal accounts of issues faced by actual program leaders, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, service members, veterans, and their families. Spotlight on Research highlights the latest studies on dealing with combat related issues. Best Practices review the optimal strategies used in the field. Tips from the Frontline offer suggestions from experienced personnel. Updated throughout including the latest demographic data, the new edition also features: -New chapter (9) on women service members that addresses the accomplishments and challenges faced by this population including sexual bias and assault, and combat-related psychological disorders. - New chapter (10) on veterans and families looks at veterans by era (e.g.WW2), each era’s signature issues and how those impact programs and policies, and challenges veterans may face such as employment, education, and mental and physical health issues. -Two new more comprehensive and cohesive chapters (11 & 12) review military and civilian programs, policies, and organizations that support military and veteran families. -Additional information on TBI and PTSD, the deployment cycle, stress and resilience, the possible negative effects of military life on families, same-sex couples and their children, and the recent increase in suicides in the military. -More applied cases and exercises that focus on providing services to military families. Intended as a text for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on military families or as a supplement for courses on the family, marriage and family, stress and coping, or family systems taught in family science, human development, clinical or counseling psychology, sociology, social work, and nursing, this book also appeals to helping professionals who work with military and veteran families.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

551

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317554698

ISBN 13

9781317554691

Performing the Unstageable

Success, Imagination, Failure

By: Karen Quigley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Performing the Unstageable

Success, Imagination, Failure

By: Karen Quigley

From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare's King Lear or Sarah Kane's Cleansed, to the adaptation of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of challenging plays and impossible texts, images or ideas. Performing the Unstageable: Success, Imagination, Failure examines this phenomenon of what the theatre cannot do or has not been able to do at various points in its history. The book explores four principal areas to which unstageability most frequently pertains: stage directions, adaptations, violence and ghosts. Karen Quigley incorporates a wide range of case studies of both historical and contemporary theatrical productions including the Wooster Group's exploration of Hamlet via the structural frame of John Gielgud's 1964 filmed production, Elevator Repair Service's eight-hour staging of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and a selection of impossible stage directions drawn from works by such playwrights as Eugene O'Neill, Philip Glass, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane and Alistair McDowall. Placing theatre history and performance analysis in such a context, Performing the Unstageable values what is not possible, and investigates the tricky underside of theatre's most fundamental function to bring things to the place of showing: the stage.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

273

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1350055468

ISBN 13

9781350055469

The Lost Diary of Sami Star

By: Karen McCombie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Lost Diary of Sami Star

By: Karen McCombie

A wonderfully warm and touching story of friendship, identity and kindness from top-notch tween author Karen McCombie.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

HarperCollins UK

Published Date

ISBN 10

1800900279

ISBN 13

9781800900271

Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management

By: Sally A Weiss,Ruth M Tappen,Karen Grimley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management

By: Sally A Weiss,Ruth M Tappen,Karen Grimley

Transition from student to professional with confidence. Stepping out of the classroom and into professional nursing practice can be stressful. This handy guide will build your confidence and prepare you to meet the challenges you’ll face as a new staff nurse in today’s dynamic health-care environment. You’ll explore your future responsibilities as a leader and a manager and the workplace issues and trends that you’ll encounter in practice.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

361

Publisher

F.A. Davis

Published Date

ISBN 10

0803699042

ISBN 13

9780803699045

Caribbean Journeys

An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks

By: Karen Fog Olwig

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Caribbean Journeys

An Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks

By: Karen Fog Olwig

DIVAn ethnographic study of migration based on the experiences of three dispersed Caribbean families as they maintain networks across their diverse locations./div

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

340

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822339943

ISBN 13

9780822339946

The Kaizen Event Planner

Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments

By: Karen Martin,Mike Osterling

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Kaizen Event Planner

Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office, Service, and Technical Environments

By: Karen Martin,Mike Osterling

Kaizen Events are an effective way to train organizations to break unproductive habits and adopt a continuous improvement philosophy while, at the same time, achieve breakthrough performance-level results. Through Kaizen Events, cross-functional teams learn how to make improvements in a methodological way. They learn how to quickly study a process,

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

CRC Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439827826

ISBN 13

9781439827826

Translations of Security

A Framework for the Study of Unwanted Futures

By: Trine Villumsen Berling,Ulrik Pram Gad,Karen Lund Petersen,Ole Wæver

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Translations of Security

A Framework for the Study of Unwanted Futures

By: Trine Villumsen Berling,Ulrik Pram Gad,Karen Lund Petersen,Ole Wæver

This book scrutinizes how contemporary practices of security have come to rely on many different translations of security, risk, and danger. Institutions of national security policies are currently undergoing radical conceptual and organisational changes, and this book presents a novel approach for how to study and politically address the new situation. Complex and uncertain threat environments, such as terrorism, climate change, and the global financial crisis, have paved the way for new forms of security governance that have profoundly transformed the ways in which threats are handled today. Crucially, there is a decentralisation of the management of security, which is increasingly handled by a broad set of societal actors that previously were not considered powerful in the conduct of security affairs. This transformation of security knowledge and management changes the meaning of traditional concepts and practices, and calls for investigation into the many meanings of security implied when contemporary societies manage radical dangers, risks, and threats. It is necessary to study both what these meanings are and how they developed from the security practices of the past. Addressing this knowledge gap, the book asks how different ideas about threats, risk, and dangers meet in the current practices of security, broadly understood, and with what political consequences. This book will be of interest to students of critical security studies, anthropology, risk studies, science and technology studies and International Relations. The Open Access version of this book, available at: https://www.routledge.com/Translations-of-Security-A-Framework-for-the-Study-of-Unwanted-Futures/Berling-Gad-Petersen-Waever/p/book/9781032007090 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

235

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000452182

ISBN 13

9781000452181

Social Memory Technology

Theory, Practice, Action

By: Karen Worcman,Joanne Garde-Hansen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Social Memory Technology

Theory, Practice, Action

By: Karen Worcman,Joanne Garde-Hansen

Memory is a fundamental aspect of being and becoming, intimately entwined with space, time, place, landscape, emotion, imagination and identity. Memory studies is a burgeoning field of enquiry drawing from a range of social science, arts and humanities disciplines including human geography, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, heritage and museum studies, psychology and history. This book is a critically theorised practical exposition of how media and technology are used to make memories for museums, archives, social movements and community projects, looking at specific cases in the UK and Brazil where the authors have put these theories into practice. The authors define the protocol they present as social memory technology. Critically, this book is about learning to deal with our pasts and learning new methods of connecting our pasts across cultures toward a shared understanding and application of memory technologies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

248

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

131768530X

ISBN 13

9781317685302

Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management

By: Sally Weiss,Ruth Tappen,Karen Grimley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management

By: Sally Weiss,Ruth Tappen,Karen Grimley

Transition from student to professional with confidence. Stepping out of the classroom and into professional nursing practice can be stressful. This handy guide will build your confidence and prepare you to meet the challenges you’ll face as a new staff nurse in today’s dynamic health-care environments. You’ll explore your future responsibilities as a leader and a manager and the workplace issues and trends that you’ll encounter in practice.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

573

Publisher

F.A. Davis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1719649960

ISBN 13

9781719649964

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music

The Reynolds Desert House

By: Roger Reynolds,Karen Reynolds

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music

The Reynolds Desert House

By: Roger Reynolds,Karen Reynolds

• Describes the creative energy of two highly respected 20th century artists, Iannis Xenakis both as engineer and composer, and Roger Reynolds, Pulitzer prize winning musician in 1989 • Will appeal to the professional sector of musicians and architects, and students in both of these disciplines • Connects the creative path of architecture and music, i.e., Xenakis’ treatment of “light” in an architectural context parallels his use of varying textural density in his music. • Analyzes chamber works Achorripsis, Thallein, and his string quartet, Tetras, which pertain to the interactive house design

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

247

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000468119

ISBN 13

9781000468113

Silent Death

The Killing of Julie Ramage

By: Karen Kissane (Aus)

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Silent Death

The Killing of Julie Ramage

By: Karen Kissane (Aus)

Journalist Karen Kissane follows the accused into the courtroom, telling the inside story of one of Australia’s most controversial trials and the marriage at its centre. A compelling combination of great writing, true crime and courtroom drama. Julie and Jamie Ramage were the perfect middle-class Australian couple with everything: children at private schools, he a company director and she a financial controller for a fashion house. But Julie walked out of their seemingly perfect marriage. And then, one day, he killed her. Beneath the veneer of perfection there had lain a relationship marred by affairs, obsession and a history of violence. Jamie confessed to the killing - but declared that he had been provoked and therefore not guilty of murder as his wife had driven him over the edge. Jamie's defence of provocation was successful and he is now serving a prison sentence for the lesser crime of manslaughter. The woman he strangled the life from and buried in a shallow grave had no voice in court and no way of telling her story. Silent Death tells Julie's story - but also takes us into the disturbing wider situation - how a killing took place in the comfort and security of a moneyed life; how friends and family either didn't see or think they should be involved. And it is the story of how a court case is about tactics and procedure first - and justice second.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

277

Publisher

Hachette Australia

Published Date

ISBN 10

073362586X

ISBN 13

9780733625862

Online and Social Networking Communities

A Best Practice Guide for Educators

By: Karen Lesley Kear

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Online and Social Networking Communities

A Best Practice Guide for Educators

By: Karen Lesley Kear

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

204

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136907807

ISBN 13

9781136907807

Online and Social Networking Communities

A Best Practice Guide for Educators

By: Karen Kear

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Online and Social Networking Communities

A Best Practice Guide for Educators

By: Karen Kear

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136907831

ISBN 13

9781136907838

Book's by Karen Kear

Online and Social Networking Communities

Online and Social Networking Communities

Serving Military Families

Serving Military Families

Performing the Unstageable

Performing the Unstageable

The Lost Diary of Sami Star

The Lost Diary of Sami Star

Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management

Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management

Caribbean Journeys

Caribbean Journeys

The Kaizen Event Planner

The Kaizen Event Planner

Translations of Security

Translations of Security

Social Memory Technology

Social Memory Technology

Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management

Essentials of Nursing Leadership & Management

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music

Xenakis Creates in Architecture and Music

Silent Death

Silent Death

Online and Social Networking Communities

Online and Social Networking Communities

Online and Social Networking Communities

Online and Social Networking Communities

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email