The economic and social challenges confronting the nation today demand that all citizens acquire and learn to use complex reasoning and thinking skills. Education and Learning to Think confronts the issues facing our schools as they take on this mission. This volume reviews previous research, highlights successful learning strategies, and makes specific recommendations about problems and directions requiring further study. Among the topics covered are the nature of thinking and learning, the possibilities of teaching general reasoning, the attempts to improve intelligence, thinking skills in academic disciplines, methods of cultivating the disposition toward higher order thinking and learning, and the integral role motivation plays in these activities.
Princess with a Backpack is uniquely positioned in the travel publication market. It combines practical and specific advice, personal experience and direct references to the target reader, which gives the reader a practical and humorous account of the backpacking experience. Various Australian female personalities such as Bessie Bardot, Tali Shine and Mimi Zu have made valuable contributions to the book in the form of quotes, advice or anecdotes to add variety, fun and credibility.
Welcome to the town of "Maximum Strength Parenting," a happy little place where you'll have a lot to do, a lot to think about, and a lot of fun! "Maximum Strength Parenting" is the art of using all of your gifts and knowledge in the most important and influential job you will ever have, parenting. A "Maximum Strength Parent" helps foster the growth of a "Maximum Strength Child", which is a child who enjoys the process of striving to his or her potential and acts with courage, consistency, responsibility, power, authority, flexibility, sound judgment, and humanity in his or her emotional, intellectual, spiritual, moral, and physical interactions with the world. "Maximum Strength Parenting" is the greatest gift you can give your child. In "Maximum Strength Parenting" we express our "Freedom of Speech" and our "Freedom to Teach," but we stop well-short of the "Freedom to Preach" that is evident in so many parent-advice' books of the day. Throughout "Maximum Strength Parenting" you will find rich information, balanced commentary, and consideration of nuanced points that will cause you to think more deeply about your positions (or perhaps re-think your positions) on countless topics of philosophical and practical importance in parenting. We also provide broad ranges of effective parenting strategies for you to choose from. Throughout these pages we have provided hundreds of little bits of insight, encouragement, strategy, inspiration, and solution options. From our hearts to yours, we hope you will find the ideas and strategies in Maximum Strength Parenting to be worthy companions on your lifelong journey of raising a Maximum Strength Child. Andrew Vaughan, Ph.D. Lauren Resnick, M.S., CCC, SLP, & Anne Long, M.S., Ed.
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