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Meaningful Encounters

Preparing Educators to Teach Holocaust Literature

By: Paula Ressler,Becca Chase

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Meaningful Encounters

Preparing Educators to Teach Holocaust Literature

By: Paula Ressler,Becca Chase

Teaching about the Holocaust presents one of the most formidable challenges teachers face. Meaningful Encounters is Paula Ressler and Becca Chase’s contribution to the efforts of those educators who wish to meet this challenge more knowledgeably and effectively. It tells the story of a unique, inquiry-based English teacher education course focused on Holocaust literature from several genres that integrated literacy pedagogies and literary criticism with historical, philosophical, psychological, and political theories and contexts. The book involves the reader in the complicated tangle of Holocaust education, critically illuminating how difficult this work is, but also demonstrating how teachers can introduce their students responsibly and ethically to this perennially relevant body of literature. The authors offer no facile solutions to the obstacles and pitfalls inherent in teaching this literature. They raise questions, pose problems, consider and analyze how participants responded to issues that emerged, and suggest alternative approaches. The authors recount the students’ and teacher’s unsettling and enlightening experiences, failures, and successes. By following along, preservice educators will be able to conceptualize, discuss, and practice, and inservice teachers and teacher educators rethink, how to teach Holocaust and other literatures about genocide and mass atrocities in culturally relevant and meaningful ways today.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475822103

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Quicklet on Daniel H. Pink's Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Chapter-By-Chapter Commentary & Summary

By: Paula Braun

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Quicklet on Daniel H. Pink's Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Chapter-By-Chapter Commentary & Summary

By: Paula Braun

ABOUT THE BOOK In Drive, Daniel Pink makes the case that it’s time to rethink our business practices. The contemporary view of motivation is that if you want people to perform better, you give them contingent rewards or threaten them with punishments. For many twenty-first century tasks, however, contingent rewards, such as monetary incentives, do not work. Incentives narrow focus and restrict possibility, so they’re only effective for tasks that have clear set of rules and obvious solutions. Too many organizations make decisions based on management assumptions that are outdated and often do more harm than good. The old way of thinking about motivation led to the collapse of the financial system in 2008 and had repercussions throughout the global economy. The stakes are too high to keep operating under a flawed, “business as usual” mentality. MEET THE AUTHOR Paula Braun is a recovering bureaucrat. On a whim, she took a one-year assignment in Iraq and followed it with another one-year assignment in Afghanistan. After that, she needed a break, so she semi-retired and joined a bridge club. To support her bridge habit, she entered the glamorous world of freelance writing. You can follow Paula on twitter @paula_braun, friend her on Facebook, or read her lenses on Squidoo: http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/PaulaSquidoo. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK The conventional view of human motivation is not only outdated, it’s ill-prepared to handle how we organize what we do, how we think about what we do, and how we do what we do. People are not robots programmed to maximize profits. We all have internal motivators and seek self-direction. Continuing to operate out of the old conventional view hampers our economic progress. Rewards and punishments often lead to the opposite of their intended aims. They give us less of what we want by extinguishing intrinsic motivation, diminishing performance, crushing creativity, and crowding out good behavior. They also give us more of what we don’t want by encouraging cheating, shortcuts, and unethical behavior, becoming addictive, and fostering short-term thinking. There are times when incentives and other “if-then” type external rewards work, but they often backfire because, by design, they limit our focus and foster short-term thinking. In general, the less people feel controlled, the better they will perform in the long run.

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Hyperink Inc

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1484006356

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9781484006351

Queer Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the English Language Arts Curriculum

By: Paula Greathouse,Brooke Eisenbach,Joan F. Kaywell

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Queer Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the English Language Arts Curriculum

By: Paula Greathouse,Brooke Eisenbach,Joan F. Kaywell

This text offers 6th - 12th grade ELA educators guided instructional approaches for including queer-themed young adult (YA) literature in the English language arts classroom. Chapters are authored by leading researchers and theorists in young adult literature, specifically queer-themed YA . Each chapter spotlights the reading of one queer-themed YA novel, and offer pre-, during-, and after reading activities that guide students to a deeper understanding of the content while increasing their literacy practices. While each chapter focuses on a specific queer-themed YA novel, readers will discover the many opportunities for cross-disciplinary study.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475842406

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9781475842401

Creativity, Trauma, and Resilience

By: Paula Thomson,S. Victoria Jaque

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Creativity, Trauma, and Resilience

By: Paula Thomson,S. Victoria Jaque

Creativity, Trauma, and Resilience is an examination of creativity and its ability to foster meaning, purpose, and a deeper sense of connection. This is particularly important for individuals who experience higher doses of childhood and adult trauma and who may be contending with the residual effects of terror and uncertainty. Paula Thomson and S. Victoria Jaque outline psychological, physiologic, and neurobiological effects of early attachment ruptures, childhood adversity, adult trauma, and trauma-related factors, and explore how the potential negative trajectory of adversity can be countered by resilience, self-regulation, posttraumatic growth, and factors that promote creativity.

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Lexington Books

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1498560210

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9781498560214

Deep Space Nine Companion

By: Terry J. Erdmann,Paula M. Block

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Deep Space Nine Companion

By: Terry J. Erdmann,Paula M. Block

Lavishly illustrated with a wealth of rare photos and drawings, this is the first and only fully authorized, comprehensive companion to seven seasons of the television show "TV Guide" called "the best acted, written, produced, and altogether finest of the four "Trek" series".

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Simon and Schuster

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0671501062

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9780671501068

Meaningful Encounters

Preparing Educators to Teach Holocaust Literature

By: Paula Ressler,Rebecca Chase

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Preparing Educators to Teach Holocaust Literature

By: Paula Ressler,Rebecca Chase

The book helps preservice and inservice teachers and teacher educators consider how to teach Holocaust and other literatures about genocide and mass atrocities.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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147582209X

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9781475822090

Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality

Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education

By: Kevin K. Kumashiro

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Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality

Queer Students of Color and Anti-Oppressive Education

By: Kevin K. Kumashiro

In recent years, researchers have considerably expanded our understanding of the experiences of students of color and of students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (ie. Queer). They have provided us with rich resources for addressing racism and heterosexism; however, few have examined the unique experiences of students who are both queer and of color, and few have examined the heterosexist or white-centered nature of anti-racist or anti-heterosexist education (respectively). What of the students and educators who live and teach at the intersection of race and sexuality? By combining autobiographical accounts with qualitative and quantitative research on queer students of different racial backgrounds, these essays not only trouble the ways we think about the intersections of race and sexuality, they also offer theoretical insights and educational strategies to educators committed to bringing about change.

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146164643X

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Meaningful Encounters

Meaningful Encounters

Quicklet on Daniel H. Pink's Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Quicklet on Daniel H. Pink's Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

Queer Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the English Language Arts Curriculum

Queer Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the English Language Arts Curriculum

Creativity, Trauma, and Resilience

Creativity, Trauma, and Resilience

Deep Space Nine Companion

Deep Space Nine Companion

Meaningful Encounters

Meaningful Encounters

Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality

Troubling Intersections of Race and Sexuality

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