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The Risk of Reading

How Literature Helps Us to Understand Ourselves and the World

By: Robert P. Waxler

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The Risk of Reading

How Literature Helps Us to Understand Ourselves and the World

By: Robert P. Waxler

Explores some of the meaning and implications of modern life through the deep reading of significant books. Waxler argues that we need "fiction" to give our so-called "real life" meaning

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201

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 10

162356106X

ISBN 13

9781623561062

Transforming Literacy: Changing Lives Through Reading and Writing

Changing Lives Through Reading and Writing

By: Robert P. Waxler,Maureen P. Hall

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Transforming Literacy: Changing Lives Through Reading and Writing

Changing Lives Through Reading and Writing

By: Robert P. Waxler,Maureen P. Hall

The book is interdisciplinary in focus and centers on enlarging teachers understanding of how reading and writing can change lives and how the language arts can contribute significantly to and change educational processes in the twenty-first century. Implicit in its argument is that although the emphasis on science and math is crucial to education in the digital edge, it remains vitally important to keep reading and writing, language and story, at the heart of the educational process. This is particularly true in a democratic society because shaping stories through human language can enhance the quality of our lives, and teach us something important about what it means to be human and vulnerable. In this sense, stories allow for self-reflection and an increased opportunity to enhance and understand emotional intelligence and human community.

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220

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Emerald Group Publishing

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0857246283

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9780857246288

Why Reading Books Still Matters

The Power of Literature in Digital Times

By: Martha C. Pennington,Robert P. Waxler

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Why Reading Books Still Matters

The Power of Literature in Digital Times

By: Martha C. Pennington,Robert P. Waxler

Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass media, and digital culture on the lives of children, this book challenges the potential of science and business to solve the world’s problems without a complementary emphasis on social values. The selection of literary works discussed illustrates the power of literature and human arts to instill such values and foster change. The book offers a valuable foundation for the field of literacy education by providing knowledge about the importance of language and literature that educators can use in their own teaching and advocacy work.

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299

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Routledge

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1351809067

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9781351809061

Losing Jonathan

By: Robert P. Waxler,Linda Waxler

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Losing Jonathan

By: Robert P. Waxler,Linda Waxler

When Bob and Linda Waxler received a phone call warning them their beloved and accomplished son Jonathan was taking heroin, they began a journey that took them through the detox hospitals and halfway houses of America. But the second call a year later, from the medical examiner in San Francisco, informing them that Jonathan had died, plunged them into the deep darkness--a long, lonely journey into the center of themselves. Their task was to survive in a world that would never again be the same, and they did survive and even triumph, incorporating Jonathan into their lives not as a lost son, but as a living spirit who is with them in a new way.

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212

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Spinner Publications

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0932027768

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9780932027764

Book's by Robert P. Waxler

The Risk of Reading

The Risk of Reading

Transforming Literacy: Changing Lives Through Reading and Writing

Transforming Literacy: Changing Lives Through Reading and Writing

Why Reading Books Still Matters

Why Reading Books Still Matters

Losing Jonathan

Losing Jonathan

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