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Promotes a model of education which is collaborative and non-hierarchical. While traditional approaches to learning and teaching stress cognitive aspects of development and learning, this text advocates an approach which synthesizes the cognitive, affective and social dimensions of learning.

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Focuses upon how learning communities are transforming schools and communities throughout the world. This monograph analyses the organising principles of this cultural transformation and considers how it will shape learning in schools and communities throughout the world.

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In Transforming Lives, Alexander Rdlach highlights the essential role that faith community nursing and health ministries play in local health and well-being. Rdlach argues that health systems and governments should partner with these programs in public health outreach efforts.

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Transforming Medical Library Staff for the Twenty-First Century focuses on how the medical library can redeploy its staff to support these new services through actively engaging and empowering them in the process. It shares best practices in developing and motivating staff to accept and welcome the changing priorities of medical libraries.

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Based on Arthur Cebrowski's autobiographical history of the development of network-centric warfare, the author uses the material gathered by Cebrowski to craft a history based on the former naval officer's own writings and testimony, and on interviews of Cebrowski conducted by a variety of individuals in the media and military.

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Emergent paradigms in the physical sciences are combined with deconstructionist methods and Vygotsky's theory of speech and thought to formulate new mind-sets for society and education, which will promote nonlinear, nonpatriarchal, nonviolent, anti-authoritarian worldviews on which to build stronger individuals and societies.

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This book describes a groundbreaking concept that enables public libraries-and librarians-to become indispensable by following a "Three Pillars" educational approach, and by replacing traditional terms with powerful, intuitive, value-enhanced terminology that everyone understands.

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A history of the constitutional right to privacy.

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Transforming Professionals into Experts: A Systematic and Comprehensive Approach to Mid-Career Teacher Development provides a systematic, comprehensive program for advancing the professional skills of teachers that have already mastered foundational teaching skills.

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Transforming Professionals into Experts: A Systematic and Comprehensive Approach to Mid-Career Teacher Development provides a systematic, comprehensive program for advancing the professional skills of teachers that have already mastered foundational teaching skills.

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Religion arouses interest at the level of reading ("The Da Vinci Code"), critical diatribe (Dawkins), and educational controversy (Faith Schools). This book argues the importance that public education should have as a priority not only that pupils become literate, numerate and sociate, but also 'religiate'.

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This joint Russian and American work focuses on the key issue in the Russian economic reform processhow to convert state-owned firms into successful private companies capable of competing in a market economy.

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Comprehensively describing systems that support teachers and students in a holistic and humanistic way, Transforming Schools Through Systems Change offers a road map for those in struggling schools who want to see real change resulting in improved student achievement. Building...

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Comprehensively describing systems that support teachers and students in a holistic and humanistic way, Transforming Schools Through Systems Change offers a road map for those in struggling schools who want to see real change resulting in improved student achievement. Building...

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Strategies like pair share, Big Books, readers theater, puppet shows and choral responses encourage all students to participate and respond in storytime reading lessons, while brainstorming, composing and publishing strategies encourage participation in storytime writing lessons.

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Transforming Student Travel calls for a paradigm shift in the student tour industry: educators collaborating to create a student-centered, inquiry-based tour. Marcel Proust said, "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." This...

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Transforming Student Travel calls for a paradigm shift in the student tour industry: educators collaborating to create a student-centered, inquiry-based tour. Marcel Proust said, "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." This...

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