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Empowerment is vital to older people's quality of life and to the health of any society, and an international perspective on the issue will inform all who work with older people.

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Empowerment is vital to older people's quality of life and to the health of any society, and an international perspective on the issue will inform all who work with older people.

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This collection of chapters for K-12, college and university and community based organizations present voices from across the broad community of educators who share their successful empowerment practices using student centered processes inside and outside of the classroom.

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"This book presents an integrated strategy approach that can be used to accompany text structure instruction on the five most commonly used expository text structures"--

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Aims to empower those who work in education to build more support in Congress and state legislatures. This book includes personal anecdotes that illuminate successes and failures and examples that teach from real-life experience. It is designed for educators, and shows them how to increase their political clout in the fight for education.

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Empowering Students Through Questioning examines the art of question construction so teachers can plan more effective lessons and achieve greater student engagement. Addressed is the purpose of questioning, pitfalls in developing questions, types of questions to use for assessments, and activities to use to determine question effectiveness.

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In Empowering Students, educators Robert Brower and Amy Keller provide teachers with seven powerful steps that build character and promote success in students' lives. These steps include making critical distinctions; building strong and resilient relationships; avoiding negati...

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A much-needed examination of the impact on teachers and parents of the effort to improve our schools through restructuring, this book looks at professionalization and parent empowerment programs from the ground level rather than from the large-scale policy level.

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Empowering the Voice of the Teacher Researcher through a Culture of Inquiry is essentially a description of one school's initiatives to use collaborative communities and action research to empower teacher research and a culture of collective inquiry. It is written by teachers ...

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An examination of the politics of representation in Hindu nationalism.

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Anyone who reads with young children will benefit from this book designed to provide a fun, evidence-based approach to shared reading. Empowering Young Readers offers a straightforward approach for creating meaningful dialogues while reading as well as practical recommendations for getting the most out of your cherished reading experiences.

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Adult Education contradicts the theorists and practitioners who claim that empowering organizations can only be created when those at the top decide to share power. Those people who work in organizations and are trying to improve their understanding of how to reshape the organization into a democratic workplace will find this useful.

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This book offers thought-provoking and instructive insights into the personalities and policies that enhance, or detract from, institutional evolution and provides practical insights into key levers for targeted, transformational growth.

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This book offers thought-provoking and instructive insights into the personalities and policies that enhance, or detract from, institutional evolution and provides practical insights into key levers for targeted, transformational growth.

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This book provides insight on how educators can increase the efficacy and achievement of urban youth. Angela Dye shares instructional methodologies and stories to help the reader develop an intimate understanding of the empowerment principles in action. Through these principle...

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This book offers lenses and portraits of Latino/a adolescents who put into practice the elements of literacy for English language arts learning and understanding. It illustrates how adolescents experience scribal identities and language pluralism that sustains their cultural knowledge as they make meaning in civic and schooling communities.

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Argues that pre-election presidential debates are not primarily about presidential policy-making. Rather, they are opportunities to demonstrate a candidate's ability to lead by summarising, in a specific test of presidential character, the larger conflict between the candidates.

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Spanish villagers tell many folktales that describe in metaphorical language the struggles of young men and women as they emerge from their parental families and join in love. This book presents orally transmitted tales, including "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," "Blancaflor," and dragonslayer stories.

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