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- Some parts were good
- A political memoir of significance
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Bangladesh 2000: On the Brink of Civil War
Paul Ryder Ryan
Manufacturer: Munewata Press
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ASIN: 0966270762 |
Customer Reviews:
Some parts were good.......2000-12-28
The first half of this book reads as if the author spent most of his time hunkered down in a guest house in the more affluent part of Dhaka, reporting stories he read in the local English language press and what he ate for dinner. Later on, the book becomes more interesting as the reader experiences the author's growing realization that all in Bangladesh is not as it may seem to a visiting expatriate. The best parts are those describing the author's experiences travelling around Bangladesh giving courses for journalism students. The title seems overly incendiary given that the author, having spent only some months in Bangladesh, would not seem to be in a position to make such a dramatic prediction about political events there.
A political memoir of significance.......2000-05-13
As a political memoir, Bangladesh 2000: on the Brink of Civil War is a good read. This is a part of the world that Americans have only limited access to. While it is common knowledge that Bangladesh is prone to natural disasters, the political situation in the country is less well known. The author, Paul Ryder Ryan, an experienced journalist, makes a good case for his conclusion that the poverty-stricken country is on the brink of civil war. Just the arrest of more than 50,000 "outlaws and terrorists" in the cause of law and order is a mindboggling fact. The number of diverse political forces in the country all pulling in opposite directions is also aptly demonstrated by Mr. Ryan, as is the increasingly volatile situation in general in South Asia, which includes India and Palistan their disputed territory of Kashmir.
Average customer rating:
- Fantastic - great read about women with BALLS
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Christine Hamilton's Bumper Book of British Battleaxes
Christine Hamilton
Manufacturer: Robson Books
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ASIN: 1861051514 |
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Fantastic - great read about women with BALLS.......1999-04-28
This is a tremendous book - lighthearted,witty, entertaining - you can read it straight through or dip in and out by the bedside. Christine Hamilton has an easy way with words - and she knows what makes great women tick.
Buy it - Read It!!
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How to Solarize Your House
Jay Hedden , and
Thomas Dean
Manufacturer: Macmillan Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0684174251 |
Book Description
Praise for the First Edition:
". . . poses a challenging, compelling argument and is highly recommended for any educator in search of tips, tricks, and techniques for self-improvement on the job."
--Midwest Book Review
December 2001
"I treasure this book. It is informative, well written, and important to educational leaders."
--Robert Garmston, Cofounder
Institute for Intelligent Behavior
"This book is essential to anyone interested in a framework and strategies for supporting a school staff in reflecting on its practice to increase learning at the individual and organizational levels, and subsequently enhancing student learning."
--Shirley M. Hord, Program Manager
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
Praise for the Second Edition:
“This book is a must-read for teacher leaders, principals, and central office administrators. The authors make a substantive and powerful argument for addressing reflection at all levels of the organization and provide practical tools and insights to facilitate a comfortable transition from theory to practice. This book will be valuable to anyone serious about ensuring success for all students."
--Stephanie Hirsh, Deputy Executive Director
National Staff Development Council
Use reflective practice to renew your life, enhance your teaching practice, and promote success for your students!
As you reflect on your day, what can be learned about your teaching and leadership practice? When you create space during the week to reflect with your colleagues, in what ways can you share your experiences, successes, challenges, and questions to foster collaborative learning and growth? Reflective practice--individually and with others--counteracts the effects of professional isolation and instills a sense of meaning, renewal, and empowerment in the hectic lives of educators. Insights gained through reflective practice improve teaching and leadership practices that result in enhanced learning and development for students. This book offers a roadmap for reflective practice that presents research-based information and ideas and strategies for engaging in reflective practice alone, with partners, in small groups, and even schoolwide.
Reflective Practice to Improve Schools is the reference tool you need for mastering reflective practice and initiating it in your school. The authors have revamped this second edition to include:
- Additional ideas and strategies for
incorporating individual reflection into your life
- New examples of
reflective practice for administrators
- New examples of
reflective practice for schoolwide implementation
- Greater
reflection for fostering equity and cultural competence
A commitment to reflective practice is a commitment to realizing your potential as educators and human beings, not only human doings.
Customer Reviews:
Poses a challenging, compelling argument.......2001-12-10
Reflective Practice To Improve Schools: An Action Guide To Educators defines reflective practice (approaches to teaching that require personal commitment to continuous learning and improvement) and discusses how reflective practice and continuous learning can be spread among teachers and applied throughout school systems to create a better educational base for our children's future. Tables, figures, point-by-point bulletins and black-and-white diagrams help illustrate the benefits of reflective practice. Collaboratively written by Jennifer York-Barr, William A. Sommers, Gail S. Ghere, and Jo Monite in an effort to present difficult undergraduate level concepts in clear language that can be easily grasped, Reflective Practice To Improve Schools poses a challenging, compelling argument and is highly recommended for any educator in search tips, tricks, and techniques for self improvement on the job.
Book Description
Academic self-regulation, the process through which individuals become proactive seekers, generators, and processors of information, is widely acknowledged as the means by which students transform their mental abilities into academic skills. Self-regulated students stand out from their classmates by the goals they set for themselves, the accuracy of their behavioral self-monitoring, and the resourcefulness of their strategic thinking. This highly practical text brings together leading educators and practitioners to illuminate how self-regulatory skills can effectively be taught to elementary through college-age students in the classroom and other learning settings. Chapters present a range of interventions integrating self-regulation instruction into the regular curriculum, describing each project in depth and evaluating how well it helped students acquire self-regulation principles, apply them to enhance learning, and maintain them over time.
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"Anyone serious about leading the reform of teaching and learning in our schools should read this book. Kottkamp and Osterman reframe the conversation about what it means to lead a learning organization. Their reflective processes hold promise for educators as they struggle together to create new possibilities for student learning."
Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Professor
Miami University, OH
In this age of mandated reforms, reflective practice is a truly effective, empowering way to make meaningful, positive changes.
Written for teachers, administrators, and professional development specialists in schools and universities, this book is an educators’ guide to reflective practice. In clear, accessible language, the authors explain the potential to create meaningful change in schools and show you how to integrate reflective practice effectively into the daily work of schools.
The book:
- Explains reflective practice as a professional development strategy and its importance for school reform
- Offers ideas and practical strategies to facilitate collaborative, data-based inquiry, dialogue, and problem-solving in schools
- Describes reflective practice in action and illustrates its power to create meaningful change in classrooms
- Shows how reflective practice is an important step in creating professional learning organizations
Reflective practice has the potential to renew your sense of optimism, commitment, and efficacy as you learn how to support meaningful professional growth, shape a culture of learning, and make important changes in students’ learning.
Book Description
Jennifer Moon adopts a methodical, integrated approach to reflective and experiential learning. The book features a rigorous analysis of the theory behind the techniques to establish exactly what is meant by reflective and experiential learning and how they relate to the process of learning. The final section of the book provides useful ideas for applying the models of learning, providing practical advice, tools, activities, and photocopiable resources that can be incorporated into teaching practice.
Book Description
The learning portfolio is a rich, flexible document that engages students in continuous, thoughtful analysis of their learning.
Developed through a process of reflection, evidence, and collaboration, the portfolio may be paper, electronic, or another creative medium; at its center, the power of writing and reflection are combined with purposeful, selective collection and assessment of learning endeavors and outcomes in order to improve learning.
Straightforward and easy to understand, this book offers readers both an academic understanding of, and rationale for, learning portfolios along with practical information that can be custom tailored to suit many disciplinary, pedagogical, programmatic, and institutional needs.
Organized into four parts, the book includes
- A foundation for and review of the value of reflective practice in student learning and how learning portfolios support reflection, sound assessment, and collaboration.
- Diverse contributions by practitioners in two-and four-year institutions in the United States and Canada who implement portfolios in a variety of ways, including the use of digital technology. The array of specific models of how to use portfolios across disciplines, courses, and programs provides many practical ideas that can work on different campuses.
- Fourteen practical and adaptable examples of actual student-learning portfolios.
- A wealth of assignment sheets, guidelines, criteria, evaluating rubrics, and other materials used in developing print and electronic learning portfolios from across disciplines, programs, and types of institutions in higher education.
Average customer rating:
- A useful guide to effective learning
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Reflective Learning in Practice
Manufacturer: Gower Pub Co
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ASIN: 0566083779 |
Customer Reviews:
A useful guide to effective learning.......2003-04-30
"We define reflective learning as a process which involves dialogue with others for improvement or transformation whilst recognizing the emotional, social and political con text of the learner."
This is essentially a book of detailed case studies, preceded by five short chapters which discuss the authors' purpose, the nature of learning and the distinctive features of reflective learning, as the authors have defined it. The case studies are then brought together in a three page conclusion. The forty or so pages of part 1 and the Conclusion provide a good summary of key questions relating to effective learning and the key themes that can be found in reflective learning. Readers are likely to want to scan the 16 case studies for examples that relate to their situation. Each is carefully written up, but the style makes for dense reading and is more likely to appeal to the specialist than the general management reader.
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Reflective Practice in Teacher Education: Learning from Case Studies of Environmental Education
Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing
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ASIN: 3039108689 |
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Reflective Learning: Theory and Practice
Deborah A. Sugerman
Manufacturer: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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ASIN: 0787265616 |
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