Social Sciences Education

Paula Lillard, director of a Montessori school ranging in age from 18 months to 15 years, provides a clear and cogent introduction to the Montessori program for the elementary and later years. In detailed accounts, Lillard shows how children acquire the skills to answer their own questions, learn to manage freedom with responsibility, and maintain a high level of intellectual stimulation by using the Montessori method. This is an essential handbook for parents and teachers who have chosen the Montessori alternative for the older child.

In Freedom Teaching, educator and distinguished anti-racism practitioner Matthew Kincaid delivers a one-stop resource for educators and educational leaders seeking to improve equity and increase the cultural responsiveness of their school. In this book, you'll discover the meaning and fundamentals of anti-racist education and find a roadmap to reducing the impact of systemic racism in your classroom.

The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the 18th and 19th centuries, for instance, public education was championed as a way to help citizens learn how to participate in a democracy. By the 1930s, public education, along with union rights and social security, formed an important component of a broad-based fight for social democracy.

In his 2019 book, Stillness Is the Key, Ryan Holiday guides readers using Stoic and Buddhist philosophies to show people how internal stillness can lead to doing great things, personal peace, and happiness. Stillness Is the Key not only shows that stillness works, but it also helpfully guides readers on how they too can achieve tranquility in their minds, which leads to the ability to handle situations that are externally chaotic.

In The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor, Kleinman delivers a deeply humane and inspiring story of his life in medicine and his marriage to Joan, and he describes the practical, emotional and moral aspects of caretaking. He also writes about the problems our society faces as medical technology advances and the cost of health care soars but caring for patients no longer seems important.

Flint, Michigan's water crisis, the New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, Enron: All these incidents are examples of various forms of leadership failure. More specifically, each represents marked failures among leaders with legal training. Dangerous Leaders exposes the risks and results of leaving lawyers unprepared to lead. It provides law schools, law students, and the legal profession with the leadership tools and models to build a better foundation of leadership acumen.

Diesen Monat geht es um die Fragen: "wo?", "woher?", und "wohin?" Um auf diese Fragen zu antworten, benutzt man bestimmte Adverbien, Präpositionen und Verben. Hier können Sie diese Grammatikstrukturen rund um den Ort kompakt wiederholen und üben. Außerdem sind Sie zu Besuch in Hamburg: Mehr als zwei Millionen Menschen kommen jedes Jahr in die Metropole, um eines der vielen Musicals zu sehen. Die Hörtexte finden Sie in dem Begleitheft.

Im Spezialthema geht es diesen Monat darum, wie Sie über den Charakter von Personen sprechen können. Dazu lernen Sie wichtigen Wortschatz, interessante Dialoge und die Deklination und Wortbildung von Adjektiven. Außerdem geht es nach Berlin: Dort gibt es seit Kurzem den bis jetzt größten Supermarkt der deutschsprachigen Länder, der Waren ohne Verpackung verkauft.

Diesen Monat heißt das Spezialthema "Auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt": In den Wochen vor Weihnachten gibt es in vielen Orten diese schöne Tradition. Sie hören Dialoge und Wortschatz zum Thema und können Ihr Hörverständnis trainieren. Außerdem sind Sie zu Besuch bei Mathilde Moser-Pühringer in Salzburg: Ihr Musikgeschäft in der Nähe von Mozarts Geburtshaus ist eines der Traditionsgeschäfte der Stadt.

Diesen Monat ist das Spezialthema das Essengehen: Wie reservieren Sie einen Tisch, und wie formulieren Sie Ihre Bestellung? Und wie bezahlt man in Deutschland typischerweise? Außerdem sind Sie zu Besuch in Trier: In der historischen Stadt machte ein Hobby-Archäologe eine große Entdeckung. Der Fund von mehr als 2500 antiken Geldstücken aus Gold war eine Weltsensation.

Diesen Monat geht es in dem Spezialthema rund um den Garten im Frühling: Welche Dinge gibt es im Garten, und welche Arbeiten gibt es dort zu tun? Außerdem sind Sie diesen Monat zu Besuch im Naturpark Westhavelland in Brandenburg, in der dunkelsten Region Deutschlands: Der Naturpark ist der erste deutsche Sternenpark. Die Hörtexte finden Sie in dem Begleitheft. So können Sie mitlesen, wenn Sie möchten.

Diesen Monat geht es um Filme: Wie sagen Sie, dass Ihnen ein Film gefallen hat? Wie heißen die verschiedenen Filmgenres auf Deutsch? Und welche Wörter sind noch wichtig, wenn Sie über Filme sprechen? Außerdem sind Sie zu Besuch in Berlin: Dort finden im Oktober wieder gleichzeitig zwei Festivals statt, bei denen die schönsten Gebäude in vielen Farben illuminiert werden. Die Hörtexte finden Sie in dem Begleitheft. So können Sie mitlesen, wenn Sie möchten.

Das Spezialthema heißt diesen Monat Sport und Fitness: Wie heißen verschiedene sportliche Aktivitäten auf Deutsch und die Bereiche, die man damit trainiert? Es werden auch einige Adjektive vorgestellt, die den körperlichen Zustand beschreiben. Außerdem geht es diesen Monat auf Besuch in die bekannte Hamburger Sankt Michaeliskirche, auf deren Turm ein Mann mit einem sehr speziellen Beruf zu treffen ist: einen Turmbläser.

Diesen Monat heißt das Spezialthema "Der menschliche Körper von Kopf bis Fuß": Sie hören zum Beispiel, wie einzelne Körperteile heißen, welche gesundheitlichen Probleme man damit haben kann, und Sie lernen Wortschatz rund um die Körperpflege.

Each of us struggles with the existential questions of meaning, purpose, and responsibility. In The Meaning of Life, the Dalai Lama examines these questions from the Buddhist perspective, skillfully guiding us to a clearer understanding which can liberate us from the prison of selfishness and suffering. Also from the Dalai Lama:
The Art of Happiness.

The positive discipline method has proved to be an invaluable resource for teachers who want to foster creative problem-solving within their students, giving them the behavioral skills they need to understand and process what they learn. Each tool is tailored specifically for the modern teacher, with examples and solutions to each and every roadblock that stands in the way of cooperative and student-centered learning.

With no word for “gay” in Arabic, Luma may not have known what to call the feelings she had growing up in Jordan during the 1980’s, but she knew well enough to keep them secret. It was clear that not only would her family have trouble accepting who she was, but trapped in a religious society, she could also be killed if anyone discovered she was gay. Luma spent her teenage years increasingly desperate to find a way out. After two suicide attempts, she finally realizes that to survive, she must leave the Middle East for good.

Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks offers a radical analysis of the psychological effects of colonization on the colonized. Born in 1925 on the island of Martinique - at the time a French colony - Fanon witnessed firsthand the abuses of white colonizers and the system's effects on his country. His revulsion was only confirmed later in life when he worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another French colony. Fanon's work played a pivotal role in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and was later taken up by scholars of postcolonialist studies.

Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own.

This book is an account of how Dr. Kalam visualizes Information and Communication Technology mining the rural talent. Here, Dr. Kalam presents his dream of schools in India in 2020 as symbiotic nerve centres connecting teachers, students and community; personifying knowledge that exists in the world. He also makes a clarion call to accelerate the process of societal transformation. This would involve raising the standards of governance and safeguarding the sanctity of public institutions.