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Direct linkLanman, Barry A., Ed.; Wendling, Laura M., Ed. – Altamira Press, 2006
This book is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels. The anthology opens with chapters on the fundamentals of oral history and its place in the classroom, but its heart lies in nearly two dozen insightful personal essays by educators who have successfully incorporated oral history into their…
Descriptors: Historians, Anthologies, Oral History, History Instruction
Stainback, Susan, Ed.; Stainback, William, Ed. – 1992
This book discusses how the curriculum can be designed, adapted, and delivered in general education classrooms that are attempting to promote inclusive communities. Chapters include: "Toward Inclusive Classrooms" (Susan Stainback et al.); "Celebrating Diversity, Creating Community: Curriculum that Honors and Builds on Differences" (Mara…
Descriptors: Community Support, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
Download full textDewees, Sarah, Ed.; Hammer, Patricia Cahape, Ed. – 2000
While the condition of rural school facilities varies across the country, most rural school districts face similar issues as they consider new facility construction, renovations, or additions. These issues are how to gain public support for funding, how to make the best use of local resources, how to design buildings that meet a variety of…
Descriptors: Community Support, Construction Programs, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Facilities Planning
Long, Sandra M., Ed.; Batchelor, Barbara, Ed. – 1979
This collection of 11 articles focuses on various kinds of change that children face, and ways that adults can help nurture the development of coping strategies. Situations of change covered are crises of death, divorce, imprisonment, or hospitalization of family members, new environments such as entering school, the birth of a new sibling, and…
Descriptors: Change, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Children
Knapp-Philo, Joanne, Ed.; Rosenkoetter, Sharon E., Ed. – WestEd, 2006
The newborn is amazingly equipped to acquire language and literacy--these early years are the foundation upon which later learning is built. Drawing on current research, the authors of this book examine the elements of beginning language and literacy and look at how families, programs, and communities can encourage beginning language and literacy…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition
Booth, Alan, Ed.; Crouter, Ann C., Ed. – 2001
Although our society has made substantial investments in research and programs based on the idea that communities affect families and children, significant questions have emerged about the validity of the link between communities, children, and families. This book, presented in four sections, focuses on how communities undergird or undermine human…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Child Development
