Collaborative Explorations of Character Experience
Collaborative Explorations of Character Experience

Author: Don K. Philpot

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-03-15

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1475860013

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Many middle grade novels published in the past 50 years focus on the personal experiences of a prominent fictional world individual age 10-14. This singular focus on one adolescent character, which is sustained for the full length of the novel, is most common in contemporary realistic or period novels. To explore the personal experiences of a prominent fictional young person with middle grade students, teachers will select novels whose exclusive focus is the lived experiences of one fictional world individual age 10-14 and guide students’ efforts to develop full and enlightened understandings about these individuals. Collaborative Explorations of Character Experience: Reading Actively in Middle Grade Language Arts draws on the personal experiences of eight fictional young people in an effort to answer three key questions: What can middle grade students learn about a prominent adolescent character in a middle grade novel by focusing on the personal experiences of that individual? In what ways do middle grade students benefit from reading assigned novels with a sustained focus on character experience and the personal experiences of a fictional young person? How can middle grade language arts teachers help their students to read assigned novels with a sustained focus on character experience?

Exploring Indigenous Novels in Grades 5–10
Exploring Indigenous Novels in Grades 5–10

Author: Don K. Philpot

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2024-09-09

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1475860536

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The fictional worlds created by many contemporary American and Canadian Indigenous novelists for young people provide unique access to the lived experiences of Indigenous people, past, present, and future and the often inaccessible worlds they inhabit. Readers aged 10-16 will gain many insights about Indigenous people and themselves—Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers alike—through sustained immersion in fictional worlds where Indigenous people are foregrounded, active, autonomous, respected, and valued. Exploring Indigenous Novels in Grades 5-10: Literature Studies Focusing on Indigenized Worlds, a companion book for Indigenous Novels, Indigenized Worlds, offers teachers and students in grades 5-10 a unique framework and specialized sets of resources for collaborative classroom explorations of indigenized worlds created by the Indigenous writers. This unique book offers illuminating sets of questions and carefully selected print and digital resources for classroom explorations of 11 Indigenous novels spanning the genres of historical, contemporary realistic, and fantasy fiction. These questions and resources focus student learning on such indigenizing features as ancestral beings, sacred objects, cultural values, celebratory dances, traditional stories, material appropriation, cultural denigration, community leadership, restoration, and more.

Indigenous Novels, Indigenized Worlds
Indigenous Novels, Indigenized Worlds

Author: Don K. Philpot

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-08-16

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1475860501

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The fictional worlds created by many contemporary American and Canadian Indigenous novelists for young people provide unique access to the lived experiences of Indigenous people, past, present, and future and the often inaccessible worlds they inhabit. Readers age 10-16 will gain many insights about Indigenous people and themselves—Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers alike—through sustained immersion in fictional worlds where Indigenous people are foregrounded, active, autonomous, respected, and valued.

Breathing, Movement, Exploration
Breathing, Movement, Exploration

Author: Barbara Sellers-Young

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781557834706

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(Applause Books). Breathing, Movement, Exploration is a groundbreaking approach to how to use your body. Barbara Sellers-Young combines body mechanics and eastern and western philosophy to create a new visceral awareness of the performance process. Its simple, step-by-step structure enables the reader to learn the concepts of Laban and Stanislavski while exploring eastern ideas of breath and energy. Breathing, Movement, Exploration is a useful blueprint for how to use your body on stage. It speaks to professionals as well as anyone fascinated by the inner-process of an actor's training or to gain cognitive and physical insight into one's own self.

Saoirse Ronan: From Blossom to Bloom
Saoirse Ronan: From Blossom to Bloom

Author: ChatStick Team

Publisher: ChatStick Team

Published: 2024-07-12

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13:

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🌟 Unveil the Extraordinary Journey of Saoirse Ronan! 🌟 "Saoirse Ronan: From Blossom to Bloom - The Journey of a Leading Lady in Hollywood" takes you on an inspiring voyage through the life and career of one of the most talented actresses of our time. Brought to you by the ChatStick Team, this comprehensive biography offers a deep dive into Saoirse Ronan's transformation from a young prodigy to a celebrated Hollywood icon. 🌺 ✨ What's Inside? ✨ The Early Years: Discover the roots of Saoirse's passion for acting and her initial steps into the world of cinema. Rise to Fame: Relive the pivotal moments and breakthrough roles that propelled her to stardom. 🎬 Iconic Roles and Performances: A detailed look at her most influential and memorable characters. Off-Screen Persona: Explore her life beyond the spotlight, including her philanthropy and personal stories. Legacy and Influence: Reflect on her enduring impact on the film industry and future generations of actors. 🌈 This book is a tribute to Saoirse Ronan's exceptional talent, resilience, and dedication. Whether you're a longtime fan or new to her work, "Saoirse Ronan: From Blossom to Bloom" offers a captivating and insightful look at her remarkable journey. 📚✨ 🌟 Get your copy today and be inspired by the story of a star who continues to shine brightly in Hollywood! 🌟

Design as Democratic Inquiry
Design as Democratic Inquiry

Author: Carl Disalvo

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2022-02-08

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0262368951

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Through practices of collaborative imagination and making, or "doing design otherwise,” design experiments can contribute to keeping local democracies vibrant. In this counterpoint to the grand narratives of design punditry, Carl DiSalvo presents what he calls “doing design otherwise.” Arguing that democracy requires constant renewal and care, he shows how designers can supply novel contributions to local democracy by drawing together theory and practice, making and reflection. The relentless pursuit of innovation, uncritical embrace of the new and novel, and treatment of all things as design problems, says DiSalvo, can lead to cultural imperialism. In Design as Democratic Inquiry, he recounts a series of projects that exemplify engaged design in practice. These experiments in practice-based research are grounded in collaborations with communities and institutions. The projects DiSalvo describes took place from 2014 to 2019 in Atlanta. Rather than presume that government, industry—or academia—should determine the outcome, the designers began with the recognition that the residents and local organizations were already creative and resourceful. DiSalvo uses the projects to show how design might work as a mode of inquiry. Resisting heroic stories of design and innovation, he argues for embracing design as fragile, contingent, partial, and compromised. In particular, he explores how design might be leveraged to facilitate a more diverse civic imagination. A fundamental tenet of design is that the world is made, and therefore it could be made differently. A key concept is that democracy requires constant renewal and care. Thus, designing becomes a way to care, together, for our collective future.

Developing Learning In Professional Education
Developing Learning In Professional Education

Author: Taylor, Imogen

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 1997-10-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0335194974

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This book is about professional education and developing the required knowledge and skills to equip students for the pressing needs of professional practice. Student professionals from health care, teaching, business, law and social work must learn how to practise both independently (to respond to a constantly changing environment) and collaboratively (to respond to the complexity of today's society); also they must learn how to work in partnership with the consumers of professional services. Imogen Taylor explores how professional education can develop approaches to teaching and learning which both help learners to be reflexive, self-monitoring practitioners and meet the requirements of professional accrediting bodies. She draws upon her own research into students experiencing professional education based on small group, problem-based learning; on an extensive range of relevant international theory and research; and on her own long experience in professional education, training and practice. "This is a timely addition to the literature which provides a challenge to professional education: both through its portrayal of a highly innovative problem-based course (and the rich detail of students' experience) which shows how a learner-centred approach can impact on participants; and through its location in much wider contexts of teaching and learning in professional education and in debates about the relationship between university education and professional practice" - Professor David Boud "At a time when attention is being directed increasingly towards lifelong learning, this book offers an extremely timely guide to the development of the learning skills needed to make this a reality. Readable, relevant and full of practical illustrations, it will be widely read by educators in a variety of professional contexts" - Professor Patricia Broadfoot This is an important resource for all those educators and trainers in professional education seeking to improve their own practice.

Immersive Learning Research Network
Immersive Learning Research Network

Author: Colin Allison

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-06-24

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 331941769X

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Immersive Learning Network, iLRN 2016, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in June/July 2016. The proceedings contain 9 full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions and the best 5 special track papers. The papers focus on various applications of immersive technologies to learning.

Interactivity, Collaboration, and Authoring in Social Media
Interactivity, Collaboration, and Authoring in Social Media

Author: Krystina Madej

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-01-22

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 3319259520

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This book includes a short history of interactive narrative and an account of a small group collaboratively authored social media narrative: Romeo and Juliet on Facebook: After Love Comes Destruction. At the forefront of narrative innovation are social media channels – speculative spaces for creating and experiencing stories that are interactive and collaborative. Media, however, is only the access point to the expressiveness of narrative content. Wikis, messaging, mash-ups, and social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others) are on a trajectory of participatory story creation that goes back many centuries. These forms offer authors ways to create narrative meaning that reflects our current media culture, as the harlequinade reflected the culture of the 18th century, and as the volvelle reflected that of the 13th century. Interactivity, Collaboration, and Authoring in Social Media first prospects the last millennium for antecedents of today’s authoring practices. It does so with a view to considering how today’s digital manifestations are a continuation, perhaps a reiteration, perhaps a novel pioneering, of humans’ abiding interest in interactive narrative. The book then takes the reader inside the process of creating a collaborative, interactive narrative in today’s social media through an authoring experience undertaken by a group of graduate students. The engaging mix of blogs, emails, personal diaries , and fabricated documents used to create the narrative demonstrates that a social media environment can facilitate a meaningful and productive collaborative authorial experience and result in an abundance of networked, personally expressive, and visually and textually referential content. The resulting narrative, After Love Comes Destruction, based in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, shows how a generative narrative space evolved around the students’ use of social media in ways they had not previously considered both for authoring and for delivery of their final narrative artifact.