Composing Storylines of Possibilities
Composing Storylines of Possibilities

Author: Martha J. Strickland

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1648027172

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In this book, internationally migrant families invite us to listen to the storylines of their mostly muted voices as they navigate the local schools in their new cultural context. They call us to hear them as they grapple with issues they encounter. They implore us to feel like an outsider and see the school as a foreign culture with language and communication barriers. The book is organized to enhance this carework. Each chapter begins with a vignette that includes the voices of one or more members of international migrating families, while introducing the context of the chapter. At the end of each chapter readers will find specific implications to consider. These are constructed with preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and educational administrators in mind. As you read each chapter, there is the call for school transformation. The families in this book entreat school personnel to engage with international migrant families and to embrace a risk and resilience model as we strive together for success. These storylines challenge us to examine our personal storylines for biases and deficit understandings and call us all to purposefully rewrite these in the spirit of possibilities as the families in this book have embodied for us.

Promising Practices for Engaging Families in STEM Learning
Promising Practices for Engaging Families in STEM Learning

Author: Margaret Caspe

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1641132825

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The technology revolution has made it critical for all children to understand science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or risk being left behind. Promising Practices for Engaging Families in STEM Learning explores how families, schools, and communities can join together to promote student success in STEM by building organized and equitable pathways for family engagement across all of the settings in which students learn – including, schools, early childhood programs, homes, libraries and museums –from the earliest years through adolescence. This thought-provoking monograph includes three main sections with chapters from leading thinkers in the field: > The first section provides the theoretical and research base for the importance of family engagement in STEM and draws out the challenges and opportunities that exist– from the transmission of adults’ anxiety and lack of confidence in their own STEM skills, to inequalities in out-of-school learning opportunities, to biases and misconceptions about the kinds of STEM supports offered by families from low-income and immigrant homes. > The second section builds on this research by presenting success stories, best practices, and approaches to engaging families in STEM. > The final section focuses on how policies at the local, state, and federal level can support the promotion of family engagement in STEM. Taken together, the monograph shows that STEM is a powerful mechanism to connect, engage, and empower families. > STEM provides opportunities for parents and children to spend time together asking fun and meaningful questions that link in-and out-of-school learning. > STEM creates new experiences for families to co-construct and support learning with their children from the earliest years throughout formal schooling and onto college and career pathways. > STEM also presents possibilities for families to build confidence and agency in supporting children’s interests; especially those families who might be marginalized because of their economic or language status, race, or culture.

Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities
Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities

Author: Sue Winton

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2020-03-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1641138815

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Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities offers scholars, students, and practitioners important new knowledge about how current policies impact families, schools, and community partnerships. The book’s authors share a critical orientation towards policy and policy research and invite readers to think differently about what policy is, who policymakers are, and what policy can achieve. Their chapters discuss findings from research grounded in diverse theories, including institutional ethnography, critical disability theory, and critical race theory. The authors encourage scholars of family, school, and community partnerships to ask who benefits from policies (and who loses) and how proposed reforms maintain or disrupt existing relations of power. The chapters present original research on a broad range of policies at the local, state/provincial, and national levels in Canada and the USA. Some authors look closely at the enactment of specific district policies, including a school district’s language translation policy and a policy to create local advisory bodies as part of decentralization efforts. Other chapters reveal the often unacknowledged yet necessary work parents do to meet their children’s needs and enable schools to operate. A few chapters focus on challenges and paradoxes of including families and community members in policymaking processes, including a case where parents demonstrated a preference for a policy that research demonstrates can be detrimental to their children’s future education opportunities. Another set of chapters emphasizes the centrality of policy texts and how language influences the educational experiences and engagement of students and their families. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of implications of the research for educators, families, and other community partners.

Promising Practices for Engaging Families in Literacy
Promising Practices for Engaging Families in Literacy

Author: Holly Kreider

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1623963001

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(sponsored by the Family School Community Partnership Issues SIG) Promising Practices for Engaging Families in Literacy fulfills the need from parents and teachers to improve home/school assistance in every child’s literacy development. Literacy skills are required and valued in all academic areas and at all levels of education from preschool through adulthood. This volume provides suggestions and support to improve parent/child involvement in literacy activities from preschool through teacher education programs. Research is provided to undergird the documented practices that increase student academic achievement through improved literacy skills across academic areas. Practices include connections between home and school across age groups, developmental needs groups, universities, community groups, and technologies.

Landscapes, Edges, and Identity-Making
Landscapes, Edges, and Identity-Making

Author: Vicki Ross

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2019-10-21

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 183867599X

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In this volume, experiences as narrative inquiry are explored in order to make sense of research, identities, and the response community we have created through this process. Researchers bring together thinking and experiences in the current educational landscape to better understand the ways researchers have shaped and been shaped by their work.

The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood
The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood

Author: Natalia Kucirkova

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1351389858

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The Routledge International Handbook of Learning with Technology in Early Childhood focuses specifically on the most cutting-edge, innovative and international approaches in the study of children’s use of and learning with digital technologies. This edited volume is a comprehensive survey of methods in children’s technologies and contains a rich repertoire of studies from diverse fields and research, including both educational and developmental psychology, post-humanist literacy, applied linguistics, language and phenomenology and narrative approaches. For ease of reference, the Handbook's 28 chapters are divided into four thematic sections: introduction and opening reflections; studies answering ontological questions, which theorize how children take on original identities in becoming literate with technologies; studies answering epistemological questions, which focus on how children’s knowledge and learning are (co)constructed with a diverse range of technologies; studies answering practice-related questions, which explore the resources and conditions that create the most powerful learning opportunities for children. Expertly edited, this interdisciplinary and international compendium is an ideal introduction to such a diverse, multi-faceted field.

English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1
English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1

Author: Brenton Doecke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1107648629

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English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1 privileges student experience, creative engagement with texts, moments of reflection and deep thinking. Drawing on an inquiry model of learning, it provides opportunities for students to write and create their own texts. Written for the Australian Curriculum, English for the Australian Curriculum Book 1 provides a fully balanced and integrated approach to the study of language, literature and literacy. It actively engages students with texts at a variety of levels: • Develops language skills at word, sentence and text level, with activities in reading, writing, viewing, creating, listening and speaking • Encourages student writing across a variety of contexts, for a variety of purposes and for a variety of audiences • Underlines the importance of visual literacy • Provides opportunities for students to create their own multimodal texts

Symbiotic Horizons
Symbiotic Horizons

Author: CAN BARTU H.

Publisher: CBF Publishing

Published: 2024-01-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13:

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Welcome to the captivating world of "Symbiotic Horizons: Exploring the AI-Human Connection" As you embark on this enlightening journey, prepare to traverse the cutting-edge realm of artificial intelligence (AI) and its profound impact on our lives, society, and the world at large. In an era where technological advancements are reshaping the very fabric of our existence, AI stands at the forefront of innovation, challenging our perceptions, and presenting boundless opportunities. This book delves deep into the intricate relationship between AI and humanity, exploring the promises it holds, the challenges it poses, and the ethical considerations that guide its development. As you delve into the chapters within, you will witness the incredible potential of AI in revolutionizing healthcare, education, business, and creative endeavors. AI's ability to augment human abilities and open new frontiers of knowledge will leave you in awe of the possibilities that lie ahead. Yet, this book is not solely about optimism; it embraces the critical responsibility that accompanies AI's rapid progress. It raises essential questions about ethical AI development, human-AI collaboration, and the imperative to maintain a human-centric focus in an AI-driven world. By delving into the complex challenges and risks, it endeavors to pave the way for a harmonious coexistence with AI. The authors have meticulously crafted each chapter to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted nature of AI. As you read, you will find yourself engrossed in the interplay between technology and humanity, exploring how AI can empower us while respecting our values and societal well-being. We invite you to journey with us into the heart of AI's impact on our world, to challenge your perspectives, and to contemplate the future we are collectively shaping. Each page offers fresh insights and thoughtful reflections, inspiring you to ponder the possibilities and embrace your role in this transformative era. With this book as your guide, we hope you will join us in envisioning a future where humanity and AI coexist harmoniously, where technological advancements are harnessed for the greater good, and where the human spirit continues to flourish in synergy with AI's capabilities. As we embark on this voyage together, we invite you to immerse yourself in the pages of "Artificial Intelligence and Humanity: Exploring the Future." May this exploration ignite your curiosity, awaken your imagination, and empower you to navigate the future with wisdom and compassion. Happy reading!

How to write a Book
How to write a Book

Author: Dr. Rohit Shankar Mane

Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing

Published: 2022-05-14

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9354908896

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How to write a book? In the novel which explains my own experiences & strategies for writing. In this novel, I have correlatively explained how to become a writer? Nowadays, many children, adults, and mature people are writing about their own life and travel experiences, and many more. But still, many people won’t write their own experiences because of the absence of self-confidence, self-motivation, writing skills, time management, development of main and side characters in the novel, or bringing up behind and future story of the characters, etc. Therefore, I am here with different strategies and my own experiences to put forward something meaningful on the table for writers or those who want to become a writer. All chapters are written as per my own experience and by taking references from different writers. All these experiences will help somebody to become a skilled writer and I am sure that after reading this book, somebody will become a writer.

Writing Superheroes
Writing Superheroes

Author: Anne Haas Dyson

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published:

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780807770160

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Based on an ethnographic study in an urban classroom of 7- to 9-year olds, Writing Superheroes examines how young school children use popular culture, especially superhero stories, in the unofficial peer social world and in the official school literacy curriculum. In one sense, the book is about children "writing superheroes"-about children appropriating superhero stories in their fiction writing and dramatic play on the playground and in the classroom. These stories offer children identities as powerful people who do battle against evil and win. The stories, however, also reveal limiting ideological assumptions about relations between people-boys and girls, adults and children, people of varied heritages, physical demeanors, and social classes. The book, then, is also about children as "writing superheroes." With the assistance of their teacher, the observed children became superheroes of another sort, able to take on powerful cultural storylines. In this book, Anne Dyson examines how the children's interest in and conflicts about commercial culture give rise to both literacy and social learning, including learning how to participate in a community of differences.