The Saga of Toi and Me -- A Memoir
The Saga of Toi and Me -- A Memoir

Author: Merredith F. Perkins, Ph.D.

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2017-02-14

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1480930997

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The Saga of Toi and Me – A Memoir by Merredith F. Perkins, Ph. D. The Saga of Toi and Me — A Memoir is about our environment, family, and ancestry. It’s about how the actions of love can be influential and powerful. Saga is about taking risks and learning something that is beneath the surface of our being that makes us fight for our productive lives. It’s about being down, but getting up. It’s about harnessing a power that we found in ourselves that propelled us forward. Power. This memoir is for “mothers, daughters, fathers and sons, and families” who use their interwoven strength to struggle through circumstances of loss and love. My story is for all to read about examples of how resilience, perseverance, and the strength in each of us propels us to develop a power in handling the matters that we can control and matters that we can’t, self-power that is taught via a people support system. My survival has to be based on my power of determination to do so... and to have newly defined fun along the way. Toi has “unleashed” me to do just that. Looking back and laughing is cathartic, that is what The Saga of Toi and Me — A Memoir is all about.

5 Years Out
5 Years Out

Author: Merredith F. Perkins, Ph.D.

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2020-03-16

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 164610224X

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5 Years Out By: Meredith F. Perkins, Ph.D 5 Years Out is a schematic vision of Merredith Perkins’ past as it is connected fervently to her future. Abridging a lifetime within this milestone, she’s dealt with pain that’d been the catalyst for her writing, writing as her way to power forward. As she thought of it, when her birth and death dates are pieced together in an etching as in the coming together of the puzzle pieces of her legacy, she’d hope that the dash in between those dates would be representative of her well-lived life. This book captures the essence of her journey of healing, her memorialized milestone moment that she encourages readers to ponder pertinent to their own journeys. We all recognize milestones. We know those moments in our lives when some transition or rite of passage occurred and those events transitioned us from one station in life to another. Unforgettable moments, moments that stuck with Merredith invariably in her memories are vivid. She drew upon those unforgettable moments to tell some of the most heart-warming, extraordinary stories, which you, the reader, will be able to relate. This book is about love and transitioning and thriving. As you read, you’ll see yourself among the pages.

Just a Moment
Just a Moment

Author: Merredith F. Perkins, Ph.D.

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1480943525

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Just a Moment By: Merredith F. Perkins, PH.D. In Just a Moment: A Conversation, Merredith F. Perkins, Ph.D. invites readers to join her in a series of dialogues that will lead to greater self-awareness, self-discovery and a way forward in their lives. She offers proven, uncomplicated exercises which she has developed over the years in her own meditations and questions she has asked herself and tried to answer in her journey of inner and external exploration. For years, Dr. Perkins was a teacher who, in the same method of patient and probing pedagogy that she employs in her new book, encouraged and advanced so many young learners. Now she will be able to guide students of all ages, as they interact and encounter with these enlightening and satisfying “momentous decisions.”

Poems of Love, Struggle, and Change
Poems of Love, Struggle, and Change

Author: Merredith F. Perkins, Ph.D.

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2019-02-26

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13: 1480959529

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Poems of Love, Struggle, and Change By: Merredith F. Perkins Ph.D. If someone had said to her twenty-five years ago that she would be living the life she’s living, Merredith F. Perkins, Ph.D. would have questioned his or her sanity. She would have been an ardent disbeliever. The fortune of writing was bestowed upon her a long time ago, but she did not know that twenty-five years of reflective writing and her poems would show up in a book at this stage of her life. In her golden years, Dr. Perkins is writing and sharing her poetry with the public to show that we all have a lot in common and that we all stumble humbly through our life’s journey. In taking stock of her life and understanding a little bit of what her life has been for, she is learning that the puzzle pieces were being laid on a path long before she arrived at that path. Poems of Love, Struggle, and Change is a collection of poetic expressions on topics about love in relationships, struggling with expressions of self-awareness, and engaging in the friction of self-discovery as a way to gauge internal and external explorations as life unfolds.

Native Son
Native Son

Author: Witi Ihimaera

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 0143773046

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This is the second volume of memoir by this remarkable Maori writer and of the living myths that inspired him at the beginning of his career. Look at him, the young man on the cover. The year is 1972, he is 28, his first book is about to be published, and he has every reason to kick up his heels. But behind that joyful smile, and the image of a writer footing it in the Pakeha world, there is another narrative, one that Witi has not told before. The story of a native son, struggling to find a place, a voice and an identity, and to put a secret past to rest. This sequel to his award-winning memoir picks up where Maori Boy stopped, following Witi through his triumphs and failures at school and university, to experimenting sexually, searching for love and purpose and to becoming our first Maori novelist. It continues in the same vein as the first volume, which was described by a reviewer as ‘a rich, powerful, multi-layered and totally unique story . . . something every New Zealander should read’.

Identity in Education
Identity in Education

Author: S. Sánchez-Casal

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-05-25

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0230621562

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This volume explores the impact of social identity on teaching and learning. The contributors argue, from the perspective of diverse disciplinary and educational contexts, that mobilizing identities in the classroom is a necessary part of progressive educators' efforts to transform knowledge-making and to create a more just and democratic society.