Creativity is a term often discussed in relation to education, particularly in primary schools. This book sets out to explore what it means in both practical and theoretical terms for both children and teachers. Topics covered include: planning, resourcing, organizing, managing and assessing creativity. Cameos and classroom examples are used in order to indicate effective strategies for promoting creativity within and across curriculum subjects.
Dickens and Popular Entertainment is the first extended study of this vital aspect of Dickens' life and work. Ranging widely through showmen's memoirs, playbills, advertisements, journals, drawings and imaginative literature, Paul Schlicke explores the ways in which Dickens channelled his love of entertainment into incomparable artistry. Circus, fair, theatre and street performances provided the novelist with subject matter and with the sources of imaginative stimulus essential to his art.
Building on her groundbreaking work in "Writing Superheroes, Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of "textual toys" from children's lives--church and hip-hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays--upon school learning and writing. Wonderfully rich portraits of five African American first-graders demonstrate how children's imaginative use of wider cultural symbols enriches their school learning."
There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each
a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000
years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time,
linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within
the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular
perception, language is not immutable and hidebound, but a living,
dynamic entity that adapts itself to an ever-changing human
environment.
Full of humor and imaginative insight, The Power of Babel draws its illustrative examples from languages around the world, including pidgins, Creoles, and nonstandard dialects.
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The Little Red Hen (Paperback) by Paul Galdone (Author) "Once upon a time a cat and a dog and a mouse and a little red hen all lived together in a cozy little house..."
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School Library Journal Starred : "This imaginative rendition will surely help sustain the popularity of this old favorite."