On Teaching and Learning takes the ideas explored in renowned educator Jane Vella’s best-selling book Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach to the next level and explores how dialogue education has been applied in educational settings around the world. Throughout the book, she shows how to put the principles and practices of dialogue education into action and uses illustrative stories and examples from her extensive travels. Dialogue education values inquiry, integrity, and commitment to equity—values that are also central to democracy. Learners are treated as beings worthy of respect, recognized for the knowledge and experience they bring to the learning experience.
Dialogue for Writers: Create Powerful Dialogue in Fiction and Nonfiction
In Dialogue for Writers, publisher Sammie Justesen explores the necessary elements of dialogue for every genre. This invaluable book is packed with ideas and examples, showing writers how to improve their technique and eliminate mistakes that bring rejection. Dialogue for Writers is the only book on the market that explores dialogue for fiction, screenplays, graphic writing, memoir, poetry, journaling, and children’s books. Addressing novices and seasoned authors alike, Justesen helps all writers bring their work to a higher level.
A woman living in an abandoned rural lodge is suddenly forced to raise her dead sister's two wild young children. Neither of them has spoken a word since witnessing their mother's brutal murder, and they’ve developed a fondness for breaking things and starting fires. These mute, trouble-making kids are among Charles Frazier’s finest characters. And when their ne'er-do-well father is acquitted and released from jail, the action in this lush and lively novel flares.
“Noah was a righteous man,” says Isaac Bashevis Singer, so he and his family were to be saved from the flood. But rumor had it that only the best of all living creatures were to be taken aboard the Ark with Noah. In a fresh and lively approach to the age-old account, Isaac Bashevis Singer sets down the dialogue of the animals as they vie with one another for a place on the Ark.
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