The continued growth in general studies and liberal arts and science programs online has led to a rise in the number of students whose science learning experiences are web-based. However, little is known about what is actually going on in web-based science courses at the level of the disciplines within liberal arts and sciences or the corresponding course design features.
Online Science Learning: Best Practices and Technologies reviews trends and efforts in web-based science instruction and evaluates contemporary philosophies and pedagogies of online science instruction. This title on an emergent and vital area of education clearly demonstrates how to enrich the academic character and quality of web-based science instruction.
This instructor's edition of a vocabulary textbook for college students, who read at the fifth to eighth grade level, features 25 chapters and teaches 250 basic words. The first and third chapters in each unit contain word-part practices. The second and fourth chapters in each unit contain synonym-antonym practices. The book's last chapter in each unit contains an analogy practice, review, and test. Also included is an answer key, a section on dictionary use, and a word list. The student edition is identical to the instructor's edition except that answers are not provided.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body-Mind Disciplines, a comprehensive
new reference covering over 120 disciplines, has been published by The
Rosen Publishing.
As alternative medicine is gaining recognition in traditional health
care, this timely volume is a welcome and essential resource. The
500-page, one-volume encyclopedia features practical details as well as
historical and theoretical information about body-mind practices within
all of the major disciplines, from the familiar martial arts,
meditation and massage to lesser-known therapies and techniques. While
the approaches of the different practices often vary widely, their
purpose of incorporating the body with the thinking and feeling
processes of the mind is universal -- to enable a person to live a
long, meaningful, and healthy life.
Written by over 125 experts in their respective fields, the
lavishly-illustrated encyclopedia includes boxed insets highlighting
important facts about each discipline, annotated resource lists, and
sources for further reading.
Editor Nancy Allison, CMA, currently teaches Laban movement analysis
and Bartenief Fundamentals at New York University School of Education.
She is also on the faculty at the Lincoln Center Institute and the
Laban-Bartenief Institute of Movement Studies.
Product Description
Pragmatism is the view that our
philosophical concepts must be connected to our practices - philosophy
must stay connected to first order inquiry, to real examples, to
real-life expertise. The classical pragmatists, Charles Sanders Peirce,
William James, and John Dewey, put forward views of truth, rationality,
and morality that they took to be connected to, and good for, our
practices of inquiry and deliberation. When Richard Rorty, the
best-known contemporary pragmatist, looks at our practices, he finds
that we don't aim at truth or objectivity, but only at solidarity, or
agreement within a community, or what our peers will let us get away
with saying. There is, however, a revisionist movement amongst
contemporary philosophers who are interested in pragmatism. When these
new pragmatists examine our practices, they find that the trail of the
human serpent is over everything, as James said, but this does not toss
us into the sea of post-modern arbitrariness, where truth varies from
person to person and culture to culture. The fact that our standards of
objectivity come into being and evolve over time does not detract from
their objectivity. As Peirce and Dewey stressed, we are always immersed
in a context of inquiry, where the decision to be made is a decision
about what to believe from here, not what to believe were we able to
start from scratch - from certain infallible foundations. But we do not
go forward arbitrarily. That is, these new pragmatists provide accounts
of inquiry that are both recognizably pragmatic in orientation and
hospitable to the cognitive aspiration to get one's subject matter
right. The best of Peirce, James, and Dewey has thus resurfaced in
deep, interesting, and fruitful ways, explored in this volume by David
Bakhurst, Arthur Fine, Ian Hacking, David Macarthur, Danielle Macbeth,
Cheryl Misak, Terry Pinkard, Huw Price, and Jeffrey Stout.
Did you have a special teacher who made a difference in your life? How can you ensure that all students in your classroom, school, or district have that experience? How do the best teachers help their students achieve? What are the attitudes, attributes, and practices of the best teachers that make them beloved, respected, and remembered?
