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This much-needed book examines and discusses geriatric education, emphasizing the urgent need to prepare social workers for helping the growing population of elderly clients. It pulls together various issues, concerns, and emerging program developments in gerontological social work education and looks for an approach that integrates knowledge from a variety of disciplines. Geriatric Social Work Education expands the awareness of social work educators, in both academ… More >>
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Dialogic Education and Technology is about using new technology to draw people into the kind of dialogues which take them beyond themselves into learning, thinking and creativity. The program of research reported in this book reveals key characteristics of learning dialogues and demonstrates ways in which computers and networks can deepen, enrich and expand such dialogues. A dialogic perspective is developed drawing upon recent work in communications theory, psychol… More >>
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Russ Fee’s A Dash of Expectation (Poems of the Classroom), draws you into the humorous and human drama of the elementary-school classroom. These accessible poems put you at a front-row desk or in the heart of a teacher. Reminiscent of Fulghum’s All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, the book captures the freshness, vitality, and wonder of children’s observations and the keen observations of a caring teacher.