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  • Play = Learning

    How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth

    by Dorothy Singer, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek ...
    In Play=Learning, top experts in child development and learning contend that in over-emphasizing academic achievement, our culture has forgotten about the importance of play for children's development. ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool

    Applying the Scientific Evidence

    by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Laura E. Berk, Dorothy Singer ...
    We are robbing young children of play time at home and school in an effort to give them a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics. Yet the scientific evidence suggests that eliminating play from the lives of children is taking preschool education in the wrong direction. This brief but compelling book provides a strong counterargument to the rising tide of didactic instruction on ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Handbook of Children and the Media

    Edited by Dorothy G. Singer, Jerome L. Singer ...
    Cyber-bullying, sexting, and the effects that violent video games have on children are widely discussed and debated. With a renowned international group of researchers and scholars, the Second Edition of the Handbook of Children and the Media covers these topics, is updated with cutting-edge research, and includes comprehensive analysis of the field for students and scholars. This revision ... Read more

    $171.19 CAD

  • A Mandate for Playful Learning in Preschool

    Applying the Scientific Evidence

    by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Laura E. Berk, Dorothy Singer ...
    We are robbing young children of play time at home and school in an effort to give them a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics. Yet the scientific evidence suggests that eliminating play from the lives of children is taking preschool education in the wrong direction. This brief but compelling book provides a strong counterargument to the rising tide of didactic instruction on ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Handbook of Children, Culture, and Violence

    by Nancy E. Dowd, Dorothy G. Singer, Robin Fretwell Wilson ...
    *"Each chapter contains recommendations for legislators, policy makers, researchers, and families. This book should be on the desk, and minds, of legislators, attorneys, social workers and other mental health professionals who encounter and wish to ameliorate the effects of violence in the lives of their young constituents, clients, and patients."—*JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIESQuestions ... Read more

    $171.99 CAD

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    Intelligence Redefined

    by Scott Barry Kaufman ...
    Child prodigies. Gifted and Talented Programs. Perfect 2400s on the SAT. Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make the rest of us feel inadequate. Those children tapped as possessing special abilities will go on to achieve great things, while the rest of us have little chance of realizing our dreams. Right?In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman -- who was relegated ... Read more

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  • Montessori

    The Science Behind the Genius

    by Angeline Stoll Lillard ...
    One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard presents the research behind nine insights that are foundations of Montessori education, ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

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  • Making Sense of Adult Learning

    by Dorothy MacKeracher ...
    Learning is an inseparable part of human experience. Understanding how adults learn and applying that expertise to practical everyday situations and relationships opens the window on a broader understanding of the capacity of the human mind.Dorothy MacKeracher's Making Sense of Adult Learning was first published in 1996, and was acclaimed for its readability and value as a reference tool. For the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Distinguishing Disability

    Parents, Privilege, and Special Education

    by Colin Ong-Dean ...
    Students in special education programs can have widely divergent experiences. For some, special education amounts to a dumping ground where schools unload their problem students, while for others, it provides access to services and accommodations that drastically improve chances of succeeding in school and beyond. Distinguishing Disability argues that this inequity in treatment is directly linked ... Read more

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  • Educational Psychology, Global Edition

    by Anita Woolfolk ...
    For Introduction to Educational Psychology courses.Forty-four easy-to-read modules facilitate students’ learning and retentionIn clear and jargon-free prose, Educational Psychology, 14th Edition, explains and illustrates educational psychology’s practical relevance for teachers and learners. Theory and practice are considered together, showing how research on child development, learning, cognition ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice

    A Generalist-Eclectic Approach, Second Edition

    by Peter Lehmann, PhD, LCSW ...
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    " Praise for the first editionFinally, a social work practice text that makes a difference! This is the book that you have wished for but could never find. Although similar to texts that cover a range of practice theories and approaches to clinical practice, this book clearly has a social work frame of reference and a social work identity.--Gayla Rogers, Dean of the Faculty of Social Work, ... Read more

    $127.99 CAD

  • Understanding Animal Abuse: A Sociological Analysis

    by Clif Flynn ...
    Until the last decade of the twentieth century, the abusive or cruel treatment of animals had received virtually no attention among academicians. Since then, however, empirical studies of animal abuse, and its relation to other forms of violence toward humans, have increased not only in number but in quality and stature. Sociologists, criminologists, social workers, psychologists, legal scholars, ... Read more

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