A Free Range Childhood

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Monica Miller Marsh, Tammy Turner-Vorbeck

A resource to help educators identify, address, and meet the needs of the diverse families in today's classrooms. Examines how families are represented in the media, schools, and other institutions and applies that information to building effective home-school partnerships. Examines how different relationships between families and teachers are defined by discourses that circulate through formal and informal curricula. Explores how families and educators can collectively reconceptualize these conversations to create positive educational experiences for children. From publisher description.

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Ruth Rendell

Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam place in Pimlico: an exclusive street of houses inhabited by the rich and serviced by the not so rich. The hired help, a motley assortment of au pairs, drivers and cleaners, decide to form the Saint Zita Society (Zita being the patron saint of domestic servants) as an excuse to meet at the local pub and air their grievances. When Dex is invited to join them, they find him to be a strange man, ill at ease - and these first impressions are compounded when they discover he has recently been released from a hospital for the criminally insane, where he was incarcerated for attempting to kill his own mother ...

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Jean-Marie Miron, François Victor Tochon

Cet ouvrage se fonde sur la pratique quotidienne du métier de parent. Il s'adresse à tous les parents motivés par l'éducation de leurs jeunes enfants.

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Thomas Gordon, with Noel Burch

"For the classroom: how teachers can bring out the best in their students. For the home: how parents can hanlde their children's learning problems"--Jacket subtitle.