by Rheta DeVries, Betty Zan (2012)
This classic bestseller, now updated for today's diverse teaching force and student populations, explores the benefits of sociomoral practices in the classroom. The authors draw on recent research to show how these approaches work with children ages 2-8. They focus on how to establish and maintain a classroom environment that fosters children's intellectual, social, moral, emotional, and personality development. Extending the work of Jean Piaget, the authors advocate for a cooperative approach that contrasts with the coercion and unnecessary control that can be seen in many classrooms serving young children. Practical chapters demonstrate how the constructivist approach can be embedded in a school program by focusing on specific classroom situations and activities, such as resolving conflict, group time, rule making, decision making and voting, social and moral discussions, cooperative alternatives to discipline, and activity time.
Jake Lamar
African American professor Clay Robinette comes to the aid of fellow teacher Reggie Brogus, a former black militant, who has found a white student dead in his office. The girl turns out to be Robinette's ex-lover, and Brogus takes flight, claiming the government is out to get him.
Kelly Doust
Demonstrates how to make crafts with children that can be used around the house, with a list of materials, instructions, and tips on tasks that are most suitable for children for each project.
Bies van Ede
Wanneer Haarlem in 1572 belegerd wordt door het Spaanse leger, proberen Cathelijne en haar twee broertjes met behulp van Nederlandse huursoldaten met een slee over het ijs de stad te ontvluchten. Vanaf ca. 9 jaar.
Mamadou Aliou Barry
La prolifération des armes notamment de petit calibre n'est pas uniquement un problème propre à l'Afrique mais un problème de dimension mondiale. Pour l'auteur, l'avenir du contrôle des armes en Afrique passera nécessairement par la signature d'accords régionaux, mais sans doute aussi par de nouveaux progrès internationaux. Et, contrairement à l'optique traditionnelle qui voit dans le contrôle des armes un facteur de maintien de la paix, l'expérience a prouvé que seule la paix entre les Etats crée les conditions du désarmement.