Download or read book English Classes in Slumber written by S.-H. Gyemyong Ahn and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains why some Korean high school students sleep during English classes in spite of the emphasized value of English in their society. It examines how this sleeping-in-class phenomenon can be understood by means of such marginalized students’ emic outlooks on themselves, the target language, their teachers, schools, and society/culture; and by means of the views of teachers who have experienced such in-class sleepers. To understand the phenomenon more holistically, it pursues a multi-disciplinary approach drawing on studies of demotivation and amotivation, psychological needs, and student experiences of schooling, as well as sociocultural theories of learning and agency and of interpersonal dynamics, among others. On the basis of a multi-modal analysis of interview data from the student and teacher participants, it theoretically interprets the phenomenon at the classroom (‘micro-’), school (‘meso-’) and society-culture (‘macro-’) levels. Taking a humanistic/existential approach to education, it subsequently presents a number of cultural actions that it advocates implementing in a situation-sensitive manner to help in-class sleepers and their educational institutions awaken from their chronic slumber. Lastly, it presents practical and theoretical implications for more humanistic pedagogy, and global studies of student disengagement, in English-as-a-foreign-language classes.
Download or read book Number Slumber written by Suzanne Bloom and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging bedtime book, beloved author-illustrator Suzanne Bloom asks readers how they prepare for bed—from putting on jammies to asking for one more hug—then counts down to bedtime from ten terribly tired tigers to one really weary wombat. Each animal demonstrates a different bedtime ritual—skunks somersault into bunks and elephants curl up with their trunks—adding original and inventive rhymes and a clever counting-backward structure to the bedtime book genre. The lyrical, rhyming text combines with dreamy, colorful artwork to provide a perfect way for children to wind down from an active day in a book sure to become a new bedtime classic.
Download or read book The Secret World of Sleep written by Penelope A. Lewis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years neuroscientists have uncovered the countless ways our brain trips us up in day-to-day life, from its propensity toward irrational thought to how our intuitions deceive us. The latest research on sleep, however, points in the opposite direction. Where old wives tales have long advised to "sleep on a problem," today scientists are discovering the truth behind these folk sayings,and how the busy brain radically improves our minds through sleep and dreams. In The Secret World of Sleep, neuroscientist Penny Lewis explores the latest research intothe nighttime brain to understand the real benefits of sleep. She shows how, while our body rests, the brain practices tasks it learned during the day, replays traumatic events to mollify them, and forges connections between distant concepts. By understanding the roles that the nocturnal brain plays in our waking life, we can improve the relationship between the two, and even boost creativity and become smarter. This is a fascinating exploration of one of the most surprising corners of neuroscience that shows how science may be able to harness the power of sleep to improve learning, health, and more.
Download or read book Sleep Divine and Human in the Old Testament written by Thomas McAlpine and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1987-07-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and absorbing monograph blending researches in several fields: semantics, archaeology, comparative ancient literature, symbolics and the social and religious dimensions of sleep as a concept. Many familiar texts are illuminated by this integrative approach.
Download or read book Restless in Sleep Country written by Paul Huebener and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sleep, and the lack of it, is a public obsession and an enormous everyday quandary. Troubled sleep tends to be seen as an individual problem and personal responsibility, to be fixed by better habits and tracking gadgets, but the reality is more complicated. Sleep is a site of politics, culture, and power. In Restless in Sleep Country Paul Huebener pulls back the covers on cultural representations of sleep to show how they are entangled with issues of colonialism, homelessness, consumer culture, technology and privacy, the exploitation of labour, and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though it almost entirely evades direct experience, sleep is the subject of a variety of potent narratives, each of which can serve to clarify and shape its role in our lives. In Canada, cultural visions of slumber circulate through such diverse forms as mattress commercials, billboards, comic books, memoirs, experimental poetry, and bedtime story phone apps. By guiding us through this imaginative landscape, Huebener shows us how to develop a critical literacy of sleep. Lying down and closing our eyes is an act that carries surprisingly high stakes, going beyond individual sleep troubles. Restless in Sleep Country illuminates the idea of sleep as a crucial site of inequity, struggle, and gratification.
Download or read book The American Journal of Psychology written by Granville Stanley Hall and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Held In Slumber written by Angela Parish and published by OutSkirts Press. This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Step inside a dream which becomes reality. Venture off with Gary, a high school art teacher suffering from insomnia. For ten years he’s been keeping the struggle alive for his missing sister Kelly, who disappeared without a trace. When he attempts to get his life back with the help of an experimental pill, he soon finds a dangerous connection between the living and the dead. Now, caught in the clutches of his drug-induced dreams, corrupting him with visions of what really happened to Kelly. Will the clues she sends him be enough to find her? Meanwhile, an FBI agent following the tracks of a serial killer brings trouble into Gary’s life, as well as an unexpected lifeline. When victim’s advocate-in-training Casey Reed comes to interview Gary and uncovers a secret from the past. Although the killer is closer than they think and watching everyone from a distance. They’re none the wiser to his evil deeds as he continues taking lives throughout his travels. The cold case turns hot when sparks fly and an unexpected relationship kindles. The closer the FBI gets to this new killer, the more intense Gary’s dreams become. With all the chaos in his head he is driven to examine the past with renewed intensity. What he uncovers about Kelly’s disappearance and the person responsible for it, is more than anyone could have imagined. Follow the journey of one man as he goes deep within himself to save his sister’s memory and bring her soul to rest while finding his own, in the toss between dreams and reality. Will rest find you tonight? For the secrets that quench a thirsty heart are sometimes HELD IN SLUMBER!"
Download or read book Merry and wise ed by Old Merry Continued as Old Merry s annual written by Round robin and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Columbia University Contributions to Philosophy and Psychology written by Columbia University and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Influence of caffein on mental and motor efficiency written by Harry Levi Hollingworth and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the spring of 1911 the writer was called on by the Coca-Cola Company, of Atlanta, Ga., for an opinion as to the influence of caffein on mental and motor processes. In the absence of adequate reliable data (see discussion of previous investigations) it seemed necessary to conduct a set of careful experiments before any opinion could be rendered with either fairness or certainty, which was the task that this book took on. The results for each chapter's experiments are briefly summarized at the close of the chapters. It is clear at once that caffein influences all the tests in a given group in much the same way. The effect on motor processes comes quickly and is transient. The effect on higher mental processes comes more slowly and is more persistent. Whether this result is due to quicker reaction on the part of motor nerve centers, or whether it is due to a direct peripheral effect on the muscle tissue, the pure psychologist can hardly be expected to know. Physiological experiment, however, seems to indicate that caffein has a direct effect on the muscle tissue, and that this effect is fairly rapid in appearance. The physiology of absorption also explains the fact that the presence of food substance in the stomach retards and reduces the caffein influence. The dependence of the amount of the caffein influence on the body weight of the individual has already been explained in terms of the amount of the substance ingested per unit of tissue affected". (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).
Download or read book An Empirical Study of Certain Tests for Individual Differences written by Mary Theodora Whitley and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archives of Psychology written by Robert Sessions Woodworth and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Neuroscience of Excellent Sleep written by Stan Rodski and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to use the insights of neuroscience and the techniques of mindfulness to get a good night's sleep. Everyone's familiar with the consequences of lost sleep: you're groggy and irritable, your focus is off, you don't perform at your best, and you're likely to dump sugary foods and caffeine into your system for an energy boost. But the effects of poor sleep go way beyond these concerns. Indeed, they can be life-threatening. It's one thing to know the problem, it's another to fix it. In this book, renowned neuroscientist Dr Stan Rodski takes us through the fundamentals of sleep - how sleep works, why we sleep and how much sleep we need - but, most importantly, he gives us exercises to help overcome the bane of insomnia. In any endeavour, the key to achievement is proper preparation, and sleep is no different. Drawing on the techniques of mindfulness, meditation and relaxation, and the neuroscience that underpins them all, Dr Stan gives you the tools to prepare yourself (and your children) for an excellent sleep - and enjoy it!
Download or read book Seven Days to a Perfect Night s Sleep written by Debra L. Gordon and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supplies readers with the information necessary for a good night's sleep, including tips for dieting, exercise, herbal supplements, and reducing snoring.
Download or read book The Dial written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Stress written by Brian Luke Seaward and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2006 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive approach to honouring the integration, balance and harmony of mind, body, spirit and emotions. This holistic approach guides readers to greater levels of mental, emotional and physical well-being.
Download or read book The Sleep Instinct written by Ray Meddis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us believe that we sleep in order to rest our tired bodies and minds. Originally published in 1977, this centuries-old common-sense view is challenged by Ray Meddis, who describes and argues for a controversial new theory of the nature and function of sleep. The theory seeks to replace the old view with the idea that sleep may no longer serve any important function in modern man. Whereas the sleep instinct helps animals to survive by driving them to hide away for as long as possible each day, this is no longer a valuable asset in civilised surroundings. Nevertheless, as the author explains, we still feel driven by a primeval urge beyond conscious control to crawl away every evening to the security of our beds to wait out the dangerous hours of darkness which were such a threat to our ancestors. Contrary to contemporary wisdom, he also argues that dreaming is a primitive and particularly valueless kind of sleep – a crude a dangerous heritage from our reptilian ancestors which is kept to a bare minimum in most adult warm-blooded creatures. Ray Meddis writes in a non-technical style and succeeds admirably in making the science of sleep and intensive research studies on sleep accessible and even exciting for the general reader as well as for the scientist. He shows that not everyone is bound by a felt need for sleep; in fact, some human beings discussed at length in the book thrive on less than two hours sleep a night without any ill effects. The implications of the research described are little short of sensational; in particular, Dr Meddis believes that it is well within the bounds of possibility that future research will show us how changes can be brought about in normal people to free them from the bondage of their sleep instincts. This new perspective also leads directly into a radical reappraisal of the nature of insomnia and new possibilities for treatment.
