Download or read book The Intentional Teacher written by Ann S. Epstein and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 2014 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young children and teachers both have active roles in the learning processHow do preschoolers learn and develop? What are the best ways to support learning in the early years? This revised edition of The Intentional Teacher guides teachers to balance both child-guided and adult-guided learning experiences that build on children's interests and focus on what they need to learn to be successful in school and in life.This edition offers new chapters on science, social studies, and approaches to learning. Also included is updated, expanded information on social and emotional development, physical development and health, language and literacy, mathenatics, and the creative arts. In each chapter are many practical teaching strategies that are illustrated with classroom-based anecdotes.The Intentional Teacher encourages readers to- Reflect on their principles and practices- Broaden their thinking about appropriate early curriculum content and instructional methods- Discover specific ideas and teaching strategies for interacting with children in key subject areasIntentional teaching does not happen by chance. This book will help teachers apply their knowledge of children and of content to make thoughtful, intentional use of both child-guided and adult-guided experiences.

Download or read book Governing the Metropolis written by Eduardo Rojas and published by David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.

Download or read book Cooperative Learning in the Classroom written by David W. Johnson and published by Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development. This book was released on 1994 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is addressed to classroom teachers interested in beginning to use cooperative learning or increasing the quality of their current efforts.

Download or read book Geoscience Education written by Clara Vasconcelos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research in Geoscience Education focusing on indoor and outdoor environments in which teaching geoscience gains particular relevance, significance and contextualization. The research areas that are presented throughout the thirteen chapters cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from educational resources and fieldwork to science models. Chapters discuss specific geoscience topics such as earthquakes, rocks, fossils and minerals. Other chapters present a more interdisciplinary approach addressing topics that aren’t usually examined, such as geomedicine and geoethics, with a specific focus on sustainable development and their alignment with the school curricula. Throughout the book readers can find research-based arguments illustrated with practical examples, which will help them to innovate in their curriculum development area, classroom practices and pre and in-service teachers’ education. The book challenges readers to improve Geoscience Education by changing the ways of teaching, by enabling students to exploit their natural curiosity, and by spurring a learning process that should not be confined to the classroom but rather maintained throughout life.

Download or read book Beyond the City written by Felipe Correa and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endorsement of eleven other nations) spearheaded the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), a comprehensive energy, transport, and communications network. The most aggressive transcontinental integration project ever planned for South America, the initiative systematically deploys ten east-west infrastructural corridors, enhancing economic development but raising important questions about the polarizing effect of pitting regional needs against the colossal processes of resource extraction. Providing much-needed historical contextualization to IIRSA’s agenda, Beyond the City ties together a series of spatial models and offers a survey of regional strategies in five case studies of often overlooked sites built outside the traditional South American urban constructs. Implementing the term “resource extraction urbanism,” the architect and urbanist Felipe Correa takes us from Brazil’s nineteenth-century regional capital city of Belo Horizonte to the experimental, circular, “temporary” city of Vila Piloto in Três Lagoas. In Chile, he surveys the mining town of María Elena. In Venezuela, he explores petrochemical encampments at Judibana and El Tablazo, as well as new industrial frontiers at Ciudad Guayana. The result is both a cautionary tale, bringing to light a history of societies that were “inscribed” and administered, and a perceptive examination of the agency of architecture and urban planning in shaping South American lives.

Download or read book Bamako Sounds written by Ryan Thomas Skinner and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bamako Sounds tells the story of an African city, its people, their values, and their music. Centered on the music and musicians of Bamako, Mali’s booming capital city, this book reveals a community of artists whose lives and works evince a complex world shaped by urban culture, postcolonialism, musical expression, religious identity, and intellectual property. Drawing on years of ethnographic research with classically trained players of the kora (a twenty-one-string West African harp) as well as more contemporary, hip-hop influenced musicians and producers, Ryan Thomas Skinner analyzes how Bamako artists balance social imperatives with personal interests and global imaginations. Whether performed live on stage, broadcast on the radio, or shared over the Internet, music is a privileged mode of expression that suffuses Bamako’s urban soundscape. It animates professional projects, communicates cultural values, pronounces public piety, resounds in the marketplace, and quite literally performs the nation. Music, the artists who make it, and the audiences who interpret it thus represent a crucial means of articulating and disseminating the ethics and aesthetics of a varied and vital Afropolitanism, in Bamako and beyond.

Download or read book Territories of Difference written by Arturo Escobar and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN’s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement’s struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition. Yet he also does much more. Consistently emphasizing the value of local activist knowledge for both understanding and social action and drawing on multiple strands of critical scholarship, Escobar proposes new ways for scholars and activists to examine and apprehend the momentous, complex processes engulfing regions such as the Colombian Pacific today. Escobar illuminates many interrelated dynamics, including the Colombian government’s policies of development and pluralism that created conditions for the emergence of black and indigenous social movements and those movements’ efforts to steer the region in particular directions. He examines attempts by capitalists to appropriate the rainforest and extract resources, by developers to set the region on the path of modernist progress, and by biologists and others to defend this incredibly rich biodiversity “hot-spot” from the most predatory activities of capitalists and developers. He also looks at the attempts of academics, activists, and intellectuals to understand all of these complicated processes. Territories of Difference is Escobar’s effort to think with Afro-Colombian intellectual-activists who aim to move beyond the limits of Eurocentric paradigms as they confront the ravages of neoliberal globalization and seek to defend their place-based cultures and territories.

Download or read book El Mall written by Arlene Dávila and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While becoming less relevant in the United States, shopping malls are booming throughout urban Latin America. But what does this mean on the ground? Are shopping malls a sign of the region’s “coming of age”? El Mall is the first book to answer these questions and explore how malls and consumption are shaping the conversation about class and social inequality in Latin America. Through original and insightful ethnography, Dávila shows that class in the neoliberal city is increasingly defined by the shopping habits of ordinary people. Moving from the global operations of the shopping mall industry to the experience of shopping in places like Bogotá, Colombia, El Mall is an indispensable book for scholars and students interested in consumerism and neoliberal politics in Latin America and the world.

Download or read book Leading the Cooperative School written by David W. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Instrumental Enrichment written by Reuven Feuerstein and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Self Organization in Biological Systems written by Scott Camazine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The synchronized flashing of fireflies at night. The spiraling patterns of an aggregating slime mold. The anastomosing network of army-ant trails. The coordinated movements of a school of fish. Researchers are finding in such patterns--phenomena that have fascinated naturalists for centuries--a fertile new approach to understanding biological systems: the study of self-organization. This book, a primer on self-organization in biological systems for students and other enthusiasts, introduces readers to the basic concepts and tools for studying self-organization and then examines numerous examples of self-organization in the natural world. Self-organization refers to diverse pattern formation processes in the physical and biological world, from sand grains assembling into rippled dunes to cells combining to create highly structured tissues to individual insects working to create sophisticated societies. What these diverse systems hold in common is the proximate means by which they acquire order and structure. In self-organizing systems, pattern at the global level emerges solely from interactions among lower-level components. Remarkably, even very complex structures result from the iteration of surprisingly simple behaviors performed by individuals relying on only local information. This striking conclusion suggests important lines of inquiry: To what degree is environmental rather than individual complexity responsible for group complexity? To what extent have widely differing organisms adopted similar, convergent strategies of pattern formation? How, specifically, has natural selection determined the rules governing interactions within biological systems? Broad in scope, thorough yet accessible, this book is a self-contained introduction to self-organization and complexity in biology--a field of study at the forefront of life sciences research.

Download or read book Hegemony And Socialist Strategy written by Ernesto Laclau and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy remains as relevant as ever, positing a much-needed antidote against ‘Third Way’ attempts to overcome the antagonism between Left and Right.

Download or read book El plan estrat gico en la pr ctica written by José María Sainz de Vicuña and published by ESIC Editorial. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los testimonios recibidos de los profesionales en cuyas empresas el autor ha utilizado esta herramienta básica para definir la “hoja de ruta” de cualquier empresa, muestran que la aplicación de la sistemática de elaboración del plan estratégico que se expone en este libro les ha ayudado a “contar con el método necesario para que el equipo de dirección avance con rigor y orden en el proceso de reflexión interna (...) y tenga una guía de referencia sobre los proyectos a los que dedicar los mayores esfuerzos en el futuro”. Si a ello añadimos los adjetivos atribuidos a los libros publicados por José Mª Sainz de Vicuña Ancín (“Magníficos, útiles, prácticos, rigurosos, amenos, interesantes, profundos, sistemáticos, precisos y actuales”), nos encontramos ante una obra de obligada consulta para todas aquellas organizaciones que se enfrentan a la tarea de elaborar su plan estratégico. El autor del manual clásico en planificación, El plan de marketing en la práctica, del que se han publicado ya 21 ediciones comerciales (además de las realizadas por encargo por diversas organizaciones), presenta en esta obra una guía eminentemente práctica de cara a la elaboración de un plan estratégico tanto para empresas privadas como públicas. La clave del éxito de esta obra ha sido desgranar las diferentes etapas de un plan estratégico, exponiendo tanto su contenido como las diversas herramientas disponibles para su elaboración, e ilustrando con varios casos de empresas privadas y públicas el resultado de la utilización práctica de las mismas. El libro contiene diez capítulos que explican, paso a paso y de forma eminentemente didáctica, cómo una empresa puede elaborar su plan estratégico. En esta 5ª edición el capítulo 9 está dedicado a las Entidades sin Ánimo de Lucro (ESAL). De esta forma, cualquier profesional que tenga que elaborar el plan estratégico de una organización privada, pública o semipública encontrará una guía inigualable para su elaboración. Al menos, así lo han manifestado hasta la fecha sus lectores nacionales y latinoamericanos (págs. 19 a 31 del libro).

Download or read book I of the Vortex written by Rodolfo R. Llinas and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-02-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original theory of how the mind-brain works, based on the author's study of single neuronal cells. In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Llinas, the "mindness state" evolved to allow predictive interactions between mobile creatures and their environment. He illustrates the early evolution of mind through a primitive animal called the "sea squirt." The mobile larval form has a brainlike ganglion that receives sensory information about the surrounding environment. As an adult, the sea squirt attaches itself to a stationary object and then digests most of its own brain. This suggests that the nervous system evolved to allow active movement in animals. To move through the environment safely, a creature must anticipate the outcome of each movement on the basis of incoming sensory data. Thus the capacity to predict is most likely the ultimate brain function. One could even say that Self is the centralization of prediction. At the heart of Llinas's theory is the concept of oscillation. Many neurons possess electrical activity, manifested as oscillating variations in the minute voltages across the cell membrane. On the crests of these oscillations occur larger electrical events that are the basis for neuron-to-neuron communication. Like cicadas chirping in unison, a group of neurons oscillating in phase can resonate with a distant group of neurons. This simultaneity of neuronal activity is the neurobiological root of cognition. Although the internal state that we call the mind is guided by the senses, it is also generated by the oscillations within the brain. Thus, in a certain sense, one could say that reality is not all "out there," but is a kind of virtual reality.

Download or read book El plan estrat gico en la pr ctica written by José María Sainz de Vicuña Ancín and published by ESIC Editorial. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los testimonios recibidos de los profesionales en cuyas empresas el autor ha utilizado esta herramienta básica para definir la "hoja de ruta" de cualquier organización, muestran que la aplicación de la sistemática de elaboración del plan estratégico que se expone en este libro les ha ayudado a "contar con el método necesario para que el equipo de dirección avance con rigor y orden en el proceso de reflexión interna (...) y tenga una guía de referencia sobre los proyectos a los que dedicar los mayores esfuerzos en el futuro". Si a ello añadimos los adjetivos atribuidos a los libros publicados por José Mª Sainz de Vicuña Ancín. ("Magníficos, útiles, prácticos, rigurosos, amenos, interesantes, profundos, sistemáticos, precisos y actuales"), nos encontramos ante una obra de obligada consulta para todas aquellas organizaciones que se enfrentan a la tarea de elaborar su plan estratégico. El autor del manual clásico en planificación, El Plan de Marketing en la Práctica, del que se han publicado ya 19 ediciones comerciales (además de las realizadas por encargo por diversas organizaciones), presenta en esta obra una guía eminentemente práctica de cara a la elaboración de un plan estratégico tanto para empresas privadas como públicas. La clave del éxito de esta obra ha sido desgranar las diferentes etapas de un plan estratégico, exponiendo tanto su contenido como las diversas herramientas disponibles para su elaboración, e ilustrando con varios casos de pequeñas y medianas empresas el resultado de la utilización práctica de las mismas. El libro contiene diez capítulos que explican, paso a paso y de forma eminentemente didáctica, cómo una empresa privada puede elaborar su plan estratégico. El último está dedicado al sector público. Y en esta edición se ha incluido un apartado sobre cómo elaborar un plan de negocio (Business Plan). Ya hemos constatado que los nuevos emprendedores se encuentran desorientados en cuanto a su contenido. De esta forma, cualquier profesional que tenga que elaborar el plan estratégico de una organización privada, pública o semipública encontrará una guía inigualable para su elaboración. Al menos, así lo han manifestado los lectores de las ediciones anteriores y los clientes de la empresa de consultoría SDV Consultores. Índice: ¿Por qué el pensamiento estratégico es más necesario que nunca?.- Planificación.- Primera etapa: Análisis de la situación.- Segunda etapa: Diagnóstico de la situación.- Tercera etapa: Sistema de objetivos corporativos: misión, visión, valores y fijación de los objetivos estratégicos.- Cuarta etapa: Estrategias corporativas: definición del negocio, estrategia de cartera (de negocios), estrategia competitiva y estrategia de crecimiento.- Quinta etapa: Decisiones operativas.- ¿Qué hacer para que un plan estratégico triunfe?.- Aplicación del plan estratégico a otros sectores de actividad.- Bibliografía.

Download or read book Planeaci n y gesti n estrat gica de las organizaciones conceptos m todos y casos de aplicaci n written by Harold Enrique Banguero Lozano and published by Autónoma de Occidente. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planeación y Gestión Estratégica de las Organizaciones: conceptos, métodos y casos de aplicación, pretende presentar de manera integrada, al alcance de personas sin experiencia en el tema, todos los componentes del direccionamiento estratégico de las organizaciones con el fin de dar respuesta a las preguntas fundamentales sobre los conceptos y los métodos. En cada capítulo se hace la aplicación a una empresa pequeña, una institución universitaria, un municipio mediano y un grupo de investigación, con miras a obtener una mayor comprensión de los procesos y procedimientos útiles para direccionar estratégicamente cualquier organización moderna, independientemente de su naturaleza.

Download or read book Planificaci n Estrat gica written by Roy Rimberti Rodriguez Trujillo and published by Clube de Autores. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Es el arte o técnica de conocer la organización, a fin de determinar sus principales problemas, causas, efectos y alternativas para actuar con anticipación a la dinámica del entorno. El diagnóstico estratégico es función fundamental de gestión de cuyos resultados se determina la matriz de segmentación como estrategia corporativa de la organización y la forma de actuar en dichos segmentos mediante las tácticas organizacionales previo estudio de las capacidades, recursos y potencialidades de la organización. El planeamiento estratégico –planeación estratégica- es un esfuerzo organizacional, definido y disciplinado que busca que las organizaciones definan con la mayor claridad posible su misión y la visión que tienen de esta en el mediano y largo plazo, constituyéndose en una herramienta poderosa que posibilita la adaptación de la organización a ambientes complejos, exigentes, cambiantes y dinámicos logrando el máximo de eficiencia, eficacia y calidad en la prestación de sus productos y servicios. En ningún caso es un recetario, ni constituye la solución a todos los problemas o preocupaciones de una organización o institución. Sin embargo permite el desarrollo de una visión compartida del camino que debe seguir la organización para alcanzar las metas que se ha propuesto y ello posibilita concentrar los esfuerzos y la creatividad de los miembros de la organización en alcanzar dichas metas.