Music and the Child

Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children’s identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. As professional instructors, childcare workers or students looking forward to a career working with children, we should continuously search for ways to tap into childr…

Exploring Perspectives : A Concise Guide to Analysis

The reason why Randall Fallows wrote Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis is simple: to help give students a better understanding of how to discover, develop and revise an analytical essay. Here is how his five-chapter book goes about doing just that: The first two chapters focus on the nature of an analysis and what’s involved in writing an analytical essay. Randall shows t…

Shadow Libraries : Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education

How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks. From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal ones organized by faculty, copy shops, student unions, and students themselves. It looks at the his…

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Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing : Threshold Concepts to Guide the Litera…

The creative writing workshop has existed since the early part of the 20th century, but does it adequately serve the students who come to it today? While the workshop is often thought of as a form of student-centered pedagogy, it turns out that workshop conversations serve to marginalize a range of aesthetic orientations and the cultural histories to which they belong. Given the shifting demogr…

A Rhetoric of Literate Action : Literate Action Volume 1

The first in a two-volume set, A Rhetoric of Literate Action is written for "the experienced writer with a substantial repertoire of skills, [who] now would find it useful to think in more fundamental strategic terms about what they want their texts to accomplish, what form the texts might take, how to develop specific contents, and how to arrange the work of writing." The reader is offered a f…

Theatrical Worlds : Beta Version

From the University of Florida College of Fine Arts, Charlie Mitchell and distinguished colleagues form across America present an introductory text for theatre and theoretical production. This book seeks to give insight into the people and processes that create theater. It does not strip away the feeling of magic but to add wonder for the artistry that make a production work well.

Teaching Creatively in Higher Education : Bridging Theory and Practice

The topic of this booklet is a synthesis of relevant research in the field of creativity in higher education, with focus on creative teaching methods. By means of literature review and research findings this booklet describes a wide range of contexts and effects on student learning and development, together with teacher motivation and overall satisfaction. This booklet meets the need for renewa…

Proceedings of Seventh International Symposium on Project Approaches in Engin…

International Joint Conference on the Learner in Engineering Edu­cation (1JCLEE'2015) was organized by Mondragon University, in collaboration with Active Learning in En­gine­ering Education Workshop (ALE), International Symposium on Project Approaches in Engineering Education (PAEE) and International Research Symposium on Problem Based Learning (IRSPBL).

The Great War Insights and Perspectives

This publication is a collection of articles which summarise results of investigations into archival materials concerning wartime stories of various nations involved in the Great War. The objective of the authors was to analyse the wartime experience of individuals and local communities as well as whole nations. They further tried to present a closer, more personal overview of wartime drama. As…