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Versos robados y otros juegos
(Manuel
Iris)
This is a Children's book of poetry in spanish published in the Yucatan, Mexico, by the National Council for Culture and Arts. The second edition of the book was published in 2006 by the UADY (Autonomous University of the Yucatan)as part pf a project of promotion of literature in rural communities.
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Cuaderno de los sueños
(Manuel
Iris)
Winner of the National Poetry Award "Merida" 2009, this book was published in september of 2009 by the Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro.
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Urdir la tarde
(Manuel
Iris)
This is a small collection of poetry of children published by the Institute of gender equity of the Yucatan. The publications deals with gender issues, in poetic language for children. It has not a pedagogic tone, but is used as professor's material in more than 100 rural schools in the Yucatan.
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Deconstructing Silos: Non-LGBTQ educators and the subjects of the urban classrooms
(Michael
Sharp)
(For Book) In the last fifteen years, we have witnessed a marked increase in the number of scholarly resources available that deal with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer issues in society. These have emerged predominantly in the disciplines of Sociology, Curriculum and Instruction, Women’s Studies, and Gay and Lesbian Studies.
There is unfortunately, however, very little literature in the field of Educational Leadership that focuses on LGBTQ issues as they directly relate to educational administration and leadership preparation. This symposium provides an arena for both established and emerging scholars in the field who are thinking and researching within the line of inquiry focused on the intersectionality of LGBTQ issues and educational leadership. This symposium will address three main themes: Policy and Activism, Curriculum and Pedagogy, and Identity and Lived Experiences. The session concludes with a discussion of future implications for research and an examination of how this book can best be used in leadership preparation.
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Experiential Learning
(Michael
Sharp)
This entry will discuss experiential learning, which is defined simply as learning by doing. This mode of teaching and learning stand stands in stark contrast to the more traditional didactic instruction in which the active teacher transmits knowledge to the passive student. Rather, experiential learning calls for an active, adaptive, and on going learning with the student where in a relationship is created between the student and teacher. This topic is relevant to the Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent due to our current national philosophies around education, which are in many cases failing the students they are meant to serve. The high-stakes testing, assessment, and teacher accountability as outlined in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) is a reaction to this crisis, but one that is highly controversial. This entry will offer an alternative to high stakes student and teacher assessment, which will include the philosophy behind, and example of, this mode of instruction.
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The Owl's Message
(Augustine
Nsang)
The Owl's Message was written based on some typical African folk tales. Two families, the Njeshus and the Gharis, are very strong enemies. Their enmity grows to such an extent that they begin looking for excuses to eliminate each other. The king, who is taking sides with the Gharis, arrests the Njeshus after the murder of some two Gharis and tries torturing all of them to death. Three of them escape, but one eventually commits suicide, and the other two are saved by an owl's message ...
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The Beef Princess of Practical County
(Michelle
Houts)
The Beef Princess of Practical County is a middle-grade novel for readers age 9 and up. Drawing upon her own farm experiences and her years of teaching elementary children, Michelle Houts weaves a tale of growing up and letting go.
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Nanostructured Materials Constructed from Polypeptides
(Jangwook
Jung)
This chapter describes peptide design strategies for the construction
of nanostructured materials. It begins with a brief tutorial of amino acid
structure and function and then describes higher-order assemblies of peptides
and peptidomimetics. Primarily ß-sheet fibril-forming peptides and a-helical
coiled coil systems are discussed, as these systems have received particular
attention in recent years for building nanostructured materials. Useful
properties that arise from peptide construction are addressed, including
stimulus-responsiveness, modularity, and multifunctionality, and a number
of technological applications are described, including Tissue Engineering,
antimicrobials, drug delivery, and nanoscale electronics. The chapter is
meant to be an introduction for researchers or students in nanotechnology
who may wish to extend their approaches into the biomolecular realm, and
it also provides a compendium of recent advances for experts in the field of
nanoscale peptide materials.
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Attachment, facies distribution, and life history strategies in Crinoids from the Upper Ordovician of Kentucky
(Bradley
Deline)
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Liminality and Power in Bram Stoker’s "Jewel of Seven Stars"
(Kate
Holterhoff)
This essay discusses the relation of fin de siècle gender politics to the liminal state developed in anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep’s rites of passage, especially in relation to the protagonist of Bram Stoker's "Jewel of Seven Stars," Margaret Trelawny. I analyze how "Jewel" functions to explain late Victorian European understandings of science, pseudoscience, and magic, while investigating how marginalization applies to Western Imperialism and the psychology of the exotic in Stoker’s text.
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