Julie: 4248 books
Parent Engagement in Early Learning
Strategies for Working with Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
This second edition of Parent-Friendly Early Learning brings to life real scenarios that care providers face in today's world. We know parent engagement is important for a child's success, but how do you turn parent-provider relationships into partnerships? Learn how to improve parent-teacher communication,...
by julie smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
a short childrens story about an angel who helps children and herself to make friends.
Assessing Adoptive Parents, Foster Carers and Kinship Carers, Second Edition
Improving Analysis and Understanding of Parenting Capacity
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Assessing prospective adoptive parents, foster carers, kinship carers and special guardians is an extremely complex task, and one that happens within a pressurized time frame.
Currently, assessments draw substantially on interviews, which can generate a lot of information but little analysis...
Early Childhood Mathematics Education Research
Learning Trajectories for Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
This important new book synthesizes relevant research on the learning of mathematics from birth into the primary grades from the full range of these complementary perspectives. At the core of early math experts Julie Sarama and Douglas Clements's theoretical and empirical frameworks are learning trajectories—detailed...
Better Lives
Migration, Wellbeing and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Migration is at historically high levels and more than a quarter of the New Zealand population was born overseas. Yet immigration remains a deeply contentious issue, with the debate more often shaped by emotion than evidence.
Julie Fry and Peter Wilson have developed a new framework that broadens...
Improvising Medicine
An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In Improvising Medicine, Julie Livingston tells the story of Botswana's only dedicated cancer ward, located in its capital city of Gaborone. This affecting ethnography follows patients, their relatives, and ward staff as a cancer epidemic emerged in Botswana. The epidemic is part of an ongoing surge...
Secular Powers
Humility in Modern Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God’s authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics....
Crafting Wounaan Landscapes
Identity, Art, and Environmental Governance in Panama’s Darién
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Panama’s Darién is a name many conservationists know. Renowned for its lowland tropical forests, its fame is more pronounced because a road that should be there is not: environmentalists have repeatedly, and remarkably, blocked all attempts to connect the Americas via the Pan American Highway....
Groupwork in Social Care
Planning and Setting Up Groups
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2001
In this extremely practical guide, Julie Phillips argues that preparation is the most important element in running successful groups, and explores the issues that practitioners should address. She demonstrates how to prepare effectively, drawing on eight extended case studies with a variety of groups...
Confronting Postmaternal Thinking
Feminism, Memory, and Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
There is a deep cultural anxiety around public expressions of maternalism and the application of maternal values to society as a whole. Julie Stephens examines why postmaternal thinking has become so influential in recent decades and why there has been a growing unease with maternal forms of subjectivity...
The Allure of Premeditated Murder
Why Some People Plan to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Any murder causes pain and suffering that ripple through families and communities—of both the victims and the perpetrators—but premeditated murders cause the worst kind of damage. The Allure of Premeditated Murder is about the worst kinds of premeditated homicide in which the perpetrator plans...
Death Squads or Self-Defense Forces?
How Paramilitary Groups Emerge and Challenge Democracy in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In an era when the global community is confronted with challenges posed by violent nonstate organizations--from FARC in Colombia to the Taliban in Afghanistan--our understanding of the nature and emergence of these groups takes on heightened importance. Julie Mazzei's timely study offers a comprehensive...
LBJ and Mexican Americans
The Paradox of Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
As he worked to build his Great Society, Lyndon Johnson often harkened back to his teaching days in the segregated "Mexican" school at Cotulla, Texas. Recalling the poverty and prejudice that blighted his students' lives, Johnson declared, "It never occurred to me in my fondest dreams...
by Julie Peteet
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Professor Julie Peteet believes that the concept of mobility is key to understanding how place and space act as forms of power, identity, and meaning among Palestinians in Israel today. In Space and Mobility in Palestine, she investigates how Israeli policies of closure and separation influence Palestinian...