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Encounters with Nature
25 short stories tell of Jan Wright's personal experiences where encounters with Nature (animals, birds, butterflies, stones, and trees) awakened her to looking at the Spirit in All Things. After each story is research she did to reveal the "medicine" of each encounter and therefore bring more meaning to her and the reader. Each story, plus the introduction and conclusion are illustrated by a watercolor painting of Jan's, and her petroglyph drawings add interest throughout the book.
Dear Mrs. Wright,
Jan Wright's creative memoir compares the hopes and trials of a new teacher with the aspirations, challenges, and accomplishments of the seasoned teacher she becomes. A young California girl gets her first teaching job with a class of forty-three sixth graders, starting mid-year 1972 in a rural elementary school in the Florida panhandle, one year after mandatory busing for integration. The next school year, she starts over in an inner-city school in Virginia, continuing her search for how to be a better teacher. The story then jumps forward three decades to Crittenden Middle school in Silicon Valley in California to reveal the growth of her style, her maturing aspirations, and the challenges of teaching at the end of her journey as a classroom teacher in 2003. "What makes a great teacher?" Mrs. Wright asked her seventh graders on the last day of her classroom teaching career. Those students' letters inspired this unique memoir of a teacher's journey.
The Impact of New Health Imperatives on Educational Policy and Schooling
Currently a great deal of public discourse around health is on the assumed relationship between childhood inactivity, young people’s diets, and a putative steep rise in obesity. Children and young people are increasingly being identified as a population at ‘risk’ in relation to these health concerns. Such concerns are driving what might be described as new ‘health imperatives’ which prescribe the choices young people should make around lifestyle: physical activity, body regulation, dietary habits, and sedentary behaviour. These health imperatives are a powerful force driving major policy initiatives on health and education in a number of countries in the Western world. Schools in p...
Expose
This book is not meant to be used as a handbook on careers in Escorting, so deletes most of the ‘gory’ details and deals mainly with only the lighter moments. Should you find yourself in the position of considering venturing into a new career, consider carefully before you choose prostitution. This is also called ‘in the trade’ various names such as escorting, with the ladies’ being known as call-girls and ‘workers’, in the more polite way of speaking. In the most unlikely event that you do land in the business your initiation can leave a lasting impression on you.
Language Education in the School Curriculum
There is widespread concern in all English speaking countries at the rapid decline in study of languages. The promise of 'languages for all' in the UK and North America in the 1970s marked a shift from languages as élite subjects for the privileged few, but this promise has not been fulfilled. This book explores the reasons for and solutions to this decline. More importantly, it looks at how these trends have been reversed in successful school programs and the implications of this for language education policy makers. The study draws on an analysis of data from 600 primary, secondary and community languages schools over six years and from detailed case studies in a representative sample of ...
School Health Education in Changing Times
This book explores the complex nexus of discourses, principles and practices within which educators mobilise school-based health education. Through an interrogation of the ideas informing particular models and approaches to health education, the authors provide critical insights into the principles and practices underpinning approaches to health education policy, curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. Drawing on extensive literature and research, the book explores and considers what health education can and should do. Chapters examine the extent to which health education, past and present, has attended to the needs and interests of young people in school environments, as well as assess common ...
Body Knowledge and Control
Drawing together some of the latest research on the body and schooling, Body Knowledge and Control offers a sharp and challenging critique of (post) modern day attitudes toward obesity, health, childhood and the mainstream science and business.
