Author: Jeremy Swinson File Type: epub Practical, actionable information about the positive, behavioural approach to education is in desperately short supply, and yet when implemented properly the impact on school behaviour and achievement can be enormous. Positive Psychology for Teachers aims to address this gap. Written by experienced practitioners, it gives teachers simple and direct advice on how they can use the positive behavioural approach for the benefit of their pupils and schools. Based on the authors own experiences of intervention in school settings and evidence of its effectiveness, this practical guide includes a number of vignettes and case studies illustrating how the behavioural approach has been used by teachers in a wide variety of classrooms to make their teaching more effective. Each case study will be followed by a number of suggested practical activities for classroom implementation. Throughout the book, background theory is explained in a concise and easily digestible manner and activities are clearly explained with benefits and end goals clearly signposted. Areas covered include- Whole school interventions, turning around under-performance Reducing disruptive behaviour in the classroom Improving creative writing and increasing reading attainment Improving pupils self concepts SEN interventions including autism, children with challenging behaviour and those classified as having social, emotional and behavioural difficulties The difference between teachers treatment of boys and of girls Strategies for turning around the behaviour of very difficult pupils This practical user-friendly text is aimed directly at trainee and practising teachers but would also be very relevant to those working with trainee teachers in university departments and to educational psychologists.

Author: Mark A. Peters File Type: pdf Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bachs vocal compositionsincluding his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantataswith particular attention to how such meaning arises out of the intentionality of Bachs own compositional choices or (in Part IV in particular) how meaning is discovered, and created, through the reception of Bachs vocal works. And the authors do not consider such compositional choices in a vacuum, but rather discuss Bachs artistic intentions within the framework of broader cultural trendssocial, historical, theological, musical, etc. Bachs vocal music taken by the authors in this volume, as seen across the books four parts Part I How might the study of historical theology inform our understanding of Bachs compositional choices in his music for the church (cantatas, Passions, masses)? Part II How can we apply traditional analytical tools to understand better how Bachs compositions were created and how they might have been heard by his contemporaries? Part III What we can understand anew through the study of Bachs self-borrowing (i.e., parody), which always changed the earlier meaning of a composition through changes in textual content, compositional characteristics, the works context within a larger composition, and often the performance context (from court to church, for example)? Part IV What can the study of reception teach us about a works meaning(s) in Bachs time, during the time of his immediate successors, and at various points since then (including our present)?The chapters in this volume thus reflect the breadth of current Bach research in its attention not only to source study and analysis, but also to meanings and contexts for understanding Bachs compositions.Contributors& Robin A. Leaver & Wye J. Allanbrook & Gregory Butler & Eric Chafe & Jason B. Grant & Mary Greer & Tanya Kevorkian & Kayoung Lee & Robert L. Marshall & Martin Petzoldt & Markus Rathey & Steven Saunders & William H. Scheide & Hans-Joachim Schulze & Ruth Tatlow & Yo Tomita **Review Don Franklin is a preeminent Bach scholar, and this volume of enlightening case studies on meaning in Bachs vocal music by his colleagues and former students is a marvelous tribute that does both Franklin and Bach a signal honor. (Michael Marissen, author of Bach & God) An admirable set of essays about an important body of music. Taken together, this collection significantly advances scholarly discourse about the vocal works of J. S. Bach. (Stephen Crist, Emory University) About the Author Mark A. Peters is professor of music at Trinity Christian College. Reginald L. Sanders is professor of music at Kenyon College.

Author: Cordelia Fine File Type: pdf A fascinating, funny, disconcerting and lucid book. Helen Dunmore Perhaps your brain seems to stumble when faced with the 13 times table, or persistently fails to master parallel parking. But youre in control of it, right? Sorry. Think again. Dotted with popular explanations of the latest research and fascinating real-life examples, psychologist Cordelia Fine tours the less salubrious side of human psychology. She shows that the human brain is in fact stubborn, emotional and deceitful, teaching you everything you always wanted to know about the brain - and plenty you probably didnt. Provocative enough to make you start questioning your each and every action.*Entertainment Weekly*The brains power is confirmed and touted every day in new studies and research. And yet we tend to take our brains for granted, without suspecting that those masses of hard-working neurons might not always be working for us. Cordelia Fine introduces us to a brain we might not want to meet, a brain with a mind of its own. She illustrates the brains tendency toward self-delusion as she explores how the mind defends and glorifies the ego by twisting and warping our perceptions. Our brains employ a slew of inborn mind-bugs and prejudices, from hindsight bias to unrealistic optimism, from moral excuse-making to wishful thinkingall designed to prevent us from seeing the truth about the world and the people around us, and about ourselves.

Author: Rosemary P. Carbine File Type: pdf Kathryn Tanner is undoubtedly one of the most important contemporary North American theologians. From landmark studies in systematic and constructive theology to economics, Tanners work is a contribution of inestimable value, hallmarked by its depth, precision, provocativeness, and grace. Unifying the immense scope of her work is the particular vision of Gods self-gift an internal, dynamic, communal reality that is expressed outward in acts of love and generosity that are creation, incarnation, and capacious life in the Spirit. This vision, as the grounding matrix of Tanners theology, has been extended beyond the disciplinary boundaries of theology in constructive explorations of economics, social and political theory, cultural studies, and ethics. This volume celebrates the vision and breadth of Tanners unique contribution. Essays by established scholars, colleagues, and former students trace out the key loci and themes, from theological method, the Trinity, Christology, creation, to economics, environmental and social ethics, and politics, to generate constructive and ecumenical conversation that presents Tanner as an important, contemporary public theologian. **