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Donna Quesada had been teaching for about a dozen years when the first signs of burnout hit her. Rather than give into her frustration, she reached for Buddha’s teachings - the Zen wisdom that formed the basis of her own longtime spiritual practice. She survived the semester and gradually rediscovered the joy of teaching that had been progressively declining. In this wonderful book, she shares the lessons she learned - lessons that reveal time and again: No matter the situation, resolution begins in our own hearts and minds.

「走る哲学者」が半生をかけて考え抜き辿り着いた、人生を「極める」バイブル。基礎の習得から無我の境地まで、人間の成長には５つの段階がある。では、壁を越え、先に進むために必要なものは何か。

Enquanto o mundo manifestava-se nas redes sociais e nas ruas após a notícia do assassinato de George Floyd, nos Estados Unidos – um crime de racismo -, uma das autoras deste audiolivro vivia sua própria “inquisição” ao ser questionada pelo filho, um menino negro de pele clara, o que ela, enquanto mulher branca, tinha feito para que Zumbi dos Palmares não fosse também assassinado. Essa interpelação aconteceu em maio de 2020, quando esta autora lia, para seu filho, o livro Amoras, do rapper e escritor Emicida, e em uma das páginas Zumbi aparece com uma fala potente: “Não foi em vão!”

En los últimos treinta años los niños han cambiado tanto como la sociedad, y las herramientas que siempre nos habían servido para educarlos ya no dan el mismo resultado. Nuestros niños son ahora más inseguros, están sobreprotegidos y tienen muchos más miedos. Pero cuando un niño entiende alguna de las cosas que siente, o lo que le sucede por dentro, percibes cómo le cambia la mirada de golpe y cómo por fin modifica dócilmente su comportamiento.

After Alice Dreger's live tweeting of her son's abstinence sex ed class went viral, Dreger was asked by many parents how she had managed to raise a 14-year-old so comfortable talking about sex - comfortable enough even to challenge sex ed teachers when they presented misinformation. The Talk is a response to those questions.

Angstfrei in der Schulzeit anzukommen ist eine Erfahrung, die den weiteren Schulweg eines Kindes nachhaltig prägt und immens erleichtern kann. Es ist ein Prozess, auf den die Eltern viel mehr Einfluss haben, als bislang angenommen. Die bekannte Grundschulpädagogin und Mutter Saskia Niechzial unterstützt Eltern, ihre Kinder aktiv und beziehungsorientiert durch das Vorschuljahr und den Beginn der Grundschulzeit zu begleiten, sie loszulassen und dabei sicherer Hafen zu bleiben – auch bei Gegenwind und eigenen Ängsten.

If you could talk to your pet, what would it say to you? How do animals communicate with people? And what's the best way for people to communicate with animals? In this insightful audiobook, renowned pet psychic Sonya Fitpatrick teaches listeners about the secrets of the animal world and how to learn the telepathic language of animals. Dogs, cats, reptiles, horses and wild animals of kinds have a story to tell.

To glimpse America’s future, one needs to look no further than its college campuses. Of those institutions, none holds more clout than Yale University, the hallowed “cradle of presidents”. In Sex and God at Yale, recent graduate Nathan Harden undresses perversity among the Ivy and ideology gone wild as the upper echelon of academia is mired in nothing less than a full-fledged moral crisis.

What explains the growing class divide between the well-educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills - the right "human capital" - reap the majority of the economic rewards. The complexity of today's economy is not only making these lucky elites richer - it is also making them smarter.

Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood. Not only did Mattlin live through childhood, he became one of the first students in a wheelchair to attend Harvard, from which he graduated and became a professional writer. His advantage?

The true story of a young teacher attempting to change lives in a troubled educational system. According to Ilana Garon, popular books and movies are inundated with the myth of the "hero teacher" - the one who charges headfirst into dysfunctional inner-city schools like a firefighter into an inferno, bringing the student victims to safety through a combination of charisma and innate righteousness. The students are then "saved" by the teacher’s idealism, empathy, and faith. This is not that type of book....

Además de un brillante escritor, dramaturgo, y polemista, Oscar Wilde está considerado el mejor autor de aforismos de la historia moderna. Sus célebres pensamientos de una sola frase son ingeniosos y profundos. El autor de Nietzsche para estresados toma 99 perlas de sabiduría de quien, justamente por su vida centrada en los placeres, conoció todos los extremos del alma humana, y traslada sus mensajes a situaciones actuales para enseñarnos a sortear los problemas y gozar de la vida sorbo a sorbo.

Have you ever felt lost, anxious, panicky about adulthood? Have you ever spent a hungover Sunday crying into a bowl of cereal? Have you ever scrolled through Instagram and felt nothing but green-eyed jealousy and evil thoughts? Award-winning journalist, Grazia agony aunt and real-life big sister to five smart, stylish, stunning 20-something young women, Daisy Buchanan has been there, done that and got the vajazzle.

書くのが好きになれば、あなたも「書ける人」になれる!日記・SNS・note・ブログ、「続かない」と悩むすべての人のための「努力・才能・技術」より大切な“たのしく書く"ためのコツ

Paixão da Ignorância: A Escuta Entre a Psicanálise e Educação, do Professor Christian Dunker, inaugura a coleção “Educação e Psicanálise”, da Editora Contracorrente, que tem como objetivo dar voz a educadores e psicanalistas, a fim de reduzir o hiato entre a transmissão oral e a escrita, entre escola e universidade, entre prática e pesquisa, surgidas do chão da sala de aula. A proposta parte da escuta do próprio campo aprendente entre os atores da vida escolar, retomando os princípios inclusivos de Paulo Freire.

When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP). Now, in response to enormous demand, the authors turn their attention to African American young women. Statistics indicate that African American females, as a group, fare poorly in the United States.

Este Volumen II de la trilogía "Oposiciones docentes" hace inmersión en tres aspectos fundamentales de la oposición. En primer lugar, expone de una forma muy minuciosa cómo realizar una planificación para la oposición. Tratando aspectos como la gestión del tiempo, la distribución del esfuerzo y la organización semanal del opositor. Este apartado incluye diversos recursos adicionales descargables desde la web del autor. En segundo lugar, muestra un análisis basado en la literatura científica sobre cómo aprender a aprender.

One afternoon in the late 1970s, deep in the labyrinthine interior of a massive Gothic tower in New Haven, an unsuspecting employee of Yale University opened a long-locked room in the Payne Whitney Gymnasium and stumbled upon something shocking and disturbing. Shocking, because what he found was an enormous cache of nude photographs, thousands and thousands of photographs of young men in front, side, and rear poses. Disturbing, because the photos looked like the record of a bizarre body-piercing ritual.

This book is an account of how Dr. Kalam visualizes Information and Communication Technology mining the rural talent. Here, Dr. Kalam presents his dream of schools in India in 2020 as symbiotic nerve centres connecting teachers, students and community; personifying knowledge that exists in the world. He also makes a clarion call to accelerate the process of societal transformation. This would involve raising the standards of governance and safeguarding the sanctity of public institutions.

El presente libro tiene el propósito de explicar en qué consiste la buena calidad educativa. Estudiando diversos sistemas escolares, tanto con buenos como con malos resultados, se muestran las razones por las que el modelo educativo prevaleciente en muchos países occidentales no funciona. Y, propone un cambio de mentalidad y política educativa en la que el esfuerzo del alumno, el apoyo de la familia, y el aprendizaje de los contenidos y, muy especialmente, de la lengua, tengan un papel central.