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By Nancy Diekelmann and John Diekelmann
Schooling Learning Teaching: Toward Narrative Pedagogy calls forth ways of thinking the issues of schooling, learning, and teaching. The task of this book is to plumb this triad as a phenomenological relationship that emerges as an “intra” rather than an “inter.” Do conventional pedagogies favor preparing nursing students for a healthcare system that no longer exists? Has competency-based nursing education reached its completion? Exhausted its possibilities? Converging conversations and Concernful Practices of Schooling Learning Teaching show themselves as the telling of narratives. Narrative Pedagogy gathers all pedagogies⎯past, extant, and future⎯into converging conversations by rethinking schooling, learning, and teaching as an intra-related, co-occurring invisible phenomenon. Relating as telling and listening reveals the richness of situated involvements as they meaningfully disclose and beckon: they simply ask to be listened to. NURSING EDUCATION “This book is a treasure-trove that calls out a voyage of discovery. Narrative Pedagogy is the realization of 20 years of hermeneutic phenomenological research by Nancy Diekelmann. In her scholarship she has attended to the listenings of students, teachers, and clinicians in nursing educational settings in order to move beyond the constrictions inherent in the traditions of schoolingthose that pursue the production of students as trained outputs by teachers and clinicians, bound to particular sets of strategies. Narrative Pedagogy is the first nursing pedagogy from nursing research for nursing education. Both our eyes and our ears will be opened to a richer way of thinking.”
-Pamela M. Ironside, PhD, R.N. F.A.A.N., Associate Professor, Director for Research in Nursing Education, University of Indiana School of Nursing
FORMAT: Softcover
By Nancy Diekelmann and John Diekelmann
Schooling Learning Teaching: Toward Narrative Pedagogy calls forth ways of thinking the issues of schooling, learning, and teaching. The task of this book is to plumb this triad as a phenomenological relationship that emerges as an “intra” rather than an “inter.” Do conventional pedagogies favor preparing nursing students for a healthcare system that no longer exists? Has competency-based nursing education reached its completion? Exhausted its possibilities? Converging conversations and Concernful Practices of Schooling Learning Teaching show themselves as the telling of narratives. Narrative Pedagogy gathers all pedagogies⎯past, extant, and future⎯into converging conversations by rethinking schooling, learning, and teaching as an intra-related, co-occurring invisible phenomenon. Relating as telling and listening reveals the richness of situated involvements as they meaningfully disclose and beckon: they simply ask to be listened to. NURSING EDUCATION “This book is a treasure-trove that calls out a voyage of discovery. Narrative Pedagogy is the realization of 20 years of hermeneutic phenomenological research by Nancy Diekelmann. In her scholarship she has attended to the listenings of students, teachers, and clinicians in nursing educational settings in order to move beyond the constrictions inherent in the traditions of schoolingthose that pursue the production of students as trained outputs by teachers and clinicians, bound to particular sets of strategies. Narrative Pedagogy is the first nursing pedagogy from nursing research for nursing education. Both our eyes and our ears will be opened to a richer way of thinking.”
-Pamela M. Ironside, PhD, R.N. F.A.A.N., Associate Professor, Director for Research in Nursing Education, University of Indiana School of Nursing
FORMAT: E-Book
By Joseph W. Graham
Use the secret of this book to attain wealth and status, build a rewarding career, win the advantage in negotiations, to gain sexual appeal, gain personal recognition, to help relatives, friends, and the less fortunate, to build self-confidence and self-esteem, to be spiritually delivered, to eliminate inconveniences, and to become more knowledgeable or better educated.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Joseph W. Graham
Use the secret of this book to attain wealth and status, build a rewarding career, win the advantage in negotiations, to gain sexual appeal, gain personal recognition, to help relatives, friends, and the less fortunate, to build self-confidence and self-esteem, to be spiritually delivered, to eliminate inconveniences, and to become more knowledgeable or better educated.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Xin-An Lu
There is a mistaken assumption in many social sciences that knowledge will automatically translate into action. Based on this assumption, textbooks for basic oral communication, a required course in many college campuses, attempt to ameliorate students' communicational behaviors by teaching them knowledge about communication: theories, concepts, and terms. Not only failing their attempt, these textbooks also estrange students by belaboring what is "common sense" in students' perception. However, in reality, numerous social problems are not because of a lack of knowledge, but because of a lack of action or a lack of practice of the knowledge. In an effort to shift attention from knowing communication to doing communication, Cases of Problematic Communication confronts its readers with realistic cases of problematic communication and offers questions to facilitate your reflection and communicational action. Promising to transform the students' learning from one of passive cognition to one of reflective action, this booklet can also serve as a resource for commercial textbooks for oral communication.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Xin-An Lu
There is a mistaken assumption in many social sciences that knowledge will automatically translate into action. Based on this assumption, textbooks for basic oral communication, a required course in many college campuses, attempt to ameliorate students' communicational behaviors by teaching them knowledge about communication: theories, concepts, and terms. Not only failing their attempt, these textbooks also estrange students by belaboring what is "common sense" in students' perception. However, in reality, numerous social problems are not because of a lack of knowledge, but because of a lack of action or a lack of practice of the knowledge. In an effort to shift attention from knowing communication to doing communication, Cases of Problematic Communication confronts its readers with realistic cases of problematic communication and offers questions to facilitate your reflection and communicational action. Promising to transform the students' learning from one of passive cognition to one of reflective action, this booklet can also serve as a resource for commercial textbooks for oral communication.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani
Beyond Boundaries-Reflections of Indian and U.S. Scholars documents experiential learning of exchange scholars from India and the U.S.A. These essays from Fulbright Scholars, Post-Doc Researchers, Humphrey Fellows, and participants of International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), and East-West Center, provide a diverse spectrum of their cultural and academic experiences. The personal essays in this collection are interesting, shocking, and unforgettable. Anyone interested in studying in the United States or going to India ought to read this book for it provides a rare perspective that comes from observing a country from the students' point of view. Here, students learn, share and make the connections that go on to the making of a better and safer world for us and for future generations. While these essays do not necessarily present a representative picture either of India or the U.S.A., the sketches do describe exchange experiences of interest to anyone who is concerned with people, cultures and diversity. The production of this book was partially sponsored by the Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology. www.FulbrightAcademy.org
FORMAT: Softcover
By Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani
Beyond Boundaries-Reflections of Indian and U.S. Scholars documents experiential learning of exchange scholars from India and the U.S.A. These essays from Fulbright Scholars, Post-Doc Researchers, Humphrey Fellows, and participants of International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), and East-West Center, provide a diverse spectrum of their cultural and academic experiences. The personal essays in this collection are interesting, shocking, and unforgettable. Anyone interested in studying in the United States or going to India ought to read this book for it provides a rare perspective that comes from observing a country from the students' point of view. Here, students learn, share and make the connections that go on to the making of a better and safer world for us and for future generations. While these essays do not necessarily present a representative picture either of India or the U.S.A., the sketches do describe exchange experiences of interest to anyone who is concerned with people, cultures and diversity. The production of this book was partially sponsored by the Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology. www.FulbrightAcademy.org
FORMAT: E-Book
By Ralph M. Goldman
Professor Goldman has contributed articles and books in divers fields of political science. This is a partial collection of his principal published and unpublished journal articles as well as brief references to his principal books. Professor Goldman's years at Michigan State and San Francisco State Universities provided opportunities for instructional experimentation and management of educational programs: at MSU, the American Politics Graduate Training Program; at San Francisco State, experiments in small-group peer-instruction. Other experiments: self-paced instruction; an assessment program for political science majors, and simulations of disarmament conferences. His RolePlay is an innovative teaching program for K-12 social studies.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Ralph M. Goldman
Professor Goldman has contributed articles and books in divers fields of political science. This is a partial collection of his principal published and unpublished journal articles as well as brief references to his principal books. Professor Goldman's years at Michigan State and San Francisco State Universities provided opportunities for instructional experimentation and management of educational programs: at MSU, the American Politics Graduate Training Program; at San Francisco State, experiments in small-group peer-instruction. Other experiments: self-paced instruction; an assessment program for political science majors, and simulations of disarmament conferences. His RolePlay is an innovative teaching program for K-12 social studies.
FORMAT: E-Book
By John A. Kaufhold
John and Sumita Kaufhold (shown at Oxford University) have conducted numerous national and international seminars on educational improvement.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Jeffrey Vaske
Are you nervous about the rigors of college academics? Does graduating from college seem like an impossible dream? If so, A Student’s Guide to Acing College is for you! This motivational and insightful guide walks you step-by-step along the path toward academic success. Inside, you will find a multitude of tips, tools, and strategies designed to help you develop the essential skills necessary to succeed in college. You will also be introduced to several resources unique to the college experience that can assist you in achieving top grades. A Student’s Guide to Acing College gives you the tools to conquer the world of college academics and fulfill your dreams! “Directly from the trenches: after having successfully navigated two challenging academic programs simultaneously, Jeffrey Vaske has provided a succinct and extremely useful guide for college students. Essentially, he demystifies the academic skills that students need to do well. If you have a child starting college, get him or her this book.”
— Dr. Katharina Tumpek-Kjellmark, Chair, History Department, Grand View University
FORMAT: Softcover
By Jeffrey Vaske
Are you nervous about the rigors of college academics? Does graduating from college seem like an impossible dream? If so, A Student’s Guide to Acing College is for you! This motivational and insightful guide walks you step-by-step along the path toward academic success. Inside, you will find a multitude of tips, tools, and strategies designed to help you develop the essential skills necessary to succeed in college. You will also be introduced to several resources unique to the college experience that can assist you in achieving top grades. A Student’s Guide to Acing College gives you the tools to conquer the world of college academics and fulfill your dreams! “Directly from the trenches: after having successfully navigated two challenging academic programs simultaneously, Jeffrey Vaske has provided a succinct and extremely useful guide for college students. Essentially, he demystifies the academic skills that students need to do well. If you have a child starting college, get him or her this book.”
— Dr. Katharina Tumpek-Kjellmark, Chair, History Department, Grand View University
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Jeffrey Vaske
Are you nervous about the rigors of college academics? Does graduating from college seem like an impossible dream? If so, A Student’s Guide to Acing College is for you! This motivational and insightful guide walks you step-by-step along the path toward academic success. Inside, you will find a multitude of tips, tools, and strategies designed to help you develop the essential skills necessary to succeed in college. You will also be introduced to several resources unique to the college experience that can assist you in achieving top grades. A Student’s Guide to Acing College gives you the tools to conquer the world of college academics and fulfill your dreams! “Directly from the trenches: after having successfully navigated two challenging academic programs simultaneously, Jeffrey Vaske has provided a succinct and extremely useful guide for college students. Essentially, he demystifies the academic skills that students need to do well. If you have a child starting college, get him or her this book.”
— Dr. Katharina Tumpek-Kjellmark, Chair, History Department, Grand View University
FORMAT: E-Book
By Alexander Hart
Time In Question follows a college freshman through his first semester. A right of passage when what were once facts, or at least reliable anecdotes, heard from well-meaning parents and friends very quickly become absolute myth, totally out of touch with today. The many frightening and exciting aspects of college are discussed, always with questionable humor and a total lack of respect. The backdrop for this merciless glimpse into higher education is Mourning College, dedicated to the pursuit of glorified, self-indulged "excellence." Professors enjoy inflicting the most pain and suffering on students' mental and physical states daily. Lackluster sport teams are cheered to ever lesser heights by overweight, underachieving, though often wealthy, alumni. And weekend parties consist of stale beer the froth of which is only freshened by rudderless conversations ultimately leading nowhere but filthy sheets and hangovers. Please read with diligence and leave all humility, sanity, and predispositions well behind. Be Warned: "The book will offend a great many people with its tactless, senseless attacks on various groups, all for the sake of 'humor.'" "Everyone else will find the book insulting at best, and slanderous at worst."
FORMAT: Softcover
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