scholarly journals Hope Springs by E. Walters

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Northeast China ◽  
School Level ◽  
French Immersion ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Winning Team ◽  
The Face ◽  
Proverbial Language ◽  
First World

Walters, Eric. Hope Springs. Illus. Eugenie Fernandes. Toronto, Ontario: Tundra Books, 2014. Print.Author Eric Walters and illustrator Eugenie Fernandes have teamed up to create a collection of beautiful picture books set in an orphanage in Kenya. "Hope Springs" is the second of three written and illustrated by this award winning team. The text is substantial but not overwhelming for elementary age students. Walters makes the significant topics of drought and community struggle accessible for readers of all ages. The story moves at a steady pace with subtly proverbial language that makes it an ideal read aloud.Young orphan Boniface faces hardship as drought overwhelms the valley in which he lives. Boniface reveals his kind heart early in the story and this caring nature develops more fully throughout the text. Stunning illustrations created using rich acrylics, compliment the text beautifully. In fact the layered landscapes add depth to the story. One especially poignant page portraying a watery dreamscape acts as the cover of the book. As an added bonus the book jacket doubles as a poster attracting young readers and foreshadowing the compassionate story within.  Walters concludes his optimistic tale with a special non-fiction section, complete with photos, maps, and captions, describing "the story behind the story".  All in all this is an inspirational read that highlights the power of kindness and sharing in the face of adversity. Read it for the heart-warming story featuring a struggle far beyond any first world problems and relish in the beautiful artwork.Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Michelle HarveyMichelle Harvey is a teacher-librarian at a French Immersion school in Kelowna, British Columbia. After spending six years teaching in northeast China, Michelle is happy to be home and promoting her passions for reading and inquiry at the elementary school level.

Power of Darkness: Narrative and Biographical Reflexivity in A Series of Unfortunate Events

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-212
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH BULLEN
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Project Risk ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
High Earning ◽  
Textual Culture ◽  
Children’S Exposure ◽  
Central Claim

This paper investigates the high-earning children's series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, in relation to the skills young people require to survive and thrive in what Ulrich Beck calls risk society. Children's textual culture has been traditionally informed by assumptions about childhood happiness and the need to reassure young readers that the world is safe. The genre is consequently vexed by adult anxiety about children's exposure to certain kinds of knowledge. This paper discusses the implications of the representation of adversity in the Lemony Snicket series via its subversions of the conventions of children's fiction and metafictional strategies. Its central claim is that the self-consciousness or self-reflexivity of A Series of Unfortunate Events} models one of the forms of reflexivity children need to be resilient in the face of adversity and to empower them to undertake the biographical project risk society requires of them.

scholarly journals Profesionalitas Guru Sekolah Dasar dalam menghadapi Ragam Karakteristik Belajar

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
Zahid Zufar At Thaariq ◽  
Lindawati Lindawati ◽  
Ryandini Dwi Puspita
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
School Level ◽  
Media Management ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Face

This research aimed to review the professionalism of teachers in the face of the learning characters of elementary school students. In the learning process, a teacher's role was critical. Thus, teachers need to be professional in managing learning in the classroom in terms of media management, models and learning resources. This study used mixed methods approach between qualitative and quantitative. This research used online poll instruments and spread to 24 respondents. Respondents were taken from teachers at the elementary school level. The steps in this study were (1) the formulation of the problem (2) looking for the theory foundation, (3) the poll instrument formulation, (4) the distribution of polls, (5) data presentation and (6) drawing conclusions and suggestions. The results revealed that the elementary school teacher had a variety of methods and action in the learning such as the use of discussion, demonstration, lecturing and problem solving methods with a variety of specific reasons. The character of learners became the first consideration on implementing the variety of methods and action. So, the learning process tended to become more varied. The expectation of this research could capture teacher’s performance and give basis to improve the teachers’ profesionalism in the classrooms teaching and learning process.

Fiktionalität des Faktischen

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-26
Author(s):  
Nikola Von Merveldt
Keyword(s):  
State Building ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Empire State Building ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Semantic Distinction ◽  
Hybrid Forms

Artikelbeginn:[English title and abstract below] Am 1. April 1989 wird das Empire State Building von einem reichen Ölscheich gekauft, der es Stein für Stein, Stahlstrebe für Stahlstrebe, im Wüstensand wieder aufbauen lassen will. Der Schotte James Mac Killian reist von 1923–1925 in einem Heißluftballon um die Welt und berichtet davon. Und in den Fragmenten des Geographenvolks der Orbæ lassen sich versunkene Welten erahnen, die sich mutige Reisende erschlossen und dokumentiert haben. Irritiert mag man sich fragen, ob einem diese Fakten entgangen sind, oder ob David Macaulays Unbuilding (1980) fake news ist, Caroline Mac Killians Journey of the Zephyr (2010) eine Lüge und die beeindruckende Bildbandtrilogie von François Place, Atlas des géographes d’Orbæ (1996–2000), eine unverfrorene Fälschung. Oder sind alle drei ›einfach‹ Bilderbücher und somit ohnehin Fiktion, ja Kunst mit all den ihr zustehenden Freiheiten? Fictionality of the FactualReflections on the Poetics of Non-Fiction for Young Readers Drawing on recent research in narratology and theories of fiction, this article proposes ways of productively looking at non­fiction for children beyond the fact­fiction divide. The key to a differentiated analytical toolkit is the semantic distinction between the real and fictional content on the one hand – the question of referentiality – and the prag­matic difference between factual and fictional ways of presenting it on the other hand – whether it lays a claim or not to referential truthfulness on the discursive level. These categories, analysed according to a three­step model developed by Nickel­Bacon, Groeben and Schreier (2000), allow for a nuanced description of the many hybrid forms of non­fiction, especially information picture books. This article will present a typology of dif­ferent variations on the ›fictionality of the factual‹ and the ›factuality of the fictional‹ in current information books for young readers, and show that there is more fiction in non­fiction than is commonly assumed.

Writing Life: Early Twentieth-Century Autobiographies of the Artist-Hero

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mhairi Pooler
Keyword(s):  
Henry James ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Dorothy Richardson ◽  
Siegfried Sassoon ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First World

Writing Life offers a revisionary exploration of the relationship between an author’s life and art. By examining the self-representation of authors across the schism between Victorianism and Modernism via the First World War, this study offers a new way of evaluating biographical context and experience in the individual creative process at a critical point in world and literary history. Writing Life is also the story of four literarily and personally interconnected writers – Edmund Gosse, Henry James, Siegfried Sassoon and Dorothy Richardson – and how and why they variously adapted the model of the German Romantic Künstlerroman, or artist narrative, for their autobiographical writing, reimagining themselves as artist-heroes. By appropriating key features of the genre to underpin their autobiographical narratives, Writing Life examines how these writers achieve a form of life-writing that is equally a life story, artist’s manifesto, aesthetic treatise and modern autobiographical Künstlerroman. Pooler argues that by casting their autobiographical selves in this role, Gosse, James, Sassoon and Richardson shift the focus of their life-stories towards art and its production and interpretation, each one conducting a Romantic-style conversation about literature through literature as a means of reconfirming the role of the artist in the face of shifting values and the cataclysm of the Great War.

What Is Passed On (Or, Why We Need Sweetened Condensed Milk for the Soul)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandy Liên Worrall-Soriano
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Creative Non Fiction ◽  
The Face ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
American Memory ◽  
Critical Movement

Dialogically fixed to the previous chapter, “On Asian/American Memory, Illness, and Passing” engages the personal as a means of reflecting upon the political. In particular, Worrall-Soriano—whose recently published cancer memoir, What Doesn’t Kill Us (2014) has received much critical acclaim—reflects upon how the field of Asian American studies, notwithstanding its preoccupations with state-authorized conflict and trauma, has historically failed to deal with widespread stigmatizations involving illness. Worrall-Soriano maps these omissions via a creative non-fiction exploration of her familial past; such forays, which assume the form of intergenerational palimpsest, bring to light the degree to which Asian American studies remains—in the face of teleology and despite critical movement—a post-traumatic stressed engagement.

Daniel Kupfert Heller, Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. xii + 331 pp.

2020 ◽  
pp. 334-339
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
First World War ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
World War ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Face ◽  
First World ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

It is common wisdom, both in scholarly historiography and in hagiography, that Ze’ev Jabotinsky was the founding father of the Israeli Right. In fact, as Colin Shindler’s excellent book proves, Jabotinsky adopted a right-wing world view only in the 1920s. Prior to the First World War, while undoubtedly a Zionist, he was also a man of cosmopolitan views. It was during a sojourn in Italy that he was caught up in the spirit of nationalism; Garibaldi’s influence was prior to Herzl’s. Moreover, whereas Jabotinsky’s heirs, Menachem Begin most prominently, paid lip service to his heritage, they were not entirely his disciples. Jabotinsky’s thinking largely lost its relevance in the face of the changing historical circumstances in which Begin and others operated. And so, with the passage of years following Jabotinsky’s death in 1940, there was an ever-lessened sense of obligation to the leader and his legacy....

A Step Closer to Racial Equity: Towards a Culturally Sustaining Model for Community Schools

2020 ◽  
pp. 004208592095490
Author(s):  
Julia Daniel ◽  
Hui-Ling Sunshine Malone ◽  
David E. Kirkland
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
School Level ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Racial Equity ◽  
Equity In Education ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Face

In this article, we explore community schools, as first theorized through community organizing, in relation to movements for racial justice in education to address the following question: How has educational equity been radically imagined by the community school movement in New York City to reframe how we understand success, meaningful school experiences, and the possibility for hope, healing, and racial equity in education? Using ethnographic methods, we answer this question by examining what went into the grassroots commitments of organizers and the grasstops implementation of the community schools’ strategy at the district level. This examination sets a context for exploring what we saw happening at the school level, where we observed community meetings with organizers and district officials and interviewed key stakeholders about their deep histories of advocating for equitable reform. Drawing on an abolitionist paradigm, we describe how organizers such as those in NYC, who were interested in transforming systems as a prerequisite to advancing freedom, were the first major advocates of the original community schools project. Valuing the knowledge and strength of communities that have survived and thrived in the face of centuries of oppression, we conclude that community stakeholders in collaboration with education workers, from organizers to students, envisioned a blurring of communities and schools as part of a strategy to build collective power that both exposes and challenges injustice.

LGBTQ+ Literature in the Elementary and Secondary Classroom as Windows and Mirrors for Young Readers

2020 ◽  
pp. 198-222
Author(s):  
April M. Sanders ◽  
Laura Isbell ◽  
Kathryn Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
American Library Association ◽  
Adult Readers ◽  
American Library ◽  
Young Readers ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Secondary Classroom ◽  
Critical Content

Educators looking for books to offer to children and young adult readers with LGBTQ+-inclusive themes can use these results to review award winning books and the themes found in the texts. This critical content study includes children's and young adult books winning the Stonewall Award from the American Library Association. The selected books are reviewed for themes applicable to mirrors and windows that are provided to readers in the text. Windows provide a way for readers to see an experience unlike their own while mirrors offer a reflection of experiences the reader has experienced. Both offer a way for readers to connect with the text.

Award-winning team first to use ultrasound in UK

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 20-22
Author(s):  
Elaine Cole
Keyword(s):  
Award Winning ◽  
Winning Team

scholarly journals The 2005 International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) Research Awards in Psychogeriatrics

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ames
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Steering Committee ◽  
Serbia And Montenegro ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
President Elect ◽  
Terminal Degree ◽  
First Time

This issue of the journal sees the publication of the 3 papers placed first, second and third in the 2005 International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA) Research Awards in Psychogeriatrics. For the first time in the history of the awards (first presented in 1989 and awarded at each biennial IPA Congress thereafter), entries were limited to junior investigators within five years of the award of their terminal degree who were at no higher than Assistant Professor/Instructor level at the time of submission. The awards were judged by a panel of four comprising Bengt Winblad (panel chair and 12th IPA Congress chair), David Ames (editor International Psychogeriatrics), John O'Brien (deputy editor International Psychogeriatrics and 12th IPA Congress Scientific Steering Committee Chair) and Joel Sadavoy (then President elect of IPA). The field comprised 11 papers from nine countries (Canada, China (including the Special Administrative region of Hong Kong), Greece, Egypt, the Netherlands, Serbia and Montenegro, Spain, Uganda and the U.S.A.) and contained several papers which in a less competitive field would have been worthy recipients of an award. In addition to the three award winning papers, in an unprecedented decision the judges approved a special citation for a fourth submission entitled “Psychiatric disorders among the elderly on non-psychiatric wards in an African setting” by Noeline Nakasujja of Uganda for “Outstanding Research Endeavors undertaken in a previously un-researched field, in the face of unusual operational challenges.”

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