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Free Download Peter Costello, "Philosophical Children in Literary Situations: Toward a Phenomenology of Childhood "
English | ISBN: 1793604525 | 2020 | 188 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1527 KB + 2 MB
Philosophical Children in Literary Situations: Toward a Phenomenology of Education argues that both phenomenology and children’s literature can assist one another in understanding the lived experience of children. Through careful readings of central figures in the phenomenological tradition, including Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty, Costello introduces both the novice and the scholar to the phenomenological method of describing community, emotion, religion, gender, and loss-experiences that are central to all humans, but especially to the developing child. When turning to literary analysis, Costello uses the phenomenological theory discussed to open up the literary texts of familiar and award-winning children’s chapter books toward new layers of interpretation, reading such novels as To Kill a Mockingbird, A Wrinkle in Time, and Charlotte’s Web to participate in ongoing conversations about childhood perception within children’s literature studies and philosophy for children. Scholars of philosophy, education, literary studies, and psychology will find this book particularly useful.

Free Download Wendy Kopp, "One Day, All Children…: The Unlikely Triumph Of Teach For America And What I Learned Along The Way"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 1586481797 | EPUB | pages: 211 | 0.2 mb
From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In One Day, All Children… , she shares the remarkable story of Teach For America, a non-profit organization that sends outstanding college graduates to teach for two years in the most under-resourced urban and rural public schools in America. The astonishing success of the program has proven it possible for children in low-income areas to attain the same level of academic achievement as children in more privileged areas and more privileged schools.

Free Download B V Pattabhi Ram, "Magic for Children’s"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 9381384339 | EPUB | pages: 130 | 4.1 mb
Magic with its tricks and illusions continues to enthral audiences all over. And also as an art of deception it has not lagged behind. Like other arts it too has made great strides during the last century in India. This book is designed to provide a comprehensive account of the latest novelties and up-to-date methods developed in the field. The primary purpose of the book is to develop scientific temper by dispelling superstitions in the minds of the people about this great art. The chemical tricks provided on every page beneath illustrations, will expose the tricks of the so-called sorcerers.

Free Download T. Berry Brazelton, "Learning to Listen: A Life Caring for Children"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0738216674 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 1.0 mb
From his childhood in Waco, Texas, where he took expert care of nine small cousins while the adults ate Sunday lunch, to Princeton and an offer from Broadway, to medical and psychoanalytic training, to the exquisite observations into newborn behavior that led babies to be seen in an entirely new light, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton’s life has been one of innovation and caring. Known internationally for the Touchpoints theory of regression and growth in infants and young children, Brazelton is also credited for bringing the insights of child development into pediatrics, and for his powerful advocacy in Congress.

Free Download I Can’t Do Maths!: Why Children Say It and How to Make a Difference by Professor Alf Coles, Professor Nathalie Sinclair
English | May 12th, 2022 | ISBN: 1472992679 | 142 pages | True EPUB | 2.24 MB
An insightful, myth-busting book based on one core belief: maths doesn’t have to be scary!

Free Download Casie E. Hermansson, "Filming the Children’s Book: Adapting Metafiction"
English | ISBN: 1474413560 | 2019 | 224 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Just as a work of self-reflexive ‘metafiction’ – and the experience of reading it – differ from other types of literature, the work and the experience of viewing films that adapt metafiction are distinct from those of other films, and from other film adaptations of literary works.

Free Download Obed Mfum-Mensah, "Education, Social Progress, and Marginalized Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Cha"
English | ISBN: 1498545696 | 2017 | 240 pages | EPUB | 644 KB
This book employs sociohistorical, narrative, and discourse frameworks to discuss the sociopolitical complexities and ambiguities of educating marginalized groups in sub-Saharan Africa since western education was introduced in the region. It outlines the systemic and structural challenges faced by marginalized children in the education system that prevent them from fully participating in the education process. This book focuses on how the props underlying Christian missionary education, colonial education, and early postcolonial educational enterprise all served to marginalize certain groups, including women, some geographical regions and/or communities, such as Islamic communities and people with disabilities, from the colonial and postcolonial economic discourses. This historical background provides the springboard for discussions on the complexities and ambiguities of educating marginalized groups in some communities in sub-Saharan Africa in the contemporary times. This book also highlights the challenges of the recent policies of policy makers and the strategies and initiatives of civic societies, non-governmental organizations, and local communities to promote marginalized children’s participation in education. This book elucidates the varied ways certain groups and communities continue to interrogate the structural and systemic challenges that marginalize them educationally. It argues that the level of marginalized groups’ participation in education in sub-Saharan African in the 21st century will determine the progress the region will make in the Education for All (EFA) initiative and the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Furthermore, it argues that increasing educational participation in marginalized communities requires implementation of educational programs that address marginalized groups’ structural social arrangements and socioeconomic contexts.

Free Download Eleanore Hargreaves, "Children’s experiences of classrooms: Talking about being pupils in the classroom"
English | ISBN: 1473957168 | 2017 | 152 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
If children are to succeed and progress at school, schools and teachers need to understand how children experience the classroom. What do they think? How does school make them feel?

Free Download Eleanore Hargreaves, "Children’s experiences of classrooms: Talking about being pupils in the classroom"
English | ISBN: 1473957168 | 2017 | 152 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
If children are to succeed and progress at school, schools and teachers need to understand how children experience the classroom. What do they think? How does school make them feel?

Free Download Anne Stiles, "Children’s Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure’: Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle "
English | ISBN: 1108823777 | 2022 | 270 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Positive thinking is good for you. You can become healthy, wealthy, and influential by using the power of your mind to attract what you desire. These kooky but commonplace ideas stem from a nineteenth-century new religious movement known as ‘mind cure’ or New Thought. Related to Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science, New Thought was once a popular religious movement with hundreds of thousands of followers, and has since migrated into secular contexts such as contemporary psychotherapy, corporate culture, and entertainment. New Thought also pervades nineteenth- and early twentieth-century children’s literature, including classics such as The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, and A Little Princess. In this first book-length treatment of New Thought in Anglophone fiction, Anne Stiles explains how children’s literature encouraged readers to accept New Thought ideas – especially psychological concepts such as the inner child – thereby ensuring the movement’s survival into the present day.