This book is for the bone diggers and the song carriers - those interested in the roots, the old connections, and for those who have listening ears. It explores the relationships that unfold on the West Coast of Te Wai Pounamu New Zealand, in the mid-19th century as isolated, difficult to access parts of the country are entered by European explorers guided by local Māori.\nDavid Abram writes in The Spell of The Sensuous - "For the largest part of our species' existence, humans have negotiated relationships with every aspect of our sensuous surroundings, exchanging possibilities with every flapping form, every textured surface and shivering entity that we happened to focus on ... every sound was a voice every scrape or blunder was a meeting - with thunder, oak, dragonfly."\nWhat happens here in Te Wai Pounamu, when folk from worlds which recognise and read the sensuous, talk with birds, memorise land routes in their bodies in chant and song, encounter folk who do not even observe the changing position of the moon in the sky each day, and who are concerned primarily with "getting somewhere and accumulating something".\nThis birthing of a new way of being happens when folk from opposite ends of the earth with differing geographies, holding vastly different values, languages and world views walk with each other across the Southern Alps, tramp through thick forest, cross wild rivers, negotiate mountainous seas, and live together in Te Tai Poutini - the West Coast of Aotearoa.

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Literature & Fiction

Gallagher, Kathleen

Genre Fiction

Kingfisher Publishing

In this book, Kathleen Gallagher presents a multi-case study of adolescent girls who are learning through drama about their particular sexual, cultural, ethnic, and class-based identities in relation to the broader world around them. By examining the power and possibility of drama in schools to animate the processes of learning, Gallagher's research offers hope for meaningful reflection on pedagogy in what she sees as an increasingly mechanistic and disempowering period in education. This work is a unique contribution to the fields of equity studies and the arts in education, as it provides a new lens through which to examine gender, diversity, and schooling. Experiencing the drama curriculum as a process and method, the students learn by taking on different roles. This re-positioning of the learner generates new and rich experiences in the dialectic of life and art and the discourse of the "world as a stage" metaphor. Combining research and classroom practice in a public Catholic girls' school over an eighteen-month period, the author illustrates how drama provides a fertile ground for the intellectual and emotional development of girls, as they draw on their own lives and experiences in order to create their fictional worlds. She demonstrates how the collective action of drama in the classroom can support girls in becoming the authors of their own experiences. This compelling book reveals the liberatory possibilities of drama education for the vastly diverse and complex group, adolescent girls. The doctoral research on which Drama Education in the Lives of Girls was based received the American Alliance of Theatre and Education's most distinguished scholarly research award for 1999.

Drama Education in the Lives of Girls: Imagining Possibilities

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

In this book, Kathleen Gallagher presents a multi-case study of adolescent girls who are learning through drama about their particular sexual, cultural, ethnic, and class-based identities in relation to the broader world around them. By examining the power and possibility of drama in schools to animate the processes of learning, Gallagher's research offers hope for meaningful reflection on pedagogy in what she sees as an increasingly mechanistic and disempowering period in education. This work is a unique contribution to the fields of equity studies and the arts in education, as it provides a new lens through which to examine gender, diversity, and schooling. Experiencing the drama curriculum as a process and method, the students learn by taking on different roles. This re-positioning of the learner generates new and rich experiences in the dialectic of life and art and the discourse of the "world as a stage" metaphor. 
Combining research and classroom practice in a public Catholic girls' school over an eighteen-month period, the author illustrates how drama provides a fertile ground for the intellectual and emotional development of girls, as they draw on their own lives and experiences in order to create their fictional worlds. She demonstrates how the collective action of drama in the classroom can support girls in becoming the authors of their own experiences. This compelling book reveals the liberatory possibilities of drama education for the vastly diverse and complex group, adolescent girls. The doctoral research on which Drama Education in the Lives of Girls was based received the American Alliance of Theatre and Education's most distinguished scholarly research award for 1999.

University of Toronto Press

The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times

Because of its powerful socializing effects, the school has always been a site of cultural, political, and academic conflict. In an age where terms such as 'hard-to-teach,' and 'at-risk' beset our pedagogical discourses, where students have grown up in systems plagued by anti-immigrant, anti-welfare, 'zero-tolerance' rhetoric, how we frame and understand the dynamics of classrooms has serious ethical implications and powerful consequences.Using theatre and drama education as a special window into school life in four urban secondary schools in Toronto and New York City, The Theatre of Urban examines the ways in which these schools reflect the cultural and political shifts in big city North American schooling policies, politics, and practices of the early twenty-first century.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Because of its powerful socializing effects, the school has always been a site of cultural, political, and academic conflict. In an age where terms such as 'hard-to-teach,' and 'at-risk' beset our pedagogical discourses, where students have grown up in systems plagued by anti-immigrant, anti-welfare, 'zero-tolerance' rhetoric, how we frame and understand the dynamics of classrooms has serious ethical implications and powerful consequences.
Using theatre and drama education as a special window into school life in four urban secondary schools in Toronto and New York City, The Theatre of Urban examines the ways in which these schools reflect the cultural and political shifts in big city North American schooling policies, politics, and practices of the early twenty-first century.

From The Wing on a Flea to If the World Were a Village, the curiosities of nonfiction children’s books invigorate math lessons through this innovative series. Ideal for using students’ natural quest for knowledge as the basis for mathematical investigations, each lesson features an overview materials required, and a vignette of how the lesson transpired in a real classroom. Books include authentic student work, reproducibles, and a special introduction by Marilyn Burns. Math and Nonfiction, Grades 3–5 offers 20 lessons that address major mathematical topics, including whole-number computation, fractions, percents, sorting, graphing, measurement, data analysis, estimation, averages, and more.

Math And Nonfiction, Grades 3-5

Science & Math

Sheffield, Stephanie

Mathematics

Math Solutions

Mitford's Japan

Neelands, Jonothan

Taylor&Francis

What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures? In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow. An ethnographic study which mixes quantitative and qualitative methodology in an international multi-site project, Why Theatre Matters ties together the issues of urban and arts education through the lens of student engagement. Gallagher’s research presents a framework for understanding student involvement at school in the context of students’ families and communities, as well as changing social, political, and economic realities around the world.
Taking the reader into the classroom through the voices of the students themselves, Gallagher illustrates how creative expression through theatre can act as a rehearsal space for real, material struggles and for democratic participation. Why Theatre Matters is an invigorating challenge to the myths that surround urban youth and an impressive study of theatre’s transformative potential.

Why Theatre Matters: Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

What makes young people care about themselves, others, their communities, and their futures? In Why Theatre Matters, Kathleen Gallagher uses the drama classroom as a window into the daily challenges of marginalized youth in Toronto, Boston, Taipei, and Lucknow. An ethnographic study which mixes quantitative and qualitative methodology in an international multi-site project, Why Theatre Matters ties together the issues of urban and arts education through the lens of student engagement. Gallagher’s research presents a framework for understanding student involvement at school in the context of students’ families and communities, as well as changing social, political, and economic realities around the world.Taking the reader into the classroom through the voices of the students themselves, Gallagher illustrates how creative expression through theatre can act as a rehearsal space for real, material struggles and for democratic participation. Why Theatre Matters is an invigorating challenge to the myths that surround urban youth and an impressive study of theatre’s transformative potential.

The breathtaking story of a young boy with a never-before-seen disease, and the doctors who take a bold step into the future of medicine to save him—based on the authors’ Pulitzer Prize–winning reporting. In this landmark medical narrative, in the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher chronicle the story of Nic Volker, the Wisconsin boy at the center of a daring breakthrough in medicine—a complete gene sequencing to discover the cure for an otherwise undiagnosable illness. At just two years old, Nic experienced a searing pain that signaled the awakening of a new and deadly disease, one that would hurl Nic and his family up against the limits of modern medicine. For years, through false starts and failed cures, Nic holds on to life, buoyed up by his mother’s fierce drive to get him the care he needs. But when even the world’s experts are stumped by Nic’s illness, his doctors come up with a radical, long-shot plan: a step into the unknown. The next major scientific frontier, following the completion of the Human Genome Project, was to figure out how to use our new knowledge to save lives—to bring genomic or personalized medicine into reality. It’s a quest that is undertaken by researchers around the world. But it is only when geneticist Howard Jacob hears about young Nic that the finish line finally comes into sight: It’s no longer a race to make history. It’s a race to save this boy’s life. One in a Billion is an unforgettable tale of the lives that converged to launch a medical revolution. As pioneering geneticist Mary-Claire King pronounced upon learning Nic’s story: “It was as if one had heard about Case Zero of AIDS and the cure, all at once.”

One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine

Biographies & Memoirs

JOHNSON, MARK

Professionals & Academics

Simon&Schuster

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īnangahua Gold

Drama Education in the Lives of Girls: Imagining Possibilities

Drama Education in the Lives of Girls: Imagining Possibilities

The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times

The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times

Math And Nonfiction, Grades 3-5

Mitford's Japan

Why Theatre Matters: Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real

Why Theatre Matters: Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the Real

One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine