This uniquely compiled volume addresses the current trends and issues in the field of early childhood education, reflecting the evolving nature of the field and teacher training in the United States and worldwide, preparing readers with the skill set necessary to meet the new needs and challenges that face the teaching profession today. Comprehensive and authoritative, this edited text includes 15 chapters written by over 32 experts in the field, covering a variety of approaches to teaching young children, the historical foundations, as well as the philosophy and theory behind the applications described. The text addresses current tensions within early childhood education, covering new developments in curricula, methods, and assessment strategies. By clarifying and addressing current tensions, definitions, identities, functions, and boundaries, it helps readers stay on the cutting edge of the field. An important resource and guide for pre-service and in-service teachers, as well as those professionals who currently guide or work with children in early childhood settings, Approaches to Early Childhood Education, Sixth Edition,is the best preparation tool on the market for preparing future early childhood educators–tomorrow’s leaders in the field–with the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the ever-changing needs and challenges of teaching in today’s world.

Approaches to Early Childhood Education

Education & Teaching

JOHNSON, JAMES

Roopnarine, Jaipaul

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

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Written by two educators and a practicing acoustical consultant, this reader-friendly book/reference covers all the important issues of architectural acoustics in a single volume — AND features a dual-level presentation that meets the needs of both those seeking depth and rigor, and those requiring a broad, practical perspective. Synthesizing acoustical theory with its practical applications, it provides exhaustive narrative coverage of the subject (including advanced optional content and extensive mathematical appendixes) and extensive high-quality stand-alone illustrations — for those who need to grasp concepts quickly without wading through long descriptions of complex acoustical phenomena. Explains complex acoustical phenomena and their practical details with relative ease. Provides over 500 stand-alone illustrations — that, together with a cursory reading of the text, enable readers to grasp concepts quickly — without wading through long descriptions of complex acoustical phenomena. Contains a comprehensive list of important formulas in architectural acoustics.

Architectural Acoustics: Principles and Design

Science & Math

Mehta, Madan

Rocafort, Jorge

Physics

PRENTICE/HALL

Will AI make accidental nuclear war more likely? If so, how might these risks be reduced? AI and the Bomb provides a coherent, innovative, and multidisciplinary examination of the potential effects of AI technology on nuclear strategy and escalation risk. It addresses a gap in the international relations and strategic studies literature, and its findings have significant theoretical and policy ramifications for using AI technology in the nuclear enterprise. The book advances an innovative theoretical framework to consider AI technology and atomic risk, drawing on insights from political psychology, neuroscience, computer science, and strategic studies. In this multidisciplinary work, James Johnson unpacks the seminal cognitive-psychological features of the Cold War-era scholarship, and offers a novel explanation of why these matter for AI applications and strategic thinking. The study offers crucial insights for policymakers and contributes to the literature that examines the impact of military force and technological change.

AI and the Bomb: Nuclear Strategy and Risk in the Digital Age

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Oxford University Press

What does AI mean for the role of humans in war? The AI Commander addresses the largely neglected question of how the fusion of machines into the war machine will affect the human condition of warfare. James Johnson emphasizes the "mind" - both human and machine - and the mechanisms of thought (intelligence, consciousness, emotion, memory, experience, etc.) to consider the effects of AI and autonomy on the human condition of war. Johnson investigates the vexing and misunderstood - and at times contradictory - ethical, moral, and normative implications, whether incremental, transformative, or revolutionary, of synthesizing man and machine in future algorithmic warfare - or AI-enabled centaur warfighting. At the heart of these vexing questions are whether we are inevitably moving toward a situation in which AI-enabled autonomous weapons will make strategic decisions in place of humans and thus become the owners of those decisions. Can AI-powered systems replace human commanders? 
And, more importantly, should they? The AI Commander argues that AI cannot be merely passive and neutral force multipliers of human cognition. Instead, they will likely become - either by conscious choice or inadvertently - strategic actors in war. AI will transform the role and nature of human warfare, but not necessarily in the ways most observers expect.

The AI Commander: Centaur Teaming, Command, and Ethical Dilemmas

thick hardback, very good+, errata laid in, as new

INTRO.TO FOUND.OF AMER.EDUC.>E

Hall, Gene E.

Gollnick, Donna M.

Dupuis, Victor

Allyn&Bacon

Helps teachers and soon-to-be teachers learn how play as a form of communication can be adapted to the classroom. Play, Development, and Early Education, challenges the reader to discover what play is and how to incorporate it into a curriculum for children from toddlerhood through the primary grades. Utilizing three major ideas—the quality of play in early childhood, play as a means of self-expression, and play as a channel of communication to achieving social sense—the authors examine the beliefs, perspectives, and theories relating to play and what effects culture, media and technology have on play. In addition, the text addresses the role of parents in supporting and elaborating play, the direct connections between research and play practice, and the value of play in relation to the total development (cognitive, affective, emotional, social, and physical) of all children. Play, Early childhood, child development. Appropriate for teachers and other professionals that work with children from toddler through primary grades. Also appropriate for those studying to work in the field of early childhood education.

Play, Development and Early Education

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Christie, James

Wardle, Francis

Psychology & Counseling

Part self-help, part inspiration, and part motivation, How to Change the Weather is a book culled from decades of trauma and perseverance.Challenges like having a child with leukemia, being severely wounded in combat, and ultimately losing a daughter to brain cancer have changed James as a person and endowed him with a powerful message that must be shared. His hardships don’t define him; the way he has forged ahead does. The book is a must-read for anyone who has faced a struggle of any kind. Train your mind to withstand the storms of life and learn to become a “Weather Changer.”

How to Change the Weather: Overcoming adversity by changing yourself

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

James Johnson

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