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INNOVATIONS IN SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION: NEW ECONOMICS, SOCIO-TECHNICAL TRANSITIONS AND SOCIAL PRACTICES // Edited by Halina Szejnwald Brown, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, and Philip J. Vergragt, Senior Research Scientist, George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University; and Maurie J. Cohen This timely volume recognizes that traditional policy approaches to reduce human impacts on the environment through technological change are insufficient to meet the most pressing sustainability challenges of the 21st century. Instead,
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the editors and contributors argue that we must fundamentally reconfigure our lifestyles and social institutions if we are to make the transition toward a truly sustainable future.
REFLECTIONS FROM THE FIELD: HOW COACHING MADE US BETTER TEACHERS // Eric J. DeMeulenaere, Assistant Professor of Education at Clark University, and Colette N. Cann with Chad R. Malone and James E. McDermott, Associate Professor of Practice, Clark University The coaching metaphor first entered the educational literature more than 25 years ago when Ted Sizer urged classroom teachers to model the pedagogical relationship between coaches and athletes. Yet, since then, educators have rarely drawn direct lessons from the athletic arena for their practice ... until now. DeMeulenaere, Cann, Malone and
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McDermott, in this ground-breaking analysis, explore the implications of athletic coaching for improved pedagogy.
WHEN WILL MY GROWN-UP KID GROW UP? // Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Research Professor of Psychology at Clark University, and Elizabeth Fishel The parenting guide for parents who thought they no longer needed one, “When Will My Grown-Up Kid Grow Up?” covers every aspect of life for an 18- to 29-year-old, from that first taste of independence at college to that time at the end of their 20s, when most people are settling down. It explains what grown children are going through — intense self-focus, instability, a feeling of being “in-between” mixed with a breathtaking sense of possibilities — and how par-
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ents should deal with these changes, including troubleshooting their child’s failure to launch and promoting a successful transition to adulthood.
TEACHER ROUNDS: A GUIDE TO COLLABORATIVE LEARNING IN AND FROM PRACTICE // Thomas Del Prete, Director of the Adam Institute for Urban Teaching and School Practice at Clark University The book explains how teachers can lead key facets of their own professional development by applying the Teacher Rounds methodology. Developed by Del Prete, the Teacher Rounds model can help educators learn with and from each other through classroom observations and inquiry. He offers step-by-step guidance and tools for implementing Teacher Rounds; insights on creating a positive environment for honest feedback; and a wealth of examples from a high-perform-
JEREMIAH’S SCRIBES: CREATING SERMON LITERATURE IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND // Meredith Marie Neuman, Associate Professor of English New England Puritan sermon culture was primarily an oral phenomenon, and yet its literary production has been understood mainly through a print legacy. In “Jeremiah’s Scribes,” Neuman turns to the notes taken by Puritan auditors in the meetinghouse to fill out our sense of the lived experience of the sermon. By reconstructing the aural culture of sermons, Neuman shifts our attention from the pulpit to the pew to demonstrate the many ways in which sermon
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auditors helped to shape this dominant genre of Puritan New England. Neuman illuminates a mode of textual production that pervaded communities and occurred in the overlapping media of print, manuscript, and speech.
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ing school and across all grade levels and disciplines.
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