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The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play. Many of these sites employed playleaders, whose job was to use play to instill social behavioral norms on children, using games with rules and organized activities. From the early 1970s, that approach began to be replaced by playwork, a nondirective way of working. Playwork...
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Summary of The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson | Includes Analysis Preview: The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson offers recommendations for a whole-brain approach to parenting. This approach emphasizes the importance of integrating the four quadrants of a child's brain, whether in challenging or joyous moments. Geared toward the brain development of children from birth to age 12, the whole-brain...
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Reflexiones sobre el trabajo de Amartya Sen relacionadas a la reflexión interdisciplinaria sobre las posibilidades del Desarrollo Humano en el Perú.
A fines de la década de 1990, el trabajo de Amartya Sen produjo un cambio radical en la forma de entender el desarrollo. Su enfoque, basado en las categorías de capacidades y de libertad, representó un desafío a la perspectiva predominante hasta entonces, sostenida en indicadores económicos. Sen...
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Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning. Volume 15 of “Play & Culture Studies” focuses on the special topic on Play and Curriculum, a long-waited topic to many educators and researchers in the field of play and education. This volume includes chapters reporting recent studies and practical ideas examining the relations between the play and curriculum from early...
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Why didn't Peter Parker stop the burglar who killed Uncle Ben?
Are Spider-Man's foes inherently evil, or are they victims of circumstances beyond their control?
What do the many web-slinging superheroes across the Spider-Verse tell us about the choices we make in the world(s) we inhabit?
And who really wants to date a superhero, anyway? Especially an underdog like Spider-Man... Spider-Man has been ranked among the best-selling superhero characters...
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"Parecía merecer la pena probar hasta qué punto el principio de la evolución vertía luz en algunos de los problemas más complejos de la historia natural del hombre. [...] La principal conclusión a la que se llega en este libro [es] que el hombre desciende de alguna forma de organización inferior..." (Charles Darwin: 'El origen del hombre', 1871). Con motivo del 150 aniversario de "El origen del hombre y la selección en relación al sexo",...
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El evento conmemorativo denominado Tres lustros de estudios sobre desarrollo humano, (dis)capacidades y diversidades en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia (2003-2018) constituye el origen más próximo de este libro. No obstante, este origen puntual ha sido expandido después de la lectura de pares, con la relectura de los argumentos expuestos y por la emergencia de nuevos escenarios de deliberación institucional y confluencia epistémica.
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The Administrative Challenges of (Play) Therapy brings together essays by eight therapists who tell the stories their career paths in the fields of social work and psychology, specializing in children and family therapy. Each author comments on issues such as professional expenses, referrals, case load, the "Play Room", and administrative responsibilities. They provide insight into their work as clinicians and administrators in private practice, in-home,...
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Qualitative methods are increasingly useful as psychiatry shifts from a focus on symptom reduction to enabling people to live satisfying and meaningful lives. It becomes important to achieve a deeper understanding of the ways in which mental illness interferes with everyday life and the ways in which people can learn to manage and minimize illness in order to pursue their lives as fully as possible. Although qualitative methods in psychiatry have...
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Stanton Braude is lecturer in biology at Washington University in St. Louis. Bobbi S. Low is professor of resource ecology at the University of Michigan.
An innovative introduction to ecology and evolution
This unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to quantitative models and methods in ecology, behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation. It explores the core concepts shared by these related fields using tools and practical...
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El establecimiento del vínculo entre psicoanálisis y adolescencia ha tenido una evolución lenta; durante el siglo xx la adolescencia se delimita progresivamente como objeto de estudio independiente para el psicoanálisis, a medida que algunos analistas encuentran las especificidades intrapsíquicas que la diferencian de la infancia y que impiden reducirla a los efectos inmediatos de los cambios fisiológicos de la pubertad o al resultado de influencias...
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When players play, there is a transactional process at work, whether for children on a teeter-totter or pandas playing with peers. In this edited volume, nine experts on play show how play transactions are an important dynamic of play across cultures, age groups, even species. A rich array of play contexts is evident across the nine chapters, encompassing varied continents, age groups, and sorts of players. The play processes of giant pandas, of home-visiting...
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Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators provide international insights grounded in educational and community practice and policy. They cover the range and intersections of marginalization: poverty, Aboriginal cultures, immigrants and newcomers, gay/lesbian youth, rural-urban divides, mental health, and so forth. Presenting...
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What does it take to be successful as an adult in the 21st century? Exactly what does success mean? Financial wealth? Career achievement? Inner peace? Developing one's potential to the fullest? How should social institutions such as the family, the school, religious organizations, or the community guide the development of the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary for success? These are important questions that are the focus of discussions not...
15) La prise en charge des troubles du comportement du jeune enfant: Manuel à l'usage des praticiens
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Cet ouvrage s'adresse à tous les praticiens qui rencontrent des enfants agités, impulsifs, agressifs, opposants, provocateurs ou désobéissants.
Fruit d'une recherche d'une dizaine d'années menée auprès d'enfants dits « difficiles » et de leurs parents, cet ouvrage vise à fournir aux praticiens des outils thérapeutiques utiles dans la prise en charge de leurs patients ainsi que quelques clés de compréhension indispensables.
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In 2012, Jerry Pinto published his debut novel, Em and the Big Hoom, which drew upon his experience of living with a mother who was bipolar. It touched thousands of readers, among them many who had similar experiences-of living with someone with a mental illness or infirmity. Some of these readers shared their stories with him, and agreed to share them with the world. A Book of Light collects these harrowing yet moving, even empowering, stories-about...
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This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully, selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection, we have, compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subject of graphology. The titles in this range include "Graphology and Character" "Graphology and Signatures" "Graphology and Criminology" and many...
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Celebrate the moms in your life (and perhaps yourself as well)! After all they've done for us, moms everywhere deserve to be appreciated on a daily basis, rather than waiting all year to get a card and some flowers. Think back on the many things, big and small, your mother has done for you over the years... from baking cookies or sometimes letting you choose the radio station on a car trip, to hemming your dress in time for the prom. Isn't it time...
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