Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher"s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
Language: English | EPUB | ISBN-10: 0865716692 | 2010 | 240 pages | 1 MB

John Taylor Gatto’s Weapons of Mass Instruction, now available in paperback, focuses on mechanisms of traditional education that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Gatto’s earlier book, Dumbing Us Down, introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular. Weapons of Mass Instruction adds another chilling metaphor to the brief against conventional schooling.

Gatto demonstrates that the harm school inflicts is rational and deliberate. The real function of pedagogy, he argues, is to render the common population manageable. To that end, young people must be conditioned to rely upon experts, to remain divided from natural alliances, and to accept disconnections from their own lived experiences. They must at all costs be discouraged from developing self-reliance and independence.

Escaping this trap requires strategy Gatto calls “open source learning” which imposes no artificial divisions between learning and life. Through this alternative approach, our children can avoid being indoctrinated—only then that can they achieve self-knowledge, judgment, and courage.

John Taylor Gatto is an internationally renowned speaker who lectures widely on school reform. He taught for thirty years in public schools before resigning on the op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal during the year he was named New York’s official “Teacher of the Year.” On April 3, 2008, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard credited Gatto with adding the expression “dumbing us down” to the school debate worldwide.

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My Kleinian Home: A Journey Through Four Psychotherapies into a New Millennium

Nini Herman , “My Kleinian Home: A Journey Through Four Psychotherapies into a New Millennium”
2001 | ISBN-10: 1855752816 | 184 pages | PDF | 4 MB

The autobiography of a woman who underwent Jungian, Freudian and Kleinian analysis.

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‘A profoundly moving account. I found myself completely absorbed in this life in which past horrors are integrated into future hope.’- Phyllis Grosskurth, author of Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work’Nini Herman has done a great service by giving her own private account of her experiences of a variety of therapies both as a patient and as a therapist. This unique book is an enduring resource for those who want to get their bearings in the world of psychotherapy, and to gain an initial understanding of what the experience of being in therapy can offer.’- R.D. Hinshelwood, author of A Dictionary of Kleinian Thought and Therapy or Coercion?

Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity 3rd Edition

Don Hellison, “Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity-3rd Edition”
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0736094709 | PDF | pages: 224 | 2,9 mb

Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity, now entering its third edition, attests to author Don Hellison’s ability to shape and develop character and responsibility in children. Perhaps the success of Hellison’s book can be attributed to his status not only as a highly respected scholar-activist but as a teacher in the trenches working with inner-city kids.

Kids in any situation will benefit from the thoroughly updated material in this edition, which presents practical, proven, easy-to-implement ideas for teaching personal and social responsibility (TPSR) in school, after school, and in alternative settings. It also supplies direction in teaching affective and social moral goals, an in-depth look into teaching character development and values, and a method for helping students develop personal and social responsibility.

Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Through Physical Activity offers much new material:

• Strategies for alternative schools, afterschool programs, and the emerging youth development movement

• Vignettes sprinkled throughout the chapters, written by TPSR instructors in various settings

• Several chapters that have been completely overhauled

• An expanded assessment chapter to help readers evaluate the impact of TPSR on their kids and apply the strategies

• One new chapter on combining responsibility-based youth development with teacher preparation in physical education

In addition, the book features “Kid Quotes” to help readers understand how kids respond to the TPSR approach, as well as forms and charts to help readers put the ideas and strategies to use.

The result is a field-tested book that is the accepted curricular model in the field—and a resource that will enable teachers to help their students grow into solid citizens both personally and socially.

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Game-Based Marketing: Inspire Customer Loyalty Through Rewards, Challenges, and Contests (Repost)

Game-Based Marketing: Inspire Customer Loyalty Through Rewards, Challenges, and Contests By Gabe Zichermann, Joselin Linder
2010 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0470562234 | PDF | 1 MB

Harness the power of games to create extraordinary customer engagement with Game–Based Marketing.
Gamification is revolutionizing the web and mobile apps.
Innovative startups like Foursquare and Swoopo, growth companies like Gilt and Groupon and established brands like United Airlines and Nike all agree: the most powerful way to create and engage a vibrant community is with game mechanics. By leveraging points, levels, badges, challenges, rewards and leaderboards these innovators are dramatically lowering their customer acquisition costs, increasing engagement and building sustainable, viral communities.
Game–Based Marketing unlocks the design secrets of mega–successful games like Zynga s Farmville, World of Warcraft, Bejeweled and Project Runway to give you the power to create winning game–like experiences on your site/apps.

Based on the groundbreaking work of game expert and successful entrepreneur Gabe Zichermann, Game–Based Marketing brings together the game mechanics expertise of a decade s worth of research. Driven equally by big companies, startups, 40–year–old men and tween girls, the world is becoming increasingly more fun.

Savour Mumbai: A Culinary Journey Through India"s Melting Pot

Savour Mumbai: A Culinary Journey Through India’s Melting Pot by Vikas Khanna
English | 2013 | ISBN: 9382618953 | 332 pages | EPUB | 20 MB

Vikas Khanna’s culinary journey started in Amritsar, but the city of Mumbai has also played an important role in his evolution as an arbiter of dining taste. This book is his tribute to Mumbai, which lays on the table a smorgasbord of delicious food options: Maharashtrian, Parsi, Gujarati, Konkan, street food and so much more. Food that is as multi-flavoured as the city itself. In the year that Khanna lived in the city, working at The Leela Kempinski, he explored and experienced all these cuisines. As he says, it was a period that would benefit him in the kitchen in the years to come. In Savour Mumbai, he visits some of his favourite restaurants and eateries, selects their signature dishes, helpfully modifying and adapting their recipes into a form that will be a boon to the home cook.