Authors:Karen S. Brathwaite, Carl E. James,
Publisher: Lorimer
Keywords: series, schools, canadians, african, educating
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1550285009
ISBN-13: 9781550285000

This book offers a critical assessment of the experiences of African Canadian students, exploring strategies that will serve to enhance their academic success.Writing from their respective locations as students, parents, teachers, counsellors, professors and researchers, the contributors to this collection alert readers to many of the challenges that African Canadians face in the educational system. They discuss new initiatives and suggest new directions that might improve the academic success of Black students. Educating African Canadians offers practical suggestions that can enhance the educ

Author: Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: directions, new, passages, middle
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 1994-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0811212327
ISBN-13: 9780811212328

poetry, new work from Caribbean master poet

Authors:Brenda Brathwaite, Ian Schreiber,
Publisher: Charles River Media
Keywords: designers, game, challenges
Number of Pages: 317
Published: 2008-08-21
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 158450580X
ISBN-13: 9781584505808

Welcome to a book written to challenge you, improve your brainstorming abilities, and sharpen your game design skills! Challenges for Game Designers: Non-Digital Exercises for Video Game Designers is filled with enjoyable, interesting, and challenging exercises to help you become a better video game designer, whether you are a professional or aspire to be. Each chapter covers a different topic important to game designers, and was taken from actual industry experience. After a brief overview of the topic, there are five challenges that each take less than two hours and allow you to apply the ma

Authors:Mary Thompson, Karen Trush, Linda Evans, Karen Backus
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Keywords: art, really, activities, classroom, enrich, teach, topics, irresistible, directions, dazzle, projects, amp, delight, grades, easy
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0439153883
ISBN-13: 9780439153881

Easy Step-by-Step Directions for More Than 20 Irresistible Art Activities That You Can Really Do in Your Classroom‹and That Enrich the Topics You Teach!Includes 8 full-color pages! Beach Ball Collage, Patchwork Pets, Symmetrical Smiles‹Kids will love these creative and colorful no-fail art activities that tie into popular themes, such as seasons, animals, and friends. Easy how-to¹s guide you through each step, from introducing the projects to displaying them. Created and classroom-tested by four art teachers, these surefire activities are fun for every student!

Author: Karen Hunger Parshall and Adrian C. RiceKaren Hun
Publisher: American Mathematical Society, London Mathematical Society
Keywords: research, community, mathematical, international, unbound, evolution, mathematics
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $93.00
ISBN-10: 0821821245
ISBN-13: 9780821821244

Although today’s mathematical research community takes its international character very much for granted, this ``global nature’’ is relatively recent, having evolved over a period of roughly 150 years--from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. During this time, the practice of mathematics changed from being centered on a collection of disparate national communities to being characterized by an international group of scholars for whom the goal of mathematical research and cooperation transcended national boundaries. Yet, the developme

Author: Jeremy J. Gray and Karen Hunger ParshallKaren Hun
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: history, mathematics, algebra, modern, episodes
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-07-18
List price: $69.00
ISBN-10: 0821843435
ISBN-13: 9780821843437

Algebra, as a subdiscipline of mathematics, arguably has a history going back some 4000 years to ancient Mesopotamia. The history, however, of what is recognized today as high school algebra is much shorter, extending back to the sixteenth century, while the history of what practicing mathematicians call "modern algebra" is even shorter still. The present volume provides a glimpse into the complicated and often convoluted history of this latter conception of algebra by juxtaposing twelve episodes in the evolution of modern algebra from the early nineteenth-century work of Charles Babbage on

Authors:Karen Golden-Biddle, Karen Locke,
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: research, qualitative, composing
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2006-08-03
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 1412905613
ISBN-13: 9781412905619

The Second Edition of Composing Qualitative Research: Crafting Theoretical Points from Qualitative Data offers useful strategies for addressing the writing issues that researchers face when shepherding a manuscript from invention to publication. Authors Karen Golden-Biddle and Karen Locke use real-world examples drawn from a variety of disciplines and publications to demonstrate styles, concepts, challenges, and potential outcomes from writing qualitative research.