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Should the wall of separation between church and state be permeable or inviolable? This question has been hotly contested since the nation's founding and contentious debates persist today. With a collection of the most significant documents and an introduction by Clarke E. Cochran that provides the historical context of the debate, prominent scholars Mary Segers and Ted Jelen debate the impact of organized religion on the democratic process, examine...
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This book, third in Wright's series Christian Origins and the Question of God, sketches a map of ancient beliefs about life after death, in both the Greco-Roman and Jewish worlds. It then highlights the fact that the early Christians' belief about the afterlife belonged firmly on the Jewish spectrum, while introducing several new mutations and sharper definitions. This, together with other features of early Christianity, forces the historian to read...
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Ce livre a pour but d'examiner la question de l'évaluation des compétences professionnelles en mettant à profit les connaissances théoriques et pratiques acquises par les intervenants et les chercheurs spécialisés dans la formation des enseignants et l'évaluation des compétences. Les spécialistes qui ont contribué à ce volume envisagent le problème de l'évaluation des compétences à différents points de vue, toujours en tenant compte...
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Signées par des spécialistes provenant de différentes provinces canadiennes, les huit études réunies dans ce volume nous font découvrir que l'acquisition de la littératie est influencée tant par le développement linguistique que l'environnement familial ou la société dans laquelle l'enfant évolue. La littératie - néologisme qui s'intègre graduellement dans le langage de l'éducation - vise à rendre compte du caractère englobant de...
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A good mind knows the right answers...but a great mind knows the right questions. And never are the 10 Best Questions™ more important than after the life-altering diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease.
Drawing on cutting-edge research and advice given by experts from the Alzheimer's Association, Mayo Clinic, and UCLA's Memory Clinic and Center for Aging -- as well as personal stories from caretakers, including television star and activist Linda Dano...
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Francophonie, minorités et pédagogie regroupe des textes de sociologues et sociolinguistes activement impliqués dans la recherche sur l'éducation de minorités linguistiques au sein de la Francophonie. La richesse en diversité de ces textes permet de souligner l'apport de la sociolinguistique en matière d'analyse des politiques éducatives. De même, ce collectif met en lumière la contribution de la sociolinguistique en matière de production...
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With more than 500 prompts, Gimme Five is sure to get your students talking, thinking, and laughing as they name their five things-foods they hate, situations that make them cry, favorite television shows, and much more. You'll find funny stuff, as well as hot issues and scenarios that'll make your students dig deeper. Whatever route you choose, Gimme Five will spark fascinating conversations.
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La recherche et la construction théorique de la reconnaissance professionnelle en éducation trouve dans ce volume sa première élaboration qui porte sur la distinction entre l'évaluation et la reconnaissance professionnelle. L'aversion pour l'évaluation dans l'éducation tient dans le fait que l'évaluation comme pratique vécue laissait à l'acteur le poids d'un regard critique, un poids trop lourd à supporter et dont les conséquences sont...
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"This Will Change Everything offers seemingly radical but actually feasible ideas with the potential to change the world. "-Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel Editor John Brockman continues in the same vein as his popular compilations What Are You Optimistic About and What Have You Changed Your Mind About with This Will Change Everything. Brockman asks 150 intellectual superstars "what game-changing scientific ideas...
13) Unfinished Sentences: 450 Tantalizing Unfinished Sentences to Get Teenagers Talking and Thinking
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In the best-selling footsteps of Would You Rather . . . ?, What If . . . ?, and Have You Ever . . . ? comes Unfinished Sentences - another collection of sometimes lighthearted, sometimes poignant, and always provocative discussion starters guaranteed to get teenagers talking, thinking, debating. Get the discussion ball rolling with 450 incomplete sentences that can be used anytime, anywhere for breaking the ice, stimulating discussions, building community,...
17) What Are You Optimistic About?: Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better
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The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge (www. edge. org), the influential online salon, recently asked more than 150 high-powered scientific thinkers to answer a vital question for our frequently pessimistic times: "What are you optimistic about? "Spanning a wide range of topics-from string...
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Even geniuses change their minds sometimes. Edge (www. edge. org), the influential online intellectual salon, recently asked 150 high-powered thinkers to discuss their most telling missteps and reconsiderations: What have you changed your mind about? The answers are brilliant, eye-opening, fascinating, sometimes shocking, and certain to kick-start countless passionate debates. Steven Pinker on the future of human evolution • Richard Dawkins on the...
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The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives-for better... or for worse... From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because...
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More than one hundred of the world's leading thinkers write about things they believe in, despite the absence of concrete proofScientific theory, more often than not, is born of bold assumption, disparate bits of unconnected evidence, and educated leaps of faith. Some of the most potent beliefs among brilliant minds are based on supposition alone -- yet that is enough to push those minds toward making the theory viable. Eminent cultural impresario,...
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