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Discrete trial teaching
Rachel Brown PhD, NCSP and Mark W. Steege
Entry in The Encyclopedia of School Psychology.
Book description:
School psychologists are on the front lines in dealing with the most significant challenges facing children and the educational community today. And in a world of ever-increasing risks and obstacles for students, school psychologists must be able to use their in-depth psychological and educational training to work effectively with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and other mental health professionals to help create safe learning environments. By recognizing each individual student's unique circumstances and personality, school psychologists are able to offer specialized services to address such crucial children's issues as: family troubles (e.g., divorce, death); school assignments; depression; anger management; substance abuse; study skills; learning disabilities; sexuality; and self-discipline. The Encyclopedia of School Psychology provides school psychologists and other educational and mental health professionals with a thorough understanding of the most current theories, research, and practices in this critical area. In addition, the Encyclopedia offers the most up-to-date information on important issues from assessment to intervention to prevention techniques.
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Punishment
Rachel Brown PhD, NCSP and Mark W. Steege
Chapter in The Encyclopedia of School Psychology.
Book description:
School psychologists are on the front lines in dealing with the most significant challenges facing children and the educational community today. And in a world of ever-increasing risks and obstacles for students, school psychologists must be able to use their in-depth psychological and educational training to work effectively with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and other mental health professionals to help create safe learning environments. By recognizing each individual student's unique circumstances and personality, school psychologists are able to offer specialized services to address such crucial children's issues as: family troubles (e.g., divorce, death); school assignments; depression; anger management; substance abuse; study skills; learning disabilities; sexuality; and self-discipline. The Encyclopedia of School Psychology provides school psychologists and other educational and mental health professionals with a thorough understanding of the most current theories, research, and practices in this critical area. In addition, the Encyclopedia offers the most up-to-date information on important issues from assessment to intervention to prevention techniques.
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At Play: An Anthology of Maine Drama
Laura Emack and Assunta Kent
Standing just outside the door / Sanford Phippen -- Ugly ducklings / Carolyn Gage -- Writers block / Laura Emack -- Strange love triangle at the children's theatre / Caitlin Medb Harrison -- Oh grow up! / Scribes of Bucksport High School -- Let me count the ways / Linda Britt -- Inside out / Peter Lee -- Turned tables; The Liebestod / Hugh Aaron -- Regalia / Rick Doyle.
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Discarnate Desire: T. S. Eliot’s Poetics of Dissociation
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot.
A blind, dirty, senile old man haunts the margins of Eliot's 1910 poem “First Debate between the Body and Soul.” Along with a cast of characters in Inventions of the March Hare – clowns, actors, marionettes – he inserts himself in the consciousness of Eliot's narrators as both self and other, a voice at once within and without the “I” who ostensibly speaks. Unlike Eliot's theatrical personae, this often vile, chattering, drunken, or mad old man carries with him a horror of self-representation little mediated by a stage setting or controlled script. Similar figures appear in other poems, notably “Dans le Restaurant” and “Hysteria.” Yet he plays one role among many; in other forms, alien and intimate figures serve, in Eliot's work, both to claim and to disavow desire. For example, the marionettes – “my marionettes” – of “Convictions (Curtain Raiser)” are filled with naive and exaggerated desires carefully detached from the narrator who also claims them: they “Await an audience open-mouthed / At climax and suspense” and have “keen moments every day.” The narrator of “The Little Passion from ‘An Agony in the Garret’” observes himself walking and notes, sardonically, his own “withered face” as if in a mirror behind a bar: speaker and other are strangely indistinguishable.
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In Endless Song/Be Anxious for Nothing
Robert Russell
The musicians of the USM Chamber Singers represent the most outstanding singers at the University. Chosen through a careful audition process and committed to choral excellence, these undergraduate students have accepted a responsibility for musical distinction through a focus on warmth of tone, precise intonation, and the artistry of understanding the nuance of text. Throughout the northern New England region the Chamber Singers have performed a diverse repertory centered on a cappella literature of the renaissance era and the twentieth century and music of various world cultures. In May 1999 the ensemble toured Europe, singing in some of the most beautiful churches of western Europe, including a performance at Notre Dame in Paris and service music for Sunday Mass at the Karlskirche in Vienna. The singers received wide acclaim in April 2000 for a performance of the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein with the Portland Symphony Orchestra. The ensemble toured Ireland, Wales, and England in May 2002 and are planning a third tour in 2005.
More information about the USM School of Music may be found at:
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Site Plan and Development Review : A Guide for Northern New England
Robert Sanford and Dana H. Farley
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The Aesthetics of Self-Invention: Oscar Wilde to David Bowie
Shelton Waldrep PhD
By printing the title "Professor of Aesthetics" on his visiting cards, Oscar Wilde announced yet another transformation-and perhaps the most significant of his career, proclaiming his belief that he could redesign not just his image but his very self. Shelton Waldrep explores the cultural influences at play in Wilde's life and work and his influence on the writing and performance of the twentieth century, particularly on the lives and careers of some of its most aestheticized performers: Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, and David Bowie. As Waldrep reveals, Wilde's fusing of art with commerce foresaw the coming century's cultural producers who would blend works of both "high art" and mass-market appeal. Whether as a gay man or as a postmodern performance artist ahead of his time, Wilde ultimately emerges here as the embodiment of the twentieth-century media-savvy artist who is both subject and object of the aesthetic and economic systems in which he is enmeshed. Shelton Waldrep is associate professor of English at the University of Southern Maine. He is the coauthor of Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World (1995) and editor of The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture (2000).
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The Earth Remains: An Anthology of Contemporary Lithuanian Prose
Laima Sruogini
The anthology covers a wide range of Lithuanian voices, from young writers who began their literary careers in the post-Soviet period to older émigré writers who wrote in Lithuanian but published outside of their native land for nearly fifty years.
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Toward an inclusive psychology: Infusing the introductory psychology course with diversity content
Joseph E. Trimble, Michael Stevenson, and Judith P. Worell
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Becoming a Reader: A Developmental Approach to Reading Instruction (3rd Edition)
Michael P. O'Donnell and Margo Wood
Main text for undergraduate and graduate courses in Elementary Reading/Literacy Instruction. This is a practical “how to do” book that represents a synthesis of many points of view on how to assess the reading needs of children and to address them with highly effective teacher-tested strategies. Organized around stages of development rather than randomly arranged topics.
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Teaching Literature: A Companion
Tanya Agathocleous and Ann C. Dean
In Teaching Literature scholars explain how they think about their everyday experience in the classroom, using the tools of their ongoing scholarly projects and engaging with current debates in literary studies. Until recently, teaching has played second fiddle to literary research as a mode of knowledge in academia, leaving new teachers with nowhere to turn for advice about teaching and no forum for discussion of the difficulties and opportunities they face in the classroom.
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In Dewey's Wake : Unfinished Work of Pragmatic Reconstruction
W J. Gavin
In a pluralistic tapestry of approaches, eminent Dewey scholars address his pragmatic philosophy and whether it should be reinterpreted, reconfigured, or "passed-by," so as to better deal with the problems posed by the twenty-first century. For some, Dewey's contextualism remains intact, requiring more to be amended than radically changed. For others, his work needs significant revision if he is to be relevant in the new millennium. Finally, there are those who argue that we should not be so quick to pass Dewey by, for he has much to offer that has still gone unnoticed or unappreciated. This rich narrative indicates both where the context has changed and what needs to be preserved and nurtured in Dewey as we advance into the future.
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The Certified Quality Technician Handbook
Donald W. Benbow; Ahmad K. Elshennawy,; and H. Fred Walker
This book covers all of the topics listed in the Certified Quality Technician Body of Knowledge. The conversational tone of this reference book makes it easy to read while helping readers master quality assurance subject matter. Those interested in auditing, design of experiments, education, management, quality costs, sampling, and reliability will find this text helpful. Whether you want to brush up on skills needed in your profession, or review material before taking the Certified Quality Technician exam, this guide can help. Readers do not need a formal statistical background nor is it necessary to attend a course before using this book. This guide can also help an engineer or quality professional brush up on skills required for one’s job due to newly assigned responsibilities.
Additionally the authors provide references and introductions to topics that quality technicians will need as they grow more advanced in their career. Review questions are included in a supplementary section. While no text can guarantee success, it’s an excellent resource for those preparing to take the Certified Quality Technician exam or for your professional library.
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The Spectrality of the Sixties
Benjamin Bertram PhD
Chapter in Historicizing Theory.
Historicizing Theory provides the first serious examination of contemporary theory in relation to the various twentieth-century historical and political contexts out of which it emerged. Theory—a broad category that is often used to encompass theoretical approaches as varied as deconstruction, New Historicism, and postcolonialism—has often been derided as a mere "relic" of the 1960s. In order to move beyond such a simplistic assessment, the essays in this volume examine such important figures as Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt, and Edward Said, situating their work in a variety of contexts inside and outside of the 1960s, including World War II, the Holocaust, the Algerian civil war, and the canon wars of the 1980s. In bringing us face-to-face with the history of theory, Historicizing Theory recuperates history for theory and asks us to confront some of the central issues and problems in literary studies today.
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Counseling approaches to working with students with disabilities from diverse backgrounds
Mary Lynn Boscardin; J C. Gonzalez-Martinez; and Rachel Brown PhD, NCSP
Chapter in Multicultural Counseling in Schools: A Practical Handbook, 2nd Edition, edited by Paul B. Pedersen and John C. Carey.
Book description:
This practical handbook focuses on the practice of multicultural counseling in K-12 school settings.
Noted authorities in multicultural counseling contribute chapters that cover important topics such as promoting academic achievement, individual counseling, group counseling, family consultation, career development, violence prevention, training, and consultation. Unlike other multicultural books, the text provides information that is racial-ethnic specific, but also goes further to provide general principles of multicultural practice that are illustrated by reference to one or more racial-ethnic groups. Current theory and research are clearly reviewed with direct reference to the improvement of practice.
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A Distinct Sense of Belonging
E Michael Brady PhD
Chapter 1 in Baseball and American Culture Across the Diamond, edited by Frank Hoffmann, Edward J Rielly, Martin J Manning.
Book description:
Discover baseball's role in American society!
Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is a thoughtful look at baseball's impact on American society through the eyes of the game's foremost scholars, historians, and commentators. Edited by Dr. Edward J. Rielly, author of Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, the book examines how baseball and society intersect and interact, and how the quintessential American game reflects and affects American culture. Enlightening and entertaining, Baseball and American Culture presents a multidisciplinary perspective on baseball's involvement in virtually every important social development in the United States—past and present.
Baseball and American Culture examines baseball’s unique role as a sociological touchstone, presenting scholarly essays that explore the game as a microcosm for American society—good and bad. Topics include the struggle for racial equality, women’s role in society, immigration, management-labor conflicts, advertising, patriotism, religion, the limitations of baseball as a metaphor, and suicide. Contributing authors include Larry Moffi, author of This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s and Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959, and a host of presenters to the 2001 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, including Thomas Altherr, George Grella, Dave Ogden, Roberta Newman, Brian Carroll, Richard Puerzer, and the editor himself.
Baseball and American Culture features 23 essays on this fascinating subject, including:
“On Fenway, Faith, and Fandom: A Red Sox Fan Reflects”
“Baseball and Blacks: A Loss of Affinity, A Loss of Community”
“The Hall of Fame and the American Mythology”
“Writing Their Way Home: American Writers and Baseball”
“God and the Diamond: The Born-Again Baseball Autobiography”
Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond is an essential read for baseball fans and historians, academics involved in sports literature and popular culture, and students of American society. -
The Hungry Ghost: IMF Policy, Capitalist Transformation and Laboring Bodies in Southeast Asia
Lorrayne Carroll PhD and Joseph Medley
Chapter in Postcolonialism Meets Political Economy.
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The Characteristics and Roles of Rural Health Clinics in the United States: A Chartbook
John A. Gale and Andrew F. Coburn
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Complexities of Subjectivity: Scottish Poets and Multiplicity
Nancy Gish PhD
Chapter in Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally.
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Interpersonal skill development in a multicultural context: A manual for counselors, teachers, trainers and other professionals.
Bette Katsekas EdD and Diane LeMay
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Two Pronominal Mysteries in the Acquisition of Binding and Control
Dana McDaniel PhD
Chapter 4 in Anaphora: A Reference Guide, edited by Andrew Barss.
Book description:
Anaphora: A Reference Guide is a collection of essays that report on the major results of recent research in anaphora and set the stage for further inquiry.
- Reports on the major results of recent research in anaphora and sets the stage for further inquiry.
- Features contributions from among the world's leading researchers on anaphora.
- Presents an exciting picture of how broad the phenomenon of anaphora is and how it can reveal many mysterious properties of language.
- Includes articles of interest to many disciplines, including philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, linguistics, language studies, cognitive psychology, and psycholinguistics.
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The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present
Jason Read PhD
Re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary critical interrogation of subjectivity.
What is the relation between the economy, or the mode of production, and culture, beliefs, and desires? How is it possible to think of these relations without reducing one to the other, or effacing one for the sake of the other? To answer these questions, The Micro-Politics of Capital re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary critical interrogations of subjectivity in the works of Althusser, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, and Negri. Jason Read suggests that what characterizes contemporary capitalism is the intimate intersection of the production of commodities with the production of desire, beliefs, and knowledge.
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Everyday activism: A handbook for lesbian, gay, & bisexual people and their allies
Michael Stevenson and Jeanine C. Cogan
From same-sex marriages to hate-crime laws, gay, lesbian and bisexual people have fought an uphill battle to gain equal rights. Now a comprehensive new reference collects in one volume the strategies, hard data, and legal arguments that are central to the fight for equality in lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) life.
Up-to-date and readable, Everyday Activism is the one essential book that provides the basic facts on the key questions faced by LGB citizens. -
Economics and Performance: Wilde’s Aesthetics of Self-Invention
Shelton Waldrep Ph.D.
Paper by Shelton Waldrep, Ph.D., included in Oscar Wilde: the man, his writings, and his world. This title is a collection of academic papers first presented at a conference at Hofstra University, April 27-29, 2000. Edited by Robert N. Keane.