This book provides a practical and theoretical look at how media education can make learning and teaching more meaningful and transformative. This second edition includes more resources, photographs, and updated information as well as two new chapters: one exploring the pedagogical potential for using photography in the classroom and the other documenting a successful university course on critical media literacy for new teachers. The book explores the theoretical underpinnings of critical ...

CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents is THE essential resource for middle and high school English language arts teachers to help their students understand and address the urgent issues and challenges facing life on Earth today. Classroom activities written and used by teachers show students posing questions, engaging in argumentative reading and writing and critical analysis, interpreting ...

Jeff is not liked by people.But he will try to be considerate to them from now on.Will it pay off?

Jeff is not liked by people.But he will try to be considerate to them from now on.Will it pay off?

Kim Noble is an accomplished artist whose work has been exhibited around the world. She is a mother with a 13-year-old daughter. She is a bubbly and vivacious woman. To meet her you wouldn't think anything was wrong. But when Kim was younger than five years old, her personality splintered and fractured. In 1995 she was finally diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) which has been described as a creative way to cope with unbearable pain. Now her body plays host to more than 20 ...

"What sets Faith Without Fear apart from so many others is its brevity, practicality, and inspiration. You will be excited and equipped to share your faith in a shockingly short amount of time. A great resource for individuals, small groups, and entire churches.” --Gary Thomas, Best-selling author"Jeff and I spoke for the first time on his talk show, Men Unplugged. I immediately noticed his passion for reaching non-Christians and equipping fellow believers to do the same. ...

Running a business should be exciting and rewarding, not a burden. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs fall into the daily grind of stamping out fires and doing everything themselves because they’ve unknowingly become their own best employee and the bottleneck of their business.Do questions, decisions and problems always funnel their way back to you? Has your business become a revolving door for employees or the permanent residence for underperformers? Are you tired of burning the ca...

Discover the solution to the #1 problem for many Christians—how to share your faith? The biggest struggle that most Christians have with sharing the gospel, isn’t fear, a lack of giftedness, or biblical knowledge. On the contrary, those reasons are merely symptoms of a bigger problem. One that at first, it’s hard to see, but thankfully is a lot easier to fix. Endorsed by top Christian leaders; evangelist and host of the acclaimed Christian podcast Men Unplugged, Jeff Jerina gives you the p...

International bestselling author and optimistic internet thinker Jeff Jarvis examines the way the Internet has changed the way we form communities, create identities, engage in commerce, and live our lives.A visionary and optimistic thinker examines the tension between privacy and publicness that is transforming how we form communities, create identities, do business, and live our lives.Thanks to the internet, we now live—more and more—in public. More than ...

First published in 1989. In the decade before this book was originally published, employee share ownership and profit sharing had increased markedly as successive governments introduced fiscal legislation promoting their uses. Yet how successful had ‘people’s capitalism’ been?The Glasgow study was a major empirical investigation into this issue and was a response to the need for an independent assessment. It discusses how attitudes to ownership had changed and how these, in turn, r...

A visionary and optimistic thinker examines the tension between privacy and publicness that is transforming how we form communities, create identities, do business, and live our lives.Thanks to the internet, we now live—more and more—in public. More than 750 million people (and half of all Americans) use Facebook, where we share a billion times a day. The collective voice of Twitter echoes instantly 100 million times daily, from Tahrir Square to the Mall of America, on subjects tha...

Life is full of meaningful questions, not the least being:What will I accomplish?Where will I end up?How will I get there?These are deep questions that keep us up at night. This book was written out of the loving concern of a grandfather's heart, for his grandchildren and their generation, to impact questions such as these.This book explores a spiritual focus to three simple undeniable truths:Everyone's got a story.