Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has sparked new discussions about reforming education to move beyond colonialist representations of history and to better reflect Indigenous worldviews in the classroom. Trickster Chases the Tale of Education considers the work of educators and Mi’kmaw community members, whose collaborative projects address the learning needs of Aboriginal people.Writing in the form of a trickster tale, Sylvia Moore contrasts Western logic and I...

Discover the transformative journey of healing and hope in Gold Scars.When faced with profound loss and trauma, it often feels like there's nowhere to turn, and the words of well-meaning loved ones too often fall short. But is there a way to mend the shattered pieces of one's life and uncover the beauty within their scars?Join grief specialist Sylvia Clements Myers as she offers guidance through the seven pivotal areas of life where one may feel sh...

Tenure is a pivotal decision for the academy. If it is earned, it provides security and permanence, creating further academic freedom to pursue research and interests important to the institution and to society. If it is not earned, then the peer review process provides clarification for why it has not been earned. This book brings together lived experiences of academics around the time of the tenure decision. While the book is stand-alone, it has the same collection of authors who wrote a...

Family Resource Management, Fifth Edition, delivers the most current, accurate, and engaging information for students preparing for careers in family services. This edition goes beyond individual decision-making to explore how choices impact the entire family unit, emphasizing the complexity and diversity of modern families. Moore and Asay draw on extensive research, practical experience, and active teaching to guide students through a structured Five-Step Decision-Making ...

Family Resource Management, Fifth Edition, delivers the most current, accurate, and engaging information for students preparing for careers in family services. This edition goes beyond individual decision-making to explore how choices impact the entire family unit, emphasizing the complexity and diversity of modern families. Moore and Asay draw on extensive research, practical experience, and active teaching to guide students through a structured Five-Step Decision-Making ...

Empowering Teachers through Environmental and Sustainability Education draws inspiration from an empirical study exploring early career teachers’ attempts at enacting Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in their everyday teaching practices. It showcases how a confluence of personal, professional and environmental identities supports implementation of ESE. Additionally, this book discusses key concepts and issues surrounding ESE and the ways in which teachers may claim...

Family Resource Management addresses the management of resources from a family systems perspective and focuses on not just the individual that makes a decision but the impact those decisions have on the family unit. Authors Tami James Moore and Sylvia M. Asay use their academic research, practical experiences, and active teaching knowledge to help guide students through family resource management, and provide them with the most current, accurate, and dynamic information av...

About the BookFailure to remember our past mistakes may lead us to repeat them as history repeats itself over time. Resilience attempts to capture today’s most striking events and contrast them with historical events that may not have been recorded in our history books. By recounting challenges of history and of her own past, author Sylvia R. Moore hopes to inspire her immediate circle of loved ones in years to come.Resilience is the second in a series of planned novels to be...

Wishing WellWe've all heard the warning: Be careful what you wish for... you just might get it.If you had a wish, how careful would you be?Would you regret it?Or would your wildest dreams come true?Whatever you do, make sure you wish well...19 tales of wishes that came true...just maybe not in the way expected.Featuring stories by: Emily Martha Sorensen, Kay Hanifen, Sylvia Son, Kara Race-Moore, Laura G. Kaschak, Remy Allen, A...

The emerging environmental justice movement has created greater awareness among scholars that communities from all over the world suffer from similar environmental inequalities. This volume takes up the challenge of linking the focussed campaigns and insights from African American campaigns for environmental justice with the perspectives of this global group of environmentally marginalized groups. The editorial team has drawn on Washington's work, on Paul Rosier's study of Native American ...

Dragons have inflamed our hearts and imagination for centuries, making them some of our most enduring heroes and villains. Who hasn’t dreamed of finding a dragon’s hoard and matching wits with the fantastical creature with everything on the line? These seventeen stories will delight and entertain you for hours. Included in this anthology are Nisi Shawl, Edith Nesbit, Naomi Kritzer, Rebecca Mcfarland Kyle, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Kenneth Grahame, Sarina Dorie, Misty Massey, John Teehan, Gerr...

Margareth Harper will nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter deren Heimat Deutschland kennenlernen, auch weil der Prinzgemahl von Queen Victoria dort herkommt. Also reist sie mit ihrem kranken Vater nach Freiburg im Schwarzwald, um ihre einzige Tante dort zu besuchen. Der Vater stirbt nach einiger Zeit dort. Sie lernt kurz darauf Robert Penderroy kennen, einen jungen Adligen aus England. Aber auch ihr Cousin Friedrich weckt in ihr nicht gekannte Gefühle. Sie nimmt jedoch nach einigem Zögern Roberts Hei...