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This volume explores the future role of games in education, emphasizing game mechanics and joyful learning. It addresses scalability, player goal adoption, and game-based instructional environments. The book aims to shift the dialogue towards nuanced discussions, reaching teachers, researchers, designers, and players.
The first permanent Huguenot settlement in New Jersey was made at Hackensack in 1677, with a second at Princeton a few years later. Following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685, Huguenots settled widely throughout the colony. This work, prepared by the former treasurer of the Huguenot Society of New Jersey, contains thumbnail genealogical and biographical sketches of hundreds of early Huguenot families in the Garden State.
To effectively cope with school bullying it is essential to understand the issues underpinning student peer group dynamics in the school, classroom and community and this view lies at the heart of the text. While the experience of bullying others or being victimized is identified with an individual or group the solution lies with the systems eg community, school, classroom or family of which the individual is part. Particular emphasis is given to the role of prosocial behavior and a strengths based perspective in addressing how students cope with school bullying within a systemic context. The text is strongly informed by the author’s experience in developing and conducting national and int...
This important new book is a practical guide for teachers who want to improve relationships with the parents of their students. It empowers them with the skills and confidence necessary for productive collaboration and addresses a range of issues that affect children's functioning and achievement. Teacher–Parent Collaboration presents jargon-free and solution-based approaches to collaboration which draw on the inherent strengths that all individuals have, no matter how bleak their personal situation.