 | | James O’Keefe
College of Professional Studies, Criminal Justice and Legal
Studies
Protecting the Republic:
The Education and Training of American Police Officers
2004
As America begins the 21st century, many of the challenges
traditionally facing law enforcement are profoundly changing.
International terrorism, the urgent need for inter-agency
communication and cooperation, sophisticated intelligence
requirements, and many other factors are changing the rules of the
game. Hiring more police officers and purchasing new radio cars,
weapons, computers and technology are still important, but not
enough. Now, more than ever, the investment to improve public
safety must begin up front in the education and training of the
officers. To effectively manage the complex challenges currently
facing it, American public policy must acknowledge that the best
way to enhance public safety is to enhance the quality of the
individual officer. |
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 | | Allan Ornstein
with Thomas J. Lasley, II
The School of Education, Administrative and Instructional
Leadership
Strategies for Effective Teaching,
4th Edition
2004
This revised textbook uses PRAXIS and INTASC criteria as well as
current research to show pre-service teachers how the art and
science of teaching come together in an effective classroom. The
authors provide an up-to-date review of teacher planning, teaching
methods and assessment. With a focus on learning rather than
instruction, the authors help pre-service teachers see that
teaching is more than just talking or telling. |
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 | | with Daniel Levine
The School of Education, Administrative and Instructional
Leadership
Foundations of Education,
9th Edition
2005
Written for those beginning their teaching careers as well as for
those simply interested in the educational issues and policies that
are affecting America, the ninth edition of Foundations of
Education provides a complete overview and analysis of the
most important topics and issues needed to build an educational
foundation. |
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 | | and Richard Sinatra
The School of Education, Department of Human Services
and Counseling
K-8 Instructional Methods: A
Literacy Perspective
2005
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of content
and pedagogy taught in methods courses accenting instruction from
the primary to eighth grades. The authors have written the book for
students who are preparing for or are engaged in a teaching career
and who desire to learn how literacy instruction impacts the entire
curriculum. Students’ success in school, particularly in these days
of vigorous academic standards and high stakes testing, is related
to their abilities to read, comprehend, analyze and reflect through
critical thinking, writing and computer interactions. The text is
organized in a realistic and easy-to use format, offering ideas for
integrating theory with practice to improve the teaching and
learning process.
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 | | Derek Owens
St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
English Resisting Writings and the
Boundaries of Composition
1994
What do H.D., John Cage, Gertrude Stein, Susan Howe, Howlin' Wolf,
Public Enemy, and the French Oulipo movement have to do with the
teaching of writing? Everything, Derek Owens argues in this
ambitious and eclectic rethinking of composition studies. This
timely analysis will be of interest not only to those involved with
the teaching of composition, but also to those interested in
rhetoric, literature, and creative writing, as well as in feminist
and cross-cultural studies. Rather than condemning either academic
or "expressive" discourse, Owens proposes to overlap the worlds of
composition and poetics and to teach writing from a perspective
inclusive of feminist, non-Eurocentric, and experimental ways of
making discourse. "No one who reads this book will ever return to
teaching composition in the same old way without at least a twinge
of guilt." |
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 | | Composition and Sustainability:
Teaching for a Threatened Generation
2001
While sustainability—meeting today’s needs without jeopardizing the
interests of future generations—has become a dominating force in a
range of disciplines, it has yet to play a substantive role in
English studies. Derek Owens argues that, in light of worsening
environmental crises and accelerating social injustices, we need to
use sustainability as a way to structure courses and curricula, and
that composition studies, with its inherent cross-disciplinarity
and its unique function in students’ academic lives, can play a key
role in giving sustainability a central place in students’ thinking
and in the curriculum as a whole. |
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 | | Memory's Wake
2011 Memory’s Wake is a work of experimental nonfiction
consisting of memoir, family biography, regional history, photo
essay, and staggered narrative. Owens’s story revolves around his
mother’s childhood and the sensational abuse she encountered at the
hands of her family during the 1930s and 40s in the Finger Lakes of
New York--and how that history hibernated in her mind until
sprouting forty years later as “recovered memories.” The book
weaves her account with General Sullivan’s genocidal campaign
against the Iroquois, the cult of the Publick Universal Friend,
weird religious visionaries from the “burnt-over district,” and
secret messages hidden within walls. It is also a tale that while
presenting the awful facts of one woman’s girlhood, contrasts them
with the author’s fairly idyllic upbringing. Memory’s Wake is a
testimony to one woman’s fortuitous ability to stop the cycle of
abuse and dehumanization she inherited--in the words of Gerald
Vizenor, an act of “survivance.” |
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