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Drama, rumors & secrets : staying true to yourself in changing times
Includes tips, quizzes, and advice from girls to help make the right decisions when it comes to gossip and rumors.
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Still Connected
National news reports periodically proclaim that American life is lonelier than ever, and new books on the subject with titles like Bowling Alone generate considerable anxiety about the declining quality of Americans’ social ties. Still Connected challenges such concerns by asking a simple yet significant question: have Americans’ bonds with family and friends changed since the 1970s, and, if so, how? Noted sociologist Claude Fischer examines long-term trends in family ties and friendships and paints an insightful and ultimately reassuring portrait of Americans’ personal relationships. Still Connected analyzes forty years of survey research to address whether and how Americans’ personal ties have changed—their involvement with relatives, the number of friends they have and their contacts with those friends, the amount of practical and emotional support they are able to count on, and how emotionally tied they feel to these relationships. The book shows that Americans today have fewer relatives than they did forty years ago and that formal gatherings have declined over the decades—at least partially as a result of later marriages and more women in the work force. Yet neither the overall quantity of personal relationships nor, more importantly, the quality of those relationships has diminished. Americans’ contact with relatives and friends, as well as their feelings of emotional connectedness, has changed relatively little since the 1970s. Although Americans are marrying later and single people feel lonely, few Americans report being socially isolated and the percentage who do has not really increased. Fischer maintains that this constancy testifies to the value Americans place on family and friends and to their willingness to adapt to changing circumstances in ways that sustain their social connections. For example, children now often have schedules as busy as their parents. Yet today’s parents spend more quality time with their children than parents did forty years ago—although less in the form of organized home activities and more in the form of accompanying them to play dates or sports activities. And those family meals at home that seem to be disappearing? While survey research shows that families dine at home together less often, it also shows that they dine out together more often. Americans are fascinated by the quality of their relationships with family and friends and whether these bonds fray or remain stable over time. With so many voices heralding the demise of personal relationships, it’s no wonder that confusion on this topic abounds. An engrossing and accessible social history, Still Connected brings a much-needed note of clarity to the discussion. Americans’ personal ties, this book assures us, remain strong.
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My old faithful : stories
\"Showing both the drama of familial intimacy and the ups and downs of the everyday, My Old Faithful introduces readers to a close-knit Chinese family. These ten interconnected short stories, which take place in China and the United States over a thirty-year period, merge to paint a nuanced portrait of family life, full of pain, surprises, and subtle acts of courage. Richly textured narratives from the mother, the father, the son, and the daughters play out against the backdrop of China's social and economic change. With quiet humor and insight into the ordinary, Yang Huang writes of a father who spanks his son out of love; a brother who betrays his sister; and a woman who returns to China after many years to find her country changed in ways both expected and startling.\" -- Provided by publisher
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How Students Come to Be, Know, and Do
Studies of learning are too frequently conceptualized only in terms of knowledge development. Yet it is vital to pay close attention to the social and emotional aspects of learning in order to understand why and how it occurs. How Students Come to Be, Know, and Do builds a theoretical argument for and a methodological approach to studying learning in a holistic way. The authors provide examples of urban fourth graders from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds studying science as a way to illustrate how this model contributes to a more complete and complex understanding of learning in school settings. What makes this book unique is its insistence that to fully understand human learning we have to consider the affective-volitional processes of learning along with the more familiar emphasis on knowledge and skills.
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Broken bonds
The United States has the highest family fragmentation rates in the industrial world. Nonmarital birth rates for the nation as a whole are 40%, with proportions dramatically higher in many communities as defined by race, ethnicity, or geography. Divorce rates, while moderating in recent decades, are still estimated at about 40% for first marriages and 50% for second ones. Together, this fragmentation impacts millions of children as well as adults, leading to educational, economic, and other losses that in turn lead to lower social mobility and deepening class divisions. In Broken Bonds, Mitch Pearlstein explores the declining state of the American family and what its disintegration means for our future. Based on candid interviews with forty leading family experts across the political spectrum - from Stephanie Coontz, to Heather Mac Donald - Pearlstein ruminates on the political, social, and spiritual fallout of this trend. In honest and frank conversations, Pearlstein and his interviewees fearlessly diagnose the problems that many have been too timid to explore and suggest ways to reverse these trends that threaten our social fabric.
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Exploring leadership
Exploring Leadership For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference, Facilitation and Activity Guide
Based on the third edition of the best-selling text Exploring Leadership, this companion Facilitation and Activity Guide is designed to help educators work with students to develop their leadership potential in order to become effective leaders.
The guide contains dynamic teaching strategies and active learning modules that can be used for organizing a course or workshop series. Created by renowned leadership educators in higher education, these modules have proven to be effective in classroom-tested exercises.
Designed to be flexible, the active learning modules can be used in either curricular or cocurricular settings and can be structured to build on each other or stand alone. Each module corresponds with a chapter of Exploring Leadership as well as units in the companion Student Workbook, which includes worksheets, discussion questions, journal prompts, and space for reflective writing.
Praise for Exploring Leadership: Facilitation and Activity Guide
\"This is a must-have resource for anyone teaching or facilitating leadership education. It does what many other resources fail to do it gives tangible, real-world applications of complex content that can be used immediately!\" — John Dugan, assistant professor, Loyola University Chicago
\"Wendy Wagner, Daniel Ostick, and colleagues have done a phenomenal job designing powerful learning activities for students using the third edition of Exploring Leadership. Leadership educators will benefit from their years of experience. We are thrilled to join them in helping college students develop their leadership capacity.\" — Susan Komives, Nance Lucas, and Tim McMahon, authors of Exploring Leadership, Third Edition
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Adolescent Romantic Relations and Sexual Behavior
Developmental and clinical researchers have only just discovered the phenomenon of adolescent romance as a topic of serious scientific inquiry. This discovery may be related to the overwhelming evidence that adult romantic relationships are failing at alarming rates. Dramatic increases in the rates of divorce, out of wedlock childbirth, and relationship violence lead to questions about the developmental precursors of romantic love and commitment. What's wrong with love and can it be fixed?
This book brings together a diverse group of experts from various disciplines to address a serious gap in the understanding of adolescent development. Part I focuses on romantic relations and sexual behavior from the perspective of normative adolescent development. Part II centers on high-risk adolescents and Part III explores the practical implications of current theory and research for clinicians, educators, and health administrators. Together the chapters in this integrative and clinically useful book lay a foundation for understanding how adolescents successfully navigate the tumultuous waters of young love.
Contents: P. Florsheim, Introduction. Part I: Normative Perspectives on Romantic Relations and Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents. W. Furman, L. Shaffer, The Role of Romantic Relationships in Adolescent Development. K. Carver, K. Joyner, J.R. Udry, National Estimates of Adolescent Romantic Relationships. C.T. Halpern, Biological Influences on Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Behavior. L.M. Diamond, Love Matters: Romantic Relationships Among Sexual-Minority Adolescents. S. Shulman, Conflict and Negotiation in Adolescent Romantic Relationships. J.L. Tracy, P.R. Shaver, A.W. Albino, M.L. Cooper, Attachment Styles and Adolescent Sexuality. Part II: Perspectives on Romantic and Sexual Behavior Among High-Risk Adolescents. T. Seefeldt, P. Florsheim, L.S. Benjamin, Psychopathology and Relational Dysfunction Among Adolescent Couples: The Structural Analysis of Social Behavior as an Organizing Framework. D.P. Welsh, C.M. Grello, M.S. Harper, When Love Hurts: Depression and Adolescent Romantic Relationships. C. Wekerle, E. Avgoustis, Child Maltreatment, Adolescent Dating, and Adolescent Dating Violence. D.M. Capaldi, D. Gorman-Smith, The Development of Aggression in Young Male/Female Couples. J.D. Fortenberry, Health Behaviors and Reproductive Health Risk Within Adolescent Sexual Dyads. P. Florsheim, D. Moore, C. Edgington, Romantic Relations Among Adolescent Parents. Part III: Commentary and Summary. R.C. Savin-Williams, Are Adolescents Same-Sex Romantic Relationships on Our Radar Screen? A. Tabares, J. Gottman, A Marital Process Perspective of Adolescent Romantic Relationships. B. Barber, J. Eccles, The Joy of Romance: Healthy Adolescent Relationships as an Educational Agenda. P. Florsheim, Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Behavior: What We Know and Where We Go From Here.
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