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Title: Grandparent education. (intergenerational communication studies at Arizona State University)
Publication: The Futurist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1989
Publisher: World Future Society
Volume: v23Issue: n3Page: p55(2)

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Hopi, Arizona.Ages 5-8. ... Read more

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When teachers listened to Holt's talks, or wrote him letters as hundreds did, invariably they would say something like: "I understand what you're saying, but what can I do about this in my own classroom? What do I do on Monday?" ... Read more

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Average. This book was OK, but I wouldn't read it twice.
I have been hearing a lot about John Holt while trawling forums and websites about homeschooling, so I thought I might as well check him out. What Do I Do Monday? (Innovators in Education) is the first book that became available at my local library, so this is the one I read first. Holt soundly condemns methods used in public schools at the time (methods that have improved very little since then!) and I found myself agreeing with the majority of his opinions.

He doesn't just argue against these methods, though. He also provides some alternatives. This book is packed full of great ideas for helping (not making!) children to follow their natural learning inclinations. I particularly love the way he explained certain Maths concepts. Not being mathematically minded myself, this is perhaps the first time in my life that I have fully understood some of these concepts!

This book is a must-read for anyone embarking on the homeschool journey, but I also recommend it to parents, grandparents, teachers and anyone else who cares for the children in their life.

Disappointing
I had heard great things about John Holt and was really disappointed in this book.Maybe part of it was that after reading about Charlotte Mason and reading books by John Gatto, it didn't seem so revolutionary to me.But Holt quoted psychologist Robert Liang extensively in this book, which to me seems like the most outdated psychobabble (granted this book was written quite awhile ago), saying if you make ____ mistake with your kids they may turn out schizophrenic!

He then continues on with different teaching techniques, which is also surprising since the unschooling movement generally refer to him as the source of their inspiration, but say you should not "teach" children, letting them learn as they become motivated to do so.So if you're looking for unschooling information you won't find it here.It also has odd references like to a school in which teachers express anger to the students to make things "real" and children seem to be allowed to hit each other sometimes.

One of Holt's best
The focus here is on creative approaches to learning (and I absolutely don't mean happy faces and cute cartoons) in the classroom, and I don't know of a better book in this line.Can be useful regardless of your teaching methods.Also offers Holt's theory of learning which is also persuasive and useful.Holt knew and loved children, and was incredibly intelligent in his approach.Get this book if you're a teacher--or a parent, because these ideas can stimulate the whole family.

Alan Nicoll

Practical advice for parents and teachers.
A wonderful book about teaching young children the basics; reading, writing and math. Where "How Children Learn" and "How Children Fail" developed a philosophy of education, this volumndetails how Mr. Holt put his philosophy to work in the classroom. Full ofdescriptions of actual exercises you can try with kids, either in school orat home, that encourage learning without sacrificing creativity or futureproblem solving abilities. If you're looking for more theory on education,pass this one up for now. But if you're ready to apply some of the insightsof a brilliant thinker and observer of children, read this book, and beprepared to take notes. ... Read more

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Native American children have long been subject to removal from their homes for placement in residential schools and in foster or adoptive homes.This is the first anthology to document the struggle for cultural survival on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border.Through autobiography and interviews, fiction and traditional tales, official transcripts and poetry, these voices--Seneca, Cherokee, Mohawk, Navajo, and many others--weave powerful accounts of struggle and loss into a moving testimony to perseverance and survival. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Arizona; Biography ... Read more

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Great Book on Frontier Arizone
The book is an excellent read on frontier Arizona, especially on Forts Whipple and Apache, Camp Verde, the General Crook Trail and travel on the Mogollin Rim.

First read it many years ago
I love this book and have re-read it on my Kindle, encourage you to read it if you love adventure,old military posts and forts and of course women who had the courage and stamina to survive them

Real History
Anyone that has traveled around Arizona (or most anywhere in the west)and wondered how the earlier travelers ever made it will enjoy Martha Summerhayes recollections.Her perspective and detail is fascinating and there are so many places (Ft. McDowell is now the name of the casino on the Ft. McDowell Indian Reservation, Ft. Apache can be visited in the White Mountains) that have immediate name recognition.

Fanciful Dreams to Harsh Reality
Infatuated with the military, Martha Dunham's romance with the parades, music and uniforms of splendid young soldiers began while studying literature in Hanover, Germany.She thrilled to the color and excited aura surrounding the events. Following her fanciful dreams, she married Jack Summerhayes in 1874 and lived with his regiment for four years in the Arizona Territories as they traveled from fort to fort through the wilderness. Reality thuds as this inexperienced, Nantucket born, upper class, 28 year-old woman struggled to survive.Martha Summerhayes kept a
journal and published this book in 1908, at the request of her children, Harry born in Fort Apache, 1875, and Katherine born in Boston, 1879.Vanished Arizona, a valuable history classic,gifts
readers with an account of those early territorial years through the eyes of a woman.Few 'her story' autobiographies exist among the many 'his story' tales of the cavalry, infantry and scouting battles to keep the Indians on the reservations.Indian hostilities were due to an influx of whites into empty land that native cultures needed for hunting grounds, homelands and basic survival.Martha's words describe a harrowing tale from a wife and mother's point of view.

Follow the map.It took two very long months for the lieutenant and his wife to travel from Fort Russell in Cheyenne to Camp Apache in Arizona, their first destination. They traveled by ambulance (vehicle with 4 mules and a driver)and then steamer from San Francisco down the coast to Yuma and on to Fort Mojave. Bad food, suffocating heat and misery accompanied their journey across the Mojave Desert by wagons and schooners drawn by mules. Martha called the experience a 'glittering misery'--natural beauty across the Mogollons and Tonto Basin but living hell of snakes, centipedes, spiders, tarantulas, lizards and scorpions.Her carefully packed possessions, including china, disappeared when a wagon went over the cliff.She never really lost her respect for the military, but the earlier quixotic romance transformed into a recognition of courage as the men dealt with dangerous, difficult and painful conditions.The women who accompanied them aided each other through the fearsome journey.

Martha Summerhayes had a mixed view of the Indian tribes. She feared their dances, the tomtoms, shouts, war whoops and wildness.But, she was fascinated by the Indian families she met when they came for allotments of food.She enjoy the wives, pretty young women and children.She wrote about the pretty girls,their black hair in long braids, dressed in moccasins, short skirts, bared legs, muslim camisas and bits of soft blanket or calico fastened in front. Totally incapable of dealing with pregnancy, birth, infant son,lack of nourishment and profound fatigue, the Indian women payed her a visit, coming to her aid with a pappoose cradle.

Vanished Arizona is packed full with such feminine perspectives.When her lieutenant husband accepted the dreaded Ehrenberg camp, she bathed in the river, preferred to live as the Mexican women did with simple clothes and eat tortilla and beans. She became an emaciated invalid, fearing for her son's life. On the other hand, the contrasted Fort MacDowell in Maricopa County on the Verde River offered improved quarters with a ramada, sidewalk and cotton wood trees as well and several good friends.An avid horse woman, she delighed in exercising the horses for the calvary.Throughout the text, Martha detailed each of the numerous forts and camps where the couple lived.She usually had a cook and laundress. Often feisty, she became furious at the blind obedience of her husband who never questioned orders.

During the Arizona years, Martha returned to Nantucket/Boston twice, once to recuperate from Ehrenberg and the other to give birth to her daughter, Katherine.On her return she was happy to see the soldiers again (that old romance with the military) and even the country looked attractive.She wrote, "I wondered if I had really grown to love the desert."Life got easier with the coming of the railroad.The old hardships, deprivations they had endured lost their bitterness when they became only a memory.

This review concentrates only on the Arizona experiences, but her book includes accounts of California, Nevada, San Francisco,San Antonio, Santa Fe, Devil's Island (the four happiest years of her life) and Fort Meyers near Washington DC.The book also centers on the many famous people they met along the way such as artist, Frederick Remington who remained a friend throughout their lives.The couple are buried together in Arlington National Cemetery.

Great Book, poor performance
Vanished Arizona is a wonderful book.Read it!Unfortunately the audio book verison does not do it justice.Both the abrigement and the narrator's performance serve to make Martha "Mattie" Summerhayes sound like an idiot.As a descendant of hers I take that very personally.In fact my whole family, including my sister Katharine Summerhayes Beale, named after Martha's daughter, listened to the book together and we had to turn it off we were so horrified with the production.I urge you to read the compelling book, but don't waste your time or money on the audio version. ... Read more

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Das Airline Training Center Arizona, Inc. (ATCA) ist ein Ausbildungsbetrieb der Lufthansa Flight Training GmbH zur Flugschulung von Piloten-Anwärtern am Flughafen in Goodyear, einem Vorort von Phoenix, USA. Nicht nur die Lufthansa lässt dort ihre Piloten ausbilden, sondern auch Bundeswehr-Piloten beginnen am ATCA und ihrer dort gelegenen Außenstelle 3rd German Air Force Training Squadron ihr Initial Flight Training (IFT). ... Read more

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License to Drive in Arizona offers you a totally integrated solution to driver education, written specifically about Arizona. Using a realistic approach, it covers all major driver education issues, with an emphasis on safety and defensive driving that will appeal to all new drivers. The focus is on practical solutions to everyday situations, with thoughtful coverage of such subjects as driving under the influence, sharing the road, challenging driving conditions and "road rage". ... Read more

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Taking the THEA Test
I took the THEA test last month and scored very well. The review sections from this assessment were informative and helpful, especially the writing section review. I recommend taking the practice test in the book and understanding the detailed explanations of the answers. I felt that I was better prepared for the THEA test after reviewing this book. I highly recommend it. ... Read more

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Arizona State University 101 is required reading for every future Sun Devil! From whitewashing the A to cheering with Sparky in Sun Devil stadium, you'll share all the great memories with the next generation!This sturdy board book features loads of high quality photos and content for young and old alike. Perfect for fans and alumni to share with kids and grandchildren. The book makes a great baby shower gift, birthday gift and holiday gift! Make sure the little ones grow up supporting the RIGHT school and team!!!! ... Read more

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Good but not great
Bought this for my son since my husband is an alum.The pictures are alright.I also bought the University of Texas version for a friend.Although the listing said the book was new and it looked new, the bottom of the book had a highlighter marking like the clearance books at book stores.This made my gift seem cheap. ... Read more

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in affectionate tribute to the gallant courage, rugged independence and wonderful endurance of those adventurous souls who formed the vanguard of civilization in the early history of the Territory of Arizona and the remainder of the Great West, ... Read more

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Higher education is in a time of crisis--diminishing funds, rising costs, lack of student preparation for college work, low morale among students and faculty, strained relations between faculty and administration, and confusion about curriculum and educational goals. Tierney believes that the problems are moral. He suggests that by following principles used by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, institutions of higher learning can model themselves on communities of brotherly love and service to humanity. Tierney presents several case studies of postsecondary institutions and shows how academic structures give privilege to some ideas and constituencies, and silence others. He weds critical theory to postmodernism to derive a workable orientation toward multiculturalism on campus. ... Read more

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The tale of Kee, a young Navajo boy who must face the devastation of his culture. After the soldiers burn their crops and drive away their livestock, the Navajos realize they must follow the soldiers to Fort Sumner or face starvation. All children will benefit from this sensitive story of survival through cooperation. ... Read more

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Missing Their Desert
Sponsored by the Council for Indian Education (MT) this short book presents a fictionalized account of the Navajo tribe in the mid 1860's.Presented with sympathetic historical fidelity the story is related from the viewpoint of Kee, a young Navajo boy who comes of age over the four years that his family is in military exile.He struggles to mature with only one parent; first his father (Strong Man) who disappears, then his mother (Gentle Woman) who returns after many years of slavery in another tribe. He also helps his grandmother (Wise One) and little sister, Hasba.

During the enforced migration march East with 8000 Navajo over 300 miles Kee learns many survival techniques: emotional and
psychological as well as physical.The new reservation, on land
strange to his tribe, proves dissatisfactory, unproductive and depressing as traditional Navajo ways are scorned, remolded, neglected or disallowed. Secretly wondering if his father has been killed or captured elsewhere the boy grows in understanding--especially re the soldiers whom he first loathed and lumped together as the faceless, enigmatic enemy.

Gradually Kee realizes that learning white man's language is key to understanding another culture; he gradually permits one particular soldier to befriend him through repeated acts of kindness and consideration. Possessing a special way with horses Kee is promoted to stable boy for the magnificent stallion of the Post commander--which proves of real benefit to his family's meager rations. His mother's talent as a weaver of blankets is also praised and prized.Best of all he makes friends with a white boy--the first he ever met. The book contains many gentle expressions of compassionate philosophy, mainly spoken by his grandmother and mother.But could a free spirit like his father, if he lived, learn to adapt to peaceful coexistence with white men and with other tribes? Still Kee longs for the colorful, pine-scented desert of Navajoland, where their ancient gods protect and bless them.

This is a good book, and I never wanted to put it down.
I think this book is a good book to read because it gives a lot of information about the Navajo way of life.I also liked it because it makes you want toknow what is going to happen to Kee and his family.They arecaptured by the U.S. government and made to walk out of their sacred landto a fort controlled by the government.They have to do many thingsdifferently.They have to build new homes and grow crops from a place thatdoes not supply the right materials for them.Kee learns many things onthe walk and at the fort.You will never forget it once you've readit.And if you read it, you will find out if Kee's family will be free. By David Umphres, 5th grade ... Read more

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Native American
An excellent reference book into what was started with good intentions. A friend's great grandmother was the first white teacher there, and this book revealed why she left.Excellent reference. ... Read more

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Longman Science prepares students in grades 6-12 for success in a standards-based science program with a broad overview of life, earth, and physical science. All activities are specifically geared to students in the early stages of English language acquisition, and help build content knowledge, skills, and learning strategies. Special offer: Take advantage of our special offer: get the Longman Science Student Book and Workbook for only $44.95.That's 25% off the regular price of these two books combined. Click here for details. Features * For beginning to high beginning English language learners.* "Getting Started" unit introduces concepts of science, safety, and the scientific method. *Reading strategies are explicitly taught and modeled throughout the readings. *Science skills, such as using and interpreting visuals, charts, and graphs are taught and recycled throughout each lesson. *Unit Review provides additional practice, extension projects, further reading, and a Unit Experiment. *Vocabulary building activities and glossaries help students access and build mastery of the content. ... Read more