Summary: Designed to be a happy place of imagination and cooperation, a playground is too often a danger zone of intimidation and violence. This program explores the educational value and social dynamics of play while emphasizing the importance of a supportive adult presence in the playground environment. Games and techniques used by teachers and psychologists to help children develop interpersonal...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Brothers, sisters, best friends, worst enemies-childhood is a world of constantly shifting alliances, but somehow it also produces lasting emotional bonds. This program looks at the challenges young children face as they cultivate one of the most tricky human skills of all: getting along with other people. Viewers are given insight into childhood social development as the video addresses a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Humans are social beings and while we sometimes prefer to be alone, most times we are required to interact and get along with one another. This video charts the development of social skills in children during the first few weeks of life, through the beginning of school. It explains the different stages of social development, as well as how to give encouragement for positive social growth.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Jean Piaget believed that children go through a universal developmental process that is clearly reflected in their drawings. Is Piaget's theory valid, and if so, to what extent does culture influence that process? In this program, Peter Willatts, of the University of Dundee; Edith Bavin, of La Trobe University; and other researchers compare and contrast the drawing schemas of Scottish children...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Is a baby actually learning something when he knocks down a stack of blocks? What happens in a toddler's mind when she "feeds" her teddy bear? Why does it take just as much work to bake an imaginary cake as a real one? This program explores the process through which young children begin to reason, plan, and solve both concrete and abstract problems. Emphasizing that babies are driven to make...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Nothing in human experience is quite so astonishing as the enormous changes that occur during the five short years that transform a newborn into an actively curious, exploring kindergartner. Filmed in 1996, this program examines the work of Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget, illuminating the similarities of and differences between their contributions to a greater understanding of the cognitive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1996
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Summary: This program asserts that the testing of a causal hypothesis involving cognitive development is best done through a combination of observational and experimentational methods. Kathy Sylva and Peter Bryant, both of the University of Oxford, and other researchers share their insights into categorizing and codifying patterns of play through observation, avoiding common experiment-related pitfalls...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Bryant-Davis, Thema
Summary: "An antiracist society starts with you. That's the message in this powerful-yet practical-handbook. Using evidence-based interventions and exercises, two psychologists and experts in race, identity, equity, and inclusion empower readers to make their own personal contribution to creating an antiracist society. By shifting thought patterns and behaviors to cultivate an antiracist mindset,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BRYSummary: Why would 300-year-old educational theories be of interest to teachers of young children today? This program features the ideas of early researchers and philosophers, showing how these pioneers laid the groundwork for modern concepts of elementary school instruction. Locke’s opposition to rote memorization, Rousseau’s belief in self-direction, the recognition of each child’s individuality...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Parents often disagree about the best way to raise children, and when they seek professional advice, find the experts are at odds with each other, too. This program helps caregivers sort through the contradictions as it summarizes some major theories of child development. Pointing out that different philosophies each tend to focus on only one aspect of human growth, the video reviews Piaget's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Sachs, Jeffrey.
Summary: Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 SACSummary: This video follows a group of teens touring a childcare center because they want to start a babysitting business and need to know more about what children can do at certain ages. As these babysitters-in-training observe infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners, viewers will learn about the physical, intellectual, and social aspects of child development. A clever way to cover the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Traditional, single-parent, blended, extended: there are many ways to define a family. This video examines different types of families and the roles they play in the physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and moral development of their members. Additional topics include stresses on the family structure and the "changing seasons" of the family cycle. Correlates to all applicable National and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: As children begin school and other new experiences, what happens to the values, behavior, and expectations they have learned at home? Why do so many young people follow the crowd? And when does conformity become a bad thing? This program explores those questions, visiting a group of 25 seven-year-olds who are learning to cope with peer groups and situations. Children and parents are given tasks...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Social Distortion (Musical group)
Contents: So far away -- Let it be me -- Story of my life -- Sick boys -- Ring of fire -- Ball and chain -- It coulda been me -- She's a knockout -- A place in my heart -- Drug train.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Epic 1990
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Place a hold to request this item.Blackwell, Juliet
Summary: "An unforgettable story of resilience and resistance set during WWII and present-day France on a secluded island off the coast of Brittany Natalie Morgen made a name for herself with a memoir about overcoming her harsh childhood after finding a new life in Paris. After falling in love with a classically trained chef, they moved together to his ancestral home, a tiny fishing village off the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLASummary: Job creation, tax base expansion, neighborhood improvement, and sustainable development are only four of the many themes covered in this documentary as it presents the economics side of infill development using examples drawn from the Northeast and Southwest. The EDA's Dennis Alvord and David Sampson, environmental engineering and management specialist Ira Whitman, and a host of other experts...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program describes the physical and psychological characteristics of the three stages of adult development, along with some factors that influence wellness as men and women age. Universal determinants of health are covered, including lifestyle choices, gender differences, and environmental conditions. Addressing the emotional development of adults, the video outlines Erik Erikson's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Killermann, Sam
Summary: Where do we start, when it comes to learning about something that's everywhere, infused into everything, and is often one of the primary lenses through which we see ourselves and others? When it comes to understanding gender, it's best to begin with deep breath, then with section one of this book by social justice advocate Sam Killermann, who uses clear language, helpful examples, and a bit of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Impetus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 KILBlackwell, Juliet
Summary: "Beneath the cover of France's most exquisite vineyards, a city of women defy an army during World War I.... Deep within the labyrinth of caves that lies below the lush, rolling vineyards of the Champagne region, an underground city of women and children hums with life. Forced to take shelter from the unrelenting onslaught of German shellfire above, the bravest and most defiant women venture...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlackwell, Juliet
Summary: "An artist lost to history, a family abandoned to its secrets, and the woman whose search for meaning unearths it all. American photographer Cady Drake shoots local merry-go-rounds, a hobby inspired by a carved wooden rabbit gifted to her following her troubled years in foster care. Now at a crisis point in her life, Cady can't refuse a freelance assignment documenting the antique carousels of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: P FIC BLASummary: A fear of the dark. A fear of thunderstorms. A fear of monsters in the closet. Even a fear of being sucked down the bathroom drain. Although they are frightening, childhood fears are generally a benign part of growing up. In this program, parents and experts share their insights about the fears that affect children at different ages. The use of such fears to chart a child's cognitive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Toyama, Kentaro
Summary: "In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. Together with his team, he invented electronic devices for under-resourced urban schools and developed digital platforms for remote agrarian communities. But after a decade of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Broken Social Scene (Musical group)
Contents: Our faces split the coast in half -- Ibi dreams of pavement (a better day) -- 7/4 (shoreline) -- Finish your collapse and stay for breakfast -- Major label debut -- Fire eye'd boy -- Windsurfing nation -- Swimmers -- Hotel -- Handjobs for the holidays -- Superconnected -- Bandwitch -- Tremoloa debut -- It's all gonna break.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arts & Crafts 2005