1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451620103321

Autore

Wiener Harvey S

Titolo

Any child can write [[electronic resource] /] / Harvey S. Wiener

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-280-53248-3

0-19-803496-2

1-4237-7575-9

Edizione

[4th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Disciplina

372.62/3

Soggetti

Education - Parent participation

English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching

Language arts

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; 1 Introduction: THE SECOND "R"; 2 Notes, Signs, and Shopping Lists: HOW CAN A PARENT HELP?; 3 Experience and Creative Expression; 4 Pictures, Words, and Sentences: LAYING FOUNDATIONS; 5 The Senses at Play: IMAGES AS BUILDING BLOCKS; 6 Correctness, Part 1: AN OUTLOOK FOR YOUNG WRITERS AT HOME; 7 Correctness, Part 2: WORD GAMES AND WORD AND SENTENCE CRAFT; 8 Snapshots of Special Places; 9 One Person in the Floodlights; 10 A Moment Reborn in Language; 11 Adventures in Make-Believe; 12 A Child's Message Through the Mails

13 Words in Focus: CREATIVE DEFINITIONS FOR YOUR YOUNG WRITER14 Language Singing: YOUR CHILD AS POET; 15 A Report for School; 16 Adventures at the Keyboard; 17 An Afterword for Too-Busy Parents; Appendix A. Fifty Ideas for Writing at Home; Appendix B. A Parent's Primer on Correctness; Appendix C. Key Books for Young Writers and Their Parents; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sommario/riassunto

The popular home program that lets parents teach their children to write, now in a new edition. Harvey S. Wiener shows how parents can encourage their children to write with a home program that can be used from preschool through high school. Beginning with the building



of attitudes, Wiener moves through simple, varied and practical experience with the written word. By setting up an atmosphere in the home that encourages creative written expression, coupled with a parent's guidance in writing, children gain an outlook on writing that builds confidence in their abilities to use language. This ne

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792017503321

Autore

Mathur Hari Mohan

Titolo

Displacement and resettlement in India : the human cost of development / / Hari Mohan Mathur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-04719-7

0-203-49179-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; ; 69

Disciplina

325

Soggetti

Forced migration - India

Rural-urban migration - India

Rural development - Sociological aspects - India

Economic development - Social aspects - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of boxes; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Displacement and resettlement in the development process; PART 1 Displacement by development; 1 Not by dams alone: urban development projects and displacement of slum dwellers; 2 Mining coal, undermining people: flawed resettlement leaves displaced people worse off; 3 Common development disorders: impoverishment risks from projects that involve displacement; PART 2 The policy response; 4 Good intentions are not enough: the World Bank policy on involuntary resettlement

5 Providing a better life for displaced people: national policy guidelines on involuntary resettlementPART 3 Approaches to resettlement; 6 Social impact assessment: an aid to understanding the likely effects of



a proposed intervention; 7 Making resettlement work: issues in planning and management; 8 New livelihoods for old: restoring incomes lost due to involuntary resettlement; 9 No end to injustice: gender biases in resettlement planning; PART 4 Resettlement in a globalizing world; 10 Investors in, farmers out: private sector projects and the contentious issue of land acquisition

11 A blow to tribal life: the disastrous impact of globalizationPART 5 The way forward; 12 Development for all: ensure that the displaced people have a share in project benefits; Appendices; Appendix I: Definitions of the terms used in this book; Appendix II: Resettlement in different project types; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the past ten years or so, displacement by development projects has gone on almost untamed under the globalization pressures to meet the demand for land from local and increasingly foreign investors. Focusing on India, this book looks at the complex issue of resettling people who are displaced for the sake of development.The book discusses how the affected farming communities are fiercely opposing the development projects that often leave them worse off than before, and how this conflict is a matter of serious concern for the planners, as it could discourage potential capita