1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910799954503321

Titolo

Ensuring safe school environments [[electronic resource] ] : exploring issues, seeking solutions / / edited by Mary Susan E. Fishbaugh, Gwen Schroth, Terry R. Berkeley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum, c2003

ISBN

1-135-63142-5

1-282-32178-1

9786612321788

1-4106-0677-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Collana

Topics in educational leadership

Altri autori (Persone)

FishbaughMary Susan

SchrothGwen

BerkeleyTerry R

Disciplina

371.7/82

Soggetti

School environment - United States

School violence - United States - Prevention

Schools - United States - Safety measures

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

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor Foreword; Preface; I EXPLORING ISSUES; 1 Congressional Testimony: School Violence From the Perspective of a National Crisis Response Consultant; 2 A Comparison of Urban and Rural Conditions and Their Relationship to School Violence; 3 Decreasing School Violence: A Research Synthesis; 4 Violence and School Principals; II SEEKING SOLUTIONS; 5 Resolving Conflicts in Schools: An Educational Approach to Violence Prevention; 6 Creating Positive Behavior Support Plans for Students With Significant Behavioral Challenges

7 School-Community Relations: Policy and Practice8 Peaceable School Communities: Morality and the Ethic of Care; 9 The Montana Behavioral Initiative: A Statewide Response to Issues of School Violence; Appendix; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ensuring Safe School Environments: Exploring Issues--Seeking Solutions presents research findings and information about school



violence, with a focus on strategies for increasing school safety. Based on a special topical issue of Rural Special Education Quarterly, the original journal articles have been rewritten to address safe schools from the perspective of suburban and urban, as well as rural environments. Topics include the frequency of violence in these different settings; violence as it directly impacts school administrators; strategies for preventing and addressing violen

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910974896103321

Titolo

The hand, an organ of the mind : what the manual tells the mental / / edited by Zdravko Radman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, 2013

ISBN

9780262313544

0262313545

9780262313537

0262313537

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (465 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RadmanZdravko <1951->

Disciplina

121/.35

Soggetti

Human engineering

Gesture

Handicraft

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

Contents; Foreword: Hand Manifesto; Beforehand; Acknowledgments; Contributors; I HAND-CENTEREDNESS; 1 "Capable of whatever man's ingenuity suggests": Agency, Deafferentation, and the Control of Movement; 2 Developmental Origins of the Hand in the Mind, and the Role of the Hand in the Development of the Mind; 3 Hand-Centered Space, Hand-Centered Attention, and the Control of Movement; 4 Beyond the Boundaries of the Hand: Plasticity of Body-Space Interactions Following Tool Use; II TOGETHERNESS IN TOUCH; 5 Touching Hands: A Neurocognitive Review of Intersubjective Touch



6 Touch and the Sense of Reality7 Perception and Representation: Mind the Hand!; 8 Phenomenology of the Hand; III MANUAL ENACTION; 9 The Enactive Hand; 10 Radically Enactive Cognition in Our Grasp; IV THE GIST OF GESTURES; 11 Gesture as Thought?; 12 Is Cognition Embedded or Extended? The Case of Gestures; 13 Pointing Hand: Joint Attention and Embodied Symbols; V MANIPULATION AND THE MUNDANE; 14 Privileging Exploratory Hands: Prehension, Apprehension, Comprehension; 15 The Enculturated Hand; 16 On Displacement of Agency: The Mind Handmade; VI TOMORROW'S HANDS

17 A Critical Review of Classical Computational Approaches to Cognitive Robotics: Case Study for Theories of Cognition?Postscript: Rehabilitating the Hand: Reflections of a Haptic Artist; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Theoretical and empirical accounts of the interconnectedness between the manual and the mental suggest that the hand can be understood as a cognitive instrument.