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  They Call Me Myrtle! The Maverick Social Worker Fighting Back!

  David Baronov

  She’s not just another social worker walking a beat. She’s Myrtle, the maverick social worker hellbent on ripping out the roots of social inequality and intergenerational poverty. And now Myrtle’s turning the tables on oligarchic rule—one crazed billionaire at a time. Because when social disorder bubbles to the surface on the mean streets of Metropathologis, Special Agent Myrtle Callahan, wrings out her mop with a mix of grassroots organizing and working class solidarity. That’s justice, Myrtle Style!
  
  The Tale
  Overseen by Mr. Big, its shadowy CEO, Thatcher Industries has produced razor wire in the town of Metropathologis for as long as most local folks can remember. Its factory is as much a cornerstone of their hometown as fireworks on the fourth of July. But when corporate greed trumps loyalty, Mr. Big makes a ruthless decision to abandon the town and move operations overseas. With the mayor and local officials missing in action and social services offering only band-aids, Metropathologis faces certain ruin.
  
  Enter Myrtle Callahan—MSW! Along with her by-the-book, fresh-out-of-the-academy partner, Melvin Gibstein, this maverick social worker takes to the streets to help save the good people of Metropathologis. For this, Myrtle must push the limits of community organizing to thwart Mr. Big and his horrible harem of corporate henchmen from destroying small town America.
  
  In truth, this is an old fashioned tale of betrayal and treachery; a hometown, loyal and true, that wakes one day to find that the only global corporation it had ever known—had ever truly cared for—plans to abandon them. Maybe that’s just the way of the world, what some people call progress. Some people, that is, until they meet Myrtle, the bad ass social worker who knows sometimes you need to organize the masses to take down a single CEO and raise up a community fed by solidarity and stoked by resistance.

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  Tourism is Gold: The Path to Ghana

  Dr. Damien L. Duchamp

  Every year communities and countries fail to attract millions of visitors because they misunderstand the needs and wants of tourists. Ghana is one of these countries. The name Tourism is Gold is based on the potential of what countries like Ghana could accomplish through tourism. TIG’s subtitle The Path to Ghana was the original name, intentionally hard to read on the cover as a way to emphasize that the path to Ghana (i.e. visas, marketing, policies) is still very unclear. This book is the compilation of over 40 years of life experience related to hospitality and tourism. About half is from formal education and experience as a hospitality & tourism professor, including a doctoral dissertation entitled Perceptions of the Hospitality & Tourism Industries by 18-24 Year Olds in Ghana, West Africa. The other half of my life experience is based on growing up in both France and the U.S., and my ongoing work in Ghana.

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  Arthur: An Actuarial Odyssey

  David M. Baronov

  Arthur: An Actuarial Odyssey—an absurdist, social satire—is a perfect literary blend of Confederacy of Dunces, Slaughter House 5, Best in Show, and Dr. Strangelove, with just a touch of Spinal Tap, Get to Know Your Rabbit, and But I’m a Cheerleader.
  
  Providing both a critique of consumer culture and a celebration of the human spirit, Arthur is thus an eclectic blend of sarcastic humor and philosophy, it challenges readers to reflect on their own lives and the systems that define them.
  
  We first meet Arthur deep in existential crisis, having recently discovered that the industry he has dedicated himself to represent—life insurance—is actually far more focused on death than the celebration of life. To address his deep personal crisis and better serve his clients, he embarks on a quest to discover the meaning and purpose of life. His journey takes him through a series of bizarre and comedic encounters, including his brief period in a life extension cult, a run-in with a group of environmental activists, and a chaotic adventure on a Japanese whaling ship.
  
  As Arthur grapples with his identity and purpose, he ultimately discovers that the act of dying can be a source of profit, revealing the absurdity of the societal constructs surrounding life insurance. Throughout this odyssey, Arthur learns valuable lessons about human connection, the complexities of existence, and the absurdity of modern life, all while navigating a madcap world filled with quite eccentric characters—from homicidal aerobics instructors to the male model for a top line of caskets.

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  Making Team Projects Work: A College Instructor's Guide to Successful Student Groupwork

  Timothy M. Franz and Lauren A. Vicker

  This user-friendly manual walks instructors step by step through the process of creating, assigning, and executing successful group projects at the college level.

  Informed by a simple input-process-output model of group behavior, this guide provides structured advice, examples, and worksheets to design and facilitate effective team projects. Topics include assigning teams, developing meaningful tasks, fostering leadership, managing conflict, communicating effectively, and supporting teams in an online environment. Each chapter features sections and readymade handouts that speak directly to students, making it easy for educators to share content with their student teams and spend valuable classroom time teaching course material rather than team skills.

  Whether in person or online, Making Team Projects Work will be a valuable companion for any college educator interested in incorporating group projects into their curricula.

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  A Pilgrim'sConfession: We Propose; God Laughs

  William Graf

  A pilgrim journeys to discover the Truth. Sometimes it means traveling to a different country or culture to see and listen to the stories of the people and places. At other times, it is struggling to learn a new language or read a difficult book to enlighten the mind and, hopefully, the eager heart. Some pilgrims journey to repent for sins of commission and omission. The journey encourages their need to change and the openness to decide how they might act differently in the future. This memoir tells stories of how one priest journeyed through his life to discover the Truth of God's love and tender mercy in good times and in bad times. He believes that stories are often the best way to teach any kind of truth. The author has traveled a great deal with a special love for the Holy Land, Assisi, and the rich culture of Celtic Ireland. Many years of travel, extensive reading, experiences as a parish priest, and a college professor have enriched his life. He now lives in an independent living facility where he continues to teach, minister, and search for Truth.

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  Universal Logic, Ethics, and Truth: Essays in Honor of John Corcoran (1937-2021)

  Tim Madigan and Jean-Yves Beziau

  John Corcoran was a very well-known logician who worked on several areas of logic. He produced decisive works giving a better understanding of two major figures in the history of logic, Aristotle and Boole. Corcoran had a close association with Alfred Tarski, a prominent 20th-century logician. This collaboration manifested in Corcoran's substantial introduction to Tarski's seminal book, Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics (1956). Additionally, Corcoran's posthumous editorial involvement in 'What are logical notions?' (1986) breathed new life into this seminal paper authored by Tarski. His scholarly pursuits extended to the intricate explication of fundamental concepts in modern logic, including variables, propositions, truth, consequences, and categoricity. Corcoran's academic curiosity extended further to the intersection of ethics and logic, reflecting his contemplation of their interrelation. Beyond these theoretical contributions, Corcoran was deeply engaged in the pedagogical dimensions of logic instruction.

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  Cliff Notes: Contemplating Life on the Edge

  Robert H. Rice

  Cliff Notes is a true story of survival in the Adirondack Mountains. When the family dog falls onto a small ledge on the side of a towering mountain cliff, the owner finds himself clinging for life and waiting for a helicopter rescue. While there, he contemplates life, nature, discomfort, and a seemingly mystical series of experiences. Written by a professor of mental health counseling, Cliff Notes speaks to every person’s inner need to feel part of something greater. It provides useful insight on emerging concepts that have the potential to positively impact our mental health. Nature is trying to show us the way. It isn’t necessary to fall off a cliff to see it, but it helps.

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  Ecological Moral Character: A Catholic Model

  Nancy M. Rourke

  An ecological model through which we can imagine Aquinas' vision of moral character
  
  The images we use to think about moral character are powerful. They inform our understanding of the moral virtues and the ways in which moral character develops. However, this aspect of virtue ethics is rarely discussed.
  
  In Ecological Moral Character, Nancy M. Rourke creates an ecological model through which we can form images of moral character. She integrates concepts of ecology with Aquinas' vision and describes the dynamics of a moral character in terms of the processes and functions that take place in an ecosystem. The virtues, the passions, the will, and the intellect, are also described in terms of this model.
  
  Ecological Moral Character asks readers to choose deliberately the models we use to imagine moral character and offers this ecological virtue model as a vital framework for a period of environmental crisis.

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  That Man in the Gold Lamé Suit: Phil Ochs's Search for Self

  James R. Bowers

  That Man in the Gold Lamé Suit offers a fresh, original, and dynamic examination of Phil Ochs, the often overlooked topical folk singer of the 1960s who wrote the soundtrack to that era's antiwar movement and so much more.

  That Man in the Gold Lamé Suit explores who Phil Ochs was as he saw and understood himself to be; how he wanted to see himself; and how he wanted to be seen by others. In presenting this exploration of Phil Ochs, author Jim Bowers delves deep into Ochs's personality to craft a narrative that allows the singer/songwriter to tell his own story rather than the story others would impose upon him. In letting Ochs tell his own story, Bowers in That Man in the Gold Lamé Suit provides the reader with insights into how Phil Ochs's search for self came to define who Ochs really was and how it, in turn, shaped his music, his politics, and his relationships with such contemporaries as Bob Dylan.

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  The Sport Management Educator: Strategies for Teaching

  Emily Dane-Staples

  The value and placement of sport in society is significant and has created an extensive need for qualified practitioners of sport. With over 800 academic programs of sport management in North America alone, there is a great demand for qualified educators in the field. As such, resources to support educational excellence are essential.

  The Sport Management Educator: Strategies for Teaching provides a resource for those new to teaching and those seeking to improve instructional skills. Beginning with the fundamentals of brain-based learning, this text builds a strong foundation for teaching in sport management and enhances existing teaching practices and strategies to improve instructional elements such as planning, classroom management, course design, and student engagement.

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  The Mentor Teacher Blueprint: Building Effective Clinical Practice Through School–University Partnerships

  Kristen M. Driskill

  Both higher education and P–12 faculty play a critical role in the preparation of new teachers, yet they have traditionally operated in silos. This book, designed to be read and applied immediately, will help teacher preparation programs and schools work together to best prepare preservice teachers. This is accomplished by clearly describing the roles and responsibilities of both groups of stakeholders, specifically with a focus on the preparation of the mentor teacher. The author outlines ways for schools and teacher preparation programs to collaboratively choose, train, and support mentor teachers, along with suggestions for connecting P–12 and higher education faculty more regularly. Driskill provides a replicable blueprint that has been put into practice and found to be effective. School districts and teacher preparation programs can use the blueprint to reform clinical practice, which ultimately puts more highly qualified teachers in more classrooms.

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  Biostatistics: An Introduction and Conceptual Critique 1st Edition

  David Baronov

  Without question, biostatistical analysis has contributed to a slew of amazing medical breakthroughs. Yet it also distorts and deforms the holistic and contingent nature of health and medicine. How is it that biostatistics can both sharpen and weaken our understanding of health and medicine? What is unique about the content of health and medicine that so plainly reveals such distortions and deformities? Exploring these questions entails, first, a full survey of the tools and techniques of biostatistical analysis aiding medical breakthroughs. This survey must then be paired with a probe into the conceptual premises of these tools and techniques and how they refashion and reconstitute the inherently qualitative content of health and medicine in preparation for its quantification. We must grasp the statistical machinations at play, both technical and conceptual, that contrive to fit objects to tools rather than fitting tools to objects. This textbook introduces both the procedural methods and the hidden premises of biostatistical analysis.

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  Criminality and the Modern: Contingency and Agency in Twentieth-Century America

  Stephen Brauer

  The emergence of the social sciences, established in the mid to late nineteenth-century, had a substantial bearing on how researchers, academics, and eventually the general public thought about criminal behavior. Using Modernism as a lens, Stephen Brauer, examines how these disciplines shaped Americans’ understanding of criminality in the twentieth-century and how it provides a new way to think about culture, social norms, and ultimately, laws. In theory, laws act as articulations and codifications of a community’s beliefs, values, and principles. By breaking laws, criminals help us reinforce social norms by providing the opportunity to affirm what is believed to be right. By operating outside the bounds of acceptable behavior, the criminal serves as a useful figure to understand what is at stake in the culture, what the central issues of that culture might be, and what the fears and anxieties are. Criminality serves as a lens through which we can read ourselves and how the criminal operates as a cultural figure signifies the things we are negotiating in our lives and in our communities. Brauer focuses on two main concepts, central to the very concept of Modernism, to explore criminality: contingency, the idea that the individual might not be in control of their own deviance, and agency, the notion that the criminal makes a conscious choice to use crime as a means of economic success. The figure of the criminal is a powerful one and is key to exploring American twentieth-century culture. This book would be of interest to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural studies, literary studies, history, and many others.

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  The Making Team Projects Work Student Toolkit: A part of the Making Team Projects Work series

  Timothy Franz and Lauren Vicker

  A COMPANION INSTRUCTOR GUIDE IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE SERIES
  
  A top skill demanded by employers is the ability for people to work together in teams. However, students often do not get systematic training in improving their team projects. This user-friendly manual equips students with the tools needed to work successfully on team projects, and learn other valuable teamwork skills.
  
  The authors are two college educators with decades of experience teaching group dynamics. The book is written in a conversational style and includes structured advice, examples, and worksheets to provide students with the tools they need to succeed in team projects across a wide range of subjects. The companion website offers additional resources and easy access to the authors who answer questions and provide consultation. This book is an invaluable resource to develop student teamwork skills. What students have to say:

  • "There are many visuals in the book that clearly demonstrate the concepts."
  • "The real world examples allowed me to gain a better understanding about what the chapter is discussing and how I can apply it."
  • "The end of each chapter has a little summary that ties the book together. Also, the book not only relates to my class but also life beyond the classroom."
  • "The book is organized in a way that makes sense and helps me to follow along."

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  Change and Confusion in Catholicism

  Nathan R. Kollar

  We live in a liminal time. The anthropologist Victor Turner describes liminality as a time of severe disorientation for individuals and societies that lies between one stage of life and another. All the former signposts that provided people with an identity are in a state of upheaval as they transit between these stages. This book uses the lifelong personal and professional experiences of the author to analyse how Catholics experience liminality today and dealt with it yesterday. It provides the reader with an historical case study of frightening experiences, both in teaching what to expect during such a time and what to assume when it ends.

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  Video Games in Psychotherapy 1st Edition

  Robert H. Rice

  Video Games in Psychotherapy provides the reader with a practical session-by-session framework for using video games, interactive media, and gaming metaphors to help make the process of psychotherapy more engaging for today’s youth.

  Using concepts from narrative, collaborative, cognitive behavioral, and other evidenced-based approaches to psychotherapy, the book gives examples of possible therapist questions, responses, and activities involving language and concepts that are appealing to young gamers. Addressing issues with psychophysiological self-regulation, anxiety disorders, and autism spectrum disorders, among others, this book uses multiple case examples to demonstrate each idea and is written in a way that is understandable for all mental health providers, regardless of their own familiarity with gaming. A review of over 40 popular video games with specific ideas for their use in psychotherapy is provided, allowing mental health providers to easily individualize therapy based on client goals and gaming preferences. Concepts for individual and group psychotherapy using games and interactive media, ranging from Pac Man to virtual reality, are also covered.

  Providing the reader with useful templates, worksheets, and other therapy resources, this book is a must-have for mental health providers working with children, adolescents, and transition-age youth.

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  Soft-Boiled: An Investigation of Masculinity and The Writer’s Life

  Stephen J. West

  SOFT-BOILED follows Stephen J. West as he shadows a private investigator by the name of Frank Streets. What starts out as a last-ditch effort to write West's first book--while juggling responsibilities as a husband and new father--becomes a critical reflection on art-making, storytelling, and masculinity in America. Blending memoir, reportage, criticism, and detective thriller into one capacious yet focused narrative, SOFT-BOILED is a lyrical and aching self-reflexive portrait of an artist that asks the questions so many men are afraid to ask.

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  Civic Engagement in Global Contexts: International Education, Community Partnerships, and Higher Education

  James Bowman and Jennifer deWinter

  This volume examines the role of writing, rhetoric, and literacy programs and approaches in the practice of civic engagement in global contexts. Writing programs have experience in civic engagement and service learning projects in their local communities, and their work is central to developing students’ literacy practices. Further, writing programs compel student writers to attend to audience needs and rhetorical exigencies as well as reflect on their own subject positions. Thus, they are particularly situated to partner with other units on college campuses engaged in global partnerships.
  
  Civic Engagement in Global Contexts provides examples and evidence of the critical self-reflection and iteration with community partners that make these projects important and valuable. Throughout its thirteen chapters, this collection provides practical pedagogical and administrative approaches for writing studies faculty engaging with global learning projects, as well as nuanced insight into how to navigate contact zones from the planning stages of projects to the hard work of self-reflection and change.
  
  Partnerships and projects across national borders compel the field of rhetoric and composition to think through the ethics of writing studies program design and teaching practices. Doing this difficult work can disrupt presumptive notions of ownership that faculty and administrators hold concerning the fields involved in these projects and can even lead to decentering rhetoric/composition and other assumptions held by US-based institutions of higher education. Civic Engagement in GlobalContexts will be useful to instructors, advisors, and project managers of students in faculty-led project learning in overseas settings, international service learning through foreign study programs, and foreign study itself and to faculty members introducing civic engagement and community-based learning projects with foreign students in overseas institutions.

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  Beyond Sustainability: A Thriving Environment, 2d ed.

  Tim Delaney and Timothy Madigan

  This book approaches environmentalism via two academic disciplines, sociology and philosophy. Both have concerns about the environment's ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The authors argue that rather than simple sustainability, we must promote thrivability for the sake of protecting the environment and all living things. In this greatly expanded second edition, the authors have updated data and examples, introduced new topics and concepts, and emphasized the need to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels. Numerous topics are explored, from the differences between sustainability and thrivability, and the overuse of plastic, to mass extinction, the role of natural disasters and more. The Covid-19 pandemic offers an added perspective on the relationship between disease and the environment.

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  La frontera de la tierra (Spanish Edition)

  Francisco Plata

  Entregado a una labor tan secreta como inofensiva, Juan, el narrador y protagonista de La frontera de la tierra, se dedica a escuchar disimuladamente conversaciones de desconocidos en sus recorridos cotidianos por la ciudad de Nueva York.Por lo demás, la doble vida de Juan como traductor y lingüista transcurre sin grandes sobresaltos hasta que una mañana oye en el metro unas palabras que desatan una oleada inesperada de recuerdos aún muy vívidos, a pesar de los años transcurridos, sobre su estancia en Nuevo México. Sin embargo, lo que comienza espontáneamente como un relato sinuoso y fragmentario que tan solo persigue atrapar el pasado, se va transformando poco a poco en un implacable ajuste de cuentas con el presente y las incertidumbres, cada vez más numerosas, que lo asedian.La frontera de la tierra es una novela sobre la memoria y el paso del tiempo, sobre la emigración y el desarraigo como fenómenos globales, sobre la herencia hispánica de los Estados Unidos y la huella indeleble del lenguaje en nuestra forma de ser y de estar en el mundo.

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  Meaningful Partnership at Work: How The Workplace Covenant Ensures Mutual Accountability and Success between Leaders and Teams 1st Edition

  Seth R. Silver and Timothy M. Franz

  Why are some work partnerships exceptional while most are not? How can we establish and sustain an enhanced level of cohesion, connection, and collaboration in the most important work relationship, the one between a manager and team? What could remedy the high levels of isolation and anxiety so many feel at work these days?

  Silver and Franz explore the concept of ‘meaningful partnership’ in the workplace. They present meaningful partnership as a mindset where both leaders and their teams are fully committed to ensuring the support and success of the other. Then, they describe a model called ERTAP, which stands for Empathy, Respect, Trust, Alignment, and Partnership, which is the foundation for meaningful partnership. Finally, they detail a practical yet transformative relationship-building process referred to as the Workplace Covenant. This enables leaders and teams to create mutual commitments with obligatory weight that help them to feel accountable for the success of the relationship and each other.

  The book includes real client stories that illustrate the dimensions of partnership and the Workplace Covenant process. Silver and Franz also outline other work relationships that can benefit from meaningful partnership, pitfalls to avoid, relevant research, and insights derived from years of consulting experience.

  This book is a must-read for leaders interested in a better working relationship with their team; for teams who have critical work partnerships with other teams; for individuals who work closely with other individuals and need an exceptional 1:1 partnership; and finally for third-party experts in HR or continuous improvement who are seeking a new powerful way to help clients feel supported and be more successful.

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  Applied Mass Communication Theory: A Guide for Media Practitioners 3rd Edition

  Lauren Vicker and Jack Rosenberry

  Now in its third edition, this dynamic textbook blends coverage of the major theories and research methods in mass communication to enable students to apply their knowledge in today’s media and communication careers.

  Maintaining a focus on modern professional application throughout, this text provides chronological coverage of the development and use of major theories, an overview of both quantitative and qualitative research methods, and a step-by-step guide to conducting a research project informed by this knowledge. It helps students bridge their academic coursework with professional contexts including public relations, advertising, and digital media contexts. It provides breakout boxes with definitions of key terms and theories, extended applied examples, and graphical models of key theories to offer a visualization of how the various concepts in the theory fit together.

  Applied Mass Communication Theory’s hybrid and flexible nature make it a useful textbook for both introductory and capstone courses on mass communication and media theory and research methods, as well as courses focused on media industries and professional skills. Instructors can access an online instructor’s manual, including sample exercises, test questions, and a syllabus, at www.routledge.com/9780367630362

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  Understanding the Psychology of Diversity, 4th Edition

  Bruce Evan Blaine and Kimberly McClure Brenchley

  Understanding the Psychology of Diversity offers a highly accessible examination of diversity to show students how to understand social and cultural differences in today’s society. Taking a psychological perspective, authors B. Evan Blaine and Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley explore how individuals construct their view of social diversity and how they are defined and influenced by it. The book covers traditional topics like categorization and stereotypes, sexism, racism, and social stigma, as well as non-traditional topics like sexual orientation-based prejudice, weight and appearance-based prejudice, diversity on television, and age stereotypes and ageism. The Fourth Edition confronts the credibility crisis that has surfaced in the academic psychological research community by following parameters for the research that is presented.

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  Making Team Projects Work: A Resource for High School and College Educators

  Timothy Franz and Lauren Vicker

  A key role of educators is preparing students for today’s world of work, where a top skill demanded by employers is the ability to work together in teams. This user-friendly manual equips educators with the tools needed to provide students with an understanding of what it takes to work successfully on group projects, and learn these valuable teamwork skills.
  
  The new companion Student Toolkit equips students with the tools needed to work successfully on team projects and learn other valuable teamwork skills. Topics include assigning students to teams, developing a meaningful team task, creating leadership in student groups, managing conflict during a group project, communicating effectively as a group, and supporting teams in an online environment.

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  Universal Design for Learning in Physical Education - First Edition

  Lauren J. Lieberman, Michelle Grenier, Ali Brian, and Katrina Arndt

  The practice of universal design—of making a product or environment accessible to all individuals—has been around for a long time. But, until now, that practice has never been explored in depth in the field of physical education.
  
  This groundbreaking text provides a much-needed link between universal design and physical education, extending boundaries as it offers physical educators a systematic guide to create, administer, manage, assess, and apply universal design for learning (UDL).
  
  Universal Design for Learning in Physical Education is for all physical educators—those who are or are preparing to become general PE teachers as well as those who are in the field of adapted physical education. This resource offers the following:

  • Ready-to-use curricular units for grades K-12, with 31 universally designed lessons that demonstrate how teachers can apply UDL in specific content areas (teachers can also use those examples to build their own units and lessons)
  • Rubrics for the 28 items on the Lieberman–Brian Inclusion Rating Scale for Physical Education (LIRSPE) to help teachers follow best practices in inclusion
  • Tables, timelines, and paraeducator training checklists to ensure that UDL is effectively delivered from the beginning of the school year

  In her earlier text, Strategies for Inclusion, Third Edition, coauthor Lauren Lieberman included a valuable chapter about UDL that focused on detailed, practical steps for making classes inclusive. Universal Design for Learning in Physical Education approaches inclusion from the macro level, providing a comprehensive conceptual model of UDL and how to incorporate it into curriculum planning and teaching methods for K-12 physical education.
  
  Outcomes for Universal Design for Learning in Physical Education are aligned with SHAPE America’s physical education standards and grade-level outcomes. Given that 94 percent of students with disabilities are taught in physical education settings, this text offers highly valuable guidance to general physical educators in providing equal access to, and engagement in, high-quality physical education for all students.
  
  Part I of Universal Design for Learning in Physical Education defines universal design and explains how it relates to physical education. It identifies barriers that teachers may face in adapting UDL to their programs and how to overcome these barriers. It also addresses critical assessment issues and guides teachers in supporting students with severe or multiple disabilities.
  
  Part I also covers advocacy issues such as how to teach students to speak up for their own needs and choices. Readers will gain insight into where their programs excel and where barriers might still exist when they employ the Lieberman–Brian Inclusion Rating Scale, a self-assessment tool that helps measure physical, programmatical, and social inclusion.
  
  Finally, part I reinforces several UDL principles by sharing many examples of how physical educators have applied UDL in their programs.
  
  Part II offers a trove of universally designed units and lesson plans for use across grades K-12, with separate chapters on lessons for elementary, sports, fitness, recreation, and aquatics.
  
  Universal Design for Learning in Physical Education is the first text to delve deeply into the concept of universal design in physical education. As such, it is a valuable resource for all PE teachers—both those leading general classes and adapted classes—to learn how to successfully implement universally designed units and lesson plans that enrich all their students’ lives. The accompanying web resource provides 40 forms, tables, checklists, and a sample lesson plan from the book, as well as a list of websites, books, and laws. These resources are provided as reproducible PDFs for practical use.