Text Readings

Text Readings

ESE548 : The Class : Text Readings

We reviewed a lot of books so that we can provide the very best choice for you. We found three that are especially fine - though there are many additional books that are good. We want you to find a book you will enjoy reading and that you will want to keep for reference in the future.

Please spend a little time looking over the choices if you have access to the book store - or choose the Smith or Heward text if you like a hardcover book with a lot of density but that is user friendly.

Choose the Turnbull book if you like a person centered approach, love great pictures, vignettes, case studies and a cozy feel. It has lots of depth, but it also has a lot of emotional appeal.

If you are not going to read a book, no matter what - and you keep trying and trying but it doesn't work for you, I would suggest the Turnbull book - browsing material is great in it - and then getting the workbook form Turnbull, since it will give you the depth and details without protracted reading time.

I know professors are not supposed to know that many students do not love to learn by the time they get to the University. I want you to take charge and turn that around in this course if you have arrived at that conclusion. The material is interesting. The ideas are vital to good teaching. There is a moral imperative involved in learning about the strengths and weaknesses of youth in our classes. There is an element of social justice involved in providing a free and appropriate education.

In this course, you are free to learn in a way that suits you. You can read the book for entertainment , for enjoyment, for ideas, for advancement of knowledge - and never be tested over the readings, except by life and your profession.

Take this opportunity to decide you want to read the material - and then in the next six week, keep the book around like a novel. Read while you are waiting for a phone call - while you are in line, when nothing is on TV. Hook up your favorite music for background. Read some of the material to others. Do what ever - but find a way to enjoy this material - to learn with pleasure.

Once you have finished you should:

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E-mail J'Anne Affeld at Janne.Affeld@nau.edu

Course developed by J'Anne & Martha Affeld