Jennifer Kelly Boeken

Focusing on hands-on, Reggio-inspired practices, this book provides teachers with practical strategies to enhance literacy skills while fostering concepts of identity and shared knowledge in collaboration with children. It emphasizes nurturing children's understanding and engagement, making it a valuable resource for educators seeking to integrate these principles into their teaching.

Drawing on cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and political economy, Borrowed Identities illustrates how technological changes in the early twenty-first century have enabled media to increasingly access cultural spaces previously bounded by time and space. This increased blurring of boundaries between local and global media has provided youth with additional resources to «think through» social experiences, and produce knowledge and identities. Using narratives and discourse analysis to illustrate how African Canadian youth as a social category make meaning in their everyday lives, this book examines not just the making of meaning but also the nuances of consumption in terms of political economy and material culture.

"Squires Kitchen's Guide to Sugar Modelling: Fairytale Figures presents a selection of favourite characters all with simple instructions and clear photographs - even if you're a complete beginner, you can try your hand at modelling people and animals of all different shapes and sizes. 24 characters are featured including a pretty princess, a peg-leg pirate and his parrot, a green witch with her black cat, a sparkly unicorn and a family of teddy bears having a picnic. To make the projects even easier, the different pieces you need to assemble each figure have been photographed at actual size and numbered to match the step-by-step instructions. These actual-size guides will help you check what you're modelling and give you more confidence as you build each character. Perfect for keen modellers of all ages and abilities, this fun and handy guide makes it easy to create magical celebration cakes for birthdays, christenings and other special occasions."--Publisher's description