Making Connections Book 1: Overcoming challenges

Name: Making Connections Book 1: Overcoming challenges
SKU: 5642
Price: 44.95 NZD
Availability: InStock
Author: Yvette Krohn
ISBN: 9781927190005

Creative ideas and activities for exploring the links beyond a text

By
Yvette Krohn

Structured around the rich and thought-provoking theme, overcoming challenges, this book begins with a particular text before it explores possible subthemes and texts for comparison. Information sheets draw together the rich range of creative, insightful ideas presented and worksheets help students to consolidate the information and practise their connection-making skills.

Ages: 12-15 | Pages: 52 | Code: 5642 | ISBN: 9781927190005

Series: Making Connections

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Yvette Krohn

Yvette Krohn has taught English for the past 18 years, first in South Africa and later in New Zealand, where her main role has been teaching high-level thinking courses, including gifted and talented education, extension and scholarship classes. She has been a faculty head of languages and an assistant principal, as well as a lecturer of communications and learning styles at Lincoln University. Passionate about thinking skills, Yvette has a particular interest in incorporating philosophy, psychology and social theory into the English curriculum, primarily through the medium of film.

Contents
Introduction	4
How do students make connections?	4
How is this book structured?	4
Orientation to the unit	5
Overcoming the challenge of fear	9
What is fear?	9
A psychological approach to fear	10
A philosophical approach to fear	13
Exploring further with other texts	16
Looking worldwide	19
Overcoming the challenge of finding acceptance and a sense of belonging	22
What is acceptance?	22
A psychological approach to acceptance and belonging	22
A sociological approach to acceptance and belonging	24
Exploring further with other texts	26
Looking worldwide	27
Overcoming the challenge of a rite of passage	31
What is a rite of passage?	31
A sociological/anthropological approach to the rite of passage	31
Exploring further with other texts	35
Looking worldwide	38
Overcoming the challenge of family situations	42
What is a family?	42
Parenting styles and family conflict	44
Birth order	45
Absent fathers	47
Exploring further with other texts	49
Looking worldwide	50