Sarah Robinson

This volume distinguishes itself by taking a broad and philosophical perspective on teaching and the process of learning, rather than proposing yet another algorithmic approach to learning. It is intended for teaching faculty and academic support staff who want to deeply reflect on and continuously develop teaching designs that combine knowledge and action. Motivated by a concern for the societal issues and global challenges facing us, we recognize that the current generation of students will need to be agentic citizens able to act to become authentic change-makers. If students are to become critically reflective active citizens, equipped for life in its broadest sense, then teaching must engage them with disciplinary knowledge and link this to authentic practices to make learning meaningful. Meaningful learning is defined as linking knowledge-intensive processes of learning to the creation of value for others outside the university. This embodies students’ cognitive heads, conative hands, and affective hearts allowing them to become authentic change-makers. It makes the learning process holistic, embedded in the individual, and socially connected, without losing the connection to knowledge content. When a meaning-oriented format supports content and when content is enhanced through an outward-oriented format, students’ cognitive, affective, and conative domains are activated in a powerful interplay to trigger deep feelings of meaningfulness. A meaningful learning approach ensures that students become participative learners, able to reflect on their own values and combine disciplinary knowledge in collaboration with others to tackle some of today’s most pressing societal challenges.

This volume distinguishes itself by taking a broad and philosophical perspective on teaching and the process of learning, rather than proposing yet another algorithmic approach to learning. It is intended for teaching faculty and academic support staff who want to deeply reflect on and continuously develop teaching designs that combine knowledge and action. Motivated by a concern for the societal issues and global challenges facing us, we recognize that the current generation of students will need to be agentic citizens able to act to become authentic change-makers. If students are to become critically reflective active citizens, equipped for life in its broadest sense, then teaching must engage them with disciplinary knowledge and link this to authentic practices to make learning meaningful. Meaningful learning is defined as linking knowledge-intensive processes of learning to the creation of value for others outside the university. This embodies students’ cognitive heads, conative hands, and affective hearts allowing them to become authentic change-makers. It makes the learning process holistic, embedded in the individual, and socially connected, without losing the connection to knowledge content. When a meaning-oriented format supports content and when content is enhanced through an outward-oriented format, students’ cognitive, affective, and conative domains are activated in a powerful interplay to trigger deep feelings of meaningfulness. A meaningful learning approach ensures that students become participative learners, able to reflect on their own values and combine disciplinary knowledge in collaboration with others to tackle some of today’s most pressing societal challenges.

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This second edition of Teacher Agency brings new perspectives on teachers as agents of change and development within their professional ecosystems. Centred around an ecological theory of agency, it critically surveys the work that has emerged in this field in the decade since its first edition and how international trends in curriculum policy and teacher development have shaped that landscape. As well as updating the research that formed the core of its original study, this second edition now includes an extensive literature review spanning the theory and conceptualization of teacher agency, and the critical issues that now affect it. Two new chapters also now discuss agency in relation to two key dimensions of education - curriculum and teaching. Drawing this research together with the authors’ international experiences and perspectives, Teacher Agency grapples with theoretical and practical issues of international significance – how should agency be understood? How does it relate to individual teachers’ capacity? What does this mean for the cultures and structures at the heart of teaching?

This second edition of Teacher Agency brings new perspectives on teachers as agents of change and development within their professional ecosystems. Centred around an ecological theory of agency, it critically surveys the work that has emerged in this field in the decade since its first edition and how international trends in curriculum policy and teacher development have shaped that landscape. As well as updating the research that formed the core of its original study, this second edition now includes an extensive literature review spanning the theory and conceptualization of teacher agency, and the critical issues that now affect it. Two new chapters also now discuss agency in relation to two key dimensions of education - curriculum and teaching. Drawing this research together with the authors’ international experiences and perspectives, Teacher Agency grapples with theoretical and practical issues of international significance – how should agency be understood? How does it relate to individual teachers’ capacity? What does this mean for the cultures and structures at the heart of teaching?

The profound impact that design has on human experience - physically, emotionally, cognitively, or ecologically - is now well established. And while this experiential and affective turn in architecture is gaining momentum, studio time remains primarily dedicated to the creation of buildings as independent objects with minimal regard for the interactions and impacts those buildings may have on their inhabitants and their surroundings. This book carefully details an alternative for thinking and designing that shifts attention from abstract formalism and object orientation to the creation of dynamic interacting fields of affective, tactile, kinaesthetic, ecological and social engagement. The book articulates resonance as a model and metaphor for the way we interact with our environments. The word’s literal meaning is to re-sound, implying a surface or receptive body that amplifies and alters the sound – an interdependent relation and process occurring in between. Seven kinds of resonance specific to design are detailed theoretically, and illustrated with practical and historical examples. These design strategies demonstrate the possibilities resulting from shifting attention and resources from the longstanding preoccupation with fixed forms towards structuring and supporting dynamic interactive relationships between the built and the natural and between people and place. Seamlessly combining architecture with cognitive science and neuroscience, environmental and evolutionary psychology, and social theory and anthropology, in clear, direct and engaging prose, this book will be essential reading for all architecture students as well as those in these varied fields.

The profound impact that design has on human experience - physically, emotionally, cognitively, or ecologically - is now well established. And while this experiential and affective turn in architecture is gaining momentum, studio time remains primarily dedicated to the creation of buildings as independent objects with minimal regard for the interactions and impacts those buildings may have on their inhabitants and their surroundings. This book carefully details an alternative for thinking and designing that shifts attention from abstract formalism and object orientation to the creation of dynamic interacting fields of affective, tactile, kinaesthetic, ecological and social engagement. The book articulates resonance as a model and metaphor for the way we interact with our environments. The word’s literal meaning is to re-sound, implying a surface or receptive body that amplifies and alters the sound – an interdependent relation and process occurring in between. Seven kinds of resonance specific to design are detailed theoretically, and illustrated with practical and historical examples. These design strategies demonstrate the possibilities resulting from shifting attention and resources from the longstanding preoccupation with fixed forms towards structuring and supporting dynamic interactive relationships between the built and the natural and between people and place. Seamlessly combining architecture with cognitive science and neuroscience, environmental and evolutionary psychology, and social theory and anthropology, in clear, direct and engaging prose, this book will be essential reading for all architecture students as well as those in these varied fields.

A fully revised and updated second edition to mark the five-year anniversary of the bestselling and much-loved title that launched Sarah Robinson as one of the foremost contemporary authors in witchcraft. Now fully illustrated and featuring ten new asana sequences, including wheel of the year, dark moon, awaken the chakras, as well as a new introduction by the author. Witchcraft and yoga share many similarities that are explored in combination in this ground-breaking new title from Sarah Robinson - certified yoga instructor and experienced witch. FIND YOUR MAGIC ON THE MAT Yoga for Witches connects two powerful spiritual disciplines, with enchanting effects Witchcraft and yoga share many similarities that are explored in combination in this ground-breaking new title from Sarah Robinson - certified yoga instructor and experienced witch. Yoga for Witches shares exercises, poses and the knowledge you need to connect to your own special magic and inner power. Find out what the word yoga really means. Explore how ancient yogis sought out magicDiscover some of the goddesses and gods of yogic and witch culture. Weave magic through spells, mantra, meditation and yoga practice. Explore the magic of the chakras. Connect to the power of the Sun, Moon and Earth via witchcraft and yoga.

On the outside, Amanda Riverswood has it all: a fun career in interior design, a lakeside cottage in her Michigan hometown, and a close-knit group of friends. But she's thirty-two-years old and-despite her seemingly outgoing persona-has never had a boyfriend. So this summer, Amanda decides she's going to rip the Band-Aid off and go on a bunch of blind dates. As one of professional baseball's star pitchers, Dominic Gage was on top of the world-until a detached retina sent him into early retirement. Not long afterward, his wife walked out of their marriage. Now, at an all-time low, he's learning to settle into his new life in the small town of Heart Lake. His plan for the summer is sitting on his dock reading, napping, and not talking to anyone, especially not the cute, exasperatingly chipper girl next door. But when Dom accidentally damages her dock and offers to fix it, he gets into a habit of eavesdropping on her hilarious series of dates. As they begin to bond over late night laughter and conversations following Amanda's failed dating attempts, it's not long before there's more than friendship between them. Could a casual fling between neighbours be what they both need to get over their issues or will it only risk their hearts?

The highly anticipated second standalone romantic comedy in the Queerly Devoted series by Sarah Robinson is a steamy story of lesbian romance and elder millennial drama as Yasmeen explores how to become a bad*ss boss in a neighborhood that wants to shut her and her dreams down with an intriguing and infuriating woman who has never heard "no" before in her life. After several failed businesses-including an edible panties subscription box-the eternally optimistic Yasmeen Kiani feels like her next launch has to be the big break. When she sees a FOR LEASE sign at the corner lot on her street, she decides it's time to try, try again. While there are over 1,000 gay bars in the United States, there are less than 25 lesbian bars total (a real life fact See the Lesbian Bar Project)...and Yasmeen has decided that she is going to open the first in her Arlington, VA neighborhood. Unfortunately, the neighborhood is not on board with her plan. Tyler Adams has been the president of every club or organization she's ever been involved in. Class valedictorian, president of her college sorority, even prom queen twice, including a high school she didn't go to. Tyler does nothing second best just like her father, a real estate mogul who she has a close yet tumultuous relationship with and who owns the building she lives in. A full-time podcaster on top of helping her father lease his property out, including to a new business by a woman she finds incredibly attractive, Tyler hosts one of the country's most listened to shows on true crime yet her personal life and sexuality are the biggest mystery to her fan base. Tyler isn't used to facing opposition, but Yasmeen is no stranger to having to fight for what she wants and she's about to teach Tyler that failure isn't the end of the world-just the beginning of the war. What Yasmeen didn't expect was for Tyler to teach her some battles are not worth fighting...but the one for her heart is.

Mila Torres is a successful divorce lawyer by day, stand-up comedian by night and by all accounts-except her mother's-living a bisexual elder millennial's dream life in Washington, DC. That is, until she realizes she's only a year away from hitting the ripe old age of thirty-five and her doctor suggests at her annual pap smear that maybe she should consider freezing her eggs if she wants kids in the future. Except, she doesn't want a child in the far future...she wants a child right now. This poses a bit of a problem since she's ten swipes past single and living Golden Girls style with two of her best friends who work on Capitol Hill and one ornery old cat. That is, until she hears a story from a friend about a free sperm bank online app called Baby Bank. A few margaritas later and Mila has swiped on over fifty sperm donors until she finds the perfect match-handsome, successful, brilliant, everything you'd want your sperm to be. Now she's meeting him at a hotel-along with two of her friends for backup-to complete the process. All should have gone smoothly, except when she learns that her sperm donor is the brother of the reporter that Mila has been dodging for months, and that while she originally only wanted this man's baby, she actually wants his sister, too. In a comedic story of LGBTQIA+ romance and millennial-specific drama, Mila finds that motherhood and dating are not compatible when you keep it all in the family and that the modern millennial woman might not actually be able to have it all.

In this charming instalment of the Heart Lake series, a grumpy single dad and a small-town bookseller-who's secretly an advice columnist-find love when they least expect it. As chaotic as it can be, Rosie Dean loves her unruly life. But between raising twins alone, running her struggling bookshop, and secretly writing a parenting advice column, the single mom can't think about dating. At least that's what she tells herself . . . until her high school crush (and his incredible blue eyes) return to Heart Lake for the summer. Even though Evan has grown into a huge grump, he's still a super sexy one, and soon sparks begin to fly. Single dad and widower Evan Mills is used to hearing he's too serious. But with a grieving tween daughter to raise on his own, the graphic designer is just trying to stay strong for her. He hopes a few weeks at the lake will be the fresh start they both need. Evan never anticipated reconnecting with Rosie, or that she could make him feel whole again-if he'd give her the chance. Will one steamy summer with Rosie be long enough to melt Evan's heart? Includes the bonus novella, Annie Rains' Kiss Me in Sweetwater Springs!

When sparks start flying, these total opposites discover Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. To raise enough money to start her own business, Nola Bennett needs to sell "The Castle," her beloved grandmother's historic house and get back home to the city. But Heart Lake's most eligible bachelor is insisting she hang on to the property. He may be one of the hottest, grumpiest men she's ever seen, but Nola has no time to pine over her high school crush. All woodworker Tanner Dean wants for Christmas is some peace and quiet, but that's not going to happen with infuriating, irresistible Nola Bennett back in town. How can he persuade her to keep The Castle out of the hands of greedy developers when sizzling attraction flares every time they're together? And the more time he spends with Nola, the harder it becomes to picture a future without her-unless he can convince her, once and for all, that Heart Lake is exactly where she belongs. Includes the bonus novella The Christmas Wish by Melinda Curtis!