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The LEARN Method: An Interactive Guide for Effective Learning
Karla Lassonde
The LEARN Method is a program designed to teach students strategies to improve learning.
NOTE: Some of the interactive elements are not available in the PDF version. Please visit https://minnstate.pressbooks.pub/learnmethod/ to view the online version with full H5P elements.
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Education Change: Research, History, Reality
Don E. Glines
Education Change is another effort from Educational Futures Projects, Sacramento California, to convince educators that more of us need to learn how to unfold our deck chairs. Author Dr. Don Glines has spent his career actually implementing change in schools and colleges, and in conjunction, consulting for others also implementing educational innovations.
Education Change is presented in cooperation with Project 100% Graduation, directed by Dr. John R. Eggers of Minnesota. The goal of this project
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Science Methods for Elementary Teachers
Ron Browne and David Kimori
Complete Digitized Text of Science Methods for Elementary Teachers by Ron Browne and David Kimori, Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2022.
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Undergraduate Research Projects: Step-by-Step
Elizabeth J. Sandell
This book is in a workbook format, intended to complement any individual or group of undergraduate researchers in their social science investigations. The step-by-step approach provides understanding and experience with scholarly inquiry. Students discover content and practice skills related to scholarly inquiry and their academic subjects.
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Donde las nubes se unen al mar = Where the Clouds Meet the Water
Kimberly E. Contag
Donde las nubes se unen al mar (2021) es la traducción de la narrativa histórica Where the Clouds Meet the Water (2004), un libro que explica la saga de Ernesto Contag Ziehe y su familia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ernesto y su familia fueron deportados de su patria ecuatoriana a la Alemania de los Nazis en 1942. La narrativa histórica que se lee casi como novela se basa en la investigación en bibliotecas, hemerotecas
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Antología de la literatura española del Romanticismo: desde sus precedentes en la poesía trovadoresca provenzal hasta el Posromanticismo
Enrique Torner
This is a digital interactive anthology of texts devoted to Spanish Romanticism especially designed for university non-Spanish speakers that are enrolled in Spanish majors or minors and are at least in their third year of study. This anthology may be used as textbook for any course by any instructor who might desire to use it without any written permission from the author. It may be used as a whole for a course on Spanish Romanticism
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Fantasy and Realism in Contemporary Ecuadorian Literature (1976-2006)
Kimberly E. Contag
My purpose in this book is not to assess how well Ecuadorian literature fits into the broad Latin American literary scene or the global scene in particular, but instead to read and analyze how Ecuadorian writers communicate ideas about the world they live in through realism and fantasy. It is the nature of Ecuadorians to express their experience in these terms to portray a unique and multifaceted voice. To that end, I propose a model
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Personalizing Education: Changing from Schooling to Learning: Past, Present, Future
Don E. Glines
"Personalizing Education portrays the basics of why, what, how, after 150 years of tradition, the time is long overdue to replace mandatory schooling conventions with truly voluntary personalized life-long learning options" [from the author].
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Los inicios del género detectivesco en España y sus antecedentes anglo-americanos: una antología bilingüe
Enrique Torner
A bilingual anthology of detective writing in Spain and the UK/US, with a preliminary study by Enrique Torner.
This work was originally first available online through the World Association of International Studies at https://waisworld.org/en/wais/publications/books.
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Out of Chaos: Reflections of a University President and His Contemporaries on Vietnam-Era Unrest in Mankato and Its Relevance Today
James F. Nickerson
Out of Chaos: Reflections of a University President and his Contemporaries on Vietnam-era Unrest in Mankato and its Relevance Today is a collection of personal reminiscences that provide a glimpse into what Mankato was like during the 1960s and 1970s. The book was created by Dr. James F. Nickerson, former Mankato State College president, with input from a variety of graduates, faculty, administrators and citizens who were witnesses to these local events. It is by
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The Collective Works of Lloyd Burgess Sharp: Pioneer of the Outdoor Education Movement in the United States
Julie A. Carlson
Dr. Lloyd Burgess Sharp, pre-eminent pioneer of outdoor education, was a prolific writer, speechmaker, poet, interviewee, radio guest, and tenacious advocate of outdoor education. This edited volume, The Collective Works of Lloyd Burgess Sharp, contains dozens of his publications and transcripts from his many speaking appearances. These works span the years throughout his career, from the completion of his doctoral dissertation in 1929 through to his unexpected passing in 1963. The Collective Works eBook is
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The First 40 Years: Building a Dental Hygiene Program
Carol Jones
Celebrating 40 years of trendsetting dental hygiene education at Minnesota State Mankato.
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Combating Violence & Abuse of People with Disabilities: A Call to Action
Nancy M. Fitzsimons
Violence and abuse of people with disabilities is a widespread problem. This is the one book that empowers everyone - professionals, families, and self-advocates alike - to stop abuse before it starts and empower people with disabilities to fight back. In clear and straightforward language, abuse prevention educator Nancy Fitzsimons calls readers to action and gives them the no-nonsense guidance they need to help people with a wide range of disabilities learn concrete ways to
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From Shank's Ponies to Space Travel: Some Memories of My Life from Muscatine County, Iowa to Mankato, Minnesota
Marjorie May Longstreth Oelerich
Digitized version of Marjorie L. Oelerich's 2005 book detailing her family and educational history, from birth to arrival at MSU in 1969.
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Where the Clouds Meet the Water
Kimberly E. Contag and James A. (Jim) Grabowska
Where the Clouds Meet the Water follows the historical journey of the German Ecuadorian widower, Ernst Contag, and his four young children from their home in the South American Andes to Nazi Germany in 1942. Blacklisted as an enemy alien, Ernst Contag and his children are forcibly repatriated to the country of Ernst's grandparents as part of a diplomatic exchange arranged by the United States' State Department and cooperating countries. In Nazi Germany, Ernst and
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Celebrating the First Fifty Years: An Interpretive Essay
Mary Huntley, Edna Thayer, and Linda Beer
This book lists all the nursing graduates from the School of Nursing from the School's beginnings in 1953 until June 2003. The history of the School of Nursing was thoroughly researched using available School of Nursing files and documents, as well as the archived collection at the MSU Library.
The book is comprised of 10 chapters and over 90 photos describing student life and activities, faculty life, curriculum development, administrative leaders and assistants, learning spaces
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Educational Alternatives for Everyone: A Handbook for Educators, Families, Politicans
Don E. Glines
"Definitive history of the educational alternatives school efforts and documents the need for non-traditional learning programs for most learners - includes 1100 resource references available in 2002"--Don E. Glines (2023).
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Creating Educational Futures: Continuous Mankato Wilson Alternatives: From Schooling to Learning
Don E. Glines
"This contains a look back at the Wilson program and has summaries of some of this historical research"--Don E. Glines (2023)
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The Great Lockout in America's Citizenship Plants: Past as Future: Supplemental Edition
Don E. Glines
"Contains references to several innovative programs, but most importantly, the original summaries of the 1907-1937 Gary, IN program"--Don E. Glines (2023).
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Year Round Education: History, Philosophy, Future
Don E. Glines
"A definitive book on year-round education, including the Mankato Wilson program and the year-round education history from the first program in 1909 to 1995"--Don E. Glines (2023).
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Mankato State University: The Second Century: The First Twenty-Five Years, 1968-1992: An Interpretative Essay
Claire E. Faust
Donald Youel, in Mankato State College - An Interpretative Essay, commented on the development of this institution for its first one hundred years. He did not chronicle each event, but rather provided the reader with an understanding of what happened and what it meant for the College and for society. He organized this essay from different perspectives: "the developing program, the enrollment, students, the state governing board, administration and faculty." He made the point well
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Those Barracks Babies
Marcia Baer
This is a book about how a group of folks, in a time long ago, living in a small Minnesota college town, celebrated life. It is a story of reflection. Reflection into the past when times and people were - shall we say - different. The people were veterans returning from the war, the time was the middle of the century-1947 through 1964. The place was Mankato State College in Southern Minnesota. This is the
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A Primer on Year-Round Education
Don E. Glines
"Provides school administrators the methods for changing from 9 month to 12 month calendars"--Don E. Glines (2023)
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Educational Futures I: Imaging and Inventing: Views toward Imagineering Global Perspectives of What Ought to be in Education
Don E. Glines
"First of a volume series on change in education, with volume I focusing on societal conditions and how they affect educators and school programs" from Don E. Glines (2023).
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