tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/textbooks?commit=Go&page=14&term=historyOpen Textbook Library - Search results for "history"2020-03-01T00:00:20Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png8102020-03-01T00:00:20Z2024-01-22T14:52:05ZIntroduction to Curriculum for Early Childhood Education<img alt="Read more about Introduction to Curriculum for Early Childhood Education" title="Introduction to Curriculum for Early Childhood Education cover image" class="cover " width="558" height="722" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzY5LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--68caf47721bf3759afb9a693635307ded8ae0db4/0000IntCurChi.png" />Welcome to learning about how to effectively plan curriculum for young children. This textbook will address: Developing curriculum through the planning cycle Theories that inform what we know about how children learn and the best ways for teachers to support learning The three components of developmentally appropriate practice Importance and value of play and intentional teaching Different models of curriculum Process of lesson planning (documenting planned experiences for children) Physical, temporal, and social environments that set the stage for children’s learning Appropriate guidance techniques to support children’s behaviors as the self-regulation abilities mature. Planning for preschool-aged children in specific domains including Physical development Language and literacy Math Science Creative (the visual and performing arts) Diversity (social science and history) Health and safety How curriculum planning for infants and toddlers is different from planning for older children Supporting school-aged children’s learning and development in out-of-school time through curriculum planning Making children’s learning visible through documentation and assessment8042020-05-01T00:00:00Z2024-01-22T14:52:10ZMoving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema<img alt="Read more about Moving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema" title="Moving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6OTk4LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--e71baea70f4faa11f874b0cecbd06c2789ba4b42/cover-350x525.jpg" />Textbook for 1000- level Communication course: Introduction to Films Studies7962019-11-23T22:40:14Z2024-01-22T14:52:12ZWriting Unleashed: Content and Structure - 3.0<img alt="Read more about Writing Unleashed: Content and Structure - 3.0" title="Writing Unleashed: Content and Structure - 3.0 cover image" class="cover " width="613" height="777" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTU5MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--710c3dbacbda3291991a605d7d23e95331209103/uNLEASHED.PNG" />Welcome to Writing Unleashed, designed for use as a textbook in first-year college composition programs, written as an extremely brief guide for students, jam-packed with teachers’ voices, students’ voices, and engineered for fun.7872019-10-19T04:00:31Z2024-01-22T14:52:11ZPsychology: The Science of Human Potential<img alt="Read more about Psychology: The Science of Human Potential" title="Psychology: The Science of Human Potential cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="524" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzQ0LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--de4f3f6a83b90cc0e0f7739eec47bf051dc42b4e/0000PsySciHum.jpg" />The first chapter provides an overview of the textbook and reviews the history of psychology and its methodology. Psychology is described as a science studying how hereditary (nature) and experiential (nurture) variables interact to influence the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals. The remainder of the text will be organized in sections entitled “Mostly Nature” (Biological Psychology; Sensation & Perception; Motivation & Emotion), “Mostly Nurture” (Direct Learning; Indirect Learning (i.e., observational learning and language); Cognition), and “Nature/Nurture” (Human Development; Personality; Social Psychology; Maladaptive Behavior; Professional Psychology and Human Potential).7782019-10-05T15:33:17Z2024-02-12T14:12:10ZThe American Yawp Vol. II: Since 1877<img alt="Read more about The American Yawp Vol. II: Since 1877" title="The American Yawp Vol. II: Since 1877 cover image" class="cover " width="420" height="600" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mzc1NywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--022c519f05eafa89fb7dcafbcd908cd179b21043/yawp-2.jpeg" />In an increasingly digital world in which pedagogical trends are de-emphasizing rote learning and professors are increasingly turning toward active-learning exercises, scholars are fleeing traditional textbooks. Yet for those that still yearn for the safe tether of a synthetic text, as either narrative backbone or occasional reference material, The American Yawp offers a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. Unchecked by profit motives or business models, and free from for-profit educational organizations, The American Yawp is by scholars, for scholars. All contributors—experienced college-level instructors—volunteer their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century classrooms.7772019-10-05T15:09:43Z2024-02-12T14:12:09ZThe American Yawp Vol. I: To 1877<img alt="Read more about The American Yawp Vol. I: To 1877" title="The American Yawp Vol. I: To 1877 cover image" class="cover " width="420" height="600" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mzc1OCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--12632c81e1fefaf6270d7fcf55e19d080156e621/yawp-1.jpeg" />In an increasingly digital world in which pedagogical trends are de-emphasizing rote learning and professors are increasingly turning toward active-learning exercises, scholars are fleeing traditional textbooks. Yet for those that still yearn for the safe tether of a synthetic text, as either narrative backbone or occasional reference material, The American Yawp offers a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses. Unchecked by profit motives or business models, and free from for-profit educational organizations, The American Yawp is by scholars, for scholars. All contributors—experienced college-level instructors—volunteer their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century classrooms.7702019-09-08T15:38:53Z2024-01-22T14:52:37ZExtended Readings on Copyright - 2022<img alt="Read more about Extended Readings on Copyright - 2022" title="Extended Readings on Copyright - 2022 cover image" class="cover " width="1583" height="2048" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDM4NSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--494f3c69b478e512bcefe58bde51ee9fe677d49c/Pw64AZuA.png" />Extended Readings on Copyright is subject to a non-commercial Create Commons license that allows you to add, subtract, and amend as you see fit, provided you extend those terms to any derivative work based on these materials and provided your provide appropriate attribution. I encourage you to share your edits and additions with me, but it is not obligatory.Extended Readings on Copyright can be used as a stand alone textbook on United States copyright law. The individual chapters are available on this website, and these can be used to supplement other materials. Individual chapters are likely to be more up to date than the consolidated build of the book.7432019-07-13T17:04:42Z2024-01-22T14:52:05ZGeometry with an Introduction to Cosmic Topology<img alt="Read more about Geometry with an Introduction to Cosmic Topology" title="Geometry with an Introduction to Cosmic Topology cover image" class="cover " width="333" height="499" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjkwLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--132753694cc067d8ff9bdc36fea634ae2957fcab/978-1717134813.jpg" />Motivated by questions in cosmology, the open-content text Geometry with an Introduction to Cosmic Topology uses Mobius transformations to develop hyperbolic, elliptic, and Euclidean geometry - three possibilities for the global geometry of the universe. The text, written for students who have taken vector calculus, also explores the interplay between the shape of a space and the type of geometry it admits. Geometry is suitable for a semester course in non-Euclidean geometry or as a guide to independent study, with over 200 exercises and several essays on topics including the history of geometry, parallax and curvature, and research aimed at determining the shape of the universe.7282019-06-22T16:46:01Z2024-01-22T14:52:18ZMetaethics from a First Person Standpoint: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy<img alt="Read more about Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy" title="Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy cover image" class="cover " width="160" height="241" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjczLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--1f39ef2d132a3a03163d77c546b9ae8c52cd3227/9781783742004.jpg" />Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ Looking at a wide spectrum of topics including moral language, realism and anti-realism, reasons and motives, relativism, and moral progress, this book engages students and general readers in order to enhance their understanding of morality and moral discourse as cultural practices. Catherine Wilson innovatively employs a first-person narrator to report step-by-step an individual’s reflections, beginning from a position of radical scepticism, on the possibility of objective moral knowledge. The reader is invited to follow along with this reasoning, and to challenge or agree with each major point. Incrementally, the narrator is led to certain definite conclusions about ‘oughts’ and norms in connection with self-interest, prudence, social norms, and finally morality. Scepticism is overcome, and the narrator arrives at a good understanding of how moral knowledge and moral progress are possible, though frequently long in coming.Accessibly written, Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint presupposes no prior training in philosophy and is a must-read for philosophers, students and general readers interested in gaining a better understanding of morality as a personal philosophical quest.7222021-03-05T06:17:32Z2024-01-22T14:52:24ZRain or Shine<img alt="Read more about Rain or Shine" title="Rain or Shine cover image" class="cover " width="658" height="1024" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjExNCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--50bf9beb7296cf2ef4aa4d9e47439ee43b1cf21f/Rain-or-Shine-June-2017-1-658x1024.png" />This text is an introduction to soil physical properties and processes.
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