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Dorothy N. Bowen

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Using Picture Books To Promote Understanding Of The Continent Of Africa In The Elementary Classroom, Dorothy N. Bowen Dec 2008

Using Picture Books To Promote Understanding Of The Continent Of Africa In The Elementary Classroom, Dorothy N. Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

How may the elementary classroom teacher convey something of Africa's beauty, and make at least some part of the continent come alive for students?

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Assisting Overseas Libraries While Still In The U.S., Dorothy Bowen Dec 2007

Assisting Overseas Libraries While Still In The U.S., Dorothy Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

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Another Look At African Cultures Through Picture Books, Dorothy N. Bowen May 2007

Another Look At African Cultures Through Picture Books, Dorothy N. Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

I realized how difficult it is to describe what life is like for a child growing up in Africa when I was asked to make a presentation to two 6th grade classes. In the course of the presentation, I said, "Africa is not a country:' I had to smile to myself as I saw the shocked look on the face of a little girl sitting right in front of me. Her mouth dropped open and I knew that she thought I had made a very great error.

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Addressing Sensitive Issues Through Picture Books, Dorothy N. Bowen, Melissa Schutt Dec 2006

Addressing Sensitive Issues Through Picture Books, Dorothy N. Bowen, Melissa Schutt

Dorothy N. Bowen

it was a Wednesday morning, and the class of pre-service elementary teachers was discussing sensitive topics in children's picture books. Melissa had prepared several tables with representative literature dealing with topics such as divorce, adoption, sexuality, religion, and death, and students were reading and discussing the books. Suddenly Dorothy noticed a student clutching one of the books to her chest and smiling. Dorothy walked over to her and the student said, "I love this book. There were no books like this when I was a little girl."

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Africa Is Not A Country: Teaching African Culture Through Picture Books, Dorothy Bowen Jan 2005

Africa Is Not A Country: Teaching African Culture Through Picture Books, Dorothy Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

When you hear a news report from Nigeria, Sudan, Kenya, or South Africa, what comes to your mind? Is it a part of the world that interestsyou? Do you listen intently to what follows? Do you view Africa as one big country or are you aware of the many languages, 7 -F7 cultures, and countries that are there? Or do you just turnoff until the next news item comes up? up?

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Spiders In African Children's Stories, Dorothy Bowen May 2004

Spiders In African Children's Stories, Dorothy Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

The first literature that many American children come into contact with consists of Mother Goose rhymes. One of the very familiar ones is "Little Miss Muffet."Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey;When along came a spider, who sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffetaway.

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Chatting About Children's Literature, Dorothy Bowen Dec 2003

Chatting About Children's Literature, Dorothy Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

Use It Works For Me, Online both as a handy desk companion filled with practical strategies and as a springboard for generating your own strategies for making your classes as effective as possible. Like the first two books in this series, It Works For Me and It Works For Me, Too, this handbook runs the gamut from short to long pieces, from very course-specific suggestions to general pieces, from some theoretical applications to down-to-earth tactics.

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An African Safari Through Children's Books: Part Ii, Dorothy N. Bowen Dec 2002

An African Safari Through Children's Books: Part Ii, Dorothy N. Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

What is like for an American family to raise their children in African country? What is it like for the children who are sometimes known as "third culture kids" because they are neither totally a part of their parents' culture nor totally a part of the adopted African culture, but rather are a combination of both?

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The Image Of Libraries And Librarians In Children's Literature, Dorothy N. Bowen Dec 2002

The Image Of Libraries And Librarians In Children's Literature, Dorothy N. Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

A new action figure of a frumpy librarian who moves her index finger to her lips with 'amazing push-button shushing action!' has librarians around the world raising their voices in protest." A public library director from Maine said in response to the bespectacled woman in a cardigan, long plain skirt and sensible shoes, "The shushing thing just put me right over the edge. It's so stereotypical, I could scream."

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Using Biography In The Elementary Classroom, Dorothy Bowen May 2002

Using Biography In The Elementary Classroom, Dorothy Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

When biography first gained recognition as a genre for adults, it was not considered an appropriate form of literature for children. As it began to gain a place in children's literature, as was true of most books written for children at the time, biography was used as a tool for teaching children to emulate the hero.

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Changes In The 17th Edition Of Sears List Of Subject Headings, Dorothy Bowen Dec 2001

Changes In The 17th Edition Of Sears List Of Subject Headings, Dorothy Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

Users coming to our library catalogs are more often looking for materials dealing with particular subjects rather than seeking specific titles or authors. Therefore, when we prepareour catalogs we must take special care to use terminology which will best retrieve this material. We must pay special attention to the "aboutness" of each item in order to select themost precise term.

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What Does It Mean To Think, Learn, Teach?, Dorothy Bowen, Earle Bowen Dec 1991

What Does It Mean To Think, Learn, Teach?, Dorothy Bowen, Earle Bowen

Dorothy N. Bowen

How is the missionary force for the twenty-first Century to be trained? This is the challenge that emerges from this provocative book as it focuses on the task of effective missionary training. Western missions have tended to place most of their training emphasis on schooling and formal education-- witness the number of Bible schools, Christian colleges and theological seminaries that offer everything from a B.A. to a Ph. D. in missions/missiology. But the training concerns expressed by non-Western leaders from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the South Pacific, and the Middle East offer an alternative. While not dismissing the …

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