Books by TC Alumni

Featured books by TC alumni:

Learning to Think Strategically by Julia Sloan

In Learning to Think Strategically, author Julia Sloan presents an unexamined account of the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved -'" taking learning from the academic to the everyday. This book is an original primer on how successful strategists learn to think strategically. This authoritative book traces the history of strategy, differentiates strategic thinking from planning, describes the influence of culture, streamlines the roles of rationality and intuition, and identifies five key attributes for learning to think strategically. It asserts that learning is the critical link to strategic thinking. Learning is a "conversion tool" that can transform thinking strategically into a sustainable competitive advantage.

Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse: Psychotherapy for the Interrupted Life Marylene Cloitre, PhD, Lisa R. Cohen, PhD, Karestan C. Koenen, PhD Guilford Press, 2006, 337 pp.

Abused children suffer trauma that often persists into adulthood, leading to self-harming behaviors, cognitive impairment, and underdeveloped interpersonal skills, among other psychosocial problems. The complex needs of this population make treatment difficult, and consequently, outcomes are often poor. Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse, co-authored by Karestan Koenen (Class of 1994) assistant professor of society, human development, and health and epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, offers a phase-oriented approach to psychotherapy that is grounded in extensive clinical experience and research. The authors provide a framework designed to help people manage emotions and symptoms related to past physical and sexual abuse, and process distressing memories and associated feelings of fear, shame, and loss. This book also offers guidelines for tailoring interventions to the needs of each client. It includes, in an easy-to-use format, handouts, worksheets, and other tools for use with clients by clinical psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, and others who work with adult trauma survivors.

Trivializing Teacher Education: The Accreditation Squeeze presents a critical analysis of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) by Dale D. Johnson, Bonnie Johnson, Stephen J. Farenga, Daniel Ness, Foreword by Michael W. Apple

This book illustrates the questionable NCATE processes and requirements and exposes the exorbitant costs accrued by universities seeking NCATE accreditation. It points out that the NCATE standards do not address the major issues that impact teaching and learning. The book highlights NCATE's support of teacher testing in the face of evidence that such tests lack predictive validity. It shows how NCATE is reaching out to accredit for-profit organizations and how it sends its evaluators to review international programs in the Middle East. The book calls on NCATE to make the professional backgrounds of its examiners, reviewers, board members, and staff transparent. It addresses the attention teacher educators must devote to mindless, trivial NCATE demands that usurp time that should be spent on their students and their research. This book urges teacher educators, college faculties and administrators, state education officials and legislators, parents of school-age children, and concerned citizens to open their eyes to this powerful organization, NCATE, and to examine what it has done to teacher education in the last half century.

Foreign Objects: Dream Drawings by David Reisman

Foreign Objects is a compilation of pen-and-ink drawings, executed in 1995 and 1996, from artist/writer David Reisman's dream journals. Surreal, funny, and at times unsettling, Reisman's drawings feature friends and family, acquaintances, a variety of character types, and celebrities including Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Jackson Pollock, and David Letterman. While Foreign Objects is a kind of unconscious autobiography, the book may be seen as an effort, as his brother Carl Reisman notes in his foreword, to "help us to build bridges, however rickety, between our secret selves and consciousness, and between our isolated selves and humanity."

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