Author: Brian Curti
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Language
Keywords: reprint, observation, drawing
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2009-05-22
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0077356276
ISBN-13: 9780077356279

Perceptual drawing, in which one renders the physical world as it appears to an observer, is the focus of this new text for the introductory drawing course. With an emphasis on progressive skill development, Drawing from Observation offers a balanced mix of hands-on technique and perceptual theory while making a compelling argument for the long-term value of studying perception-based drawing.

Author: Janine Sternberg
Publisher: Karnac Book
Keywords: training, heart, observation, infant
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $47.00
ISBN-10: 185575360X
ISBN-13: 9781855753600

The study of infant observation is widely used as part of training to become a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and this book addresses reasons for this. It examines whether the study of infant observation can be shown to contribute to the development of the capacities and skills that are needed for becoming a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Considerable attention is given to examining what these might be and, from looking closely at techniques employed within a therapy session, the author creates a set of skills likely to be accepted by the community of practitioners. She also carefully delinea

Author: David F. Gray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: photospheres, stellar, analysis, observation
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2008-06-19
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0521066816
ISBN-13: 9780521066815

Revising topics and results to include the latest research, this updated third edition describes the equipment, observational techniques, and analysis used to investigate stellar photospheres. Topics covered include radiation transfer, models of stellar photospheres, spectroscopic equipment, observing stellar spectra, and techniques for measuring stellar characteristics. The comprehensive textbook is ideal for advanced students of stellar physics. Each chapter contains exercises, and useful real star data and primary references can be found throughout.

Author: Elizabeth Johns
Publisher: University Of California Press
Keywords: observation, nature, homer, winslow
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-11-04
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0520227255
ISBN-13: 9780520227255

With close analysis of Homer’s art and of the personal challenges he faced throughout his life, Winslow Homer: The Nature of Observation is the most comprehensive study to date of the relationship between the artist’s work and the psychological stages of his life. Elizabeth Johns uses theories advanced by Erik Erikson and Daniel Levinson to look at Homer’s evolution as a painter and a person within the context of the continuing dynamics of his family. Her incisive and absorbing readings of the artist’s work take into account the developmental stages of young, middle, an

Authors:Erskine Caldwell,  Guy Owe,
Publisher: Brown Thrasher Book
Keywords: observation, memory, south
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1995-04-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0820317160
ISBN-13: 9780820317168

Portraying a region steeped religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, Deep South is a product both of Erskine Caldwell the storyteller and Erskine Caldwell the minister’s son.Reverend Ira Sylvester Caldwell’s missionary work took him and his family deep into the region commonly referred to as the Bible Belt. His son, Erskine, was at his side on innumerable home visits with the elderly, sick, and poor of Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Virginia, and Florida. By the time the younger Caldwell left home at seventeen, he had also witnessed such varieties of religious experien

Authors:Deb Curtis, Margie Carter,
Publisher: Redleaf Pre
Keywords: teaching, transform, observation, awareness, art
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1884834841
ISBN-13: 9781884834844

The key to observing children, state authors Deb Curtis and Margie Carter in The Art of Awareness, is to know that observation is more than just a teaching technique. Observing children closely provides a new way of thinking about learning and teaching, a way of making children visible as they are, not just as we want them to be. Observant teachers will find more than techniques for watching or taking notes about children?they will discover a different way of being with children. Featuring nine ?Observation Study Sessions,? The Art of Awareness is designed to offer ideas, activities, and exper

Author: Gary D. Borich
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Keywords: teaching, effective, skills, observation
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2010-02-07
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 0137039727
ISBN-13: 9780137039722

The sixth edition of Observation Skills for Effective Teaching focuses on observing others and incorporating the right tools, knowledge, and skills into your own practice � key principal means by which you can become an effective and professional teacher. � Using this text, you will learn to observe in the following eight areas: learning climate, classroom management, lesson clarity, instructional variety, task orientation, student engagement, student success, and higher thought processes.� These eight areas have been found by researchers to be related to desirable cognitive, social, and emo