Even as a young news writer and broadcaster at a radio station in Owen Sound, Ontario, Bill Allin considered himself to be an educator. His mission was to teach his listeners what they needed to know about the news of the day. A few years later he continued this mission with children in elementary school classrooms, teaching them what they needed to know about life as adults and their future lives as older students. After teaching all levels of elementary school and some adult classes, Bill opened his own small business, one that emphasized thorough training of his employees as a prime objective. During his years in small business, he took on the role of consultant in the foodservice industry.
As he counselled people around the world, he made friends in many countries. Some of these encouraged him to put into book form the unique thoughts and proposals he put forward about how to relieve the stresses and fears that people everywhere have about social problems in their communities and their countries. Bill Allin holds a master's degree in Sociology of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto), a degree in sociology from York University and a diploma from Ryerson University in radio and television arts.
Turning It Around is his first book. Separate versions of the original book are planned for China and Southeast Asia, South Asia, Europe and South and Central America. Each of these will be translated into several languages. It has already been translated into Mandarin Chinese.
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Bill considers himself an ordinary person who thinks extraordinary thoughts. He insists that all arguments and plans must be anchored in reality, must make sense and the?plans must be easy to understand, affordable and simple to implement. He has diplomas, degrees and postgraduate degrees from Ryerson University, York University and University of Toronto respectively.
Bill's extraordinary hidden disabilities, near-feral childhood and classroom teaching experience gave him a unique perspective on how children learn, where and when they learn, what kinds of things they learn and from whom. These cast strong doubts on accepted wisdom about how and when early childhood learning begins to form the foundation on which the adult is later built. And about how social problems can be avoided in adolescents and adults. What he has discovered applies to every person in every culture. It also gives us unexpected hope for a better future.
Why We All Need This Book
Your life, the lives of your loved ones and almost everyone are affected by social (people) problems in your community. We live our entire lives within the context of social problems in our country and our community. They become so much a part of our daily routine that we believe they cant be changed or even reduced.
Social problems (your personal problems, those of your family and those of your fellow citizens) can be changed, their impact on you and your family greatly reduced. Turning It Around shows you how this can be done.
Problems such as divorce, death of a loved one, loss of job, home invasions, road or office rage, muggings and rape devastate some people. For many, just the fear of these happening is a social problem itself. Fear is our most pervasive and destructive social problem.
Remember, it's to your benefit if as many people as possible know about this book. The program will only succeed if many of us work together, by emphasizing the beliefs and values that we have in common, rather than our differences. This book will be a great personal help for you and your family and loved ones. You can help others by telling them about it.
If we, as a society, knew what children really need and had programs for parents and children to provide for these needs, there would be no reason for failures. No need for anti-social behaviour on a massive scale. No need for social problems we believe are beyond our ability to solve.
The purpose of this book is to help you learn what you need to know, to close the knowledge gap. Only when you know will you be able to begin the process of correcting the problems. Only when enough of us understand can we make a difference.
With your support, we can make a difference in the world.?We can do something no generation in history has ever accomplished.
