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Exploring family engagement issues across early years through to pre-adolescence, this book will enable teachers and parents to explore their roles and involvement in their child or pupil's education.

A guide for educators on how to integrate the new national anchor guidelines on academic language into everyday curriculum and assessment, for grades 3-5.

A guide to the terms and phrases that partially shape the origins, purpose, logic, meaning and methods of the practices known as qualitative inquiry, this Fourth Edition has 20 additional terms as well as a Readers' Guide.

This new Encyclopedia on media violence examines theory, research and debates as they relate to the topic in a manner that is both accessible and jargon-free.

"It is refreshing to see a book such as this which is both broad in its conceptualization of the field of child research and deep in its focus. The volume's editors are paragons of awareness when it comes to the need for interdisciplinary research and theory to illuminate the lives and experience of children" - Professor James Garbarino, Loyola University Chicago

Taking the topics of a quantitative methodology course and illustrating them through Monte Carlo simulation, this book illustrates abstract principles, such as bias, efficiency, and measures of uncertainty in an intuitive, visual way.

Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies provides a comprehensive survey and guide to the mercenary forces, entrepreneurs, and corporations that are a major component of warfare today.

Covering the practical information that all effective primary and secondary school teachers need by applying the latest research findings and practical classroom practices, this new edition has been thoroughly reorganized and updated and features the latest teaching tools, such as Google tools and Web 3.0.

Comprehensive guide for primary and secondar teachers, providing practical strategies which can be immediately applied their classroom setting.

Set against trends toward psychological standardization and medicalization, the handbook provides a rich tapestry of reflection by the leading person-centered scholars of our time.

Author Floyd Fowler provides students and researchers who want to collect, analyze, or read about survey data with a sound basis for evaluating how each aspect of a survey can affect its precision, accuracy, and credibility

Teacher professional development (PD) is critical to students' success. This book demonstrates research-based strategies for planning, executing and evaluating the results of PD programs.

English Learners (ELs) are the fastest-growing segment of the K--12 population. This book demystifies the techniques educators need to provide a voice for their unique needs.

Provides students with a snapshot of a particular theory/approach, the major thinkers associated with each theory, application to a single case study, and critical thinking and application questions to help students internalize the content presented and apply it to their own development as a counselor.

Counselors in training must complete one class that is dedicated to the history, profession and practice of counseling. In this course, students learn about the various roles counselors play and the fields within they work. Taking an integrated, developmental approach this book includes practice exercises, reflection questions, case studies, as well as pre- and post- self assessments.

The goal of Bridging the Gap is to provide a book that takes a competing approach to Needs Assessment and shows the alternative side - the capacity building and assets of communities and individuals.

This exciting new volume of 15 cases considers military, economic, human and global security issues from their roots, in the structure of world politics, to the ways in which foreign policy is made.

This book provides a comprehensive model of systemic school improvement that is designed around four, high-leverage practices.

Using a series of engaging case studies written by policy area experts, this volume asks whether European policies might prove effective in the U.S. context, as well as what pitfalls might be avoided.

The first textbook to take a comprehensive look at the history, theory and treatment of child and adolescent sexual abuse, this book covers all aspects of child and adolescent sexual abuse from the history, theory and treatment to special issues such as pornography and the Internet. There are also dedicated chapters on assessment, intervention, treatment and prevention.

This one-volume resource is a must-have for any public or academic library, especially those with strong American history or political science collections.

Covering all the essential topics found in planning texts, guidelines and templates, this book provides insights students and executives need to develop sound and convincing market strategies and business plans that enable businesses to succeed.

Beginning at a personal level and then moving onto a wider organizational view, this book delves into what is known about resilience and how this can be applied to educational leadership.

Offers an examination of social policy through a social constructivist and economic lens. This book illuminates the root causes of common social problems and how policy has attempted to ameliorate them. It focuses on how social policies in the United States can be transformed to promote social justice for all groups.

Beginning with an overview of the historical development of the field of school counseling, this title covers various topics, from ethics and ethical decision making to crisis response, career counseling and advisement, group counseling, advocacy, collaboration, to assessment and research.

Providing a contemporary approach to the nature versus nurture debate, this book encourages reflection on the contest between environmental factors and the interplay between biology/genetics and environmental factors on criminal behaviour.

Helps counselors in training learn essential skills for consultation positions for those who opt not to go into private practice. This title also helps students understand the process and stages of consultation as well as some key skills such as writing proposals, conducting workshops, drafting contracts, fees, and reporting.

Changing Climate Politics provides a comprehensive account of the current state of government action and political participation in the US on the issue of climate change.

Containing various perspectives on counselling individuals from cultures other than that of the counsellor or therapist, this book covers everything on cross-cultural counselling from basic issues in cross cultural counseling and counselling in ethnocultural contexts to counseling individuals in transitional, traumatic, or emergent situations.

An undergraduate exploration of urban sociology, giving balanced treatment to both the process by which cities are built (urbanization) and the ways of life practiced by people that live and work in more urban places (urbanism).