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A ready-to-go resource for creating lessons that allow all students to take in and process new information and teachers to assess their learning

This revised edition of Begin With the Brain helps teachers to identify and apply brain-compatible and learner-centered techniques to improve classroom instruction and management.

Beyond School Improvement: The Journey to Innovative Leadership assists leaders in understanding when and how to improve and when and how to innovate.

Featuring real-world examples and instructional strategies for secondary schools, this research-based book provides the guidance secondary administrators need to implement RTI and improve student outcomes.

Offering practical advice for education leaders at all levels, this essential guide helps readers build a dynamic career by design - not by default - and leave a lasting legacy.

Using marriage as a metaphor, this lighthearted, highly practical, and teacher-friendly resource helps general education teachers and special service providers successfully set up, conduct, and maintain co-teaching partnerships.

The most beneficial school improvements are the ones that last. This book offers strategies for sustaining improvement by creating a shared vision, distributing leadership, and celebrating gains.

Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Grades K-1 provides ready-to-use, brain-compatible lessons for mathematics instruction.

This second edition presents a concise outline for identifying the symptoms and causes of prevalent impairments

This book provides 21 real-life cases that give the opportunity for educators to explore different perspectives of the issue of curriculum.

Written for practicing educators, this resource provides a step-by-step process, organizational templates, and tips throughout for completing an academically rigorous dissertation.

In recent social and political theory the term 'civil society' has achieved renewed currency. This volume offers a critical examination of the normative sense of 'civil society'. It includes analyses of civil society and democracy, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and post-communism.

Traditional views of global environmental politics take the structures and relations of international politics as a given. Using a framework that accounts for the ontologies, material conditions, and power relations that structure global environmental problems, this title questions attempts to clean up the globe and sustain the natural resources.

This work demonstrates that social class is as important now to the understanding of 20th-century industrial societies as it was in the first years of the century. The author's argument is informed by issues pertaining to the relationship between social stratification and social order.

Information and communication technologies are said to be transforming urban life dramatically and bringing about rapid economic and cultural globalization. This book explores the many issues involved by relating advanced theoretical debates to practical matters of communication with cultural policy.

This text deciphers and explains the geopolitics of Europe, putting an emphasis on the relation between politics, culture and territory, and on the major geopolitical and cultural shifts which affect the relation between security, identity and territory.

Managing Industrial Knowledge

This text studies how far culture can be regulated through formal controls on the media and how such controls are shaped in an age of cultural diversity and global cultural industries. It deals with how the issues of sexuality, globalization and multiculturalism influence the process of regulation.

This reply to Robert Bly's work "Iron John", offers a critical discussion of contemporary ideas of masculinity. The text moves away from the rationalist paradigm of masculinity, and demonstrates that a focus on men's somatic and emotional lives is a means of "embodying" knowledge.

This updated edition presents a comprehensive overview of the research and theoretical explanations of elder abuse, as well as practical guidance for professionals concerned with the abuse and mistreatment of elderly people.

Cross-Cultural Work Groups presents the most recent research from a variety of disciplines on issues such as prejudice, discrimination, ethnocentrism, group-think and intergroup dynamics that operate in and on cross-cultural work groups.

A summary of the field of audience research. It presents a case for a fresh agenda to account for the role of the media in everyday life.

Intends to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. This title avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. It also contains an appendix which gives a brief history and selected literature of shopping.

This Fourth Edition includes just under 3000 entries, of which 90% are new. It has extensive coverage of US, UK literature and other international resources. This new edition will be an essential guide for all those with an interest in nursing research, including students, teachers, librarians, practitioners and researchers.

Developing Educational Leadership

This is one of two texts derived from the sixth international research conference of the British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (BELMAS), held in Cambridge in March, 2000. Eight chapters are revised papers from the conference, two are reworkings of papers from other BEL

Emphasizing holistic philosophy, this important book encourages practitioners to surpass treatment based strictly on a one-dimensional, biomedical assessment of their patients. Among the topics covered are: conceptualizations of ill-health; consideration of the patient as an individual; the establishment of goals and cooperative strategy between physician and patient; and the realistic allocation of time, energy, and other resources of the health care provider.

Provides a framework for understanding the cultural turn in terms of the classical legacy, contemporary cultural theory and cultural analysis. This volume reveals the significance of Marxist humanism, Georg Simmel, the Frankfurt School, Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School, Giddens, Bauman, Foucault, Bourdieu and Baudrillard.

The last decade has witnessed a revival of interest in the problems of modernity and modernization. In particular, three major processes have emerged as objects of debate: " The transformations of capitalism manifested in globalization andthe unfolding of post-industrial society" The rapid and strong economic development of countries outside the West" The political and economic transformations in the post-Soviet countriesof Eastern Europe

Presents a framework for the critical analysis of various texts, and shows how to incorporate this in a literature review. This book offers insights into key issues in the field of educational leadership, management and administration. It also shows how a quality literature review may be constructed.