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Recent years have seen a growing range of challenges to the idea that research should be governed by the principle of value neutrality. In this stimulating and often controversial book, Martyn Hammersley weighs the arguments offered in support of these positions.

A synthesis of research on rape which considers the problems of determining the actual number of rape victims, the trauma of rape, rape among minority groups and new theories of rape. This updated edition also considers the work of rape crisis centres and methods of rape prevention.

[To be used for imprint and IFC copy]Introducing Corwin Press Classroomuan innovative new imprint offering classroom activities for all grade levels. Derived from highly successful Corwin Press professional resources, Corwin Press Classroom books are full of research-based strategies that make it easy for you to energize and improve learning for all your students!

Sylvia Walby offers an innovative new theoretical framework for explaining social inequalities around the world. A highly anticipated new book from a major name in the social sciences.

In this clear-cut guide, Hartman and Glasgow decipher the latest educational research and translate it into easy-to-use classroom applications that foster effective science learning and professional development.

This selection of carefully chosen articles invites teachers to explore their own professional development and review their practice in schools. It draws together the multifaceted nature of primary teaching through a focus upon historical, cultural and political influences and considers the impact this has upon the way primary teachers develop professional knowledge.Issues explored in the book include: changing approaches to: curriculum selection; school organization and; curriculum planning.These are situated and considered in the personal contexts of primary teachers' continuing professional development. Themes explored include: analysis of critical incidents as a strategy for developingreflective practice; issues embedded in individual versus collaborative approaches tousing reflective practice in professional development; the teacher as researcher.This innovative book draws together issues concerning the way primary teachers develop professional knowledge and the influence this has upon their practice in schools. At the same time it encourages teachers to apply their reading to their own personal context and research an aspect of their own practice. It includes both some of the most recent research alongside classic articles, drawing on the work of some of the most renowned figures in primary education.

Highlights issues faced by health psychologists in a medical setting. This book focuses on treating unhealthy behaviors and considers behavioral aspects of medical problems. It also discusses professional issues, such as working with a multidisciplinary staff; conducting research; evaluating outcomes; and practicing in public health settings.

Intended at helping readers prepare and use reliable and valid survey questions, this title shows readers how to: ask valid and reliable questions for the context; determine whether to use open or closed questions; and, choose the right type of measurement (categorical, nominal or ordinal) for responses to survey questions.

With a section on ethical issues, this book is suitable for social science researchers and their students.

This work looks at the positive effects of conflict in organizations. The contributors synthesize and analyze the accumulated evidence that conflict can enhance rather than hinder performance as well as identifying concrete techniques and strategies. Conflict is explicitly related to performance.

In addition to extensive annotations, this reader on the History of Psychological Thought features a topical organization, coverage of contemporary selections as well as classics, and a wealth of pedagogical features.

There are several approaches to incorporating culture into communication theories. This text brings together key theories that have shaped and influenced human intercultural communication. It contains consistent chapter organization, headings, and pedagogy to aid comprehension and allow for theories to be easily compared and contrasted.

Offers a selection of writing from a field of work. This book brings together key readings and commissioned material to present a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives on leading and managing work with young people. It equips students with the knowledge, skills, values and principles required for qualification as a worker in the field.

Case studies illustrate how social, political, and economic factors affect special education practices and the distribution of limited resources to students with special needs.

Suitable for a course on international management for undergraduate business administration and MBA programs, this textbook deals with the management of international business operations in the global market and discusses the basic managerial functions in an international enterprise.

Learn how to implement a sustainable school or district action research program that promotes educational equity, helps close the achievement gap, and strengthens instructional leadership.

Includes teaching scenarios modeling the crossover of literacy and math strategies, and provides techniques to strengthen students' grasp of foundational concepts and advance their skills in reasoning and problem solving.

Addresses adoption concerns in the United States. This book also serves as a sourcebook to train mental health and behavioral health professionals. It addresses topics in adoption that reflect the many dimensions of theory, research, development, race, adjustment, and clinical practice which can and do affect adoption triad members.

This book helps professionals to make informed, research-based assessments of risk, offering strategies for supporting and educating families within which sexual abuse has occurred. Without actually advocating reunification, the authors provide a unique approach for working with non-offending parents and partners who wish to work towards re-unification of the family.

In one edited volume, Daved Barry and Hans Hansen have commissioned new chapters that will allow readers to stay one step ahead of the latest thinking. Contributors draw on research and practice and introduce ideas that are considered 'fringe' and controversial. Throughout, contributors refer to existing studies that show how these developing themes will change the business and management arena.

Visual images, artifacts, and performances play a powerful part in shaping US culture. This title provides a conceptual framework for students to understand and reflect on the role of visual communication in the cultural and public sphere of the United States.

Draws together a fascinating collection of essays written by experts from a wide range of health and social care services. By incorporating the views and experiences of disabled people the book can challenge traditional perseptions of disability.

Citizens are caught in a paradox. Voting levels are falling, there are growing feelings of powerlessness, social unfairness and yet citizens are constantly told that they have more choice as well as greater freedom and liberty. This book explains these discrepancies.

The Handbook of World Families clarifies and promotes a cross-cultural perspective on the family by an examination of 25 countries worldwide, with the same topics covered in parallel fashion for each. The result is a totally unique resource for use in the comparative studies of the family and childhood.

A definitive, authoritative and up-to-date resource for anyone interested in the theories, models and assessment methods used for understanding the many factes of Human personality and individual differences

Deals with the major theoretical models underlying personality instruments and covers the broad topics, listed by section heading: explanatory models for personality; comprehensive trait models; key traits: psychobiology; key traits: self-regulation and stress; new trait and dynamic trait constructs; and, applications.

A practical and robust programme which will make implementing emotional literacy easy and fun

The Handbook of Film Studies maps the field internationally, drawing out regional differences in the way that systematic intellectual reflection on cinema and film has been translated into an academic discipline.

In this second edition, leading experts in the field focus on how to change a school's organizational structure and culture to improve the quality of teaching and learning.

A collection of essays that represents the historic best of the NCCD Board and staff.