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Packed with resources including checklists and month by month activity plans, this incredibly straightforward and useful guide will help mentor teachers to develop effective mentoring strategies.

This book provides an exploration of the use of metaphor, particularly the cultural metaphor of a nation. A nation''s cultural metaphor is shown to be any institution, phenomenon, or activity with which all or most citizens closely identify. Together with theoretical chapters, case studies cover the United States, Italy, Bali, and East Asia. The book concludes with a description of specific uses of cultural metaphors or metaphorical applications.

Using cultural proficiency as a lens, the authors guide educators through the process of gathering and analyzing data to meet the needs of historically underserved students.

With empirical examples which are both plentiful and well chosen to teach the technique, this book provides a thorough guide to latent class scaling models for binary response variables.

The authors show how to use Web tools to enhance learning, and discuss student safety, appropriate "netiquette", legal considerations, and ISTE NETS technology and content standards.

Provides a systematic A-Z to understanding the city that explains the interrelations between society, culture and economy. This book features: Histories; Economies and Inequalities; Communities; and Order and Disorder.

Through specific examples, qualitative research, and portraiture, the author illustrates how and why some schools are able to achieve significant, sustainable change while others cannot.

This unique resource helps new and veteran principals achieve a balance between serving as caring and collaborative leaders and maintaining unilateral authority.

This revised edition features expanded research, new lessons on topics such as bullying and violence prevention, lesson modifications for middle schools, and guidelines for positive classroom management.

Drawn from best practices, this book provides a practical road map and real-life case studies to help students develop the necessary skills to design, negotiate, and manage domestic and international alliances.

Using evidence-based strategies, this inspiring handbook provides principals and teachers with a catalog of practiced "moves," or actions that upgrade performance, create durable motivation, and renew energy levels.

Organized around three thematic issues: methodology, epistemological reflection, and theoretical and conceptual exploration. Here, each of these guiding themes is developed to greater or lesser degree in each chapter providing a navigational thread throughout the book.

Presents updated research on 19 educational issues, plus 38 strategies and templates to help teachers implement RTI and user-friendly disciplinary approaches in K-12 diverse classrooms.

Qualitative research (like other forms of scientific endeavour) is also a biographical engagement, rendering its scholarly and practical contributions in its own terms. This title reveals the features of this engagement, teaching us that qualitative research is as much a craft and practice as it is a way of knowing.

Provides a description of the specialty of psychology devoted to the provision of services to children and youth, their teachers, and parents around the world. This book offers information and insights regarding the following areas: the context of school psychology; the infrastructure of school psychology; important references; and more.

Authored overviews of 26 classic texts by established scholars. Will be widely adopted throughout human geography courses at all levels.

Examines the differences, as well as the similarities of political advertising among the electoral processes of democracies globally. This book provides an overview and comparative chapters, and addresses the effects of political advertising on the voters and the systems of which it is a part.

Invaluable for new elementary teachers, this guide covers classroom rules and routines, instruction/assessment techniques, navigating policies and procedures, and communicating effectively with parents and colleagues.

Positive Organizational Behaviour is a contemporary movement within the classic discipline of organizational behaviour. This book studies the states, traits and processes that compromise this exciting science. It also invites noted experts to identify the methodological challenges facing scholars of Positive Organizational Behaviour.

Reviews the main competing approaches to modeling multiple time series: simultaneous equations, ARIMA, error correction models, and vector autoregression. This book focuses on vector autoregression (VAR) models as a generalization of the other approaches mentioned. It also reviews arguments for and against using multi-equation time series models.

Provides a key resource for students, academics, practitioners and other readers engaged in the critical, theoretical and practical study of images. This title also provides a map of the differences and similarities between the various disciplinary approaches to images, breaking the ground for an interdisciplinary study of images.

Presents an introduction to the study of ageing. This book reflects trends in gerontology, incorporating developments in theory and research as well as international and interdisciplinary perspectives. It also examines cognitive ageing, social protection, retirement, health and illness, and cultural images of old age.

The New Policing provides a comprehensive introduction to the critical issues confronting policing today. It incorporates an overview of traditional approaches to the study of the police with a discussion of current perspectives.

Presents an overview of prejudice and racism. This text also includes practical tools for combating prejudice development in children, adolescents and adults. It emphasizes the critical role counselors, educators, and parents must play in the fight against prejudice and racism.

This book explores the complexity of the links between the media, the institutional political world and the public through case studies drawn from contemporary British politics and other political systems including the United States.

A collection of interviews that examines crucial issues of uncertainty which leading British and American therapists have encountered during the course of their work.

This book develops a sociological understanding of authorship and copyright, through a case study of bootlegging. Bootlegs are copies of recordings released without the permission of the rights holder. They hold a prominent position in the pantheon of popular music. Bootlegging constitutes the first academic treatment of the subject.

Explores the nature of citizenship in today's society, and social science theories about citizenship. Going beyond both traditional and liberal theories of democracies and Marxist theories of civil society, the relationship between the individual and the state, community and family is reassessed.

Providing a comprehensive review and guide to the study, theory and practice of public policy today the Handbook draws together contributions from leading academics and policy analysts from around the world.

Global Public Management offers a collection of cases illustrating managerial problems and policy situations that managers could face anywhere in the world. These cases are then analyzed by universal scholars and practitioners of public management. The case comments focus on identifying the problem in the case and offering suggestions on how to handle the conflict.