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This valuable book dispels common myths about acceleration, reviews social/emotional considerations, and provides tools for effectively determining the most appropriate learning options for gifted students.

Discusses the difference social policy makes, or can make, in any response to crime. This book also considers the contribution of criminology to the debates on major social policy areas, such as housing, education, employment, health and family. It aids and provides criminology students with an understanding of key social policy issues and more.

Explores theoretical, political, policy and practice issues that arise in the shift towards consumerism. This book offers an understanding of the relationships between people and services, and argues for a model based on interdependence, respect, and partnership. It is intended for those studying social policy and cultural studies.

Deals with the practical, day-to-day aspects of managing and organizing research. This title focuses on strategies, skills, and systems that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of research practice across different research disciplines. It offers practical advice, tips and strategies gleaned from some of the experienced researchers.

A self-study guide to SPSS which contains screen dumps and exercises, glossary terms and worked examples. It covers a self-study guide for learning how to use SPSS and a reference guide for selecting the appropriate statistical technique and a do-it-yourself guide for analysing data and interpreting the results.

Doing Practitioner Research focuses on helping practitioners conduct research in their own organisations, and attention is given to the best methods for doing this effectively and sensitively. The authors have provided the perfect introduction to why practitioners are in the unique position to conduct research that improves professional practice.

Using examples from a wide range of disciplines, the authors give readers expert advice on the entire dissertation process. The entire text has been updated with new examples, and there is also an up-to-the-minute discussion of online research and the use of software packages.

Showing the cultural and institutional processes that have brought the notion of the 'consumer' to life, this book guides the reader on a comprehensive journey through the history of how we have come to understand ourselves as consumers in a consumer society and reveals the profound ambiguities and ambivalences inherent within.

Gives advice on creating an emotionally and socially 'healthy' school. This work shows why schools should promote emotional and social development; includes practical ideas and activities for those working in primary and secondary schools; and uses a range of case studies to illustrate the impact of good practice.

An invaluable guide to a variety of core research concepts in both political science and international relations. Each entry is consistently structured and cross-relates entries, it contains examples and can be used across an entire degree.

Explores the fundamentals of critical management theory and their influences on management research, and in doing so offers the student an illuminating introduction to what is often a disparate and complex array of issues.

Are you daunted by the prospect of doing a presentation or just keen to improve your presentation skills? This book gives you a detailed guide to the preparation and delivery of both individual and group presentations. It takes you through all the practical stages necessary to complete a presentation and obtain excellent marks.

This text is the first to present cultural hegemony in its original form - as a process of consent, resistance, and coercion. Hegemony is illustrated with examples from American history and contemporary culture, including practices that represent race, gender, and class in everyday life.

Drawing on a wealth of material from film, television, art and popular culture, Angela McRobbie tackles the so-called 'end' of feminism.

This book focuses on the development of oral language skills and provides guidelines for setting objectives for activities, materials and preparation, key vocabulary, and directions for implementation.

Third edition of Bryan Turner's seminal text on the body and social theory. One of the biggest authors in the field today.

Setting out the basics of designing, conducting and analysing an evaluation study in healthcare, this work takes a practical approach, assuming no previous knowledge or experience of evaluation. It covers basics, including: how to plan an evaluation; research governance and ethics; understanding data; interpreting findings; and writing a report.

This book offers a practical reading programme specifically designed for pupils with English as an additional language - some 13.5% of UK Primary pupils - backed up with research and case studies. The first edition sold well - this is set to do even better.

Second edition of this extremely popular and heavily adopted undergraduate Cultural Studies text.

Includes material on neuroscience and practitioner-oriented research methodology showing how the processes of doing research and doing therapy have many things in common. This book aims to cultivate a spirit of willingness amongst therapists trained in one model to learn from colleagues trained in others.

Teachers will learn to assess student achievement with rubrics that reflect the latest neuroscientific research and are compatible with standards and the principles of brain-compatible learning.

Mentors will discover strategies for meeting the diverse needs of their mentor/mentee relationships, developing useful mentoring tools, and continuing to learn and grow professionally.

Offers strategies for supporting students with special needs in mainstream schools and covers the changing nature of advisory services and the role of day and residential schools.

Helps educators create an optimum learning environment for students with different learning styles and is packed with practical, adaptable strategies to help every learner succeed.

Cognitive dissonance has been an important and influential theory since Leon Festinger published his classic work in 1957. This work charts the progress of dissonance theory, assessing its impact not only within our understanding of psychology but in everyday experiences.

Deals with management and leadership development (MLD) practices. This book introduces readers to competing theories of MLD. It illustrates ideas by international case studies and vignettes.

Suitable for those in leadership and for those who are interested in investigating education leadership and diversity, this book challenges the reader to recognize the importance of diversity issues and to embed diversity as central within leadership theory and practice.

Suitable for students of social policy, development studies and international relations, this book: evaluates national social policies advanced by international organisations; examines policies addressing global social redistribution, regulation and rights; and is illustrated by case studies, further reading sections and a glossary.

This book presents a solid, research-based conceptual framework that demystifies organizational learning and bridges the gap between theory and practice. Using an integrative approach, authors Raanan Lipshitz, Victor Friedman and Micha Popper provide practitioners and researchers with tools for understanding organizational learning under real-world conditions.

Presents a different way for scholars and graduate students to examine and explore leadership. Differing from a psychological approach to leadership which tries to get inside the heads of leaders and employees, this work focuses on the social or communicative aspects between them.