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Looking at the important aspect of human development - communication and language in the early years - this book gives carers, parents, teachers and other professionals who work and play with young children an understanding of children's communication and language development in the years from birth to age eight.

Helps reader to introduce the conversation analysis (CA) as a specific research approach in the human sciences, and to provide students and novice researchers with methodological and practical suggestions for actually doing CA research.

Presents an introduction to the practice of cultural studies. Full of practical exercises that will get students thinking and writing about the issues they encounter, this book offers its readers the conceptual tools to practice cultural analysis for themselves.

Offers an introduction to operations management that helps readers extend their understanding of key concepts and enhance their thinking skills in line with course requirements. This book provides support on how to revise for exams, and prepare for and write assessed pieces. It encourages readers to think about the subject critically.

A jargon-free overview of special education's prereferral process, IEPs, eligibility services, procedural and legal safeguards, annual reviews and evaluations, and transitions from school to adult life.

This practical handbook helps educators create processes that communicate expectations, promote positive student behaviors, reduce schoolwide management problems, build relationships with parents, and increase student achievement.

This third edition of the best-selling Children With Limited English offers connections to current research, new strategies for building communication skills, and instructional adaptations for ELL students.

Analyzes the macro causes of crime such as rapid urbanization, economic inequality, gender discrimination, abuse of alcohol, and drugs and availability of guns. This book shows the impact of crime on individuals and societies.

Featuring contributions from top educators, the third volume of The Soul of Educational Leadership series examines leadership and moral choices and offers strategies for supporting professional learning communities.

What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyze how women's and men's lives are shaped by the society in which they live. The book offers a comprehensive account of trends in sociological thinking, from a material and economic focus on gender inequalities to the debates about meaning initiated by the linguistic or cultural turn.

Today new forms of critical psychology are challenging the cognitive revolution that has dominated psychology for the past three decades. This book explores the historical roots of these new psychologies. It demonstrates that their ideas are not quite as new as is often supposed.

This comprehensive manual offers direction for every step of the thesis or dissertation process, from choosing an appropriate topic to adapting the finished work for publication.

English primary school children are less likely to read for pleasure than their counterparts in many other countries. This book discusses the background to this situation and looks at how government initiatives have tried to address it. It presents specific activities which teachers can use to develop their own whole school and classroom practice.

To combat the growing challenge of teacher attrition, induction experts Brock and Grady offer a multiyear, step-by-step induction program for retaining and developing beginning teachers.

Drawing on the work of David Cooperrider and other pioneers in the area of appreciative inquiry (AI) to bridge the gap between consulting activity and academic research in AI, the author also reflects upon her experience of using AI as a research approach, shaping the asking of questions, gathering of information, and the communication of ideas.

This easy-to-read resource provides teachers with everything they need to understand this condition and strategies for teaching pupils with ADHD effectively.

Challenges the idea of post-ideological consensus and offers a perspective on the state of political ideologies. This book presents an account of an era of ideological politics, where the dominant neo-liberalism has spawned a diverse global range of 'ideologies of opposition'.

Provides students with an understanding of the relationship between the media and the political sphere. This text balances theory with case studies on elections, war, terrorism, and the emerging role of the Internet, enabling the reader to think critically about how the media should work in the service of democracy.

The second edition provides detailed sample lesson plans and includes additional strategies for using extended time formats effectively.

The Globalization of Nothing is back in second edition. The author focuses his attention squarely on the processes of globalization and how they relate to McDonaldization.

Help difficult students change negative behaviors with these strategies for teaching conflict resolution and anger management, handling power struggles successfully, helping students prevent bullying, and more.

Using 12 step-by-step strategies, teachers can help students build a rich vocabulary, gain a deep understanding of concepts, and develop organized thinking processes.

Couched in the context of NCLB and the reauthorized IDEA, and aligned with the ASCA National Model, this second edition helps school counselors work confidently and competently with students who may require special services.

Shows teachers how to incorporate practices such as constructivism and inquiry-based learning into their science instruction to help students move beyond memorising facts to deeper levels of understanding. This resource provides science lessons that give students maximum exposure to different ideas and ways of thinking.

Describes the sources of late modern vertigo as twofold: insecurities of status and of economic position. This book engages with the ways in which modern society attempts to explain deviant behaviour - whether it be crime, terrorism or riots - in terms of motivations and desires separate and distinct from those of the 'normal'.

Provides an introduction to the skills needed to be an effective life coach, and incorporates a range of practical activities for coaches to use to help their clients develop self-coaching skills. This book presents a four stage life coaching model based around the core concepts of relating, understanding, changing and client self-coaching.

Inventing Adulthoods is based on a study of a diverse group of young people over a 10 year period. The book explores high profile policy issues including: education, employment, drugs, cultures of violence and well-being. It is the set book for the Open University course Youth: Perspectives and Practice (KE308).

Looking for an easy-to-read guide to embedding ICT within the primary curriculum? This book is filled with practical examples and suggested activities to help the busy teacher or teaching assistant. It provides the reader with the subject knowledge they need to confidently teach ICT skills and use ICT in planning, preparation and assessment.

Schools serving young people on the margins of society face a major challenge in trying to create an environment where students can succeed. This work examines key issues in the field of school improvement, drawing on evidence from the SFECC (Schools Facing Exceptionally Challenging Circumstances) project.

This second edition enhances the "five big ideas" for raising reading achievement with seven cognitive strategies and more than twenty "teaching for learning" tips for daily instruction.