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This second edition shows how teachers can advance professionally towards a greater knowledge of the young children's thinking and learning.

Written in a clear, engaging style Facework: Bridging Theory and Practice introduces a new paradigm that identifies facework as the key to communication within the management of difference. Authors Kathy Domenici and Stephen W. Littlejohn illustrate how facework is a central process in the social construction of both identity and community.

Knowledge management is crucial to organizational learning, innovation and success within organizations. This second edition of the successful knowledge management reader provides a core source of key theoretical thinkers in the field and presents the most up-to-date leading-edge articles that explore emerging trends.

Helping to take the fear out of the use of numbers in social research, the Second Edition of this bestselling textbook introduces students to statistics as a powerful means of revealing patterns in human behaviour. The book is full of up-to-date examples and illustrations using the latest SPSS software.

Across all media; print, broadcast as well as online, sports journalism has come to occupy an increasingly visible space. This book looks at the institutional, cultural and economic environment and provides an invaluable overview of contemporary sports journalism across all media forms.

Offering an overview of American unions, this text provides an introduction to what America's labor unions do, and why they do it. It portrays America's unions as complex, self-governing organizations that are struggling to regain their lost membership, bargaining power, and political influence.

Attempts to orient and prepare aspiring and practicing administrators to be more effective in dealing with real and practical issues and problems in schools. This is a succinct, problem focused, oral history of issues articulated by newly hired and experience administrators, as they consider their decisions.

Use the Constructivist Learning Design (CLD) six-step planning framework to engage students in constructivist learning events that meet standards-based outcomes.

Presents a compelling argument that the creative and cultural inquiry undertaken by artists is a form of research. This title explores themes, practices, and contexts of artistic inquiry and positions them within the discourse of research.

Introduces the beginner to the skills needed to become a journalist in the digital age. This book shares the journalists thoughts on the profession, and shows their work - selecting stories, carrying out interviews and writing scripts. It includes chapters on interviewing, research techniques and news writing.

Helping you to meet a range of study skills, this book tells you how to get the most from your lectures, exam preparation and project development, right through to contemplating and investigating future career options.

This self-help book is written for the individual who wants to actively seek a position in school administration. The author provides workbook exercises, activities, and information sections to help the reader chart a course of action tailor made to acquire the school administration position the seek.

In this book the authors guide the readers through developing a collective vision, providing professional development, involving stakeholders in decision-making, and building support for change. Each chapter examines a different aspect of the school change process.

Despite its legal abolition, racial inequality persists in many democratic societies. Entering a new era of democracy, South Africa is endeavouring to dismantle its legally structured system of inequality. This title examines evidence which illustrates how the consciousness of whites in South Africa has been reproduced and maintained.

Glatthorn guides education professionals through the basics of the writing process, empowering them with the tools to create and enhance their own professional submissions and writings.

A seminal work on reflective practice to help teachers become creative and innovative "agents of inquiry" in their schools and classrooms.

Algebraic Identities, the Fibonacci Sequence, Patterns in Mathematics, Odds, Means, Averages . . . and that's only the beginning!

An illustrated guide to creating with students a central, evolving visual that enables all learners to actively participate, assess, and achieve in standards-based classrooms.

This volume shows how state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS), used to display patterns of crime to stimulate effective strategies and decision-making, are revolutionizing urban law enforcement. The contributors present expert information for understanding and successfully employing the latest technologies in this field.

A review of maths topics ranging from arithmetic to calculus.

This book is designed to help entrepreneurs understand how to obtain funding from an investor for the creation or development of a new business venture. It discusses how to evaluate a business concept from an investor's perspective before moving onto an examination of the practical issues involved, such as writing a compelling business plan and making a convincing presentation.

Covers pedagogy, ethnography, performance, and theory as the foundation for a performative social science. This book addresses the worlds of family, nature, praxis, and action. It also examines the ethics and practical politics of performance autoethnography, anchored in the post-9//11 discourse in the United States.

No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano and Puerto-Rican families in the United States, and provides an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race and class oppression affects minority family organization.

Presents an introductory guide to Freud and brings together: an overview of Freud's work which enables the reader to see quickly where, and in which texts, Freud develops his main ideas; and a guide to reading Freud, and to what can be done with the complexities of his texts.

What do we mean by 'diaspora' and 'hybridity'? Why are they pivotal concepts in contemporary debates on race, culture and society? This book is a politically inflected, assessment of the key debates on diaspora and hybridity. It relates the topics to contemporary social struggles and cultural contexts.

An introduction to post-structuralist theory that critically assesses how post-structuralism can be used to study space and place. Comprehensive and comprehensible - communicating an agenda for human geography - this book is a students' guide to the theoretical literature.

Updated Edition of Best Seller!Based on interviews with over 800 teachers, the authors show the transformative effects principals can have on teachers' work both in the classroom and in the wider school setting.

An overview of European politics, emphasizing convergence rather than divergence. This analytic approach to economic, cultural and political aspects of politics in Europe presents a Europe that has more in common in the late 1990s than ever before.