Bücher veröffentlicht von SAGE Publications Inc

This reassuring handbook walks new teachers through their first days and covers the latest tips on technology, differentiated instruction, and planning effective standards-based lessons.

This is the only book that pulls together the anthropological and sociological ethnography of education across formal and informal settings.

This popular textbook provides practical material for career-oriented students, introducing communication theory in a way that helps them understand its importance to careers in communication and business.

Featuring definitions, theoretical debates, coverage of social development practice, and discussion of future challenges, this key new text introduces students to all aspects of Social Development studies

Domestic violence can affect all areas of social work. In this book, the authors draw on their extensive experience as practitioners and researchers in the field to show how social workers can intervene in everyday practice and facilitate change.

This experience-based, practical book demystifies the process of writing a thesis or dissertation, helping students prepare their scholarly work and takes them through the process one step at a time.

Provides the rationale, conceptual framework and practical tools needed to build and sustain management and organization integrity over time. Individual chapters are devoted to ethical planning, leadership and control.

Focuses on the modern aspects of the Criminal Justice, from 1900 to the present. This book offers students the advanced in historical scholarship that made relevant to their needs as future practitioners in the field.

Your Statistical Consultant is an authentic alternative resource for describing, explaining, and making recommendations regarding thorny or confusing statistical issues.

Cross-Cultural Analysis is the sequel to Culture's Consequences, the classic work published by one of the most influential management thinkers in today's times, Geert Hofstede.

Derived in part from Joseph F. Healey's best-selling text Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class, this accessible 10-chapter text teaches concepts and theories through current, engaging topics, such as the Obama election and presidency and the economic recession.

In this extensive study, C D Mortenson presents a theoretical examination of the complex conditions that cause miscommunication, highlighting specific categories of implication, distortion, disruption and confusion.

This volume presents a valuable alternative interviewing approach - the interactive-relational - that promotes a clearer, deeper portrait of the person interviewed.

This book will provide practitioners, researchers and counsellor trainers with the knowledge they need to influence more competent therapeutic practice with a diverse clientele. It is a companion volume to Volume 7 in the Multicultural Aspects of Counseling series.

Many adolescents in the United States are at risk from substance abuse, unsafe sexual practices, academic under achievement, crime and violence. What can be done to tackle these growing problems? This book suggests the need to focus on young people's development in relation to specific features of the individual's environmental 'context'.

This comprehensive handbook provides the latest information on HIV care, with an emphasis on the provider-patient partnership and the need to view HIV patients holistically. It will become an essential guide for any health care professional working with patients who are HIV positive.

This book overviews current therapeutic models and the environments of inpatient treatment for children and adolescents with mental health needs. The authors provide guidelines for practitioners so that they can make a well-informed choice for the child and the family on how and when to use such services as hospitals, group homes and residential treatment centres.

The negative interactions that take place between dating and courting partners, most notably physical aggression and sexual exploitation, are explored in this volume. The authors blend qualitative interviews with current research findings.

Covering a variety of legal, moral, ethical, financial and public relations issues, this book can be used to evaluate prospective secondary school administrators train newly appointed administrators, or explore self-evaluation and alternative solutions for common situations faced by practicing administrators.

Shows you how to have outstanding volunteer programs and make your volunteers feel useful and committed.

A resource guide to curriculum materials that incorporates workplace experiences in science, mathematics, and technology education.

Focuses on teacher development, teacher research, student enrichment, and systemic programs that support improvements in science and mathematics education.

The authors address how to effectively communicate to parents the learning progress of their children.

This book is filled with ideas, projects, and tips from primary teachers in The United States. Designed to be a helpful resource for practicing as well as future teachers, the book is full of examples for lesson plans, calendars, classroom discussions, uses for new technology, handling communication with parents, and much more.

The author offers jargon-free language, sidebar notes, and handy chapter summaries to help teachers foster the development of emotional literacy.

This book contains a wealth of strategies for new and experienced teachers. Specific examples and advice are provided for negotiating the school culture, planning lessons, teaching strategies, multicultural classrooms, and classroom management and discipline.

This resource provides useful teaching ideas for middle and high school teachers who want to excel during that all-important first year.

This kit includes eight 45-minute audiotapes and a workbook that teachers can use to polish their skills through proven strategies on discipline, curriculum development, counseling, evaluation, and more. The workbook can also be purchased separately.