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A comprehensive guide to studying and interpreting communication interaction.

Part of the SAGE Social Thinkers series, this is a concise introduction to the writings, life and influences of Karl Marx - one of the 'founding fathers' of sociology.

This text combines bibliographic essay and theory construction to provide a perspective on ritual as a special and powerful form of communication. It begins with a critical review of definitions of ritual, including the contributions of communication theory, and then explores mediated rituals.

This provocative book argues that the educational opportunities given to gifted individuals are neither elitist nor undemocratic as critics charge. The author describes the types of giftedness, giving nine categories of options for enhancing the educational experiences of gifted students, and explains how these options can be modified to meet individual needs.

This easy-to-read guide helps school administrators decide if they have the necessary resources and commitment to make restructuring happen. Using his own extensive experience, the author explains the phases of diagnosis and the processes of change involved as well as offering the strategies needed to facilitate reform.

High-level urban analysis is noticeably devoid of either gendered perspectives or attention to women's interests, relying instead on economics and sometimes race to explain various phenomenon. Gender in Urban Research applies gender as a category of analysis to urban institutions. Contributions cover gendered analysis in central city development policy, violence against women, affordable housing, political power and elections.

How does a narrative serve as a way to uncover and construct a person's identity? How do life and life-story influence each other? Addressing these and other issues related to the place of narratives in understanding human lives, this volume focuses on identity and gender.Chapters explore such issues as: how women construct the lives of other women in biographical work; how individuals conduct their life episodes in patterns similar to the plots of stories; how the women's movement influenced three women's adult lives; and how girls' sense of themselves change as they move into adolescence.

The gay community has been hit hard by the AIDS epidemic in the United States and in much of Europe; as a result, the gay and lesbian community has been forced to examine existing notions of what it means to be gay and to belong to a community based on sexual orientation.This book explores gay and lesbian sexual behaviour, personal identity and community membership from diverse perspectives. Chapters report the authors' own AIDS-related research and include discussions of AIDS in both large urban centres, such as New York and San Francisco, and in less populated settings outside the AIDS epicentres. Contributors also examine issues related to public policy, volunteerism and long-term survival.

Failure in Group Work examines a variety of actual failure events in groupwork, and how group leaders were able to transform their mistakes into success.

A guide to strategies you can adopt to get your research projects funded.

Managers who hire employees, human resource directors who train line managers and supervisors to do the hiring, and consultants will all benefit from this hands-on manual. The book takes readers through each step in the hiring process, including job definition, recruitment, interviewing, testing and checking references. Each chapter briefly outlines key concepts and includes several exercises and worksheets that will serve as a complete hiring strategy that can be customized to any manager's specific hiring needs.

This book prompts readers to make their own meaning by considering a series of questions. Abundant examples and case studies from the frontlines of school change provide inspiration and ideas you can adopt or adapt for your context. Discussion prompts are included to promote and provoke conversations—both inside and outside school—with everyone who has a stake in student success (including students themselves). Working together, through collaborative inquiry and hard conversations, you will arrive at your best answers for how schools should adapt for your context and your children.  This four-part framework, based on insights from those at the leading edge of change, will help readers navigate the journey ahead:  (1) The Why: To help a community reimagine school, effective leaders must first build common understanding about why change is necessary.  (2) The How: Moving from vision to reality requires practical considerations. For example, stakeholders with diverse backgrounds bring a wealth of experiences and perspectives to shape the future of education. To collaborate effectively, however, they need to speak the same language.    (3) The What-ifs: Only on paper do plans unfold without any push-back or detours. Leaders who maintain momentum and overcome resistance to “what ifs” and “yeah buts” share their troubleshooting strategies in this section, preparing readers to anticipate challenges and be more effective change managers.  (4) The Future Story: School leaders who are taking courageous steps to reinvent education understand the power of story. A superintendent who regularly tweets out examples of powerful student learning or a principal who blogs about school-business partnerships helps to build public understanding of 21st century learning. Keeping change efforts from backsliding requires ongoing communication, effective storytelling, and optimism about the future.  This book will walk readers through these four critical stages, helping communities mobilize around the shifts that students deserve.  Compelling examples from schools on the leading edge of change will inspire readers to embark on the challenging work ahead.  The book is intended to be a practical action guide, taking readers from talking about the future of learning to realizing their community’s vision.

With two comprehensive writing models, Scott A Kuehn and Andrew Lingwall help readers to develop the essential writing skills and professional habits needed to succeed in 21st-century media careers.

Teachers can take learning beyond the facts with an approach that develops conceptual thinking and problem-solving skills. This book advances a Concept-Based curriculum to recapture students' innate curiosity about the world and provide the thrilling feeling of using one's mind well.

This K-5 book takes implementation and assessment to the next level by digging deeper into specific lessons and providing grade-level strategies, with an emphasis on planning and executing highly effective lessons supported by John Hattie's Visible Learning research.

This new volume from award-winning author Page Keeley and mathematics expert Cheryl Rose Tobey helps you improve student outcomes with 50 all-new formative assessment classroom techniques (FACTS) that are embedded throughout a cycle of instruction.

Timely and powerful, this book offers a new framework to elevate instructional practices with technology and maximize student learning. The T3 Framework helps teachers categorize students’ learning as translational, transformational, or transcendent, sorting through the low-impact applications to reach high-impact usage of technologies. Teachers and leaders will find: Examples of technology use at the translational, transformational, and transcendent levels Activities, guides, and prompts for deeper learning that move technology use to higher levels of the T3 Framework Evaluative rubrics to self-assess current technology use, establish meaningful goals, and track progress towards those goals

Gamwell shares the keys to nurturing and fostering creativity, innovation, leadership, and engagement in classrooms, businesses, and even families in THE WONDER WALL. By creating a stimulating environment, you'll learn to naturally nurture and foster the inborn creative capacities of every individual.

A practical, assets-based guide to educating students with interrupted education and helping these students build the skills necessary for academic success and also to develop the internal resilience needed for long-term social and emotional health.

This book presents practical strategies and tools for increasing student achievement through the collective actions of educators.

This text builds fundamental knowledge and helps to clarify a lot of the misunderstanding around testing in a conversational tone. It is framed around practical actions that can be taken to strengthen assessment literacy.

This is the beginner's guide for K-12 educators who want to know how to integrate coding and computational thinking into their curriculum.

Presents the fundamentals of regression analysis, from its meaning to uses, in a concise, easy-to-read, and non-technical style.

Provides full coverage of the wide range of multivariate topics that graduate students across the social and behavioral sciences encounter, using a conceptual, non-mathematical, approach.

The authors present a practical vision of what it looks like to engage in student-centered coaching across a rich array of contexts.

This text is a journey into disproportionality through understanding biases that create barriers for vulnerable populations. It gives adaptive strategies for systemic change and technical skills for using data to promote equity.

It defines a process of "inside-out" growth that helps develop culturally proficient educators with the skills needed to support equity and transform schools.

Show students at any level how to plan, shoot, and edit their own ethnographic videos within 3 weeks using desktop technology and widely available software.

The Social Life of Gender provides a comprehensive approach to gender as an organizing social relation and presents a critical sociology based on the unique insights gleaned from the study of gender.

A complete introduction to the latest research findings in child and adolescent counselling