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Focuses on developments in public administration in countries which are among the fastest growing economies in the world. This book explores their practices and approaches.

A reference on the development and advances in optimal greenhouse control. It focuses on model-based methods to achieve the best economical result. It discusses physical models of greenhouse climate and biological models of crop growth, as well as classical rule-based and multivariable feedback controllers.

Addressing leadership issues in American schools, this volume examines various strategies for creating inclusive schools, including zero tolerance policies, teachers' perceptions of African American principals' leadership in urban schools, and perceptions of intergroup conflict.

The goal of this edited volume is to present the practical applications suggested by research in non-verbal communication, as well as to highlight the limitations-noting where we simply do not yet know enough to safely and fully inform practice.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume brings together ten important linguists in cognitive and functional linguistics whose work is not easily available to those outside the field. Each scholar focuses on an important aspect of human linguistic competence, with a special eye to readers who are not professional linguists.

Describes the principles and forces that drive chemical and biological processes. This title includes two chapters: 'Microscopic Dynamics' which explores single molecule experiments, and 'Bio and Nano Machines' which describes the workings of biological molecules including proteins and DNA.

Examines the migratory histories of Chinese women born in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, who are now inhabitants of various diaspora Chinese communities.

Concentrating on the period following Admiral Perry's visit in the 1850s, this encyclopedia examines the historical events, leaders, and societal pressures in the country's past that affected Japan's entry into the modern age.

This collection of ethnographic studies of Chinese schooling explores the meaning of ethnography, both in describing Chinese schools and in the broader context of the defined purposes and practices of research.

This special issue devoted to privacy matters features articles that should add useful perspectives to discussions of privacy issues, particularly those raised by new technology.

A study of collaboration - across campus, across town, and with K-12 schools. Subjects discussed include: setting the stage for collaboration; Springfield College collaboration with the Springfield public schools and neighbouring community; and commonalities across effective collaboratives.

This collection contains essays addressing the issue of advertising and consumer culture. Essays featured include "The rise of consumer culture in Chinese society"; "Memoirs of a commodity fetishist"; and "Consumer culture and television home shopping programming".

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is a special issue of "Educational Psychologist" that examines emotions in education.

Comprising four in-depth articles, this special issue of "The Journal of Media Economics" focuses on Multichannel Video Program Distribution (MVPD) market issues and concerns.

This special issue of the "Journal of Media and Religion" looks at how religion is framed when it is thrust into the public realm through mediated coverage of a particular event. The first article examines how the public debate about teaching evolution was framed by the press in Tennessee. The next article discusses framing of news stories about Mormons during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. The final article applies Silk's unsecular media hypothesis to coverage of the Jesse Jackson infidelity scandal. Each of these articles uncovers new issues and insights about the framing of religion news. The editors hope that they will become important points of departure for theorization on this important topic. Future research will benefit from the analyses presented by these authors.

This special issue examines the underlying assumptions of the ""A Nation At Risk"" report, the context within which the Commission's work was situated, and the effects of the report in improving teaching and learning, as well as the performance of the public educational system. The purpose is to address three broad questions: Was America's education system really putting the nation at risk in the early 1980s? What is the legacy of ""A Nation At Risk""? Given our current knowledge on education and human development, the report's overall concern is restated: What risks and opportunities lay before the nation today, and how will they affect the notion of a "learning society" and our public education system? Taken as a whole, the seven articles address the three broad issues identified regarding the past, current, and future of educational reform in the United States.

Large Scale Testing of Students With Disabilities addresses three issues: accommodations, modifications, and reporting of outcomes. The studies reflect critical methodologies that are either experimental in design or use extant data sets as well as present a theoretical framework in how to interpret empirical results.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Many controversies attend the topic of culture and teaching, including: is there such a thing as a common culture? What culture does the student bring, and what is the role of the teacher? This work seeks to facilitate an examination of the reader's beliefs and acquaint them with those of others.

This edited collection offers a consideration of contemporary rhetorical scholarship, tied to political, ethical and spiritual themes. Originating from the 2004 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, the contents of this volume reflects the conference themes of rhetorical agendas in current theory and research.

The theme of this ICLS conference is "Embracing Diversity in the Learning Sciences." As a field, the learning sciences have always drawn from a diverse set of disciplines to study learning in an array of settings.

A discussion of the role of writing in various educational systems and cultures. The editors compare US post-secondary writing practices and pedagogies with those in other national systems, and suggest perspectives for cross-national study of learning/writing issues for all educational systems.

The Web has dramatically changed the face of technical communication, but the teaching of writing has thus far altered very little to accommodate this rapidly changing context. This text offers substantial and broadly applicable strategies for teaching global communication issues affecting writing for the World Wide Web.

Children with neurodevelopmental disabilities such as mental retardation or autism present multiple challenges to their families, health care providers, and teachers. This book presents a model multidisciplinary approach to care, family-centered and collaborative, that has proven effective in practice.

This work looks at large scale studies that have recently examined characteristics of effective schools and teachers, and provides case studies of five schools in which children are achieving at high levels in reading. It also deals with case studies of effective teachers of reading.

This text is a collection of essays examining America's upper class. It reflects on the changes within the upper class in the latter half of the 20th century, and looks at, amongst other things, how these have affected the country's political leadership.

These essays address the issues at the heart of the debate over language diversity and the English Only movement in US public education. They blend social, political and legal analyses of the ideology of language with perspectives on the impact of the English Only movement on education.