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Giving teachers a comprehensive understanding of how to teach multiple literacies in elementary and middle schools, this study looks at dance, music, visual arts, popular culture, media and computer technologies integrated with reading and writing.

A discussion of education, written by Roger C. Schank.

This is a collection of articles that addresses fundamental practices and issues encountered by writing programme administrators in their workplace settings. It offers a combination of theory and specific information on a range of topics that can be translated into institutional scholarship.

This book is about empirically tested knowledge and principles that inform the design of instructional and evaluation systems, and the use and promise of media and technology within such systems.

This work explains and illustrates dialogic teacher research with immigrant and refugee families - which encompasses methods that are at once ethnographic, participatory, and narrative. It gives examples of how dialogic teacher research can inspire changes in teaching.

A comprehensive reference to classroom assessment, this text covers such topics as the why, what, and when of assessment; assessing achievement using selection and short-answer tasks; and assessing achievement using extended response and performance tasks.

Describes the major factors affecting students' reading achievement levels. This text emphasizes the main factors that influence how much a student gains in reading achievement over a year. It suggests how educators can increase reading achievement and factors beyond their influence.

This study presents the state of the art with respect to research on effective instructional programmes for Latino students in elementary and secondary grades. Rather than reporting on the poor academic results of these children, it looks at the outcomes of programmes designed to improve them.

Participants at this conference included a community of scholars, policy makers, and practitioners interested in telecom policy. The text reflects the contemporary state of telecommunication policy and offers guidelines for future research.

This text describes the research and insights presented at the 1996 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. It covers such topics as: interconnection and competition; Internet growth and commerce; Internet regulation and control; and the political economy of telecommunications regulation.

This text provides an outlook on a first-year writing programme's evolution by bringing together a group of related essays that analyze, from various angles, how theoretical concepts about writing actually operate in real students' writing.

This volume addresses some of the central issues of journalism today, such as the nature and needs of the individual versus the needs of broader society; communitarianism versus Enlightenment liberalism; and compassion versus professional distance. The essays present the dilemmas facing the media.

This text seeks to provide a multidisciplinary perspective in evaluating a universal service policy and recommending policy changes to accommodate a more competitive telecommunications environment. It is based on the "Universal Service in Context" conference held in December 1996.

Contributors reflect on statistics and attempt to develop a clearer image of where the field may be heading in terms of teaching. To identify the key areas for consideration for children and adolescents learning statistics, there are four themes: content, teaching, learning, and assessment.

This study was based on inquiries on various literacy topics, conducted in urban schools as part of an action research project. Attempts to adapt teaching practice to meet the needs of pupils from diverse ethnic and linguistic backgounds resulted in developing more collaborative styles of teaching.

Instructional design (ID) integrates psychology, technology, evaluation, measurement and management. This volume seeks to establish international foundations for ID theory, research and practice. It includes chapters on philosophical and theoretical issues on learning theory and ID models.

This volume is a contribution to the literature on literacy and culture. It links together aspects of social variation that have not often been thus juxtaposed: ethnicity/nationality, gender and participant role relations. Its theme is that all of these factors are aspects of writers' identities.

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This volume is a comprehensive guide to state-of-the-art research on thinking, cognitive instruction, social values, and reform. Cognitive instruction for at-risk students is discussed in great detail along with a thorough examination of the teaching of thinking skills from the viewpoint of educational values and school culture. The issues of thinking, learning, and cognitive instruction are linked to the educational reform movement from numerous perspectives. Specifically, the reader can better anticipate which aspects of research on thinking will conflict with existing paradigms and which aspects of schooling will be most resistant to change.

This text offers students a method for mastering and understanding the rhetorical patterns that comprise expository writing. Exercises ask students to arrange jumbled sentences into logical order, forming model essays for standard rhetorical patterns such as comparison/contrast.

Written primarily to help business executives and information systems professionals, this text addresses a wide range of computer security issues including: company security policies; data preservation and protection; hardware and software protection; and contingency planning.

Because money has a way of stirring emotions and clouding judgement, it can change people's behaviour. By understanding yourself, Professor Gunn maintains, you will learn the keys to better financial performance. This book provides a view on the effect of money on psychology.

First Published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Inorganic chemistry continues to generate much interest due to its array of applications, ranging from materials to biology and medicine. This book assembles a collection of articles which describe various methods used by research students and chemists for studying the properties and structures of inorganic chemicals.

Explores the interdisciplinary nature and potential of the field of criminology, covering the fields of sociology, economics, psychology, biology, and religious studies. This title demonstrates various theoretical approaches for policy development and discusses opportunities for incorporating academic contributions into the political process.

Reviews concepts, information and points of view that help to explain the context and constraints of the criminal justice system. This book includes chapters that summarize developments in public policy and crime control, and interweave themes central to the discussion: the impact of ideology, and the politicization of crime and criminal justice.

Addresses theories of violence in a variety of ways. This book includes chapters by criminological theorists who apply their theory of crime particularly to violence. It contains chapters by researchers who look at the substantive area of their expertise through the lens of theories of violence.

Includes the selections that identify several issues in policing about which something needs to be done, and present various viewpoints on possible solutions.

Sensitizes the reader to the fact that there is substantial disagreement within the academic community, and among policymakers and the general public, over what behaviors, conditions (for example, physical attributes), and people should be designated as deviant or criminal.

Police culture has been widely criticized as a source of resistance to change and reform, and is often misunderstood. This book seeks to capture the heart of police culture-including its tragedies and celebrations-and to understand its powerful themes of morality, solidarity, and common sense, by systematically integrating a broad literature on police culture into middle-range theory, and developing original perspectives about many aspects of police work. The first section addresses the definition of culture and the understanding of police culture, while section two moves on to themes of police culture.