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NAME is the National Association for Multicultural Education. Topics covered include: multiracial and multiethnic students: how they must belong; immigrant Tibetan children in U.S. schools: an invisible minority group; and creating multicultural classrooms.

This is a special issue of "Journal of Media and Religion" which looks at the topics of religion and television.

Howard E. Gruber has changed the domain of creative studies in several ways: by making it more realistic with his systems theory, introducing the idea of "a theory of the individual" and developing a method to this ends, and positioning the domain of creative studies where it can build on the domain of morality. He has opened more than a few eyes to a new domain--moral creativity--and this special issue shows Gruber's influence in this regard. As a result, this first Festschrift of "Creativity Research Journal" provides readers with unique, novel, and creative ideas.

This issue represents a broad synopsis of the past, present and future of electronic publishing. The contributors explore the opportunities and challenges related to this new distribution channel and the effect of this change on publishers, authors, editors, distributors and consumers.

This special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly continues the work of the winter 2004 issue of gathering information and reflecting on the state of technical communication in its academic context.

This special issue of the Journal of Media Economics deals with diversity and diversification. Diversity, especially in broadcast programming, has played a major role in policy discussions on both sides of the Atlantic.

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

Features essays by the Guest Editor Michael Huspek that point to the critical ways in which oppositional discourse is conducted between agents, waged within a public setting. These articles cover the significant differences in approach, which reflect a tension that surrounds the very idea of discourse itself.

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

The National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE) published electronic issues of Volumes 1 and 2 of the NABE Journal of Research and Practice to offer archival records of 2002 and 2003 NABE conferences presentations. Volume 3 presents further archival record of NABE conference.

An examination of the real world consequences of the political pressures and influences on teachers today. In particular, it looks at how the political actions of the conservative right disempower and control teachers, school districts, parents, and children.

This text brings critical ethnographic perspectives to bear on the negotiation of language, literacy, and power in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, showing how literacy and schooling are negotiated by children and adults and how schooling becomes a key site of struggle over whose knowledge, discourses, and literacy practices "count".

A professional development resource for teacher educators and staff developers to help pre-service and in-service teachers become knowledgeable about cultural differences and understand ways of bridging the expectations of school settings with those of the home.

An exploration of important ways for humanities scholars to collaborate across disciplines via electronic media, offering models for collaborative interaction. The papers are divided into four sections.

This work brings together approaches to the contextualized teaching of grammar and communicative skills as integrated components of second language instruction. Its purpose is to show that grammar teaching can be made productive in ESL and EFL classrooms, both theoretically and practically.

This work aims to assist future and inservice teachers to develop a research-based framework for understanding the dynamics of school, family, and community relations. It provides foundational knowledge, while exploring conditions that influence family-school-community interactions.

A discussion of education systems and how education can be improved. Topics covered include: understanding market-based school reform; chartered governance of urban public schools; private vouchers; school choice experiments in urban education; and case studies of systems.

This work argues that intelligence is not fixed at birth and that, with consistent effort, we can dramatically improve our capacities. It provides powerful strategies that can be applied to a range of important academic areas including mathematics, language and the arts.

Urban schools in the 21st century face numerous problems including: poverty, violence, underachievement and limited resources. This text examines urban schools in Chicago, where one of the largest experiments in site-based management and accountability has been enacted.

To provide a view of the history of western rhetoric, this volume presents original articles by a number of world-renowned scholars representing different countries and varying viewpoints. In discussing the status of the historical perspectives on rhetoric, these international scholars also present a tribute to James J. Murphy, whose scholarship and service did much to shape the field. The book will introduce new insights into western European rhetoric and its connections with English rhetoric.

What will a true information highway do to local communities, government, and business entities? This volume suggests that serving the everyday citizen should be the main objectives of any national initiatives in this area.

This study brings together research on epistemology, belief systems, teacher beliefs, and text. The editors illustrate what a cross-disciplinary body of work looks like, what varied insights are possible, and when the central concerns are beliefs and text.

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A most interesting collection of detailed but accessible contributions examining cosmology from multiple perspectives. The 31 chapters are organized in nine sections: cosmology and culture, the Greeks' geometrical cosmos, medieval cosmology and literature, the scientific revolution, galaxies from s

Over the past two hundred years, work experiences have changed greatly, causing issues such as heightened boredom and alienation, and but also new levels of obsession with work. This book looks at the modern changes in work, examining global patterns but also special features of the work culture in the United States.

The presence of drug and chemical residues in food products from animal sources is both a public health problem and a consumer concern. This book examines and analyzes this problem in a scientific, non-partisan way. It is suitable for food scientists and analysts working with meat food products.

Demonstrates how to use Mathematica 4.x to solve difficult problems involving ordinary and partial differential equations and boundary value problems. This book helps readers learn by doing with step-by-step recipes useful in both new and classical applications. It includes explanations of various Mathematica commands with examples and exercises.

Presents comprehensive examples of risk/uncertainty analyses from a broad range of applications. This book focuses on models such as decision/option selection; manufacturing; environmental assessment; pricing; identification of business drivers; production sharing; insurance; scheduling and optimization; investing; and, security law.

Focuses on information technology, enterprise computing, and the Internet as the 21st Century's answer to merchandising. This book is suitable for practitioners in computer technology, telecommunications and software development, who are interested in acquiring skills through knowledge of advanced applications, tools, and methods.