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This sequel to Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings extends the coverage to include issues of power, attitudes, and systemic change through the application of discourse theory and critical theory. The author has tried to maintain the brevity, stylistic clarity, and classroom focus of the earlier volume.

Describes dialect differences in American English and their impact on education and everyday life. This book explores some of the major issues that confront educational practitioners and suggests what practitioners can do to recognize students' language abilities, support their language development, and expand their knowledge about dialects.

Presents a tutorial introduction to behavioral applications of control theory. This book features varieties of control theory, such as classical, optimal, fuzzy, adaptive, and learning control, as well as perception and decision making in dynamic contexts.

The connections between communities and forests are complex and evolving, presenting challenges to forest managers, researchers, and communities themselves. This book explores the responses of forest communities to a changing economy, changing federal policy, and concerns about forest health from both within and outside forest communities.

An investigation into water management in a fast-growing region of the arid American West. It presents three states that have adopted the conjunctive management of groundwater and surface water to make resources go further in serving people and the environment. It makes several important contributions to policy literature and policymaking.

Analyzes a series of cases to understand how collaborative processes work and whether government can be an equal partner even as government agencies often formally control decision making and are held accountable for the outcomes, looking at examples where government has led, encouraged, or followed in collaboration.

Helps the reader understand and implement performance metrics and the organizational scorecard concept. This title reviews the top balanced scorecard software, provides case studies and checklists, and shows companies how to get started on the road to quality performance measurement.

Addresses the questions that the combustion diagnostic community faces. This book offers guidance for the planning of combustion experiments, in judging research strategies and in conceiving fresh ideas for combustion research. It describes various diagnostic methods and their typical applications.

In this text, therapists identified with major theoretical approaches demonstrate how they use the Adaptive Counselling and Therapy ACT Model in combination with their preferred theoretical perspective. It emphasises tasks, readiness and adapting therapist behaviour and treatment to each client.

This text presents the basic concepts of modern cognitive psychology in a succinct and accessible manner, combining empirical results, theoretical developments and current issues to produce accounts of research areas. An explanation is provided of the "meta-assumptions" which underlie research.

Provides an account of the main techniques of perturbation expansions applied to both differential equations and integral expressions. The book is intended for students in engineering, applied and industrial mathematics, and fluid and computational mechanics.

Discusses the influence of environmental factors, such as irradiance, temperature, water and salinity on plant physiology and on vegetative and reproductive growth. This book focuses on a single crop, or a group of genetically or horticulturally related crop, and is divided into subsections that address individual environmental factors.

A presentation of ideas for the teaching of mathematics which encourages students to draw on their own knowledge and understanding of the subject, making the teaching and learning of mathematics a collaborative effort.

Professional accountability has become central to both public and private sectors. This title bridges the apparent gap between practice and research to present a logical, systematic model to guide the professional thinking and action within the context of everyday professional life.

Presents the study of computer-mediated instruction in a US research university that is the site of nationally known innovations in this area. This book traces the organizational entanglements of a constantly reconfiguring network of people, things, categories, and ideas that are sometimes loosely, sometimes tightly entangled in forms of CMI.

Presents research findings about school-level and district-level practices and successful strategies employed in mathematics education by highly effective schools that serve high-poverty communities. This book includes both the theory and practice of creating highly effective schools in these communities.