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This practical guide contains methodologically-grounded descriptions of how to successfully undertake individual assessment which is a professional practice important to Human Resource Managers, executives and anyone making decisions about employees.

Brings insight to the conundrum: which evolved first - language or cognition? This book addresses the notion that once language was created, it superimposed itself throughout our cognitive architecture, so that although language and cognition seem inseparable, they are in fact two different systems.

The developmental psychology text covers such topics as Darwinian dichotomies and their dissolution, dynamic systems theories, the creation and origins of knowledge, and coupled primal and plastic interactions in humans.

This work gathers together research concerning identity-based approaches to understanding thoughts, feelings and actions in organizations. The author creates ways of viewing the many forms of role transitions evident in organizational life.

This text presents a comprehensive survey of causes and effective approaches to intervention and prevention for all those students, trainees and professionals concerned with aggressive children and adolescents.

The US No Child Left Behind Act put high-stakes testing into the educational limelight. The purpose of this book is to: describe high-stakes testing; identify types of collateral damage that have attended the testing programs; analyze methods for coping with the damage; and suggest lessons to be learned from the high-stakes-testing experience.

This work discusses the relationship between the development of the global economy and educational policy, covering topics such as European colonialism, the Japanese response to colonialism, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, and the United Nations.

Trekkie popular culture sees Star Trek as a unifying myth. Dr Anijar explores this phenomenon in light of the influences of television in children's lives, and the effects of utopian interpretations of Star Trek on teaching practice.

This volume provides a framework grounded in theory and best professional practice to design, implement, and evaluate service-learning projects that address authentic community needs.

This title addresses ethical dilemmas and issues that ESL post-secondary faculty commonly encounter and examines them in the framework of social justice concerns. Scenarios in each chapter provide realistic situations for reflection and discussion. It then sets out the issues raised.

This work examines rhetorical practice relating to situations of risk and how documents and communication succeed or fail in these contexts. It should be of use to scholars in technical communication, rhetoric, and related areas.

Originally published: Voices, the art and science of psychotherapy. American Academy of Psychotherapists. 1986.

This work documents the "brave new world" of teacher, administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept across the US in recent years. Its particular vantage point is the perspective of dozens of new teachers trying to make their way through their first months and years working in schools in the New York City metropolitan area.

This research-based book is a response to the science education standards and reforms. The text makes a case for equity in science education, backed by pertinent literature including NSF data and stories from schools and classrooms.

The study presented in this volume examines how older women's identities are socially constructed and, in particular, how they can be influenced by institutional intervention. The interest in identity production is not only theoretical, but also practical.

Discusses methods and strategies appropriate for conducting design and development research.

Emphasizing the relevance of philosophical work to investigations in other cognitive sciences, this text examines such issues as the meaning of language, the mind-body problem, the functionalist theories of cognition, and intentionality.

This collection examines the many influences of biographical inquiry in education and discusses methodological issues from the perspective of veteran and novice biographers. Contributors underscore the documentary, interpretative and literary concerns of biographical and archival work.

Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest in the 1990s. The goal is to uncover the ideological nature of different conceptions of character education.

Explores how all types of fiction yield insights for educational theory and practice. Drawing on curriculum theory, literary analysis, psychology and feminism, the author argues that fiction has great teaching power as it connects readers with their alliances within themselves.

Focuses on the role and significance of science in modernity and public understanding of science. The author treats creationism as a case study of the argumentative engagement between science and non-science and as central to the commonsense lifeworld as it is to the lives of its intellectuals.

This title looks at the influence of case reports on the perception of issues.

Offers the diverse ways that ageing women attempt to deal with the challenges of loss, sickness and death. This text reveals that women age much more successfully than do men. The collection is written by women, many of whom are themselves older and bring their own experiences to the topic.

This autobiographical work was written in 1980 by a leading Chinese dissident, who was released from jail in October 1990 after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident in 1989. The central theme of the three stories is extreme deprivation and "Hunger".