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Encourages educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to rethink their assumptions about these students in school. This book is useful for education researchers, professionals, and students in the areas of middle/high school education, and alternative community programs.

This text explores changing understanding of literacy and its place in contemporary workplace settings. It highlights questions and dilemmas to consider when planning and teaching workplace education and challenges traditional thinking about workplace literacy as functional skills.

This revised edition presents a rhetorical analysis of written communication in the mental health community. It discusses questions such as: what "ideological biases" are reflected in the language the nurse uses to talk to, and talk about, the patient?

This text explores the long-term consequences of chronic illnesses followed by the death of a sibling on adult adjustment. The illness and loss of the child will have a direct impact on the siblings, and the siblings world will be shaped by the handling of the illness and loss by the parents.

Research on media and the law has generally been atheoretical and contradictory. This volume explains why pretrial publicity is unlikely to affect the outcome of most jury trials, despite many experimental studies claiming to show the influence of publicity.

An attempt to show that preservice teacher knowledge is substantive and should be part of the wider database of knowledge about teaching and learning in the field of teacher education. This text urges the reader to consider the possibilities of teacher research for advancing knowledge.

An analysis of the decade (1986-97) that brackets the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This collection of essays is both a narrative of that event and a re-examination of the international role in addressing humanitarian issues and complex emergencies.

This volume focuses on and exemplifies how ethnography can shed light on educational processes framed by the complex, internationalized societies in which we live today. It offers theory about ethnography and examples of innovative ethnography from particular perspectives.

Describes the development of automation in aircraft and in the aviation system and the effects that these technologies have had on the human operators and managers of the system. This book focuses on the ability of human operators to work cooperatively with the constellation of machines they command and control.

Indonesia contains some of Asia's most biodiverse and threatened forests. The challenges result from both long-term management problems and the political, social, and economic turmoil. This book focuses on what can be done differently to counter the destruction of forests due to asset-stripping, corruption, and the absence of government authority.

Contains practical teaching applications alongside theory and an integrated emphasis of diversity and other multicultural themes as well as a history of ancient times to the present.

Coalescent argumentation is the concept that arguments can function from agreement rather than disagreement. This text discusses how several components - emotional, visceral and kisceral are used everyday, and stresses argumentation as a means for understanding your own and your opposer's position.

This volume brings together existing literature from various fields in which verbal protocols of reading have been generated. The authors aim to provide an organized catalogue of all conscious, verbal processes reported in studies to date.

This text discusses the relationship between Russia, Iran and Turkey since the collapse of the Soviet empire. These nations are the main rivals for influence in the Caucasas and Central Asia, with China a distant factor.

Examines how working-class high school students' identity construction is mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports, community, and workplace worlds. This book contributes to understanding the role of institutions in shaping adolescents' lives.

This study is about learning and ethnography in the context of technologies. Simultaneously, it portrays young people's "thinking attitudes" in computer-based learning environments, and it describes how the practice of ethnography is changing in a digital world.

Introduces social workers to the feminist scholarship on relational theories and the practical application of these theories with diverse populations. This work emphasizes the practical application of the basic relational concepts, developing an approach to practice which is useful for both male and female social workers and clients.

In this analysis, extended case studies of two veteran teachers and their students are combined with research literature to explore issues of teaching, learning and testing US history. While the two teachers share several similarities, the teaching practices they construct are very different.

The gap between "quantitative" and "qualitative" modellers is dealt with in this book. It discusses reconciling the need to impose rigour and to understand the influence of context. With many uses for models, there is also the realistic possibility of doing credible research without their use.

Based on a research study of journal writing in an English as a second language course, this text provides an understanding of the writing and thinking processes of students. It should be useful in programmes that prepare teachers to work with students for whom English is a second language.

Addresses how writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) programs can be effective in the context of differences among languages and specializations in disciplines they serve. It argues the importance of comprehensive writing centers to the WAC endeavor; explains tutor training and faculty consultancy; and discusses a multilayered assessment program.

Linda Laidlaw explores what happens when children begin to write. She offers new information about writing and literacy pedagogy linked to research in the complexity sciences and cognition, and considers the possibilities for pedagogy when alternative metaphors, images, and structures are considered for writing and curriculum.