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This work is a practical text that employs scientific research, sound advice, and student journal entries to encourage, sustain and challenge the readers to function at their best during the days of student teaching.

This project examines parental roles in controlling television programmes watched by children in Europe. The structure of the study includes an analysis of the technical devices available to assist parents and a corresponding analysis of potential ratings or labelling systems.

A study of the relational literacy curriculum. Diane Salmon and Ruth Ann Freedman discuss how the relational curriculum works and demonstrate how to facilitate interpersonal relationships in the classroom.

This is an ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families in California and Texas. It illustrates cases where language is used by speakers to choose between self-definitions and where language interacts differentially with other defining categories.

This study chronicles the creation of an advanced curriculum in speaking and writing during the Progressive era and the impact of that curriculum on public discourse.

This text discusses theories in psychology, philosophy and aesthetics. It examines the impact of: the theories on each other; the education of children; and the field of art education. The book philosophically supports the view that teachers need to be the change agents in art curriculum reform.

Introducing the process of producing television news with current digital and automation technologies, author Phillip O. Keirstead walks readers through the steps and identifies the key players and procedures for producing televised news broadcasts.

Based on research focusing on the experience of having confused speech and being with confused speakers, this book begins with everyday, commonly understood ideas such as "talking too much" and examines how confused speech is "brought off" as a collaborative activity by the people involved.

Offers insight into the possible options for corporate strategists and government policymakers as they look to harness the expansion of wireless communications to meet the goals of sustainable telecommunications development. This book compares the development of wireless communications in four countries.

Tracing the history of the telecommunications highway, this text explains the technological uncertainties and many of its futuristic services. It examines the impact of financial, policy, business, and consumer issues that effect and undermine the superhighway.

This volume describes the progress being made at The Institute for the Learning Sciences using computers to provide motivating environments for learning. The text documents the authors' work from the cognitive psychology which underlies it.

This study combines ethnographic, quantitative and qualitative discourse methodologies to provide an analysis of language use in the Brentwood Puerto Rican community. The goal is to show that before conclusions about Spanish in the USA can be reached, communities should be studied individually.

Neglected for years because of its puzzling range of symptoms, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is now a recognised medical concern. This book provides a theory of how the symptoms of CFS may develop through dysfunction of numerous physiological pathways and describes various therapies.

As the elderly population continues to increase, the need for suitable housing will continue to rise as well. This handbook is designed to help individuals and families determine the feasiblility of starting a small home business providing residential home services for one or more elderly persons.

This work argues that although journalistic images of the audience may be incomplete, they do exist and powerfully help shape the work of journalists. Using case studies, this work examines academic notions of audience and the ways in which they are embedded within the news construction.

This book provides a feminist analysis of gender politics in the works of four major Africana women writers: Toni Morrison,Nichelle Cliff, Assia Djebar and Paule Marshall.

The Graduate Grind looks closely at the culture of graduate school in an effort to uncover why graduate students routinely experience extreme depression, illness, divorce and sometimes even suicide and murder.

Looks at this country's complicated weapons procurement process, delving into how decisions are made and the professed and real reasons behind them. Examines how unwanted weapons systems come into existence, why the government's watchdog agencies have little impact on preventing waste by the milita

Offers an introduction to phonetics in a presentation that equips the communication disorders student to deal with the wide range of speech types that will be encountered in a clinic. This work examines speech acoustics, with illustrations of sample spectrograms in traditional articulatory drawings. It is accompanied by a CD of sound examples.

Explores topics including: who needs group counseling and psychotherapy; therapeutic factors in children's groups; pre-group planning and forming a group; and how to enhance emotional experiencing and group support. This text is useful for counseling psychology students, researchers, and practitioners working with young people.

Topics in this volume include: issues in affective assessment; selecting and designing affective instruments; and interpreting affective data.

This broad consideration of the lifespan component of communication study emphasizes how communicative processes develop, are maintained, and change throughout the life span. Topics covered include language skills, interpersonal conflict management, socialization, care-giving, and relationship development.

Poverty is an educational issue because it affects children's physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Especially in current times, taken-for-granted ideas about poverty and poor children must be scrutinized and reconsidered. That is the goal of this book.

Examines the technical, regulatory, and economic forces that have shaped the development of American telecommunications services. This volume is both an introduction to the basic technical, economic, and regulatory principles underlying telecommunications, and a detailed account of major events that have marked development of the sector in the US.

This work provides an examination of the relationship between written communication in academic and workplace contexts. It is aimed at writing researchers, teachers, programme designers, and others concerned with writing in academic and business arenas.