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Exploring the question of whether China's peasantry was a revolutionary force, this volume pays particular attention to the first half of the 20th century, when peasant-based conflict was central to nationwide revolutionary processes. It traces key themes of social conflict and peasant resistance.

This book offers specific strategies for classroom teachers to use in designing and implementing classroom groups and cooperative learning for a wide range of classes.

This work questions the rhetoric/technical knowledge split to examine what is at stake in rhetoric's traditional classification as a "practical" art. It explores the distinction between practical and design arts, and enumerates the skills criteria cited in literature to count as an art of design.

This book challenges orthodoxy and static ideas about small group dynamics. A primary goal is to offer an alternative model of group development.

In this text, Robert J. Starratt enters the national conversation among educational administration scholars and practitioners about what constitutes the core of their knowledge and practice.

This book is concerned with the provision of health information remotely via the latest communications technologies. It examines what has been learned from research-based evaluations of digital health projects.

Exploring the driving forces behind the current government-sponsored resurrection of phonics, and the arguments used to justify it, this title examines the roles played by three key actors - corporate America, politicians, and state-supported reading researchers - in the formulation of what Strauss terms the neophonics political program.

This second, updated and expanded edition is written for undergraduate, graduate, and in-service teachers who want to integrate literacy processes into their content area instruction.

Nursing homes are often not equipped to deal with palliative needs of late-stage dementia care. This book addresses those needs. Information is included on the foundations and options for programme development; treatment approaches for common needs;

This text explores family of origin treatment, which looks at patterns and rules in a family which affect interactions within that family. These patterns are then unconsciously utilized throughout a person's life in work and family settings.

As the incidence of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and obesity sometimes caused by compulsive eating has risen, so has research and literature in the field. Presenting current knowledge of these eating disorders, this book addresses issues relevant to all.

Explores the contributions, actual and potential, of complexity thinking to educational research and practice. Focusing on the theoretical premises and the methodology, this book aims to present complexity thinking as an important attitude for educators and educational researchers. It also deals with global issues around complexity thinking.

Offers an overview of the range of cognitive activities. This book reviews an area of cognitive research, explains the findings, and highlights their implications and applications in - cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, and family- models of therapy. Each includes case vignettes illustrating the importance of concepts in practice.

Presents a picture of the field of intellectual styles, through describing, analyzing, and integrating the major theoretical and research works on the topic. This book describes nature, origins, historical development, theories, research, and applications of this field, and addresses three major controversial issues.

Examines satellite communications - the technology and the services they provide and the socio-political, security, economic, policy, news, entertainment, and cultural impact. The book addresses what satellites have been, how they are designed and built, how they will evolve in the future, what they mean today, and what they will mean tomorrow.

Focusing on corpus planning in language policy, this book provides an integrative framework, and also discusses multiple languages in detail. It provides readers with familiarity, with a range of language cases, and at the same time gives them the theoretical tools and analysis to see how they inter-relate.

Ted T. Aoki, a prominent curriculum scholar of his generation in Canada, has influenced numerous scholars around the world. This book brings together his work, over a 30-year span.

This volume examines children's experiences with electronic media in the home, including children's development of media literacy. To understand the experiences, the book examines the children at various developmental ages and across generations.

Cynthia Glidden-Tracey lays out an integrated, holistic and effective approach to clients' inevitably intertwined problems that requires all practitioners to develop skills for detecting, assessing, and addressing substance use whenever concerns about it emerge in the course of therapy.

Reporting the emergence of technological literacy in the US, this study chronicles the stories of several individuals in their efforts to acquire varying degrees of such literacy. It situates their accounts in the cultural ecology of the time, tracing factors and trends that may have influenced or been influenced by literacy practices and values.

This manual presents a working model for "helping the learner to learn". It should be relevant to any teaching context, but the focus is on teaching in secondary and college science classrooms. It defines a framework for thinking about active learning and creating an active learning environment.

This work proposes that the American newspaper industry must begin to view change as more than just something to which it must react and adjust, offering instead a view of change as a process with causes, phases and. cycles. The book is concerned with the past, present and future of a paper.

The main objective of this text is to present a career counselling process model, including sequential stages and steps, along with a method for implementing the model. It is intended as a bridge between the theoretical and the applied worlds of career counselling.

Tackles the question of media ownership. This title chronicles the myriad changes in the media industry and the factors contributing to these changes. It examines how the media industry is being reshaped by technological forces in the various segments, as well as by social and cultural reactions to these forces.

The media's presentation suggests that American teenage culture today is the most violent, sexual, and amoral youth culture in history. In this book, Nichols and Good deconstruct the negative images held by large numbers of adults.

This text brings together the challenges faced by managers as they learn to adapt to a more globalized world, as well as to an even-more-technologically sophisticated world. Divided into five parts, the book is designed to present an overview of the challenges facing managers and employees today.

This is a study of the Pueblo Indians and Indian High School in New Mexico. The school is a non-public, state-accredited, off-reservation boarding school for more than 400 Pueblo, Navajo and Apache Indian students.

Provides a review and analysis of the theoretical and empirical research that has examined the interconnections among the domains of family life and the workplace. Documenting the economy patterns, this book also looks at the health of communities and neighborhoods, exploring the extent to which such services meet the needs of working families.