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This guide asseses global education, while looking at the issue from a historical and international viewpoint. Topics include: equality and freedom in Islamic education; India's education, human rights and the global flow; and natural rights and education in the West.

Using personal narratives by Yup'ik Eskimo teachers, this text shows how they began to reconcile cultural differences and conflict between the culture of the school and that of the community. The book also provides examples for others who are involved in creating culturally responsive education.

A documentation of the impact of recent changes in the international system of Japan's foreign policy. Chapters include: diplomatic style; the thrust for economic success; the search for security; and the impact of international relations with neighbouring countries.

This second edition contains an entirely new chapter on gifts and exchange as well as a thoroughly updated bibliography and guide for students for finding case studies in economic anthropology.

The effort to understand personal relationships has traditionally focused on the individual characteristics of participants. This book offers a way to consider basic notions about how relationships form, such as how particular people meet, and how relationships are started. It is aimed at students and researchers in a variety of disciplines.

Examines the function of empathy, introducing students and practitioners to the potential effectiveness of utilizing empathic understanding in the treatment process. This work focuses on understanding empathy from a range of theoretical perspectives and developing interventions for employing the construct across the course of treatment.

Provides a fusion of the history, philosophy, literature, art, music, and educational aspects of the Armenian experience. This volume concludes with a trio of essays concerning fundamental questions of historiography and politics that either make possible or can inhibit reconciliation of ancient truths and righting ancient wrongs.

Reveals the development of students' understanding of statistical literacy. This book looks at students' thinking, in relation to tasks based on sampling, graphical representations, averages, chance, beginning inference, and variation, which are essential to later work in formal statistics.

Lesson study is a popular professional development approach in Japan whereby teachers collaborate to study content and instruction, and how students solve problems. This work is a comprehensive look at the system and process of lesson study in Japan.

What is parental control? Is it positive or negative? Are there alternatives to control and how might we apply them? This book addresses these and other questions about the meaning and predictors of parental control, as well as its consequences for children's adjustment and well-being.

This volume explores the American national trend toward adoption of performance assessments. Based on case studies of 16 schools, this study details performance assessments and shows how they differ when they are introduced by state departments of education, districts and schools themselves.

A deconstruction and reconstruction of learning, development and schooling that urges teachers to explore and create new educational opportunities for themselves and their students. The author asks, can schools become environments that support children as developers of their lives?

Aims to give voice to thirty ordinary women who live extraordinary lives as partners to crossdressers, transgenerists, and male-to-female transsexuals. Here, these women discuss how they first learned of their partners' gender issues, how they have coped with the emotions that followed, and how they have dealt with concerns about privacy/secrecy.

Captures the social and intellectual developments and the promises of an after-school project called La Clase Magica. This title describes the early transformations of the project that began as an educational activity and slowly but deliberately turned into a social action project whose aim was to serve those with low economic and political means.

This text is intended to introduce the concept of a hypothetical type of knowledge construction that has been referred to as structural knowledge - which goes beyond traditional forms of information recall to provide the bases for knowlege application.

Proposes a way to help second language acquisition develop a focus using the philosophy of science as the lens. This volume is of interest to researchers, educators, and graduate students in second language acquisition, applied linguistics, TESOL, and linguistics programs. It is useful for an introductory SLA course.

Provides a theoretical model for conceptualizing and understanding the psychology of enjoyment and the processes through which people manage positive emotions. This book is intended for researchers, students, and practitioners interested in positive psychology from the fields of social, clinical, health, and personality psychology.

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to political communication in America. Taking a broad-based theoretical and a multi-perspective approach to politics and the press, the author looks at phenomena from a variety of points of view.

Human factors/ergonomics (HFE) as a discipline has grown by accretions rather than having been developed systematically and deliberately. This book creates a formal conceptual structure for HFE. It is intended as a contribution to cultural history.

A guide to identifying, treating and breaking the cycle of sexual abuse. Based on 30 years of professional experience in treating offenders and survivors of sexual assault and molestation, the author provides step-by-step guidelines for producing change in this group of clients.

Outlines best practices for the psychosocial problems associated with the chronic and major health conditions of the 21st century, such as paediatric asthma, Type I and Type II diabetes, obesity, paediatric cancer, and adult hypertension. This text is suitable for students and for practitioners specialising in social work in health settings.

Presents a fresh overview of the Asian-Pacific War and its victims, drawing attention to the neglected history of Japan's invasion of China and Southeast Asia. This book seeks to show that the war in Asia and the Pacific is as much about Shanghai, Nanking, and Manila as about Pearl Harbor, Midway, and Hiroshima.

Globalization, migration, and the spread of English have resulted in a great diversity of social and educational contexts in which English learning is taking place. This volume specifically designed for language teachers, provides links between sociolinguistic concepts and language pedagogy.

Offers training, support and advice for prospective news editors. Through history, analyses, and anecdotes, this book offers a grounding to prepare potential editors for the range of their responsibilities in newsrooms: developing ideas; evaluating and editing copy; working with writers; determining what is news; and, directing news coverage.

Subjects the prophets and doctrines of educational neoliberalism to scrutiny in order to provide a rationale and vision for public education beyond the limits of No Child Left Behind. This book combines a history of education policy with an analysis of the origins of such policy and its impact on professional educators.