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Book SynopsisGives an abundance of practical advice on how active learning techniques can be used by teachers across the disciplines. Using real-life examples, the authors discuss how various small-group exercises, simulations, and case studies can be blAnded with the technological and human resources available outside the classroom. The book is engagingly written for all classroom teachers. --Stephen Brookfield, distinguished professor of education, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MinnesotaTrade Review"Gives an abundance of practical advice on how active learning techniques can be used by teachers across the disciplines. Using real-life examples, the authors discuss how various small-group exercises, simulations, and case studies can be blAnded with the technological and human resources available outside the classroom. The book is engagingly written for all classroom teachers." (Stephen Brookfield, distinguished professor of education, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota)Table of ContentsUNDERSTANDING ACTIVE LEARNING. 1. The Case for Active Learning. 2. What Active-Learning Is and How It Works. 3. Creating an Active Learning Environment. STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES. 4. Informal Small Groups. 5. Cooperative Student Projects. 6. Simulations. 7. Case Studies. RESOURCES THAT ENCOURAGE ACTIVE LEARNING. 8. Integrating Reading Materials and Guest Speakers. 9. Using Technology Effectively. 10. Developing and Assessing Instructional Expertise.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive guide describes practical interventions for virtually every major behavioral problem that students may exhibit from kindergarten to grade 12. It focuses on promoting a healthy and social school environment in which all children can learn and grow.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Perspectives on School-Based Interventions. Classroom Management. Externalizing Responses. Internalizing Responses. Cognitive and Social Competence. Relationships with Peers. Relationships with Adults. Health Management.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume, David Geary provides a comprehensive theory that brings children's education into the 21st century, and provides directions for the development of a new discipline, evolutionary educational psychology. Geary presents the case that a scientifically grounded approach to children's schooling and, to a lesser degree, their later occupational interests can be informed by recent advances in the application of evolutionary theory to the understanding of the human brain, mind, and its development. He develops a taxonomy of evolved cognitive abilities and describes how, from an evolutionary perspective, these abilities are modified and refined during childhood. From there, he lays the framework for understanding the relation between evolved abilities, such as language, and the non-evolved competencies that are built from them with schooling, such as reading. Geary describes the mechanisms, such as working memory, that enable humans to transform evolved cognitive abilities into culturally important, school taught competencies.These are integrated with discussion of human intellectual history and cultural evolution, and the sources of children's motivation to learn inside and outside of the classroom. In all, this may well be the most revolutionary theory of children's schooling since Rousseau.Table of ContentsForeword. Educating the Evolved Mind: Conceptual Foundations for an Evolutionary Educational Psychology. David C. Geary. Knowledge, Abilities, and Will, Phillip L. Ackerman. Instructing Evolved Minds: Pedagogically Primary Strategies for Promoting Biologically Secondary Learning, Daniel B. Berch. The Most Educable of Animals, David F. Bjorklund. Educating the Evolved and the Developing Mind: Commentary on Geary's ""Educating the Evolved Mind: Conceptual Foundations for an Evolutionary Educational Psychology"", Andreas Demetriou. What is the Meaning of Evolutionary Psychology for Education?, Earl Hunt. Evolution of Scientific Thinking: Comments on Geary's ""Educating the Evolved Mind"", David Klahr. Evolutionary Biology and Educational Psychology, John Sweller. Educating the Evolved Mind: Reflections and Refinements, David C. Geary. About the Authors.

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Book SynopsisThe revised and expanded edition of a popular book trusted in classrooms across the country, Behavior Support is your guide to implementing effective positive behavior support (PBS)—both in the classroom and across an entire school. You’ll get explicit, research-based strategies for implementing the three tiers of PBS: universal, school-wide interventions; selected interventions with students exhibiting risk behaviours; specialized interventions with students who need intensive, individualized help. Packed with updated strategies on hot topics, redesigned forms, and the newest research on multitiered systems of support, this new edition will help you support positive changes in your students’ behaviour—so you can keep the focus on learning. (Ideal for both in-service teacher training and college and university courses!)RESEARCH-BASED STRATEGIES FOR HELPING STUDENTS: Stop challenging behaviour before it starts Improve communication, social, and self-control skills Form positive, respectful relationships with classmates, teachers, and other community members Take a more active part in their school, classroom, and community WHAT’S NEW: More research and strategies on key topics, including bullying prevention, safe and responsive school climates, functional assessment, and individual student interventions. You’ll also get more explicit step-by-step instructions, new case examples, tips on sustaining PBS in your school, redesigned forms that are practical and easy to use, and focusing questions for each chapter that highlight key takeaways.This revised and expanded edition is your guide to implementing effective positive behaviour support. Includes more on bullying prevention, safe and responsive school climates, and functional behaviour analysis.

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Book SynopsisTeach social-emotional competence - the foundation of school and social success - with the NEW editions of the Strong Kids™ - Grades 6 - 8 curriculum! Strong Kids is the fun and easy way to help your students develop the social-emotional skills they need to manage their challenges and succeed in school and life. Developed by a team of educational and mental health experts, this evidence-based, age-appropriate curriculum is Low cost and low tech Proven to help increase students' knowledge of social and emotional concepts and decrease their emotional and behavioral problems Easy to implement with no mental health training required Brief enough to use with any program Through engaging, thought-provoking classroom activities, students learn about emotions and the social-emotional skills they'll use for the rest of their lives: managing anger, reducing stress, solving interpersonal problems, and much more. This scientifically-based curriculum runs for 12 weeks, and lessons are easy to fit into your existing schedule (especially with the new options for breaking them into smaller chunks). Partially scripted lessons, handouts, and worksheets are included - all photocopiable and available as downloads - so teachers have everything they need to implement the program with little added cost or preparation.

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Book SynopsisTeach social-emotional competence to children Grads K - 2 with the NEW edition of the Strong Start - Grades K - 2 curriculum! Part of the Strong Kids™ series, Strong Start is the fun, easy way to help children develop the social-emotional skills they need to build a strong foundation for school success. Developed by a team of educational and mental health experts, this evidence-based, age-appropriate curriculum is Low cost and low tech Proven to help increase children's knowledge of healthy behavior Easy to implement with no training required Brief enough to use with any program Through engaging classroom activities, children learn about emotions and the social-emotional skills they'll use for the rest of their lives: managing anger, reducing stress, solving interpersonal problems, and more. This scientifically based curriculum runs for 10 weeks, and lessons are easy to fit into your existing schedule. Partially scripted lessons, handouts, and worksheets are included - all photocopiable and available as downloads - so you have everything you need to implement the program with little added cost or preparation.

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Book SynopsisThe writing of this book was in part supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSFEHR 0335369). It represents a significant extension and enriched interpretation of earlier work on “motivation as an instructional outcome” (e.g., Maehr, 1976). Such enrichment and enhancement was prompted by the work on the project as it was conceptualised and envisioned by Paul Pintrich---and later, following his untimely death, carried out by a cadre of students and colleagues, including especially his Wife, Life Partner and also oft-time collaborator in multiple research and scholarly endeavours: Dr. Elizabeth DeGroot as well as several colleagues, including, the author of this volume and Dr. Stuart Karabenick. Of course, it is the primary author of this volume who must bear the responsibility for omissions, errors and interpretations that may have slipped into the text. But whatever portions of this volume may be deemed worthy of consideration and possibly of some value for fellow scholars presently or in the future --- and also contribute in at least some small way not only to continuing scholarly study of “The Most important attitude that can be formed: “That of Desire to go on Learning.” But therewith here and there also prove useful not only for scholars and the development of an increased understanding of the nature and nurture of motivation and its impact on the pursuit of knowledge but also prove useful to students in preparing to become educators --- and perhaps also of value to experienced educational practitioners ---- and here there maybe also to parents and others with a concern for the nature and nurture of excellence in teaching and learning.

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Book SynopsisThe writing of this book was in part supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSFEHR 0335369). It represents a significant extension and enriched interpretation of earlier work on “motivation as an instructional outcome” (e.g., Maehr, 1976). Such enrichment and enhancement was prompted by the work on the project as it was conceptualised and envisioned by Paul Pintrich---and later, following his untimely death, carried out by a cadre of students and colleagues, including especially his Wife, Life Partner and also oft-time collaborator in multiple research and scholarly endeavours: Dr. Elizabeth DeGroot as well as several colleagues, including, the author of this volume and Dr. Stuart Karabenick. Of course, it is the primary author of this volume who must bear the responsibility for omissions, errors and interpretations that may have slipped into the text. But whatever portions of this volume may be deemed worthy of consideration and possibly of some value for fellow scholars presently or in the future --- and also contribute in at least some small way not only to continuing scholarly study of “The Most important attitude that can be formed: “That of Desire to go on Learning.” But therewith here and there also prove useful not only for scholars and the development of an increased understanding of the nature and nurture of motivation and its impact on the pursuit of knowledge but also prove useful to students in preparing to become educators --- and perhaps also of value to experienced educational practitioners ---- and here there maybe also to parents and others with a concern for the nature and nurture of excellence in teaching and learning.

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Book SynopsisThis particular case study is designed to explore the extent to which a teacher evaluation system is effective. It also addresses the challenge of measuring student achievement gains when the students in question are already at the high end of the scale, a different yet important—problem in an era when many concentrate on “low-hanging fruit” or students “on the bubble” between failure and marginal performance. By presenting a realworld case, various research methods for studying issues raised by the case, and the interchange among scholars engaged in this effort, this volume will allow educational policy makers and practitioners to decide if a proposed approach is compelling and relevant for their settings. Concurrently, a comparison of various research methods addressing a real school-based problem provides an important learning tool for the research community, and for those who study and make policy. We also believe that the case study and the research designs will be useful for those with responsibility for framing and funding a research agenda in education that utilises strong research designs applied to topics that matter to student outcomes at all levels of the U.S. education system and at all levels of pupil performance. And finally, we hope that doctoral programs that seek to prepare the next generation of education researchers will find our approach helpful in their work.

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Book SynopsisThis particular case study is designed to explore the extent to which a teacher evaluation system is effective. It also addresses the challenge of measuring student achievement gains when the students in question are already at the high end of the scale, a different yet important—problem in an era when many concentrate on “low-hanging fruit” or students “on the bubble” between failure and marginal performance. By presenting a realworld case, various research methods for studying issues raised by the case, and the interchange among scholars engaged in this effort, this volume will allow educational policy makers and practitioners to decide if a proposed approach is compelling and relevant for their settings. Concurrently, a comparison of various research methods addressing a real school-based problem provides an important learning tool for the research community, and for those who study and make policy. We also believe that the case study and the research designs will be useful for those with responsibility for framing and funding a research agenda in education that utilises strong research designs applied to topics that matter to student outcomes at all levels of the U.S. education system and at all levels of pupil performance. And finally, we hope that doctoral programs that seek to prepare the next generation of education researchers will find our approach helpful in their work.

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Book SynopsisThrough its research-to-practice focus, this book honours the professional contributions of Professor Barry J. Zimmerman as illustrated by the recent self-regulation applications of a highly respected group of national and international scholars. This book will serve as a valuable resource for those interested in empowering and enabling learners to successfully manage and self-direct their lives, education, and careers. In particular, K-12 educators, college instructors, coaches, musicians, health care providers and researchers will gain invaluable insight into the nature of self-regulation as well as how they can readily apply self-regulation principles into their teaching, instruction, or mentoring. Emergent trends in education and psychology circles, such as linking self-regulated learning assessment and interventions as well as the use of technology to enhance student learning and self-regulation, are additional themes addressed in the book. The kaleidoscope of self-regulation issues addressed in this book along with the wide range of promising intervention applications should also prove to be particularly appealing to graduate students as they pursue their future research activities and seek to optimise their individual growth and development.

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Book SynopsisThrough its research-to-practice focus, this book honours the professional contributions of Professor Barry J. Zimmerman as illustrated by the recent self-regulation applications of a highly respected group of national and international scholars. This book will serve as a valuable resource for those interested in empowering and enabling learners to successfully manage and self-direct their lives, education, and careers. In particular, K-12 educators, college instructors, coaches, musicians, health care providers and researchers will gain invaluable insight into the nature of self-regulation as well as how they can readily apply self-regulation principles into their teaching, instruction, or mentoring. Emergent trends in education and psychology circles, such as linking self-regulated learning assessment and interventions as well as the use of technology to enhance student learning and self-regulation, are additional themes addressed in the book. The kaleidoscope of self-regulation issues addressed in this book along with the wide range of promising intervention applications should also prove to be particularly appealing to graduate students as they pursue their future research activities and seek to optimise their individual growth and development.

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Book SynopsisSome old ideas can become very new. This is the case of the notion of creativity in psychology. Traditionally conceptualized in the narrow framework of the amazing things poets, composers, painters, and scientists do, creativity research had reached an impassé in its efforts to locate creativity within the confines of personality characteristics.This is the time for change. The New Look at creativity that is rooted within the sociocultural tradition in psychology and elaborated in the present book finds creativity in each and every moment of our everyday lives. We are creative when we move around in the streets, dance tango, fool around with our self-images while shopping for clothes, or resist pre-given recipes while cooking dinners. We are being creative even in our bedrooms where we perform the difficult tasks of falling asleep or waking up through arrays of sleep inducers and alarm clocks, not to speak of the time we spend in the very state of sleep. All our actions at night—ranging from what we later call nightmares--or dreams—are arenas of creativity even if we may barely remember what we have done.The present monograph by Lene Tanggaard constitutes a powerful multi-pronged exposition of the New Look at Creativity. Its starting point is in the move to pay attention to the processes of acting in everyday life—rather than start from the classification of products of human actions into classes of “creative” versus “non-creative.”

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Book SynopsisSome old ideas can become very new. This is the case of the notion of creativity in psychology. Traditionally conceptualized in the narrow framework of the amazing things poets, composers, painters, and scientists do, creativity research had reached an impassé in its efforts to locate creativity within the confines of personality characteristics.This is the time for change. The New Look at creativity that is rooted within the sociocultural tradition in psychology and elaborated in the present book finds creativity in each and every moment of our everyday lives. We are creative when we move around in the streets, dance tango, fool around with our self-images while shopping for clothes, or resist pre-given recipes while cooking dinners. We are being creative even in our bedrooms where we perform the difficult tasks of falling asleep or waking up through arrays of sleep inducers and alarm clocks, not to speak of the time we spend in the very state of sleep. All our actions at night—ranging from what we later call nightmares--or dreams—are arenas of creativity even if we may barely remember what we have done.The present monograph by Lene Tanggaard constitutes a powerful multi-pronged exposition of the New Look at Creativity. Its starting point is in the move to pay attention to the processes of acting in everyday life—rather than start from the classification of products of human actions into classes of “creative” versus “non-creative.”

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Book SynopsisBiographical Ruptures and their Repair: Cultural Transitions in Development represents the efforts of bridging theoretical, methodological, and practice oriented issues revolving around the notion of biographical ruptures and their repairs from cultural psychological perspectives in order to bring novel understandings to the debateof what it means to be a developing human being in an ever changing world.While persons develop in their every day interactions, they are bound to experience different forms of ruptures, which then must be managed individually. Contrary to mainstream psychology ruptures and repairs are here not necessarily understood as a personal experience, which then must be overcome through various coping strategies, but rather as an experience, which necessarily emerges out of the complex interrelatedness of intra-psychological, inter-personal, and societal processes. Moving along these different levels of analysis, each of the 13 chapters of this book contributes to the general cultural psychological understanding of ruptures from their own particular standpoint. The notion of ruptures and their repairs are thus discussed from e.g. classical developmental psychological theories, while following chapters then challenge such developmental approaches. Ruptures in relation to racial interpellations are discussed using the documentary method and these analyses are then further developed in a following chapter with social representations theory. On the object level ruptures are pointed to within popular music videos to further develop the documentary method, which is then taken up in another chapter and discussed from a Ganzheitspsychological approach.The current book thus does not only represent a conglomerate of various theoretical, methodological, or practice oriented approaches to ruptures and their repairs, each adding with their own expertise a little part to a better understand of the phenomenon in its whole. It further demonstrated a lively debate between leading specialists and practitioners from different disciplines and countries discussing theoretical and methodological issues, but also ethical and moral ones, each from their own cultural psychological viewpoint. This book will interest anyone who is interested biographical rupture and their repairs from a cultural psychological, developmental, social psychological, or psychotherapeutic viewpoint.

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Book SynopsisBiographical Ruptures and their Repair: Cultural Transitions in Development represents the efforts of bridging theoretical, methodological, and practice oriented issues revolving around the notion of biographical ruptures and their repairs from cultural psychological perspectives in order to bring novel understandings to the debateof what it means to be a developing human being in an ever changing world.While persons develop in their every day interactions, they are bound to experience different forms of ruptures, which then must be managed individually. Contrary to mainstream psychology ruptures and repairs are here not necessarily understood as a personal experience, which then must be overcome through various coping strategies, but rather as an experience, which necessarily emerges out of the complex interrelatedness of intra-psychological, inter-personal, and societal processes. Moving along these different levels of analysis, each of the 13 chapters of this book contributes to the general cultural psychological understanding of ruptures from their own particular standpoint. The notion of ruptures and their repairs are thus discussed from e.g. classical developmental psychological theories, while following chapters then challenge such developmental approaches. Ruptures in relation to racial interpellations are discussed using the documentary method and these analyses are then further developed in a following chapter with social representations theory. On the object level ruptures are pointed to within popular music videos to further develop the documentary method, which is then taken up in another chapter and discussed from a Ganzheitspsychological approach.The current book thus does not only represent a conglomerate of various theoretical, methodological, or practice oriented approaches to ruptures and their repairs, each adding with their own expertise a little part to a better understand of the phenomenon in its whole. It further demonstrated a lively debate between leading specialists and practitioners from different disciplines and countries discussing theoretical and methodological issues, but also ethical and moral ones, each from their own cultural psychological viewpoint. This book will interest anyone who is interested biographical rupture and their repairs from a cultural psychological, developmental, social psychological, or psychotherapeutic viewpoint.

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Book SynopsisService Learning: An Agent for Social Change discusses personal, social, academic, and career-related impact of service-learning as an instructional method is well documented. This book contributes to the literature by providing access to examples of the service-learning process; the nuances of its implementation; and qualitative evaluation of what works, from the students' perspective. It can serve as a resource for educators, advocacy groups, community organizers, and other students interested in engaging in social action. The work reports on the process and outcomes of service-learning projects implemented in a higher education setting on topics of domestic violence and youth violence; provides an alternative service-learning approach for non-traditional college settings; and discusses new directions in service-learning project development including web-based and grade school programming and asset-based community development.

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Book SynopsisThe word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase “free market” gives the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the rise of global free-market fundamentalism. It reaches into nearly every aspect of our daily lives as it seeks to dominate and eliminate the last vestiges of public domains through wanton privatization and deregulation. It degrades all that is public. The good news is that a global community of resistance continues to struggle against neoliberal oppression. Formal and informal education entities contribute to these struggles, offering visions and strategies for creating a better future.The purpose of this volume is twofold. Several contributors will highlight how the neoliberal agenda is impacting educational policy formation, teaching and learning, and relationships between K-12 schools and communities. Other contributors will highlight how the global community has gradually become conscious of the ideological doctrine and how it is responsible for human suffering and misery.The volume is needed because the growing body of educational research linked to exploring the impact of neoliberalism on schools and society fails to provide conceptual or historical understanding of this ideology. It is also an important scholarly intervention because it provides insights as to why educators, scholars, and other global citizens have challenged the intrusion of market forces over life inside K-12 schools.Teacher educators, schoolteachers, and anyone who yearns to understand what is behind the debilitating trend of commercial forces subverting humanizing educational projects would benefit from this volume. Activists, educators, youth, and scholars who seek strategies and visions for building democratic schools and a society would consider this volume essential reading.

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Book SynopsisThe word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase “free market” gives the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the rise of global free-market fundamentalism. It reaches into nearly every aspect of our daily lives as it seeks to dominate and eliminate the last vestiges of public domains through wanton privatization and deregulation. It degrades all that is public. The good news is that a global community of resistance continues to struggle against neoliberal oppression. Formal and informal education entities contribute to these struggles, offering visions and strategies for creating a better future.The purpose of this volume is twofold. Several contributors will highlight how the neoliberal agenda is impacting educational policy formation, teaching and learning, and relationships between K-12 schools and communities. Other contributors will highlight how the global community has gradually become conscious of the ideological doctrine and how it is responsible for human suffering and misery.The volume is needed because the growing body of educational research linked to exploring the impact of neoliberalism on schools and society fails to provide conceptual or historical understanding of this ideology. It is also an important scholarly intervention because it provides insights as to why educators, scholars, and other global citizens have challenged the intrusion of market forces over life inside K-12 schools.Teacher educators, schoolteachers, and anyone who yearns to understand what is behind the debilitating trend of commercial forces subverting humanizing educational projects would benefit from this volume. Activists, educators, youth, and scholars who seek strategies and visions for building democratic schools and a society would consider this volume essential reading.

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Book SynopsisThe word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase “free market” gives the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the rise of global free-market fundamentalism. It reaches into nearly every aspect of our daily lives as it seeks to dominate and eliminate the last vestiges of public domains through wanton privatization and deregulation. It degrades all that is public. The good news is that a global community of resistance continues to struggle against neoliberal oppression. Formal and informal education entities contribute to these struggles, offering visions and strategies for creating a better future.The purpose of this volume is twofold. Several contributors will highlight how the neoliberal agenda is impacting educational policy formation, teaching and learning, and relationships between institutions of higher education and communities. Other contributors will highlight how the global community has gradually become conscious of the ideological doctrine and how it is responsible for human suffering and misery.The volume is needed because the growing body of educational research linked to exploring the impact of neoliberalism on education and society fails to provide conceptual or historical understanding of this ideology. It is also an important scholarly intervention because it provides insights as to why educators, scholars, and other global citizens have challenged the intrusion of market forces over life inside universities and colleges.Teaching faculty, research faculty, and anyone who yearns to understand what is behind the debilitating trend of commercial forces subverting humanizing educational projects would benefit from this volume. Activists, educators, youth, and scholars who seek strategies and visions for building democratic higher education and a more democratic society would consider this volume essential reading.

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Book SynopsisThe word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase “free market” gives the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the rise of global free-market fundamentalism. It reaches into nearly every aspect of our daily lives as it seeks to dominate and eliminate the last vestiges of public domains through wanton privatization and deregulation. It degrades all that is public. The good news is that a global community of resistance continues to struggle against neoliberal oppression. Formal and informal education entities contribute to these struggles, offering visions and strategies for creating a better future.The purpose of this volume is twofold. Several contributors will highlight how the neoliberal agenda is impacting educational policy formation, teaching and learning, and relationships between institutions of higher education and communities. Other contributors will highlight how the global community has gradually become conscious of the ideological doctrine and how it is responsible for human suffering and misery.The volume is needed because the growing body of educational research linked to exploring the impact of neoliberalism on education and society fails to provide conceptual or historical understanding of this ideology. It is also an important scholarly intervention because it provides insights as to why educators, scholars, and other global citizens have challenged the intrusion of market forces over life inside universities and colleges.Teaching faculty, research faculty, and anyone who yearns to understand what is behind the debilitating trend of commercial forces subverting humanizing educational projects would benefit from this volume. Activists, educators, youth, and scholars who seek strategies and visions for building democratic higher education and a more democratic society would consider this volume essential reading.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing Influences: Research on Decision Making and the Music Education Curriculum examines influences on research in music teacher preparation, practices, and policies. These influences include administrators’ perspectives, preservice music educators’ beliefs, and in-service teachers’ practices. Invited essays offer insights into past and present trends in music teacher preparation.This collection of studies represents best thinking in the field and serves as an impetus for further research and action. Each author’s analysis on the influences affecting their specific areas provides insights into key issues affecting decision making processes. This volume is a significant addition to the libraries of Colleges of Education and Schools of Music, as well as an important reference for music scholars and educators, researchers, and graduate students who are concerned with advancing both the scope and quality of research in the study of music teaching and learning.

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing Influences: Research on Decision Making and the Music Education Curriculum examines influences on research in music teacher preparation, practices, and policies. These influences include administrators’ perspectives, preservice music educators’ beliefs, and in-service teachers’ practices. Invited essays offer insights into past and present trends in music teacher preparation.This collection of studies represents best thinking in the field and serves as an impetus for further research and action. Each author’s analysis on the influences affecting their specific areas provides insights into key issues affecting decision making processes. This volume is a significant addition to the libraries of Colleges of Education and Schools of Music, as well as an important reference for music scholars and educators, researchers, and graduate students who are concerned with advancing both the scope and quality of research in the study of music teaching and learning.

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Book SynopsisLeading faculty members in educational psychology, who are expert classroom teachers, describe inherent difficulties encountered when teaching different subject matter in educational psychology to diverse populations of students, including undergraduate teacher candidates, psychology and child development majors, and graduate students in education and psychology.Educational psychology addresses subject matter as diverse as child and adolescent development, motivation, learning theories, student assessment, teacher expertise, and research methods and statistics. Drawing from their years of classroom experience, as well as their expertise in designing and conducting educational research, the contributing authors report their successful instructional efforts and innovations designed to increase student learning and knowledge of the discipline.

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Book SynopsisLeading faculty members in educational psychology, who are expert classroom teachers, describe inherent difficulties encountered when teaching different subject matter in educational psychology to diverse populations of students, including undergraduate teacher candidates, psychology and child development majors, and graduate students in education and psychology.Educational psychology addresses subject matter as diverse as child and adolescent development, motivation, learning theories, student assessment, teacher expertise, and research methods and statistics. Drawing from their years of classroom experience, as well as their expertise in designing and conducting educational research, the contributing authors report their successful instructional efforts and innovations designed to increase student learning and knowledge of the discipline.

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Book SynopsisThis book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology and musicology touch and encounters each other due to how the two fields might be defined today. In line with this the book consists of a group of scholars that have their feet solidly grounded in psychology, social science or musicology, but at the same time have a certain interest in uniting them. On this basis it is divided into five parts, which investigates musical sensations, musical experiences, musical transformations, musical fundamentals and the notion of a cultural psychology of music. Thus another aim of this book is to prepare the basis for a further growth of a cultural psychology that is able to include the experiences of music as a basis for understanding the ordinary human life. Thus this book should be of interest for those who want to investigate the mysterious intersection between music and psychology.

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Book SynopsisThis book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology and musicology touch and encounters each other due to how the two fields might be defined today. In line with this the book consists of a group of scholars that have their feet solidly grounded in psychology, social science or musicology, but at the same time have a certain interest in uniting them. On this basis it is divided into five parts, which investigates musical sensations, musical experiences, musical transformations, musical fundamentals and the notion of a cultural psychology of music. Thus another aim of this book is to prepare the basis for a further growth of a cultural psychology that is able to include the experiences of music as a basis for understanding the ordinary human life. Thus this book should be of interest for those who want to investigate the mysterious intersection between music and psychology.

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Book SynopsisMaking of the Future is the first English?language coverage of the new methodological perspective in cultural psychology—TEA (Trajectory Equifinality Approach) that was established in 2004 as a collaboration of Japanese and American cultural psychologists. In the decade that follows it has become a guiding approach for cultural psychology all over the World. Its central feature is the reliance on irreversible time as the basis for understanding of cultural phenomena and the consideration of real and imaginary options in human life course as relevant for the construction of personal futures.The book is expected to be of interest in researchers and practitioners in education, developmental and social psychology, developmental sociology and history. It has extensions for research methodology in the focus on different sampling strategies.

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Book SynopsisMaking of the Future is the first English?language coverage of the new methodological perspective in cultural psychology—TEA (Trajectory Equifinality Approach) that was established in 2004 as a collaboration of Japanese and American cultural psychologists. In the decade that follows it has become a guiding approach for cultural psychology all over the World. Its central feature is the reliance on irreversible time as the basis for understanding of cultural phenomena and the consideration of real and imaginary options in human life course as relevant for the construction of personal futures.The book is expected to be of interest in researchers and practitioners in education, developmental and social psychology, developmental sociology and history. It has extensions for research methodology in the focus on different sampling strategies.

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Book SynopsisWhile the research on bullying and peer victimization has increased considerably over the past 20 years, a number of studies are emerging that document mixed results of bullying and prevention programs. During the last decades, several special issues devoted to research on bullying and victimization have been published in national and international scholarly journals. Based on the increase of published articles on bullying and victimization in journals, textbooks, government reports, and documents in professional organizations, it is timely for a special volume on research on bullying and victimization to appear in the series on Contemporary Perspectives in Early Childhood Education. The purpose of this volume is to share a collection of research strands on bullying and victimization of young children. It describes the historical roots and suggests anti?bullying programs and strategies to decrease bullying and victimization. The bullying and victimization volume can be a valuable tool to researchers who are conducting studies in that area. It focuses on important historical and contemporary issues on bullying and victimization in early childhood education (ages 0 to 8) to provide the information necessary to make judgments about these issues. It also motivates and guides researchers to explore gaps on research on bullying and victimization.

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Book SynopsisWhile the research on bullying and peer victimization has increased considerably over the past 20 years, a number of studies are emerging that document mixed results of bullying and prevention programs. During the last decades, several special issues devoted to research on bullying and victimization have been published in national and international scholarly journals. Based on the increase of published articles on bullying and victimization in journals, textbooks, government reports, and documents in professional organizations, it is timely for a special volume on research on bullying and victimization to appear in the series on Contemporary Perspectives in Early Childhood Education. The purpose of this volume is to share a collection of research strands on bullying and victimization of young children. It describes the historical roots and suggests anti?bullying programs and strategies to decrease bullying and victimization. The bullying and victimization volume can be a valuable tool to researchers who are conducting studies in that area. It focuses on important historical and contemporary issues on bullying and victimization in early childhood education (ages 0 to 8) to provide the information necessary to make judgments about these issues. It also motivates and guides researchers to explore gaps on research on bullying and victimization.

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Book SynopsisSocial work field education in Canada is in crisis. New understanding and approaches are urgently needed. Innovative and sustainable models need to be explored and adopted. As professionals, social workers are expected to use research to inform their practice and to contribute to the production of research. Yet many social workers are reluctant to integrate research into their practice and into field education.Transforming Social Work Field Education encourages the adoption of research and scholarship into the practice of social work, especially field education. It offers current theoretical concepts and perspectives that shape social work field education and provides case studies of practice research grounded in the experiences of diverse communities and countries. Highlighting cutting-edge research and scholarship, each chapter addresses critical issues in social work practice and their implications for field education.Bringing together scholars at various stages of their careers, this book fosters a meaningful dialogue on the dynamic, complex, and multi-faceted nature of social work practice, research, and innovation in the critical area of field education. A vivid and original work, it stimulates interest and discussion on the integration of research and scholarship in social work field education in Canada and around the world.With contributions by: Wasif Ali, Helen Asrate Awoke, Kelemua Zenebe Ayele, Afework Eyasu Aynalem, Nicole Balbuena, Morgan Jean Banister, Natalie Beck Aguilera, Sheila Bell, Heather M. Boynton, Janice Chaplin Mailing, Emmanuel Chinlanga, Jill Ciesielski, Alise de Bie, Emma De Vynck, Cyerra Gage, Anita R. Gooding, Zipporah Greenslade, Annelise Hutchinson, Christine Anne Jenkins, Vibha Kausik, Ermias Kebede, Edward King, Kaltrina Kusari, William Lamar Medley, Karen Lok Yi Wong, Alexandra Katherine Mack, The Ottawa Adult Autism Initiative, Endalkachew Taye Shiferaw, Richardio Diego Suárez Rojas, Margaret Janse van Rensburg, Jennie Vengris, and Courtney Larissa WeaverTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Field Research Scholarship in Social Work Julie L. Drolet, Grant Charles, and Sheri M. McConnell Part I: Field Education Practice, Research, and Theory Addressing Class in Field: Economic Justice and Unpaid Social Work Practicums Natalie Beck Aguilera, William Lamar Medley, C. Gage, and Annelise Hutchinson Social Work Field Experience with Non-Social Work Field Supervisors in Community Senior Service Settings Karen Lok Yi Wong Enhancing Equity and Accessibility in Field Education: Reflections on Mobilizing Local Research Findings in One School of Social Work Alise de Bie, Janice Chaplin, and Jennie Vengris The Current State of Developmental Social Work Theory and Field Education in Africa: A Scoping Review Emmanuel Chilanga Part II: Anti-Racist and Indigenous Knowledges, Methodologies, and Perspectives A Social Work Student in Search of an Anti-Racist Education: A Conversation with Myself Zipporah Greenslade Cultural Responsive Child Welfare Practices: An Integrative Review Alexandra K. Mack Champions of Hurdles: A Multiple Case Study on the Experience and Meaning of Pursuing a Doctoral Degree for Ethiopian Women Endalkachew Taye Shiferaw, Helen Astrate, and Afework Eyasu Use of Self in Work: A Critical Race and Social Identity Perspective Anita R. Gooding Part III: Social Justice, Advocacy, and International Social Work Field Education and Immigrant Serving Sector Vibha Kaushik Social Justice, Systems, and Internaitonal Social Work in Field Education Kelemua Zenebe Ayele and Ermias Kebede Advancing Community Development Field Placements in Pakistan: A Case Study on Community Drinking Water Wasif Ali Using Advocacy Practicum to Establish a Framework for Virtual Community Consultations in the Ottawa Adult Autism Community Margaret Janse van Rensburg, Courtney Weaver, Christine Jenkins, Morgan Banister, Edward King, Sheila Bell, and The Ottawa Adult Autism Initiative The Service Provider's Dilemma: Confronting the Challenges of Service Delivery for Undocumented Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Nicole Balbuena Part IV: New Developments and Approaches in Field Education Field Education, Disability, and COVID-19: Navigating a Virtual World Kaltrina Kusari Supporting Spiritual Competencies in Field Education and Practice Emma De Vynck, Jill Ciesielski, and Heather M. Boynton How to Enhance Brain Potential in Fieldwork Education? The Multimodal Integration of Imagination and Trauma (MIIT) Framework Ricardo Diego Suárez Rojas Conclusion Sheri M. McConnell, Julie L. Drolet, and Grant Charles List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisSocial work field education in Canada is in crisis. New understanding and approaches are urgently needed. Innovative and sustainable models need to be explored and adopted. As professionals, social workers are expected to use research to inform their practice and to contribute to the production of research. Yet many social workers are reluctant to integrate research into their practice and into field education.Transforming Social Work Field Education encourages the adoption of research and scholarship into the practice of social work, especially field education. It offers current theoretical concepts and perspectives that shape social work field education and provides case studies of practice research grounded in the experiences of diverse communities and countries. Highlighting cutting-edge research and scholarship, each chapter addresses critical issues in social work practice and their implications for field education.Bringing together scholars at various stages of their careers, this book fosters a meaningful dialogue on the dynamic, complex, and multi-faceted nature of social work practice, research, and innovation in the critical area of field education. A vivid and original work, it stimulates interest and discussion on the integration of research and scholarship in social work field education in Canada and around the world.With contributions by: Wasif Ali, Helen Asrate Awoke, Kelemua Zenebe Ayele, Afework Eyasu Aynalem, Nicole Balbuena, Morgan Jean Banister, Natalie Beck Aguilera, Sheila Bell, Heather M. Boynton, Janice Chaplin Mailing, Emmanuel Chinlanga, Jill Ciesielski, Alise de Bie, Emma De Vynck, Cyerra Gage, Anita R. Gooding, Zipporah Greenslade, Annelise Hutchinson, Christine Anne Jenkins, Vibha Kausik, Ermias Kebede, Edward King, Kaltrina Kusari, William Lamar Medley, Karen Lok Yi Wong, Alexandra Katherine Mack, The Ottawa Adult Autism Initiative, Endalkachew Taye Shiferaw, Richardio Diego Suárez Rojas, Margaret Janse van Rensburg, Jennie Vengris, and Courtney Larissa WeaverTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Field Research Scholarship in Social Work Julie L. Drolet, Grant Charles, and Sheri M. McConnell Part I: Field Education Practice, Research, and Theory Addressing Class in Field: Economic Justice and Unpaid Social Work Practicums Natalie Beck Aguilera, William Lamar Medley, C. Gage, and Annelise Hutchinson Social Work Field Experience with Non-Social Work Field Supervisors in Community Senior Service Settings Karen Lok Yi Wong Enhancing Equity and Accessibility in Field Education: Reflections on Mobilizing Local Research Findings in One School of Social Work Alise de Bie, Janice Chaplin, and Jennie Vengris The Current State of Developmental Social Work Theory and Field Education in Africa: A Scoping Review Emmanuel Chilanga Part II: Anti-Racist and Indigenous Knowledges, Methodologies, and Perspectives A Social Work Student in Search of an Anti-Racist Education: A Conversation with Myself Zipporah Greenslade Cultural Responsive Child Welfare Practices: An Integrative Review Alexandra K. Mack Champions of Hurdles: A Multiple Case Study on the Experience and Meaning of Pursuing a Doctoral Degree for Ethiopian Women Endalkachew Taye Shiferaw, Helen Astrate, and Afework Eyasu Use of Self in Work: A Critical Race and Social Identity Perspective Anita R. Gooding Part III: Social Justice, Advocacy, and International Social Work Field Education and Immigrant Serving Sector Vibha Kaushik Social Justice, Systems, and Internaitonal Social Work in Field Education Kelemua Zenebe Ayele and Ermias Kebede Advancing Community Development Field Placements in Pakistan: A Case Study on Community Drinking Water Wasif Ali Using Advocacy Practicum to Establish a Framework for Virtual Community Consultations in the Ottawa Adult Autism Community Margaret Janse van Rensburg, Courtney Weaver, Christine Jenkins, Morgan Banister, Edward King, Sheila Bell, and The Ottawa Adult Autism Initiative The Service Provider's Dilemma: Confronting the Challenges of Service Delivery for Undocumented Victims of Intimate Partner Violence Nicole Balbuena Part IV: New Developments and Approaches in Field Education Field Education, Disability, and COVID-19: Navigating a Virtual World Kaltrina Kusari Supporting Spiritual Competencies in Field Education and Practice Emma De Vynck, Jill Ciesielski, and Heather M. Boynton How to Enhance Brain Potential in Fieldwork Education? The Multimodal Integration of Imagination and Trauma (MIIT) Framework Ricardo Diego Suárez Rojas Conclusion Sheri M. McConnell, Julie L. Drolet, and Grant Charles List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisAcross the world, universities are grappling with the colonial legacies that have shaped them. That struggle is especially vital in South Africa where the Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall movements have catalysed decolonial activism and discourse against the legacy of apartheid in higher education. This collection asks what epistemic justice might look like in teaching, learning and research across multiple academic disciplines. Each author writes from first-hand experience of teaching at the University of Cape Town, an institution that was and remains a key site of complicity with and resistance against settler colonialism, apartheid, and their ongoing oppressions. The contributors trace power relations that are embedded in various teaching and learning spaces at UCT, asking critical questions about the kinds of subjects and objects of knowledge that are produced by their disciplines. Further, they explore new ideas, texts, and intellectual and pedagogical practices that can help academics interrogate, challenge and transform the dominant power relations in the South African academy. Collectively, these chapters work to imagine new subjects of knowledge in the postcolonial university through an ethic of epistemic justice. At a time when debates on decolonisation have gained urgency in academic, civic and public spaces, this interdisciplinary collection serves as a valuable archive documenting and reflecting on a turbulent period in South African higher education. It is an important resource for academics looking to grasp debates on decoloniality both in South Africa, and in university and teaching spaces further afield. Calling for concerted and collaborative work towards greater epistemic justice across diverse disciplines, the book puts forward a new vision of the postcolonial university as one that enables excellent teaching and learning, undertaken in a spirit of critical consciousness and reciprocity.Table of Contents Introduction Epistemic Justice and the University of Cape Town: Thinking Across Disciplines – Ruchi Chaturvedi, Shari Daya and Amrita Pande Part I: Aesthetics, Politics and Languages Chapter 1 Ukuhamba Ukubona/Travelling to Know: Mobility as Counter-Curriculum Across Africa – Nomusa Makhubu Chapter 2 Publics, Politics, Place and Pedagogy in Urban Studies – Rike Sitas Chapter 3 Imagining Southern Cities: Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Space – Shari Daya and Rike Sitas Chapter 4 Invoking Names: Finding Black Women’s Lost Narratives in the Classroom – Athambile Masola Part II: Justice, Curriculum and the Classroom Chapter 5 Decolonising Psychology in Africa: The Curriculum as Weapon – Shose Kessi and Hal Cooper Chapter 6 The Shards Haven’t Settled: Contesting Hierarchies of (Teaching) History – Koni Benson and Kerusha Govender Chapter 7 Heavy-handed Policing: Teaching Law and Practice to LLB Students in South Africa – Jameelah Omar Part III: Contested Histories and Ethical Spaces Chapter 8 African Studies at UCT: An Interview with Lungisile Ntsebeza – Sepideh Azari Chapter 9 The African Gender Institute: A Journey of Place-making – Kealeboga Mase Ramaru Chapter 10 The Ethic of Reconciliation and a New Curriculum – Ari Sitas Afterword – Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi, Shari Daya

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Book SynopsisWhy do some universities seem to be in a constant state of turmoil and dysfunction? Jonathan Jansen explores the root causes of chronic instability in a sample of South African universities. Through scrutiny of investigatory reports and interviews with more than 100 university managers and government officials, Jansen finds that at the heart of the dysfunction in universities is an intense and sometimes deadly competition for resources especially on campuses located in impoverished communities. It is not the lack of institutional resources but their concentration in a university that draws a mix of corrupt actors from local politicians and taxi operators to members of council and management into a never-ending run on the material (such as money for infrastructure) and symbolic (namely, graduation certificates for sale) assets of these institutions. Jansen argues that the problem won’t be solved through investments in ‘capacity building’ alone because the combination of institutional capacity and institutional integrity contributes to serial instability in universities. Jansen makes an important intervention to understanding the root causes and offers interventions to produce stabilities such as the depoliticisation of university councils and appointing academics of integrity and capacity in the management and leadership of these fragile institutions. This groundbreaking and long overdue study will offer a promising way forward for universities to better serve their communities and the country more broadly.Table of Contents Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Map of South African Universities Chapter 1 A study of chronic dysfunction in universities Chapter 2 Historical roots of dysfunction: Shaping the South African university Chapter 3 Dysfunctionality in universities: A political economy perspective Chapter 4 A personal journey through the political economy of universities Chapter 5: Casting long shadows: How history shapes the politics of universities in South Africa Chapter 6 The university as a concentrated and exploitable resource Chapter 7 The university as a criminal enterprise Chapter 8 The micropolitics of corruption in universities Chapter 9 The twin roots of chronic dysfunctionality in universities Chapter 10 Rethinking and rebuilding dysfunctional South African universities Appendices References Index

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Book SynopsisThere is an increasing focus on research-practice partnerships that adopt research designs aimed at improving educational practice while advancing research knowledge. There is now a need for books that provide a theoretical and practical account of successful research designs that have been tested and replicated over time and contexts. This book addresses this need by providing the first comprehensive account of the Learning Schools Model (LSM), a design-based research-practice partnership that has been tested over 15 years and across contexts and countries (n=5). This model has successfully built teacher and school capacity and improved valued student outcomes for primarily indigenous and ethnic minority students from lower socio-economic communities. The quality of research into the model has been recognised locally and internationally. The International Literacy Association reprinted a paper on the original model in their volume “Theoretical models and processes of Reading (6th Ed)”. The authors won the University of Auckland’s Research Excellence Award (2015), awarded for research of demonstrable quality and impact, for their research into the Model. This book addresses several gaps in the existing literature on research-practice partnerships. Firstly, understanding applications in contexts beyond the USA where much of the seminal work is located adds to our collective understanding of contexts in terms of constraints and enablers. Secondly, we provide a theoretical account of partnership development and demonstrate how these are practically developed in situ to address the known need for stronger theoretical understandings of partnership development and better training in developing partnerships. Finally, our book demonstrates how research can be both responsive to context and yet have robust and replicable research designs that improve valued student outcomes over time and contexts. This in turn provides an alternate research approach for countries where randomised control trials are often the “gold standard” for interventions.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Ambitious Aims: Research for Solutions and Knowledge Chapter 2. The Learning Schools Model (LSM) Chapter 3. Collaborative Data Analysis Chapter 4. Partnerships for Design and Sustainability Chapter 5. Resourcing and Professional Learning and Development (PLD) Chapter 6. Sustainability of the LSM Chapter 7. Learning to Learn

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Book SynopsisHigher education research is a developing field internationally, which is attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions. As such, it is an arena within which a wide range of theories, methods and methodologies is being applied. This volume of Theory and Method in Higher Education Research explores theories such as student development theory, critical race theory applied to international students, critical language theory and linguistic approaches to higher education research. Additionally, methodological contributions include chapters on quasi-experimental methods, arts-based research and reflective dialogues. Including contributors from Sweden, Finland, Japan, the US, and the UK, the chapter authors present international perspectives on the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Toward the consolidation of student development theory: Development, issues, and critiques; Toru Kawai Chapter 2. Not a citizen but a student: International student critical race theory (IntlCrit) framework; HyeJin Tina Yeosss Chapter 3. Quasi-experimental methods: Principles and application in higher education research; Heeyun Kim and Paula Clasing-Manquian Chapter 4. Research as an experience: A reflective exploration of art-based research and poetry for researching experiences; Felipe Sánchez Chapter 5. Prioritising respondents’ concerns, beliefs and perceptions over those of researchers: Constructivist theory and research methods; Marie-Louise Österlind, Pam Denicolo, and Britt-Marie Apelgren Chapter 6. Internationalization and language protection through the lens of the critical language theory; Anna Björnö Chapter 7. Using reflective dialogues to explore pedagogies in higher education; Lauren Clark Chapter 8. From translanguaging to transknowledging: Exploring new epistemological and linguistic approaches in higher education research; Jane Andrews, Richard Fay, Zhuo Min Huang, and Ross White Chapter 9. The development of higher education journals, 2000-2020; Malcolm Tight

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Book SynopsisModelling Learning in Economics provides a comprehensive study of how learning processes can be modelled in an economic context.This innovative book investigates the processes involved in economic learning by categorizing different ways of learning, and using mathematical models for their description. The author distinguishes three types of learning processes - non-cognitive, routine-based and associative learning - and, for each of these, a model is proposed. Thomas Brenner also provides an overview of the psychological literature on learning and on the learning models most frequently used in economics. He then goes on to present applications of these models of learning to various economic topics including evolutionary game theory, consumption behaviour, investment behaviour of savers and the diffusion of innovation. In applying the models to economic topics, the author not only presents new insights into learning but also contributes to many topics within economic research.This book will be of interest to economic psychologists and economists working in the areas of game theory, consumer and investment behaviour and the diffusion of innovation.Trade Review'I like this book because it attempts to tackle many difficult problems of applying learning theory that have not been satisfactorily dealt with in the literature. . . this book is an impressive achievement for so young a researcher in such a rapidly growing field. It contains many not yet fully exploited ideas, and, economic applications. This book should be useful for those seeking to reseach economic applications of learning models. I am glad to have read the book, and I think it makes a useful addition to the literature on learning in economics.' -- R. Sarin, Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie'This is a book that anybody interested in the role of learning in economics will find informative. Its particular strength lies in the fact that the author has made a genuine attempt to knit together the formalism so vaunted by economists with the understanding of human decision processes that resides in the domain of psychologists.' -- Tim Wakeley, Journal of Economic Psychology'I found this one of the most readable treatments of the enormously interesting and rapidly evolving area of learning in economics. Thomas Brenner has managed to combine a reasonably comprehensive account of a very large and rather amorphous literature with an insightful and engaging literary style, while at the same time not sacrificing anything in terms of mathematical rigour. I think that this book will be found useful by many who want to get an overview of an exciting area.' -- John D. Hey, University of York, UK and Universita Degli Studi di Bari, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical Aspects of Learning 2. Categorisation of Learning 3. Modelling Learning Processes 4. Mathematical Prerequisites for Modelling Learning Part II: Learning in Diverse Economic Contexts 5. Learning of Preferences 6. Reinforcement Learning in Games 7. Reinforced Consumer Behaviour 8. Routine-based Choices of Assets 9. Learning and Diffusion 10. Associative Learning and the Evolution of Cooperation 11. Learning in Economic Research Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book shows teachers possible strategies for handling children's behaviour in the classroom. The book considers a number of problems which may lead to inappropriate behaviour and as well as the behavioural and cognitive approach also looks at the use of management techniques in the class room.Table of Contents1. The nature of class control and management problems. 2. Causes of problems I: the children. 3. Causes of problems II: the school and teachers. 4. Strategies I: the behavioural approach. 5. Strategies II: the cognitive approach. 6. Strategies III: management techniques. 7. Teacher behaviours and classroom control. 8. Teacher self-perceptions and self-management.

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Book SynopsisCovering the various stages of intervention it provides a practical insight into this multifaceted situation. Distinguishes between school refusal and other forms of school attendance problems Assists practitioners with the development of an intervention plan for school refusal Provides resources which are useful in assessment and management of school refusal Trade Review"Some of these [books in the PACTS series 2] are quite outstanding guides for practitioners, full of practical steps to take and worldly wisdom as well as good theretical grounding ... The approach taken to school refusal is also very sound ... Overall I would recommend that this series is present for anybody working with adolescents, as they provide a very useful guide for trainees to get stuck in with treatment." Stephen Scott, Institute of Psychiatry, London, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Volume 9, No. 2, 2004, pp 92-96Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Assessment 5 Part II: General Considerations for Intervention 15 Part III: Intervention with the Young Person 18 Part IV: Intervention with the Parents 32 Part V: Intervention at the School Level 47 Part VI: Concluding Remarks 51Appendices 54

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Book SynopsisThis book is a selection of papers by the author, a professional psychologist who operated a school psychological service. They represent the development over some forty years of a psychological practice based on the then relatively unknown Personal Construct Theory of George Kelly. Tom Ravenette has adjusted and extended this theory to make it fully useful in the author?s own context.Table of ContentsPrologue - Everyone his own Scientist or Behaviour is an Experiment. Reading Difficulties and What Else?. Psychologists. Teachers and Children - how many Ways to Understand?. Motivation, Emotional Blocking and Reading Failure - a Unifying Point of View. Personal Construct Theory - an Approach to The psychological Investigation of Children and Young People. The Exploration of consciousness - Personal Construct Theory and Change. Specific Reading difficulties - Appearances and Reality, to Tell a Story, to Invent a Character, to Make a Difference. "Never, Never, Never Give Advice" - an Essay in professional Practice. A Drawing and its Opposite - an Application of The notion of The "construct" in The Elicitation of Children' s Drawings. The recycling of Maladjustment. Personal Construct Psychology and Practitioners who work With Children. Personal Construct Psychology in The Practice of an educational Psychologist. Personal Construct Psychology and The Assessment of young People. The "one-off" Interview, who are You? - a Structure for exploring a "sense of Self". Asking Questions Within a Personal Construct framework. Triadic Elicitation - Academic Exercise or key to Experiencing? A minipaper Transcending The Obvious and Illuminating The Ordinary - Personal construct Psychology and Consultation in The Practice of Educational psychology. What Would Happen if? - Personal Construct Psychology and psychological Intervention. Epilogue - an Answer to a "lifer' s Three questions".

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Book SynopsisAt a time when dyslexia is being redefined, this book proposes a socially interactive model within the wider framework of specific learning difficulties. The model proposed is flanked by reflective contributions from internationally respected researchers, writers and teachers and each chapter carries messages for educators in all sectors of education. Teachers are challenged to re-examine central issues affecting learning in and beyond compulsory schooling: methods of teaching and provision of learning support; and the integration of meta-affectivity with metacognition.Table of ContentsPart 1: Central issues 1 - Seeing the wood and the trees: specific learning difficulties and dyslexia, Morag Hunter-Carsch 2 - Reflections and research, Tim Miles 3 - Visual difficulties with print, Sue Mailley 4 - Restructuring the structured approach, Morag Hunter-Carsch 5 - Beyond metacognition: the integration of meta-affectivity as a component of metacomprehension, Morag Hunter-Carsch 6 - A social-interactive model of specific learning difficulties, Margaret Herrington and Morag Hunter-Carsch. Part 2: Roots and Branches 7 - Specific developmental dyslexia: back to the future? Peter Pumfrey 8 - Adult dyslexia: research and practice, Hanna Poussu-Olli 9 - Partnerships with parents, Morag Hunter-Carsch 10 - Dyslexia and multilingual matters, Lindsay Peer 11 - Mathematically thinking, Anne Henderson 12 - ICT-based interactive learning, Alan Crombie and Margaret Crombie

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Book SynopsisThis book is designed to meet the needs of teachers working in a range of contexts. It applies the principles of personal construct psychology (PCP) and invites teachers to reflect on the implications of these for classroom practice. The book begins by providing a comprehensive review of the philosophies and theories underpinning education as a basis for demonstrating the particular relevance of PCP for educational research and practice. This establishes a conceptual framework for the extensive practical guidance which follows on how to implement, with sensitivity and rigour, a range of techniques, from the traditional structured repertory grid to more innovative flexible strategies, within education. 1 - Alternative Perspectives on Education 2 - Personal Construct Psychology Approaches in Education 3 - Alternative Constructions of Educational Research 4 - Practical Considerations in the Use of Repertory Grid Techniques 5 - Beyond the Grid 6 - Developing an Appropriate Climate 7 - The Learner as Personal Scientist 8 - Teachers Perspective 9 - Anticipation and TransformationTable of ContentsAlternative Perspectives on Education. Personal Construct Psychology approaches in Education. Alternative Constructions of Educational Research. Practical Considerations in The use of Repertory Grid Techniques. Beyond The grid. Developing an Appropriate Climate. The Learner as Personal Scientist. Teachers Perspective. Anticipation and Transformation.

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Book SynopsisThe Psychology of Dyslexia is an introductory text for teachers undertaking a training course on Dyslexia. The book is based on Mike Thompson's lecture course to the Dyslexia Institute's Postgraduate Diploma in Dyslexia and Literacy. Although primarily for teachers the book will be of interest to other professionals, such as Speech Therapists, who are undertaking a course on dyslexia, as well as parents of dyslexic children. The book covers the basic psychology of, for example, memory, neuro-psychology and reading development, followed by these topics application to Dyslexia. Dr Thompson is a Chartered Psychologist as well as Principal of East Court, a school for dyslexic children, and the book provides the background to the assessment of dyslexia as well as to theoretical topics. There is a guide to further reading at the end of every chapter. Contents: The Nature of Dyslexia Basic Psychometrics and Assessment Assessing the Dyslexic Definition and Discrepancies Basic Neuro-psychology Neuro-psychology of Dyslexia Models of Reading and Spelling Models of Memory Phonological and Memory Deficits in Dyslexia Table of Contents1 The Nature of Dyslexia. 2 Basic Psychometrics and Assessment. 3 assessing The Dyslexic. 4 Definition and Discrepancies. 5 Basic Neuropsychology. 6 neuropsychology of Dyslexia. 7 Models of Reading and Spelling. 8 Models of Memory. 9 Phonological and Memory Deficits in Dyslexia.

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative handbook presents current ideas on the relationship between spoken and written language difficulties. It provides clinical and educational perspectives on the assessment and management of children's reading and spelling problems. The book begins with a theoretical overview. The second edition continues the theme of linking theory and practice. It is aimed at practitioners in the fields of education, speech and language therapy, and psychology. All original chapters have been updated and new chapters are added to reflect current developments.Trade Review"... the second edition offers sufficient new and updated information to make its purchase worthwhile." (Dyslexia Review, September 2006)Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Contributors. Chapter 1: Language skills and learning to read: the dyslexia spectrum (Margaret J. Snowling). Chapter 2: Speech and spelling difficulties: what to look for (Joy Stackhouse). Chapter 3: The dyslexic brain (W.A. Lishman). Chapter 4: The prediction and screening of children’s reading difficulties (Valerie Muter). Chapter 5: Assessing speech and language skills in the school-age child (Hilary Gardner). Chapter 6: Assessing reading and spelling skills (Nata K. Goulandris). Chapter 7: Assessing children’s reading comprehension (Kate Nation). Chapter 8: Short-term memory: assessment and intervention (Maggie Vance and Jane E. Mitchell). Chapter 9: Phonological awareness and reading intervention (Peter J. Hatcher). Chapter 10: Spelling: challenges and strategies for the dyslexic learner and the teacher (Claire Jamieson and Sarah Simpson). Chapter 11: Developing handwriting skills (Jane Taylor). Chapter 12: Managing the needs of pupils with dyslexia in mainstream classrooms (Janet Hatcher). Chapter 13: The assessment and management of psychosocial aspects of reading and language impairments (Poppy Nash). Chapter 14: Supporting language and literacy in the early years: interdisciplinary training (Jannet A. Wright and Janet Wood). Chapter 15: Current themes and future directions (Maggie Snowling and Joy Stackhouse). References. Author index. Subject index.

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Book SynopsisThis is a celebratory volume in honour of Professor T.R. Miles of the Bangor Dyslexia Unit. Among the papers offered by known specialists in the field are "Differential Diagnosis of Developmental Dyslexia", by P. Aaron, and "Evaluating Teaching Methods", by Michael Thompson.Table of ContentsPart I - The Theoretical Constructs of Dyslexia. Differential Diagnosis fo Reading Disabilities, P.G. Aaron. Visual Deficit Models of Dyslexia, Gorodn Stanley. Part II - The Specific Nature of Dyslexia. Neurobiological Patterns in dyslexia, Drake D. Duane. Dyslexia and Skill - Theoretical Studies, Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett. The Cognitive Psychology of Developmental dyslexia, Nick Ellis. Elementary Symbol Processing in Less Skilled Readers in a componential Frmework, Che Kan Leong. Part III - The Identification of Dyslexia. Diagnosing Dyslexia in The Classroom - a Three Stage Model, Peter Gardner. Towards a Rationale for Diagnosois, T.R. Miles. Quantifying Exceptionality - issues in Psychogical Assessment of Dyslexia, Martin Turner. Part IV - Education management of The Dyslexic Child. How Dyslexics Respond to Specialised Teaching - Some Practical and Theoretical Issues, Michael Thomson. Whole School provision for The Whole Child, Steve Chinn. Early Help Means a Better Future, Jean Augur. Part V Diverse Routes to a Wider Understanding. Unconventional treatments for Dyslexia, C.R. Wilsher. The Human Aspects of Dyslexia, Gerald Hales. Musical Problems? - Reflections and Suggestions, Margaret Hubicki.

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Book SynopsisThe majority of adolescent stutters have a long history of dysfluency and as they approach the final years of their schooling they may become apprehensive about their future, particulary in relation to further education, career options, job interviews etc. The treatment of this age group is further complicated by the experience of adolescence itself, and the problems presented by this group are very different to those posed by young children or adults who stutter. This book presents a Communication Skills Approach to the treatment of adolescent stuttering which has been developed over many years of clinical experience.Table of ContentsDedication. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Chapter 1 - Introduction. The therapeutic relationship. The nature of stuttering: an overview. The nature of adolescence. The adolescence who stutters. Chapter 2 - The assessment of the adolescent who stutters. The interview procedure. The diagnostic interview. Language assessemnts. The parental interview. Further assessemtns. Outcome measures. Chapter 3 - Planning interventions. Physiological factors. Cognitive-emotional factors. Behavioural factors. Environmental factors. Four case study presentations. Summary. Chapter 4 - Communication skills approach. Self-concepts and relationships. Components of the communication skills therapy. Chapter 5 - Intensive group management of adolescents who stutter. Intensive course procedure. Criteria for acceptance on the course. Organisation of the course. Cource assessments. Principles of group management. Structure of the course. Week 2. Chapter 6 - Environemntal influences. Family involvement. The role of the speech and language therapist. Child-rearing styles. Family interventions. Parent-centred sessions. Strategies for intervention. Intervention within the school setting. Chapter 7 - Language impairment and the adolescent who stutters - Claire Toppintg. Assessment of language skills. Intervention. Summary. Appendix I Initial assessment form. Appendix II Adolscent interview. Appendix III Facts about stuttering. Appendix IV Assessment booklet. Appendix V Checklist of social skills. Appendix VI Social communication skills. Appendix VII Measurement of change and outcome. Appendix VIII Measurement of change. Appendix IX The communication skills workbook. Appendix X Examples of self-characterisation. Appendix XI Examples of brainstorm exercises. Appendix XII Communication, observation, listening, praise and reinforcement. Appendix XIII Fear of stuttering; ring of confidence. Appendix XIV Adolescents' view of adolescence. Appendix XV How adolescents thing parents' view adolescence. Appendix XVI Parents' view of adolescent. Appendix XVII Family session. Appendix XVIII Review of communication skills course. Reference. Index.

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