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Taking on a Learning Disability
At the Crossroads of Special Education and Adolescent Literacy Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In the United States, approximately 2.5 million students are diagnosed as having a learning disability and the majority of those children are placed in special education because of an inability to read as expected. As a result of this diagnosis, these children may be placed in special education classrooms...
Growing Up Between Two Cultures
Issues and problems of Muslim children
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This volume deals with social, emotional and educational issues of Muslim children growing up in a Western country. It aims at shedding light on factors that contribute to the successful adjustment of these immigrant children and ways of helping them to adjust to the new life in their new country.
Sociocultural Theories of Learning and Motivation
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
It is now nearly thirty years since sociocultural theories of learning created great excitement and debate amongst those concerned with learning in diverse contexts. Since that time significant advances have been made in sociocultural theory and research. Various sociocultural approaches to the understanding...
Cultural Psychology and Psychoanalysis
Pathways to Synthesis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book explores how psychoanalysis can enrich and complement sociocultural psychology. It presents theoretical integrations of psychoanalytical notions in the sociocultural framework, analyzes the historical similarities, if not intricacies, of the two fields, and presents papers that have tried...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This book provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychology with contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations around the world. Chapters offer biographical profiles describing the personal histories and professional contributions of leading figures in psychology...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
(Sponsored by the Middle Level Education Research SIG and the National Middle School Association) The Young Adolescent and the Middle School focuses on issues related to the nature of young adolescence and the intersection of young adolescence with middle level schooling. This volume of the Handbook...
Educating Adolescents
Challenges and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
This volume of Adolescence and Education is devoted to an exploration of the challenges facing adolescents and their teachers as well as some of the strategies that have been adopted to address these challenges. Although it is true that most adolescents survive this period of development with few enduring...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
How is history represented? As just a record of the past, as a part of a present identity or as future goals? This book explores how historical contents and narratives are presented in school textbooks and other cultural productions (museums, monuments, etc) and also how they are understood by students,...
Evaluating Educational Reforms
Scandinavian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Investigating UniversitySchool Partnerships: A Volume in Professional Development School Research, the fourth book in the PDS Research Series developed by the same editors, includes a collection of organized papers that represent the best and latest examples of practitioner thinking, research, and...
Contemporary Science Teaching Approaches
Promoting Conceptual Understanding in Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Contemporary science teaching approaches focus on fostering students to construct new scientific knowledge as a process of inquiry rather than having them act as passive learners memorizing stated scientific facts. Although this perspective of teaching science is clearly emphasized in the National Research...
Working with Multiracial Students
Critical Perspectives on Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Working with Mixed Heritage Students offers a collection of writings that bridges the social science and educational literature related to mixed heritage identity development and schooling in diverse contexts. As such, it is the first book of its kind to provide a direct focus on multiracial/ethnic...
Strategic Organization Development
Managing Change for Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This second volume in the Contemporary Trends in Organization Development and Change Series addresses one of the most complex and important issues for management and organization development today how to plan for and create an organization capable of not only competing but excelling in an almost impossibly...