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Service-learning, a teaching and learning approach that uses the provision of community service as a vehicle for learning, continues to be of interest to those working in K-12 and higher education. Billig, director of a national study of the impact of service-learning, and Welch (service learning, University of Utah) present selected papers from a

Researchers with the Self-concept Enhancement and Learning Facilitation Research (SELF) Centre, U. of Western Sydney, introduce theoretical issues and research on the relationship of positive/self-handicapping self-concept to success/ failure in academic and other settings. Authors frame the debates on, and models of, this linkage and measuring suc

Foreword, Tim Urdan and Frank Pajares. Risk Factors Related To Academic Achievement In Adolescence, Daniel J. Flannery and Kelly L. Wester. A Self-Regulation Approach to Understanding Adolescent Depression, Karen D. Rudolph. Abusive, Wanted, and Illegal Sexual Experiences in Adolescence, Nancy D. Kellogg.

Part I: Introduction. Challenging Perspectives on Mathematics Classroom Communication: From Representations to Contexts, Interactions and Politics. Part II: Contributed Chapters. Theme I: Communication: register, representations, context(s).

Urdan (Santa Clara University) and Pajares (Emory University) explore challenges facing adolescents and their teachers and look at some of the strategies that have been adopted to address these challenges. Contributors describe various psychological and contextual problems that adolescents often experience, such as depression, abusive sexual experi

The editors and contributors of these ten articles focus on the idea that communication includes both what is happening and being said among participants in a classroom and also the politics, values and ideologies that serve as the foundation of the practice. They describe how communication thereby involves register, representation and contexts thr

This book is about getting organized, establishing clarity of thought, following the guidelines, and taking care to get the application right the first time - steps that can lead to funding. It is also about matching the campus mission to the grant's legislative intent. The process applies to a wide variety of grant-funding opportunities.

Presents a discussion of concepts and definitions of interdisciplinarity and collaboration, and introduces a model of Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Examines how the Interdisciplinary Collaboration model and concepts make sense in academic organizations and affect academic work.

These papers challenge accepted wisdoms about both the nature of mathematics and of education. Each of the chapters develops for mathematics education the importance of insights from mainly French intellectuals of the past: Foucault, Lacan, Lyotard, Deleuze.

This group of essays is written to provide a series of suggestions to Native people who seek to deal with alcoholism from the perspective of their unique heritages and with an understanding that the pressures to which Native traditions and societies have been subjected may trigger dysfunctional behavior, such as excessive drinking.

Language Policy and Literacy Instruction, Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek. Historical Perspectives in Language Policy and Literacy Reform, Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek. Second Language Issues in Early Literacy and Instruction, Elizabeth S. Pang and Michael L. Kamil.

This book asks simply: How do the teachers in small schools manage to teach? The research reported here is concerned with how teachers and students organize themselves and ""do school"" that is small is scale.

Language Policy and Literacy Instruction, Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek. Historical Perspectives in Language Policy and Literacy Reform, Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek. Second Language Issues in Early Literacy and Instruction, Elizabeth S. Pang and Michael L. Kamil.

This volume is written specifically with policymakers in mind. Middle level scholars have illuminated important issues concerning the education of young adolescents. It is only by having informed policymakers that middle level schools can truly thrive and provide the kind of education that every young adolescent deserves.

This volume is written specifically with policymakers in mind. Middle level scholars have illuminated important issues concerning the education of young adolescents. It is only by having informed policymakers that middle level schools can truly thrive and provide the kind of education that every young adolescent deserves.

This book explains to policymakers, parents, business leaders, and teachers themselves the importance of talented teachers in increasing student achievement. It is based on the proceedings from the 2003 Milken National Education Conference (NEC), which was held in Los Angeles in May 2003

This book brings together three l topics: homogeneous grouping of students within classrooms by ability or achievement;, tracking of students into courses of study by the same criteria; and retention of students in their present grade so that they repeat a year's work instead of being promoted.

This book brings together three l topics: homogeneous grouping of students within classrooms by ability or achievement;, tracking of students into courses of study by the same criteria; and retention of students in their present grade so that they repeat a year's work instead of being promoted.

Introduction and Overview, Susan J. Paik, University of San Francisco. Part I: Educational Productivity and Achievement. Using an Educational Productivity Model to Construct Process Models for Mathematics Achievement and Attitudes Among Ethnic Minorities, John Thomas, College of Lake County, Illinois.

Introduction and Overview, Susan J. Paik, University of San Francisco. Part I: Educational Productivity and Achievement. Using an Educational Productivity Model to Construct Process Models for Mathematics Achievement and Attitudes Among Ethnic Minorities, John Thomas, College of Lake County, Illinois.

The main question that guided the thinking behind this book can be stated as follows: ""What kind of leadership behavior must executives of technology-driven organizations display to spur performance excellence?"" To address this question the authors analyzed videotaped interviews of executives from 65 organizations.

Foreword, Joan N. Burstyn. Chapter I: Beginning to Contextualize Eliza Wright Osborne in Her Literacy. Chapter II: Wherein the Problem is Set. Chapter III: Reading the Writing of ""The Particular"": A Methodology. Chapter IV: On Their Own: Women Reading (Mostly) Women. Chapter V: Not on Their Own: Mothers and Men Prescribe Their Reading.

Most of the literature on public sector budgeting ignores defense budgeting, even though aircraft, ships, tanks, smart weaponry, skilled crews, electronically boosted infantry, and other facets of national defense represent a large part of the federal government's discretionary spending. The budget

Adolescents' images of the ideal person reflect their personal values about gender roles, their expectations and their cultural values. This text reports a study in which over 6000 adolescents from around the world described an ideal woman or man. It presents their perspectives and documents the universal attitudes of adolescents.

In recent years there has been increasing interest in issues of space and spatiality in the social sciences and humanities generally, if less so in the study of education. This lack of interest is surprising given the importance of space and time in the organization of teaching and research. This collection examines the significance of space.

This work looks at treating children's psychosocial problems in primary care. It covers such topics as: the integration of development and behaviour in paediatric practice; new directions for research and treatment of paediatric psychosocial problems in primary care; and more.

Discusses what constitutes effective instruction for students for whom English is not their native language. The book offers teaching principles as well as concrete ideas for teaching content subject matter knowledge to diverse students.