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

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

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

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

Drug Metabolism

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

This volume explains the general theoretical principles for effective document design. It uses the Gestalt theory to provide principles for predicting continuity across the entire range of discourse elements, and to outline the relationship between cohesion and coherence.

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

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

Presents a comprehensive view of the issues facing planners, policymakers, and destination managers who attempt to ensure a sustainable future for community destinations in developing economies. This book discusses illustrative case studies and effective practical approaches for various facets of destination management.

A tribute to Paul Erdos, the mathematician once described as the prince of problem solvers and absolute monarch of problem posers. The book examines the legacy of open problems he left to the world of mathematics after his death in 1996.

Examining the aftermath of problems with human-technical systems, this book explores the significant efforts of those who have made a positive difference. It represents a variety of cognitive engineering applications, including training, design, military, transportation, communications, medicine, and emergency response in the nuclear industry

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

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

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

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

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

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