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In this ground-breaking book, Teun A van Dijk sketches a challenging new multidisciplinary framework for theorizing ideology. In relations between cognition, society and disocurse he defines ideologies as a form of social cognition, and as the basis of social representation of a group.

This is a fully updated and expanded new edition of the successful undergraduate text. Providing a lucid examination of the pivotal theories of Marx, Durkheim and Weber, the authors submit that these figures have decisively shaped the discipline.

Promote enhanced learning experiences using handheld and other portable technology to extend learning both in and beyond the classroom.

Examines the complex and varied issues which can arise out of long-term counselling, with an emphasis throughout on skilled, professional and ethical practice. This book considers working parameters and issues of definition, setting and orientation.

The author examines why educators must move beyond the quest for higher test scores and embrace their own life experiences within a standard curriculum.

Linking teaching to the unique human characteristics that each of us possess, this book helps teachers discover their own special traits that make them superlative teachers. It includes: research-based teaching strategies; professional development activities; an in-depth look at parent-teacher evenings; and information on learning styles.

Based on the observations of more than 200 instructors, this hands-on text presents finely honed strategies to help teachers create an environment for better teaching and learning.

Containing practitioner-friendly resources, including charts, diagrams, sidebars, tools, strategies and real-life examples, this easy-to-use resource offers practical guidance to leaders experiencing conflict in their organizations. It will also help those leaders who want to create a community aligned around a common vision.

This book investigates the aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world. It casts a cool eye on the claims of cybertopians, tracing the globalization of the new medium and enquiring into its effects on subjectivity and sociality.

Providing a specific set of skills which enable the counsellor to cope with the large number and wide-range of referrals they can receive in primary care, this book covers difficulties commonly presented in primary care such as anxiety, stress, bereavement and depression.

This work provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the social, cultural and symbolic meanings of fatherhood in contemporary Western societies. The authors draw in poststructuralist theory to analyze the ways that fatherhood is represented in "expert" literature and in the mass media.

'A sophisticated and passionately written account of the classed and gendered identities of a small group of working-class white women who live in the north-west of England. It is ethnography at its best, having been built on long-term, thoughtful engagements in the field' - Gender and Education

In this discussion of the aesthetic in everyday life the aesthetic codes of advertising, architecture, the Internet and everyday images are used as examples of the disorientation which a multiplication of codes creates. Welsch proposes untangling the `aestheticization of everyday life' and replacing it by more meaningful and durable categories.

Why is McLuhan important? What use can we make of his approach to the media today? In this critical introduction, McLuhan's contribution is explained and his reputation reassessed.

Offering the first comprehensive and international work on cultural policy, Toby Miller and George Yudice have produced a landmark work in the emerging field of cultural policy. Rigorous in its field of survey and astute in its critical commentary it enables students to gain a global grounding in cultural policy.

This book provides an introduction to the historical and theoretical foundations of consumerism. It then moves on to examine the experience of consumption in the areas of space and place, technology, fashion, `popular' music and sport. Throughout, the author brings a critical perspective to bear upon the subject, thus providing a reliable and stimulating guide to a complex and many-sided field.

This book gets to the heart of what the social sciences really know about the elusive and contradictory object of research: human reality.

This book is for researchers, teachers and other professionals working with children and young people with learning difficulties. It will help them to critically evaluate the implications of research reports for their own practice.

James M Croteau, Julianne S Lark and Teresa S Lance Our Stories Will Be Told: Deconstructing the Heterosexist Discourse in the Counseling Professions / Part One: Narrative Voices / Introduction to Part One / Part One: Narratives Voices / Eve M Adams Moving from Random Acts of Inclusion toward LGB-Affirmative Institutions / Alan D Berkowitz.

Combining theoretical and empirical analysis of the production, content and consumption of computer games, Aphra Kerr explores this all-pervasive, but under-theorized, aspect of our media environment. Kerr examines: games as a new media form; design, development and marketing of games; and the use of games in public and private spaces.

Oral narrative researchers present portraits on the strategies of bringing the experiences of African and African American women into view. They explore how new information about African women is being created and the strengths of oral research for expanding knowledge about Black women.

By outlining the basic principles of research and tying them in with human resource development functions, this practical guidebook describes how to apply specific research methods to common problems.