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Offers more than 40 teacher-friendly, ready-to-use analogies for science classrooms and shows teachers how to select analogies for instruction, gauge their impact, and improve their effectiveness.

Suitable for researchers and thoughtful practitioners in business and management, psychology, and sociology, this title encourages growing support of crisis management in business environment.

This updated edition presents 18 successful real-world programs, 5 factors for developing a comprehensive mentoring initiative, and new material for mentoring special education, maths, and science teachers.

Suitable for researchers who are committed to co-developing research programs with people rather than for people, this book provides a history of PAR, its various strands, and the underlying tenets that guide most PAR projects.

This book gives the reader easy access to information on the policies and practices in ECEC across each of the countries in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Each chapter covers: background information; policy and practice in early childhood education and care; transition; schooling and curriculum; quality assurance; examination and inspection; and more.

Explains how to meet the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) document and how this relates to the National Curriculum and the Primary National Strategy: Framework for teaching for literacy and mathematics. This book offers informative guidance on planning learning and teaching opportunities across the curriculum.

Designed to help students and employees gain a hands-on understanding of gender issues in the workplace and to provide the necessary tools to handle those issues, this book includes case studies that address the range and types of gender issues in the workplace.

Helps school leaders cultivate improvement-driven, cross-age learning communities by providing case studies, workplace alternatives, and easy-to-apply strategies to promote cross-generational collaboration.

Offers students a brief and accessible approach to systematically quantifying various types of narrative data they can collect during a research process.

Prospective memory helps us with actions to be performed in the future, such as remembering to give a message to a friend, to take medication, or to turn off the oven. It supports the planning and forward-looking activities. This book provides an overview and synthesis of the theoretical and empirical work on this topic.

Focuses on five areas of need - autistic spectrum disorder, visual impairment, specific learning difficulties, hearing impairment and physical disabilities - and examines the challenges of inclusion from the perspective of children and young people themselves.

Presents students with the skills of video production while guiding their practice with an understanding of audience analysis, communication processes, the principles of aesthetics, and the nature and impact of the digital transition. This title also includes review questions, professional pointers, and interviews with practitioners.

Integrates the theory and skills of intercultural communication with the practices of multinational organizations and international business. This title provides students with a general awareness of diverse world views, insights on understanding and overcoming cultural differences, and a clear path to international business success.

Designed for providers who work with judicial clients, the Providers Guide presents effective cognitive-behavioral treatment approaches. The Second Edition of this bestseller unveils a state-of-the-art approach for effectively preventing criminal recidivism and substance abuse relapse within community based and correctional settings.

Challenges to Local Government offers a timely discussion of how local governments have implemented public policies during the last decade. Concentrating on Britain and the United States (but with essays on Scandinavia, France and Canada) the authors document, explain and analyze the implications of these policies for local autonomy, focusing especially upon local economic initiatives.

The Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science provides a condensed but rich resource about themes broadly across the field. It also provides details about the key foundations of GIS, no matter what their disciplinary origins, and is, therefore, an important resource for both academic and corporate libraries.

Provides readers with a clear and concise introduction to the why, what, and how of the comparative method

This book explores and provides an in-depth overview of the latest developments in the field of managerial and organizational cognition and presents answers to the questions accompanying its growth. From different disciplinary perspectives and empirical settings, the contributors study patterns of managerial cognition.

Leading practitioners and researchers contribute to this volume, which focuses on recent advances in the understanding and treatment of the common psychological difficulties of anxiety and depression.Chapters cover such topics as: self-management theory; unipolar depression; and the assessment and treatment of sexually abused children. With case examples and exercises highlighting important clinical concepts, the volume integrates empirical research with clinical applications.

Considers the shift in social psychology and across the social sciences during the last decade toward a social constructionist perspective. This work rejects the dominance of objective science and embraces the socially embedded nature of our knowledge.

Examines corporate communication and tasks from the framework of the Competing Values Perspective.

Real-life skills and tips you need to turn parents into active participants in their children's education.

Considers how "real-world" observations can be interpreted to convert them into data to be analyzed, so as to facilitate more effective use of scaling techniques. The text introduces the most appropriate scaling strategies for different research situations.

Applied demography is a technique which can handle small geographic areas -- an approach which allows market segments and target populations to be studied in detail. This book provides the essential elements of applied demography in a clear and concise manner. It details the kind of information that is available; who produces it; and how that information can be used. The sources mentioned are American, but the techniques for estimating have universal application. A background in elementary algebra is sufficient for this book.'This is a handy, concise primer that summarizes various fundamentals of particular interest to the field (estimating total populations, household sizes, etc.)' -- Population Today, October 1984

Includes chapters that is full of meanigful quotation.

This book is a core text for physical education courses. It deals with enduring themes and contemporary issues in primary and secondary physical education.

Knowledge, communication and creativity are obsessions of contemporary modern societies. The rhetoric of information, imagination, improvisation and play have invaded our daily lives and work spaces. This book offers explorations into the creative processes that are tied to knowledge production.

How does advertising position itself in consumer culture? In what ways does it 'create' desire and wants? This book presents an introduction to advertising culture. It: provides a comprehensive discussion of the main theories; and shows you how real adverts work, together with reproductions of advertising images and copy.

One of the founders of humanistic psychology, Abraham Maslow, developed theories on human behaviour and motivation that have had a major impact on the public consciousness. His theories shaped not only psychology but many other fields, including counselling, education and management. At the time of his death 25 years ago, Maslow left a vast collection of articles, essays and letters intended for publication: now the noted Maslow biographer, Edward Hoffman, has compiled the most compelling of these writings into one volume.In these articles, Maslow shares his thoughts on a wide range of topics, from self-actualization and well-being to American politics and organizational management. Hoffman provides a biographical introduction to Maslow''s life and work, introductions to each article and a glossary of terms.