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What is the major social problem in the news today? Who made it so important? Based on research of contemporary social issues that have hit the headlines, this book provides important theoretical and practical insights into the agenda-setting process and its role in effecting social change.

Invigorate instruction and engage students with this updated treasure trove of 114 ready-to-use techniques compiled by two of the greatest minds in mathematics.

This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills offers step-by-step planning frameworks and an appendix of activity ideas to show teachers how to engage students in the process.

This resource offers differentiated teaching techniques and sample lessons for writing and thinking skills that emphasize fluency, artistry, walkabout strategies, pattern and rhythm, and more!

This resource addresses issues related to identification, assessment, teaching and learning, social skills and behavior, alternative intervention, home-based programs, and transition from preschool to kindergarten.

This book examines the concerns about inappropriate social behavior sometimes exhibited by individuals with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and offers tips and strategies for alleviating problem situations.

This resource helps educators support students with autistic spectrum disorders when they enter secondary school, including teaching social skills, preparing IEPs, and developing work experience.

Learn how the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) program and how the concept of learning power fits in with accelerated learning, thinking skills and learning styles.

Written in a clear, down-to-earth style, this guide gives you an overview of inclusion, with real-life solutions and examples of best practice.

Using an interactive approach to teaching mathematics, this resource shows not only what strategies work but also why they work.

A practical guide to the 'what', 'how', and 'why' of creative practice for teaching language and literacy in early years settings and classrooms. Based upon the research evidence, this book examines how young children learn to use spoken and written language, and shows how to teach and plan for effective speaking, listening and reading lessons.

Providing a framework for understanding the individual needs of pupils, this title describes how you can tailor your teaching methods to maximise learning. Containing case studies and examples, it explores how learning is conceptualised, direct instruction, interactive teaching, teaching as scaffolding, and how to overcome obstacles to learning.

Addresses the specific context of modern residential child care whilst promoting collaborative practice within a wider social work setting. This book analyses the collaborative role of organisations, field workers, parents, teachers, and children, and stresses how these interprofessional relationships are crucial to ensuring children's wellbeing.

Engage and enlighten students by skillfully guiding them through thought-provoking classroom discussions using these straightforward strategies.

Glass leads the reader step-by-step through the writing process and the development of an effective standards-based writing curriculum, encouraging them to build creatively upon the foundation of standards by designing lessons and units that are innovative and engaging.

Is your school dyslexia-friendly? Looking at understanding dyslexia, this book shows you how to involve the whole school in order to achieve a dyslexia-friendly environment. It helps to use an audit tool to discover how dyslexia-friendly your school is, and looks at examples of successful dyslexia-friendly initiatives.

Shows schools how to effectively implement and manage an inclusive school environment. This book highlights the problems encountered by professionals in primary and secondary school settings and offers practical solutions and advice. It offers guidance on: the role of the SENCO as a teacher and manager.

Offers an introduction to narrative methods in social research. This book also covers the nature, role and theoretical basis of research methodology in general. It argues that both qualitative and quantitative methods are characterised by a concern with narrative, and that our research data can best be analyzed if it is seen in narrative terms.

Considers the techniques needed for exploring problems that compromise a regression analysis and for determining whether certain assumptions appear reasonable. The text covers such topics as the problem of collinearity in multiple regression, non-normality of errors and non-constant error variance.

Addresses the topic of the political, cultural and moral effects of other people's mediated suffering. This work offers a theoretical perspective on the role of media in global civil society, and looks at how we might begin to analyse the ways in which distant suffering is portrayed, reproduced and consumed.

Identity Anecdotes examines questions of nationality, identity, the use of anecdote to build solidarity and the role of institutions in shaping culture. It provides a mind-clearing exercise in recognizing what culture is, and how it works. Illustrated with relevant, insightful examples, it addresses the central questions in cultural studies today.

This book provides an accessible and much needed introduction to the diversity of multimedia appearing and proliferating in our society. The phenomenal growth of multimedia has given rise to debates on the role of technology, the skills required for their production and use, and the ethics and politics involved in these new embodied interactions.

An introductory guide to ethnographic methods. It focuses on those methods - participant observation, interviewing, focus groups, and video/photographic work - that allow us to understand the lived, everyday world. It covers the relation between theory, practice and writing, and demonstrates how methods work in the field.

Offers educators and general readers the author's own definitions for terms used in the cognitive neurosciences. This book shows you how the brain works, how the brain learns, and the educational significance of brain functions and processes. It is suitable for educational psychologists, teachers and managers and lecturers in education.

Presenting an impassioned argument for revitalising our imagination of space, Doreen Massey takes on some well-established assumptions from philosophy, and some familiar ways of characterising the twenty-first century world, and shows how they restrain our understanding of both the challenge and the potential of space.

The Interpreted World, Second Edition, is a welcome introduction to phenomenological psychology, an area of psychology which has its roots in notoriously difficult philosophical literature.

Marketing is a very diverse discipline, dealing with everything from the costs of globalisation to the benefits of money-back guarantees. However, there is one thing that all marketing academics share. They are writers. They publish or perish - their careers are advanced, and their reputations are enhanced, by the written word.

The concept of time is central to the study of families and is used in different ways. Synthesizing different concepts into a broad theory of how families understand time, Daly examines time as a pervasive influence in the changing experiential world of families.

Perfect for students without a mathematical background, the authors refresh important basics such as descriptive statistics and research design as well as introducing essential upper level techniques to cater for the advanced student.