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Trekkie popular culture sees Star Trek as a unifying myth. Dr Anijar explores this phenomenon in light of the influences of television in children's lives, and the effects of utopian interpretations of Star Trek on teaching practice.

This volume provides a framework grounded in theory and best professional practice to design, implement, and evaluate service-learning projects that address authentic community needs.

This title addresses ethical dilemmas and issues that ESL post-secondary faculty commonly encounter and examines them in the framework of social justice concerns. Scenarios in each chapter provide realistic situations for reflection and discussion. It then sets out the issues raised.

In 1979, provoked by the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, governors of states hosting disposal facilities for low-level radioactive waste refused to accept additional shipments. This title provides coverage of this opposition, testing hypotheses regarding movement mobilization and opposition strategy by analyzing the qualities of activism.

This work examines rhetorical practice relating to situations of risk and how documents and communication succeed or fail in these contexts. It should be of use to scholars in technical communication, rhetoric, and related areas.

This collection of recent work on historical consciousness and practice in late Imperial Russia provides the foundations for a fundamental reconceptualization of Russian history.

Originally published: Voices, the art and science of psychotherapy. American Academy of Psychotherapists. 1986.

This work documents the "brave new world" of teacher, administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept across the US in recent years. Its particular vantage point is the perspective of dozens of new teachers trying to make their way through their first months and years working in schools in the New York City metropolitan area.

This work contributes to critical thinking about public issues related to technology development. Its aims are to examine how certain values, such as progress and profit, are elevated in such public discourse, while others, such as community and social justice, are displaced.

This research-based book is a response to the science education standards and reforms. The text makes a case for equity in science education, backed by pertinent literature including NSF data and stories from schools and classrooms.

The study presented in this volume examines how older women's identities are socially constructed and, in particular, how they can be influenced by institutional intervention. The interest in identity production is not only theoretical, but also practical.

Discusses methods and strategies appropriate for conducting design and development research.

This text provides an up-to-the-minute comprehensive introduction to the methods, models and applications of configural frequency analysis. The book presents a formal yet accessible description of all methods and models, and uses actual empirical data examples to illustrate the key concepts.

Emphasizing the relevance of philosophical work to investigations in other cognitive sciences, this text examines such issues as the meaning of language, the mind-body problem, the functionalist theories of cognition, and intentionality.

This collection examines the many influences of biographical inquiry in education and discusses methodological issues from the perspective of veteran and novice biographers. Contributors underscore the documentary, interpretative and literary concerns of biographical and archival work.

Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest in the 1990s. The goal is to uncover the ideological nature of different conceptions of character education.

Explores how all types of fiction yield insights for educational theory and practice. Drawing on curriculum theory, literary analysis, psychology and feminism, the author argues that fiction has great teaching power as it connects readers with their alliances within themselves.

Focuses on the role and significance of science in modernity and public understanding of science. The author treats creationism as a case study of the argumentative engagement between science and non-science and as central to the commonsense lifeworld as it is to the lives of its intellectuals.

This title looks at the influence of case reports on the perception of issues.

Describes frontline clinical treatment of HIV infected chemically dependent persons, aiming to provide a realistic view of what the daily work with this population is like. Concentrating on practical aspects, it describes treatment of a variety of modalities.

Offers the diverse ways that ageing women attempt to deal with the challenges of loss, sickness and death. This text reveals that women age much more successfully than do men. The collection is written by women, many of whom are themselves older and bring their own experiences to the topic.

The gay tourism industry a progressive social force or a pull towards an oppressive status quo? This book investigates the emergence of a commercial gay tourism industry for male clients, the way it is organized, and how the tourism industry promotes cities, resorts, and nations as 'gay' destinations.

Offers research on the view of literacy as encompassing not only reading, writing, speaking, and listening, but also the ways through which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. This book is organized around themes including: Historical and Theoretical Foundations, and Methods of Inquiry in the Communicative, Visual, and Performative Arts.

This autobiographical work was written in 1980 by a leading Chinese dissident, who was released from jail in October 1990 after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident in 1989. The central theme of the three stories is extreme deprivation and "Hunger".

Encourages educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to rethink their assumptions about these students in school. This book is useful for education researchers, professionals, and students in the areas of middle/high school education, and alternative community programs.