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A study of the relational literacy curriculum. Diane Salmon and Ruth Ann Freedman discuss how the relational curriculum works and demonstrate how to facilitate interpersonal relationships in the classroom.

This is an ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families in California and Texas. It illustrates cases where language is used by speakers to choose between self-definitions and where language interacts differentially with other defining categories.

A portrait of one teacher's implementation of principles gleaned from the work of Paulo Freire, containing the results of an 18-month ethnographic study of a women's literacy class in El Salvador. It addresses the relationships between the developmental processes involved in becoming literate.

This study chronicles the creation of an advanced curriculum in speaking and writing during the Progressive era and the impact of that curriculum on public discourse.

This text discusses theories in psychology, philosophy and aesthetics. It examines the impact of: the theories on each other; the education of children; and the field of art education. The book philosophically supports the view that teachers need to be the change agents in art curriculum reform.

Introducing the process of producing television news with current digital and automation technologies, author Phillip O. Keirstead walks readers through the steps and identifies the key players and procedures for producing televised news broadcasts.

Based on research focusing on the experience of having confused speech and being with confused speakers, this book begins with everyday, commonly understood ideas such as "talking too much" and examines how confused speech is "brought off" as a collaborative activity by the people involved.

Offers insight into the possible options for corporate strategists and government policymakers as they look to harness the expansion of wireless communications to meet the goals of sustainable telecommunications development. This book compares the development of wireless communications in four countries.

Tracing the history of the telecommunications highway, this text explains the technological uncertainties and many of its futuristic services. It examines the impact of financial, policy, business, and consumer issues that effect and undermine the superhighway.

This volume describes the progress being made at The Institute for the Learning Sciences using computers to provide motivating environments for learning. The text documents the authors' work from the cognitive psychology which underlies it.

This study combines ethnographic, quantitative and qualitative discourse methodologies to provide an analysis of language use in the Brentwood Puerto Rican community. The goal is to show that before conclusions about Spanish in the USA can be reached, communities should be studied individually.

Neglected for years because of its puzzling range of symptoms, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is now a recognised medical concern. This book provides a theory of how the symptoms of CFS may develop through dysfunction of numerous physiological pathways and describes various therapies.

Despite massive media attention to the issue, there remains a gross disparity between the public perception of gays in the military and the sexual realities of military life. This title features conversations that reveal how known gay and straight men can and do get along in the sexually tense confines of barracks and shipboard life.

Brings to light little known implications of legal, economic and custodial factors following a divorce, going beyond the focus on emotional and social adjustment outcomes to explore in depth the post-divorce legal, economic and custodial variables affecting the entire family.

As the elderly population continues to increase, the need for suitable housing will continue to rise as well. This handbook is designed to help individuals and families determine the feasiblility of starting a small home business providing residential home services for one or more elderly persons.

Addresses the growing number of laws regulating the actions of women and the treatment of their bodies, examining the effect these laws would have on women and their autonomy, privacy, bodily integrity, control over reproductive capacities, and constitutional rights.

This work argues that although journalistic images of the audience may be incomplete, they do exist and powerfully help shape the work of journalists. Using case studies, this work examines academic notions of audience and the ways in which they are embedded within the news construction.

This book provides a feminist analysis of gender politics in the works of four major Africana women writers: Toni Morrison,Nichelle Cliff, Assia Djebar and Paule Marshall.

The Graduate Grind looks closely at the culture of graduate school in an effort to uncover why graduate students routinely experience extreme depression, illness, divorce and sometimes even suicide and murder.

The Cuban Revolution did not start with the entrance of guerrillas into Havana on January 1, 1959. As Castro himself made clear, that event culminated several years of armed insurrection against Batista regime. This volume explains theory and practice of the regime, absence of internal opposition, and persistence of external support for Castro.

Looks at this country's complicated weapons procurement process, delving into how decisions are made and the professed and real reasons behind them. Examines how unwanted weapons systems come into existence, why the government's watchdog agencies have little impact on preventing waste by the milita

Specifically shows how positive early experiences enhance brain development and how traumatic life experiences, especially child abuse and neglect, can affect a child's brain and behavior. Through carefully selected case studies, the text offers basic principles of treatment and a broad range of interventions.