Bøker utgitt av Taylor & Francis Inc

This is an attempt to broach two views of recess--the perceived value of recess and the movement to eliminate or reduce the school recess period from the primary school day. The data show that students need recess to release energy and interact with each other in the unstructured recess environment in order to grow socially.

This volume on interpreting literature with children covers subjects including: literary elements in prose and poetry; talking about literature; culture and class in children's literature; gender in children's literature; and interpreting literature through writing.

Written for those who use statistical techniques, this text focuses on a conceptual understanding of the material. It uses definitional formulas on small data sets to provide conceptual insight into what is being measured. It emphasizes the assumptions underlying each analysis, and shows how to test the critical assumptions using SPSS or SAS.

Examines financial interest and syndication rules (fin-syn) of the FCC and the impact of their repeal on the structure and practices of the television industry. For scholars in media economics, programming, media criticism, media law and policy, and political economics of mass communication.

This work covers topics such as meta-analysis of effect sizes, meta-analysis of correlations and conversion and transformation equations.

Reviewing tourism education on a global basis, this book focuses on the history, development, status, challenges, and opportunities in various regions and countries. Written by international authorities, it discusses programme administration, curriculum offering, faculty qualifications, and student learning in tourism higher education programmes.

There are virtually no texts available that contain coverage of phonetics, speech acoustics, speech production, and hearing. The authors have designed courses in which they have taught these elements together. The audience for this book with figures, tables, and practice boxes with experiments will be mainly students in the Speech Sciences.

Places working at the same level of attention for social and behavioral scientists and psychotherapists as other major life concerns, like intimate relationships, physical and mental health, and socio-economic inequities. This book is useful for readers in career development, counseling, and policy-related fields.

An ethnographic account of a revolutionary Indigenous self-determination movement that began in 1966 with the Rough Rock Demonstration School. It asks whether school can be a place where children learn, question, and grow in an environment that values and builds upon who they are.

This expanded second edition further develops the philosophy of public journalism. It responds to the arguments against it, outlines how specific principles can be applied, and explains the importance of public deliberation and the role of values in public journalism.

Is it possible to construct an artificial person? Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have for decades been developing computer programs that emulate human intelligence. This book goes beyond intelligence and describes how close we are to recreating many of the other capacities that make us human.

The topic of leadership has grown in importance, and how and when managers communicate is critical to their effectiveness. This book provides insight for managers to understand the feedback and open communication processes. It suggests guidelines for how and when managers should engage in negative feedback and open communication with followers.

Aims to provide a comprehensive definition of Organizational Perception Management (OPM) events and tactics. This book uses research and case studies to illustrate the application and effectiveness of OPM in context, and is useful to students, scholars, and practitioners of organizational management.

Examines prosocial behavior from a multilevel perspective that explores the diverse influences that promote actions for the benefit of others and the ways that prosocial actions can be manifested. This work addresses the evolution of altruistic tendencies and other biological explanations of why humans are predisposed to be prosocial.

This work examines topics that are considered to be especially relevant for making a strategic leader development investment. The areas covered have theoretical and empirical connections to important aspects of growth, change, adult development, and underlying abilities and skills.

Covers idiom use, learning, and teaching. This work approaches the topic with a balance of theory and research in cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics combined with informed teaching practices. It also includes discussion of idiom definition, classification, usage patterns, and functions.

The primary objective of this book is to offer a comprehensive analysis of the role of visual reportage in our understanding of ourselves, others and the world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of visual reportage as a form of human visual behaviour in contemporary culture.

Presents an overview of the policy issues, practice models, and research on elder abuse and neglect. This title provides insights into elder abuse with to create an understanding of how to design service plans for victims of abuse and family mistreatment. It addresses various forms of abuse and neglect.

The Bear Book presents a comprehensive collection of writings covering a significant, but previously uncharted phenomenon of gay male life. Covering every aspect of global bear culture, it will be essential reading for anyone interested in understanding contemporary male homosexuality or aspects and expressions of masculinity in general.

Dramatic events in Somalia between June and December 2006 included the rise and fall of a radical Islamic movement, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which attracted global attention to the strategic area of the Horn of Africa. This volume analyzes the background and the events that led Somalia to this situation.

Suitable for professionals and scholars in forestry, public administration, and organizational behavior who are interested in the administration of public lands and how the top managers of a large, dispersed organization with multiple objectives like the Forest Service shape the behavior of its field officers into a coherent, unified program.

Drawing upon the experiences of social workers and community-based professionals, this book provides a cross-section of models and strategies for those engaged in social change. The chapters include data-based practice principles and guidelines for action.