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Examines the essential issues of teaching business-to-business marketing courses at all four university levels.

Provides a critical analysis and a comparison of concepts across neo-Piagetian theories.

A variety of scientific disciplines have set as their task explaining mental activities, recognizing that in some way these activities depend upon our brain. This book is a philosophical examination of how these disciplines continue in the mission of explaining our mental capacities.

Tackles an issue in adolescent development and health - the education-drug use connection. This book examines the links and likely causal connections between educational experiences, delinquent behavior, and adolescent use of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine.

Explores broadcast and Internet indecency from social and legal perspectives, using cases and examples. This book argues that broadcast and Internet indecency reflect the outer boundaries of acceptable speech, and "understanding the limits of free speech in a free society allows us to theorize about the nature of communication."

Provides a model of giftedness and talent for educators including teachers, counselors, and administrators. This book distinguishes the difference between expert talent and creative talent. It also provides educators with the means to individualize their curriculum and instruction in regular classrooms.

Introduces a dialogue between Eastern and Western philosophies and perspectives on the subject of curriculum theory and practice. This book questions taken-for-granted thinking in Western educational thought about the foundations of teaching and learning, curriculum theory, educational policy, and educational issues.

Offers an interrogation of critical theory developed from the author's work with young people in classrooms, neighborhoods, and institutions of power. This book weaves together the theory and practice. It begins by arguing for a broader definition of the "critical" in critical literacy.

Drawing on data from a 5-year longitudinal study of four university students for whom English was not their strongest/primary language, this book captures their literacy experiences throughout their undergraduate careers. It talks about these students' academic development as it entwined with their social experiences and identity formation.

Presents an investigation of the developmental and social processes mediating students' academic identities in settings posing challenges to their school achievement and personal development. Providing a framework for teachers in American schools, this book emphasizes examining the child, the school environment, and also the child in-context.

Offers an examination of technology's impact on media companies and the results of convergence among media industries, considering the effects on journalistic, business, and economic practices. This book explores the changes in communication technologies and the history of media segments and their evolutions as they adapt to global changes.

Why should inquiry and interest-driven, life-long learning be a curricular imperative, and its presence a criterion for excellent education? This book presents various pedagogical, philosophical, and disciplinary traditions within which evidence and rationale are found for building learning and teaching experiences around inquiry-based curricula.

Intends to reintroduce psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory to the practice of clinical psychology. This book is designed to demonstrate to its readers that psychoanalytic theory affects much of what is done in clincial practice today.

Using personal narratives by Yup'ik Eskimo teachers, this text shows how they began to reconcile cultural differences and conflict between the culture of the school and that of the community. The book also provides examples for others who are involved in creating culturally responsive education.

This guide asseses global education, while looking at the issue from a historical and international viewpoint. Topics include: equality and freedom in Islamic education; India's education, human rights and the global flow; and natural rights and education in the West.

A documentation of the impact of recent changes in the international system of Japan's foreign policy. Chapters include: diplomatic style; the thrust for economic success; the search for security; and the impact of international relations with neighbouring countries.

This second edition contains an entirely new chapter on gifts and exchange as well as a thoroughly updated bibliography and guide for students for finding case studies in economic anthropology.

The effort to understand personal relationships has traditionally focused on the individual characteristics of participants. This book offers a way to consider basic notions about how relationships form, such as how particular people meet, and how relationships are started. It is aimed at students and researchers in a variety of disciplines.

Examines the function of empathy, introducing students and practitioners to the potential effectiveness of utilizing empathic understanding in the treatment process. This work focuses on understanding empathy from a range of theoretical perspectives and developing interventions for employing the construct across the course of treatment.

Exploring the increasing interest in public affairs by organizations, the author indicates that more and more frequently corporations are establishing public affairs positions - typically within public relations departments - to respond to issues and concerns arising out of the sociopolitical environment in which the corporation functions.

Explains how professionals can increase their influence in practice to help their organizations achieve success. This book explores the territories of power, resistance, and activism in public relations, arguing that practitioners can increase their power and social legitimacy by using a range of influence resources, strategies, and tactics.

Provides an overview of knowledge representation techniques and their use in cognitive models. Both symbolic and connectionist approaches to representation are discussed and a set of recommendations about the way representations should be used is presented in this volume.

Presents information on women living at or below the poverty level and the changes that need to be made in public policy to allow them to rise above their economic hardships. Including in-depth interviews, focus groups, small-scale surveys and analysis of personnel records, this book explores different aspects of women's poverty.

Provides a fusion of the history, philosophy, literature, art, music, and educational aspects of the Armenian experience. This volume concludes with a trio of essays concerning fundamental questions of historiography and politics that either make possible or can inhibit reconciliation of ancient truths and righting ancient wrongs.

Reveals the development of students' understanding of statistical literacy. This book looks at students' thinking, in relation to tasks based on sampling, graphical representations, averages, chance, beginning inference, and variation, which are essential to later work in formal statistics.

Lesson study is a popular professional development approach in Japan whereby teachers collaborate to study content and instruction, and how students solve problems. This work is a comprehensive look at the system and process of lesson study in Japan.