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Theorizing Composition: A Critical Sourcebook of Theory and Scholarship in Contemporary Composition Studies
Edited by Mary Lynch Kennedy ISBN: 1-59311-278-5. 424 pages. List Price: $39.95 Reviews: "Certainly no library supporting education and composition studies should be without it." ~ Choice "As an attempt to integrate theory with research and practice, this volume makes a helpful contribution that goes beyond the glossing of theories to providing a forum for a significant number of composition and rhetoric scholars to bring their theoretical insights to a potentially large audience. Theorizing Composition is well worth having on one's shelf. Mary Lynch Kennedy has assembled a wealth of information about the textual and intellectual foundations of Composition studies. Her stated purpose-to demystify theoretical discussion for practioners-is fulfilled. She and her contributors chart a theoretical web that informs much of what we do and ay as compositionists." ~ Rhetoric Review |
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Diffusion of Innovation in English Language Teaching
Edited by Lynn Earl Henrichsen ISBN: 1-59311-280-7. 252 pages, List Price: $39.95 Through an investigation and description of the campaign conducted by the Rockefeller-funded English Language Exploratory Committee (ELEC) to revolutionize English-language-teaching practices in Japan, Henrichsen addresses the issue of how internationally oriented reformers of educational systems and practices can go about creating change and dealing with resistance to it. |
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Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography
Edited by Christina Murphy, Joe Law and Steve Sherwood ISBN: 1-59311-280-7. 304 pages. List Price: $39.95 This bibliography overviews the tremendous amount of scholarship on writing centers and provides a useful overview of ninety years of research in the field. Reviews: "Covering elementary, secondary, and higher education, the bibliography has five sections. The first includes history, program descriptions, and professional concerns; the second treats theory; sections 3 and 4 cover administration, writing across the curriculum, education technology, and tutoring (training, theory, and ethic); and the final division is devoted to research....Recommended for libraries that serve upper-division undergraduates through faculty." ~ Choice "Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography provides the writing center community something invaluable, a sense of place in the lineage of a lasting and important educational project." ~ The Writing Center Journal |
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Teaching Shakespeare with Film and Television: A Guide
Edited by H. R. Coursen ISBN: 1-59311-281-5. 208 pages. photographs. List Price: $39.95 This reference book is a convenient guide for helping teachers and students master the techniques of discussing productions of Shakespeare's plays on film and television. Reviews: "This lucid book serves as both a useful handbook and a scholarly assessment of the Bard on screen. Recommended for all academic collections." ~ Choice |
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Grading Student Writing: An Annotated Bibliography
Edited by Bruce W. Speck ISBN: 1-59311-282-3. 336 pages. List Price: $39.95 The volume includes entries for more than 1300 books and articles on grading published between 1970 and 1996. Each entry includes an annotation that summarizes the work and its importance. Reviews: "It is recommended for academic libraries, should be of particular interest to faculty seeking creative ways to teach and grade student's work, and will serve as a resource for institutions that have active writing centers." ~ Choice "This will be a useful resource for professors of writing, researchers, and teachers who are searching for ways to improve or evaluate their grading methods. Thanks to its exhaustive number on entries, it shoud prove particularly useful for doctoral students in search of a related research project." ~ ARBA |
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The Rhetoric of Diversity and the Traditions of American Library Study: Critical Multiculturalism - in English Edited by Lesliee Antonette ISBN: 1-59311-283-1. 160 pages. List Price: $39.95 This book defines American multiculturalism through a focus on the ways theories and practices of historical, non-critical, multiculturalism have been used in the discourse of academic English departments. Reviews: "Antonette convincingly makes the case that a student of critical multicultural pedagogy is less likely to resist difference or to respond to differences perceived outside of himself or herself in a negative manner. This book is recommended for both teachers of English and administrators in colleges and universities." ~ Mutlicultural Review |
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Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs: Building Interdisciplinary Partnerships
Edited by Robert W. Barnett & Jacob S Blumner ISBN: 1-59311-284-X. 240 pages , figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 By examining the relationships between Writing Centers and WAC programs, this volume challenges the view that Writing Centers are marginalized and demonstrates how they are aggressively moving toward the curricular center of education. Reviews: "well written and well-researched collection....By the time I reached the end, I was convinced that collaboration serves the interests of both writing centers and WAC programs and was almost persuaded that perhaps the goal should be integration. Certainly, anyone contemplating this type of program collaboration would do well to use this book as a resource." ~ College English |
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Collaborative Writing: An Annotated Bibliography
Edited by Bruce W. Speck, Teresa R. Johnson, Catherine P. Dice and Leon B. Heaton ISBN: 1-59311-285-8. 408 pages. List Price: $39.95 This bibliography is a guide to research on collaborative writing published from the early 1970s to 1997. Reviews: "The annotations are superb and the index is excellent...Recommended for all academic and research institutions with extensive writing programs." ~ Choice "Academic library collections supporting teaching and research in composition and cooperative learning will want this work in their collection." ~ ARBA |
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Financing a College Education: How It Works, How It's Changing
(American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education) Edited by Jacqueline E. King ISBN: 1-59311-287-4. 240 pages. List Price: $39.95 Reviews: "...addresses the most perplexing policy issues concerning higher education finance, college access and affordability, and student financial aid in layman's language....a well-written monograph." ~ Community College Journal of Research and Practice "Financing a College Education is an excellent resource for academics, policymakers, college leaders, and students of highers education. It is well written and accessible, yet provides detailed analyses that will be valuable for anyone who wishes to understand a very complex and rapidly changing topic that is critical to higher education today." ~ The Journal of Higher Education |
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Community Education and Crime Prevention: Confronting Foreground and Background Causes of Criminal Behavior
Edited by Carolyn Siemens Ward ISBN: 1-59311-289-0. 296 pages , figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 Description: The philosophy of "community education" has been overlooked but is a workable, comprehensive approach to addressing crime. As used in this book, community education is a philosophy, process, and program comprised of three overriding and interrelated elements: community empowerment, community problem-solving, and the effort to involve all community members in the pursuit of lifelong learning. Written in a style that is appealing to the general public as well as academics, this book is of special interest to educators, community leaders, criminologists, academics in urban affairs and sociology, social workers, law enforcement agents, and politicians. |
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The New Schoolhouse: Literacy, Managers, and Belief
Edited by Mary-Ellen Boyle ISBN: 1-59311-290-4. 184 pages. List Price: $39.95 Description: This unique book describes literacy programs that take place in contemporary workplaces and explores their consequences for the employees (especially the managers), the organizations, and society as a whole. |
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Japanese and American Education: Attitudes and Practices
Edited by Harry Wray ISBN: 1-59311-291-2. 336 pages , tables. List Price: $39.95 Reviews: "One has to be impressed with the amount of information that has been reviewed and cited by Wray..." ~ The Journal of Asian Studies |
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The Educational System of Israel
Edited by Yaacov Iram and Mirjam Schmida ISBN: 1-59311-292-0. 192 pages , tables. List Price: $39.95 Reviews: "Their longstanding participation in the Israeli educational arena and their thorough scholarship make this an essential resource for educators, policymakers, and students of Israeli education as well as of international education." ~ MESA Bulletin "The strengths of the book lie in its easily accessible account and chronologically wide coverage." ~ Comparative Education Review "This volume is a useful contribution to the state of knowledge and a fitting addition to the publisher's series on "Contributions to the Study of Education"....thorough, review of the educational system of Israel." ~ Digest of Middle East Studies |
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The Meanings of Teaching: An International Study of Secondary Teachers' Work Lives
Edited by Allen Menlo and Pam Poppleton ISBN: 1-59311-293-9. 272 pages. List Price: $39.95 Description: Teachers from nine countries are profiled, focusing on the practices teachers use, the roles they occupy, and how the conditions of their work affect the quality of their worklife. |
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Private Prometheus: Private Higher Education and Development in the 21st Century
Edited by Philip G. Altbach ISBN: 1-59311-294-7. 248 pages , figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 In this collection, the authors provide a multifaceted and comparative analysis of private higher education and consider both broad issues and specific case studies. The only book currently available to lend an international focus to this subject, it examines such topics as accreditation, funding, and the impact of the market in the context of Latin American, European, and Asian higher education, and is a unique and invaluable study for researchers and policymakers alike. Reviews: "Informative and insightful analysis of the expansion and experience of private higher education....a useful reference work for all those interested in the problems and prospects of private higher education." ~ Journal of Educational Planning and Administration "Altbach and his colleagues have taken a significant step in initiating a serious dialogue over private higher education and its social contribution as the 'Private Prometheus.'" ~ Comparative Education Review |
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Academia in Upheaval: Origins, Transfers, and Transformations of the Communist Academic Regime in Russia and East Central
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Edited by Michael David-Fox & György Péteri ISBN: 1-59311-295-5. 352 pages , charts,tables. List Price: $39.95 This volume sheds new light on the question of a "Soviet model" by examining how a particular Soviet system of science and higher education emerged, how it was exported and imported across varying local, national and international settings, and how key aspects of it outlived the political system that fostered it. Reviews: "...these essays provide a sophisticated, engrossing, edifying, and expansive view of the social and institutional history of "Soviet-style science" and should find their way into science studies syllabi." ~ Isis |
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Academic Staff in Europe: Changing Contexts and Conditions
Edited by Jürgen Enders ISBN: 1-59311-296-3. 344 pages , figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 Higher education is going through a turbulent period of change. Based on a research project coordinated by Jürgen Enders at the University of Kassel in Germany, the book highlights the changes taking place in higher education and examines the working conditions of academic staff in fourteen European countries. Reviews: "...readers interested in improving their knowledge of different countries' higher education systems will find this volume valuable." ~ Studies in Higher Education |
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Culture, Education, and Development in South Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Edited by Ali A. Abdi ISBN: 1-59311-297-1. 232 pages , figure, tables. List Price: $39.95 Endorsement From George J. Sefa Dei, Professor & Associate Chair - Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE, University of Toronto: "This is a cleverly articulated book that brings a refreshing critique and interrogation to the understanding of educational processes and the role of education in development in South Africa...The book demonstrates how dicursive power and political practice have to continually shape social and educational change in South Africa. The book raises some important challenges not only for South Africa, but for all countries who are veering into the raod of educational equity and social justice for the minoritized and disadvantaged." Endorsement From Ailie Cleghorn, Associate Professor of Education - Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec: "...an extremely well-written analysis that brings together an enormous amount of imformation to help the reader understand the situation of education in South Africa more fully than ever before. Dr, Abdi examines education in South Africa through a theoretical as well as practical lens, offering insights, for example, about multiculturalism in that region of the world which resonate with, and add a dimension to, our understanding of muticulturalism in other parts of the world." |
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The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Israeli History Textbooks, 1948-2000
Edited by Elie Podeh ISBN: 1-59311-298-X. 216 pages, maps, photos, cartoons, document. List Price: $39.95 By reviewing curricula and textbooks used in the Israeli educational system since the establishment of Israel, the author assesses the impact of Zionist historiography and the Zeitgeist on the portrayal of Arabs in textbooks. Reviews: "...this book is written in an interesting fashion with a great attention to research. One wonders what the effect of recent events will be on future Israeli--and Palestinian--textbooks." ~ Choice "This is an important book. It is not merely a description of these textbooks, but also an explanation of the catalyst of the conflict...This book comes at the right time...Elie Podeh's study provides an oppurtunity to take a comprehensive look at the contents of history and civics books that have been used to educate Israeli elementary and secondary school students from 1948 until 2000." ~ Middle East Journal |
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Knowledge and the Search for Understanding Among Nations
Edited by Dickson A. Mungazi ISBN: 1-59311-299-8. 264 pages, photos, tables. List Price: $39.95 Beginning with Woodrow Wilson's famous Fourteen Points, Mungazi traces efforts to improve international relations through global forums, as well as the obstacles to such vehicles for intercultural cooperation. |
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Models of Learning, Memory, and Choice: Selected Papers
Edited by William Kaye Estes ISBN: 1-59311-300-5. 395 pages, bibliog. List Price: $39.95 Reviews: "a rich contribution to the history of psychology. It is not only a historical book but a valuable sample of history in the making." ~ Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences |
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The Symlog Practitioner: Applications of Small Group Research
Edited by Richard B. Polley, A. Paul Hare and Philip J. Stone ISBN: 1-59311-301-3. 427 pages, app., bibliog. List Price: $39.95 The Symlog Practitioner draws on an international network of SYMLOG researchers and practitioners to present a varied collection of cases demonstrating the full range of settings in which SYMLOG has been applied. This volume is an important contribution to both the theory and practice of small group observation and analysis, making it indispensable for teachers, students, and researchers in the growing field of small group research and for practitioners and consultants who wish to use SYMLOG in the field. |
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Human Development Across the Life Span: Educational and Psychological Applications
Edited by Ralph L. Mosher, Deborah J. Youngman and James M. Day ISBN: 1-59311-302-1. 296 pages. List Price: $39.95 This new collection of writings describes the recent thinking of psychologists and educators regarding interactive development across the spectrum of competency domains within the individual. Reviews: "This volume covers a range of human development issues from a range of theoretical and applied approaches." ~ Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography "[T]he book is likely to attract readers from a range of theoretical and practice backgrounds who are interested in the subject of life-span development." ~ Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary |
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How Gertrude Teaches Her Children: Pestalozzi's Educational Writings
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Edited and with prefaces by Daniel N. Robinson ISBN: 1-59311-303-X. 424 pages. List Price: $39.95 |
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Counseling in the Asia-Pacific Region
Edited by Abdul Halim Othman and Amir Awang ISBN: 1-59311-304-8. 168 pages. List Price: $39.95 |
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Teaching and Counseling Gifted and Talented Adolescents: An International Learning Style Perspective
Edited by Roberta M. Milgram, Rita Dunn and Gary E. Price ISBN: 1-59311-305-6. 296 pages, figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 |
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Dictionary of Counseling
Edited by Donald A. Biggs, With the assistance of Gerald Porter ISBN: 1-59311-306-4. 256 pages. List Price: $39.95 Reviews: "The authors have provided a good cross-reference structure. Brief lists of references to the literature guide users to additional materials. Good selection for most general undergraduate libraries, as well as for specialized collections." ~ Choice "This dictionary will be useful for students in any of the counseling fields and for other persons about to become involved in some aspect of counseling." ~ Reference Book Bulletin "...a unique book that is clearly and concisely written. It will serve as a major reference source for students, educators, and practitioners." ~ Contemporary Psychology |
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Assessment and Treatment of Emotional or Behavioral Disorders
Edited by H.A. Chris Ninness, Sigrid S. Glenn and Janet Ellis ISBN: 1-59311-307-2. 192 pages. List Price: $39.95 |
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Psychoanalysis and Pedagogy
Edited by Stephen Appel ISBN: 1-59311-308-0. 208 pages. List Price: $39.95 This edited collection looks at education through the lens of psychoanalysis and vice versa. Endorsement from Philip Wexler, Michael Scandling Professor - Warner School, University of Rochester: "Appel's volume joins the move toward understanding education through embodiment, experience, and intimate relationality, filling in the gaps left by earlier so-called critical and post-structuralist efforts in the field. This work simultaneously rehumanizes teaching and education as a practice and contributes to the creation of new foundations for educational theory." |
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Issues in Education: Views From the Other Side of the Room
Edited by Geraldine Coleman ISBN: 1-59311-309-9. 216 pages. List Price: $39.95 Dr. Coleman weds extant research with personal experiences to provide a contextual framework from which the reader can garner a more intense understanding of the issues. She covers such issues as parental involvement, academic achievement, teacher attitude, discipline, student motivation, and the impact of social problems on the education process and student achievement. |
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Helping Adolescents in School
Edited by Tony Branwhite ISBN: 1-59311-310-2. 200 pages, figures. List Price: $39.95 This book identifies the challenges facing adolescents and highlights their coping skills and problem solving tools. |
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Applied Developmental Science: Graduate Training for Diverse Discipline and Educational Settings
Edited by Celia B. Fisher, John P. Murray and Irving E. Sigel ISBN: 1-59311-311-0. List Price: $39.95 |
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International Perspectives on Mathematics Education
Edited by Simon Goodchild and Lyn English ISBN: 1-59311-182-7. 232 pages, figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 The volume comprises a collection of accounts of classroom studies, each complemented by the reaction of an eminent researcher. The accounts and reactions are written to expose the nature of methodology of classroom research. |
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How Do We Get the Graduates We Want?: A View from the Firing Lines
Edited by Lewis C. Solmon and Katherine Nouri Hughes ISBN: 1-59311-312-9. 168 pages. List Price: $39.95 We have heard from scholars, policymakers, and business leaders about how to improve our schools, but those who actually work in K-12 education rarely have a chance to speak out. This volume addresses that imbalance by providing the views of teachers and administrators who have been recognized for exemplary contributions to their profession. |
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Which Way Social Justice?
Edited by Leone Burton ISBN: 1-59311-107-X. 344 pages, figures, tables. List Price: $39.95 This contributed volume explores equity and social justice within the field of mathematics education. Reviews: "This volume provides an international perspective on the impact of gender, race, ethnicity, culture, and social class in student mathematics learning and achievement. Although the main focus is on gender issues such as how girls and boys differ in classroom interactions, the ideas touch broader sociocultural issues in mathematics education....This valuable resource for mathematics education researchers is recommended for university libraries. Recommended. Graduate and research collections." ~ Choice |
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Critical Reflection and the Foreign Language Classroom
Edited by Terry A. Osborn ISBN: 1-59311-313-7. 160 pages, figures. List Price: $39.95 Awards: American Educational Studies Association, Critics' Choice Award, 2001 This book introduces pre-service and in-service foreign language teachers to the basic concepts of critical educational study as applied to the sociological position occupied by foreign language education in the United States. Endorsement from Timothy Reagan, Professor of Educational Studies & Foreign Language Education - The University of Connecticut: "Terry Osborn's Critical Reflection and the Foreign Language Classroom is a significant and timely contribution to the literature in foreign language education.... This book is an immensely valuable attempt to help foreign langauge educators develop critical, reflective perspectives on not only their own classroom practice, but on the role and functions of foreign language education in modern American society." |
