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As with the ever-increasing use of new communications devices, fugi- tive literacy exhibits new manifestations of youth vocal chords. Youth communication is coming alive during our current technical age, defined by its prevailing features:…

If you're reading this page, there's probably someone at work whose
behavior drives you crazy. It may be a chaotic coworker, an obnoxious boss, an unruly employee, an inept department, or an impossible client. Whoever it is, interactions with this…

As authors, we wonder whether readers might be interested in knowing something of our backgrounds and the reason why we undertook to write this book. We decided to write the book after we ran workshops to train people from the helping professions who…

This book is written at a time when widening participation in post- compulsory education seems to be undergoing something of a renaissance. It is therefore necessary to seize this opportunity to ensure that the nature of post-16 learning…

For some, emotions are uniquely human attributes; for others,
emotions can be seen everywhere from animals to machines and even the
weather. Yet, ever since Darwin published The Expression of the Emotions in
Man and Animals, it has been agreed…

The mandate to expand and improve science education for the 21st century is global and strong. Implementing these changes, however, is very complicated given that science education is dynamic, continually incorporating new ideas, practices, and…

Many of our oldest and wisest sayings deal with the eyes. That’s probably
because vision is our primary connection with the world. We use our eyes
to interact with our environment in more than a million ways every second.
The eyes really are an…

The classroom accounts and activities show how using visual approaches – and audio-visual and drama – can build on children’s knowledge of a range of multimodal texts. There are examples of teaching sequences using film, drama, real-life…

This unique and ground-breaking book is the result of 15 years’ research and synthesises over 800 meta-analyses relating to the influences on achievement in school-aged students. It builds a story about the power of teachers and of feedback, and…

These seven volumes of Lecture Notes represent the most-likely-to-be-tested material on the current USMLE Step 1 exam. Please not that these are Lecture Notes, not review books. The Notes were designed to be accompanied by faculty lectures-live, on…