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This book is dedicated to our parents, Roger and Frances Johnson, who discouraged inappropriate competition and taught us to cooperate.

For me, this book began more than 10 years ago as a post-J.D.
student in a semester-long capstone course at George Washington
University’s National Law Center. Professor James M. Brown,
who had mastered simulation teaching, taught this…

At the dawn of the twentieth century, visitors in an urban high school would have noted
that large classrooms of around fifty students were typical. had they asked, they would
have learned the desks were bolted to the floor to promote a quieter and…

This is a book about using phonics to teach reading and spelling to children and adults. It is not an evangelical tract, and does not pretend that phonics are all that we need. English spelling is not an exact match for English speech, and therefore…

The great Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky writing in the 1930s maintained that scholars in the discipline of psychology were drifting into the polar camps of behaviorism and phenomenology. There was no doubt that Vygotsky clearly saw into the…

Our original interests in the integration of diversity into the psychology curricu- lum developed along converging paths. As new teachers of psychology, we both discovered that our widely-used textbooks contained little or no scholarship on women or…

In an ef fort to make stu dents aware of the world in which they live, an em pha sis has re cently been placed on global ed u ca tion. Ed u ca tors have seen the need for a deeper un der stand ing of the in ter de pen dence of peo ples and na tions…

We would like to thank the following people for reading the manuscript and off ering
suggestions: Pia Alexander, Sandra Bolton, Mark and Sarah Campbell, Marjorie Cleveringa,
Kate Gillon, Laura Gray-Rosendale, Sibylle Gruber, Karen Greenstreet,…

This book, like most books, is the result of a great deal of lonely ef- fort on my part along with a great deal of inspiration and support from many others. I will not endeavor to list all of those who have supported and inspired me over the years.…

A few years ago, I was on a plane that had to turn
around shortly after takeoff because one of its two
engines had failed. When we were told to get into
crash position, the first thing I thought was, “I don’t
want to die yet! I was looking…