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Preparing those who work with our youngest and most receptive learners to be competent practitioners and reflective professionals is the most important
challenge in Education. These young minds and tiny hands deserve the best that a…

Every newspaper has its own style book, a set of rules telling
journalists whether to write e-mail or email, Gadaffi or Qaddafi ,
judgement or judgment. The Economist’s style book does this and a bit
more. It also warns writers of some common…

I T HAS BECOME a cliché to say that education is in “crisis.” But it is true: A deep sense of crisis pervades discussions of education in the United States. Perhaps most distressingly, the crisis appears to be chronic. Reports in the mass media,…

No book is ever written on one’s own. There are many people I wish
to thank for helping me complete it.
First and foremost there is my dear departed friend Carol Kennedy,
who died of cancer in early 2007 and to whom this book is dedicated.
A…

Perhaps our biggest failure with student teachers is in not preparing them adequately for the emotional pressures on them and for the way their own emotional responses will help determine their reactions and behaviour in the classroom. However much I…

There are books that cover the nature of the sustainability problem. There are books that cover climate change from greenhouse gases. There are books about nature and ecosystems as models of sustainability. There are books about environ…

Sustainability has been established for over one decade in building construction.
It  has become a high priority and is well established amongst professionals and
authorities involved in design and construction. So why would one need another
book…

It would risk extreme hubris to start without acknowledging the vast body of preceding work by
others, which I’ve attempted to synthesize and organize
into this brief. Often, it is by people I have never met but
whose writings or designs. I have…

. Cognitive automation and its systemergonomic introduction into work systems have been advanced in the meantime to
such a degree that already applications for operational work systems are slowly
becoming reality. This interdisciplinary book is…

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