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Publisher
Sage Publications
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the social and cultural foundations of education. This area of education reflects many of the conflicts, tensions, and forces in American society, focusing on issues such as race, gender, socioeconomic class, the impact of technology on learning, what it means to be educated, and the role of teaching and learning in a societal context.
Series
Key issues in crime and punishment volume 5
Publisher
SAGE
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Presents arguments both in favor of and opposed to various treatments, programs, and punishments, examining issues such as youth curfews, juveniles in adult courts, legal representation for juveniles, juvenile boot camps, group homes, and out-of-home placement.
Series
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
"The Encyclopedia of Counseling provides a comprehensive overview of the theories, models, techniques, and challenges involved in professional counseling. With approximately 600 entries, this definitive resource covers all of the major theories, approaches, and contemporary issues in counseling."--Pubr description.
Publisher
Sage Publications
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive overview of the field of perception presenting two parallel and interacting approaches: the psychophysical, or determining the relationship between stimuli in the environment and perception, and the physiological, or locating the biological systems responsible for perception.
Publisher
Sage Publications
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
This edited work emerges from a concept of curriculum and instruction as a diverse landscape defined and bounded by schools, school boards and their communities, policy, teacher education, and academic research. The book is aimed at lecturers, professors and academics.
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
"The encyclopedia is designed to provide reference material and an introduction to historical and contemporary race and crime topics. It supports study, research, and instruction by presenting brief overviews and references to more in-depth presentations in other published sources. ... The encyclopedia includes entries related to race and crime that are organized in the Reader's Guide as follows: Biographies, Cases, Concepts and Theories, Corrections,...
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
"The SAGE Handbook of Child Development explores the multicultural development of children through the varied and complex interplay of traditional agents of socialization as well as contemporary media influences, examining how socialization practices and media content construct and teach us about diverse cultures. Editors Joy K. Asamen, Mesha L. Ellis, and Gordon L. Berry, along with chapter authors from a wide variety of disciplines, highlight how...
Publisher
Sage
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
The opening chapters of this work address the methods of research and the history of the field of communication science. In subsequent parts, the authors examine the levels of analysis in communication, the functions of communication, and the contexts in which communication occurs.
