Children In and Out of School: Ethnography and Education

Children In And Out Of School: Ethnography And Education

Ablex Publishing Corporation

Language, Literacy and Culture: Issues of Society and Schooling

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This book unites research and theoretical work that addresses the relations between social interaction and the development of children's understanding. Contributors present and discuss research on the roles adults and/or peers play in children's development. They report results of research on social interaction and the development of preschool-aged and elementary school children's understanding in areas such as: use of metacognitive strategies, understanding of social events, moral and affective development, use of planning skills, knowledge of social conventions, and development of play interests. Across all contexts, the role of others is discussed as providing support, direction, or challenge for children's developing understanding. Changes in children's understanding, in turn, simultaneously inform interactional adjustments by both children and others. It is the recognition and consideration of this complementary relationsip between developing understanding and organization of social interactions that provies the volume's unifying theme.

Social Interaction and the Development of Children's Understanding:

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Winegar, Lucien T.

Psychology & Counseling

Contemporary Issues in U.S. Education (Social and Policy Issues in Education)

Borman, Kathryn M.

Reading Development In A Second Language: Theoretical, Empirical And Classroom Perspectives (second Language Learning)

BERNHARDT

Elizabeth B.

This volume sheds new light on addiction and other ailments, detailing a recipe for transcendence. The author describes pattern addiction as the root of a variety of psychologicl and physical afflictions including what is traditionally called addiction. Drug addiction offers one of the most tangible examples of patterning and some of the most tangible evidence that addiction to a pattern can be transcended. Pattern addiction is part of the human condition. It frequently manifests itself in explicit symptoms such as drug addiction, physical pain, chronic ailments including ulcers, and even cancer. Implicit pattern addictions are built over a long period of time because most neurological programming takes place over time. This patterning becomes detrimental when the pattern is harmful to the emotional, physical, and/or spiritual well-being of the individual (or his family or community). All too often, medicine treats the explicit symptoms of an affliction without correcting the underlying and more implicit pattern addictions. This is due, in part, to the inability of current medical theory to do more.

Transcending Addiction and Other Afflictions: Lifehealing (Frontiers of Psychotherapy)

Browne-Miller, Angela

Addiction & Recovery

In this volume, the authors begin by defining usability, advocating and explaining the methods of usability engineering and reviewing many techniques for assessing and assuring usablity throughout the development process. They then follow all the steps in planning and conducting a usability test, analyzing data and using the results to improve both products and processes. Using examples from many types of products and tests, the book discusses the full range of testing options from quick studies with few subjects to more formal tests with carefully designed controls. The authors discuss the place of usability laboratories in testing as well as the skills needed to conduct a test. Included are forms to use or modify to conduct a usability test, as well as layouts of existing labs that should help the reader build his or her own.

A Practical Guide to Usability Testing (Communication and Information Science Series)

Computers & Technology

Dumas, Joseph S.

Games & Strategy Guides

Many individuals studying problem solving consider creativity a special type of problem solving. On the other hand, many individuals studying creativity view problem solving as a special type of creative performance. What is truly the role of creativity in problem solving? What is the role of problem solving in creativity? And how are problem solving and creativity related to problem finding? This book addresses these questions, and fills an obvious need for an overview of the research on problem finding.

Problem Finding, Problem Solving, and Creativity (Creativity Research Series)

Science & Math

Runco, Mark A.

Behavioral Sciences

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