Corporations have finally realized the value of collaboration tools for knowledge sharing and Wiki is the open source technology for creating collaborative Web sites, as either a public site on the Internet or on a private intranet site. This title shows readers how to set up Wikis in a corporate setting or on a personal site so that users can ...
Meeting the growing demand for resources on evidence-based practice, this acclaimed work has now been fully revised and expanded with the latest treatment data. Like its predecessor, the second edition provides a systematic, comprehensive, and balanced evaluation of the current status of all major psychotherapeutic approaches. Detailed evidence is ...
It is always difficult to know how to write up research, and as academics and postgraduates alike come under increasing pressure to improve rates of publication a text like this one is essential reading for all researchers. The book discusses all aspects of translating research into writing, including: - getting started and keeping going - putting ...
Meatloaf Roll-ups with savory fillings, spicy loaves with Southwestern flair, poutry loaves, vegetarian loaves studded with nuts and grains, plus side dishes such as Garlic Mashed Potatoes, and Buttery Corn Bread--nearly 150 recipes from the winners of the most recent Great American Meatloaf Contest offer something for everyone.
This volume synthesizes information on the efficacy of the major models of psychotherapy for commonly encountered mental health problems. Maintaining a balance between empirical considerations and the role of clinical judgement, the authors examine how research evidence can be used to improve the structure and planning of services to specific ...
The single most cited reason for not choosing teaching as a career is stress, which is also the most common reason for leaving the profession. This book looks at the causes of teacher stress, asks why thousands of teachers (after expensive training) are leaving the profession every year due to stress and suggests ways of coping with and preventing ...
Ethnography has much to offer teachers, especially at a time of growing interest in the teacher-researcher and in action and collaborative research. This text examines ethnography and its applications to teaching.
This book is about a unique school. It is a school that, despite the increasing pressure put upon it by changes in the curriculum and the organisation of education, has managed to successfully maintain the creative values that have won it international and government recognition. The book describes: the school's s culture of holism; its use and ...
The widespread adoption of ethnography in the study of educational processes in the 1970s and 80s represented a break with the methodological and theoretical assumptions of previous work in several ways. Of particular importance was the new attention to pupils' experience of and adaption to school. Even so, this ethnographic work inherited the ...
First, Infinity Inc. must find a deranged killer on the loose in Metropolis -- but is the killer another product of Luthor's demented Everyman Project? Then, Steel springs an unwelcome surprise on the team in the form of an unwanted new member and uniforms! But it's one thing to dress like a team, and another to act like one. Before they even ...
This is an accessible source of information and practical ideas on a wide range of recent developments in teaching and learning. All the chapters have been written by experienced lecturers and/or leading contributors from staff and educational development in higher education. They explore the spectrum of teaching and learning, covering subjects ...
With the growing awareness of environmental issues, there is a renewed interest in climate and its relationship to architecture. Climate Responsive Design focuses on tropical climate but much of the theory can be applied to other climates; the difference in application is clearly delineated. The broader topic of technology as a generator in design ...
This book examines pupils' experience of school from their own perspectives, showing a range of responses involving both pain and pleasure. It brings together a wide range of material to evoke pupil realities, to describe pupil cultures, and to consider the meanings of activities.
This book is a follow-up to "Inside Schools" . It reviews the position of ethnography in educational research in the light of current issues and of the author's own research over the past ten years. Starting with an analysis of teaching as science and as art, he goes on to review the general interactionist framework in which his own work is ...
Since the 1988 Education Reform Act, the education system has undergone dramatic changes and this in turn has raised a number of controversial issues and questions. This reader brings together key articles, both recently published and specially commissioned, which address these issues and place them in context. Issues covered include: the ...
This book is very practical in its international usefulness (because current risk practice and understanding is not equal across international boundaries). For example, an accountant in Belgium would want to know what the governance regulations are in that country and what the risk issues are that he/she needs to be aware of. This book covers the ...
Consultancy and Innovation links two important aspects of European economic development in the past 30 years: the pace of technical and management innovation and the growing significance of consultancy. The rapid expansion of specialist technical and business consultancy, evident in every country, has affected the nature and rate of innovation, ...
This is a dance Yearbook which attempts an international coverage. It presents information in four sections: feature articles on themes of interest to the dance world; dance reports from an ever-expanding range of countries; material on dance education and new developments; and statistics of dance companies throughout the world, their artistic ...
Irish music is rooted in its people - ordinary working people who live off the land and whose lives it enriches and sustains. This is the story of that music: how it has been passed down, collected and added to; how it lives on through immigrations, social changes and new technologies. Told in a compelling style through several generations of one ...
Since the 1992 Education Act inaugurated national arrangements for inspection, schools have operated within an "inspection climate" which prevades every aspect of school life on a continual basis. The significance of OFSTED inspections cannot be overestimated. They are often the most challenging, searching, uncompromising and stressful events ...
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