It is not always clear what actually constitutes -sexual harassment- or how it differs from other types of discrimination based on gender. Often, what is thought of as sexual harassment by one person might be considered simply rude or immature behavior by another. While sexual harassment is a major issue in American workplaces and schools, there is no bona fide consensus as to what sexual harassment really is.
This book is designed to bring together material on an issue that is currently troubling most workplaces and schools in the United States: the problem of how to deal with a...

Idiots: Stories about Mindedness and Mental Retardation is a book about four children and the people who, in many respects, define their humanity. Mindedness is a quality associated with humanity that receives little attention in the scientific literature of mental retardation. The children's stories are written against the prevailing glare of the diagnoses traditional canon. Confronting mental retardation as a socially constructed disease that implies having something less than a mind, this book speaks to the rewards awaiting those who are willing to look beyond the disciplinary...

This volume pools the insights and experiences of a group of international researchers on different aspects of autonomy and related issues. Although autonomy is acknowledged as one of the main goals of education, in higher education the need for accountability and standardisation of learning outcomes constrain its development.

This book focuses on pedagogy for autonomy in language teaching within a vision of education as transformation and empowerment. It proposes a framework for learner and teacher autonomy based on three structuring elements: the context, the learner, and the teacher.

The handbook deals with non-formal language learning in Online Tandems. It gives information on how to start, assist and evaluate the learning process and stresses the importance of a tandem trainer or tutor. It documents research on learner strategies, code-switching, feedback and negotiation of meaning using transcripts of the tandem interaction.

Este libro aborda diferentes prácticas de tándem en centros universitarios europeos. Se presentan experiencias y modelos de tándem presencial y online, se analizan aspectos como la autonomía y la reciprocidad, y finalmente, se pone énfasis en la relevancia de programas tándem en la formación intercultural.