This volume discusses changes in views and attitudes about the work of teachers and how these sociological views and attitudes have asserted themselves from 1990 to 2000. The book is organized in three sections. The first lays a theoretical framework by addressing the notion of class and how it affects views of teachers' work. The second section puts the first section's theory into practice through an illustrative analysis of teachers' lives in America and England. The final section focuses on the changes that have affected teachers' work in the 1990s and the world over.

This book offers specific strategies for classroom teachers to use in designing and implementing classroom groups and cooperative learning for a wide range of classes.

With the current, fast-paced, major philosophical challenges to modern life and its institutional constructs, artists and teachers involved in the dramatic arts are faced with demands to create a lucid postmodern play of ideas and forms. This text presents a wide range of contemporary theories borrowed from cultural studies augmented with practical implications that support dramatic artists in their struggle to create possible multiple realities for a postmodern future.

In 1932 George Counts, in his speech "Dare the School Build a New Social Order?" explicitly challenged teachers to develop a democratic, socialistic society. In Democratic Social Education: Social Studies for Social Change Drs. Hursh and Ross take seriously the question of what social studies educators can do to help build a democratic society in the face of current antidemocratic impulses of greed, individualism and intolerance. The essays in this book respond to Counts' question in theoretical analyses of education and society, historical analyses of efforts since Counts' challenge, and...

Children of Addiction reports important original research on the biological and psychological effects of addiction in children. The contributions are uniformly well written and reflect the larger social implications of the research undertaken. The book will be useful for a broad array of courses on alcoholism and/or drugs and behaviour in a variety of graduate level courses in education, medicine, psychology, psychiatry and public health and policy.

This encyclopedia offers 323 original articles covering every major aspect of the subject. It includes the work of over 200 experts in the field and includes such entries as Say's Law, Phillip's Curve and Eng.

Explores the major issues in current foreign language education. Topics covered include the psychology of second language learning; English as a second language; foreign languages in the elementary school; teaching materials; use of technology; foreign language for business; undergraduate and gradua

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Bringing together theory and research on models of thinking, explores thinking skills, strategies, content, and results in depth, providing a framework for their application in the classroom. The authors highlight curriculum development, instructional procedures and assessment, professional roles a

A collection of original essays that challenges the stereotypical view of the simple and innocent nature of children's culture, and reveals the complex and artistic interactions among children. Based on the research of scholars from fields including American studies, anthropology, education, folklor