Beyond Technology's Promise: An Examination of Children's Educational Computing at Home
ISBN: 9780521407847 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As personal computers have become more available, there has been a great deal of optimism for educational reform through wide computer use, both at school and in the home. Beyond a Technology's Promise takes a hard look at the home computer scene. The research reported in the book focuses on whether families are using computers to help children learn academic skills and, if so, how well they are doing it. The three year, qualitative investigation provides contextual information crucial to our understanding of how computers are really being used. The authors draw the not so surprising...
As personal computers have become more available, there has been a great deal of optimism for educational reform through wide computer use, both at sc...
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126,63 zł |
Discourse, Learning, and Schooling
ISBN: 9780521453011 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discourse, Learning, and Schooling explores theoretical and methodological relationships between childrens' discourse--or socially used language--and their learning in educational settings. Authors in this volume address a range of issues, including literacy, authorship, the construction of self, and classroom interaction. The chapters range from research studies of classroom discourse to essays reflecting on discourse and literacies. Collectively these chapters reflect both sociocognitive perspectives on relations among discourse, learning, and schooling, and sociocultural perspectives on...
Discourse, Learning, and Schooling explores theoretical and methodological relationships between childrens' discourse--or socially used language--and ...
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385,12 zł |
New Directions for Equity in Mathematics Education
ISBN: 9780521477208 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issue of how to provide equitable schooling for ethnic and linguistic minorities has come to the forefront of education. This volume brings together top researchers to examine equity from the standpoint of mathematics education--an excellent forum for the topic, since the results are quantifiable. The first essays address broad cultural issues, such as how social class and our notion of merit enter into education. The second section of the book analyzes gender issues in math learning, and the final section examines language and mathematics. A number of themes cut across these three...
The issue of how to provide equitable schooling for ethnic and linguistic minorities has come to the forefront of education. This volume brings togeth...
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157,04 zł |
Entering the Child's Mind: The Clinical Interview in Psychological Research and Practice
ISBN: 9780521496858 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Entering the Child's Mind teaches the "clinical interview" as a technique for gaining insight into a child's way of thinking. In the tradition of Piaget and Vygotsky, Dr. Ginsburg argues that standardized instruments of evaluation often fail to meet the challenges of complex cognition. He presents the clinical interview as a powerful tool that, when understood and used properly, can provide psychologists with a profound appreciation for children's thinking. This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of the clinical interview method.
Entering the Child's Mind teaches the "clinical interview" as a technique for gaining insight into a child's way of thinking. In the tradition of Piag...
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364,84 zł |
Entering the Child's Mind: The Clinical Interview in Psychological Research and Practice
ISBN: 9780521498036 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Entering the Child's Mind teaches the "clinical interview" as a technique for gaining insight into a child's way of thinking. In the tradition of Piaget and Vygotsky, Dr. Ginsburg argues that standardized instruments of evaluation often fail to meet the challenges of complex cognition. He presents the clinical interview as a powerful tool that, when understood and used properly, can provide psychologists with a profound appreciation for children's thinking. This book represents the first comprehensive treatment of the theory and practice of the clinical interview method.
Entering the Child's Mind teaches the "clinical interview" as a technique for gaining insight into a child's way of thinking. In the tradition of Piag...
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212,77 zł |
The Will to Learn: A Guide for Motivating Young People
ISBN: 9780521553537 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Martin Covington introduces the basic principles of motivation in a readable, nontechnical form as they apply to classroom learning. He argues against the popular notion that the problems existing in schools today stem primarily from a lack of student motivation. Instead, he asserts that students are motivated, but often for the wrong reasons. Traditional teaching methods, including conventional grading procedures and an emphasis on competition, can contribute to student demoralization, and Covington identifies the ways in which students respond to misguided incentives. The book suggests...
Martin Covington introduces the basic principles of motivation in a readable, nontechnical form as they apply to classroom learning. He argues against...
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385,12 zł |
The Will to Learn: A Guide for Motivating Young People
ISBN: 9780521556798 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Martin Covington introduces the basic principles of motivation in a readable, nontechnical form as they apply to classroom learning. He argues against the popular notion that the problems existing in schools today stem primarily from a lack of student motivation. Instead, he asserts that students are motivated, but often for the wrong reasons. Traditional teaching methods, including conventional grading procedures and an emphasis on competition, can contribute to student demoralization, and Covington identifies the ways in which students respond to misguided incentives. The book suggests...
Martin Covington introduces the basic principles of motivation in a readable, nontechnical form as they apply to classroom learning. He argues against...
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177,30 zł |
Modes of Thought: Explorations in Culture and Cognition
ISBN: 9780521566445 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A central problem in cultural psychology is the diversity of patterns of rationality among cultures, historical periods, and stages of personal development. The distinguished contributors to this volume maintain that the acknowledgement of the inconsistency of rational patterns is not necessarily at odds with the traditional notion of the "psychological unity" of humankind. Leading psychologists, anthropologists, historians, and educational theorists explore this issue in considerable depth, citing relevant examples and problems relating to their specific areas of expertise. Scholars of...
A central problem in cultural psychology is the diversity of patterns of rationality among cultures, historical periods, and stages of personal develo...
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131,70 zł |
Talking Mathematics in School: Studies of Teaching and Learning
ISBN: 9780521621366 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1998 book addresses current issues in the teaching and learning of maths by looking at the processes of formulating, interpreting and solving problems.
This 1998 book addresses current issues in the teaching and learning of maths by looking at the processes of formulating, interpreting and solving pro...
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435,79 zł |
Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion
ISBN: 9780671675233 / Angielski / Miękka / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This landmark book" (San Francisco Chronicle) dispels the common myths about the causes and uses of anger -- for example, that expressing anger is always good for you, that suppressing anger is always unhealthy, or that women have special "anger problems" that men do not. Dr. Carol Tavris expertly examines every facet of that fascinating emotion -- from genetics to stress to the rage for justice.
Fully revised and updated, Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion now includes: * A new consideration of biological politics: Should testosterone or PMS excuse rotten tempers or... "This landmark book" (San Francisco Chronicle) dispels the common myths about the causes and uses of anger -- for example, that expressing ange...
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81,55 zł |
Supervision as Collaboration in the Human Services: Building a Learning Culture
ISBN: 9780761926283 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrates the thinking in the human services to provide supervisors and those preparing to become supervisors with an approach to the important skills and knowledge needed for effective practice in the 21st century. This title builds upon past efforts to define the principles and practices of supervision in the human services.
Integrates the thinking in the human services to provide supervisors and those preparing to become supervisors with an approach to the important skill...
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The Therapist's Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma
ISBN: 9780765701756 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the private thoughts of the therapist in response to the patient's inner expressions and how each affects the other over the course of treatment. Perlman documents his own journey of having treated trauma. and sexually abused patients over many years. He details the issues the therapist needs to deal with, the emotional. strain, how the therapist's own traumas and history shape his behavior and intrude into the therapeutic process, and how he and others he has supervised, have come to manage this difficult process and maintain emotional health. Perlman illustrates this with...
This book explores the private thoughts of the therapist in response to the patient's inner expressions and how each affects the other over the course...
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691,70 zł |
Good Goodbyes: Knowing How to End in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
ISBN: 9780765704122 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life is full of comings and goings, helloes and goodbyes, meetings and partings. Good Goodbyes highlights the crucial importance of how the end of therapy is structured and experienced. Bad endings can destroy good therapies. Good endings can consolidate the work accomplished, transform relationships, and foster growth in both patient and therapist. Within the framework of the therapeutic relationship and a clearly articulated set of goals for therapy, Jack Novick and Kerry Kelly Novick describe how to recognize and respond to termination themes from the very beginning of treatment. Each...
Life is full of comings and goings, helloes and goodbyes, meetings and partings. Good Goodbyes highlights the crucial importance of how the end of the...
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613,55 zł |
Adolescence and Delinquency: An Object-Relations Theory Approach
ISBN: 9780765704733 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book applies modern object relations theory--particularly the concept of intersubjectivity as articulated by Thomas Ogden--to a population for which the "treatment du jour" is increasingly cognitive-behavioral. Taking his lead from the delinquent adolescents in his practice, Dr. Brodie presents a treatment approach based on respect rather than condescension. Adolescents are related to as people, rather than as transitory objects passing through a 'stage.' Rather than judging their feelings and behaviors as "aberrant," the author views them as having emerged out of the complex matrix of...
This book applies modern object relations theory--particularly the concept of intersubjectivity as articulated by Thomas Ogden--to a population for wh...
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817,96 zł |
Adolescence and Delinquency: An Object-Relations Theory Approach
ISBN: 9780765704740 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book applies modern object relations theory--particularly the concept of intersubjectivity as articulated by Thomas Ogden--to a population for which the 'treatment du jour' is increasingly cognitive-behavioral. Taking his lead from the delinquent adolescents in his practice, Dr. Brodie presents a treatment approach based on respect rather than condescension. Adolescents are related to as people, rather than as transitory objects passing through a 'stage.' Rather than judging their feelings and behaviors as 'aberrant, ' the author views them as having emerged out of the complex matrix of...
This book applies modern object relations theory--particularly the concept of intersubjectivity as articulated by Thomas Ogden--to a population for wh...
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342,99 zł |
Drug Abuse and Social Policy in America: The War That Must Be Won
ISBN: 9780789001283 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Illicit drugs, despite the "war" waged by the United States government, remain a tremendous drain on the American economy and continue to take their toll on the lives of countless Americans. A comprehensive text with an instructor's manual, Drug Abuse and Social Policy in America analyzes why current US policy on the use of licit and illicit mood-altering drugs has failed. This groundbreaking book addresses differences between decriminalization, legalization, and "zero tolerance"--areas and philosophies that are poorly understood--and suggests a multipronged approach to diminish inappropriate...
Illicit drugs, despite the "war" waged by the United States government, remain a tremendous drain on the American economy and continue to take their t...
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187,44 zł |
Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority Populations: Advances and Issues
ISBN: 9780789005304 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Be a better researcher when studying drug abuse among minorities! Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority Populations: Advances and Issues brings you the voices of drug abuse researchers who discuss the most important concerns about conducting research in drug-taking minority populations. In this strategy-based book, you'll find yourself beneficially involved in a discussion of many of the central methodological advances facing researchers today, specifically in the target area of minority communities and their drug-using societies. Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority...
Be a better researcher when studying drug abuse among minorities! Conducting Drug Abuse Research with Minority Populations: Advances and Issues brings...
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263,45 zł |
Good Intentions Overruled: A Critique of Empowerment in the Routine Organization of Mental Health Services
ISBN: 9780802078025 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Good Intentions OverRuled is about empowerment; so it is also about power. This book shows how power is exerted in the routine organizational processes that determine what can be done in everyday life, since modern societies are controlled by regulations, policies, professional practice, legislation, budgets, and other forms of organization. Against the backdrop of an ideal vision of empowerment, this critique highlights both the Good Intentions of professionals and the organizational processes through which empowerment is OverRuled. Professionals who promote empowerment for... Good Intentions OverRuled is about empowerment; so it is also about power. This book shows how power is exerted in the routine organizationa... |
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Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology: Volume III: Personality, Abnormal, Clinical-Counseling, and Social
ISBN: 9780805830477 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is the third in a series that brings together selected articles, from the Teaching of Psychology journal, with tested ideas on how to liven up a psychology class. It focuses on personality, abnormal psychology, clinical psychology/counselling, and social psychology.
This text is the third in a series that brings together selected articles, from the Teaching of Psychology journal, with tested ideas on how to liven ...
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288,78 zł |
Handbook of School Counseling
ISBN: 9780805856231 / Angielski / Miękka / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The mission of this forty-eight chapter Handbook is to provide a comprehensive reference source that integrates counseling theory, research and practice into one volume. It is designed to meet the needs of entry-level practitioners from their initial placement in schools through their first three to five years of practice. It will also be of interest to experienced school counselors, counselor educators, school researchers, and counseling representatives within state and local governments. The mission of this forty-eight chapter Handbook is to provide a comprehensive reference source that integrates counseling theory, researc... |
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557,40 zł |