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Education and Technology
Critical Perspectives, Possible Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
There are numerous publications about education and technology. What is missing is a balanced appraisal of the values and cognitive skills technology promotes and those it devalues. This is important for education because the way we teach influences how children think, and it is of more general importance...
Researching with Children and Young People
Research Design, Methods and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
'This text will be of great use to postgraduate researchers in education, social work and nursing, and any practitioner involved in carrying out research with children and young people' - CPD Update
'[T]here is a sense of newness and innovation about the book, whereby the reader is treated...
Becoming Enemies
U.S.-Iran Relations and the Iran-Iraq War, 1979–1988
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Becoming Enemies brings the unique methods of critical oral history, developed to study flashpoints from the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, to understand U.S. and Iranian relations from the fall of the Shah in 1978 through the Iranian hostage crisis and the Iran-Iraq war. Scholars and...
by John M. Sherrer III, Historic Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Columbia, South Carolina, is very much a tale of two cities. Founded as a political compromise, forged by an economy shackled by slavery, and physically vanquished by fire, the Palmetto State's second capital became a proving ground for a new society less than a century after its establishment. During...
Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Praise for Developing and Sustaining Successful First-Year Programs
"An essential guide to the thorny task of not only developing successful first-year programs, the critical building blocks for student college completion, but also sustaining them over time. It should be at the top of...
Caught in the Web of the Criminal Justice System
Autism, Developmental Disabilities, and Sex Offenses
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Increasing numbers of people with autism and other developmental disabilities are being convicted of sex offences, resulting in draconian and public punishment. Yet even when evidence shows that people with these conditions often pose little threat to society, or lack a core understanding as to why...
by Professor Luanna H. Meyer, Dr. William John M. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
A positive model for restorative discipline
The authors provide a research-based and field-tested model that gives school leaders more productive alternatives to punishment, exclusion, and out-of-school suspension. This positive program helps improve behavior and keep students in school. This...
Inquiry-Based Learning for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Programs
A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is a learner-centered active learning environment where deep learning is cultivated by a process of inquiry owned by the learner. It has roots in a constructivist educational philosophy and is oriented around three components: 1) exploration and discovery (e.g. problem-based...
Tough Guys and True Believers
Managing Authoritarian Men in the Psychotherapy Room
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Some men are especially difficult to manage in the psychotherapy room. They are controlling, exploitive, rigid, aggressive, and prejudiced. In a word, they are Authoritarian. This book is a guide for therapists and counselors who work with these men, offering an understanding of their psychological...
by James D. G. Dunn, Bruce M. Metzger, David Allen Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...
by John N. Oswalt, J. Andrew Dearman, Iain M. Duguid
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This NIVAC Bundle includes the four books of the Bible that cover the major prophets found in the NIV Application Commentary series.
Interpreting the New Testament Text
Introduction to the Art and Science of Exegesis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006
With the explosive increase in availability of English Bible translations, the question can easily be asked, "Why bother with the hard work of biblical exegesis?" Computers can translate foreign languages and our English texts can take us very close to the original meanings, so why exegete? Answer:...
The Assemblies of God
Godly Love and the Revitalization of American Pentecostalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
The Assemblies of God (AG) is the ninth largest American and the world’s largest Pentecostal denomination, with over 50 million followers worldwide. The AG embraces a worldview of miracles and mystery that makes“supernatural” experiences, such as speaking in tongues, healing, and prophecy, normal...
by F. F. Bruce, Bruce M. Metzger, David Allen Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and...