http://www.lybrary.com/index.php?cPath=1433 Copyright © 2010 Lybrary.comWritten for students, educators, and researchers, <i>Methods in Educational Research</i> offers a refreshing introduction to the principles of educational research. Designed for the real world of educational research, the book's approach focuses on the types of problems likely to be encountered in professional experiences. Reflecting the importance of The No Child Left Behind Act, â€Å"scientifically based” educational research, school accountability, and professional demands of the twenty-first century, this resource empowers educational researchers to conduct research in their classrooms, districts, and the greater educational communityâ€"activities now not only expected but required of alhttp://www.lybrary.com/methods-educational-research-from-theory-practice-research-methods-social-sciences-p-73840.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/methods-educational-research-from-theory-practice-research-methods-social-sciences-p-73840.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT <b>John A. Kaufhold</b> shown with his wife, Sumita, at Stratford-Upon-Avon, is a Professor of Educational Leadership at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina. He is the author of three books and numerous articles in the fields of Education and Civil War history.<p>http://www.lybrary.com/basic-statistics-educational-research-p-72435.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/basic-statistics-educational-research-p-72435.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT Although educators are increasingly interested in art education research, there are few anthologies tackling the subject. Research in Art & Design Education answers this call, summarizing important issues in the field such as non-text based approaches and interdisciplinary work. Contributions from internationally renowned researchers explore a broad range of topics in art education, highlighting particular problems and strengths in the literature. The collection features examples of research projects previously published in the International Journal of Art & Design Education. An indispensable and engaging resource, this volume provides a long-awaited aid for students and teachers alike.http://www.lybrary.com/research-design-education-issues-exemplars-p-68991.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/research-design-education-issues-exemplars-p-68991.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT Six Steps to Preparing Exemplary Principals and Superintendents is the first book to inspire and guide professors and program administrator's proven ways to prepare exemplary principals and superintendents for schools. The authors review issues surrounding extreme criticism of leadership education and counter with positive new research and practices that clearly highlight successful programs that link preparation to on-the-job successes of graduates. The reader will find a step-by-step guide to selecting the best students, creating a pre- and post-assessment of student learning, a well-designed procedure to pretest and assure that all masters degree students actually acquire a strong knowledge base and score well on state licensure exams. The finalstep provides proven questionnaires to survey graduates of the masters or doctoral programs to gather valuable feedback for constant program improvement and relevance to the real world of schools.http://www.lybrary.com/steps-preparing-exemplary-principals-superintendents-leadership-education-best-p-68009.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/steps-preparing-exemplary-principals-superintendents-leadership-education-best-p-68009.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT <p>In this book Chuck reveals the answers to questions many beauty industry professionals have been trying to master for years. He identifies the real true one and only cause for hair breakage. He outlines all the culprits for breakage and damage and he gives the antidote to the many problems that have been plaguing the industry since the beginning of the profession.</p><p>Chuck has been working along side and consulted with renowned scientists who have been researching the reactions of chemical relaxers on the hair and the damage it can cause. These scientists have invented a profound solution and remedy for the damage and breakage as a result of this service and Chuck has been given authority to enlighten the industry about it.</p><p>This book is a must for anyone in the beauty industry who wants to have a monopoly over the population where it pertains to maintaining and preserving the integrity of the hair in effort to promote hair growth and longevity of life in the hair.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/science-healthy-hair-p-58416.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/science-healthy-hair-p-58416.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT Language, Literacy, and Learning in Primary Schools is a synthesis of the findings arising from four years of policy research and development in Nigeria's primary schools that focused on the gap between what teachers should know and be able to do, and the realities of teaching and learning in classrooms. It begins by critically examining the outcomes of primary schooling as measured by learning achievement results from national assessments, and by identifying some core learning problems for Nigerian primary school children. It reviews the findings from recent research reports that studied teaching and learning processes in primary school classrooms, and it identifies the pedagogical issues in primary classrooms that contribute to poor learning achievements. This report describes a research and development program that set out to improve teaching and learning in core learning skill areas of the curriculum. This study identifies priority areas for teachers' professional development. It suggests a policy framework for the continuing professional development of primary school teachers, including the initial preparation of teachers and their induction into teaching. It proposes medium and long-term strategies to bring about the desired changes in teaching and learning through school-based approaches to teacher development.http://www.lybrary.com/language-literacy-learning-primary-schools-language-literacy-learning-primary-schools-implications-teache-p-56040.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/language-literacy-learning-primary-schools-language-literacy-learning-primary-schools-implications-teache-p-56040.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT A volume in Research in Professional Development Schools Series Editors: Irma N. Guadarrama, University of Houston, John M. Ramsey, University of Houston and Janice L. Nath, University of Houston-Downtown The need for strengthening the connections between university-based teacher education programs and schools has never been greater in an era where standards and accountability systems often play centric roles in practically all aspects of the education field. Within this context, university educators and school practitioners have increasingly focused their attention on how professional development schools produce the multiplicity of outcomes that address the exigencies of quality programs for educating teachers and improving school achievement. In keeping with the mission of producing a collection of papers that inform, enlighten, and motivate readers, Volume 3 of the Professional Development Schools book series provides practitioners and researchers with articles on a substantial variety of themes on the most recent developments of the field.
<p>Among the thematic threads that organize Volume 3 are 1) using the national standards to examine and evaluate PDSs; 2) implementation, development and leadership issues relevant to beginning and experienced PDSs; 3) using innovative means for student assessments and mentoring in preservice education within a PDS context; 4) the impact of PDSs on teacher education and student achievement; and 5) cases of PDSs and the value of lessons learned. Volume 3 is similar to the previous two volumes in that it includes both practitioner and researcher strands, however, the authors in the current volume carry a sense of maturity and exudes a tone of confidence in their voice. Professional development schools research is an important aspect of teacher education. The collection of articles in Volume 3 contribute to our understanding of their essential qualities and offer assurance that innovation, change, and quality are building blocks in professional development schools.http://www.lybrary.com/university-school-connections-research-studies-professional-development-schools-research-professional-development-p-55033.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/university-school-connections-research-studies-professional-development-schools-research-professional-development-p-55033.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT This edited collection looks at education through the lens of psychoanalysis and vice versa. Each contribution asks, in effect, what does it mean to be a pedagogue and an educational theorist after Freud?http://www.lybrary.com/psychoanalysis-pedagogy-critical-studies-education-culture-series-p-55030.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/psychoanalysis-pedagogy-critical-studies-education-culture-series-p-55030.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT This edited book is a comparative study on teacher education across ten major Englishspeaking regions of the world (USA, English Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand). The focus on individual regions is reflective of a comparative approach with a long tradition going back to the turn of the twentieth century. This approach is still valid at the present time as it provides one of the best ways of initially structuring our understanding of teacher education at the macro level in order to facilitate communication of the situation crossnationally and prepare the way for higher levels of analyses. To this end, the book has twelve chapters: An introductory chapter details the focus of the book. This is followed by a chapter on each of the ten regions.
<p>Each of these chapters, written by an expert in the field: focuses on general trends in teacher education rather than on any specific aspect of it; focuses primarily on pre-service teacher education at the primary and post-primary levels, although some reference is also made to continuing professional development; strikes a balance between past, present and future trends; deals broadly with access to, the processes involved in, and the structure of, teacher education; has a unique structure rather than one based upon a formulaic approach. In the final chapter major themes are distilled from the case studies. It also outlines how the book furthers understanding of teacher education internationally, considers other groupings of regions ripe for consideration along similar lines, and indicates initiatives arising out of the case studies worthy of consideration for the improvement of teacher education crossnationally.http://www.lybrary.com/teacher-education-englishspeaking-world-past-present-future-p-53579.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/teacher-education-englishspeaking-world-past-present-future-p-53579.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT The keys to unlocking the real meaning behind what we say in personal and professional conversation. What do we really mean when we make embarrassing mistakes in conversation? Is there such a thing as inadvertent insult or a slip of the tongue? Exploring outside influences and the connections to our dream world, Dr. Robert Haskell guides us through the fascinating terrain of the unconscious, showing how our minds use feelings, sounds, and language to simultaneously hide and reveal what we secretly think and feel. Filled with intriguing and amusing illustrations from every day life, Deep Listening provides the key to unlocking the real feelings and meanings behind our interactions with family, friends, and co-workers.http://www.lybrary.com/deep-listening-hidden-meanings-everyday-conversation-p-52428.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/deep-listening-hidden-meanings-everyday-conversation-p-52428.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT Social epistemology is a broad set of approaches to the study of knowledge and to gain information about the social dimensions. This intellectual movement of wide cross-disciplinary sources reconstructs the problems of epistemology when knowledge is considered to be intrinsically social. In the first chapter, "Social Epistemology and Social Learning," Olivia Saracho and Bernard Spodek discuss the social and historical contexts in which different forms of knowledge are formulated based on the perspective of social epistemology. They also discuss the emergence of social epistemology, which guides researchers to investigate social phenomena in laboratory and field settings. Social factors "external" to the appropriate business of science have a major impact in the social studies researchers'= historical case studies. Thus, social studies researchers may be considered social epistemologists, because (a) they focus on knowledge of social influences and (b) they infer epistemologically significant conclusions from their sociological or anthropological research.
<p>In addition, analyses indicate that studies of scientific paradigms are basically a struggle for political power rather than reflecting reliable epistemic merit. Social studies researchers focus on knowledge of social influences on knowledge, which is analogous to the knowledge of the social epistemologists. They also use their sociological or anthropological research to infer epistemologically significant conclusions.http://www.lybrary.com/contemporary-perspectives-social-learning-early-childhood-education-contemporary-perspectives-early-childhood-educatio-p-50439.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/contemporary-perspectives-social-learning-early-childhood-education-contemporary-perspectives-early-childhood-educatio-p-50439.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT http://www.lybrary.com/doing-action-research-english-language-teaching-guide-practitioners-p-45497.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/doing-action-research-english-language-teaching-guide-practitioners-p-45497.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT The Young Adolescent and the Middle School, will focus on issues related to the nature of young adolescence and the intersection of young adolescence with middle level schooling. Examples of topics related to young adolescence include: (a) the developmental characteristics (i.e., physical, emotional, cognitive, social, ethical/moral, psychological), (b) self esteem, (c) identity formation, (d) issues related to gender, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation, (e) peer pressure (e.g., bullying, suicide, and at-risk behaviors). Possible chapters that focus on the intersection of the nature of young adolescence with middle level schools include: (a) appropriate structures, organizational arrangements, interventions, and practices that are developmentally appropriate; (b) curricular, instructional, and assessment issues as they relate to this developmental period; (c) the characteristics/qualities of teachers and administrators that are essential for effectively working with young adolescents; and (d) issues related to special education; and (e) the involvement of family in middle level schooling. Of particular interest to the editor are manuscripts that present the perspectives of students on various issues related to young adolescence and schooling. Please check with the editor if you have any questions regarding the appropriateness of a topic.http://www.lybrary.com/young-adolescent-middle-school-handbook-research-middle-level-education-p-43939.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/young-adolescent-middle-school-handbook-research-middle-level-education-p-43939.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN COMPOSITION STUDIES is a student-friendly guide to how knowledge is constructed and disseminated in composition studies, as well as a thorough handbook on how to conduct bibliographic research in the discipline. Student readers are taught Stephen North's taxonomy of scholarship, empirical research, and practice so that they can better contextualize the sources they read, and they learn the unique ways that some genres of publication function in composition studies. The book also leads students through the entire process of completing a bibliographic assignment. Students learn to search for and select pertinent sources effectively, how to use major databases and other bibliographic resources to conduct a comprehensive search for disciplinary knowledge, and how to draft and revise an annotated bibliography and a review of literature. Four appendices offer additional support in understanding libraries, journals, and databases, all as they pertain to research in composition studies. The book helps students make sense of a broadly defined discipline and prepares them to become active and independent learners, as well as original contributors to the unending conversation in composition studies. BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN COMPOSITION STUDIES is the first volume in Parlor Press's new Lenses on Composition Studies series, which features texts written specifically for upper-level undergraduate and entry-level graduate courses in composition studies. VICKI BYARD is Professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University, located in Chicago, where she currently serves as the Coordinator of the First-Year Writing Program. She teaches first-year and upper-level writing courses, as well as graduate-level theory and research courses in an MA composition program. Previously, she authored the Instructor's Resource Manual for the first and second editions of THE ALLYN & BACON GUIDE TO WRITING, and she is a frequent presenter at national conferences in composition studies. She received her MA and PhD in rhetoric and composition from Purdue University. LENSES ON COMPOSITION STUDIES offers authors the unique opportunity to write for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students who are new to the discipline of Composition Studies. While the series aims to maintain the rigor and depth of contemporary composition scholarship, it seeks to offer this particular group of students an introduction to key disciplinary issues in accessible prose that does not assume prior advanced knowledge of scholars and theoretical debates. The series provides instructors of advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students texts that are both appropriate and inviting for this fresh but professionally directed audience.http://www.lybrary.com/bibliographic-research-composition-studies-p-41286.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/bibliographic-research-composition-studies-p-41286.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT This book sets out to explore the intersections between matters not frequently yoked in academic discussions: spirituality, social justice, and the learning of world languages. The contributing authors contend not only that these intersections exist, but that they are the site of issues and realities that require the attention of language educators and point to avenues of growth for the language teaching profession. The essays included seek to indicate the possibilities of a neglected area of inquiry, not only in terms of theory but also in terms of the practices of language education. Given this aim of opening up fresh questions, the book is arranged so as to show the relevance of the nexus of spirituality and social justice to teacher education (chapters 3 and 4), language classroom practices (chapters 5 and 6), and the theoretical sources that inform scholarly discussion of language education (chapters 7 and 8). The opening chapters place these explorations in a larger context by showing how they fit into existing social contexts and academic discussions.http://www.lybrary.com/spirituality-social-justiceand-language-learning-contemporary-language-education-p-37116.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/spirituality-social-justiceand-language-learning-contemporary-language-education-p-37116.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT This collection of research has attempted to capture the essence and promise embodied in the concept of "identity" and built a bridge to the realm of second language studies. However, the reader will notice that we did not build just one link. This volume brings to light the diversity of research in identity and second language studies that are grounded the notions of community, instructors and students, language immersion and study abroad, pop culture and music, religion, code switching, and media. The chapters reflect the efforts of contributors from Canada, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States who performed their research in the countries just mentioned and in other regions around the world. Because of this, this volume truly offers an international perspective.http://www.lybrary.com/identity-second-language-learning-culture-inquiry-dialogic-activity-educational-contexts-contemporary-language-p-34139.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/identity-second-language-learning-culture-inquiry-dialogic-activity-educational-contexts-contemporary-language-p-34139.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT The purpose of this book is to describe the approach and process involved in a program designed to assist faculty in acquiring technology skills and to applyhttp://www.lybrary.com/faculty-mentoring-power-students-developing-expertise-research-methods-educational-technology-p-34135.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/faculty-mentoring-power-students-developing-expertise-research-methods-educational-technology-p-34135.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT This book examines the identification choices of a group of biracial college women and explores how these identifications relate to their choices and constructions of different social contexts. It is a qualitative study that draws on recent psychological literature, as well as personal interviews and focus groups with a group of biracial college women. The book includes 1) a review of the relevant literature concerning biracial individuals, 2) a discussion of some of the unique issues facing researchers who work with biracial populations, and 3) an indepth examination of the relationship between identity and different social contexts for a group of biracial women. The book addresses issues critical to educators, counselors, policy makers and researchers who work with biracial students, as well as biracial individuals and their families. For example, it shows how, for this group of biracial college women, identity choices did influence their choices and constructions of social contexts, particularly at the school that they all attended. Yet while identification choices did influence their perceptions about their social contexts, other factors such as social barriers also influenced them. Family members played a role in their identification choices as well, but siblings were found to be more influential than parents. In addition, the book demonstrates how educators and biracial mentors had a significant impact on this particular group of biracial women. The implications of these findings for parents, educators and future researchers are considered, as the number of biracial individuals living in the United States continues to grow.http://www.lybrary.com/negotiating-social-contexts-identities-biracial-college-women-research-bilingual-education-p-34133.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/negotiating-social-contexts-identities-biracial-college-women-research-bilingual-education-p-34133.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT This volume is designed to accomplish three primary purposes: (1) illustrate a variety of qualitative methods that researchers have used to study teaching and teacher education; (2) assess the affordances and constraints of these methods and the ways thathttp://www.lybrary.com/learning-from-research-teaching-perspective-methodology-representation-volume-p-19636.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/learning-from-research-teaching-perspective-methodology-representation-volume-p-19636.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT The author chronicles his familys experiences before, during, and after the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). He uses his diaries, interviews in Latin America and Israel, documents and pictures given to him by his family and friends and studies the works of political scientists, historians and journalists. He begins with his familys history from the time when they immigrated from Tsarist Russia to Argentina in the 19th century. Then, using his familys history as a background, he discusses his life as an exile in Israel and Denmark from 1976 to 1979, his return to Argentina to comply with military service in the Argentine Marine Infantry and his return to Israel in1980. During the Argentine dictatorship thousands of people disappeared. Two million Argentines went into exile. This book makes an important contribution to the collective memory of Argentina and the concept of Never Again.http://www.lybrary.com/exile-from-argentina-jewish-family-military-dictatorship-19761983-p-17664.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/exile-from-argentina-jewish-family-military-dictatorship-19761983-p-17664.htmlSun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EDT