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Deals with the teachings and activism of one of the world's most respected critical educators and activists. This book is suitable for students in educational foundations, social studies education, contemporary issues in education, comparative education, and the philosophy and sociology of education.

Brings together some ideas on reforming education for 14-18 year olds with a focus on more significant reforms for revisioning of high school. This book provides a context for understanding the rationale, conceptual framework, obstacles, and political context of high school reform.

Addresses concerns such as: What labor, workplace, and technology issues should composition as a profession be concerned with in the 21st century? How does technology affect the shape of academic labor? How have working conditions in composition affected the ways technology is used?

Focuses on the development of theories and pedagogies of distance learning in the English class. This book discusses the development of effective means of conveying information, developing knowledge and perfecting skills, and shows how distance learning calls instructors of English to different roles in the performance of their duties.

Focuses on the applications of interactive ethnography to the study of teaching and learning practices in various educative groups. This book includes ten studies using methods such as ethnography, conversation analysis, critical discourse analysis, and intertextual analysis.

Based on extensive research into the and newspaper framing of the Bosnian war. The issues and questions addressed include the critical use of official sources and propaganda in journalism; how media and policymakers interact to detect and frame problems for policy action; and what factors limit the accurate reporting of war.

This book offers chapters on the dialectics of gender and newsroom culture, bringing a feminist analysis to that relation. The text aims to bring coherence and insight to a still relatively under-researched topic

Steps into the debate about how doctoral programs should prepare students for the profession. The contributors explore the conceptual and practical specifics of a refocused training and build a compelling argument that providing students a stable identity is less crucial than preparing them to adopt myriad and shifting professional personas.

Focusing on visual intelligence, perception and memory, and cognition, this book provides a frame for understanding the connections among vision, meaning-making and development of self. It also considers methods, practices, and theories of visual rhetoric.

This volume traces the history of knowledge, information, and cognate categories as variables in economic thought, from their first appearance in early classical economics, through their place in neo-classical, institutional, and neo-institutional economics, to their role in contemporary investigations in economic psychology.

A collaborative, international effort to reflect on a broad range of issues relating to globalization. Several encompassing themes are addressed including ideals proper to the democratic nation-state and their relationship to a globalizing culture.

This book scrutinizes soap opera producers and viewers, the processes by which they define and interpret the genre and its texts, and how subjectivities of age and gender influence their practices and circumscribe a range of romantic fantasies deemed acceptable to purvey or savour.

This work calls attention to the ways that teachers of writing must attend to the idea of the classroom, must be conscious of the spaces in which they meet students and must be aware of the physical, material conditions that constrain or affect the teaching of writing.

The essays in this volume provide an international perspective on persistent and emerging questions related to the use of online technologies for teaching and learning. They demonstrate that online literacy practices can be understood only when they are examined within their social, political, economic, cultural, and historical contexts.

Contributing to the renewal of interest in Marshall McLuhan and his work, this book contains chapters providing a general discussion of his work, and examining it in light of theory and research.

This text follows a series of experiential and theoretical routes toward understanding audience use of television and the Internet. The essence of play is explored, with a focus across cultures, predominantly the East's consumption of television and the Internet produced and presented by the West.

This text grew out of a five-year research project that was based on the premise that self-determination and leisure are both important but often neglectd skills for children with developmental disabilities.

This text looks at student writing in a way that reflects upon the compositionists' teaching practices and the current state of composition in the United States. In doing so, it provides all course materials and supplemental documentation online as an integral part of such a project.

This volume is the culminating project of ten years of collaborative study in a preschool classroom, where each year, three- and four-year-olds and their teachers meet daily to construct a life together in an early childhood program.

A collection of essays addressing sociocultural, ideological, technical and pedagogical concerns relating to digital technologies. The essays fall into three general categories: writing and reading; academic research and publishing; and teaching and learning.

This text describes seven faculty members and a graduate student at one university, who engaged in a conversation about their own experiences in urban education over a three-year period. Authors used standpoint epistemology as visas of credibility for their border crossings to urban schools.

Views the history of error in composition instruction through a reader's perspective, and in doing so, documents the manner in which our visions of error and perceptions of student writers who produce error have both transformed and remained static.

This book uses television news coverage of the 1993 Midwest flood as a case study to analyze the intersection of television news and nature, with specific focus on how this intersection must be examined within the context of place.

A collection of essays that explains how the underlying philosophical and cultural contexts that shape the life experiences of women in Asia are reflected in the media portrayals, especially in advertising.

Most communication research and applications of the research acknowledge the process nature of communication. This book argues that communication is a process analogous to the complexity in other living systems. It develops paradigmatic principles and describes the process of information and a model of communication as a socially emergent process.

Contends that the discourse of genetics is recombining our understanding of who we are and the state of our health by redefining what it means to be competent, knowledgeable, responsible and proactive in our professional, clinical and personal lives.

Deals with the aspect of how people use advanced information technologies to write for community change. This book argues that the work of citizenship is knowledge work - on the same order as that expected of workers in business and industry.

Explores the notion that the push toward marketization is the central force restructuring the communications landscape. This book examines the consequences of this development for the constitution of public culture. It analyzes the core institutional processes of marketization.