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Scientific and Technological Thinking

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

At the turn of the 21st century, the most valuable commodity in society is knowledge--particularly new knowledge that may give a culture, company, or laboratory an adaptive advantage. Knowledge about the cognitive processes that lead to discovery and invention can enhance the probability of making valuable new discoveries and inventions. Such...

Asperger's Syndrome: Intervening in Schools, Clinics, and Communities

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

In recent years, a growing number of children and adults have been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a neurological condition characterized by severe difficulties with social communication. While extremely talented in their areas of special interest, many with the diagnosis also have problems with coordination and sensory processing....

Applied Public Relations: Cases in Stakeholder Management (Lea's Communication Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Applied Public Relations: Cases in Stakeholder Management provides readers with the opportunity to observe and analyze how contemporary businesses and organizations interact with key groups and influences. Through the presentation of cases covering a wide variety of industries, locations, and settings, authors Larry F. Lamb and Kathy...

Advertising to Children on TV: Context, Impact, and Regulation

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This book examines research concerned with advertising to children on television. Its purpose is to establish the status of our knowledge about how children respond to advertising on television, how much the research evidence can be taken at face value, and the degree to which research can usefully inform regulation of advertising aimed at young...

A Beginner's Guide to Structural Equation Modeling

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This book's strength is that it carefully walks the reader through all steps required to conduct an SEM analysis. Checklists are provided for each step, from model specification through validation. The accompanying CD provides all of the programs needed to do the analysis, with accompanying screen shots and directions in the book to allow the...

Curriculum in a New Key: The Collected Works of Ted T. Aoki (Studies in Curriculum Theory)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Aoki is definitely in the avant garde of thinkers and writers in the curriculum field. He explores the relationship of other disciplines and areas of artistic endeavor to the curriculum field with poetic nuance and philosophical lenses....There is little sense of 'having been there before' when contemplating Aoki's work...Anyone interested in...

Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between (Inquiry and Pedagogy Across Diverse Contexts)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

The real-world, applied research nature of this book - from the viewpoints of girls themselves - adds a nuanced perspective not yet explored in girls' studies....the multidisciplinary nature of the anthology will appeal to sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, religion, and education scholars as well as to women's and girl's studies...

Adolescent Psychological Development: Rationality, Morality, and Identity

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Review from the first edition:

...I wish to note how pleasantly surprised I was in becoming acquainted with this volume, after 30 years of teaching adolescence courses. Here students are offered a real vision of a period of life that, in most cases, they have just traversed or are still experiencing. Each part is very precise,...

Conflict, Contradiction, and Contrarian Elements in Moral Development and Education

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

The premise of this book is that individuals and societies have an inexorable urge to morally develop by challenging the assumptions of the previous generation in terms of what is right and wrong. The focus is on the nature and functional value of conflicts and challenges to the dominant moral and social values framework. Through this analysis,...

High-Stakes Testing: Coping With Collateral Damage

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

The federal government's No Child Left Behind Act has thrust high-stakes testing (its goals, methods, and consequences) into the educational limelight. The four-fold purpose of this book is to: 1) describe the nature of high-stakes testing; 2) identify types of collateral damage that have attended the testing programs; 3) analyze methods different...

Research Manual in Child Development

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

...any student fired with enthusiasm for developmental research would learn much by reading such an informative text.

—Infant and Child Development

This unique hands-on lab manual in child development provides great ideas and resources for teaching research courses involving child subjects. It...

The Psychological Foundations of Culture

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

Why do beliefs spread? traditions persist? customs survive? This collection proposes clever and thoughtful answers and it should inspire lively discussion as sociologists, anthropologists, and organizational scholars welcome their psychologist colleagues to the ongoing debate about culture.

—Chip Heath,...

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