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  • Rural Community Libraries in Africa: Challenges and Impacts

    by Valeda F. Dent, Geoff Goodman, Michael Kevane ...
    Around the word, in developed as well as developing countries, libraries play an important role in the dissemination of knowledge. The availability of information resources can often mean the difference between poverty and prosperity, particularly in underdeveloped African communities. Rural Community Libraries in Africa: Challenges and Impacts investigates the relationship between local libraries ... Read more

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  • Planning Major Infrastructure

    A Critical Analysis

    by Tim Marshall ...
    This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. Have some countries managed to generate genuine consensus on how the large changes are progressed? What can we learn from the different ways countries manage these challenges, to inform better spatial planning and more intelligent political steering?Case studies of the key features of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Writing

    Composing Spaces for Identities, Relationships, and Actions

    Edited by Richard J. Meyer, Kathryn F. Whitmore ...
    With passion, clarity, and rich examples, Reclaiming Writing is dedicated to reawakening the journeys that writers take as they make sense of, think about, and speak back to their worlds in this era of high-stakes testing and mandated curricula. Classrooms and out-of-school settings are described and analyzed in exciting and groundbreaking narratives that provide insights into the many ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Linguistically Appropriate Practice

    A Guide for Working with Young Immigrant Children

    by Roma Chumak-Horbatsch ...
    This path-breaking book provides a convincing argument for the importance of children's home languages and the benefits of dual- and multi-language learning. A new classroom practice known as Linguistically Appropriate Practice (LAP) offers guidance for those working with young children who arrive in childcare centres and schools with little or no proficiency in the classroom language. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Child Cultures, Schooling, and Literacy

    Global Perspectives on Composing Unique Lives

    Edited by Anne Haas Dyson ...
    Through analysis of case studies of young children (ages 3 to 8 years), situated in different geographic, cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic sites on six continents, this book examines the interplay of childhoods, schooling, and, literacies. Written language is situated within particular childhoods as they unfold in school. A key focus is on children’s agency in the construction of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Language and Literacy Development in Bilingual Settings

    Edited by Aydin Yücesan Durgunoglu, PhD, Claude Goldenberg, PhD ...
    Series series Challenges in Language and Literacy
    Grounded in state-of-the-art research, this book explores how English language learners develop both the oral language and literacy skills necessary for school success. Chapters examine the cognitive bases of English acquisition, and how the process is different for children from alphabetic (such as Spanish) and nonalphabetic (such as Chinese) language backgrounds. The book addresses a key ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Towards Sustainable Aviation

    Edited by Paul Upham, Janet Maughan, David Raper, Callum Thomas ...
    Aviation is integral to the global economy but it is also one of the main obstacles to environmentally sustainable development. It is one of the world's fastest growing - and most polluting - industries. What can be done to retain the economic and other benefits it brings, without the associated pollution, noise, congestion and loss of countryside? In this volume, industry, policy and research ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Transformative Approaches to New Technologies and Student Diversity in Futures Oriented Classrooms

    Future Proofing Education

    Edited by Leonie Rowan, Chris Bigum ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In this book we outline an optimistic, aspirational and unashamedly ambitious agenda for schooling. We make cautious use of the concept of ‘future proofing’ to signal the commitment of the various authors to re-thinking the purposes, content and processes of schooling with a view to ensuring that all children, from all backgrounds are prepared by their education to make a positive contribution to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Building Competences for Spatial Planners

    Methods and Techniques for Performing Tasks with Efficiency

    by Anastassios Perdicoulis ...
    Series series Natural and Built Environment Series
    Spatial planning is a process. The focus of this book is on the sequence of key tasks that constitute the process and on special techniques that are suitable to conduct these tasks. Spatial planners require a number of skills to manage this process in an efficient manner, select the necessary tasks for each specific planning context, as well as the appropriate techniques for each task – always ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Reading Time

    The Literate Lives of Urban Secondary Students and Their Families

    by Catherine Compton-Lilly ...
    Series series Language & Literacy
    While teachers cannot travel back in time to visit their students at earlier ages, they can draw on the rich sets of experiences and knowledge that students bring to classrooms. In her latest book, Catherine Compton-Lilly examines the literacy practices and school trajectories of eight middle school students and their families. Through a unique longitudinal lens—the author has studied these same ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Breaking Through the Language Arts Block

    Organizing and Managing the Exemplary Literacy Day

    by Lesley Mandel Morrow, PhD, Kenneth Kunz, EdD, Maureen Hall, EdS ...
    Series series Best Practices in Action Series
    This innovative book helps K–6 teachers infuse the entire school day with research-based literacy best practices. Classroom-tested strategies are presented for planning and implementing each component of the "exemplary literacy day"--vocabulary and word study sessions, literacy work stations, differentiated guided reading groups, reading and writing workshops, and interdisciplinary projects. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Emergent Urbanism

    Urban Planning & Design in Times of Structural and Systemic Change

    by Tigran Haas, Krister Olsson ...
    In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change. Strategies for urban regeneration include investments in infrastructures for production, consumption and communication, as well as marketing and branding measures, and urban design schemes. Bringing together leading academics from across a range of disciplines, including ... Read more

    $73.99 USD