Cost effective, interdisciplinary PBL is within reach with this inspiring guide to +1Pedagogy (TM)! Integrate college and career readiness and technology. This book includes sample units, templates.

This book seeks to guide the student through the practical issues of doing conversation analysis, while providing the theoretical foundation for making research decisions. Each chapter highlights the challenges, debates, and important questions that arise in discursive research projects.

Brings together over 90 recent readings on gender, sexuality, and intimate relationships from Contexts, the award-winning magazine published by the American Sociological Association.

Focused on exploring human experience from an integrative perspective, Heuristic Inquiry: Researching Human Experience Holistically presents heuristic inquiry as a unique phenomenologically aligned, experiential, and relational approach to qualitative research that is also rigorous and evidence based. The author describes a distinguishing perspective of this research that treats participants not as subjects of research but rather as co-researchers in an exploratory process marked by genuinene...

This book will help educators design authentic learning experiences that allow students to practice their 21st Century communication skills.

In the Sixth Edition of Media Analysis Techniques, author Arthur Asa Berger once again provides students with a clearly written, user-friendly, hands-on guide to media criticism. The book empowers students to make their own analyses of the media rather than just accept how others interpret the media.

Disaster Policy and Politics combines evidence-based research with mini-case studies of recent events to demonstrate the fundamental principles of emergency management and to explore the impact that disasters have had on U.S. policy. Paying special attention to the role of key actors—decision makers at the federal, state, and local levels; scientists; engineers; civil and military personnel; and first responders—author Richard Sylves explores how researchers contribute to and engage in di...

This book provides assistance to teachers who struggle with the question of how to appropriately present complex subject matter to students who are just learning to speak English.

Leading Together introduces a collective approach to progress, process, and programs to help build the conditions in which strong leadership can flourish and student outcomes improve.