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  • An Analysis of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger's Situated Learning

    Legitimate Peripheral Participation

    by Charmi Patel ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Social anthropologist Jean Lave and computer scientist Etienne Wenger’s seminal Situated Learning helped change the fields of cognitive science and pedagogy by approaching learning from a novel angle. Traditionally, theories of learning and education had focused on processes of cognition – the mental processes of knowledge formation that occur within an individual. Lave and Wenger chose to look at ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

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    Etienne Wenger and Jean Lave's Situated Learning

    by Charmi Patel ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 22 min

    In Situated Learning, Lave and Wenger rejected the traditional understanding of learning, or cognition, as something that happens inside an individual brain. They argued, instead, that learning is ‘situated’ because it is largely a product of the environment in which it occurs and takes place most effectively through participation with experts and peers in a ‘community of practice.’ They used this ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Criminology

    The Essentials

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    [![A companion website is available for this text][]][A companion website is available for this text 1]This is an essential introduction to undergraduate studies in criminology. Short, clear and concise, it provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes covered on your criminology course.The second edition provides:- Summaries of key course content, including new sections on race and ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • An Analysis of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve

    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    by Christine Ma, Michael Schapira ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation.The authors’ central contention is that intelligence is the primary factor determining social outcomes for individuals – and that it is a better predictor of achievement than income, background or socioeconomic status. One of the major issues ... Read more

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  • New Learning

    Elements of a Science of Education

    by Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope ...
    In the second edition of New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education, renowned authors Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope explore the contemporary debates and challenges in education. In this time of dramatic social change, education represents significant possibilities and opportunities. Written in accessible and lively style, this book examines learners and their learning environments and ... Read more

    $91.09 USD

  • Understanding Communication Theory

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Stephen M. Croucher ...
    This book offers students a comprehensive, theoretical, and practical guide to communication theory. Croucher defines the various perspectives on communication theory—the social scientific, interpretive, and critical approaches—and then takes on the theories themselves, with topics including interpersonal communication, organizational communication, intercultural communication, persuasion, ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement

    Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Geert Hofstede's Culture's Consequences

    Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutes and Organizations across Nations

    by Katherine Erdman ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of international management and social psychology – and his work is a perfect example of the ways in which interpretative skills can help solve problems and provide the foundation for strong thinking and understanding both in business and beyond.Hofstede’s central achievement was setting up an efficient interpretative ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers

    Bridging Differences

    by Joey Sprague ...
    Series series Gender Lens
    This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends. The second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate the latest critical scholarship, enhanced discussion of qualitative methods, new material on global issues, sex/sexuality/gender, new discussion of intersectionality, how ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Spiral of Silence

    New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion

    Edited by Wolfgang Donsbach, Charles T. Salmon, Yariv Tsfati ...
    Since its original articulation in the early 1970s, the 'spiral of silence' theory has become one of the most studied theories of communication and public opinion. It has been tested in varied sociopolitical contexts, with different issues and across communication systems around the world. Attracting the interest of scholars from communication, political science, sociology, public opinion and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Public Administration

    Traditions of Inquiry and Philosophies of Knowledge

    by Norma M. Riccucci ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    Is public administration an art or a science? This question of whether the field is driven by values or facts will never be definitively answered due to a lack of consensus among scholars. The resulting divide has produced many heated debates; however, in this pioneering volume, Norma Riccucci embraces the diversity of research methods rather than suggesting that there is one best way to conduct ... Read more

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  • Curriculum and Imagination

    Process Theory, Pedagogy and Action Research

    by James McKernan ...
    Curriculum and Imagination describes an alternative ‘process’ model for designing developing, implementing and evaluating curriculum, suggesting that curriculum may be designed by specifying an educational process which contains key principles of procedure.This comprehensive and authoritative book:offers a practical and theoretical plan for curriculum-making without objectivesshows that a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD