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The arena in which the preparation of student-teachers for the teaching of mathematics takes place is shifting its foundations and moving its boundaries. The whole basis of teacher education at secondary level is in flux with a move towards teacher-education programmes which are largely school based. Increasingly, there is seen to be an important role for the school teacher who acts as mentor to the student teacher in some relationship with a ...

Susan Hardy Aiken is Professor of English at the University of Arizona.Adele Barker is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle.Maya Koreneva is a scholar at the A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature in Moscow.Ekaterina Stetsenko is a scholar at the A. M. Gorky Institute of World Literature in Moscow.

With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance sensibility of purity and stability. In rewriting Columbus's narrative of his voyage of that year, Renaissance historians rewrote history, as was of...

This book discusses the adult development of the Biblical Patriarch, Abraham, as a 'Spiritual Revolutionary' (based on Genesis 11-25). It begins with the image of the 'akeda, ' the binding of Isaac in which a father is ready to murder his son, and asks what significance this disturbing scene holds for us today

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This book explores the impact of calculators on mathematics instruction in grades K-14. The authors examine underlying theoretical and research information which supports the use of calculators in the mathematics classroom. Chapters examine general issues related to calculator use. Successful calculator projects, while further discussing direction for the future utilization of calculators in mathematics.

Required reading for those interested in Latin American identity. Authors recognize difficulty of the pregnancy of the moment - globalization and diaspora - in which the topic is being discussed. In the introduction, Chanady offers an excellent historical review of the topic. Essays by Enrique Duss

Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism offers a comprehensive survey of the rich and varied contributions feminist scholars have made to film studies over the past two decades. Individual chapters present a range of perspectives, from psychoanalytic, linguistic, and historical, to Marxist, textualist, and postcolonial discourses, thus highlighting accounts (with filmographies and reading lists) of how six professors conceive of and teach t...

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The study indicates the need for state agencies to change their perspectives from regulation to service orientation if reform programmes are to succeed in schools.

Highly recommended." -- Choice ..". animportant event for the world of philosophy. For the first time we have available inan intelligible form the writings of one of the greatest philosophers of the pasthundred years." -- The Times Literary Supplement Volume 5 of thislandmark edition covers an important transition in Peirce's life, marked by arekindled enthusiasm for speculative philosophy. The writings include essaysrelating to his all-embrac...

This book is an examination of the relationship between program development and policy-making for schooling.

Diffusion and growth phenomena abound in the real world surrounding us. Someexamples: growth of the world's population, growth rates of humans, public interest in news events, growth and decline of central city populations, pollution of rivers, adoption of agricultural innovations, and spreading of epidemics and migration of insects. These and numerous other phenomena are illustrations of typical growth and diffusion problems confront...

This book presents five controversial issues that stir conflicts about moral decisions in our time. John Chirban draws upon resources of specific faith traditions. He provides case discussion and considers numerous interdisciplinary perspectives, arguing an interdependent approach for addressing these current ethical issues.