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Mobile Learning and Mathematics provides an overview of current research on how mobile devices are supporting mathematics educators in classrooms across the globe.

New Challenges in Immigration Theory seeks to stretch the limits of familiar liberal political theory in order to consider the difficult normative questions presented by `new¿ forms of migration, such as climate refugees, and skilled and unskilled temporary labour migration. It also considers the moral challenges posed by states¿ attempts to exclude migrants in `innovative¿ ways ¿ including via the increased use of detention centres ¿ as well ...

Despite the increasing numbers of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and their importance in serving students who have historically been underserved in higher education, limited research has addressed the meaning of the growth of these institutions and its implications for higher education. Hispanic-Serving Institutions fills a critical gap in understanding the organizational behavior of institutions that serve large numbers of low-income, f...

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First Published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Excavating Nations traces the history of archaeology and museums in the contested German-Danish borderlands from the emergence of antiquarianism in the early nineteenth-century to German-Danish reconciliation after the Second World War.

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In this practical book from Donna Spangler and John Alex Mazzante, yoüll gain a variety of strategies and activities that you can use to teach students to read in a world language, boosting their comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency.

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This book explores how, through strong self-leadership, social workers can both explain and demonstrate how social work can achieve positive change.

The book examines current issues and trends in migration and citizenship from the perspective of Australia, Canada, and the United States. These countries share a history of immigration and emigration, extensive experience with mobile communities, and with integrating culturally diverse populations. They also share an approach to automatic citizenship based on the principle of jus soli, and a relatively open attitude towards naturalization. Th...

In the South, colonialism threw together three peoples who each played important roles in the creation of a new kind of society. Making an Atlantic World explores how Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans understood the landscapes they inhabited and how, after contact, their views of the world had to accommodate and then accept the presence of the others.

When it comes to the approaching end-times, theologians to regular believers have their own ideas on what will transpire during the Tribulation period, the Rapture and the return of Jesus Christ. However, with Bible prophecy, there is difference of opinion in interpreting the scriptures as God imparted them. Bible teacher and author Larry Ulrich offers readers his own insight and beliefs about the end-times in his new, nonfiction book, The Sev...

Discussion on the Web is mediated through layers of software and protocols. As scholars increasingly study communication and learning on the Internet, it is essential to consider how site administrators, programmers, and designers create interfaces and enable functionality. The managers, administrators, and designers of online communities can turn to more than 20 years of technical books for guidance on how to design online communities toward ...

In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making - not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media. Gauntlett suggests that media studies scholars have failed to recognise the significance of everyday creativity - the ...

In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making - not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media. Gauntlett suggests that media studies scholars have failed to recognise the significance of everyday creativity - the ...

With the growing interest in the history of peoples of African descent in the Americas, narratives addressing regions outside of the United States are becoming increasingly popular. The Conceptualization of Race in Colonial Puerto Rico, 1800-1850 illuminates the role people of African descent played in the building of a Spanish Caribbean society during the social upheaval of the early nineteenth century. This examination of cultural tensions c...

With the growing interest in the history of peoples of African descent in the Americas, narratives addressing regions outside of the United States are becoming increasingly popular. The Conceptualization of Race in Colonial Puerto Rico, 1800-1850 illuminates the role people of African descent played in the building of a Spanish Caribbean society during the social upheaval of the early nineteenth century. This examination of cultural tensions c...

The first national recognition of disparities in access to information technologies - a digital divide - surfaced in a 1995 report by The National Telecommunication and Information Administration. Despite efforts to close the gap and promote digital inclusion, statistical data over the course of nearly 20 years indicate a significant disparity remains in poor and minority communities. In this accessible yet scholarly work, Joy Pierce illustrat...

What does online community look like in the age of social networking? How do participatory culture platforms reflect both their designers' intentions and the desires of their users? In this incisive and timely work, Adrienne L. Massanari discusses how culture is created and challenged on Reddit.com, the self-proclaimed «front page of the internet». Reddit enables the sharing of original and reposted content from around the web, and provides a ...