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A Primer in the Philosophy of Science: A Guide to Thinking Like a Scientist for Social Scientists

Author(s): STEPHANIE KELLY, David Keith Westerman

New Publication Now Available!For social sciences to flourish as fields of science, those who are in these fields must act like scientists. In order to be effective scientists, they must understand what it means to be scientists. That is why scholars in many social science fields, such as communicat...

Aspiration and Dissonance: Readings in History, Religion, and Global Affairs

Author(s): Jeffrey LaMonica

College students in the twenty-first century will venture into a complex society of diversity, multiculturalism, and global interconnectedness. This collection of essays encourages students to think about and respond critically and analytically to the opportunities and challenges posed by modern glo...

Using Base-10 Materials To Teach Multiplication and Division of a 2-Digit Number By a 1-Digit Number

Author(s): Francis Gardella

The hands-on use of Base 10 materials by students helps them learn the meaning of whole number operations as well as understand the algorithms by which mathematics is communicated.For teachers, this text acts as a guide in this work by demonstrating how to use Base 10 materials to have students unde...

Do Good Better: A Value Driven Approach PLUS PR Driven Workbook

Author(s): Richard Ganahl

Every hour of everyday millions of unnamed, and usually unsung heroes dedicated to doing good at thousands of non-profit organizations cheerfully and professionally strive to fulfill the needs of their clients beyond their dreams. Those of us in strategic communications very often make truly meaning...

Multiliteracy and Language Arts for Multicultural Classrooms

Author(s): Kalpana Mukunda Iyengar, Howard Leslie Smith

As schools receive increasing numbers of children from diverse backgrounds, teachers are challenged to offer meaningful instruction to scaffold their reading and writing development. The chapters in this volume feature asset-based approaches to literacy instruction. Readers will discover chapters in...