While this is primarily a regional study, focusing on the territories and peoples controlled by the two competing powers, it is also of interest to students of the Frankish, Arab and steppe-nomad worlds, since the relations between ...

Written for a primarily academic audience, this book provides a much-needed common background for future evolution education research across the globe. This edited book provides a global view on evolution education.

In this book, Marilyn Fleer draws on a range of cross-cultural research in order to challenge Western perspectives and to move beyond a universal view of the construct of play.

An indispensable tool for biology teacher educators, researchers, graduate students, and practising teachers, this book presents up-to-date research, addresses common misconceptions, and discusses the pedagogical content knowledge necessary ...

Research literature concerning the effects of incorporating the heritage languages of minority students into the regular school curriculum either as subjects or as mediums of instruction is reviewed.

Changes in the Second Edition: Introduces Pinar¢s formulation of allegories-of-the-present — a concept in which subjectivity, history, and society become articulated through the teacher¢s participation in the complicated conversation ...

The book examines classic aspects of development afresh from a cultural angle--childrearing, social relations, interdependence and autonomy, developmental transitions across the lifespan, gender roles, attachment, and learning and cognitive ...

These essays present an array of views about the meaning of equality and provide perspectives on the on-going debates about it.

This book draws on the findings of a major international comparative study of national routes to a 'high skills' economy in Britain, Germany, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States, and includes data from interviews with over ...