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Emerging Patterns of Literacy: A Multidisciplinary Perspective


In an original and wide-ranging study, Rhian Jones documents the unique contribution which picturebooks and stories make to the development of the infant mind between the ages of nine months and two years, using video recorded data to chart the children’s progress. She then analyzes the connection between these very early behaviors and subsequent achievements in literacy. The work integrates research from a number of disciplines: linguistics, psychology, literary theory, and anthropology, to draw out the different levels at which book-based interactions may be seen to be “working.”… More >>

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The Emerging 16-19 Curriculum: Policy and Provision


This is a review of the current state of the vocational and academic 16-19 curriculum. The authors provide authentic accounts from students, teachers and lecturers of the ways in which the 16-19 curriculum is actually being constructed in a period of dynamic change…. More >>

The Emerging 16-19 Curriculum: Policy and Provision

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The Emerging Worldwide Electronic University: Information Age Global Higher Education


This book surveys and synthesizes the material currently available on the electronic globalization of higher education. Rossman provides detailed information on experiments, organizations, and ideas related to computer networks and colleges and universities. He also discusses the electronic organization of knowledge, electronic textbooks, and the many ways in which students may use computers and related technology to enhance their educational experience. At the heart of his discussion is a vision of an emerging worldwide electronic university in which students, faculty, and research libraries will be connected electronically across continents…. More >>

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Leadership for the Emerging Age: Transforming Practice in Adult and Continuing Education


Jerold W. Apps draws on twenty-five years of experience researching and teaching leadership and leadership development to provide adult educators with a blueprint for developing a profoundly different approach to leadership–one that is all-embracing of ideas and people, capitalizes on diversity, and remains open and responsive to change…. More >>

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Emerging Partnerships


This volume contains accounts of some of the most interesting recent research into language and literacy development. The papers included cover early language development, preschool literacy development, children’s writing, oral classroom language, the relationships between reading and writing, the use of word-processors, and literacy outside the school context…. More >>

Emerging Partnerships

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