This highly original anthropological study demonstrates how methods of social analysis can be applied to the individual, while remaining entirely distinct from psychology and other perspectives on the person.
Contributors draw on approaches from material culture to create fascinating portraits of individuals and offer analytical insights that convey ethnographic encounters with extraordinary people from the world over. "Anthropology and the Individual" shows how the study of the individual can provide insights into society without losing a sense of the particularity of the person
Second Language Writing: Research Insights for the Classroom
This comprehensive collection of thirteen original articles covers the major issues writing teachers face and offers a guide to writing instruction grounded in current theory and research. The book includes chapters on approaches to teaching writing, needs analysis, syllabus design, lesson planning, task design, materials development, and feedback and assessment, and on using technology in writing classes and in conducting research.
This work is an attempt to highlight issues of human need in work, particularly in schools, and to suggest some ways in which they can be attended to. It shows ways that school leaders can use aspects of the poet's craft to develop insights, and sharpen their communications.
75 years after Vygotsky's death, scholarship exploring developmental relations between language and thought continues to be strong. This timely edited volume compiles contributions from international leaders in the field on the roles of language and private speech (self-talk) in the development of self-regulation and executive functioning in children and adults. New theoretical insights, empirical research, and potential clinical and educational applications of scholarship on private speech are presented.
The #1 annually updated text in internal medicine — trusted, authoritative, and essential to daily practice CMDT delivers the most current insights into signs, symptoms, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment for over 1,000 diseases and disorders.
