As linguistic diversity increases in countries all around the world, policy-makers and educators are faced with complex and conflicting issues regarding appropriate ways of educating a multilingual school population. This volume reviews the research and theory relating to instruction and assessment of bilingual pupils, focusing not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-pupil interaction in the classroom.
The Trouble with Therapy - Sociology and Psychotherapy
An increasing number of people are engaging in therapy. As a consequence there is a growing debate about the benefits of therapy and its place in global society.
Pre-Conquest attitudes towards the dying and the dead have major implications for every aspect of culture, society and religion of the Anglo-Saxon period; but death-bed and funerary practices have been comparatively and unjustly neglected by historical scholarship. In her wide-ranging analysis, Dr Thompson examines such practices in the context of confessional and penitential literature, wills, poetry, chronicles and homilies, to show that complex and ambiguous ideas about death were current at all levels of Anglo-Saxon society.
Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin And His Contemporaries, 1750-1800
This book showcases the amazing variety of design and exceptional craftsmanship produced in the region in the decades before and after the American Revolution. This rich trove of early Americana is authoritatively discussed and depicted in nearly 200 catalog entries with 450 photographs and line drawings. Over half of the illustrations feature unpublished or little-known examples, in addition to Masterpieces from the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and other major collections. This book offers the first ever systematic framework for classifying Connecticut Valley case furniture.
Sherry Nelson is a naturalist, author and teacher whose workshops are continuously sold out. Since 1973, she's been a member of the National Society of Decorative Painters and has self-published 23 project books.
