Marriage at Midlife" provides counselors, mental health professionals, and marriage educators with the tools they need to understand and assist couples who are experiencing the challenges and opportunities of the post-childrearing years. This unique book is enriched with quotes from hundreds of interviews with couples married 20-50 years. Written by a pair of veteran researchers and communication educators, "Marriage at Midlife" identifies the communication processes that hinder and help couples during an important period of life transition.
Discussing the role of observation in the early years environment, this title helps students and early years practitioners understand the principles and ethical guidelines of observation and assessment methods, and encourages them to take a critical stance on different observation methods. The content is linked to the main policies and services for children and draws on a number of methodologies from educational research methods and clinical psychology approaches to develop good practice in observing, evaluating and assessing young children. It successfully links theory and practice ...
Effective Early Years Education: Teaching Young Children
In this concise and accessible guide, the authors are sympathetic to the particular demands of teaching three to eight year olds and offer practical solutions to the complex issues that are currently faced by early years educators. In recognizing the demands on practitioners, they provide new and challenging frameworks for an understanding of the practice of teaching young children and draw upon international research to offer a sound model of early years subject-structured teaching which has the quality of children's learning at its centre.
Course No. 4878 "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, ..." — U.S. Constitution While those words were written over 200 years ago, recent years have seen an explosion of interest in and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution. Its authority and stature are routinely invoked by voices from every point on the political spectrum who seek to defend their views on issues ranging from separation of powers to the proper role of the Supreme Court to legitimate interpretations of the Bill of Rights, with frequent references to the Founding Fathers and their true "intent."
Finding Your Way in Academic Writing, Second Edition
Preface to the second edition
When we revised this book we were again using what we have learned from our students to advance our understanding of academic writing. We have used the book for three years in our teaching and have also received feedback from many readers.
