Project brings English to life through motivating topics within a structured learning environment.

• It provides a clearly-structured, supportive framework of grammar with the flexibility to allow students to make their own discoveries.
• Language is presented in stimulating, realistic contexts.
• A high profile is given to skills development from the start of the course.
• Cross-curricular project work encourages students to communicate in English about their own lives and experiences.

 

This book brings together work on critical discourse analysis written by Norman Fairclough between 1983 and 1992, which represents important contributions to the development of this increasingly popular area of study. The contents of the book are grouped in four sections. The first section examines the development of an analytical framework for researching language in relation to power and ideology. The second deals with the theme of discourse and contemporary social and cultural change, and the use of a critical discourse analysis framework in the study of change.

This comprehensive overview of personality development from inter-utero life through adulthood focuses on the emotional tasks involved at each stage of development and the interplay of internal processes and external circumstances. Central importance is given to attachment and to psychoanalytic concepts such as the Oedipal complex, separation and individuation, and the development of the capacity to think.

In the first edition of this text, Moshman (University of Nebraska- Lincoln) provided a constructivist synthesis of the literature of cognitive, moral, and identity development, from classic universalist theories through the more pluralistic research of the late 20th century. In this second edition, he develops his conceptualization of advanced psychological development in adolescence and, in a new chapter, proposes a conception of rational moral identity as a developmental ideal. The book concludes with a chapter on the importance of intellectual freedom in secondary education. No prior knowledge of psychology is assumed.

What were the circumstances that led to the development of our cognitive abilities from a primitive hominid to an essentially modern human? The answer to this question is of profound importance to understanding our present nature. Since the steep path of our cognitive development is the attribute that most distinguishes humans from other mammals, this is also a quest to determine human origins. This collection of outstanding scientific problems and the revelation of the many ways they can be addressed indicates the scope of the field to be explored and reveals some avenues along which research is advancing.