A practical guide to conducting pedagogical research in universities Why are students not attending my lectures? Why don’t students read? What can I do to enthuse my students? What can I do to help students become more analytical in their writing? How can I help students to link theory with their practice? What is going wrong in my seminars when my students don’t speak? Why won’t students use the library? If any of the above issues resonate with your own experience then you are not alone.
What really happened in the witchcraft persecutions of sixteenth and seventeenth century England? Reading Witchcraft examines the stories told by and about witches and their victims through the trial records, early news books and personal accounts left by people caught up in a deadly and mysterious historical puzzle. Looking closely at these "first-hand" accounts, Marion Gibson shows that their representations of witchcraft are far from simple: they changed over time and according to the source and context of each story.
Children! What do you know about termites, those hard-working creatures resembling ants? Do you know that butterflies with their beautiful wings start out as tiny caterpillars and finally emerge from cocoons? Do you know how woodpeckers hide tiny acorns in holes in oak trees, how it is that glow-worms are not burned by the light they give off, how frogs camouflage themselves to hide from their enemies, or how it is that seals do not freeze in the icy oceans..?
This book is intended to be a core text for primary school teachers in training, induction and beyond. It is primarily aimed at those who are not science specialists, providing them with an accessible and useful tool to enable them to gain confidence in their ability to teach science successfully. It can also be used by those with a more secure scientific background, to help them develop their science teaching across the breadth of the primary curriculum.
Any parent who has raised more than one child is likely to be keenly aware of subtle or even striking differences among their offspring. The central premise of this volume is that children bring personal qualities to their relationships with other family members that help shape family interaction, relationships, and even processes that family researchers have called "parenting." The chapters address how children's personal qualities make their mark on families in ways that may in turn influence children's subsequent development.
Edited by: IrinaM - 11 June 2009
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