Analyzing The Curriculum Review

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(More customer reviews)Posner's field is curriculum development, and he has written extensively about how teachers, administrators, supervisors, and ultimately the public thinks about curriculum and curriculum reform. In this book, Analyzing the Curriculum, he presents tools to understand the conflicts within education and education reform, by underlining the implicit assumptions in all forms of curriculum reform. These assumptions include (1) how learners learn, (2) how teachers teach, (3) the locus of reform (university-based, collegially based in the school); (4) the political contexts of reform. He provides several detailed examples of curriculum analysis, ranging from Jerome Bruner's Man: A Course of Study and Jerrold Zacharias' Physical Science Study Committee (both university-based reform curricula) to the "whole language" movement. In each case he is fair to the merits and demerits of the curriculum in question.
This is the kind of book you can imagine teacher education colleges use. It has a steep price and apparently is not discounted.

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This primary text provides the backbone for a basic curriculum course at either the senior or graduate level. The book shows how the parts of a curriculum fit together and helps students identify assumptions underlying curricula. In doing so, students develop the ability to determine why a curriculum proves better for some students than for others; what approaches to teaching are compatible with a particular curriculum; what difficulties a curriculum is likely to encounter during implementation; and what kinds of changes parents, students, and administrators are likely to demand.

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Theories of Personality Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great book. It covers many different theories on how personality works from different psychological perspectives. Each section helps the reader understand the different views of each theory of personality and how it functions within the mind. One comes away from this book understanding a little bit more about the hows and whys of personality. A great introduction to psychology in general for anybody ranging from student to non-student, specialist to non-specialist. I highly recommend it.

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The 7th edition of this trusted introduction to personality centers on the premise that personality theories are a reflection of the unique cultural background, family experiences, personalities, and professional training of their originators. The book begins by acquainting students with the meaning of personality and providing them with a solid foundation for understanding the nature of theory, as well as its crucial contributions to science. The chapters that follow present twenty-three major theories: coverage of each theory also encompasses a biographical sketch of each theorist, related research, and applications to real life.The primary focus of this revision was updating the theory chapters to reflect the most recent research.

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The Dictionary of Criminal Justice (Textbook) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a great referance book for students and people in the field of criminal justice. Not only can it help you acidemicaly but in real life situations. As a criminal justice student I use this book on a daily bases to complete a number of assinments not only for my teach Dr. Rush but other classes as well. I see myself in the future refering to this book often, to gain information about criminal justice related items. Once again I feel this is a great referance book.

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The Dictionary of Criminal Justice, Seventh Edition, brings together in one, easy-to-use guide more than 3,600 definitions from the many disciplines that compose the field of criminal justice—including U.S. and English common law, penology, psychology, law enforcement, political science, and business administration. The volume also features summaries of nearly 1,000 key U.S. Supreme Court rulings affecting criminal justice, an appendix of juried academic journals, and a new appendix compilation of websites in the field. Links to CRIMINAL JUSTICE websites are included. Visit www.mhhe.com/specialtopics for more information.

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Critical Issues in Education: Dialogues and Dialectics Review

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(More customer reviews)The arguments are, as stated in 1st review, slanted. They are supposed to be! The book uses a pro vs. con argument format and tries not to judge. Summary is limited to a mild discussion of the importance of the issue. I was required to use it in an education course and actually kept the book. I was looking for an updated version when I stumbled here, although in education as in all things it seems that the more things change the more they stay the same. I think that anyone, and I mean anyone, who intends to use public media to deliver opinions of any sort on education should be required to read the book.

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Critical Issues in Education is designed to be used in courses that examine current, relevant pro and con disputes about schools and schooling. By exploring the major opposing viewpoints on these issues, the text encourages education students to think critically and develop their own viewpoints. The clear writing and dramatic dialectic approach are conducive to dynamic classroom discussions that help students grasp the many sides of these complex issues. Three integrating themes provide a solid framework for examining the eighteen topics covered. Each part begins with a chapter-length introduction that provides background material and organizing themes for the issues that follow. Each issue is then presented from two divergent viewpoints, each one written in advocate language to be as compelling as possible. The book's objective, in addition to informing the reader about the issues, is to develop critical thinking skills within the context of education.

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Criminology and the Criminal Justice System Review

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(More customer reviews)This book as been very helpful to my son, Jonathan, who is studying criminology with the hopes of becoming an investigator after graduation from college.

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This leading text for courses in Criminology is known for its lucid style, student-oriented approach, and interdisciplinary global perspective. The text comes in two versions--with or without coverage of the criminal justice system.

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