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  • Becoming Adult

    How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work

    by Barbara Schneider, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ...
    **A pioneering psychologist reveals how parents, teachers, and communities can prepare teenagers for rewarding working lives“An important book.” ―Howard Gardner, author of Frames of Mind**How do young people envision their future careers? What can families, schools, and communities do to help teenagers develop habits and values that will be useful in their occupational lives? In this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Learning Science

    The Value of Crafting Engagement in Science Environments

    by Barbara Schneider, Joseph Krajcik, Jari Lavonen ...
    An innovative, internationally developed system to help advance science learning and instruction for high school studentsThis book tells the story of a $3.6 million research project funded by the National Science Foundation aimed at increasing scientific literacy and addressing global concerns of declining science engagement. Studying dozens of classrooms across the United States and Finland, this ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Hearing (Our) Voices

    Involving Service Users in Mental Health Research

    by Barbara Schneider ...
    Hearing (Our) Voices describes two innovative participatory action research projects - one on communication with medical professionals, the other on housing - carried out by a group of people diagnosed with schizophrenia under the guidance of Professor Barbara Schneider. Participants designed the research, conducted interviews and focus groups, participated in data analysis, and disseminated ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Corporal Rhetoric

    Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era

    by Barbara Schneider ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities
    Examines public discourse from the Progressive Era over the state’s right to regulate women’s bodies and their reproductionWhen Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes determined in 1927 that sterilization was a legitimate means of safeguarding the nation’s health, he was asserting the state’s right to regulate the production of the national body. His opinion represented a culmination of arguments about ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Parents, Their Children, And Schools

    by Barbara Schneider, James Coleman ...
    This book examines the resources available to parents and the actions parents can take to further their childrens education. It is the first study of the subject based on major survey data, drawing from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988a national survey of 26,000 eighth graders, their parents, teachers, and school administrators. The authors explore several important debates, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century

    Edited by Barbara Schneider ...
    Series series Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
    This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters. It explores today’s populations rarely noticed, such as undocumented students, first generation college students, and LGBTQs; and emphasizing the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity and social class. Sociologists often center their work on the sources and consequences of ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence

    An Experiential Approach: A Special Issue of Applied Developmental Science

    Edited by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Barbara Schneider ...
    Published in 2001, Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence is a valuable contribution to the field of Developmental Psychology. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Workplace Flexibility

    Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce

    Edited by Kathleen Christensen, Barbara Schneider ...
    Although today's family has changed, the workplace has not—and the resulting one-size-fits-all workplace has become profoundly mismatched to the needs of an increasingly diverse and varied workforce. As changes in the composition of the workforce exert new demands on employers, considerable attention is being paid to how workplaces can be structured more flexibly to achieve the goals of employers ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Evidence and Public Good in Educational Policy, Research and Practice

    Edited by Barbara Schneider, Mustafa Yunus Eryaman ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume draws together interdisciplinary approaches from political philosophy, social work, medicine and sociology to analyze the theoretical foundations and practical examples of evidence-based and evidence-informed education for the public good. It presents a range of conceptions of the evidence-based and evidence-informed education and a justification for why the particular examples or ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Scale-Up in Education

    Ideas in Principle, Volume 1

    Edited by Barbara Schneider, Sarah-Kathryn McDonald ...
    Scale-Up in Education, Volume 1: Ideas in Principle examines the challenges of "scaling up" from a multidisciplinary perspective. It brings together contributions from disciplines that routinely take promising innovations to scale, including medicine, business, engineering, computing, and education.Together the contributors explore appropriate methods for estimating the effects of innovations in ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Scale-Up in Education

    Issues in Practice, Volume 2

    Edited by Barbara Schneider, Sarah-Kathryn McDonald ...
    Scale-Up in Education, Volume 2: Issues in Practice explores the challenges of implementing and assessing educational interventions in varied classroom contexts. Included are reflections on the challenges of designing studies for improving the instructional core of schools, guidelines for establishing evidence of interventions' impacts across a wide range of settings, and an assessment of national ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Science Education Through Multiple Literacies

    Project-Based Learning in Elementary School

    Edited by Joseph Krajcik, Barbara Schneider ...
    Science Education Through Multiple Literacies explores how the use of project-based learning in elementary science education fosters a lifelong scientific mindset in students. The book provides educators with the teaching practices to help students develop an overall science literacy that aligns with Next Generation Science Standards.Editors Joseph Krajcik and Barbara Schneider and the book’s ... Read more

    $25.09 USD