Author: Lauren Resnick
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: instruction, psychology, education, glaser, series, honor, learning, essays, knowing, robert
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1989-07-01
List price: $86.95
ISBN-10: 0805804609
ISBN-13: 9780805804607

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) at the University of Pittsburgh, these papers present the most current and innovative research on cognition and instruction. Knowing, Learning, and Instruction pays homage to Robert Glaser, founder of the LRDC, and includes debates and discussions about issues of fundamental importance to the cognitive science of instruction.

Author: Lauren Resnick
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Keywords: backpack, princess
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2008-06-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1600373909
ISBN-13: 9781600373909

I do admit that I am a princess, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Princess With a Backpack is the perfect guide for the princess who desires to see the world and experience more than her creature comforts. Find out how to get the confidence and to get the most out of your trip. It’s the stuff that the lonely planet won’t tell you. Find out how to plan your trip without freaking out; what to wear without packing 12 shades of denim jeans; how to pack for more than 6 months of travel time; how to keep trim and still eat pizza in Rome; Europe’s best bars, parties, cloth

Authors:Lauren B. Resnick, Sally Hampton,
Publisher: International Reading Association
Keywords: grade, dvd, writing, reading
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-11-19
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0872077683
ISBN-13: 9780872077683

’Reading and Writing Grade by Grade’ is an indispensable tool for analyzing literacy skills and setting specific targets for learning for your kindergartners through third graders. Here you’ll discover what abilities and understandings children at each grade level K-3 can be expected to have about the print-sound code, comprehension, reading and writing habits, written genres, and language use and conventions. Along with thoughtful commentary and suggestions for instruction, the book and companion DVD include dozens of examples of children’s writing, samples of oral rea

Authors:Sally Hampton, Lauren B. Resnick,
Publisher: International Reading Association
Keywords: fifth, grades, fourth, comprehension, writing, understanding, reading
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2008-11-19
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0872077675
ISBN-13: 9780872077676

Students in the upper elementary grades are ready for the excitement and rewards of reading and writing with increasing comprehension. But how can you prepare these 9- to 11-year-olds to meet and beat the challenges of increasingly complex texts? What do fourth and fifth graders need in order to grow as thoughtful readers and effective writers? Here you’ll find: Classroom ideas specially targeted for students at this critical stage of literacy development Dozens of examples of student performances Detailed commentaries on student work Through this rich portrait of young readers engaged i

Authors:Lauren B. Resnick, Roger Säljö, Clotilde Pontecorvo,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, asi, computer, systems, sciences, nato, cognition, tools, reasoning, essays, situated, discourse
Number of Pages: 486
Published: 1997-12-04
List price: $229.00
ISBN-10: 3540635114
ISBN-13: 9783540635116

To reason is to talk. To think is to use tools. To learn is to join a community of practice. This book explores thought and reasoning as inherently social practices, as actions situated in specific environments of demand, opportunity, and accountability. Authors from diverse disciplines - psychology, sociology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology - examine how people think and learn in settings as diverse as a factory, a classroom or an airplane cockpit. The tools that people use in these varied settings are both physical technologies and cultural constructions: concepts, struct

Author: Lauren C. Heberle and Susan M. OppLauren C. Heber
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: urban, planning, environment, world, development, sustainable, local, globalized
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2008-06-05
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 0754649946
ISBN-13: 9780754649946

While ’sustainable development’ is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe, how it is defined, implemented and measured at the local level remains highly contested and subject to a wide range of external cultural, political and economic pressures. Bringing together leading experts from North America, Europe, the Middle East and SE Asia, this book provides a timely overview of the various methods for understanding and implementing sustainable practices at local levels. In doing so, they present the wide range of local action alternatives available to planners that

Author: Evelyne Resnick
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: new, markets, trends, consumers, strategies, brands, success, wine
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0230554032
ISBN-13: 9780230554030

The subject of wine marketing is widely treated by practitioners and marketing experts in many countries. But we are now entering a new era for marketers: peers trust peers. Top-down messaging is losing ground, while bottom-up buzz is gaining power. How can marketers and academics respond to this challenge in the wine industry? Every few months new technologies, new devices, and new practices require analysis, creative processes, and adaptation. E-marketing is a global strategy allowing the industry to reach niche markets. For the first time in history we are able to measure the consumption pa