Authors:Susan Capel, Marilyn Leask, Tony Turner,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: school, teach, learning, secondary, series, subjects, companion, experience
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2005-09-09
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0415363926
ISBN-13: 9780415363921

This best-selling textbook offers a sound and practical introduction to the skills needed to gain Qualified Teacher Status, will help to develop the qualities that lead to good practice and a successful future in education, and covers the range of situations and potential problems faced by student and newly qualified teachers. Updates to this edition include the changes to the National Curriculum for England and Wales; and changes to the organization of, and curriculum for, early professional development. Focusing on evidence-based practice, and full of strategies, ideas, and activities, th

Authors:Susan Capel, Marilyn Leask, Tony Turner, Ruth Heilbro
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: school, secondary, teach, subjects, learning, starting
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2005-01-10
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 0415338174
ISBN-13: 9780415338172

Seventy per cent of newly qualified secondary teachers say that they are well-prepared for certain aspects of teaching their specialist subject - such as planning, selecting resources and assessing their own teaching - and yet feel very much less prepared in other professional areas.This second edition tackles all the issues that new teachers find difficult. It builds on the skills and knowledge they will have learned on their initial teacher education or PGCE course and offers a planned process of professional development and includes chapters on: managing yourself and your workload wo

Authors:Phil Turner, Susan Turner, Elisabeth Davenport,
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Keywords: premier, reference, source, perspectives, interdisciplinary, space, technology, spatiality, exploration
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2008-09-15
List price: $195.00
ISBN-10: 1605660205
ISBN-13: 9781605660202

The emerging study of technology in space has been shaping human interaction with physical, social, and technological worlds. Drawing upon a wide range of information technology disciplines, this field is now grabbing the attention of many, including computer scientists, anthropologists, and psychologists craving for more on this intriguing new field. Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives offers stimulating research currently bridging the areas of space, spatiality, and technology. A must-read for researchers and scholars working at the intersecti

Authors:David Benyon, Phil Turner, Susan Turner,
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Keywords: contexts, technologies, activities, people, interactive, systems, designing
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 2005-03-24
List price: $88.40
ISBN-10: 0321116291
ISBN-13: 9780321116291

Designing Interactive Systems: People, Activities, Contexts, Technologies is an exciting, new, forward-looking textbook in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Authoritative in its coverage, this innovative book takes a top-down approach, starting with what is familiar to students and working down to theory/abstract underpinnings. This makes it suitable for beginners with a less technical background as well as advanced students of HCI and can be used at all stages of the curriculum for courses in this dynamic field. The book focuses on and explores this emerging discipline by bringing together t

Authors:Lena Albrite Turner, Pat Turner Ritchie,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, gap, brocks
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-08-24
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738541664
ISBN-13: 9780738541662

Brocks Gap is the name given to 200 square miles in Rockingham County, Virginia, that were created by the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. As early as the 1740s, German-speaking settlers were attracted to the area by abundant water, plentiful wood, fertile river bottoms, and great hunting. Many of the first settlers stayed for generations, tucked into the security of the mountains. Families were self-sufficient, growing their own food, gathering wild berries and nuts for their own use, and selling the surplus. Stories and traditional ways of life have been passed down through generations, m

Authors:Victor Turner, Edith Turner,
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: culture, christian, pilgrimage, image
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 1995-04-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0231042876
ISBN-13: 9780231042871

First published in 1978 and hailed by as constituting "an important foreshadowing of issues that have become prominent in more recent anthropology," this classic book, now updated and extensively revised, examines the theological doctrines and popular notions that promote and sustain Christian pilgrimage, including their corresponding symbols and images.

Authors:Tony Manzi, Karen Lucas, Tony Lloyd Jones, Judith All
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: urban, connectivity, fabric, communities, areas, sustainability, social
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2010-04
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 1844076741
ISBN-13: 9781844076741

This groundbreaking new volume on social sustainability offers both critique and creative solutions. It challenges the conventional wisdoms of social sustainability and presents practical examples of projects that will help practitioners to think carefully and innovatively about the situations they are addressing. The book consists of original contributions from academics working in the fields of urban planning, housing, regeneration, transport and international sustainable development. Drawing on case study research gathered in the UK, Europe and Africa, it adopts an original, interdisciplina