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The chapters in this volume, drawn from the second Organizational Communication and Change conference, focus on changes in the ways people enact and make sense of organization, including behaviours that stimulate and constitute change.

This volume is part of a series which focuses on educational problems and opportunities that are solved or enhanced using computer-mediated communication. Policies, issues and teacher education are also addressed as they relate to CMC in the classroom.

This work focuses on current theoretical research concerning the uses of personality type in understanding human language behaviour - in reference to personality type theory and language and literacy development. It seeks to contribute to our understanding of how people interact with languange.

Addresses the boundaries between teacher education scholarship and preparation for practice in a multicultural society. This book proposes connecting two research paradigms, critical ethnography and narrative inquiry, as tools for translating critical pedagogy into teacher education and K-12 practice.

This book examines the role that rhetoric plays in the creation and conceptualization of new knowledge claims. It highlights how scientists worked with the linguistic resources available to them to bring into existence abstract concepts and gain new insight into the subject of their study.

This text addresses the power of popular nonviolent action against repression, aggression and oppression. Three case studies are examined, and then attention is turned to theory. Surveys are made of nonviolence and communication theories, probing for insights in the nonviolence-communication nexus.

Explores the following key questions: What is literacy? What do we mean when we profess literacy? And how can we create a theoretical map of writing studies in which to locate the ways we define and situate our notions and assumptions about literacy?

Provides an historical examination of how popular magazines portrayed wage-earning women during the critical interwar years, 1918-1941. Although women had been entering the workplace for some time, their contributions to World War I, the passage of women's suffrage, postwar business expansion, and changing social mores put the cultural conversation over women's employment into high gear.

This is a study of the theoretical and practical problems that revolve around multiculturalism and education. The author's starting point for ethics aims to allow the reader to view these conflicts in a new light and thus bring new changes for insightful resolutions.

In analyzing the mobile phone as it is contextualized in Israeli society, two opposing social forces can clearly be seen: on the one hand, the mobile is an expression of late modernity and globalization; but on the other hand it is recruited as a tool - as well as a symbol - for the expression of locality and patriotic sentiments.

Looks at the challenges and triumphs of Black women academicians.

Reducing dangerous drinking on college campuses has received a great deal of attention from prevention specialists, researchers, and college health professionals. This book describes an innovative way to approach the problem of dangerous drinking among college students and describes an award winning prevention campaign.

Discusses deprivatized pedagogy, a tool for shaping classroom practice. It is a way to interior gate classroom practices which are traditionally in inexplicably privatized. The authors hope to provide a space to raise questions, evoke critiques, and embark on the path to self-reflexivity in the practice of teaching and learning.

Aimed at the writing teachers and writing program administrators within postsecondary institutions, this book provides theoretical models and methods for helping them conduct the interdisciplinary, collaborative consulting activities that are common with formal and information writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs.

The troubling gap between moral values and professional action poses a problem for professional education that is not easily resolved by offering courses on ethics or moral development. This book provides a framework for professors and practitioners who are seeking integration of moral reasoning into professional education and interventions.

Analyzes the political and legal struggles between labor movements and school administrators over the rise of part-time and temporary jobs in higher education.

Tests cultural adaptation theory in the real world. This volume examines the failed cultural integration of France's Muslim population and the tension that has resulted. Through the use of interviews with Muslims and non-Muslims in France, it reveals that French-Muslims are unable and unwilling to completely assimilate to French culture.

Takes up the complicated question of writing faculty development and the training necessary to address shifting definitions of literate acts. This book focuses on issues of aging, addressing both attitudes toward aging literacies and the role that age plays in the acquisition of new literacy practices.

Focusing on visual intelligence, perception and memory, and cognition, this book provides a frame for understanding the connections among vision, meaning-making and development of self. It also considers methods, practices, and theories of visual rhetoric.

Based on extensive research into the and newspaper framing of the Bosnian war. The issues and questions addressed include the critical use of official sources and propaganda in journalism; how media and policymakers interact to detect and frame problems for policy action; and what factors limit the accurate reporting of war.

This volume traces the history of knowledge, information, and cognate categories as variables in economic thought, from their first appearance in early classical economics, through their place in neo-classical, institutional, and neo-institutional economics, to their role in contemporary investigations in economic psychology.

This book scrutinizes soap opera producers and viewers, the processes by which they define and interpret the genre and its texts, and how subjectivities of age and gender influence their practices and circumscribe a range of romantic fantasies deemed acceptable to purvey or savour.

This text follows a series of experiential and theoretical routes toward understanding audience use of television and the Internet. The essence of play is explored, with a focus across cultures, predominantly the East's consumption of television and the Internet produced and presented by the West.

This work examines the history of electronic media in education, from film through radio, television, and automated instruction, ending with a look at contemporary educational technology. It relates history to ideas about what schools are for, and how teachers should teach.

An understanding of how we learn to watch television and why we watch television is integral in any examination of television history, industry or regulation. This text is specifically designed to complement existing texts from a wide variety of related fields of study.

This text describes seven faculty members and a graduate student at one university, who engaged in a conversation about their own experiences in urban education over a three-year period. Authors used standpoint epistemology as visas of credibility for their border crossings to urban schools.

Innovation is universally recognized as key components of first world economies that is vital for continued prosperity. This book presents a highly differentiated model which is capable of serving as a practical foundation for diagnosing, analyzing, optimizing and fostering creativity and innovation in a variety of organizational settings.

Views the history of error in composition instruction through a reader's perspective, and in doing so, documents the manner in which our visions of error and perceptions of student writers who produce error have both transformed and remained static.