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Explores tensions surrounding the teaching of literacy in three settings of nontraditional adult education: correctional education, vocational education, and the Highlander Folk School.

Ballard (sociology, California State U.-Northridge) uses three theories of political policy making to analyze what happened before and after the April 1995 bombing, which policy elites were the most active in the media immediately afterward, which groups were effective in getting policy passed in the year after, and what the policy process means fo

Can the American media be blamed for the transformation of an ideologically cohesive society into a segmented society of pleasure seekers, startups,and subcultures? This book aims to show how Israel's new television system affected the country's political culture during the 1990s.

This work analyzes and compares the use of communication strategies of presidents and their administrations during the television age of politics. In begins in 1961, and demonstrates that various factors can play a role in whether or not a president succeeds in controlling the political agenda.

This volume helps define the social, technical, and institutional issues that surround technology rich environments used in English studies departments and programs.

This work begins by analysing schooling and education suggesting that current practice does more harm than good. It goes on to suggest that critical constructivism focusing on themes of democratic education, social efficacy and social justice would facilitate the transformation needed.

This volume relates how teachers move from teacher-centred teaching and learning to a learner-centred model. It seeks to provide an opportunity for teachers, administrators and staff developers to look at staff development as much more than technology training.

Through an ethnographic, interactive sociolinguistic and cultural approach, this volume introduces a discourse perspective to the analysis of inter-professional communication. It looks at the participants and their contributions to team discourse about children evaluated for mental retardation.

In this volume a double strategy of framing television as both a prop and a body implant is used. McLuhan first saw television as a body with potential for global community. The author develops McLuhan's vision with more attention to political economy, body politics and bio-technology.

Chapters in the first part of this text develop the theoretical and conceptual framework for building community within and among organizations. Part two explores the politcal, technological and social processes and part three describes specific contexts in a variety of organizations.

Describes and assesses the nature and consequences of the increasing number of mergers among corporations in control of media that deliver content to audiences worldwide. The author examines how they are organized, the nature of their goals, and the implications of their continued growth.

This ethnography depicts the cultural consequences of a local school closing in a small, rural, predominantly black community. It shows how the dynamics of the community deepen fundamental contradictions between strong beliefs in education (values spoken) and actual conduct (values lived).

This text defines the phenomenon of politicking with e-mail in organizational settings. It outlines a model that explains and predicts the usage, and discusses the opportunities and threats that are associated with it. The book also speculates about evolving and future political uses of e-mail.

This text argures that the communicative failures of Bill Clinton - and of other modern presidents - can be explained by looking at the intersection of the individual presidents with the institutional expectations of the presidency.

This text provides a qualitative inquiry into the politics and practice of feminist teaching. It weaves together theoretical feminist writings with the lives of feminist, women teachers, revealing a complex interplay among feminist identity and the organization of the high school and university.

This volume presents an ethnographic study of new composition teacher's theory and practice. The text focuses upon four graduate teaching assistants and their experiences in the university classroom, and how their own attitudes, implicit theories and practices evolve and change.

This grapples with the first few years of South Africa's journey out of apartheid. The book's focus is on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) because the SABC was the first organisation transformed in post-apartheid South Africa.

Discusses some of the underlying assumptions, focusing on human behavior: How are new technologies adopted and implemented, how do adults learn, and what do we know about creating strong learning communities online? This work also includes specific, practical advice on how to teach online.

Examining the media under the Communist system and its role in the transition, this book focuses on the analysis of media policy and media systems. It develops a model of change in Central and Eastern Europe, and aims to illustrate the elements and mechanisms of the process as exemplified by the situation in selected countries.

Argues that the youth use the Web to experiment with and deploy a number of rhetorical strategies that tell about their vision for the communications technologies and the literacy practices they use to engage that technology. This book aims to offer a portrait of the future use of communications technologies, particularly the Web.

A resource for those involved as an intermediary or as a party to interpersonal or group conflict. It offers a perspective based on field experience intervening in adversarial confrontation. It is a suitable for students, researchers, and higher education faculty engaged in the study of alternative dispute resolution processes.

This book addresses the question of how health care teams function on a daily basis through an ethnography of communication in an interdisciplinary geriatric team. The presentation enables readers to explore the relationships among epistemology, methodology, and writing practices in health care.

This work explores the problematic nature of ethnographic research in regard to power differentials experienced by ethnographers and researched communities. The case study location was Isla Mujeres, Mexico, a small island located off the Yucatan coast, eight miles northeast of Cancun.

This volume, one of three in The Creativity Research Handbook series, goes into great depth about the research on creativity. It will bring the scholar up to date and bring the newcomer up to speed about what has been done in creativity research.

The main premise of this book is that economic, cultural, political and institutional factors are necessary to fully understand and analyse national media policy developments and impacts, such as deregulation and/or privatization, government and judiciary oversight and media concentration.