Urbanisation and Urban Planning in Turkey -- Part I: Contemporary Issues of Urban and Regional Planning -- A New Route for Regional Planning in Turkey: Recent Developments -- The Role of the Planner in the Shaping of Urban Form in Turkish Cities -- An Analysis of the Framework of Urban Public Policy for Effective City Centre -- Development: The Planning Issues and Challenges for Turkish City Ce…
Preface -- PART I. Farm Bill Basics -- What is the Farm Bill?- Why Does the Farm Bill Matter?- Whom Does the Farm Bill Benefit?- How Does the Farm Bill Work?- PART II. The History of Food Policy -- Origins of the Farm BillChapter 6. The Changing Face of Agriculture -- The Changing Face of Hunger -- The Conservation Era -- PART III. Key Policy Issues -- Crop Subsidies -- Nutrition, SNAP, and Hea…
Teaching Methodologies in Structural Geology and Tectonics: an Introduction -- Geographic Information Systems in an Undergraduate Structural Geology Course: a Pilot Project at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee -- Self- and Peer-Evaluation of Individual Project Work: an Innovative Course Assessment Method to Increase Student Motivation -- Teaching Structural Geology Te…
1. Introduction. Bernadette Walker-Gibbs and Ann K. Schulte -- Part 1 Rediscovering Rural Identities -- 2. Looking for My Rural Identity, Finding Community and Place. Ann K. Schulte -- 3. A Road Less Travelled: Becoming a Rural Teacher Educator. Simone White -- 4. Notions of Place, Space and Identity in Rural Teacher Education. Bernadette Walker-Gibbs -- 5. Getting Some ‘Good’ Teachers in t…
This edited volume offers a series of state-of-the-art conceptual papers and empirical research studies which consider how contextual factors at multiple levels dynamically interact with individuals to influence how they go about the complex business of learning and using a second language.
1. Introduction: The Role of Recognition -- 2. Why a Queer Literacy Framework Matters: Models for Sustaining (A)Gender Self-Determination and Justice in Today's Schooling Practices -- 3. Teaching Our Teachers: Trans* and Gender Education in Teacher Preparation and Professional Development -- 4. Kindergartners Studying Trans* Issues Through I Am Jazz -- 5. Beyond This or That: Challenging the Li…
Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom. The section on Variations on Horror Tropes includes chapters on the vampire, the werewolf, the undead monster, and the ghost. The section on Real Life Horror includes chapters on King's school shooting novella Rage, sexual violence, and coming…
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Approaches and Processes -- Chapter 3 Tensions and Resolutions: Professional Development Considerations -- Chapter 4 Practice and Pedagogy -- Chapter 5 Perspective Building -- Chapter 6 Professional Learning Experiences -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Epilogue.This book traces the research on the design, implementation and outcomes of a professional deve…
Teaching EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World addresses a range of issues related to researching and teaching EFL writing in different countries in the Arab World including Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen. Both theoretically and practically grounded, chapters within discuss the different contexts in which EFL writing is taught, from primary school to university. Th…
Main Topics You Can Find in this “ICME-13 Topical Survey” -- Introduction -- Survey on the State-of-the-art -- Summary and Looking Ahead.Open AccessThis survey focuses on the main trends in the field of calculus education. Despite their variety, the findings reveal a cornerstone issue that is strongly linked to the formalism of calculus concepts and to the difficulties it generates in the l…