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Bring the Noise Remix (Pump-Kin Remix)
Bring the Noise Remix (Pump-Kin Remix)
Word, Ages 3 and up, Play Magnets
New in the 'My First' series, this includes 16 magnetic pieces to encourage imaginative play and manual dexterity. Ages: 3-5yrs., Englisch; Bilderbuch, Word
Priorities in Health
This DCP2 companion guide speeds the diffusion of life-saving knowledge by distilling the contents of the larger volume into an easily read format. Policy makers, practitioners, academics, and other interested readers will get an overview of DCP2's messages and analyses; be alerted to the scope of major diseases; learn strategies to improve policies and choices to implement cost-effective interventions; and locate chapters of immediate interest., Medical / Nursing ; Epidemiology ; Health Care Delivery, Priorities in Health
Watchin' The World Go By
Watchin' The World Go By
Digital Technologies and Writing in Students\' Communicative Practices, An Ethnographical Study of an Inner-City High School in the Northeast of Brazil
The promises and pitfalls of computers' uses at school have challenged researchers' and teachers' understanding about what these machines mean to students and how students use and make sense of them to learn. This book presents a new, critical perspective about the topic by explaining, based on an extensive ethnographic study conducted in Brazil, how high school students engage with computers to write at school and outside of school and what that experience mean to students. The study is framed by the new literacies theoretical perspective and also by the Vygotskian contextualized notion of practice. The book helps researchers and teachers understand how digital technologies can help but also how they can hinder students' abilities to communicate and to write depending on certain characteristics of their contexts that may interfere with their practices with digital technologies. Finally, the book offers insights on how to overcome these difficulties and take advantage of students desire to communicate with c, Computergestütztes Lernen, Digital Technologies and Writing in Students\' Communicative Practices
Lets' Count Noisy Puppies
Two novelty books with full colour photos and a sound button. Ages: 2-4yrs., Lets' Count Noisy Puppies
Young Masculinities
How do boys see themselves? Their peers? The adult world? What are their aspirations? Their fears? Centring on a study in which boys talked openly about such issues as their relationships with parents and friends, 'hardness', homophobia and football, and the importance of youth style, 'race' and ethnicity, 'Young Masculinities' should be of interest to students and researchers in psychology, sociology, gender and youth studies, as well as to those determining social policy on boys and young men., Young Masculinities
