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Defying foreign government orders and interviewing terrorists face to face, a young American tours hostile lands to learn about Middle Eastern youth--and uncovers a subculture that defies every stereotype. Eight-page b&w photo insert.

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This work offers a consideration of the nature of intelligence, cultural disadvantage, educational programs for culturally different people. In this longitudinal study, profiles of development and expression of competencies are presented.

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This work offers a consideration of the nature of intelligence, cultural disadvantage, educational programs for culturally different people. In this longitudinal study, profiles of development and expression of competencies are presented.

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This volume presents the results of a two-year research project which examined the development and use of reading and writing by school-aged children. The studies examined the relationships between children's reading and writing by looking at the social contexts that surrounded their understandings and uses of reading and writing;

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The essays in this collection focus on long-term effects of trauma caused by organized persecution - children's experiences of the horror and terror of war, and on the coping mechanisms and reparative experiences, which mitigated and sometimes surmount the trauma.

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This book presents previously unpublished research on students for whom the traditional regular education program is unsuccessful. This population represents special education students, students at risk or from diverse cultures, and students who fall through the cracks of traditional educational programming.

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While the frequency of murders by pre-teens is low, studies have historically neglected them or lumped them in with murders by adolescents. This study is concerned with how young killers are dealt with by the criminal justice system, including judges, lawyers, social welfare agencies, and child advo

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Due to the extensive changes in family structure such as the increase of single parent families, a high divorce rate, and the decline of the extended family, support systems for young children are in decline.

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Images of disabled children are found throughout well-known works of literature, film, and even opera. Their characters range from sweet, to brave, to tragic. Disabled children are also a part of reality as poster girls and boys for drives and causes. This work demonstrates the critical role of disability with respect to the history of childhood.

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This how to and help book for those of us who read-aloud to children focuses on books for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarten students.

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The Children's Book Corner set, a chronological series of 4 books, provides a complete program for those starting a read-aloud program in their classroom, in a school or public library, or at home.

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This third book in the four-book Children's Book Corner set provides a complete program for those starting a read-aloud program in their classroom, their school or public library, or their home.

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This selective bibliography makes it easier than ever to find quality children's books that focus directly on religious themes or characters. Useful as a ready reference and collection development guide, this book is an ideal reference and collection development tool for school, public, and church libraries.

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This book is a collection of the talks and writings by Eberhard Arnold on children's education in Christian community. Arnold's insights, while firmly grounded in biblical study, also engage the ideas of leading educational reformers of his day, and draw on the practical experience of his own community, the Bruderhof.

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Included are chapters on the definition and classification of children's folklore, the presence of children's folklore in literature and popular culture, and the scholarly interpretation of children's folklore.

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Childrens human rights are regularly violated around the world. Child soldiers, child slavery, and child prostitution are some of the more graphic examples this books deals with, but hungry, sick, and orphaned children are equally at risk and more prevalent.

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This text presents an integrative theoretical model which covers the field of make-believe play research (cognitive, clinical and developmental psychology, linguistics, sociology, anthropology) and its applications in psychotherapy and education.

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A study of children's authors who are typical of their time, such as Enid Blyton, Angela Brazil, Judy Blume and Roald Dahl. The book discusses comics as well as "classic" texts, and the possible effects of these materials on children's attitudes.

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Leading international scholars and teacher educators explore the latest research into the effective uses of children's literature in language teaching for children and young adults.

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Fascinating analysis of how children in their first year of high school feel about their schools, its place in their lives and its role in their futures.

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Part of "Continuum Studies in Educational Research" series, this book presents an analysis of how children in their first year of high school feel about their schools, its place in their lives, and its role in their futures.