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Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop Execute and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance

Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop Execute and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance

Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop Execute and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance offers methods and techniques for delivering this special effect on the stage. The world of live theatre presents its own set of unique challenges when creating special effects particularly blood. There are no cropped-view frames multiple angles or reshoots – everything is live and in view of the audience. This book provides helpful insight information techniques and tricks for producing reliable and repeatable blood effects covering everything from design and budgeting to safety and clean-up. Filled with easy-to-follow descriptions and full-color artwork this text includes: Practical examples of blood effect budgets outlining not just money but also labor needs. A breakdown of the components for making an original blood recipe as well as reliable industry-tested recipes. Options for dispensing blood to create realistic effects for any budget size. A comprehensive wash-testing database of over 500 examples of fabrics and blood combinations. Prop managers and builders in professional educational and regional theatre are sure to benefit from the tips outlined in this book.

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Assessment and Testing An Introduction

Assessment and Testing An Introduction

Originally published in 1972 there were many ‘classics’ dealing with assessment and testing on the market at the time but most of these left the inexperienced reader bewildered in the early stages because of their size and insufficient explanation of the many technical terms used. There were a distinct lack of books which gave students in Colleges of Education dealing with psychology for the first time a simple explanation of basic terms in assessment and testing and which introduced them briefly to the different types of tests available. Assessment and Testing aimed to fill this large gap. It looks at such key psychological terms as ‘sample’ ‘objectivity’ ‘subjectivity’ and such basic statistical terms such as ‘mean’ ‘standard deviation’ and ‘normal curve of distribution’. Because it assumes that the reader has no knowledge of such terms it gives careful and simply illustrated explanations of each. In the same way in simple language with any technical terms explained and illustrated it explains intelligence and personality tests questionnaires sociometric measures projection techniques and other areas of assessment and testing which every practising teacher will meet. The book aims to be essentially practical. It is appreciated all the time that the readers are those who will teach children. It is designed to provide a solid foundation upon which the reader can build later to augment his own experience of identifying children’s particular needs. | Assessment and Testing An Introduction

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Unequal By Design High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

Unequal By Design High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

This new edition of Unequal By Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality critically examines the deep and enduring problems within systems of education in the U. S. in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students teachers and communities negatively affected by such testing. Updates to the new edition include new chapters that focus on: the role of schools and standardized testing in reproducing social cultural and economic inequalities; the way high-stakes testing is used to advance neoliberal market-based educational schemes that ultimately concentrate wealth and power among elites; how standardized testing became the dominant tool within our educational systems; the numerous technical and ideological problems with using standardized tests to evaluate students teachers and schools; the role that high-stakes testing plays in the maintenance of white supremacy; and how school communities have resisted high-stakes testing and used better assessments of student learning. Parents teachers university students and scholars will find Unequal By Design useful for gaining a broad critical understanding of the issues surrounding our over-reliance on high-stakes standardized testing in the U. S. through up-to-date research on testing historical and contemporary examples of the struggles over such tests and information about how testing has fostered the privatization of public education in the U. S. | Unequal By Design High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

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Life at Home for People with a Dementia

Life at Home for People with a Dementia

Life at Home for People with a Dementia provides an evidence-based and readable account of improving life at home for people with a dementia and their families. There are estimated to be 47 million people with a dementia worldwide the majority of whom will live or want to live in their own home. Yet there is a major shortcoming in available knowledge on what life is like for people with a dementia living at home. Most research focuses on care in hospitals or care homes and takes a medical perspective. This book bridges this gap in knowledge by providing a comprehensive and critical overview of the best available evidence on enabling people with a dementia to live well at home from the viewpoint of those living with the condition and in the context of global policy drivers on ageing and health as well as technological advances. The book includes chapters on citizenships – that is the diversity of people living with a dementia – enabling life at home rethinking self-management the ethics and care of people with a dementia at home technological care and citizenship and sharing responsibilities. It concludes with a care manifesto in which we set out a vision for improving life at home for people with a dementia that covers the areas of professional practice education and care research. By covering a wide range of interrelated topics to advance understanding and practice as to how people with a dementia from diverse backgrounds can be supported to live well at home this book provides a synthesised critical and readable understanding of the complexities and risks involved.

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Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex Understanding How Testing Perpetuates Inequity and Injustice in America

Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex Understanding How Testing Perpetuates Inequity and Injustice in America

This book offers a comprehensive critique of how the assessment industry and standardized testing adversely impact students teachers and society. The authors present the case that the interconnected developments of the testing industry and the Assessment Industrial Complex (AIC) have effectively anchored American schooling to testing. Using an antiracist lens the authors deconstruct the AIC exposing the neoliberal agenda of education reformers and how proponents utilize the rhetoric of testing and the data extracted from them to normalize the reliance on AIC systems. This critique further exposes education reformers’ ideological agenda their hypocrisy and how they grossly profit from the AIC at the expense of society’s marginalized and most vulnerable students. The COVID-19 pandemic society’s racial unrest and anti-testing movements have aligned to underscore the need to examine systemic oppression and the impact it has on society through our education system. This text exposes how standardized testing perpetuates these injustices and provides the opportunity to disrupt the systems they rely upon and bolster the societal resistance that is needed. | Unraveling the Assessment Industrial Complex Understanding How Testing Perpetuates Inequity and Injustice in America

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IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

This popular guide clarifies the requirements for inspection and testing explaining in clear language those parts of the IET Wiring Regulations that most need simplifying. In addition to the descriptive and diagrammatic test methods that are required explanations of the theory and reasoning behind test procedures are given together with useful tables for the comparison of test results. The book also provides essential information on the completion of electrical installation certificates with a step-by-step guide on the entries that need to be made and where to source data. With the content suitable for both City & Guilds and EAL Inspection and Testing courses and containing a sample MCQ paper and answers it is also an ideal revision guide. Fully up to date with the latest amendments to the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations. Simplifies the advice found in the Wiring Regulations explaining how they apply to working practice for inspection testing and certification. Expert advice from an engineering training consultant supported with colour diagrams examples and key data. | IET Wiring Regulations: Inspection Testing and Certification

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Practical Guide to Inspection Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

Practical Guide to Inspection Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

Covers all your testing and inspection needs to help you pass your exams on City & Guilds 2391 and EAL 600/4338/6 and 600/4340/4 and Part P courses. Entirely up to date with the 18th Edition IET Wiring Regulations Step-by-step descriptions and photographs of the tests show exactly how to carry them out Completion of inspection and test certification and periodic reporting Fault finding techniques Testing 3 phase and single phase motors Supporting video footage of the tests contained in this book are available on the companion website This book covers everything you need to learn about inspection and testing with clear reference to the latest updates to the legal requirements and wiring regulations. It answers all of your questions on the basics of inspection and testing using clear and easy to remember language along with sample questions and scenarios as they will be encountered in the exams. Christopher Kitcher tells you what tests are needed and describes them in a step-by-step manner with the help of colour photographs and the accompanying website. All of the theory required for passing the inspecting and testing element of all electrical installation qualifications along with the AM2 City & Guilds 2391 certificate and the EAL 600/4338/6 and 600/4340/4 qualifications is contained within this easy-to-follow guide – along with some top tips to help you pass the exam itself. With a strong focus on the practical element of inspection and testing for NVQs or apprenticeships this is also an ideal reference tool for experienced electricians and those working in allied industries on domestic and industrial installations. www. routledge. com/cw/kitcher provides a large bank of helpful video demonstrations multiple choice questions to test your learning and further supporting materials. | Practical Guide to Inspection Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

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Testing Fresh Expressions Identity and Transformation

Testing Fresh Expressions Identity and Transformation

Testing Fresh Expressions investigates whether fresh expressions of church really do what is claimed for them by the fresh expressions movement and in particular whether their unique approach helps to reverse trends of decline experienced by traditional churches. Part 1 examines those claims and untangles their sociological and theological assumptions. From a careful study of factors underlying attendance decline and growth Part 2 argues that long-term decline can be resisted only if churches are better able to attract children the non-churched or both. Part 3 tests the comparative ability of a group of growing parish churches and a group of fresh expressions to resist trends of decline and discovers some intriguing social dynamics common to both groups. Part 4 argues that fresh expressions do not fulfil the unique role often claimed for them but that they do have the capacity to help reinvigorate the whole church. | Testing Fresh Expressions Identity and Transformation

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College Admissions and Admissions Testing in a Time of Transformational Change

College Admissions and Admissions Testing in a Time of Transformational Change

Perhaps no topic in higher education is more controversial than admissions whether it be to a prestigious college graduate schools or professional schools. In response to the pandemic and a host of race relations issues in the country many colleges and universities have changed their policies regarding admissions testing. In this foundational volume renowned chapter authors address a diverse set of themes related to college admissions examining new perspectives exploring the strengths and weaknesses of current practices and discussing how institutions might use different techniques to attract diverse students particularly those who have not traditionally attended college. Experts in college admission testing admissions research and psychology come together to provide empirically based approaches and ideas. Ultimately this volume advances a future in college admissions where more students are able to succeed in college and beyond. | College Admissions and Admissions Testing in a Time of Transformational Change

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Language Aptitude Advancing Theory Testing Research and Practice

Language Aptitude Advancing Theory Testing Research and Practice

Language Aptitude: Advancing Theory Testing Research and Practice brings together cutting-edge global perspectives on foreign language aptitude. Drawing from educational psychology cognitive science and neuroscience the editors have assembled interdisciplinary authors writing for an applied linguistics and education audience. The book is broken into five major themes: revisiting and updating current language aptitude theories and models; emerging insights from contemporary research into language aptitude and the age factor or the critical period hypothesis; redefining constructs and broadening territories of foreign language aptitude; exploring language aptitude from a neurocognitive perspective; and exploring future directions of foreign language aptitude research. Focused on critical issues in foreign language aptitude and second language learning and teaching this book will be an important research resource and supplemental reading in both applied linguistics and cognitive psychology. | Language Aptitude Advancing Theory Testing Research and Practice

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Ethics and Context in Second Language Testing Rethinking Validity in Theory and Practice

Ethics and Context in Second Language Testing Rethinking Validity in Theory and Practice

This innovative timely text introduces the theory and research of critical approaches to language assessment foregrounding ethical and socially contextualized concerns in language testing and language test validation in today’s globalized world. The editors bring together diverse perspectives qualitative and quantitative methodologies and empirical work on this subject that speak to concerns about social justice and equity in language education from languages and contexts around the world – offering an overview of key concepts and theoretical issues and field-advancing suggestions for research projects. This book offers a fresh perspective on language testing that will be an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers of applied linguistics sociolinguistics language policy education and related fields – as well as language program administrators. | Ethics and Context in Second Language Testing Rethinking Validity in Theory and Practice

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Electrical Inspection Testing and Certification A Guide to Passing the City and Guilds 2391 Exams

Electrical Inspection Testing and Certification A Guide to Passing the City and Guilds 2391 Exams

Updated in line with the 18th edition of the wiring regulations. This book is an essential guide to the City & Guilds 2391-50 and 51: Initial Verification and Certification of Electrical Installation and Periodic Inspection and Testing also C&G 2391-52: an amalgamation of Initial Verification and Periodic Inspection and Testing of electrical installations. There is a full coverage of technical and legal terminology used in the theory exams; including the structure of exam questions and their interpretation. By running through examples of realistic exam questions in a step-by-step fashion this book explains how to decode the questions to achieve the most suitable response from the multiple-choice answers given. This book is ideal for all electricians regardless of their experience who need a testing qualification in order to take the next step in their career. | Electrical Inspection Testing and Certification A Guide to Passing the City and Guilds 2391 Exams

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Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality Testing Religious Truth-claims

Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality Testing Religious Truth-claims

Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? R. Scott Smith argues in a fresh way that we cannot know reality on the basis of naturalism. Moreover the fact-value split has failed to serve our interests of wanting to know reality. The author provocatively argues that since we can know reality it must be due to a non-naturalistic ontology best explained by the fact that human knowers are made and designed by God. The book offers fresh implications for the testing of religious truth-claims science ethics education and public policy. Consequently naturalism and the fact-value split are shown to be false and Christian theism is shown to be true. | Naturalism and Our Knowledge of Reality Testing Religious Truth-claims

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Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking in Women Israel's Blood Money

Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking in Women Israel's Blood Money

This book critically analyzes the sex industry in Israel using feminist concepts and scholarship to elaborate on the power of prostitution to shape a world in which women are objects for fulfilling men's desires. A comprehensive collection of research-based articles that examine prostitution trafficking in women and pornography from divergent disciplinary angles it reveals the interconnectedness of these three aspects of the sex trade which objectifies commercializes and exploits human – and in particular women’s – sexuality. Showing these practices to be embedded in a capitalist and patriarchal oppressive context that is accommodated by state institutions this volume rejects the argument that it is possible to choose prostitution and that feminist pornography is possible. With case studies including the conspicuous context of migration that attracts sex traffickers the liberal discourse introduced by cinema the media and the arts that serve to legitimate prostitution and pornography the chauvinist-macho culture that perceives and treats women as sex objects and the issues of male prostitution and men as clients Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking in Women: Israel’s Blood Money constitutes a study of Israel as a unique context in which the sex trade can prosper in spite of geographical religious and institutional constraints. As such it will be of interest to scholars of sociology anthropology history cultural studies and gender and women’s studies. | Prostitution Pornography and Trafficking in Women Israel's Blood Money

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Decentring Security Policing Communities at Home and Abroad

Decentring Security Policing Communities at Home and Abroad

Contemporary security governance often relies on markets and networks to link public agencies to non-governmental actors. This book explores the rise nature and future of these new forms of security governance across various domestic transnational and international settings. The chapters reveal similarities and differences in the way security governance operates in various policy settings. The contributors argue that the similarities generally arise because policy elites at various levels of governance have come to believe that security depends on building resilience and communities through various joined-up arrangements networks and partnerships. Differences nonetheless persist because civil servants street level bureaucrats voluntary sector actors and citizens all draw on diverse traditions to interpret and at times resist the joined-up security being promoted by these policy elites. This book therefore decentres security governance showing how all kinds of local traditions influence the way it works in different settings. It pays particular attention to the meanings cultures and ideologies by which policy actors encounter interpret and evaluate security dilemmas. This book was originally published as a special issue in Global Crime. | Decentring Security Policing Communities at Home and Abroad

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Historicising Heritage and Emotions The Affective Histories of Blood Stone and Land

Historicising Heritage and Emotions The Affective Histories of Blood Stone and Land

Historicising Heritage and Emotions examines how heritage is connected to and between people and places through emotion both in the past and today. Discussion is focused on the overlapping categories of blood (families and bloodlines) stone (monuments and memorials) and land (landscape and places imbued with memories) with the contributing authors exploring the ways in which emotions invest heritage with affective power and the transformative effects of this power in individual community and cultural contexts. The 13 chapters that make up the volume take examples from the premodern and modern eras and from two connected geographical regions the United Kingdom and Australia and the Pacific. Each chapter seeks to identify historicise and contextualise the processes of heritage and the emotional regimes at play locating the processes within longer historical and transnational genealogies and critically appraising them as part of broader cultural currents. Theoretically grounded in new approaches to the history of emotions and critical heritage studies the analysis challenges the traditional scholarly focus on heritage in its modern forms offering multifaceted premodern and modern case studies that demonstrate heritage and emotion to have complex and vibrant histories. Offering transhistorical and multidisciplinary discussion around the ways in which we can talk about discuss categorise and theorise heritage and emotion in different historical contexts Historicising Heritage and Emotions is a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in heritage emotions and history. | Historicising Heritage and Emotions The Affective Histories of Blood Stone and Land

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Therapeutic Assessment with Adults Using Psychological Testing to Help Clients Change

Therapeutic Assessment with Adults Using Psychological Testing to Help Clients Change

This book is a comprehensive guide to Therapeutic Assessment (TA) with adults showing how to collaboratively engage clients in psychological testing to help them achieve major and long-lasting change. This guide clearly lays out each step of TA with adults including its rationale and detailed instructions on how to handle a range of clinical situations. Additionally in part one the authors fully describe the development of TA its theoretical bases and the most up-to-date research on the model. In the second part of the book the authors describe the structure and techniques of TA and illustrate each step with transcripts from a clinical case. Further clinical illustrations help the reader understand how to conduct a TA with different types of clients including those from culturally diverse backgrounds. This book is essential for all clinicians therapists and trainees working with adult clients; along with students in assessment courses. | Therapeutic Assessment with Adults Using Psychological Testing to Help Clients Change

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At Home in School (1988) Parent Participation in Primary Education

At Home in School (1988) Parent Participation in Primary Education

Originally published in 1988 this book discusses the gradual move from the separation of home and school to an increasing acceptance of the central role of parents as partners in their children's education. The book looks at the progress made towards real partnership with parents. An eminently practical account of the advantages of working with parents and the ways in which this can be achieved it will be of special value to student teachers and practicing teachers and to parents interested and involved in their children's education. The authors review national trends and developments since the issue was first seriously raised by the Plowden Report in 1967. Then focusing on one urban primary school (Redlands Primary School Reading) they describe the changes which have taken place over a seven-year period from the perspective of teachers parents and children. The book includes a personal account by Angela Redfern (formerly Deputy Head at Redlands) of what it has been like to be a teacher during this period of change and telling comments from both parents and children on all aspects of involvement in school. Partnership with parents emerges as a course of action which reaps benefits for all concerned and the authors stress that the developments taking place in schools like Redland are important for all schools irrespective of their social class or ethnic composition. | At Home in School (1988) Parent Participation in Primary Education

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An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory and Behavioral Problems Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents and Clinicians

An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory and Behavioral Problems Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents and Clinicians

An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory and Behavioral Problems gives a new perspective on sensory and behavior problems one that sees those behaviors as stemming from a child’s immature sensory nervous system and regulation difficulties. This book offers an effective at-home intervention the Qigong Sensory Treatment that enlists a parent's attuned touch to address often overlooked sensory issues that underlie ‘problem’ behaviors and works to organize those sensory experiences to foster connection and the capacity for self-regulation. It introduces the reader to a new and clinically useful model to understand sensory development the Early Childhood Self-regulatory Milestones which are critical to the emotional and behavioral health and regulation for all children. With clear step-by-step instructions diagrams and links to online instructional videos it teaches parents how to successfully implement the daily QST hands-on routine. Unique to the treatment model is how it guides and focuses parents to easily recognize interpret and respond to their child's shifting non-verbal body and behavioral responses and cues. An extensive workbook section navigates parents through a year-long process of learning and implementing QST at home. Weekly letters include those written by the authors parents who share their own personal experiences with the routine and by QST Master Trainers who offer their years of experience and helpful tips. The 52 letters are timed to anticipate and answer typical questions or stumbling blocks that parents commonly encounter at key points guiding them to success with their child’s sensory and behavior difficulties while making for happier and less-stressful times with their child. This guide will be indispensable to parents and clinicians looking to understand and more effectively work with their child’s developmental difficulties. | An At-Home Guide to Children’s Sensory and Behavioral Problems Qigong Sensory Treatment for Parents and Clinicians

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Teaching and Testing L2 Interactional Competence Bridging Theory and Practice

Teaching and Testing L2 Interactional Competence Bridging Theory and Practice

This volume features the latest research findings on L2 interactional competence to demonstrate the potential for developing and implementing research-based pedagogy that targets interactional competence (IC) in early instruction in a variety of L2 learning and teaching contexts. Incorporating contributions from both leading and emerging researchers in the area the book is organized into four sections to provide a systematic account of interactional competence defined as a set of skills required to co-construct an effective interaction with a variety of interlocutors in a variety of settings and advocates for IC to be part of a well-rounded curriculum of L2 instruction. The volume provides a comprehensive overview of the different theoretical perspectives on IC within Conversation Analysis and moves into a discussion of conversation-analytic research findings from a variety of contexts and of their pedagogical implications. The book then presents examples of pedagogy in practice and also illustrates the potential for implementing IC in testing settings. This volume makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on interactional competence and will be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers in applied linguistics SLA language education curriculum and instruction studies and educational linguistics. Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license: https://tandfbis. s3-us-west-2. amazonaws. com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138038998_oachapter13. pdf | Teaching and Testing L2 Interactional Competence Bridging Theory and Practice

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Challenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Working with Diverse Populations

Challenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Working with Diverse Populations

Challenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing is a groundbreaking work that addresses the biases and inequalities within the field of forensic psychology. It gives valuable insights into individual practices and wider criminal justice approaches at an international level while providing tangible solutions to tackle the disparities. This book constructively critiques current forensic practice and psychological assessment approaches through a variety of diverse voices from pioneering researchers around the world who offer their expertise on these challenges and assist the reader to consider their potential contribution to pushing forward the frontiers of Forensic Psychology. The authors also locate the origin of these biases in order to further dismantle them and improve the outcomes for the forensic client base – especially specific diverse populations. They emphasise the need to be creative and evolve not just in line with the real-world changes of today but also to prevent the issues of tomorrow before they become the next news headline. This is a must read for professionals working in criminal justice forensic psychology legal psychology and related fields. It is also a compelling resource for students and researchers of forensic psychology with particular interest in social diversity and inclusion. | Challenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Working with Diverse Populations

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Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology thoroughly examines the meaning of culture in the context of neuropsychology focusing on the fundamental neuroscience underlying how different aspects of culture influence neuropsychological test performance and how that is related to brain function. It explores in detail the relationship between brain activity and culture and the influence of various cultural educational and linguistic factors on neuropsychological test performances across various cognitive domains. Written by leadings researchers in cross-cultural neuropsychology the book first introduces the basic concepts in the field. It goes on to focus on the influence of cultural variables on specific domains of cognition including perception attention memory language and executive functions. It also explores the implications of cross-cultural neuropsychology in practice including a focus on test adaptation the use of interpreters the influence of acculturation and the practice of neuropsychological rehabilitation in different cultural settings. This book is essential reading for neuropsychologists and related practitioners working with culturally diverse clients who need a good grasp of the cultural impacts on neuropsychological test performance when assessing clients from different cultural linguistic and educational backgrounds. It is also valuable for neuropsychologists in countries around the world who need a means of understanding the ways in which their culture impacts the performances of their clients on tests which have been mostly developed in the U. S. or other Western cultures. | Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology Science Testing and Challenges

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Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

Exploring the literary microcosm inspired by Brontë's debut novel Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad focuses on the nationalistic stakes of the mythic and fairytale paradigms that were incorporated into the heroic female bildungsroman tradition. Jane Eyre Abigail Heiniger argues is a heroic changeling indebted to the regional pre-Victorian fairy lore Charlotte Brontë heard and read in Haworth an influence that Brontë repudiates in her last novel Villette. While this heroic figure inspired a range of female writers on both sides of the Atlantic Heiniger suggests that the regional aspects of the changeling were especially attractive to North American writers such as Susan Warner and L. M. Montgomery who responded to Jane Eyre as part of the Cinderella tradition. Heiniger contrasts the reactions of these white women writers with that of Hannah Crafts whose Jane Eyre-influenced The Bondwoman's Narrative rejects the Cinderella model. Instead Heiniger shows Crafts creates a heroic female bildungsroman that critiques fairytale narratives from the viewpoint of the obscure oppressed workers who remain forever outside the tales of wonder produced for middle-class consumption. Heiniger concludes by demonstrating how Brontë's middle-class American readers projected the self-rise ethic onto Jane Eyre miring the novel in nineteenth-century narratives of American identity formation. | Jane Eyre's Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity

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Mind the Gap Global Learning at Home and Abroad

Mind the Gap Global Learning at Home and Abroad

There is growing awareness that global learning is not confined to university credit-bearing off campus international programs and that institutions of higher learning have up until now conceived of global education too narrowly. Global learning through study abroad and off-campus domestic study fits into a larger context of students’ educational experiences. You can find global learning as part of other high-impact practices; domestic off-campus programs undergraduate research and service- or community-based learning all can be global learning opportunities. On-campus global learning can occur in the disciplines and in the core curriculum as well. Language and culture anthropology sociology and other departments multicultural centers and diversity and inclusivity offices to name a few also teach students to be global learners. Global learning pertains to the many staff and faculty educators who intentionally encourage students to engage with and successfully navigate difference. Thus there is a growing need for bridging across disciplinary and administrative silos silos that are culturally bound within academia. The gaps between these silos matter as students seek to integrate off- and on-campus learning. Higher education needs a new holistic assessment of global learning. This book investigates not just student learning but also faculty experiences program structures and pathways that impact global learning and expands the context of global learning to show its antecedents and impacts as a part of the larger higher education experience. Chapters look at recent developments such as short-term off-campus international study and certificate/medallion programs as well as blended learning environments and undergraduate research all in the context of multi-institutional comparisons. Global learning is also situated in a larger university context. A Series on Engaged Learning and Teaching Book. Visit the books’ companion website hosted by the Center for Engaged Learning for book resources. | Mind the Gap Global Learning at Home and Abroad

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