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  • Caring For Kids

    A Critical Study Of Urban School Leavers

    by Rodney R Cocking, Richard J. Altenbaugh, David E. Engel, Don T. Martin ...
    The official school drop-out figure in the US in recent years has been 25 per cent of the cohort. Estimates from large cities are often double these rates, and in some areas 60 per cent or worse. This text focuses on this problem in US schools, but from an unusual perspective. It is a study gained from in-depth interviews of 100 "stop-outs" - that is, those who dropped out but then decided to ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • The Development and Meaning of Psychological Distance

    Edited by Rodney R. Cocking, K. Ann Renninger, Ann Renninger ...
    One of the paradoxes in developmental theory is the child's simultaneous intrapsychic and interpsychic development. While the child is growing in mental capacity and struggling to define self, behaviors are also being learned whose function is to integrate self into a social network, which often means that egocentric behaviors are in conflict with sociocentric ones. This theory draws upon ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Cross-cultural Roots of Minority Child Development

    Edited by Patricia M. Greenfield, Rodney R. Cocking ...
    This book constitutes the first time in the field of developmental psychology that cross-cultural roots of minority child development have been studied in their ancestral societies in a systematic way--and by an international group of researchers. Most child development and child psychology texts take cultural diversity in development into account only as an addendum or as a special case--it is ... Read more

    $119.54 CAD

  • Linguistic and Cultural Influences on Learning Mathematics

    Edited by Rodney R. Cocking, Jose P. Mestre ...
    Series series Psychology of Education and Instruction Series
    The combined impact of linguistic, cultural, educational and cognitive factors on mathematics learning is considered in this unique book. By uniting the diverse research models and perspectives of these fields, the contributors describe how language and cognitive factors can influence mathematical learning, thinking and problem solving. The authors contend that cognitive skills are heavily ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development

    Edited by Patricia M. Greenfield, Rodney R. Cocking ...
    Series series Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions
    Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development was the first volume to analyze minority child development by comparing minority children to children in their ancestral countries, rather than to children in the host culture. It was a ground-breaking volume that not only offered an historical reconstruction of the cross-cultural roots of minority child development, but a new cultural-historical ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Bali to Baghdad and Beyond

    A Young Man's Story From the UN Front Lines

    by Rodney Cocks ...
    Bali to Baghdad and Beyond is a remarkable first-hand account of life at the UN front lines and in recent post-conflict hotspots. Rodney Cocks was a UN Military Observer in East Timor and a member of the de-mining team in Iraq following the fall of Saddam. He is currently a UN security adviser in the former Taliban and Al Qaeda stronghold of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Narrowly surviving two ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

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    by Frederick Forsyth ...
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  • The Dogs Are Eating Them Now

    Our War in Afghanistan

    by Graeme Smith ...
    For readers of War by Sebastian Junger, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch, and The Forever War by Dexter Filkins: The Dogs Are Eating Them Now is a raw, uncensored account of the war in Afghanistan from a brilliant young reporter who for several years was the only Western journalist brave enough to live full-time in the dangerous southern ... Read more

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  • Walking Free

    The extraordinary true story of a young man who fled war-torn Iraq, came to Australia as a refugee by boat, spent months in a detention centre and went on to become a pioneering surgeon.

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    Exclusion, Schooling and Inclusive Education

    by Roger Slee ...
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    by Keren S. Brathwaite, Carl E. James ...
    This book offers a critical assessment of the experiences of African Canadian students, exploring strategies that will serve to enhance their academic success.Writing from their respective locations as students, parents, teachers, counsellors, professors and researchers, the contributors to this collection alert readers to many of the challenges that African Canadians face in the educational ... Read more

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