World Studies introduces middle grade students to a region and then focuses on specific countries in each region to create a context for understanding state and local standards. Using standards-based content and research-proven reading instruction, World Studies expands students' understanding of each world region through a focus on its major countries. Considerate text design and narrative combine with enhanced reading strategies - such as Target Reading Skills and key terms defined in context - to make lessons accessible to students at all levels.
This book offers a lively introduction to the research methods and techniques available to English language teachers who wish to investigate aspects of their own practice. It covers qualitative and quantitative methodology and includes sections on observation, introspection, diary studies, experiments, interviews, questionnaires, numerical techniques, and case study research.
Social Studies is a core comprehensive program that takes students on a fascinating journey to explore the people, places, and events that have impacted history. This basal program combines rich content with colorful graphics and interactive, write-in text to highlight core concepts and provide a better understanding for students. Each unit is structured with powerful reading support tools - such as the lesson summary and unit review - to help reinforce the main ideas and accurately organize information.
Codes of Ethics in Tourism - Practice, Theory, Synthesis
With ethics fast becoming a mainstay in tourism studies and the tourism industry in general, this volume provides a timely and intensive look at the theory and practice of codes of ethics in tourism. While the book includes a broad overview of what has been done to date in tourism studies in the area of code development and implementation, it ranges much more widely to incorporate theoretical work from outside the tourism field in an effort to synthesise theory and practice.
Keyframes introduces the study of popular cinema of Hollywood and beyond and responds to the transformative effect of cultural studies on film studies.
