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The Greenwood Dictionary Of Education (2nd Edition) [Review], Anne Jumonville Graf
The Greenwood Dictionary Of Education (2nd Edition) [Review], Anne Jumonville Graf
Anne Jumonville Graf
With 850 new or significantly revised terms in addition to previously published content, the second edition of the Greenwood Dictionary of Education brings the 2003 version up to date. New content includes selected coverage of terminology from the fields of neuroscience, educational assessment, and technology, as well as updated entries on evolving educational practices and theories. Unfortunately it’s difficult to determine the scope of the additions: as a traditionally-organized alphabetical work without an index, this work—as with most dictionaries—is most useful for known- item searches. The keyword search in the ebook version does search word definitions in addition to head …
Encyclopedia Of The Sciences Of Learning [Review], Anne Jumonville Graf
Encyclopedia Of The Sciences Of Learning [Review], Anne Jumonville Graf
Anne Jumonville Graf
The Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning is the first major reference work in the growing and highly visible field of learning sciences. It brings together definitional entries from scholars who represent the breath of this interdisciplinary area of study, teaching, and practice: biology, neuroscience, psychology, computer and information science, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, education, and a range of narrower technical and applied fields. Given the increasing amount of scholarly and popular attention to the dimensions and questions of human learning, it’s important to note that this encyclopedia devotes equal time to animal and machine learning as well; this is a …
Encyclopedia Of Contemporary American Social Issues [Review], Anne Jumonville Graf
Encyclopedia Of Contemporary American Social Issues [Review], Anne Jumonville Graf
Anne Jumonville Graf
Acknowledging that current information about social issues is often ingested in sound bites and snippets, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues seeks to bridge the gap between newsstand, newcomer, and expert knowledge. As stated in the preface, editor Michael Shally-Jensen and entry contributors encourage readers to “appreciate current issues for the complex matters that they are” and generally succeed in that regard. Most useful are the many entries that follow the encyclopedia’s guiding principle by tying in recent examples and news stories before getting into more theoretical discussions. All entries provide historical context for the topic at hand and …
Encyclopedia Of Drug Policy [Review], Anne Jumonville Graf
Encyclopedia Of Drug Policy [Review], Anne Jumonville Graf
Anne Jumonville Graf
The bumper crop of encyclopedias devoted to drugs, drug abuse, and drug policy published during the early 1990s has finally been brought up to date by the 2011 Encyclopedia of Drug Policy. With a time frame that focuses primarily on the 20th and 21st century United States and references events through 2010, this encyclopedia’s entries have been laid out in six general categories: “drugs, laws and policies, organizations and individuals, control strategies and their underlying theories, drugs in select countries, and drugs and other social problems.”
Anti-Immigration In The United States: A Historical Encyclopedia [Review], Anne Jumonville Graf
Anti-Immigration In The United States: A Historical Encyclopedia [Review], Anne Jumonville Graf
Anne Jumonville Graf
Consider Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia a newer, narrower, more explicitly academic take on a well-covered topic among reference resources. Since James Ciment’s seminal, four-volume Encyclopedia of American Immigration published in 2001, there has been a variety of encyclopedias published focusing on the United States and immigration. Most recently, 2010 brought another Encyclopedia of American Immigration (unrelated to the previously mentioned work of the same name) edited by Carl L. Bankston and intended for use by the general public and high school/college undergraduates.