Stepping Stones to Achieving your Doctorate
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 Stepping Stones to Achieving your Doctorate: Focusing on Your Viva From the Start
Author: Vernon Trafford, Shosh Leshem
What the publisher says:
* What criteria are used to assess the scholarly merit of a thesis?
* What is the level of conceptualization that is expected in doctoral theses?
* How can you prepare to defend your thesis?
* What is the most effective route to achieving your doctorate?
The starting point to achieving your doctorate is to appreciate how your thesis will be examined. The criteria that examiners use, the questions they ask in vivas and their reports provide templates against which theses are judged. So, why not start from this endpoint as you plan, undertake, write and defend your research?
This book focuses specifically on how you, as a doctoral candidate, can raise your level of thinking about your chosen topic. Doing so will improve the quality of your research and ultimately contribute to knowledge. It also explores the nature of conceptualization which is sought by examiners in theses. As a candidate, the book provides those essential characteristics of doctorateness that examiners expect to find in your thesis.
The book will also appeal to supervisors, examiners and those who conduct workshops for doctoral candidates and supervisors.
This practical book includes extracts from theses, examiner reports and cameo accounts from doctoral examiners, supervisors and candidates. It also contains numerous visual models that explain relationships and processes for you to apply and use in your doctoral journey.
Based upon contemporary practice, Stepping Stones to Achieving your Doctorate is an essential tool for doctoral candidates, supervisors and examiners.
ISBN 13/10: 9780335225439 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: JULY 2008 | PUBLISHER: OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R515.00 (incl.)
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| Achieving Your Professional Doctorate |
 Achieving Your Professional Doctorate
Author: Nancy-Jane Lee
What the publisher says:
* What is the difference between a professional doctorate and a PhD?
* How would a professional doctorate help my career?
* When and where can I start?
If these are the questions you have been asking, then help is at hand. This comprehensive text is designed to meet the needs of professional doctorate students from diverse subject disciplines. It contains analysis of the issues that may be encountered when developing research in a professional practice setting as well as outlining the process of doctoral study for professionals. Practical activities and exercises are used throughout to help students plan the professional doctorate journey. Snippets from actual student experiences as well as case studies are used to illustrate the rewards and challenges of professional doctorate study.
The text also draws on the author's experience of leading a professional doctorate programme and supervising professional doctorate and PhD students. In particular, it explores:
* The origins and characteristics of professional doctorates
* Expectations of professional doctorate study
* Advanced study skills; managing time, good writing style, personal and professional development planning
* Balancing the roles of professional practitioner and researcher
* Leading research in professional practice
* The ethics of practitioner research
* Tips for successful writing and completion of studies
* Career options following completion of a professional doctorate
Achieving Your Professional Doctorate is key reading for professional doctorate students as well as PhD, DPhil, MRes and other master's students who may be considering current or future study options.
About the author:
Nancy-Jane Lee is Programme Leader for the professional doctorate, DProf (Health and Social Care), within the University of Salford, and is Associate Head of School (Research) for the School of Nursing. Her research interests relate to education and workforce development, postgraduate issues, the use of action learning and education evaluation.
Table of Contents
1 Appraising professional doctorates: What, who and why?
2 Developing a personal toolkit for professional doctorate study
3 The practitioner-researcher: Developing a critical and reflexive approach to professional practice
4 Making the most of research supervision
5 The professional toolkit: Leading research in professional practice
6 Values and beliefs about professional practice
7 Sharing your expertise with other professionals
8 Life after the professional doctorate
ISBN 13/10: 9780335227211 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: DEC 2008 | PUBLISHER: OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R515.00 (incl.)
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| Including Students with Severe and Multiple Disabilities in Typical Classrooms |
 Including Students with Severe and Multiple Disabilities in Typical Classrooms: Practical Strategies for Teachers, 3rd Revised edition
Author: June E. Downing
What the publisher says:
This supplemental text and professional resource offers teachers strategies for including students with sensory impairments and cognitive and physical disabilities in the classroom. Building on the success of the previous editions, this volume includes updated information on recent legislative changes and provides practical strategies for creating a successful inclusive classroom.This book includes: the latest research on all topics covered; changes in the law; the importance of learning opportunities in general education; objective and positive ways of writing present level of performance; information on transition from elementary school to middle school, middle school to high school, and high school to post-secondary education and work; new information on peers and collaboration; and, updated appendices.
About the author:
June E. Downing is a consultant on the education of students with severe and multiple disabilities, and former Professor, Department of Special Education, California State University, Northridge.
Table of Contents:
Educating Students with Diverse Strengths and Needs Together: Rationale for Inclusion; Instruction in the General Education Environment; First Steps: Determining Individual Abilities and General Guidelines to Support Students in Inclusive Settings; The Preschool Student; The Elementary School Student in K-5 Classes; The Middle School or Junior High Student; The High School Student in Various High School Classes; The Important Role of Peers in Inclusive Education; Working Cooperatively: The Role of Team Members; Are They Making Progress?: Assessing the Skills of Students with Severe and Multiple Disabilities in General Education Classrooms; Common Concerns and Some Responses.
ISBN 13/10: 9781557669087 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: DEC 2008 | PUBLISHER: BROOKES PUBLISHING CO | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R734.00 (incl.)
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| Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors |
 Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors: A Guide to Intervention and Classroom Management
Authors: Nancy Mather, Sam Goldstein
What the publisher says:
This is the ideal textbook for teaching pre-service educators and specialists to understand how specific developmental, behavior, and academic problems influence school success.The authors identify 10 building blocks important to learning success, divided into 3 levels: foundational, symbolic, and conceptual. Educators complete the questionnaire to identify a student's strengths and limitations. Corresponding chapters then provide educators with the research and information they need to understand the issues, cultivate the student's strengths, address weaker areas, and develop appropriate accommodations and instructional interventions. They get effective intervention strategies both to improve outcomes for individual students and to ensure successful classroom management.
This guide is also flexible enough to be used as a classroom resource; busy teachers can complete the questionnaire for individual students and then immediately turn to the appropriate chapters to get the information and strategies they need to help the student succeed.This new edition includes additional information about school environment and elementary grades, and emotional issues are examined separately from behavioral issues.
About the author:
Nancy Mather is Professor, Department of Special Education, Rehabilitation, and School Psychology, University of Arizona. Sam Goldstein is Faculty, Psychiatry Department, University of Utah School of Medicine, Staff, University Neuropsychiatric Institute, and a psychiatrist in private practice.
ISBN 13/10: 9781557669353 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: APRIL 2008 | PUBLISHER: PAUL H BROOKES PUBLISHING | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R915.00 (incl.)
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| Dr. Thompson's Straight Talk on Autism |
 Dr. Thompson's Straight Talk on Autism
Author: Travis Thompson
What the publisher says:
This new autism book for parents provides a unique voice and presents information in a smart and accessible manner. Unlike most autism books, Dr. Thompson's "Straight Talk on Autism" is authored by a professional who has extensive experience in the field.Jargon-free explanations are given for stereotypical behaviors in children with autism and helpful suggestions are made to help curb them, or at least make life more livable. The author provides activities, practical interventions, and techniques that parents can do at home with their child. This book is unique among many autism books on the market, as Thompson does not advocate a particular approach, such as pivotal response treatment or applied behavior analysis.Illustrations, case studies, and numerous examples help make this book easy to read for any - one.
About the author:
Travis Thompson is a licensed psychologist and Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota School of Medicine.
ISBN 13/10: 9781557669452 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: MARCH 2008 | PUBLISHER: BROOKES PUBLISHING CO | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R641.00 (incl.)
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| Peer Buddy Programs for Successful Secondary School Inclusion |
 Peer Buddy Programs for Successful Secondary School Inclusion
Author: Carolyn Hughes, Erik W. Carter
What the publisher says:
When secondary schools are committed to inclusion, everybody wins - schools make progress toward IDEA and NCLB requirements, and students with and without disabilities enjoy higher academic achievement and new friendships. A good peer buddy program can play an invaluable role in making inclusion happen, and this guidebook shows educators exactly why and how.Carolyn Hughes and Erik Carter, highly respected experts well-known for their work with peer buddy programs, give schools all the step-by-step guidance they need to get a program started and keep it going. Educators will discover how to: establish a peer buddy program and spark student interest; clarify the roles and responsibilities of everyone involved - teachers, counselors, administrators, parents, and students; create successful peer-buddy matches using students' strengths, needs, and common interests; develop smooth procedures for day-to-day program implementation; and, guide peer buddies in providing appropriate, effective academic support.
ISBN 13/10: 9781557669803 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: APRIL 2008 | PUBLISHER: BROOKES PUBLISHING CO | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R508.00 (incl.)
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| Seeing All Kids as Readers |
 Seeing All Kids as Readers
A New Vision for Literacy in the Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom
Author: Christopher Kliewer
What the publisher says:
This book discusses a social, dynamic model of literacy that is more desirable than a rigid definition of literacy. The author describes: 5 parameters of literacy for young children with significant disabilities: understanding that others have stories to tell; expressing meaning in one's own experience; communicating with symbols; interpreting others' symbols; deriving joy from engagement with printed language; the importance of local understanding to inclusion and how environments that support this understanding encourage the social model of literacy; and, the importance of literate citizenship - the idea that literacy makes one an active and proactive member of society. This book also discusses the 10 domains of the inclusive early childhood literate community, which foster imagination and an ability to abstract and relate concepts. The book highlights how inclusion of young children with significant disabilities promotes literacy development in children with and without disabilities. It examines how assessment and goal-setting can work within this model.
About the author:
Christopher Kliewer is Professor, Department of Special Education, University of Northern Iowa.
Table of Contents:
Local Understanding and Literate Participation in Early Childhood on Local Understanding; Citizenship in the Inclusive Early Childhood Literate Community; Cardboard Boxes, Rockets, and the Child's Literate Construction of Meaning; The Symbolic Presence, Narrative Construction, and Literacy Signs; Fostering The Literate Citizenship of Young Children with Significant Developmental Disabilities; Concluding Thoughts on the Literate Citizenship of Young Children with Significant Developmental Disabilities.
ISBN 13/10: 9781557669018 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: MARCH 2008 | PUBLISHER: BROOKES PUBLISHING CO | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R436.00 (incl.)
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| Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students |
 Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students
Authors: Karen R. Harris, Steve Graham, Linda Mason and Barbara Friedlander
What the publisher says:
Finally - highly effective, field-tested lesson plans for the students in every elementary and middle school classroom who struggle with writing. The practical how-to follow-up to Graham and Harris' popular "Writing Better", this book is just what K - 8 educators need to advance all students' writing skills, whether they have learning disabilities or just need extra help.
Teachers will get concise lesson plans they can use to easily supplement their existing writing curriculum. From 20-50 minutes each, the lessons: address types of writing that are key to academic success, such as writing reports and constructing essays for standardized tests; help with every phase of the writing process, from planning to revising; reinforce new skills through group and individual practice; ensure that improvements are sustained by teaching students critical self-regulation skills they can use independently; support effective instruction with step-by-step guidelines and optional scripts for teachers; engage students with mnemonic devices they'll immediately grasp and remember; and include fun photocopiable support materials, such as cue cards, picture prompts, sheets for graphing story parts, and charts for brainstorming and setting goals.Firmly grounded in the authors' Self-Regulated Strategy Development approach, which has been proven effective by 2 decades of research, these brief, powerful lessons will help transform struggling students into confident, skilled, and motivated writers.
ISBN 13/10: 9781557667052 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: OCT 2007 | PUBLISHER: BROOKES PUBLISHING CO | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R580.00 (incl.)
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| Podcasting for Learning in Universities |
 Podcasting for Learning in Universities
Authors: Gilly Salmon, Palitha Edirisingha
What the publisher says:
Pocasting for Learning in Universities details examples of research and practice in using podcasts in Higher Education settings, drawing from studies in the UK , Australia and South Africa . The book offers a practical transferable model and guidelines for integrating podcasts in higher education contexts. To purchase a copy or for more details, please visit http://www.openup.co.uk/podcastsforlearning
Chapters have information on topics such as podcasting technology, online learning, reflective learning and pedagogy.
There is also a dedicated author website - http://www.podcastingforlearning.com - with peer reviews, useful links and examples plus a 'Look Inside' feature allowing you to sample a section from each chapter.
And for lecturers looking for a brief "how to" guide to podcasting in an educational setting, there will also be short, practical guide taken from the main book.
About the author:
Prof Gilly Salmon is Professor of E-learning and Learning Technologies at the University of Leicester, National Teaching Fellow and Head of the Beyond Distance Research Alliance. She was principal investigator for the IMPALA project (www.impala.ac.uk). Dr Palitha Edirisingha is a Lecturer in E-learning, Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester, and was research leader for IMPALA.
Table of Contents
Doubling the life of iPods Podcasting in context Podcasting technology Podcasts and lectures Podcasts and practicals Podcasts and locations Podcasts and feedback Podcasts and online learning Podcasts and distance learning Podcasts and resources Podcasts and students' storytelling Podcasts and collaborative learning Podcasts for reflective learning Students' podcasts as learning tools Developing pedagogical podcast The future for podcasting The university in your pocket: iPod therefore I am Appendix: How to do podcasting -- An author's guide References Index.
ISBN 13/10: 9780335234295 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: AUG 2008 | PUBLISHER: OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS | DELIVERY TIME: 3-5 WEEKS | PRICE: R633.00 (incl.)
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| Dissertation Writing |
 Dissertation Writing: A Research Journey
Author: Cecile Badenhorst
What the publisher says:
A practical workbook on the process of writing research and the journey a dissertation researcher has to take. Underlying themes are scholarship, thinking and writing. Aimed at students completing Master's degrees, doctoral candidates and supervisors of research.
Table of Contents:
- Dissertation 'skills', genre and requirements
- Meta-cognitive skills
- Creativity and ideas
- Writing Process
- Problem/purpose statement and questions
- Qualitative vs quantitative
- Broad perspectives in research
- Proposal
- Arguments in a dissertation
- Thinking, writing, creating
- Literature Reviews
- Analytic Strategies
- Presenting data
- Ethics and integrity
- Criticism
- Dealing with ambiguity
- Findings/conclusions
- Coherence
- Revision
- Submitting for examination
ISBN 13/10: 9780627027697 | FORMAT: PAPERBACK | DATE: JUN 2008 | PUBLISHER: VAN SCHAIK PUBLISHERS | DELIVERY TIME: 1-2 WEEKS | PRICE: R249.95 (incl.)
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