安妮塔•伍尔福克 （Anita Woolfolk） 1972年获得得克萨斯州大学博士学位。作为一名教育心理学教授，她在高等教育领域的工作始于1973年任教罗格斯大学，此后20年她一直在该校工作，直到1994年调至俄亥俄州立大学。安妮塔的研究主要关注动机和认知，尤其是学生和教师的效能感以及教师对教育的信念。她与学生和同事合作出版的学术著作和发表的学术论文过百篇。她目前兼任《从理论到实践》（Theory Into Practice）的责任编委，该期刊致力于将最有用的科学研究成果传递给一线的教育工作者。安妮塔曾担任美国教育研究协会教学与教师教育分会副主席以及美国心理学会教育心理学分会主席。她最近的工作是与她的丈夫、俄亥俄州立大学教育管理学首席教授韦恩•霍伊（Wayne K. Hoy）一起进行《教学领导：基于研究的学校学习指南》（Instructional ...(展开全部)

In "Theorizing Myth", Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. He begins by showing that "mythos" yielded to "logos" not as part of a (mythic) "Greek miracle", but as part of struggles over political, linguistic, and epistemological authority occasioned by exp...(展开全部)

From the Backcover of the book: Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to TOronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine mu...(展开全部)

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years. 'Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between s...(展开全部)

From the Backcover of the book: Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to TOronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine mu...(展开全部)

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years. 'Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between s...(展开全部)

罗伯特• 斯莱文（Robert E. Slavin）是美国约翰• 霍普金斯大学教育研究与改革中心主任、英国约克大学有效教育研究中心主任以及“让所有人都成功”基金会主席。 他于1975 年在约翰• 霍普金斯大学获社会关系学博士学位，迄今撰写了200 余篇关于合作学习、能力分组、学校和班级组织、废除种族歧视、纳入主流、研究评论以及实证改革等方面的论文和书中章节。斯莱文博士的著作（包括与他人合著）多达20 部，包括《合作学习》《学校和班级组织》《针对高危学生的有效方案》《预防早期的学业失败》《200万儿童：让所有人都成功》《拉丁裔学生的有效项目》《问责制时代的教育研究》。 1985 年，斯莱文博士因应用项目研究而荣获了美国教育研究会（AERA）颁发的雷蒙德• 卡特尔早期职业奖；1988 年，他在美国教育研究会主办的学术期刊上获得了帕尔默• 约翰逊最佳论文奖...(展开全部)

With so much technical information about research methods it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture of why we carry out educational research and where and how research might contribute to the improvement of education. Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction steps you through the wider social and political contexts of educational research, focusing on fundamental q...(展开全部)

Left adrift in arctic waters with a gunshot wound to the head, adrift in arctic waters, Christy White was rescued from an icy death by a mysterious man. She craved retribution, and he taught her how to get it--how to make sense of her past and how to kill. They tried to freeze her out, but they should have finished the job, because now she's back with a vengeance! Collecting th...(展开全部)

Illustrating the effect of class relationships upon the institutionalizing of elaborate codes in the school, the papers in this volume each develop from the previous one and demonstrate the evolution of the concepts discussed.