New books Jan. 16, 2009

Title:	Living with intensity : understanding the sensitivity, excitability, and emotional development of gifted children, adolescents, and adults / Susan Daniels and Michael M. Piechowski, editors
Published:	Scottsdale, AZ : Great Potential Press, c2009

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Author:	Haybron, Daniel M
Title:	The pursuit of unhappiness : the elusive psychology of well-being / Daniel M. Haybron
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2008

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Author:	Freeman, Melissa
Title:	Researching children’s experiences / Melissa Freeman, Sandra Mathison
Published:	New York : Guilford Press, c2009

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Author:	Babbie, Earl R
Title:	The basics of social research / Earl Babbie
Published:	Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2008
Edition:	4th ed

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Title:	Handbook of data-based decision making in education / edited by Theodore J. Kowalski and Thomas J. Lasley II
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2009

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Author:	Nelson, Cynthia D
Title:	Sexual identities in English language education : classroom conversations / Cynthia D. Nelson
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2009

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Author:	Stelljes, Andrew D., 1975-
Title:	Service-learning and community engagement : cognitive developmental long-term social concern / Andrew Stelljes
Published:	Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2008

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Author:	Stelljes, Andrew D., 1975-
Title:	Service-learning and community engagement : cognitive developmental long-term social concern / Andrew Stelljes
Published:	Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2008

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Author:	Gause, C. P
Title:	Integration matters : navigating identity, culture, and resistance / C. P. Gause
Published:	New York : Peter Lang, 2008

September 29 New Books

Author:	Bloch, Thomas M
Title:	Stand for the best : what I learned after leaving my job as CEO of H&R Block to become a teacher and founder of an inner-city charter school / Thomas M. Bloch
Published:	San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2008
Edition:	1st ed

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Author:	Kitching, G. N
Title:	The trouble with theory : the educational costs of postmodernism / Gavin Kitching
Published:	University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008

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Author:	Alstete, Jeffrey W
Title:	College accreditation : managing internal revitalization and public respect / Jeffrey W. Alstete
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Edition:	1st ed

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Title: New research on early childhood education / Arthur T. Waddell and Rachel M. McBride, editors Published: New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008

LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
Langson Library	LB1139.225 .N49 2008	IN PROCESS

Description:	xiii, 199 p. : ill. ; 27 cm
Subject – LCSH:	Early childhood education — Research — United States
Other author:	Waddell, Arthur T
	McBride, Rachel M
Note(s):	Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:	Evidence-based practices in early child education / Michael A. Rettig — Home literacy environments of young Indian children from middle- and low socioeconomic backgrounds / Vrinda Kalia and Shaher Banu Vagh — Investing in early learners on the front end: countering the at-risk factor through the arts / Donna Gwyn Wiggins -

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Author:	Sutherland-Addy, Esi
Title:	Gender equity in junior and senior secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa / Esi Sutherland-Addy
Published:	Washington, D.C. : World Bank, Africa Region Human Development Dept., 2008

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Author:	Alderson, Priscilla
Title:	Young children’s rights : exploring beliefs, principles and practice / Priscilla Alderson ; foreword by Mary John
Published:	London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008
Edition:	2nd ed

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Author:	Sohn, Dongyoung
Title:	Social network structures and the Internet : collective dynamics in virtual communities / Dongyoung Sohn
Published:	Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2008

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Author:	Carilli, Theresa
Title:	Scripting identity : writing cultural experience / Theresa Carilli
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, c2008

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Author:	Smoryn´ski, Craig
Title:	History of mathematics : a supplement / Craig Smoryn´ski
Published:	New York : Springer, c2008

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Title:	Reform, inclusion, and teacher education : towards a new era of special education in the Asia-Pacific region / edited by Chris Forlin and Ming-Gon John Lian
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2008

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Title:	Education and social inequality in the global culture / Joseph Zajda, Karen Biraimah, William Gaudelli, editors
Published:	[New York] : Springer, c2008

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Author:	Baer, Frances Lisa, 1968-
Title:	Resistance to public school desegregation : Little Rock, Arkansas, and beyond / Frances Lisa Baer
Published:	New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2008

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Author:	Brown, Gavin T. L
Title:	Conceptions of assessment : understanding what assessment means to teachers and students / Gavin T. L. Brown
Published:	New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008

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Title:	School psychology : 21st century issues and challenges / David H. Molina, editor
Published:	New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008

Comments: This work contains previously unpublished articles by several authors.

Title:	Classroom culture and dynamics / Earl P. Velliotis, editor
Published:	New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2008

Comments: This work contains previously unpublished articles by several authors.

April 3, New books

Title:	Small tech : the culture of digital tools / Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo, editors
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

Title:	Brain Korea 21 phase II : a new evaluation model / Somi Seong, … [et al.]
Published:	Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2008

Title:	Teaching for intelligence / edited by Barbara Z. Presseisen
Published:	Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, c2008
Edition:	2nd ed

Title:	The teacher’s role in implementing cooperative learning in the classroom / R. M. Gillies, A.F. Ashman, J. Terwel, editors
Published:	New York ; London : Springer, 2008

Title:	Educational research : networks and technologies / edited by Paul Smeyers and Marc Depaepe
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer, c2007

Author:	Coley, Soraya M. (Soraya Moore)
Title:	Proposal writing : effective grantsmanship / Soraya M. Coley, Cynthia A. Scheinberg
Published:	Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, c2008
Edition:	3rd ed

Conference:	European Cognitive Science Conference (2nd : 2007 : Delphi, Greece)
Title:	Proceedings of EuroCogSci07 : the European Cognitive Science Conference 2007, European Cultural Center of Delphi, Delphi/Greece, May 23-27, 2007 / edited by Stella Vosniadou, Daniel Kayser & Athanassios Protopapas
Published:	Hove : lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007

Feb. 13, 2008 new books shelf

Author:	Goldblatt, Eli
Title:	Because we live here : sponsoring literacy beyond the college curriculum / Eli Goldblatt
Published:	Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, c2007

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Author:	Galal, Ahmed, 1948-
Title:	The road not traveled : education reform in the Middle East and North Africa / [Ahmed Galal, principal author]
Published:	Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2008

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Title:	Ideas that work in college teaching / edited by Robert L. Badger
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008

Comments: Contains useful information, though I find myself more fond of McKeachie’s Teaching Tips.

Title:	Using qualitative methods in institutional assessment / Shaun R. Harper, Samuel D. Museus, editors
Published:	San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2007

Comments: This one is part of the series called New Directions for Institutional Research.

Title:	Researching the margins : strategies for ethical and rigorous research with marginalised communities / edited by Marian Pitts and Anthony Smith
Published:	Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Author:	Wellington, J. J. (Jerry J.)
Title:	Research methods for the social sciences / Jerry Wellington and Marcin Szczerbinski
Published:	London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, c2007

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Title:	The role of the library in the first college year / Larry L. Hardesty, editor
Published:	Columbia, SC : National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, 2007

Comments: This is something to consider in the landscape of education. To what extent does the library play a role in the FYE?

Title:	Making teaching and learning visible : course portfolios and the peer review of teaching / Daniel Bernstein … [et al.]
Published:	Bolton, Mass. : Anker Pub. Co., c2006

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Author:	Foster, Lisa K
Title:	Preparing youth to participate in state policy making / by Lisa K. Foster
Other title:	Open access resource; selected by the UC Libraries. CalDocs online monographs
Published:	Sacramento, CA : California State Library, California Research Bureau, [2007]

Comments: Hm. Can you see the new state standards on the horizon? Take a look at this document. You can just bet something will come of it.

Author:	Mansfield, Richard, 1945-
Title:	How to do everything with Second life / Richard Mansfield
Title:	Second life
Published:	New York : Mcgraw-Hill, c2008

Comments: While not strictly about education, this is a potential how-to book for educational instruction in virtual reality. Of course, you would have to use this in conjunction with other material, but it’s a start.

Title:	Handbook on communicating and disseminating behavioral science / [edited by] Melissa K. Welch-Ross, Lauren G. Fasig
Published:	Los Angeles : Sage Publications, c2007

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Title:	How I learned English : 55 accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life / edited by Tom Miller ; [foreword by Ray Suarez ; afterword by Frank McCourt]
Title:	Subtitle on spine: Fifty-five accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life
Published:	Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2007

Comments: Not strictly a research book, but these individual stories are nonetheless instructive.

Title:	Handbook of race, racism, and the developing child / edited by Stephen M. Quintana, Clark McKown
Published:	Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008

Comments: Like many handbooks, the introductory material and references will be of great value.

Title:	Audience response systems in higher education : applications and cases / [edited by] David A. Banks
Published:	Hershey, PA : Information Science Pub., c2006

Comments: A pedagogical approach in higher education that may make it into K-12, too.

uthor:	Creemers, Bert P. M
Title:	The dynamics of educational effectiveness : a contribution to policy, practice and theory in contemporary schools / Bert P.M. Creemers and Leonidas Kyriakides
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2008

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Title:	From arrival to incorporation : migrants to the U.S. in a global era / edited by Elliott R. Barkan, Hasia Diner, and Alan M. Kraut
Published:	New York : New York University Press, c2008

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Title:	Best practices in quantitative methods / edited by Jason W. Osborne
Published:	Los Angeles : Sage Publications, c2008

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Author:	Tochluk, Shelly, 1971-
Title:	Witnessing whiteness : first steps toward an antiracist practice and culture / Shelly Tochluk
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008

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Title:	Exemplary science in informal education settings : standards-based success stories / edited by Robert Yager and John Falk
Published:	Arlington, Va. : NSTA Press, c2008

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Author:	Norwich, Brahm
Title:	Dilemmas of difference, inclusion and disability : international perspectives and future directions / Brahm Norwich
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2008

Comments: A rare multinational look at the subject.

Author:	Holton, R. J
Title:	Global networks / Robert J. Holton
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2008

Comments: Perhaps a different methodological look than has been employed in education. Is it now time to use it?

Author:	Nash, June C., 1927-
Title:	Practicing ethnography in a globalizing world : an anthropological odyssey / June C. Nash
Published:	Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2007

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Conference:	International Conference on Telephone Survey Methodology (2nd : 2006 : Miami, Florida)
Title:	Advances in telephone survey methodology / James M. Lepkowski … [et al.]
Published:	Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Interscience, c2008

Comments: Not a common approach to educational research, but you might find it useful.

Feb. 6 New Books

Title:	Heritage language education : a new field emerging / edited by Donna M. Brinton, Olga Kagan, and Susan Bauckus
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2008

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Author:	Sipe, Lawrence R
Title:	Storytime : young children’s literary understanding in the classroom / Lawrence R. Sipe ; foreword by P. David Pearson
Published:	New York : Teachers College Press, c2008

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Title:	Developing and sustaining a research-supportive curriculum : a compendium of successful practices / editors, Kerry K. Karukstis, Timothy E. Elgren
Published:	Washington, DC : Council on Undergraduate Research, c2007

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Title:	International studies in educational inequality, theory and policy / edited by Richard Teese, Stephen Lamb, Marie Duru-Bellat ; with the assistance of Sue Helme
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer, c2007

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Author:	Armstrong, Penny Ann, 1951-
Title:	What teachers expect in reform : making their voices heard / Penny Ann Armstrong
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008

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Author:	Rodriguez, Armando, 1921-
Title:	From the barrio to Washington : an educator’s journey / by Armando Rodriguez as told to Keith Taylor
Published:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2007

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Title:	Psychology and race / edited by Peter Watson
Published:	New Brunswick, NJ : Aldine Transaction, [2007]
Edition:	[Rev. ed.]

Comments: This is a revised edition of a book published in 1973/74.

Author:	Owusu-Bempah, Kwame
Title:	Children and separation : socio-genealogical connectedness perspective / Kwame Owusu-Bempah
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2007

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Author:	Folbre, Nancy
Title:	Valuing children : rethinking the economics of the family / Nancy Folbre
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008

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Title:	Focus on adolescent behavior research / Terry C. Rhodes, editor
Published:	New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2007

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Jan. 22 new books shelf

Title:	Human behavior, learning, and the developing brain. Atypical development / edited by Donna Coch, Geraldine Dawson, Kurt W. Fischer
Published:	New York : Guilford Press, 2007

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Title:	Technology and teaching / Jeff Sigafoos and Vanessa A. Green, editors
Published:	New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2007

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Author:	Holmes, Madelyn, 1945-
Title:	Students and teachers of the new China : thirteen interviews / Madelyn Holmes
Published:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2008

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Author:	Garstenauer, Therese
Title:	Teaching subjects in between : feminist politics, disciplines, generations / Therese Garstenauer (coordinator) … [et al.]
Published:	York, England : Raw Nerve Books, 2006

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Author:	Popkewitz, Thomas S
Title:	Cosmopolitanism and the age of school reform : science, education, and making society by making the child / Thomas S. Popkewitz
Published:	New York : Routledge, c2008

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Author:	Dalton-Puffer, Christiane, 1961-
Title:	Discourse in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classrooms / Christiane Dalton-Puffer
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2007

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Author:	Bang, Jørgen Chr. (Jørgen Christian), 1946-
Title:	Language, ecology, and society : a dialectical approach / Jorgen Christian Bang and Jorgen Door ; edited by Sune Vork Steffensen and Joshua Nash
Published:	London ; New York : Continuum, c2007

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Author:	Preston, John, 1967-
Title:	Whiteness and class in education / by John Preston
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer, 2007

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Title:	Effective instruction for struggling readers, K-6 / Barbara M. Taylor, James E. Ysseldyke, editors
Published:	New York : Teachers College Press, c2007

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Title:	History teaching, identities and citizenship / edited by Luigi Cajani [and Alistair Ross]
Published:	Stoke on Trent, UK ; Sterling, VA : Trentham, 2007

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Author:	Ohler, Jason
Title:	Digital storytelling in the classroom : new media pathways to literacy, learning, and creativity / Jason Ohler ; foreword by David Thornburg
Published:	Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, c2008

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Author:	Hoffman, Marvin, 1939-
Title:	“You won’t remember me” : the schoolboys of Barbiana speak to today / Marvin Hoffman
Other title:	Lettera a una professoressa. English. Selections
Published:	New York : Teachers College, Columbia University, c2007

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Title:	Diversities in early childhood education : rethinking and doing / edited by Celia Genishi and A. Lin Goodwin
Published:	New York : Routledge, c2008

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Author:	Jennings, David, 1965-
Title:	Net, blogs and rock ‘n’ roll : how digital discovery works and what it means for consumers, creators and culture / David Jennings
Other title:	Net, blogs and rock and roll
Published:	London ; Boston : Nicholas Brealey Pub., 2007

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Title:	Interrupting heteronormativity / [Mary Queen, Kathleen Farrell, and Nisha Gupta, editors]
Other title:	Interrupting heteronormativity ; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pedagogy and responsible teaching at Syracuse University
	Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pedagogy and responsible teaching at Syracuse University
Published:	Syracuse, N.Y. : Graduate School of Syracuse University, c2005

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Author:	Manna, Paul
Title:	School’s in : federalism and the national education agenda / Paul Manna
Other title:	School is in
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006

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Title:	International community psychology : history and theories / editied by Stephanie M. Reich … [et al.]
Published:	New York ; London : Springer, c2007

Comments: Note that the editor listed first is UC Irvine’s Stephanie M. Reich.

Dec. 21 new books

Author:	Gargano, Elizabeth
Title:	Reading Victorian schoolrooms : childhood and education in nineteenth-century fiction / Elizabeth Gargano
Published:	New York : Routledge, c2008

Dana Peterman comments: A neat way to place concepts of childhood and education in historical context. Though this is about fictional representations in the 19th century, there is much be gained from examining these impressions of the era.

uthor:	Meier, Terri
Title:	Black communications and learning to read : building on children’s linguistic and cultural strengths / Terri Meier
Published:	New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2008

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Title:	Music education and digital technology / edited by John Finney and Pamela Burnard
Published:	New York : Continuum, 2007

Dana Peterman comments: This has a more international perspective. What caught my eye in this book was a chapter on cell phones and others on collaboration in an online environment.

Author:	Gunzelmann, Betsy, 1952-
Title:	Hidden dangers : subtle signs of failing schools / Betsy Gunzelmann
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008

Dana Peterman comments: More of a prescriptive essay with references. The author has written more evaluative articles than research ones in the field of education. Her background is as a practitioner (though not a recent one) which gives weight to her stance.

Title:	Future of the American public research university / edited by Robert [i.e. Roger] L. Geiger, Carol L. Colbeck, Roger L. Williams, and Christian K. Anderson
Published:	Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: The chapters in this book resulted from a symposium held at Pennsylvania State University. A couple of the editors have written in this area, Geiger has done so extensively. The authors have prominent positions in higher education organizations and are well placed to make some thoughtful commentary on the future of research universities.

Author:	Konstam, Varda
Title:	Emerging and young adulthood : multiple perspectives, diverse narratives / Varda Konstam
Published:	New York, NY : Springer, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: This covers the development of “emerging adults” in their 20s and beyond. Konstam does not try to make over generalizations about the people whom she has interviewed, but you can get a nice snapshot of impressions from this book. I think that this would be good reading for those teaching in higher education, graduate students who want to see a little of themselves represented in research literature, and for those interested in a more academic and clinical look at this age group.

Author:	Jha, Jyotsna
Title:	Boys’ underachievement in education : an exploration in selected Commonwealth countries / by Jyotsna Jha and Fatimah Kelleher
Published:	London : Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth of Learning, 2006

Dana Peterman comments: International case studies. If only for the scope of the work, this is worthy of some attention.

Title:	Working partnerships in higher education, industry and innovation : creating knowledge networks / edited by Glenda Kruss
Published:	Cape Town : HSRC, 2006

Dana Peterman comments: Partnerships between industry and higher education have been in vogue for a while. This research monograph from South Africa’s Human Science’s Research Council contains case studies that might be of interest to some in the United States interested in similar programs.

Title:	Emotions in learning / edited by Francisco Pons … [et al.]
Published:	[Aalborg, Denmark] : Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 2005

Dana Peterman comments: We already know that emotions have a powerful impact on learning, this international perspective gives some research based ideas to understand how one might leverage that knowledge. While this isn’t a “how to” book, it does suggest some ideas that might be put to the test.

Author:	Dillman, Don A., 1941-
Title:	Mail and internet surveys : the tailored design method / Don A. Dillman
Published:	Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2007
Edition:	2nd ed., 2007 update with new internet, visual, and mixed-mode guide

Dana Peterman comments: An updated version for researchers who will increasingly rely on this method. This is a “must consult” book before beginning a venture of this type. Not something to take out of the library so much as a reference book.

Author:	Semrud-Clikeman, Margaret
Title:	Social competence in children / Margaret Semrud-Clikeman
Published:	New York, NY : Springer, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: A casebook method is used to describe social competence. Written by an author with significant amounts of research experience. Look at it.

Title:	Neoliberalism and education reform / edited by E. Wayne Ross, Rich Gibson
Published:	Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: This book combines theory, politics, research and history in a discussion of education and contains chapters by a UCI author as well. Other authors in this book are fairly well known. You should be familiar with at least some of this work.

Author:	Evans, Ronald W
Title:	This happened in America : Harold Rugg and the censure of social studies / by Ronald W. Evans
Published:	Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., c2007

Dana Peterman comments: Historical pleasure reading for educators. You might view this as a cautionary tale, you might not.

Title:	How stakeholders can support teacher quality / edited by Lewis C. Solmon, Kimberly Firetag Agam, Citadelle Priagula
Published:	Charlotte, N.C. : IAP, c2007

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Title:	Cross-cultural studies in curriculum : eastern thought, educational insights / edited by Claudia Eppert, Hongyu Wang
Published:	New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2008

Dana Peterman comments: I don’t often see this kind of book. This has an unusual set of thought provoking essays on education from an Eastern point of view.

Dec. 20 New books shelf

Title:	Intuition in judgment and decision making / edited by Henning Plessner, Cornelia Betsch, Tilmann Betsch
Published:	New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2008

Dana Peterman comments: This is based on a 2004 conference. Take a look at chapter 6, On the Learning of Intuition by Robin M. Hogarth, chapter 12, From Intuition to Analysis: Making Decisions with Your Head, Your Heart, or by the Book by Weber and Lindemann, and chapter 15, The Benefits of Intuition by Plessner and Czenna among others. Some of these concepts are quite intriguing and I find myself wondering what educators could make of them.

Author:	Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943-
Title:	Rethinking expertise / Harry Collins and Robert Evans
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007

Dana Peterman comments: So, how do the concepts treated in this book lend themselves to teaching others about science and how to think about science? Take a quick look at the last chapter and see what you might think of.

Title:	Language in the media : representations, identities, ideologies / edited by Sally Johnson and Astrid Ensslin
Published:	London ; New York : Continuum, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: In particular, for those interested in language, cultural, and technical issues, see Part III, called Contact and Codeswitching in Multilingual Mediascapes and especially Part IV, called Youth, Gender and Cyber-Identities. This is a bit theoretical in parts, but it does give rise to questions educators must address concretely at some point.

Author:	McGahan, Christopher
Title:	Racing cyberculture : minoritarian art and cultural politics on the Internet / Christopher L. McGahan
Published:	New York : Routledge, c2008

Dana Peterman comments: I thought that this book might be of interest because it addresses racial issues in ways which are seldom addressed in K-12 or higher education, through a particular medium of a medium (this comment will make a lot more sense if you look at the book).

Nov. 19 new books shelf

Author:	McCaffrey, Daniel F
Title:	Value-added assessment in practice : lessons from the Pennsylvania Value-Added Assessment System pilot project / Daniel F. McCaffrey, Laura S. Hamilton
Published:	Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: This Rand report should be useful for those who would like to take a look at how quantitative data may be analyzed in education. Rand is fairly well known for its reports in education, as well as other fields.

Title:	Reading comprehension strategies : theories, interventions, and technologies / edited by Danielle S. McNamara
Published:	New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: A useful text for those introducing themselves to this topic. The references to each chapter will be of particular value.

Author:	Howe, Neil
Title:	Millennials go to college : strategies for a new generation on campus : recruiting and admissions, campus life, and the classroom / by Neil Howe & William Strauss
Published:	[Great Falls, Va.] : LifeCourse Associates, c2007
Edition:	2nd. ed

Dana Peterman comments: This contains the kind of information, whether you agree with the methods used to collect it or not, that students of higher education might like to see. Taken together with more usual surveys like those produced by HERI (Higher Education Research Institute), you might find an interesting portrait of today’s students upon which to comment.

Title:	Cognitive development : critical concepts in psychology / edited by Usha Goswami
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2007

Dana Peterman comments: This 3 volume set is more of a handbook. Another useful entry into the research on the topic.

Title:	No Child Left Behind and the reduction of the achievement gap : sociological perspectives on federal educational policy / edited by Alan R. Sadovnik … [et al.]
Published:	New York : Routledge, c2008

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Title:	No remedy left behind : lessons from a half-decade of NCLB / edited by Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn Jr
Published:	Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007

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Title:	Charter school outcomes / edited by Mark Berends, Matthew G. Springer, Herbert J. Walberg ; Ann Primus, managing editor
Published:	New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2008

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Author:	Harwood, Paul G
Title:	Educating the first digital generation / Paul G. Harwood and Victor Asal
Published:	Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007

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Title:	Comparative education : the dialectic of the global and the local / [edited by] Robert F. Arnove and Carlos Alberto Torres
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007
Edition:	3rd ed

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Title:	Children’s needs III : development, prevention, and intervention / edited by George G. Bear, Kathleen M. Minke
Published:	Bethesda, Md. : National Association of School Psychologists, c2006

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Title:	Applied regression analysis and other multivariable methods / David G. Kleinbaum … [et al.]
Published:	Belmont, Calif. : Thomson Brooks/Cole Publishing, c2008
Edition:	4th ed

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Title:	The scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education : an evidence-based perspective / Raymond P. Perry, John C. Smart, editors
Published:	Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2007

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Title:	Careers of university graduates : views and experiences in comparative perspectives / Ulrich Teichler (ed.)
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer, c2007

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Nov. 14 new books shelf

Title:	Practice in a second language : perspectives from applied linguistics and cognitive psychology / edited by Robert M. DeKeyser
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007

Dana Peterman comments: Useful for second language researchers, teachers of second languages, and for those trying to understand LLP. Take as look at how language acquisition plays itself out in the classroom in addition to other venues. This is somewhat interdisciplinary book, but it is based in cognitive psychology, as the title would imply.

Author:	British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting (38th : 2005 : University of Bristol)
Title:	Language, culture and identity in applied linguistics : selected papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, University of Bristol, September 2005 / edited by Richard Kiely … [et al.]
Published:	London ; Oakville, CT : British Association for Applied Linguistics in association with Equinox, 2006

Dana Peterman comments: A couple of the faculty at UCI will find some of these chapters, original papers presented at a conference for applied linguistics, of interest, especially those related to identity formation.

Title:	Teaching Chinese, Japanese, and Korean heritage language students : curriculum needs, materials, and assessment / edited by Kimmi [i.e. Kimi] Kondo-Brown, James Dean Brown
Published:	New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2008

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Title:	International perspectives on teaching excellence in higher education : improving knowledge and practice / edited by Alan Skelton
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, c2007

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Author:	Webster, Leonard, 1953-
Title:	Using narrative inquiry as a research method : an introduction to using critical event narrative analysis in research on learning and teaching / Leonard Webster and Patricie Mertova
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2007

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Title:	Spirituality, ethnography, & teaching : stories from within / edited by Will Ashton & Diana Denton
Published:	New York : Peter Lang, c2006

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Title:	Intercultural spaces : language, culture, identity / edited by Aileen Pearson-Evans and Angela Leahy
Published:	New York : P. Lang, c2007

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Author:	Shanahan, Daniel
Title:	Language, feeling, and the brain : the evocative vector / Dan Shanahan
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2007

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Author:	Neff, Joyce Magnotto, 1944-
Title:	Writing across distances & disciplines : research and pedagogy in distributed learning / Joyce Magnotto Neff, Carl Whithaus
Published:	New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2008

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Author:	Conchas, Gilberto Q
Title:	Small schools and urban youth : using the power of school culture to engage students / Gilberto Q. Conchas, Louie F. Rodriguez ; foreword by Hugh “Bud” Mehan
Published:	Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, c2008

Dana Peterman comments: This author is a faculty member at UCI in the Department of Education.

Title:	Multimedia histories : from the magic lantern to the internet / edited by James Lyons and John Plunkett
Published:	Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2007

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Author:	Alexander, Robin J
Title:	Culture and pedagogy : international comparisons in primary education / Robin Alexander
Published:	Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001

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Author:	Kelley, Paul
Title:	Making minds : what’s wrong with education, and what should we do about it? / Paul Kelley
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2008

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Schedule Nov. 20-23

Nov. 20

8:30-10am – Meeting of bibliographers at the Science Library

1-2pm – Research consultation at Langson Library Room 144

2-3pm – Reference desk at Langson Library

3:45-5:15pm – UC live reference online Live chat reference.

Nov. 21

8:30-10am – Meeting of Langson Library Reference Department

12-1pm – Dept. of Education Symposium at 1111 Berkeley Place

2-3pm – Reference desk at Langson Library

Nov. 22-23

Thanksgiving holiday

Getting more from a series

Sometimes a title doesn’t say a whole lot when you find it in a library catalog. You can’t tell what’s in an issue or what a piece of literature is really about until you see it . . . but do you really have to physically handle a magazine/journal/periodical/serial?

In case you didn’t already know, there are many series that have individual titles and themes. Typically, there are called monographic series. In a number of library catalogs, including our own Antpac, we only list the title of the series and NOT the title of each issue. One case in point that would be of interest to those studying higher education is the recent release of New Directions for Higher Education’s issue number 138 (aka Summer 2007) titled Access to Higher Education Through Consortia. There are other monographic series of similar types that might be of interest to you. Unfortunately, the best way to locate thematic issues is by searching databases that index them.

Use:

ERIC

Education Full Text

and others.

Once you have found an article of great interest online . . .

Look (or browse) at the other articles in the same issue of that series/journal to trace a potential theme.

So . . .

Be sure to check if that journal, series, and other periodically issued publication has related information.

Schedule Nov. 9 – 19

Nov. 9

11am – 12pm – Reference Desk at Langson Library

Nov. 12 – HOLIDAY

Nov. 13

10-11am – Conference call on Research Methods resources for librarians group for American Library Association’s Education and Behavior Sciences Section (EBSS)

12-1pm – In service education on writing letters in support of librarian career advancement.

1-2:30pm – Individual reference consultation.

2:45- 4:15pm – UC live reference online

Nov. 14

8:30-10am – Langson Library Reference Dept. meeting

10am-12pm – I am teaching a course on RefWorks at Langson Library. Sign up here.

12-1pm – Department of Education Symposium (primary contact with current dept. ongoings)

3-5pm – Ask a Librarian email reference

Nov. 15

Meeting at UC Merced ALL day as member of Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) – not available

Nov. 16

Meeting at UC Merced ALL day as member of Librarians Association of the University of California (LAUC) – not available

Nov. 19

8am-12 pm – Out for later night time shift.

2-30pm – Conference call on design of help for new OCLC Melvyl project.

4:45-9pm – Ask a Librarian email reference

Nov. 8 new books shelf

Title:	The role of technology in CSCL : studies in technology enhanced collaborative learning / H. Ulrich Hoppe, H. Ogata, A. Soller (editors)
Published:	New York : Springer, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: Based on an international workshop on New Technologies for Collaborative Learning in Japan, this has the kind of content that is sometimes difficult to find from looking at databases, such as ERIC and Education Full Text.

Title:	Education and reform in China / edited by Emily Hannum and Albert Park
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2007

Dana Peterman comments: Useful for a historical and political background of education in China. Less detail than you might want about this topic over a long term research project.

Author:	Berry, Amanda
Title:	Tensions in teaching about teaching : understanding practice as a teacher educator / by Amanda Berry
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: Some of you have indicated an interest in studying teachers and teacher education. This book spells out some methodologies you might employ. Of particular interest is the chapter on valuing and reconstructing experience.

Title:	Youth violence and delinquency : monsters and myths / edited by Marilyn D. McShane and Frank P. Williams III
Published:	Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007

Dana Peterman comments: This three volume set contains useful background information and references. This is where you might start to explore the issue of development and violence among juveniles. Each volume stands on its own, meaning that books are thematic and that the indexes refer only to the volume in hand (a bit of a weakness in my view for a reference book).

Author:	Klass, Ric
Title:	Man overboard : confessions of a novice math teacher in the Bronx / Ric Klass
Published:	Santa Ana, Calif. : Seven Locks Press, c2006

Dana Peterman comments: This is one fun read. This book has been reviewed by The New York Sun and TeachersCount.org.

11th Annual Road to Teaching Conference

When:  Saturday, November 17th, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Where: Santa Ana College. Directions from UC Irvine Library

What: Workshops and keynote speakers

Register here

This is an event that is cosponsored by UCI (I saw it posted on a bulletin board posted in the Department of Education).

Background on Nov. 14 Speaker, Jonathan Alexandar at Education Symposium

As you know,  Jonathan Alexandar, UC Irvine Campus Writing Coordinator, will be speaking from 12 to 12:50pm at the Education Symposium on Wednesday, November 14 in Berkeley Place, room 1111. To give you a little background on this speaker, I thought that I would include titles from his work that I could locate using standard databases in addition to the profile that he has listed under the Faculty Profile System.

Nov. 5 new books shelf

Title:	Disparities in school readiness : how families contribute to transitions into school / edited by Alan Booth, Ann C. Crouter
Published:	New York : Lawrence Erlbaum, c2008

Dana Peterman comments: Interdisciplinary and based on a number of data, including that from NICHD and NCES (note that Dr. Mahoney has a coauthored paper in chapter 13).

Title:	What is authentic educational reform? : pushing against the compassionate conservative agenda / edited by Helen L. Johnson, Arthur Salz
Published:	New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2008

Dana Peterman comments: Critiques NCLB. A number of the contributers come from Queens College. Looks at policies and practices, teaching and learning, and contains prescriptives for action.

Author:	Robinson, Keith D
Title:	Achievement inequality across K-12 schooling / Keith D. Robinson
Published:	2006

Dana Peterman comments: Dissertation from the University of Michigan with an emphasis on reading and math across K-12. Quantitative in nature. Focuses on disparities between African American and white students.

Author:	Stevens, Mitchell L
Title:	Creating a class : college admissions and the education of elites / Mitchell L. Stevens
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007

Dana Peterman comments: An easy read of material that I found engaging for the most part. The end notes are fairly informative for those looking for further reading.

Author:	Greenberg, Daniel S., 1931-
Title:	Science for sale : the perils, rewards, and delusions of campus capitalism / Daniel S. Greenberg
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007

Dana Peterman comments: Greenberg has written quite a bit in the field of education. He makes some interesting points that you might find of great interest. You might be interested in some books by Roger L. Geiger and Hugh Davis Graham in addition to this one.

Title:	To educate a nation : federal and national strategies of school reform / edited by Carl F. Kaestle and Alyssa E. Lodewick ; foreword by Jeffrey R. Henig
Published:	Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: This is edited by Carl F. Kasestle, who wrote a wonderful book contextualizing the meaning of literacy in the United States, and contains a foreword by Jeffrey R. Henig, who writes on reform and policy. A potentially good bet for those interested in K-12 policy in education at the national level.

Background Information on Speaker Matthew R. Peterson

Yesterday (October 31, 2007) , Matthew R. Peterson from Santa Ana’s MIND Institute gave a talk at UCI’s Department of Education Symposium on a program designed to help children in K-5 learn mathematics visually. To give a little background of his research, I conducted searches of ERIC, PsycINFO and Dissertations & theses: A & I , and Web of Science. Here is a list of the published research that I located that can clearly be traced to him. If you know of others that I have missed, please let me know:

Li, B. W., Peterson, M. R., & Freeman, R. D. (2003). Oblique effect: A neural basis in the visual cortex. Journal of neurophysiology, 90(1), 204-217.

Li, B. W., Peterson, M. R., Thompson, J. K., Duong, T., & Freeman, R. D. (2005). Cross-orientation suppression: Monoptic and dichoptic mechanisms are different. Journal of neurophysiology, 94(2), 1645-1650.

Li, B., Thompson, J. K., Duong, T., Peterson, M. R., & Freeman, R. D. (2006). Origins of cross-orientation suppression in the visual cortex. Journal of neurophysiology, 96(4), 1755-1764.

Peterson, M. R., Balzarini, D., Bodner, M., Jones, E. G., Phillips, T., Richardson, D., et al. (2004). Innate spatial-temporal reasoning and the identification of genius. Neurological research, 26(1), 2-8.

Peterson, M. R., Freeman, T. C. A., & Banks, M. S. (1997). Modeling of perceived head-centric speed and direction during pursuit eye movements. Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 38(4), 1771-1771.

Peterson, M. R., Li, B., & Freeman, R. D. (2006). Direction selectivity of neurons in the striate cortex increases as stimulus contrast is decreased. Journal of neurophysiology, 95(4), 2705-2712.

Peterson, M. R., Li, B., & Freeman, R. D. (2004). The derivation of direction selectivity in the striate cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 24(14), 3583-3591.

Peterson, M. R. (2003). Temporal visual processing. (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley).

Thompson, J. K., Peterson, M. R., & Freeman, R. D. (2003). Single-neuron activity and tissue oxygenation in the cerebral cortex. Science, 299(5609), 1070-1072.

Thompson, J. K., Peterson, M. R., & Freeman, R. D. (2004). High-resolution neurometabolic coupling revealed by focal activation of visual neurons. Nature neuroscience, 7(9), 919-920.

Thompson, J. K., Peterson, M. R., & Freeman, R. D. (2005). Separate spatial scales determine neural activity-dependent changes in tissue oxygen within central visual pathways. Journal of Neuroscience, 25(39), 9046-9058.

Oct. 26 new books shelf

Title:	The missing links : formation and decay of economic networks / James E. Rauch, editor
Published:	New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: This does have relevance to education. Take a look at the following two chapters to see how this book be used in leadership or in new ways to think of research: “The Formation of Inter-Organizational Networks” by Toby E. Stuart and, “On Firmer Ground: The Collaborative Team as Strategic Research Site for Verifying Network-Based Social-Capital Hypotheses” by Ray E. Reagans, Ezra Zukerman, and Bill McEvily. I was also interested in the introductory chapter by Yale’s dean of the School Of Management and James E. Rauch’s, “On the Formation and Decay of Interdisciplinary Boundaries.” There’s much to read here.

Author:	Bessant, J. R
Title:	Innovation and entrepreneurship / John Bessant, Joe Tidd
Published:	Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: More of a textbook on the process of innovation. You will find this useful for leadership and teamwork. You might also view this as an object of trend analysis since we know that business strategies eventually make it into the field of education.

Title:	The Cambridge handbook of consciousness / edited by Philip David Zelazo, Morris Moscovitch, Evan Thompson
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007

Dana Peterman comments: Great starting place for those of you interested in cognition, development, and language. Particularly useful for its references. For those of you who do not know, Cambridge University Press has been well respected for quite some time (that’s not a promise of future greatness, though).

Author:	Carroll, David W., 1950-
Title:	Psychology of language / David W. Carroll
Published:	Australia ; Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2008
Edition:	5th ed

Dana Peterman comments: This is the fifth edition for this book. It looks like and feels like a textbook. There are definitions of terms, summaries at the end of each chapter, and review questions. So, this is useful for a review. Take a look at the chapters on language acquisition and the chapter, “Language, Culture, and Cognition”.

Author:	Gibbons, Susan (Susan L.), 1970-
Title:	The academic library and the net gen student : making the connections / Susan Gibbons
Published:	Chicago : American Library Association, 200

Dana Peterman comments: Not specifically for educator/researchers, this slim volume introduces literature on student communication in chapters two and six that are quick and dirty.

Author:	Schmidt, Peter, 1964 Jan. 20-
Title:	Color and money : how rich White kids are winning the war over college affirmative action / Peter Schmidt
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Edition:	1st ed

Dana Peterman comments: There have been a few reviews of this work already. I leave it to you to find them. This is quite the hot topic.

Author:	Harris, Suzy
Title:	The governance of education : how neo-liberalism is transforming policy and practice / Suzy Harris
Published:	New York, NY : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2007

Dana Peterman comments: A critique of “neo-liberalism” in education focused on the UK. Some of these claims may be applicable in the United States. Some may not. There is definitely an ideological perspective taken here.

Author:	Cavanagh, Sheila L. (Sheila Lynn), 1969-
Title:	Sexing the teacher : school sex scandals and queer pedagogies / Sheila L. Cavanagh
Published:	Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007

Dana Peterman comments: While the perspective is mostly Canadian, students of rights, policy, and queer studies will find this of interest. Written from a sociological perspective. Contains references and notes.

Author:	Dwyer, Carol Anne
Title:	The future of assessment : shaping teaching and learning / edited by Carol Anne Dwyer
Published:	New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2008

Dana Peterman comments:

Author:	Nelson, Stephen James, 1947-
Title:	Leaders in the labyrinth : college presidents and the battleground of creeds and convictions / Stephen J. Nelson
Published:	Westport, CT : Praeger Pub., 2007

Dana Peterman comments:

Author:	Hanauer, David Ian
Title:	Scientific discourse : multiliteracy in the classroom / David Ian Hanauer
Published:	London ; New York : Continuum, c2006

Dana Peterman comments:

Title:	Persons in context : building a science of the individual / edited by Yuichi Shoda, Daniel Cervone, Geraldine Downey
Published:	New York : Guilford Press, c2007

Dana Peterman comments:

Schedule – Oct. 29-Nov. 5

October 29, Monday

8:30-10am SCAMP (i.e. Scholarly Communication) discussion of UC Faculty Survey results at Library SL Room 104

10:30-11am Discuss How to host meeting of UC Librarians in Education and Psychology at Langson Library

2-3:30pm Conference call on OCLC’s Help buttons

October 30, Tuesday

9-10am – Langson Reference Desk

2-3pm – Search committee meeting at Langson

3-4pm – Ask-A-Librarian virtual reference