How are people and animals different? What's interesting about families? Why do we like birthdays?
Get your young readers excited about learning with Oxford Thinkers! This carefully designed, inquiry-based course inspires, engages, and builds literacy confidence. Utilize this bright, age-appropriate Class Book to prepare your students for success in the classroom and beyond with exercises which emphasise essential 21st century skills.
The lively real-world infographics at the start of every unit encourage students to express their own ideas and think critically about the world around them and current topics. Exam tips, graded language and skills exercises develop exam technique, plus Exam challenge activities provide graded exposure to realistic exam practice. The Student's Book includes a full practice test, as well as access to Online Practice, and another full practice test online. The Online Practice features grammar, vocabulary and skills exercises, 'speak and record' activities, plus extra exam practice tasks. The automatic marking, dictionary look-up and feedback on answers provide students with support outside the classroom.
Lewis Vaughn's Concise Guide to Critical Thinking offers a compact, clear, and economical introduction to critical thinking and argumentative writing. Based on his best-selling text, The Power of Critical Thinking, Fifth Edition, this affordable volume is more manageable than larger textbooks yet more substantial than many of the smaller critical thinking handbooks.
FEATURES
* Six chapters on identifying, evaluating, and devising deductive and inductive arguments
* A chapter on obstacles to critical thinking
* Comprehensive coverage of inference to the best explanation
* Extensive treatment of scientific reasoning, with chapters on inductive reasoning, causal arguments, scientific theories and inference, and scientific method and theory evaluation
* Emphasis on evaluation of evidence, authority, and credibility
* A chapter on fallacies and rhetorical persuaders
* A substantial chapter on writing argumentative essays
* Numerous exercises, including review questions, exercises for applying critical thinking skills, writing assignments and prompts, and self-assessment quizzes
Selective mutism, or refusal or unwillingness to speak in certain situations or settings, poses a particular challenge to educators and other school-based professionals. In many cases, school personnel are on the front lines of assessment and treatment for these children and must help them succeed in an academic setting. This can be difficult considering that many school-based professionals are pressed for time and resources.
Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents: A Guide for School-based Professionals provides information that can help readers better understand and combat selective mutism. Written for guidance counselors, teachers, principals and deans, school psychologists, and school-based social workers, this book educates readers about the nature of selective mutism and its most common clinical manifestations (such as social anxiety, oppositional behavior, and communication difficulties). Offering methods to determine the form and function of a child's chronically mute behavior, the book provides evidence-based strategies to enhance a child's verbal participation at school and in other social and academic activities. The chapters provide advice for working collaboratively with parents, preventing relapse, and tackling special issues. Easy-to-read and conversational in style, Helping Children with Selective Mutism and Their Parents offers numerous visuals, handouts, case vignettes, and FAQs. The book is an essential resource for educators faced with children with selective mutism, as well as other professionals who work with this population, including clinical child psychologists and psychiatrists, social workers, and pediatricians.
The Impact of Gender Quotas is a theory-building and comparative exercise in elaborating concepts commonly used to analyze the broad impacts of gender quotas. The book begins with the argument that the means by which women enter politics may influence how, why and to what extent their presence affects political representation. Following a preface by Drude Dahlerup, one of the pioneers of gender quota research, the editors introduce the book with a conceptual framework for analyzing the impact of quotas, based upon descriptive, substantive and symbolic dimensions of representation. The book is subsequently organized into three sections, each devoted to analyzing one of the dimensions of representation, and each of these sections contains a chapter case study from one of four regions of the world (Western Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia). Each of the chapters follows a basic format instituted by the editors, with the goal of facilitating cross-case comparisons and broad theory-building. The editors conclude the book by summarizing the main themes and implications for future research on gender quotas.
