Reviewers in ELG News attract global attention!

I have just been offered a selection of titles from the Haworth Press Inc.,
NY, for review in ELG News. If anyone would like to review one please let me
know. No fee, I'm afraid, but the reviewer may keep the book. Deadline for
the Autumn issue will be Monday, 28 October, and for the Spring issue will be
Monday, 24 February 2003.

1. The Web in Higher Education: assessing the impact and fulfilling the
potential
ed. by Cleborne D. Maddox and D.Lamont Johnson
"A thoughtful look at the role of online technology in education ... a
reference point for the merger of teaching and technology that will define
the educational process in the C21"
HB. June, 2002.  $69.95   0-7890-1707-5
(Co-published as Computers in Schools, v.17, nos. 3/4 andv.18, no.1, 2001)
Includes:
- Supporting critical thinking in interactive learning environments
- Considerations for designing web-based programs
- Designing on-line education courses
- Using the internet to deliver higher education
- Internet & www usage in an institution of higher learning
- Structuring communications to facilitate ... teaching and learning online
- Developing a web-enhanced, televised distance education course
- Using web-based cases to enhance ... pre-service teacher training
- Case study in online classroom interaction to enhance graduate instruction
in English Literature
- Description of a web-driven, problem-based learning environment and study
of ... implementation in educational leader preparation

2. Scholarship, research libraries, and global publishing, by Julia Reed-Scott
"Discover how to meet the challenges of increasing your library's
international publications through digital networks and large shared resource
networks with other research liblraries"
PB  7-8901-3371  $24.95

3. Childhood sexuality, ed. by Theo G.M. Sandfort and Jany Radmakers
"... deals with what can be described as 'normal' behaviour and development
in children under age 12.  ... offers information about the relationship
between age and development, both mental and physical, in both males and
females"
PB 7-8901-1999  $24.95

4. Inclusion practices with Special Needs students:  theory, research and
application,  ed. by S.I.Pfeiffer and L.A.Reddy
".. an overview of the origins, evolution and recent developments regarding
the inclusion of students with general disabilities into general education
classrooms"
HB 7-8900-8432   $39.95

5. Journal of School Violence, v.1, no.1, 2002  ISSN 1538-8220
Includes:
- The awaremess of risky peer group behaviours as predictors of students'
vicitmization on school grounds - pt1 - Elementary
- The cycle of violence and disconnection among rural middle school students
- Weapons in an affluent suburban school
- Discussion of the incongruence between optimism and academic performance
and its influence on school violence
- Linking academics and social learning

6. Journal of Teaching in the Addictions v.1, no.1, 2002  ISSN 1533-2705
Includes:
- Clinical orientation and sociodemographic characteristics of chemical
dependancy practitioners in Ohio
- More than just one way: teaching complex thinking in addictions work
- Comparison of on-campus and off-campus education by alcohol/drug counsellors
- Key informant survey to assess service adequacy in California's
publicly-funded alcohol and other drug treatment system
"Beware of the Man of one book": processing ideology in addictions education

More details on these titles and others from the Haworth Press at the website
at www.HaworthPressInc.com

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*  Editor/Web Officer   ELG   co-owner lis-educ
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