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Criminology
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
The book examines crime, criminal behavior, and the justice system's response. It covers key criminological theories, the social factors contributing to crime, and the various types of crime, such as white-collar, organized, and violent crime. It also discusses the roles of law enforcement, courts, and corrections, as well as issues like inequality and reform. The book aims to provide a broad understanding of criminology in contemporary society.
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Early Childhood Literacy Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers - Birth to Age 5
Christine Pegorraro Schull, Leslie La Croix, Sara E. Miller, Kimberly Sanders Austin, and Julie K. Kidd · Virtual Library of Virginia
This textbook, Early Childhood Literacy: Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers – Birth to Age 5, provides a comprehensive introduction to emergent literacy development in early childhood education (ECE). It emphasizes that literacy begins well before formal reading and writing instruction and develops through children’s relationships, language experiences, play, home environments, and interactions with books and writing materials.
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Career/Life Planning and Personal Exploration
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Career/Life Planning and Personal Exploration is designed to cover theories and concepts of values, interests, skills and personality as applied to the career/life planning process and its application to labor market trends. Short/long term career/life plans will be developed. Students will develop an awareness of diversity and its relationship to psychological, sociological and physiological forces within the workplace.
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Child, Family, and Community
Rebecca Laff and Wendy Ruiz · College of the Canyons
Over the years researchers have found the necessity to develop theories of behavior that are specific to family settings. These theories have been developed by people with a variety of areas of emphasis, from family therapists to gerontologists to child development specialists. In this chapter we will briefly discuss six such theories: Bioecological Model, Family Systems, Functionalism, Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, and Psychological Perspectives.
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ENGL LING 200 Introduction to Linguistics
Sarah Harmon · Cañada College
In the contents: 05: Other Social Dialects · 08: Social Norms
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Introduction to Public Health
Fabiane Morales · Coastline College
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Critical Disability: Power, Identity, and Systems Change
Dora Raymaker · Portland State University
Despite how common disability is, people with disabilities remain both systemically and systematically disempowered, devalued, and marginalized. Critical disability offers tools to perceive the mechanisms behind these inequities. Once exposed, it is possible to understand them them. Once understood, it is possible to change them.
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Ethical Use of Technology in Digital Learning Environments - Graduate Student Perspectives
Barbara Brown et al. · University of Calgary
In the contents: 01: Part I: Underlying Ethical Issues and Value of Technologies: Artificial Intelligence Social Networking Services 3D Printing · 01.2: Chapter 2: Beware: Be Aware - The Ethical Implications of Teachers Who Use Social Networking Sites (SNSs) to Communicate
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AP Comparative Government and Politics
Nina Sprouse · Mizzou Academy
In the contents: 09: Collective Action and Social Movements · 9.01: What is collective action What are social movements · 9.03: A framework for explaining social movements
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Connect, Collaborate, and Communicate - Introductory Communication Studies
Royce Cano, Anya Iyengar, and Nicole Stibbard · De Anza College
This is Connect, Collaborate, and Communicate, an introductory Communication Studies textbook organized into four core sections. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce communication fundamentals; Chapters 3 through 7 explore interpersonal communication; Chapters 8 and 9 cover group communication; and Chapters 10 through 14 examine public speaking. Each section provides valuable skills that extend beyond the classroom and throughout life. We hope this textbook inspires curiosity and builds confidence.
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Sociology of Gender - An Equity Lens
Nora Karena, Heidi Esbensen, and Dana Pertermann · Open Oregon
In the contents: 1.03: Social Sciences and Systems of Power · 02: Gender as a Social Construct · 2.02: A Process and a System and a Social Institution
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Lifespan Development A Psychological Perspective
Martha Lally & Suzanne Valentine-French · College of Lake County
In the contents: 4.18: Psychosocial Development in Early Childhood · 7.09: Psychosocial Development in Emerging and Early Adulthood · 8.10: Psychosocial Development in Middle Adulthood
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Critical Expressivism - Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom
Roeder & Gatto · LibreTexts
In the contents: 03: Personal Writing and Social Change · 3.02: Communication as Social Action- Critical Expressivist Pedagogies in the Writing Classroom · 3.03: From the Personal to the Social
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International Relations - Introduction Essentials
Jill Kirkham · College of Eastern Idaho
This textbook is a concise and engaging text designed for students exploring the foundational topics of International Relations. Crafted with accessibility in mind, it serves as an essential guide to the most commonly taught concepts in the field.
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Global Issues: Power, Culture, and Change in a Connected Planet
Miloni Gandhi · De Anza College
In the contents: 4.07: Grassroots Democracy and Social Movements · 09: Like and Share- Tourism Dark Tourism Social Media · 9.03: The Social Media Tourist
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American Government
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
This American Government textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the U.S. political system, beginning with foundational concepts of politics, governance, and civic engagement. It explores the development of the U.S. Constitution through philosophical roots, the first American government, and the principles and debates behind its ratification. The text then delves into federalism, examining the division and evolution of power between national and state governments.
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Principios y prácticas de enseñanza de niños pequeños
Cindy Stephens, Gina Peterson, Sharon Eyrich, & Jennifer Paris · College of the Canyons
In the contents: 7.10: Echemos un vistazo al Entorno Social-Emocional
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The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers
Abbey K. Elder, Stefanie Buck, Jeff Gallant, Marco Seiferle-Valencia, and Apurva Ashok · rebus Foundation
The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers was created to bring attention to the work that is involved in building and managing an OER program, from learning about open educational practices and soliciting team members to collecting and reporting data on your program’s outcomes. Regardless of your program's scope and your own experience with OER, we hope that the Starter Kit for Program Managers will have some tips to help you along your way.
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Child Growth and Develpment (MPTC Version)
Paris, Ricardo, Rymond, and Johnson · College of the Canyons
In the contents: 2.02: Psychosocial Theory · 2.04: Social Cognitive Theory · 05: Social Emotional Development in Early Childhood
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Methods of Teaching Early Literacy
Nandita Gurjar, Sohyun Meacham, and Constance Beecher · Iowa State University
Theories, teaching strategies, and instructional materials pertinent to teaching reading and writing in grades PK-3, with an emphasis on integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as integration across content areas while addressing diversity and inclusion.