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New Books in Print by Saint Martin’s Faculty
Barbara Mae Gayle, PhD, Professor and
Vice-President of Academic Affairs
Classroom Communication and Instructional Processes: Advances Through
Meta-Analysis (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
Edited by Barbara Mae Gayle, Raymond W. Preiss, Nancy Burrell and Mike
Allen
Classroom Communication and Instructional Processes:
Advances Through Meta-Analysis offers a comprehensive and systematic
review of literature on communication education and instruction. The
topics covered in this book are relevant to the classroom and promote
understanding of behaviors, practices and processes that lead to
positive student outcomes. The book contains contributions from
experienced researchers in the communication field along with analysis
of research in instructional communications. The editors approach the
topic from the perspective that meta-analysis serves as a useful tool
for determining how and why specific teaching and learning experiences
have positive student outcomes. In addition to providing meta-analytic
investigations on issues associated with learning-conducive classroom
environments, the book offers sections that emphasize student-teacher
contact as the basis for positive academic outcomes and investigate the
nature, antecedents and outcomes of teacher effectiveness.
William McDonald Wallace, PhD, Associate Professor of Business
Techno-Cultural Evolution: Cycles of Creation and Conflict
(Potomac Books)
Techno-cultural evolution shows that culture evolves
much as does biology. Periods of rapid change alternate with longer
periods of relative stability. The difference is that innovations in new
technology are to culture as mutations in DNA and therefore culture can
evolve so much more rapidly. Within this framework the book examines all
of human evolution and in so doing, brings to light a new understanding
of much human behavior. Humans behave differently depending on whether
they live on the frontiers of techno-evolutionary change, or in cultures
rooted in tradition that seek to preserve
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