The environmental field and its regulations have evolved significantly since Congress passed the first environmental law in 1970, and the Environmental Law Handbook, published just three years later, has been indispensable to students and professionals ever since. The authors provide clear and accessible explanations, expert legal insight into new and evolving regulations, and reliable compliance and management guidance.The Environmental Law Handbook continues to ...

Now in its fourth edition, the popular Occupational Safety and Health Law Handbook has been your go-to guide to the fundamentals of occupational safety and health law for over a decade. It provides an authoritative and completely up-to-date reference that you count on for its reliable information and straightforward explanation. Each chapter is written by a highly respected attorney who is an expert in the field. Yet the book is written without legal jargon, in plain English that ...

This open access book discusses why the seemingly straightforward strategy of teaching children how to think deeply does not work and offers an alternative way forward for the curriculum to achieve these objectives. Over the years, the role of knowledge in the curriculum has, like a pendulum, shifted between two extremes, from highly visible to virtually invisible knowledge elements. Insights from cognitive and educational psychology, sociology, and curriculum studies are used to underpin ...

Waarom is kennis zo belangrijk voor diepgaand leren en complexe vaardigheden?Wat is een kennisrijk curriculum?En hoe draagt het bij aan eerlijke onderwijskansen?In het onderwijs willen we leerlingen kritisch leren denken, problemen laten oplossen en teksten leren begrijpen - samen met vele andere complexe denkvaardigheden. Dan moeten we die doelen toch gewoon opnemen in het curriculum en die complexe vaardigheden aanleren?Helaas is het niet zo...