While policies like SB 1070, Arizonas now infamous immigration legislation, have raised issues of racial profiling and policing practices, there have been few detailed analyses of broader practices of racialization and racism at borders more extensively.Some works have focused specifically upon profiling, without looking at varied processes of racialization. In addition, most studies of border controls have examined the US context, while few have looked at racism and racialization...

The post-Cold War era has witnessed a resurgence of conflictive ethnic and secessionist politics that has placed the taken-for-granted primacy of unitary, sovereign nation-states into question. Along with cases such as Cyprus, Northern Ireland, and the Basque regions of Spain, Nicaragua has sought to resolve prolonged and protracted ethnic conflict, issues of minority rights to self-determination, and questions concerning the sovereignty of national states, through an autonomy process that...

This material will provide student-teachers with an in-depth knowledge of the African Traditional religion that is practiced in Ghana. It will focus on the history, beliefs, practices and values, and how these have shaped the teaching and learning of RME. Tutors will apply teaching strategies such us discussion and tutorials, with the aim of discarding misconceptions, misrepresentations, marginalization and fanaticism among learners. By this, student-teachers will be equipped with solid kn...

For years the text of choice for developing excellence as a teacher of K–12 students with moderate and severe disabilities, this clearly written work has now been revised and updated. Chapters provide step-by-step procedures for designing standards-based individualized education plans and evaluating and enhancing student progress. Methods and materials for teaching literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies are described in depth. The book also describes effective ...

From pioneering leaders in the field, this is the first book to provide a solid foundation for three major stakeholder involvement approaches: collaborative, participatory, and empowerment evaluation. Highlighting differences among the approaches, the authors focus on the role of the evaluator, who may be in charge of the evaluation, share control, or serve as a "critical friend," leaving stakeholders in control. Practitioners are guided to select and implement the most appropriate framewo...

Every weekday for 16 years English-speaking expats and readers all over the world welcome A.M. Costa Rica to their computer to find out the latest about this country. The original news reports compiled here are geared to the needs of foreigners living here and those elsewhere with personal or business interests in this vacation paradise. Some of the reports are grim because there are grim aspects this society. Others are humorous. Each seeks to tell something new or original about the coun...

Identifying 13 core techniques and strategies that cut across all available evidence-based treatments for child and adolescent mood and anxiety disorders, this book provides theoretical rationales, step-by-step implementation guidelines, and rich clinical examples. Therapists can flexibly draw from these elements to tailor interventions to specific clients, or can use the book as an instructive companion to any treatment manual. Coverage includes exposure tasks, cognitive strategies, probl...

The purpose of this book is to provide a step by step guide to academic writing. Our students in Ghana do not like reading. Sadly, even when you provide free information in softcopy form, many students still believe they must buy some pamphlet which should hopefully contain all the questions they expect to answer in the exam. This book is, therefore, in response to that overwhelming concern about what exactly they need to read for the exam. It does not suffice to try and convince those stu...

The book series “Letters from Ghana” is a moral and intellectual guide to public discourse. This book - Issue No. 4 - comprises 32 peer-reviewed papers. first published on the blog www.writersghana.com from January to June 2020. The blog, owned by Writers & Shakespeares Ghana Limited, is dedicated to independent scholarship and publication of peer reviewed papers only. The contents, just like the previous three issues, are an existential response to public discourse, beginning from Ghana a...

“If you completed school, but do not read daily, then you’re functionally illiterate,” my mentor observed recently when we met to discuss our usual stuff. For you to be excellent at writing scholarly material you have to read - read anything and everything. After all there is now a host of voice typing software online, but does that make your speech to text content scholarly? The theory and practice cannot be divorced from each other, hence academic writing and scholarly writing are the sa...

The poems in this book were written over a period of thirteen years, spanning 2008 to 2023. As more and more persons expressed interest, the author needed to explain the raison d’etre without publishing only the poems. It was Florence that took to active listening and probing about the stories behind the poems. The author, therefore, needed to provide the context of the content of the text, hence the writing style. Florence, together with, “Hymns and the Meanings” thus became the love inte...

The history of colonial education can be a painful and difficult topic. This novel tries to bring the current generation of young people closer to understanding the resilience of the people who lived through it. In West Africa, colonial powers imposed their educational system on the indigenous population, often with little regard for their needs or culture. The result was a system that was rife with hunger, corruption, and abuse. Despite these challenges, many young students were able to p...