San Antonio College Library

In this volume, Michael Marquardt brings together step-by-step guidance and the personal accounts of frontline managers to show how to create and implement an action learning program in any organization. Copublished with the American Society for Training and Development, Action Learning in Action uses solid research results and extensive real-world examples to make the critical connection between action learning and organizational learning. Lessons...

The central unifying theme of this state-of-the-art contribution to research on literacy is its rethinking and reconceptualization of individual differences in reading. Previous research, focused on cognitive components of reading, signaled the need for ongoing work to identify relevant individual differences in reading, to determine the relationship(s) of individual differences to reading development, and to account for interactions among individual...

Focusing on the mind and its ability to seek answers to unknown or unanswered questions, this book's theory of educating provides the foundation for using V diagrams by students, educators, researchers, and parents. Teachers make lesson plans using V diagrams and concept maps and become expert coaches in guiding student performances. Students learn to enhance their knowledge by changing from question-answerers to question-askers. Parents share the...

Explains elemental brain processes, such as memory formation and storage, in an attempt to understand mental illness. Part I presents an original hypothesis of the human brain and its organization, beginning with basic neural concepts and moving on to sophisticated mental functions in the formation of a theoretical framework viewing association as.