Vital Memory and Affect takes as its subject the autobiographical memories of ‘vulnerable’ groups, including survivors of child sexual abuse, adopted children and their families, forensic mental health service users, and elderly persons in care home settings. In particular the focus is on a particular class of memory within this group: recollected episodes that are difficult and painful, sometimes contested, but always with enormous significance for a current and past sense of self. These ‘vital memories’, integral and irreversible, can come to appear as a defining feature of a person’s life. In Vital Memory and Affect, authors Steve Brown and Paula Reavey explore the highly productive way in which individuals make sense of a difficult past, situated as they are within a highly specific cultural and social landscape. Via an exploration of their vital memories, the book combines insights from social and cognitive psychology to open up the possibility of a new approach to memory, one that pays full attention to the contextual conditions of all acts of remembering. This path-breaking study brings together a unique set of empirical material and maps out an agenda for research into memory and affect that will be important reading for students and scholars of social psychology, memory studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and other related fields.
Via an exploration of their vital memories, the book combines insights from social and cognitive psychology to open up the possibility of a new approach to memory, one that pays full attention to the contextual conditions of all acts of ...
Topics in Language and Culture for Teachers is an introductory language and culture text designed for today's future teachers, anthropologists, and applied linguists. The book explores, from a variety of perspectives, the interrelationships between language and culture that have the most significant implications for the classroom and for the global community. Among the topics introduced are first language acquisition, dialects, sign language, non-verbal communication, and pragmatics. Each chapter is structured so that students will read about a topic, answer comprehension questions, consider relevant teaching scenarios, gather and analyze data in further reading, and pursue projects that require out-of-class research. The book also encourages the use of films to provide deeper cultural understanding and context for various issues. Three appendixes-the family tree of languages, language structure, resources for further research and professional development-and a glossary are included.
The book explores, from a variety of perspectives, the interrelationships between language and culture that have the most significant implications for the classroom and for the global community.
These fully updated editions are the introductory levels of the popular English Firsthand Gold series. Each text helps low-beginning students to communicate confidently in English by providing realistic language models, clear listening tasks, personalized
These fully updated editions are the introductory levels of the popular English Firsthand Gold series.
This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. The Teacher's Edition provides teaching suggestions, optional activities, listening scripts, and answer keys for the Student's Book.
This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities.
This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. The Teacher's Edition provides teaching suggestions, optional activities, listening scripts, and answer keys for the Student's Book.
This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities.
This book helps English-learners increase their vocabulary, improve their reading skills, and comprehend material from a variety of written genres. Includes readings and follow-up exercises from such genres as expository writing, personal notes, ads, labels, fables, and magazine articles. For intermediate ESL learners.
This book helps English-learners increase their vocabulary, improve their reading skills, and comprehend material from a variety of written genres.
Want to make your Ajax apps more dynamic? This Short Cut shows you how. It covers: Using the Apache 2.2.x framework to build MVC applications incorporating design patterns Building custom Apache modules that handle Ajax requests using JSON Solving the page refresh problem in Ajax apps by tracking persistent sessions and using that information to reset the user interface when appropriate We walk you through, in detail and with complete code listings, how to develop the necessary Apache 2.2.x modules. And we conclude with a comprehensive set of appendixes that cover the entire Apache development framework. If you're looking to make Ajax web apps that scale and provide a better experience for your users, this Short Cut has all the Apache framework smarts to help you get there.
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