20 Face To Face Advisories

Exposes students to diverse perspectives and guides them to understand those perspectives and to critically and honestly analyze ideas from a variety of cultures.

Middle-level educators can bridge differences, reduce bias, and help diverse students connect to school. Face to Face Advisories guides 125+ advisory conversations about culture, with daily messages, greetings, share topics, robust and varied activities, and reflection questions, to prompt development of social skills, critical thinking, and open discussion. The advisories help students think critically and with feeling as they: ⿢ Develop appreciation for cultural diversity ⿢ Cultivate connections across differences ⿢ Examine the price we pay for intolerance ⿢ Realize that each of us can be a change agent ⿢ Take action for equity Abundant teacher support: research, theory, resources, and practical tips guide each advisory.

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Misbehavior in Cyber Places studies computer-mediated, interpersonal communication on the Internet up to the turn of the century, portraying a technological universe that existed before social media, smartphones, and commercialism began to dominate cyberspace in the new millennium. Here, with amateurs prevailing over professionals, digital immigrants explored online frontiers and founded virtual communities. Based on early stages of Internet research, this book examines misbehavior across a wide range of online environments. Sternberg distinguishes misbehavior and rule-breaking from crime and law-breaking, and discusses cybercrime, cyberlaw, and the differences between local and global regulation. This book lays out the theoretical framework and fundamental ideas of media ecology, a branch of communication scholarship. Sternberg highlights pioneering media ecology perspectives on space, place, situations, rules, and behavior in public. These subjects are highly relevant for understanding digital media, mediated interpersonal communication, and behavior in online environments.

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SARS, Governance and the Globalization of Disease provides a comprehensive and original analysis of the historic global SARS outbreak of 2003. David P. Fidler constructs a political pathology of the SARS outbreak, analyzes the government responses to it, places these responses in historical context and assesses the implications of the successful management of the outbreak for handling future pathogenic threats that will arise. The book includes a detailed description of the outbreak and governance responses to it, as well as a focused analysis of China's role in the outbreak.