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  • 14 - Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals

  • Marquita K. Hill, University of Maine, Orono
  • Book:
    Understanding Environmental Pollution
    Published online:
    25 September 2020
    Print publication:
    09 July 2020, pp 316-326

  • Summary

    Recall persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from Chapter 1 (see Box 1.4). A POP is a chemical that persists and bioaccumulates in the environment1 – that is, a chemical accumulates in a particular living creature faster than it can be eliminated. And the chemical is toxic.2 In this chapter, PBT (persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic) is used synonymously with POP because all POPs are PBTs. However, the opposite is not true: In Chapter 15 you will see three metal PBTs, so not all PBTs are POPs.3

  • 7 - Global Warming and Ocean Acidification

  • Marquita K. Hill, University of Maine, Orono
  • Book:
    Understanding Environmental Pollution
    Published online:
    25 September 2020
    Print publication:
    09 July 2020, pp 133-165

  • Summary

    Climate change is nothing new. About 18,000 years ago, Earth was experiencing the last of many ice ages, from which it only emerged about 10,000 years ago.1 More recently, approximately between the years 1300 and 1870, portions of the Earth passed through a little ice age. The role of greenhouse gases (GHGs), especially water vapor and carbon dioxide (CO2),2 in affecting the Earth’s temperature is also ancient, and indeed has long served life on Earth well. Radiation from the sun reaches and warms the Earth’s surface. Earth absorbs about half of this radiation and, in turn, emits radiant heat (infrared radiation) back toward space; part of this is captured by heat-trapping water vapor and GHGs. Without the “greenhouse effect” to trap this warmth, the Earth could be colder by 35°C (95°F), and unable to support life as we know it. However, the last century has brought greater warming than can be accounted for by natural causes, and warming that is occurring at a faster rate.3 This is what we examine in this chapter. Moreover, another impact due to carbon dioxide has been occurring – ocean acidification, another impact with serious implications.

Educational Foundations
  • Philosophical and Historical Perspectives
  • Brian W. Dotts
  • Published online:
    01 July 2020
    Print publication:
    29 November 2018
  • This educational foundations book offers a comprehensive overview of American education history and a variety of classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary educational philosophers. While Educational Foundations includes a history of American education, it also looks at numerous policies, constitutional law cases, events, and political, religious, and social conflicts for students to consider while learning their subject matter. The text is divided into two sections: the first is a look at a broad array of philosophical influences from the Western canon, while the second is an exploration of the history of American education, focusing on a few specific eras. With strong and helpful pedagogical features and resources, such as class activities, suggested files, chapter objectives, and sidebar questions, this textbook is an excellent resource for students. It is useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in educational foundations.

Teaching the Arts
  • Early Childhood and Primary Education
  • 3rd edition
  • David Roy, William Baker, Amy Hamilton
  • Published online:
    26 June 2020
    Print publication:
    02 July 2019
  • Teaching the Arts: Early Childhood and Primary Education foregrounds the importance of arts education to children's development and learning while connecting each arts area to the Australian Curriculum. The third edition provides comprehensive coverage and an exciting introduction to arts education in Australia, with updated content and new, interactive features. The book covers the key areas of dance, drama, media arts, music and visual arts, full of teacher tips, spotlights on arts education, and downloadable lesson plans. This new edition includes interactive eBook content such as interactive questions and answers throughout each chapter, example videos of arts activities accompanying lesson plans and teacher tips, and weblinks to further content to support students in their learning This book is a vital resource for all pre-service early childhood and primary teachers, emphasising the fundamental nature of the arts in schools.

Building and Sustaining a Teaching Career
  • Strategies for Professional Experience, Wellbeing and Mindful Practice
  • Narelle Suzanne Lemon, Sharon McDonough
  • Published online:
    26 June 2020
    Print publication:
    26 May 2020
  • Professional experience in initial teacher education programs can be both a challenging and rewarding experience. As student teachers take their first steps in the classroom, they often encounter stresses that compromise their teaching and learning. Within this context, well-being, resilience and self-efficacy are critical to their success. Building and sustaining a teaching career introduces the coping strategies, informal and formal practices, time management and organisational skills, and positive psychology critical to self-care for professional experience. The text uses case studies, 'fill your bucket' strategy building solutions, reflection activities and discussion and journaling questions designed to build capacity and develop reader knowledge, while pre-service teacher voices highlight key elements through real-world perspectives and experiences. Drawing upon a combination of teaching experience and education research, Narelle Lemon and Sharon McDonough present thoughtful, practical approaches that equip pre-service teachers with the necessary skills and knowledge for embarking on a successful teaching career.

Rousseau: The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings
  • 2nd edition
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Edited by Victor Gourevitch
  • Published online:
    26 June 2020
    Print publication:
    08 November 2018
  • A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men - the so-called First and Second Discourses - together with Rousseau's extensive Replies to critics of these Discourses; the Essay on the Origin of Languages; the Letter to Voltaire on Providence; as well as several minor but illuminating writings - the Discourse on Heroic Virtue and the essay Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book. In these as well as in his later writings, Rousseau probes the very premises of modern thought. His influence was wide-reaching from the very first, and it has continued to grow since his death. The American and the French Revolutions were profoundly affected by his thought, as were Romanticism and Idealism. This new edition features up-to-date translations, an expanded introduction, and an extensive editorial apparatus designed to assist students at every level access these seminal texts.

Multimedia Learning
  • 3rd edition
  • Richard E. Mayer
  • Published online:
    25 June 2020
    Print publication:
    09 July 2020
  • Advances in computer graphic technologies have inspired new efforts to understand the potential of multimedia instruction as a means of promoting human learning. In Multimedia Learning, Third Edition, Richard E. Mayer takes an evidence-based approach to improving education using well-designed multimedia instruction. He reviews 15 principles of multimedia instructional design that are based on more than 200 experimental research studies and grounded in a cognitive theory of how people learn from words and graphics. The result is the latest instalment of what Mayer calls the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, a theory introduced in previous editions of Multimedia Learning and in The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning, Second Edition. This edition provides an up-to-date and systematic summary of research studies on multimedia learning, supplemented with complementary evidence from around the globe. It is well-suited to graduate and undergraduate courses in psychology, education, computer science, communication, instructional design, and game design.

Dispute Processes
  • ADR and the Primary Forms of Decision-making
  • 3rd edition
  • Michael Palmer, Simon Roberts
  • Published online:
    25 June 2020
    Print publication:
    09 July 2020
  • This wide-ranging study considers the primary forms of decision-making – negotiation, mediation, umpiring, as well as the processes of avoidance and violence – in the context of rapidly changing discourses and practices of civil justice across a range of jurisdictions. Many contemporary discussions in this field–and associated projects of institutional design–are taking place under the broad but imprecise label of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). The book brings together and analyses a wide range of materials dealing with dispute processes, and the current debates on and developments in civil justice. With the help of analysis of materials beyond those ordinarily found in the ADR literature, it provides a comprehensive and comparative perspective on modes of handling civil disputes. The new edition is thoroughly revised and is extended to include new chapters on avoidance and self-help, the ombuds, Online Dispute Resolution and pressures of institutionalisation.

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