Bøker av Philo C. Wasburn

Student teaching is widely considered to be the single most powerful learning experience in teacher preparation. The authors present a history of student teaching, theory, practice and policy; review the research literature, past and present; and present practical guidelines for reform that align with evidence.

This book assembles what political scientists, sociologists, and communication analysts have learned in almost six decades of research on political socialization (the lifelong process by which we acquire political beliefs). It also explores how people develop political values, attitudes, identities, and behavioral dispositions.

Media Bias? addresses the question: To what extent can mainstream news media be characterized as 'conservative' or 'liberal'? The study involves a systematic comparative analysis of the coverage given to major domestic social issues from 1975 to 2000 by two mainstream newsmagazines, Newsweek and Time, and two explicitly partisan publications, the conservative National Review and the liberal Progressive. Working from the idea that some biased accounts of social issues can perform several positive functions for the maintenance and vitality of political democracy, Adkins Covert and Wasburn offer a new methodology for analyzing bias empirically, one that is capable of producing valid and reliable findings. They begin by defining the meaning of 'bias' and discuss possible methods of measuring media bias empirically and systematically. By comparing each publication's coverage on poverty, crime, the environment, and gender-issues in which the line between the conservative and liberal positions are clearly delineated-the authors consider both the positive and negative consequences of media bias and how the bias plays out within a media-conscious democratic society.

This analysis compares US news reports on a variety of major political events with those produced by the media abroad. Different patterns of coverage are shown to reflect different political, economic and strategic interests of nations, historical contexts in which news was constructed, and more.

Today hundreds of millions of people throughout the world depend on international radio broadcasting for their understanding of national and international political affairs.