The term "crosscurrents" seems especially fitting for a volume of essays that explores the cultural exchanges that resulted from the encounter between Spain and the New World. The nautical metaphor alludes to the actual crossing of ships that occurred during the discovery, conquest, and colonization of the Americas by the Spanish as it emphasizes the changes that occurred at these cultural intersections.

Turn your classroom into a forum for debate and discussion with the Fourth Edition of Crosscurrents! Experts from around the world debate important issues related to the study of international relations and foreign policy from both a Canadian and an international perspective. Author Mark Charlton frames each issue with a well-written introductory essay and post-script to further enhance the learning experience.With its lively and effective yes/no debate format, Crosscurrents continues to provide students with a stimulating collection of essays that encourages the development of critical thought and analytical skills involving major issues of the day.

Turn your classroom into a forum for debate and discussion with the fourth edition of Crosscurrents! With its lively and effective yes/no debate format, Crosscurrents continues to provide students with a stimulating collection of essays that encourages the development of critical thought and analytic skills involving major issues of the day. The authors frame issues with well-written introductory essays and postscripts to further enhance the experience.Crosscurrents addresses major political issues in Canada and elsewhere, and contains debates on hot topics such as aboriginal self-government, changes to the electoral system, health care, school choice and many more! This is an ideal text to assign for tutorials and an optimal starting point for alternative resources and research.

Volume 5 of the Southern Illinois Uni­versity biennial symposium on leader­ship research is concerned with the main issue of a rapidly developing field: action versus research, what should be studied, and how it should be studied. The contributors to this volume examine these issues and set them against a back­ground of future research directions.

The term “crosscurrent” is defined as “a current flowing counter to another.” This volume represents crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theory in several respects. First, although the main currents running between linguistics and second language acquisition have traditionally flowed from theory to application, equally important contributions can be made in the other direction as well. Second, although there is a strong tendency in the field of linguistics to see “theorists” working within formal models of syntax, SLA research can contribute to linguistic theory more broadly defined to include various functional as well as formal models of syntax, theories of phonology, variationist theories of sociolinguists, etc. These assumptions formed the basis for a conference held at Stanford University during the Linguistic Institute there in the summer of 1987. The conference was organized to update the relation between second language acquisition and linguistic theory. This book contains a selection of (mostly revised and updated) papers of this conference and two newly written papers.