Educational administration and organization

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This book explains why conflict between the institutional and human agencies is an unavoidable outcome of competing local, national and global agendas at a major research university.

This book evaluates contemporary approaches to education, with a particular focus on the ways in which assessment shapes the educational experience and influences pupils and students.

This book provides a unique study of the role of universities, as organisation systems, in the pursuit of the Europe 2020 strategy.

This book focuses on the politics of teacher resistance to the formation and implementation of neoliberal education policies in Australia.

The late Mr Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015) laid the foundations for the creation of a first-world education system in Singapore.

Today's complexity, speed, and need for adaptation are putting organizations under stress.

Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings.

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.

This book addresses current changes of education policies in a context of globalisation.

"e;A masterpiece of multidisciplinary scholarship that clearly demonstrates the contemporary relevance of black fraternities and sororities.

The Early Childhood Education sector around the world is constantly changing, whether because of the unprecedented demand for ECE services globally, accelerated social change, or the introduction of pedagogical and regulatory practices.

This book offers an ecological perspective to understand the opportunities and complexities of spreading and sustaining educational innovations.

This book provides the synthesis and integration of the intellectual and experiential thinking around organisational leadership and development, focusing on three organisations as case studies: Plan International, Mater Foundation, and Oxfam, with the aim of informing For-Purpose, Not-For-Profit organisations about fundraising leadership.

This book examines the way in which the "e;practice turn"e; in education and pedagogy offers unique perspectives on the nature of educational work.

This book presents a new approach to school leadership - Holistic School Leadership, whereby school leaders lead schools through systems-thinking concepts and procedures.

This third edition expands coverage on such topics as the law and students with disabilities, confidentiality, sexual harassment, student searches and tuition vouchers.

If young people are to be adequately prepared for a complex and interdependent global society, educational experiences must consider the broader world in which teachers and their students live.

Data visualization is the art and science of making information visible.

Americans often forget that, just as they watch the world through U.

Elusive Equity chronicles South Africa's efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid.

The United States is in the midst of historic experiments with publicly funded choice in K-12 education, experiments that recently received a "e;"e;green light"e;"e; from the Supreme Court.

"e;Adequacy lawsuits"e; have emerged as an alternative strategy in pursuit of improved public education in America.

For more than a decade, school choice has been a flashpoint in debates about our nation's schooling.

Mentoring is often a crucial, yet informal part of an organization's best practices and skill development, whether targeted towards a team lead, project manager, designer, developer or a valued senior team member.

Written by dedicated and active professionals from different areas of the pharmaceutical, biomedical, and medtech sectors, this book provides information on job and career opportunities in various life sciences industries.

Teach students to write about math so they can improve their conceptual understanding in authentic ways.

This second edition of TIPS: The Child Voice was prepared in response to demand for an updated and expanded version of the highly successful 1997 edition.

The Handbook of Psychoeducational Assessment is a practical guide for educational and psychological professionals using norm-referenced tests in the ability, achievement, and behavioral assessment of children.

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact.

Leaders, develop your capacity for social-emotional intelligence and foster growth, openness, and trust in your staff using Powerful Inquiry.

Develop your skill set as a teacher and unlock your hidden leadership potential.

This textbook examines how service firms manage their international operations.

The history of the education of African American children in one Alabama town is reconstructed over a period of 100 years, from the First Reconstruction period to the Second Reconstruction period (Governor George Wallace's stand in the schoolhouse door).

Across the country educators are facing the challenge of restructuring the secondary school to meet the needs of students in the twenty-first century.

Rapid advancements in mobile computing and communication technology and recent technological progress have opened up a plethora of opportunities.

This book is Volume 43 of the Educational Media and Technology Yearbook.

This book studies impact of "e;Overseas Leadership Development Programmes for Chinese University Leaders in the Central and Western Regions of China,"e; a research project funded by National Office for Education Sciences Planning (No.

This book explores the conceptual and practical implications of applying a relational view to cultural complexity.

"e;Mouritzen and Opstrup's book is a most welcome addition to the subject of the management of academic performance.

This book celebrates the contributions of John Weidman and his colleagues to the understanding of student socialization in higher education.

Author Brig Leane introduces the PLC Dashboard, a tool designed to help administrators and teachers efficiently implement the PLC at Work(R) process.

This timely and compelling volume furthers understandings of contemporary art education in international contexts and the position of alternative art colleges in relation to the neoliberal academy and arts economy.