Educational administration and organization

This book analyses the role of universities as critical actors in the socio-economic development of peripheral regions in Norway and the Czech Republic.

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume.

With the rise of the knowledge economy, universities are under pressure to embrace not just their traditional missions of teaching and research but a third mission of serving economic and social development.

This book investigates how governance at different levels can improve access to education for excluded communities.

This book documents the shocking state of public education in the United States, including the high rates of school violence, the decline in student achievement, and the politicization of the educational process.

The higher education industry might seem like it's booming, with over 200 million students in universities and colleges worldwide and funds flowing in like never before.

Dispositions Are a Teacher's Greatest Strength will fuel and reignite your classroom practice.

How can we make it easier for schools and families to work together on behalf of all students?

Urban school superintendents face unprecedented challenges.

This book explores changing practice in history classrooms from the autonomy of the 1980s through the introduction of GCSEs and the National Curriculum to the prescription of the National Strategies and the pervasive influence of league tables in the first decade of the twenty-first century.

"e;Mental health bears vital importance to the healthy growth of young students.

This book focuses on the impact of teachers' leadership identity on their pedagogical and class management choices and proposes a new pedagogical framework, leaderful classroom practices which emerged through collective, concurrent, collaborative, and compassionate interactions between the teacher and students.

This book disrupts the false dichotomy of college versus career by showing how young people and the programs created to serve them integrate the worlds of college and career readiness as students work to learn against the odds and strive toward lives that matter to them.

This book discusses international perspectives, management and the educational efficiency of both private and public schools.

Changing Schools places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change.

The challenges we face in education, health care, and social welfare are multifaceted, reflecting the complex systems in which we live.

This book analyses the structural and institutional transformations undergone by doctoral education, and the extent to which these transformations are in line with social, political and doctoral candidates' expectations.

The chapters in this book will focus on pre-service and in-service science teacher education, because both are equally important.

Scott Burrows riveting story of overcoming adversity through sheer determination, will power and goal setting is infectious.

Ecologies of Writing Programs: Profiles of Writing Programs in Context features profiles of exemplary and innovative writing programs across varied institutions.

Human Resource Management Study Games offers a variety of short games to help human resource practitioners and students study for human resource-related certifications and learn new aspects of human resource management.

Becoming Buoyant shows teachers how they can help students to bounce back from daily setbacks and challenges.

An age-old question universal to all teachers is "e;How do we get our students to care about their learning?

In this two volume set, educators explore the intersection of gender and education.

This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject.

In Flip the Script, the authors propose that to build relationships with and engage students, educators must examine core beliefs and assumptions that create unintentional barriers to supporting students.

Policy Patrons offers a rare behind-the-scenes view of decision making inside four influential education philanthropies: the Ford Foundation, the W.

Rethinking Teaching is based upon one very simple idea - teachers teach people.

Philosopher Steven M.

This book challenges the orthodoxy of learning and teaching in higher education with an original change approach entitled the Self-Organizing University (SOU).

Teacher education is rapidly changing, pushing the field to reposition clinical practice as the central feature of teacher preparation programs, increasing the role that schools play in teacher preparation, and advocating for greater collaboration between schools/school districts and universities/colleges of education (see American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 2018; National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, 2010).

Creating and sustaining a classroom where every learner succeeds is a challenge for any teacher-especially when the elements of diversity and inclusion are added to the mix.

This book reviews the need for increased training in the food industry in order to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western Europe and the USA.

Relearning to Teach challenges the seemingly complex teaching profession and the various initiatives, strategies and ideas that are regularly suggested.

In this essential new book, best-selling author and researcher Robert J.

This book explores what academic leadership in higher education might mean in the cosmopolitan and increasingly globalised 21st century through individual academics' narrative accounts drawn from a range of international contexts.

Improving Schools with Blended Learning is specifically designed to address the important issues needed to successfully modernise education within the context of technological change.

This book examines the subject of school leadership as a profession.

Over the last fifteen years, Stephen Hess has become a leading and much-quoted authority on Washington government and the media.

Focusing on pupils moving from primary to middle or secondary school, it describes and evaluates the schools' programmes to ease transfer, and includes material provided by the pupils themselves.

First published in 1988.

Teacher retention is of utmost importance at a time when so many young teachers choose not to remain in the profession.

Academic inbreeding - appointing one's own graduates for academic positions - is a controversial but surprisingly common practice internationally.

iPads are powerful tools for engaging students, encouraging creativity, stimulating critical thinking, and making significant strides in learning.

Caldas and Bankston provide a critical, dispassionate analysis of why desegregation in the United States has failed to achieve the goal of providing equal educational opportunities for all students.

Stories of the lives of white teachers, as white teachers, too often simplify the complexities and conflicts of their work with students of color.