Educational administration and organization

In Natural Allies, Soo Hong offers a paradigm shift in how we think about family engagement with schools.

This is a vital resource for any teacher or administrator looking to help students tackle issues of race, class, gender, religion, and cultural background.

Local Management of Schools (LMS) has increasingly become a topic of concern for schools, and head teachers and managers in particular.

These days, running a club is an accepted part of the teacher's remit, adding additional pressure to an already substantial workload.

This volume explores how educational policy is changing as a result of neoliberal restructuring and how these issues affect educators' practice.

Over the past several decades, higher education has been transformed by the entry of faculty of color and women into the university system.

The landscape of education is undergoing a dramatic shift, propelled by the ever-evolving digital world.

Why do some students struggle to understand and retain information, while other students don't?

Social movements and events such as the Black Lives Matter and Stop Asian Hate, the Supreme Court's ruling against the legality of employment discrimination against the LGBT population, and the growing diversity of the workforce serve as impetus for more diverse and engaging work contexts.

In Transreform Radical Humanism: A Mathematics and Teaching Philosophy, a methodological collage of auto/ethnography, Gadamerian hermeneutics, and grounded theory is used to analyze a diverse collection of data: the author's evolving relationship with mathematics; the philosophies of mathematics; the "e;math wars"e;; the achievement gap for Indigenous students in mathematics and some of the lessons learned from ethnomathematics; and risk education as an emerging topic within mathematics curricula.

A presidential transition has a major impact on the life of an institution.

Parents and guardians can be a powerful resource for teachers, but it takes skill and confidence to build partnerships, or parentships, and proactively engage in a positive way.

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "e;chosenness"e; into plans and programs for black liberation.

This practical book shares key lessons learned from highly effective, award-winning National Blue Ribbon Schools.

This book examines the practices and effects of emerging international curriculum programs established by Chinese elite public high schools and supported by China's New Curriculum Reform and the Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools (CFCRS) policy.

Teaching remains an incredibly demanding and often 'downtrodden' profession but being a teacher can be a fabulous and rewarding job.

This book introduces theories of educational leadership and management and provides examples of their translation into practice.

This accessible resource provides a vivid and practical guide to social and emotional learning and will help primary schools tackle and improve behaviour and wellbeing.

The rapidity of change in education has intensified in recent years.

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

In The Coach Approach to School Leadership, Jessica Johnson, Shira Leibowitz, and Kathy Perret address a dilemma faced by many principals: how to function as learning leaders while fulfilling their evaluative and management duties.

'Ward and Eden have produced a useful and elegant text which deserves a place on the reading list of any education degree.

This book examines Thai knowledge and wisdom from the perspective of postmodern, postcolonial globalization.

This book is meant to provide a glimpse into differing facets of organizational management that allows for continued success through refinement of skills promoting operational awareness in today's rapidly evolving world of business.

This practical and accessible resource contains a wealth of discussion sheets and games to help victims of bullying reflect and talk about their experiences and feelings using the internationally familiar Blob figures.

In recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to-and often end up becoming active in-urban public schools.

Public No More examines the quickly changing environment within higher education, including the permanent decline in state support for public universities.

The Economic and Opportunity Gap has a great deal of information, ideas and resources focused on children and families living in poverty.

Critical Race Theory and Qualitative Methods provides insights and examples of why and how Critical Race Theory (CRT) serves and makes a powerful connection to qualitative study in education.

In the seventies, countries lauded American education as one of the best systems in the world.

This book provides students guidance on how to deal with the project-based instruction form.

Contesting prior assumptions that institutions simplify the world for the sake of efficiency, this book argues that rather than institution expansion indicating the movement of markets to optimal states, expanding institutions generate information costs.

This book is the first and only comprehensive guide for administrators building ESL programs.

The political, social, and economic problems of southern Africa cannot be resolved until nations of this critical region effect educational reform.

Advanced Theories of Educational Leadership presents recent models of leadership and analyzes their components and implications in the educational context.

New Public Management and the Reform of Education addresses complex and dynamic changes to public services by focusing on new public management as a major shaper and influencer of educational reforms within, between and across European nation states and policy actors.

Winchell and Runyon is about the bittersweet bonding of two legendary journalists who started out as adversaries but ended up as everlasting friends.

Within These Gates: Academic Work, Academic Leadership, University Life, and the Presidency examines the varied interactions between college and university presidents and their campus and local communities, alumni, governing bodies, external forces that impact higher education, federal and state government entities, and other stakeholders.

Strategic Human Resources Management in Schools provides a new approach to human resources management, grounded in the perspectives of cutting-edge practice, research, and theory.

The importance of promoting young children's creative thinking, and the social relationships which support it, is now seen as a vital element of good early childhood practice.

See video interview with the author During the nineteenth century, social reformers took hold of an already existing institution-the school-and sought to make it compulsory.

Discover how to motivate students in the classroom, using the elements of EMPOWERexploration, motivation, participation, openness, willingness, empathy, and resilience.

Universities have a key role to play in contributing to environmental development and combating climate change.