Educational administration and organization

Following the American Revolution, it was a cliche that the new republic's future depended on widespread, informed citizenship.

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the ideas surrounding reflective practice, specifically in the areas of learning in management, development and education.

This collection provides the first in-depth, interdisciplinary and over-arching review of higher education in Ireland, situating higher education within the socio-cultural, political and historical context of the country over the past 40 years and the development of European and national policies.

Covering a timely topic, which is more and more frequently in the news, this book offers vignettes that will sharpen the reader's ability to recognize and respond to difficult situations sparked by identity differences among faculty, staff, and students in college and university settings.

This book addresses various 21st century questions and challenges, especially the role of technology in upgrading teaching and learning in today's society, and the role of higher education institutions in improving standards of living, economics, society and sustainability.

Ensuring Learning: Supporting Faculty to Improve Student Success is the second book in a two-book series.

K-12 schools and higher education institutions are experiencing steady racial and cultural shifts that are affecting interactions, relationships, and ultimately, school and student success.

Discipline in Schools: A Symposium is a collection of papers that tackles the issues, concerns, and problems in disciplining students.

This is Volume 44 of the Educational Media and Technology Yearbook.

Practical and forward-thinking, Developing Teacher Leaders in Special Education is the administrator's essential guide to growing special educator leadership in any school, district, or program.

Deans and chairs, like other leaders everywhere, often rely on narrow views of their organizations that capture only part of the real picture.

Female scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians worldwide are making historic contributions to their fields.

This book explores the relevance of institutional mission to writing program administration and writing center direction.

Explore the unique social and educational laboratory known as the Israeli kibbutz!

By applying cultural-historical activity theory and expansive learning theory to educational research, this volume illuminates new forms of educational activities as collaborative interventions in schools and communities where learners and practitioners generate expansive learning so that they can collectively transform their activities and expand their agency for themselves.

First published in 1972, this book explores the nature of the British education service up until the early 1970s, looking at its complex administration and financial and legislative constraints.

Abolitionist Leadership in Schools offers school and district leaders rich insights and approaches for recreating, restructuring, and reorienting their service to students, families, staff, and communities in crisis.

Gain a greater understanding of organizational capacity to do and use evaluation and implications for evaluation capacity building (ECB).

This book investigates the localised effects of reform by exploring the impact of a school improvement policy agenda on the work of three experienced principals.

What is 'intellectual leadership' and how might this concept be better understood in the modern university?

This volume originates from the International Study of Principal Preparation (ISPP), a collaborative project representing nearly a decade of research on principal preparation in countries throughout the world.

If you are a teacher or school leader looking for a one-stop professional development resource focused on teaching practice, Power Up Your Pedagogy: The Illustrated Handbook of Teaching is the perfect book for you.

Making an important contribution to the growing body of literature addressing the issue of sustainability in the Early Years, Sandra Smidt provides a highly accessible text examining the philosophical, political, economic, social and cultural aspects of sustainability impacting on very young children today.

Redbrick University: A Guide for Parents, Sixth-Formers and Students provides constructive criticism of the Redbrick University.

Becoming a Successful School Leader critically considers what leaders need to help them support their schools and communities with the challenges and demands of learning.

College For Every Student shares best practices for raising college and career aspirations and increasing educational opportunities for underserved and diverse students in rural and urban districts.

If you are looking for concrete suggestions to help you teach the skills and work habits students need to reach high levels of performance on state and national standards, then this book is for you.

This book provides a contemporary overview of school effectiveness and improvement.

Through an accessible, research-based program of professional learning, this critical resource empowers gifted educators to become change agents for equity in their classroom, school, or district.

Originally published in 1995, The Business of Higher Education focuses on innovation in student financial services.

School choice is a hot topic in the United States.

At two previous conferences of Working Group 3.

In Online Predators, An Internet Insurgency: A Field Manual for Teaching and Parenting in the Digital Arena Jeffrey A.

Since the first works on Higher Education Administration in the 1970s no comprehensive work in terms of purpose and scope of Higher Education has been published.

The Costs of Further Education: A British Analysis offers a critique of the organization of further education in Britain, especially education provided in technical colleges.

The Self-Transforming School combines an insightful meta-analysis of factors contributing to the success of schools, and an examination of powerful mega-trends that are shaping developments in education, to offer the first mega-analysis in education policy and practice.

This book discusses the strategies that the Singapore Education System has embarked to encourage school change and innovations.

Education Futures for School Leadership is a comprehensive resource to support school leaders as they encounter the growing complexity and uncertainties that characterize life in schools today.

The bestselling analysis of higher education's impact, updated with the latest data How College Affects Students synthesizes over 1,800 individual research investigations to provide a deeper understanding of how the undergraduate experience affects student populations.

"e;An eye-opening critique of contemporary [education] approaches .

How can an informed, evidence-based whole school approach to behaviour benefit you, your colleagues and your students?

This edited collection presents, reviews, and critically analyzes sustainable practices and long-term-oriented decision-making in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).

This book is located in the field of education governance and sits amidst debates on public school reform in China.

America's citizens want children to receive a high-quality education in clean, orderly and safe schools staffed with quality teachers, support staff and courageous educational leaders.

Higher education has long been contested terrain.

This topical and much needed book constitutes an important part of the debate on the integrity in an academic context as a sine qua non of responsible management education.