This book explores the interplay between politics, managerialism, and higher education, and the complex linkages between politics and public universities in Hong Kong.
This volume builds upon emergent understandings about educational leadership and policy in hopes of continuing to refine our understanding of what effective leadership means in linguistically and culturally diverse school contexts.
This book examines the current political, social, and economic positions that push the responsibility for the emotional health of students onto schools.
This book proposes the new concept of "e;comprehensive global competence"e; in order to explore how to advocate, cultivate, and implement global competence at China's higher education institutions.
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 highlights the importance of interdisciplinarity in the academic landscape, and examines how it is understood in the context of the modern university.
This book (Volume II) brings together lectures given by eminent educationalists between 1983 and 2008 in memory of the work of Ruth Wong, an influential figure in the field of education in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Two decades after the war, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) still faces a weak national identity and ethnic and religious divisions that are further preventing the country from reaching sustainable peace and development.
Turning his distinctive analytical lens to the politics of American education, Joel Spring looks at contemporary educational policy issues from theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives.
Doing News Framing Analysis provides an interpretive guide to news frames - what they are, how they can be observed in news texts, and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural, group, and individual sites.
Social work leaders constantly strive to incorporate cutting-edge research and promote international collaboration in a dynamic contemporary environment.
In Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, Gretchen Soderlund offers a new way to understand sensationalism in both newspapers and reform movements.
'The Documentary Handbook is mandatory reading for those who want a critical understanding of the place of factual formats in today's exploding television and media industry, as well as expert guidance in complex craft skills in order to fully participate.
This book is undertaken by the author who has personally walked the journey of a classroom teacher, middle leader and school principal in the Singapore education system.
Drawing on empirical, interdisciplinary research, this book presents a critical review of some of the major issues that are of interest to researchers, policymakers and planners in developing as well as advanced countries, including specifically in India.
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.
From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto on the crises confronting higher educationIn this bracing book, Michael S.
This solutions-focused guide dives deep into personal leadership skills, encourages readers to reflect and grow, and offers practical strategies for weaving the thread of intentionality throughout your daily leadership practice.
Advanced Theories of Educational Leadership presents recent models of leadership and analyzes their components and implications in the educational context.
This book introduces Bourdieu in the context of higher education for unfamiliar readers or those who would like to see his theories applied in the higher education setting.
What its really like to be a parent in the world of higher education, and how academia can make this hard climb a little less steepAcademia has a big problem.
Medizinische Einrichtungen sind Orte, die der Pflege bei und Behandlung von Erkrankungen dienen, an denen es aber auch zu Gewalt und Vernachlässigung gegen Patientinnen und Patienten kommen kann.
This book provides a new way of understanding Japanese management by focusing on the relationship between Japanese companies and their social practices.
Written by scholars from both the Western and Chinese contexts, this monograph discusses the relation between cyberbullying, socio-emotional-moral competencies, and feasible interventions by integrating values education, and provides future directions in the field of cyberpsychology.
Based on six-month fieldwork in a junior secondary school in Shanghai, this book qualitatively investigates the implementation of Teaching Research Groups (TRGs), a form of school-based Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) in China, and teachers' different professional learning experiences within the structure of TRGs.
