Educational strategies and policy

The industrial monoculture spreading across the globe is highly competitive, greedy and egotistical; in the shaping of educational policy, global communities have accepted a model based on science and technology, which lacks aspects that should be addressed in the goal of education.

In Contemporary Urban Youth Culture in China: A Multiperspectival Cultural Studies of Internet Subcultures, Jing Sun explores contemporary Chinese urban youth culture through analyses of three Chinese Internet subcultural artifacts-A Bloody Case of a Steamed Bun, Cao Ni Ma, and Du Fu Is Busy.

This book can be read by educators at all stages in their careers.

"e;Segregation now, Segregation tomorrow, Segregation forever"e;.

This book will inspire academics, teachers and trainers to use film and television in their classrooms and to shows them how it might be done.

The exploration of the intersection of leadership practices from the school principal and other educators, the school culture, and the school success across different high-need contexts and cultures make this volume unique.

Measure, Use, Improve!

The purpose of this book is to highlight the efforts of the members of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) to prepare Scholarly Practitioners in the field of education leadership.

Punk music and community have been a piece of United States culture since the early 1970s.

Human Resources Management Issues, Challenges and Trends: 'Now and Around the Corner' explores and provides an updated look at some of the challenges, trends and issues HRM professionals will need to focus on now and around the corner.

African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps.

After the New Public Management had evolved in English speaking countries, it became a role model for the reform of public administration all throughout the world.

This book is the third volume in the series on Research in Educational Diversity and Excellence.

This monograph lays out a qualitative, collective case study designed to assess how students in a secondary Latina/Latino Literature class began to think dialectically about issues of social justice.

Because everyone from policymakers to classroom teachers has a role in achieving greater equity for children from poverty, this book provides a sweeping chronicle of the historical turning points-judicial, legislative, and regulatory-on the road to greater equity, as background to the situation today.

There are numerous books documenting the challenges of student athletes and presenting recommendations for academic success.

Communication and Language play a foundational role in the overall pursuit of equity and social justice in education.

Reflective journals have been used by post-secondary educators in a wide variety of teacher-training courses to encourage students to better understand the topics that they are studying.

This book explores meaningful and effective use of student voice in urban school renewal efforts through strategies that include: surveys, interviews, focus groups, visual and video projects, social media, and student participation in governance.

Learning, as it is being increasingly recognized, is centrally predicated upon students' well-being.

Killing the Model Minority Stereotype comprehensively explores the complex permutations of the Asian model minority myth, exposing the ways in which stereotypes of Asian/Americans operate in the service of racism.

Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations gives readers a comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues.

(Orginally published in 2005)A major focus of teacher education is the development of preservice teachers.

This volume dedicated to the engagement of African American males in community colleges furthers the research agenda focused on improving the educational outcomes of African American males.

As our student population diversifies rapidly, there is a critical need to better understand how national, regional, and/or local policies impact youth in school settings.

Motivation to engage in reading is a consistent problem for students in general and boys in particular.

Multicultural Education for Learners with Special Needs in the Twenty-First Century provides general and special educators innovative information that address the road blocks to effective practice such that diverse learners will be appropriately; identified, assessed, categorized, placed and instructed.

Encouraging the participation of girls and women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) remains as vital today as it was in the 1970s.

Across the country, women are pursuing doctoral degrees at a rate higher than males.

Maribel's First Day is a narrative description of the first day of school experience for a teenage Mexican American high school student.

The power of teacher inquiry is revealed when educators examine their practices with the purpose of making necessary changes to improve the learning opportunities of their multilingual students, and working conditions in schools.

This book on Higher Education in the Caribbean, explores the key issues facing Higher Education institutions in the twenty-first century and its emphasis is on the financial and social commitments of Higher Education.

This Handbook is a comprehensive reference book for libraries, scholars, and comparative and international studies researchers.

High-Achieving Latino Students: Successful Pathways Toward College and Beyond addresses a long-standing need for a book that focuses on the success, not failure, of Latino students.

Built for More, The Role of OST in Preparing Youth for the Future of Work will highlight OST research and illustrative practices and bring forward multi-disciplinary perspectives about future trends, innovations, and the impact of OST on the future workforce.

Education Redux is a timely and incisive work answering the myriad of questions about the future of America.

This book offers a first-hand look at the importance of human resource management (HRM) processes to not just one public agency but a large group of public administration entities that rely on a public HRM agency (the Personnel Board of Jefferson County) for its HRM processes.

Committed to teaching for peace and justice, the author brings to life a teaching approach that empowers youth: to think critically and creatively about historical, current, and future issues, to care about classmates and neighbors as well as the global community, to act locally and globally for the greater good.

Unfinished Business: A Regional Education Laboratory Retrospective on School Improvement is authored by education professionals formerly employed at SERVE, one of the ten US federally funded education research and development laboratories.

The Early Years of Leadership: The Journey Begins is distinctive for many reasons, chief among which is a strong commitment to honoring practitioners' stories and empirical research.

People are on the move all across the globe and the student population is becoming increasingly more diverse.

The purpose of this book is to explore the talents, work styles, attitudes, and issues that members of the Millennial generation are bringing with them as they enter the workforce.

This Trainee Manual is designed to be used in conjunction with an instructor-directed program based on material in Behavior Modeling Training for Developing Supervisory Skills: Instructor Manual, by the same author.

Research on middle level education indicates that student learning at the middle level has a deep and abiding influence on post-secondary opportunities and career paths.

This book is intended for prospective secondary teachers, university education and human development faculty and students, and in-service secondary school teachers.

This book examines the ways in which PDSs build cultural competence for various stakeholders including pre-service teachers, classroom teachers, school leaders, college faculty, and K-12 students.

The 2nd Edition of Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism honors the genius of Dr.

This book considers teacher training in social studies and finds it lacking a sense of genuine critical empathy, a sense of shared humanity.

This book focuses on Indigenous participation in postgraduate education.

The Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) model of leadership has shown that effective leader-follower relationships predict employee well-being and performance.