Educational strategies and policy

Social pacts - policy agreements between governments, labor unions and sometimes employer organizations - began to emerge in many countries in the 1980s.

Deficit thinking is a pseudoscience founded on racial and class bias.

This anthology reviews the history, current states, and plans for the development of mathematics education in the Muslim States in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Service learning presents an experiential learning opportunity, particularly for students at higher education institutions.

A leading biblical scholar places charity back at the heart of the Judeo-Christian tradition, arguing for its biblical roots It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor.

This volume encompasses the range of issues encountered by language scholars who teach and research in departments of languages and cultures within the higher education system, predominantly in Australia, but touching other universities worldwide.

Leadership development aims to disrupt leaders' behavioural and thought patterns.

Workplace mistreatment is a burgeoning topic of interest, with the majority of workers having experienced it in some form.

This edited collection brings together international authors to discuss the meaning and purpose of higher education in a "e;post-truth"e; world.

This book elaborates on the six pillars of a healthy and standardized real-estate brokerage industry: the generation, distribution and matching of information; the transaction system; circulation finance; mobile Internet; the supervision system; and professional brokers.

This book is the first-ever authoritative work on the use and management of humor in the workplace.

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.

Univer-Cities presents its fourth instalment, building on the success of its predecessors: I: Strategic Implications for Asia; II: Strategic View of the Future; III: Strategic Dilemmas of Medical Origins and Selected Modalities.

Here's a sobering statistic: by the age of 65, on average only 5% of us will have achieved success.

The demand for work-ready graduates, who are familiar with organizational practices in the workplace is increasing, and so the need for greater work integrated learning (WIL) is a growing concern for the education sector.

Few would deny that getting ahead is a legitimate goal of learning, but the phrase implies a cruel hierarchy: a student does not simply get ahead, but gets ahead of others.

From the president of Wesleyan University, a compassionate and provocative manifesto on the crises confronting higher educationIn this bracing book, Michael S.

A sweeping leadership framework to institute clear and intentional actions throughout your organization so that people of all racial backgrounds are empowered to lead, collaborate, and excel at work.

Providing a wealth of practical interventions and activities--all organized within a state-of-the-art modular framework--this invaluable book helps child clinicians expand their cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) toolkits.

The most definitive management ideas of the century, all in one place.

The Trojan Horse affair sent shock waves across England's education system in 2014.

What makes a team great?

Tens of millions of people in the U.

Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller.

Based on more than 30 years of clinical experience as a psychiatrist and a therapist, Dr.

Rethink Everything You Know about Managing Talent in Today's Disruptive Landscape A Vice Chairman at Korn Ferry (KF) the world s largest talent advisory and executive search firm RJ Heckman has helped many of today s most successful companies develop talent-management strategies that ensure corporate success through good times and bad.

This book provides the global mathematics education community with information on the recent and current status of the teaching of mathematics in a group of island nations in the Asia-Pacific region.

GOLD MEMBER WINNER LIVING NOW BOOK AWARD: SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP and eLIT BOOK AWARD: BUSINESS AUDIOBOOKA timely resource for Black professionals on how to rise to the top of their organizations or industries and, just as importantly, to stay there.

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERTake control of your happiness and fulfillment with a monumental restart in your career.

Every organization faces the challenge of competing in the digital economy.

BECOME A MASTER AT NEGOTIATION AND COMMUNICATIONNever go into an important conversation feeling unheard, unprepared, or uninformed againapply the proven SISCO method for communication to become a master negotiator, trusted interviewer, and engaging conversationalist.

This handbook focuses on the education systems in the three Americas, North, Central and South America, and includes a chapter on most countries in the region.

This book presents research-based family-school intervention programs that target the specific developmental period of preschool through the early elementary years, focusing on promoting positive child transitions into school.

Hiring the least likely candidates and turning them into high-potential employees is not only a winning business strategy but also a crucial step on the road to full inclusion and social justice.

Fluency in math doesn't just happen; it is a well-planned journey.

The integration of sustainability requires a paradigm shift in the lifecycle of buildings.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

The definitive guide to finding, developing, and keeping the best talent-expanded with brand newand updated materialThe Talent Management Handbook is the established go-to guide for HR professionals, managers, and leaders looking for the best ways to use talent management programs to develop a culture of excellence.

In a disrupted and technology-enabled world of work, HR professionals' ability to attract, recruit and retain people with digital skills can be the difference between business success and failure.

This book explores the partnership between Finnish universities and the university-affiliated teacher training schools known as 'normal schools'.

This handbook provides a compilation of research in Childhoodnature and brings together existing research themes and seminal authors in the field alongside new cutting-edge research authored by world-class researchers drawing on cross-cultural and international research data.

This book reflects on the growing appetite for plurality in management knowledge that addresses the problems important to business and society.

Dieses Buch bietet einen wertvollen Überblick über agile, virtuelle und moderne Führung.

The purpose of this book is to provide a model that speaks specifically to adopting Information Technology Governance (ITG) and University Governance processes.

E-Mobilität ist komplex, alle Betroffenen haben gleichen Fragen.