Educational strategies and policy

This book explores the notion of authenticity in leaders and examines how authentic leadership is supported by emotional intelligence (EI), resiliency, and mindfulness.

This timely book addresses the need for increasing multi-agency capacity in schools, as the success of initiatives such as 'Every Child Matters' or 'personalised learning' depends on teachers understanding the challenges faced by young people in learning effectively and happily in their school.

Offering an innovative and dynamic approach to adult learning, Playful Learning explores the potential of play in adulthood with the goal of helping educators, corporate trainers and event designers incorporate play-based activities for adults into both educational and work settings.

In the first volume in the Critical Global Citizenship Education series, Torres combines theoretical and empirical research to present an original perspective on global citizenship education as a vitally important way of learning in a globalized world.

The issue of physical resources is one of considerable interest in the field of human resource management, but the solution to such difficulties must depend upon the skills and enterprise of those in positions of management.

This book injects a burst of energy into the sociology of work, offering a perspective that is both innovative and deeply informed.

Human resource (HR) governance is a relatively new construct that has recently begun attracting more and more attention in both research and practice.

This book discusses the effect of global pandemic, Covid-19, on human resource and draws strategies with new job designing tools and techniques.

Lance Wright shows why business in the 21st century requires a new understanding of the intersection of risk, security, and human resource management.

Whether from customers, supply-chain partners, policymakers, or regulators, organizations in virtually every industry are facing calls to do more with less.

The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address.

This book is about the roots of managerial rationality.

A new breed of HR Professional is needed who can offer the sort of effective people management that can change the way organizations work.

Well-established in some fields and still emerging in others, the studio approach to design education is an increasingly attractive mode of teaching and learning, though its variety of definitions and its high demands can make this pedagogical form somewhat daunting.

Managing Diversity in Organizations focuses on a key issue that organizations are facing-diversity.

The Future of Publicly Funded Faith Schools addresses and critically examines the arguments both for and against the continued maintenance of faith-based schools within a publicly funded state system.

In Employment Relations the authors translate years of experience, with the help of interesting vignettes, real life examples and connections with popular culture, into a critical understanding of the topic that brings the field to life.

On a historical global turning point, this book offers a thorough exploration of the "e;New Sustainability Paradigm"e;, originally developed by the Global Scenario Group (GSG) of the Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) as a starting point for analyzing real-life transitions and transformations.

This book describes four 'layers' or stages of education - Mythic, Romantic, Philosophic and Ironic and shows how children at each stage most effectively learn, and how they can be helped towards educational maturity.

Today's teachers are responsible for a greater variety of learners with a greater diversity of needs than ever before.

One of the most important requirements of leadership is effective communication.

"e;Do you want to hire great people?

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This handbook brings together a range of global perspectives in the field of critical studies in education to illuminate multiple ways of knowing, learning, and teaching for social wellbeing, justice, and sustainability.

Human resources are the most unique and precious possessions of an organization.

The latest volume of Research in Managing Groups and Teams focuses on multiteam systems (MTSs), or systems of interdependent teams working toward a shared goal.

This book discusses the importance of integrating spirituality from diverse knowledge backgrounds to be effective in its everyday use.

In High Schools, Race, and America's Future, Lawrence Blum offers a lively account of a rigorous high school course on race and racism.

Teachers and Their Unions: Labor Relations in Uncertain Times explores the decade of uncertainty in public education following the Great Recession by first laying a foundation that describes the development of teachers and public education and the rise of teacher unions.

This book challenges traditional, sanctioned, and official histories of reading comprehension by examining how ideological and cultural hegemony work to reproduce dominant ideologies through education in general and reading comprehension research and testing specifically.

The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda explores the relationship between education and other key sectors of development in the context of the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda.

Teachers Go to Rehab examines the advice given to teachers from multiple critics both historically and recently.

"e;A superb, crucial, blistering expose of all the myths about our education system that are all too often used to attack it.

Emphasizing the importance of contemporary art forms in EcoJustice Education, this book examines the interconnections between social justice and ecological well-being, and the role of art to enact change in destructive systems.

Developing and Leading Emergence Teams describes a future business landscape that seems to be complicated, complex and chaotic, in almost equal measures.

The coaching and mentoring profession is facing a major challenge - helping clients cope effectively with life's complexities and conflicting demands in a rapidly changing environment.

This book does not cover the whole field of Infants' Teaching but is concerned mainly with general principles and matters which are open to the non-specialist.

This edited work expands the theory of followership by drawing on biblical examples to illustrate the role of faith in being a better follower.

Drawing upon current literature on the history and politics of therapeutic cultures and upon original, qualitative research this book was produced in response to rapidly growing interest in the rise of 'new' HRD practices such as coaching, 'soft skills' training and personal development training.

Marginalized Voices in Music Education explores the American culture of music teachers by looking at marginalization and privilege in music education as a means to critique prevailing assumptions and paradigms.

Despite Africa's vast and diverse natural resources, the developmental challenges plaguing the continent still remain.

Volume 5 of Critical Perspectives in International Public Sector Management is comprised of three parts.

This book represents the first comprehensive investigation of the role of emotional intelligence in promoting innovation in the organizational context.

This book constructs a multi-disciplinary interpretation of emotion, specifically applied and discussed within Organizational Change environments.

This book applies common sense principles to research findings in order to facilitate effective teaching and successful learning.

This volume presents the most comprehensive, balanced, and up-to-date coverage of theory and research on cognitive, thinking, and learning styles, in a way that: * represents diverse theoretical perspectives; * includes solid empirical evidence testing the validity of these perspectives; and * shows the application of these perspectives to school situations, as well as situations involving other kinds of organizations.