Educational strategies and policy

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.

A guide for parents to help teenagers use mindfulness in their everyday lives.

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.

And the Leader Is.

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.

School Counselors as Practitioners, Second Edition, is a hands-on, practice-based, task-oriented guide to being an effective school counselor.

Como un complemento necesario para poder navegar con seguridad en ese vasto sistema, Martha Alles nos presenta ahora su Diccionario de terminos de Recursos Humanos.

This cutting-edge collection of essays presents to the reader leading voices within food justice, environmental justice, and school to prison pipeline movements.

Titel des englischen Originals:"Educating Children at Home"Beschulung ist inzwischen in unserer Kultur so tief verankert, dass wir zur Überzeugung gekommen sind, ohne Schule könne es keine Bildung geben.

This book explores the unique experiences of a sister school network in Canada and China contextualized through the lens of the Reciprocal Learning Project, which supports the relationship between a school network and teacher education exchange program of two countries.

This brilliant book, focused on the education of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children, offers a radical critique of traditional approaches to school improvement.

The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice.

This collection investigates the ways in which boys and young men negotiate neoliberal discourse surrounding aspiration and how neoliberalism shapes their identities.

Discover the secret behind how Israel, a tiny country with the highest concentration of start-ups per capita worldwide, is raising generations of entrepreneurs who are disrupting markets around the globe and bringing change to the world.

Vor PISA wurde Schulentwicklung vor allem von der einzelnen Schule aus gedacht: Schulentwicklung als Ausgestaltung der jeweiligen Einzelschule mit dem Erkunden ihrer jeweiligen Stärken und besonderen Herausforderungen am jeweiligen Standort.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Der grosse Aufsatz" verfügbar.

A Pedagogy of Equality in a Time of Unrest addresses education and teaching as fundamental democratic forms of equality.

In rural America, perhaps more than other areas, high school students have the ability to contribute to the revitalization and sustainability of their home communities by engaging in oral history projects designed to highlight the values that are revered and worth saving in their region.

Paartherapie stellt in der psychotherapeutischen und psychosozialen Versorgung eine wichtige Größe dar, denn schwerwiegende chronische Paarkonflikte tragen erheblich zur Entwicklung und Aufrechterhaltung psychischer wie auch körperlicher Erkrankungen bei.

The financial crisis has exposed severe shortcomings in mainstream monetary economics and modern finance.

Trade unions have historically been involved in education and training in the workplace.

This book explores the challenges that individuals of African, Caribbean, Asian and South-East Asian descent (Global Majority leaders) living in the UK may face in attaining, practising, and experiencing leadership within organisations.

The Differentiating Instruction With Menus series offers teachers exciting tools to challenge and reach both gifted and advanced students in the classroom.

This edited collection provides a structured and in-depth analysis of the current use of multiple approaches beyond quotas for resolving the pressing issue of gender inequality, and the lack of female representation on corporate boards.

Wie andere Berufsgruppen im Sozialbereich verfügen auch Heilpädagogen nach Abschluss ihres Studiums nur über unzureichende Kenntnisse von den rechtlich verankerten Voraussetzungen und Rahmenbedingungen ihrer Tätigkeit.

This book examines the shift in doctoral co-supervision from traditional hierarchical approaches to team-based models.

New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education discusses contemporary trends and activities related to comparisons and quantifications.

Tackling a growing challenge in today's schools, experienced educators Lineburg and Gearheart present an honest picture of how poverty affects students, families, and the school community at large.

Introducing Italian culture and people through the medium of the language used today, Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook provides readers with the basic tools to express themselves in a wide variety of situations.

A critical and accessible text, this book provides a foundation for translanguaging theory and practice with educating emergent bilingual students.

For many years, government policy has associated young people 'being NEET' (Not in Education, Employment or Training) with educational underachievement, worklessness, generational poverty, poor health, antisocial behaviour, and reduced life expectancies.