Embracing listening as a useful tool for strengthening organization-publics and organization-employee relationships, this book offers theoretical and practical insights for listening across myriad strategic communication contexts.
The last decade has given rise to a strong public discourse in most highly industrialized economies about the importance of a skilled workforce as a key response to the competitive dynamic fostered by economic globalisation.
How to be a Manager: A Practical Guide to Tips and Techniques is a useful book designed to show you how to develop your managerial understanding and skills at whatever job level you presently hold.
„Aufstieg durch Bildung – offene Hochschulen“ lautet der Titel eines durch das BMBF im Jahr 2011 ausgeschriebenen Wettbewerbs, der Teil einer Qualifizierungsinitiative ist.
A collection of essays written by arts and humanities scholars across disciplines, this book argues that higher education has been compromised by its uncritical acceptance of our culture's standards of productivity, busyness, and speed.
Traditionally, children have been considered from a primarily developmental perspective, in need of education in order to achieve autonomy, growth, and eventually adulthood.
Ask any moderately interested Briton to name a black intellectual and chances are the response will be an American name: Malcolm X or Barack Obama, Toni Morrison or Cornel West.
The practice of consultation between senior managers and employee representatives has a long history in British employment relations yet has often been overshadowed by discussions on collective bargaining.
An early childhood classroom should reinforce and enhance young children'ssense of belonging and connection to their environment, each other, theirfamilies, and their community.
This book covers education theory and philosophy, basic education, education economy, management and other fields, focusing on the hot and frontier issues of Education reform and development in China 2020.
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introduces readers to the results of the symposium of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society.
The sales management classic-updated for today's competitive business environmentAdvanced digital technologies, the breakdown of traditional business barriers, and increased customer empowerment have transformed the sales profession.
This book provides a unique examination on the ways in which educating the whole child in the community school serves to ameliorate the conditions of poverty and obstacles to learning faced by students.
This book outlines cooperative small-group discovery (CSGD) theory and practical learning strategies for implementing it in secondary and collegiate classrooms.
This book addresses two main questions, namely how to prepare high-quality teachers in the 21st century and how the East and the West can learn from each other.
Schooling Corporate Citizens examines the full history of accountability reform in the United States from its origins in the 1970s and 1980s to the development of the Common Core in recent years.
This book acquaints the reader to the often invisible-ized practices and policies under the rhetoric of 'inclusion', through theoretical and empirical analysis.
This edited volume examines the historical development of Chinese-medium schools from the British colonial era to recent decades of divergent development after the 1965 separation of Singapore and Malaysia.
In an increasingly globalised educational landscape, this book examines whether the principle of educational equality can be applied across nation state borders.
In view of the explosion of violent conflicts in many parts of the world and the hasty, but prevailing, assumption that ethnicity is the source of these conflicts, this book is encompassed to highlight, describe and examine how ethnicity is politicized in many of these current conflicts.
This book foregrounds postcolonial theory as a lens through which to explore the concept of 'global heritage' and argues that the meso-level spaces of institutional ethos and cultural pedagogy must take an active role in the pursuit of cultural equality.
Project Management Institute (PMI) is the leading professional association for project management, and the authority for a growing global community of millions of project professionals and individuals who use project management skills.
This book draws on a wide range ofpractical examples to describe how conflicts within organisations aretraditionally managed and the complementary conflict management methods that canbe employed.
Online Education is a comprehensive exploration of fully online and blended teaching platforms, addressing history, theory, research, planning, and practice.
