Educational strategies and policy

This book examines the impact of network society on self-identity and education and proposes key tasks for transforming education in network society.

This book shares with an international audience of teachers, scholars, and policymakers the experience of pedagogical practices to facilitate sustainability in the world.

The success of service organizations ultimately depends on employees in customer service roles; their performance affects customer satisfaction and loyalty.

How does emotional intelligence as a competency go beyond the individual to become something a group or entire organization can build and utilize collectively?

A reference on sustainability, social responsibility, and green practices in hospitality and tourism, this book presents innovative research methods in sustainability, state-of-the-art research by leading internationally recognized scholars on this topic, providing an excellent source of quality research.

China's stunning record of economic development since the 1970s has been marred by an increasingly obvious gap between the country's 'haves' and its 'have-nots'.

In this unique two-volume work, expert scholars and practitioners examine race and racism in public education, tackling controversial educational issues such as the school-to-prison pipeline, charter schools, school funding, affirmative action, and racialized curricula.

« La recherche sur les mécanismes cognitifs et cérébraux des apprentissages a produit des résultats majeurs ces vingt dernières années.

The history of African teacher training in Natal is one of the most neglected and under-researched aspects of educational history.

Latino Civil Rights in Education: La Lucha Sigue documents the experiences of historical and contemporary advocates in the movement for civil rights in education of Latinos in the United States.

This book addresses the political effects of the massification of higher education and intellectual labor in the neoliberal state.

Skinned Knees and ABCs critically analyzes schools as sites for applied behaviour systems.

In this second edition of Becoming a Literacy Leader: Supporting Learning and Change, author Jennifer Allen reflects on her work as a literacy specialist and how the role has evolved in the decade since she wrote the first edition.

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

The Best On-the-Job Guide to Industrial Plant Equipment and SystemsThis practical, one-of-a-kind field manual explains how equipment in industrial facilities operates and covers all aspects of commissioning relevant to engineers and project managers.

Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived and lived within higher education in Britain.

The three volumes in The Encyclopedia of Human Resource Management offer a comprehensive review of the essential issues and most important information available on the topic.

This book, first published in 1992, sets out the belief that the placement element of courses should be designed from the start as a genuine educational experience.

Affirmative Action examines the larger structure of institutional white privilege in education, and compares the magnitude of white racial preference with the policies typically envisioned when the term "e;racial preference"e; is used.

Education has become one of our major concerns, at the heart of any strategy for prosperity and social cohesion.

Winner of the 2024 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division A's Excellence in Research Award A model guide for reconceiving the central office to help educational leaders build equity-aligned, research-based approaches to district reform.

Teach students to write about math so they can improve their conceptual understanding in authentic ways.

Warum erzeugt Gewalt wieder Gewalt?

This book is a practical guide for business professionals to develop and improve business intelligence and collective decision-making within their organisation.

This volume offers a new conceptualization of career wellbeing by viewing the construct as an individual's long-term contentment with their career outcomes, career achievements, career changes and their sustainable employability amidst the complexities of the contemporary and emerging future digital-driven work environment.

Russ Vince examines learning as both a social and a strategic process, invariably linked to emotions and politics that are mobilized by attempts at learning and organizing.

This book focuses on the problem of religious diversity, civil dialogue, and religion education in public schools, exploring the ways in which atheists, secularists, fundamentalists, and mainstream religionists come together in the public sphere, examining how civil discourse about religion fit swithin the ideals of the American political and pedagogical systems and how religious studies education can help to foster civility and toleration.

This book explores how the concepts of social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion can be understood within the context of higher education.

Andalas International Nursing Conference (AINiC) is a dedicated conference aimed at researchers in nursing, public health and other health sciences topics.

PROSE Award Finalist An invigorating work that identifies obstructions to transformative change in higher education and offers paths to break through.

This book addresses an emerging and vital field of scholarship, which deals with transgender- and gender-expansive-informed education, policy, and practice.

Highly respected coaches Christian van Nieuwerburgh and David Love help you to develop your coaching practice, bridging the gap between beginner and advanced coach.

Originally published in 1989.

Counternarratives from Asian American Art Educators: Identities, Pedagogies, and Practice beyond the Western Paradigm collects and explores the professional and pedagogical narratives of Asian art educators and researchers in North America.

This book showcases strategies which support teachers and principals as they implement high standards for students.

Radical Principals is a guidebook for K-12 leaders looking for creative ways, beyond the status quo, to support and nurture school communities in the wake of unprecedented obstacles.

Applying Indigenous Research Methods focuses on the question of "e;How"e; Indigenous Research Methodologies (IRMs) can be used and taught across Indigenous studies and education.

How to turn the paradoxes built into anti-racism work into drivers of learning and changeEven as anti-racism practices seemed to be gaining momentum, the nation shows signs of falling back into long-standing patterns of racial injustice and inequality.

In educational policy, research and practice circles, there has been much attention in recent times to the power and potential of social networks for supporting educational improvement.

Modern management theory has been established on the ashes of Taylorism, emphasizing control over accountability, conformity over uniqueness, and constraint over freedom.

This core textbook, edited by five leading scholars of the subject, provides a comprehensive overview of the key topics, debates and themes in this increasingly important field.

`An inspiring resource for Headteachers, deputy Headteachers and any primary teacher who desires a leadership rile.

This book provides an understanding of human resource management practices in the People's Republic of China and comparisons with HRM practices in Western countries.

Dieses Buch veranschaulicht die konkrete Vorgehensweise für das lösungsfokussierte Konfliktmanagement, die Mediation sowie Strukturaufstellungen und zeigt dabei mögliche Synergien auf.

Part leadership book, part business book and 100% true, this is like hearing a wise, honest, and humorous mentor finally tell you about the world of business as it is and how to find your place in it.

This book showcases various methodological approaches to the analysis of organizational talk and text.