Educational strategies and policy

Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated.

Despite the multifaceted complexity of teaching, dominant perspectives conceptualize teacher development in linear, dualistic, transactional, human-centric ways.

This book focuses on CSR in the public sector, in all its manifestations around the world, in order to consider its application in practice and its connections to sustainable objectives.

Searching for the Human in Human Resource Management is a highly original collection penned by leading critical thinkers in the field of organization studies and HRM, each concerned to resituate people at the heart of HRM and organizational analysis.

Progressive educational approaches are currently in crisis in the face of globalization and conservative retrenchment.

There are many books on the market which discuss indigenous ways of knowing, and bemoan western society's seeming lack of interest in anything other than scientific fact-based knowledge.

Björn-Martin Kurzrock untersucht markt- und objektbezogene Einflussfaktoren auf die Performance von Immobilien-Direktanlagen und Bestandteile der Immobilien-Performance.

Understanding Student Mobility in Europe interprets student mobility in European higher education through an active dialogue between disciplines, voices and variables of interest.

The book demonstrates the hopeful stance the young take in response to ordinary suffering and significant trauma when adults talk with them about their losses.

With Super Spellers Starter Sets, you have everything you need to bring to life the wisdom of Super Spellers: Seven Steps to Transforming Your Spelling Instruction.

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Teaching comprehension with informational texts is a critical component of any reading program and one that many children struggle with as they progress through their schooling.

In Globalization and Education: Critical Perspectives , an outstanding group of international contributors explore the increasingly important dimensions of globalization as it affects educational policy and practice in nation-states around the world.

This book reports an ethnographic study of thirty teachers from eighteen schools who participated in a staff development programme in multicultural education.

This book examines the interplay and tensions between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic language policy and processes in Tigray, a regional state of Ethiopia, in the period of pre- and post-1991.

The book examines how the understanding of the global and the local has changed in response to ongoing reconfigurations between the state and society.

An Emerging Approach for Education and Care provides a synthesis of the extensive research that has been conducted worldwide about the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for Children and Youth in education and care.

The Right Way to Build and Sustain a Successful Hospital Medicine Program This first complete treatment of hospitalist recruitment and retention gives you all the tools and guidance needed to build a new hospital medicine program for your hospital.

Over the last twenty years the educational role of the museum has come to be central to its mission.

This book explores how school leadership plays a significant role in addressing the issues of poor learning among students in India.

Bosses and managers from atypical backgrounds have succeeded in avoiding socially pre-determined outcomes byturning their differences into resources.

The new millennium has seen a variety of parenting styles that differ greatly from previous generations.

Thomas Kretschmar and Andreas Hamburger provide an important overview of psychodynamic work in companies, presenting different viewpoints and explaining key psychoanalytic terms and techniques for coaching and supervision.

TWI Case Studies: Standard Work, Continuous Improvement, and Teamwork provides the insight of leading experts to assist in the execution of Training Within Industry (TWI) the game-changing business tool.

Modern organisations are subject to continual change - technologies evolve, organisational structures are modified, people and underlying cultures are transformed.

Michael Allen's e-Learning Library Most e-learning that is produced for classroom training is created using instructional models that were introduced more than thirty years ago.

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Praise for Leading the High-Energy Culture "e;If you're looking for a step-by-step guide on how to become a high-energy leader, you've found it here!

The way in which industrial activities are organised among firms is a fundamental theoretical concern.

Assessment of educational achievement, whether by traditional examinations or by teachers in schools, attracts considerable public interest, particularly when it is associated with 'high stakes' outcomes such as university entry or selection for employment.

Based on case studies of Chinese teachers in Shanghai and their workplace learning within the context of reform, this book examines how Chinese teachers learn together when they engage in school-based learning activities.

Recipient of the 2020 NAGC Curriculum AwardThe word "e;astronaut"e; comes from the Greek words meaning "e;star sailor,"e; and that is exactly what students will become in Astronaut Academy.

This book addresses the contemporary aspects of employee voice through theoretical and practical analysis.

This book provides a highly informative yet concise overview of special education and inclusive education that serves as a valuable introduction to the field.

This volume provides a comprehensive summary of developments in theories and techniques within the areas of sampling, measurement, and statistical methods for analyzing behavioral data.

This book examines some of the most important challenges facing administrators and other professionals in PreK-12 schools today: safety and security, hiring and evaluating members of the faculty and staff, dealing with students' academic and behavioral challenges, assessing student performance, responding to disengaged or overly engaged parents, and handling external pressures from the community.

Today, many public schools, especially rural and inner-city areas, are so fraught with violence, so impersonal, and so poorly funded that they drive students away rather than inspire them to learn.

This book examines the manner in which the EU affects employee relations systems in economically peripheral European countries, specifically Ireland and Hungary.

School psychology practice does not exist in a vacuum and is not value-neutral.

`I thoroughly enjoyed this book which is well-argued, well-structured and superbly referenced.

College students with autism can face many difficulties during the transition from high school to further education and beyond.

A comprehensive analysis of the astonishing changes that elevated the Chicago public school system from one of the worst in the nation to one of the most improved.

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This edited volume, now in its second edition, brings together the some of the most important figures in the evolution of Critical Pedagogy and a number of up-and-coming scholars.

Teacher education is experiencing a period of dramatic and arguably irrevocable change within a wider context of turbulence in the English education system.

Race and Culturally Responsive Inquiry in Education examines how assumptions about race and culture have shaped US education research and the interpretation and implementation of its results.