Educational strategies and policy

This book aims to be a reference for understanding an educational system throughout Latin America aligned with the Catholic Church.

In Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools.

This edited work uses the life and biblical teachings of Jesus to examine modern leadership theory.

Learn to be the best practitioner you can be by reading how interdisciplinary research translates into school-based best practice.

How to make a living speaking, training, and running workshops and seminars Expert Bob Bly shares his secrets for earning $1,000 to $5,000 a day, or more, as a self-employed speaker, lecturer, or trainer.

The maritime car carrier industry has been entirely neglected by social scientists.

Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system, continues to change and grow in complexity.

This reader-friendly book offers practical strategies and digital resources that will help K-12 students succeed in the 21st century.

Originally published in 1969.

Everything that parents need to survive and thrive in the 21st Century.

Preventing Stress in Organizations:How to Develop Positive Managersoffers an innovative, evidence-based approach to help managers prevent and reduce workplace stress in their staff.

This book addresses one of the most crucial and common questions confronting planners of languages other than English, that is, how the impacts of global languages on local languages should be dealt with: internationalization or local language promotion?

This book offers practical, evidence-based solutions to help professionals implement and support effective teamwork.

This volume promotes a thought-provoking discussion on contemporary issues surrounding the teaching of language and literacy based on first hand experiences and research.

Focusing on teaching and learning in educational institutions, Transforming Professional Practice in Education explores the value of enhancing dialogue to improve both professional relationships and practices.

This book provides new perspectives on Assessment for Learning (AfL), on the challenges encountered in its implementation, and on the diverse ways of meeting these challenges.

This book draws from the successes of award-winning schools, teachers, students, and parents to help leaders understand how they can positively change the educational experience of Black students.

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2023 - Change & SustainabilityHow can I coach employees effectively when business change is constant?

Interview Strategies for Always Getting the Information You NeedFor managers, interviewing is about gathering useful information in every face-to-face encounter, from project planning meetings to client discussions to speaking with prospective employees.

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

This book shows how creative methods, drawing on innovative arts-based and design-based approaches, can be employed in health education contexts.

Fundamentals of Workplace Learning is a comprehensive guide to how people learn in the workplace, and the issues and challenges involved.

Although mindfulness can be located in a number of different traditions and disciplines, it was originally an esoteric and powerful practice based on developing a capacity attainable only by certain people.

There is a lot of hype, hand-waving, and ink being spilled about artificial intelligence (AI) in business.

This invaluable reference text thoroughly examines the alarming epidemic of campus sexual assault, including a discussion of laws, high-profile cases, controversies, and proposed solutions.

A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfullyHow to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration of the craft of thoughtone that demonstrates what we've lost in education today, and how we might begin to recover it.

When was the last time you shook up your writing instruction?

Curriculum Implementation Leadership and Equity in Education: Curriculum Struggles and Hopes in Jamaica During the Post-Independence Era takes a critical historical perspective on how curriculum is understood, tracing major national curriculum implementation efforts within primary and secondary schools in Jamaica from the 1970s to 2000s.

What do the world's top managers have in common?

Kids today are in a media-saturated environment.

This collection presents an international perspective on issues of training and accreditation at the Master's level of course provision in the initial and continuing professional development of teachers, coining the phrase 'masterliness in education'.

To many, the task of writing about one's life seems daunting and difficult.

Needs Assessment for Learning and Performance offers comprehensive coverage of the knowledge and skills needed to develop and conduct needs assessments and to analyze, interpret, and communicate results to clients and organizations.

​Ein nachhaltiges Humanressourcenmanagement sucht Ursachen und Lösungen für Personalknappheit sowohl in den ressourcenabgebenden Systemen als auch im Unternehmen selbst.

Critical Service Learning Toolkit offers a strengths-based, interdisciplinary approach to promoting social competence while enhancing emotional and academic skill development.

This book introduces readers to the latest research and findingsfrom projects focusing on teaching education for sustainable development atuniversities.

The Evaluative Study of Action Research presents all eight published papers as part of the six-year, global, Evaluative Study of Action Research (ESAR) in one volume.

Today's increasingly interconnected and globalized world demands that students be taught to appreciate human diversity and recognize universally held values and beliefs.

First published in 1998.

Performance appraisal is a key tool for meeting the managerial needs of the modern organization.

Every person has the potential to contribute to an organization as long as they have access to the right opportunities and connections, yet it sometimes is all too obvious that the stigma associated with a person's disability can have a negative impact on their ability to develop healthy work relationships with peers and supervisors.

New research in community development shows that institutions matter.

Using empathy around the workplace.

This third edition of Official Knowledge, a classic text from one of education's most distinguished scholars, challenges readers to critically examine how certain knowledge comes to be "e;official,"e; and whose agendas this knowledge represents.

How do contemporary young people construct their sexual identities?

For some, socialism is a potent way of achieving economic, political and social transformations in the twenty-first century, while others find the very term socialism outdated.