Higher education, tertiary education

Career Pathways: From School to Retirement brings together leading workforce researchers and practitioners to provide new perspectives on school-to-work and workplace career pathways.

Digital-Age Innovation in Higher Education recounts the creation, development, and growth of an innovation unit within a major university.

College Curriculum at the Crossroads explores the ways in which college curriculum is complicated, informed, understood, resisted, and enriched by women of color.

Second Edition of a Shingo Prize Winner Based on the author's personal experience with Toyota's master teachers and with companies in the midst of great change, Andy and Me: Crisis and Transformation on the Lean Journey, now in its second edition, is a business novel set in a failing New Jersey auto plant focusing on the tribulations of Tom Pappas,

Knowledge and Practice in Business and Organisations contributes to scholarly understanding of knowledge and practice, mapping the conceptual terrain, providing a critical review of debates in the field and setting out key theoretical perspectives.

How do educators engage students in community action projects without telling them what to think, how to think, or what to do?

This book provides an up-to-date review of commonly undertaken methodological and statistical practices that are sustained, in part, upon sound rationale and justification and, in part, upon unfounded lore.

A valuable tool for establishing and maintaining system reliability, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) has proven to be very effective in reducing unscheduled downtime for companies around the world.

Should we allow performance-enhancing substances in competitive athletics?

An in-depth look at why American universities continue to favor U.

Praise for Workforce Wake-Up Call "e;Great questions + great thinkers = novel ideas.

This book reconsiders the role of translation and own-language use in the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classroom.

Multistate System Reliability with Dependencies explains how to select a model of load sharing that best describes the impact of changes in reliability states of components.

In Rethinking Information Systems in Organizations John Paul Kawalek challenges the current orthodoxy of information systems and proposes new alternatives.

This edited book brings together an international cast of contributors and chapters which recognise the complexity of teacher leadership and its situated and dynamic nature.

What does it mean to be starting an academic career in the twenty first century?

This volume examines the emotional world of the early childhood classroom as it affects young children (whose emotional wellbeing is crucial to successful learning), educators (for whom teaching is never a solely cognitive act), parents, and administrators.

"e;I commend and celebrate the editors and authors for a remarkable book that engages the reader's imagination, heart, mind, spirit, and body.

Drinking is recognized as one of the most important problems confronting students on campus today, with major impacts on health and safety.

Child labour is a serious and contentious issue throughout the developing world and it continues to be a problem whose form and very meaning shifts with social, geographical, economic and cultural context.

This book explores the philosophies, barriers and opportunities shaping education environments for children, teachers and student teachers in diverse countries around the world through a series of pertinent articles.

As a field, human resources has been slow to evolve, despite a great need and opportunity for change.

Graduate employability is a significant concern for most higher education institutions worldwide.

Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism, the pursuit of global equality and justice.

This book reviews and analyses higher education financing and explores the innovative ways by both public higher education and private higher education institutes in the context of globalization, with India, Russia and Tanzania as a case study.

This book fills the need for a communication-based, public sector framed book.

Project managers tend to believe their cost estimates - whether they have exceeded budgets in the past or not.

Der Band greift Überlegungen auf, die an postcolonial studies im erziehungswissenschaftlichen Kontext anschließen.

Why do we feel uncomfortable talking about class?

"Ein Pflasterkasten für die angeschlagene Lehrerseele"Klaus-Günther Beck-EwerhardyVademekum gegen Burn-out"Man kann das Pferd zum Wasser führen, aber man kann es nicht zum Trinken zwingen", soll Gregory Bateson gesagt haben.

Decades of investigations into diversity in the workplace have created mixed answers about what kinds of effects it has on employees and teams, and whether or not it can be managed effectively to generate positive outcomes for organizations.

In today's constantly changing business environment, capable people are crucial to an organization's success, and developing their capabilities through training, learning and development initiatives is a major investment.

Dieses Buch geht der Frage nach, wie IT-Unternehmen – vom Start-up bis zum Konzern – auch künftig die besten Mitarbeiter finden und binden können.

Supporting and challenging cooperating teachers to grow in their mentoring and coaching practices with preservice teachers and also in their own work as classroom teachers, this practical guide presents and illustrates the Coaching with CARE model-a framework for reflection and action that helps cultivate a perspective on teaching that puts students at the center of teacher preparation and places value on apprenticeship and participation in learning.

Results from national and international assessments indicate that school children in the United States are not learning mathematics well enough.

This book reflects on three broad themes of Confucian-Christian relations to assist in the appreciation of the church's theology of mission.

Understanding Community Colleges provides a critical examination of contemporary issues and practices and policy of community colleges.

Your organization needs older workers more than ever: They transfer knowledge between generations, transmit your company's values to new hires, make excellent mentors for younger employees, and provide a "e;just in time"e; workforce for special projects.

This book communicates new voices, insights, and possibilities for working with the arts and memory in researching teacher professional learning.

This book explores the workplace experiences, opportunities, and challenges that emerge from the nuances of diversity and inclusion dynamics in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

This book introduces readers to the ethics of philanthropy, particularly in the Indian context.

Despite continued growth in enrollments, graduate program attrition rates are of great concern to academic program coordinators.

In today's sophisticated world, reliability stands as the ultimate arbiter of quality.

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success - and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand.

These proceedings summarize the best papers in each research field represented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (GfA) in the German-speaking area, held at Institute of Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics of RWTH Aachen University from March 2-4.