Education

This Handbook provides windows into worldwide research endeavors, including countries not usually widely known in international education studies.

As the inaugural issue in the Leadership for School Improvement (LSI) Special Interest Group (SIG) Book Series, this volume serves as a reflection on the foundations of the field of school improvement.

This book presents a novel perspective on psychology's methodology-moving it from quantification as a given imperative to science-philosophical look at phenomena-data relationship.

As the title suggests, this six-chapter book responds to a question which, in Western culture, goes back to Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian, namely, What should rhetoric teachers ask their students to read?

In this book, Canadian scholar David Geoffrey Smith reflects on over thirty years of research and teaching in the human sciences, including education.

If all humor does indeed come from pain, then American educational policymaking has been a petri dish brimming with hilarity.

Voices of Pineland: Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of "e;Feeblemindedness"e; in Maine by Stephen Murphy tells the story of the Maine School for the Feebleminded, later known as Pineland Hospital and Training Center.

The book, Teaching ELLs Across Content Areas: Issues and Strategies, is a unique, useful text written for K-12 teachers.

This exciting work offers an entirely new way to address the discipline problems that have become so common in our public schools!

The word "e;critical"e; in the title of this collection has three meanings, all of which are relevant.

The rash of bullying incidents within schools, universities, and workplaces has prompted a public outcry and a call to action.

This text is a collection of essays by noted curriculum scholar and philosopher of education, David W.

There is no HR-related topic more popular in the business press than performance management (PM).

This book aims to challenge what we consider to be static and superficial understandings of servant leadership within PreK-12 school communities.

Explore the uncharted territory of mid-career educational leadership with Becoming an Engaged Educational Leader: Navigating Mid-Career Growth and Development.

The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines.

This volume explores the impact of research-practice partnerships in education (broadly conceived) on communities in which such partnerships operate.

Service-learning is a powerful method of teaching and learning that has been used effectively for more than two decades.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum.

This edited book offers concrete information and useful suggestions to graduate students who are seeking employment at institutions of higher education in North America and other parts of the world.

This book is a straightforward and entertaining primer on college teaching.

This book is essential for teachers of reading and Native American Children to improve the reading scores of Native children.

This book is an invaluable resource for enabling teachers, religious educators, and families to learn about religious diversity themselves and to teach children about both their own religion as well as the beliefs of others.

The year 2020 presented conflicts in higher education, including a global pandemic, racial protests, cries for Black Lives Matter following the deaths of Black women and men by police, education moved online to virtual classrooms, and the U.

This book will be a practical guide to developing and implementing online courses.

This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholar-educators.

This book comprises an examination of novice teachers' experiences in schools and cultures of schooling across the contexts of Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada.

This volume of the International Social Studies Forum offers papers presented at the 2016 Social Studies Education Forum International Conference that was held in Berlin, Germany in June, 2016.

This book is designed to help you achieve one specific goal.

Community colleges serve as the open door to higher education for marginalized, place bound, and/or financially challenged students and communities.

The purpose of the work/life balance series is to highlight particular challenges that higher education faculty face as they participate in the demands of the academy and try to prevent those demands from invading their personal lives.

Ethical business creates social value.

Books Not Bombs: Teaching Peace Since the Dawn of the Republic is an important work relevant to peace scholars, practitioners, and students.

Mandates to implement practices that are antithetical to what we embrace as supportive of young children's literacy learning are pervasive.

This book is for anyone interested in how to build a teacher education program utilizing the arts as one central modality for teaching and learning or for those interested in building some of their program along these lines.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum.

This volume, the ninth volume in the Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education, is a compilation of research studies focusing on the use and implementation of common planning time (CPT) in middle level schools.

Teaching Social Studies: A Methods Book for Methods Teachers, features tasks designed to take preservice teachers deep into schools in general and into social studies education in particular.

Given the current social climate this book interrogates capitalism's relationships to and influence on education.

Confirming his moniker as 'America's philosopher of democracy,' John Dewey engaged in a series of public debates over the course of his lifetime, vividly demonstrating how his thought translates into action.

This volume of Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice takes a resource perspective toward culture, ethnicity, and race.

This particular case study is designed to explore the extent to which a teacher evaluation system is effective.

In chemistry, a catalyst accelerates change without being depleted.

Becoming One With the World: A Guide to Neohumanist Education responds to an urgent need to reconceptualize the fundamentals of education in light of the many social, ecological, and political challenges facing humanity today.

Teaching Again exposes the very human core of the teaching experience.

This guidebook is designed to be the middle-level teacher's friend in addressing a wide variety of questions regarding the use of educational and instructional technologies.

In this book we introduce the basics of the federal budget process, provide an historical background on the foundation and development of the budget process, indicate how defense spending may be measured and how it impacts the economy, describe and analyze how Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) operates and should function to produce the annual defense budget proposal to Congress, analyze the role of Congress in debating and deciding on defense appropriations and the politics of the budgetary process including the use of supplemental appropriations to fund national defense, analyze budget execution dynamics, identify the principal participants in the defense budget process in the Pentagon and military commands, assess federal and Department of Defense (DoD) financial management and business process challenges and issues, and describe the processes used to resource acquisition of defense war fighting assets, including reforms in acquisition and linkages between PPBES and the defense acquisition process.

Much has been written about how public schools in the United States are funded.

The Art and Science of Mentoring is a collection of chapters and vignettes that honors one of the leading experts of mentoring, Fran Kochan.

In response to changes in the workforce, scholars are calling for mentoring that is more fluid, flexible, and responsive to the needs of diverse groups of individuals, whether culturally (Kochan & Pascarelli, 2012; Kochan, Searby, George, & Mitchell Edge, 2015) or intergenerationally (Thorpe, 2012) diverse.