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Why do people from similar backgrounds who read the same text construct different meanings?

This book traces the journey of two individuals who have spent their lives on both sides of the teacher/professor's desk.

Improving Schools to Promote Learning is a concise and common-sense examination of all the moving parts that drive student learning.

This book sets out to answer the call for the historic turn in organization studies through the development of an alternative methodology for history, one that we call ANTi-History.

Leading Research in Educational Administration: A Festschrift for Wayne K.

Research on service-learning and community engagement has exploded over the past decade.

Investigating University-School Partnerships: A Volume in Professional Development School Research, the fourth book in the PDS Research Series developed by the same editors, includes a collection of organized papers that represent the best and latest examples of practitioner thinking, research, and program design and evaluation in the field at the national level.

Scholarship related to financial and consumer education largely concerns itself with the acquisition, management, and growth of financial resources.

Sponsored by the Middle Level Education Research SIG of AERA, this inaugural volume in the new IAP book series, The Handbook of Resources in Middle Level Education, focuses on the contributions and impact of the leaders of the modern middle school movement.

Over the past three decades, the standards-based reform movement has transformed K-12 education in the United States, culminating with passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002.

Thirty-six of the best thinkers on family and community engagement were assembled to produce this Handbook, and they come to the task with varied backgrounds and lines of endeavor.

After the New Public Management had evolved in English speaking countries, it became a role model for the reform of public administration all throughout the world.

The work of school, family and community partnerships is complex and messy and demands a thoughtful and deep investigation.

Issues of language in mathematics learning and teaching are important for both practical and theoretical reasons.

This book will inspire academics, teachers and trainers to use film and television in their classrooms and to shows them how it might be done.

This book, Human Resources Management in Education, Developing Countries Perspectives, contains eleven chapters.

This book focuses on capturing one of the most important elements in successful leadership - giving followers a voice and motivating them to use that voice to help the leader be successful.

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

This volume begins by locating critical inquiry within the epistemological and methodological history of second language study.

Embodied wisdom: Meditations on memoir and education by Alison Pryer, Ph.

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"e;We become what we love,"e; states Jim Garrison in Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching.

This edited book highlights the importance and complexity of the assistant principalship.

Time and again, the authors have observed how a great program faculty creates unique learning experiences to everybody's satisfaction.

The goal of this volume of Research in Science Education is to examine the relationship between science education policy and practice and the special role that science education researchers play in influencing policy.

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

Breaking the Chains of Culture looks at trust in organizations and the role it plays in building successful relationships at the individual, team, and organization level.

The main objective of this book is to provide students, scholars, and practitioners a detailed background on the human resource management (HRM) practices in Mexico.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are one of top investment priorities in these days.

Because school history often relies on reading and writing and has its own discipline-specific challenges, it is important to understand the language demands of this content area, the typical writing requirements, and the language expectations of historical discourse.

Succeeding as a Frontline Manager in Today's Organizations, highlights the fact that as the world of work continues to change in response to a variety of trends, issues and opportunities, manages on the frontline will still be expected to see that their organizations operate both effectively and efficiently to not only survive but to thrive.

Black Males in Postsecondary Institutions: Examining their Experiences in Diverse Institutional Contexts offers a comprehensive examination of the experiences of Black males in our nation's higher education institutions.

Education Reform proposes and defends an alternate paradigm of public education.

Young children are coming of age surrounded by information and communication technology (ICT).

The Pursuit of Excellence: Kentucky State University, 1886-2020 is a compelling examination of the most diverse public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

The past two decades have seen an increased interest in education, especially in core areas such as mathematics, language and science.

The current volume, the fourth in the series, provides a broad look at the meaning and understanding of diversity and inclusion in organizations.

The rapid change that higher education is undergoing is impacting all of the core mission elements: teaching and learning, research, service, and engagement with the external world (e.

As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, we are seeing a renaissance of context in influencing leadership, leader-follower relations, and leader effectiveness as well as a recognition of the tripartite nature of leadership.

The purpose of this book is to serve as a guide for designing, developing, and teaching learner centered online courses and/or modules of instruction.

Hailed as a landmark in the development of experimental methods when it appeared in 1975, Design and Analysis of Time-Series Experiments is available again after several years of being out of print.

What is wrong with young people today?

This book brings together an international group of researchers reporting on their work about play and early childhood education across 13 countries - Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Germany, Hong Kong, United States of America, India, The Maldives, Sri Lanka, Singapore, China and Australia.

This volume is an outgrowth of the Conference on Research on the Enacted Mathematics Curriculum, funded by the National Science Foundation and held in Tampa, Florida in November 2010.

Every day we wake up, send our children to school, go to work, attend sports or other entertainment events, etc.

This work uses autoethnography as an enterprise to deconstruct barriers that support the invisibility of diverse epistemologies.

This edited book is intended to address the need for an updated look at the HRM legal and regulatory environment.

The main objective of this book is to provide students, scholars, and practitioners a detailed background on the human resource management (HRM) practices in Mexico.

The book identifies a set of validated competencies and performance statements, withsupporting explanation and data to inform and equip online learners with the critical attitudes, knowledge and skills for successful learning in online and/or blended learning settings.

The current movement toward more and better research experiences for undergraduates has spread across disciplines in the arts, humanities, science, mathematics, and engineering beyond the "e;research university"e; to the full range of post-secondary institutions of higher education.