Sociology

Continuing to Disrupt the Status Quo?

The industrial monoculture spreading across the globe is highly competitive, greedy and egotistical; in the shaping of educational policy, global communities have accepted a model based on science and technology, which lacks aspects that should be addressed in the goal of education.

This book will expand the horizon of higher education, helping students, faculty and administrators to return to their roots and be in touch with their whole being.

Racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity has become of global importance in places where many never would have imagined.

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.

Human Resources Management Issues, Challenges and Trends: 'Now and Around the Corner' explores and provides an updated look at some of the challenges, trends and issues HRM professionals will need to focus on now and around the corner.

Sponsored by the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group for Educational StatisticiansThis volume is the second edition of Hancock and Mueller's highly-successful 2006 volume, with all of the original chapters updated as well as four new chapters.

Australia is a vast sparsely populated land and from an early date this created problems in terms of providing educational facilities.

Women's lives are often written on our bodies.

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.

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

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.

Reflective journals have been used by post-secondary educators in a wide variety of teacher-training courses to encourage students to better understand the topics that they are studying.

Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations gives readers a comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues.

(This is a condensed version of Inspiring Student Writers: Strategies and Examples for Teachers.

This volume aims to stimulate interest in the under-researched role of silent partners (SPs) in multicultural education.

Transforming Teacher Education through Service-Learning provides a fresh look at educational reform through the lens of teacher preparation.

This book brings together social sciencists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process.

Facility safety is an important commercial risk and it has to be managed insists John Taylor in Safety Culture.

Advancing the conversation on cultural intermediation by adding the muchoverlooked reality of racism, this edited collection offers a much-needed critical and contemporary focus on the ever-changing landscape of race in the marketplace.

By most accounts, Europe has been mired in a 'demographic crisis' since about 1970.

This volume of the Research in Global Child Advocacy Series explores participatory methodologies and tools that involve children in research.

From the 1960s to the 1980s, a range of academic possibilities for women developed, as their career histories and intellectual biographies reveal.

This book offers a first-hand look at the importance of human resource management (HRM) processes to not just one public agency but a large group of public administration entities that rely on a public HRM agency (the Personnel Board of Jefferson County) for its HRM processes.

What and how to teach in the K-16 classroom history has been a perennial and, at times, heated debate.

This book explores how we approached the issue of community development in the context of competing interests and a differential power imbalance.

Filling in the Blanks is a book dedicated to helping policymakers, researchers, academics and teachers, better understand standardized testing and the Black-White achievement gap.

Developing and Sustaining Adult Learners is the second volume in a series of scholarly publications associated with the annual Adult Higher Education Alliance (AHEA, The Alliance) conference.

The purpose of this book is to explore the talents, work styles, attitudes, and issues that members of the Millennial generation are bringing with them as they enter the workforce.

This Trainee Manual is designed to be used in conjunction with an instructor-directed program based on material in Behavior Modeling Training for Developing Supervisory Skills: Instructor Manual, by the same author.

Negotiating Citizenship Education (CE) explores the dynamics, tensions, and space in Chinese socialist CE, focusing on how the political, economic, social, and educational structures in China, as well as individual agency, shape CE curriculum, teaching, and learning.

The present volume undertakes socio-demographic analyses of four major topics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic: Data Issues; Statistical Modeling; Analyses; and Policy Concerns.

This book brings together the voices of leading English Education researchers who work to offer views into the changing landscape of English as a result of the use of digital media in classrooms, out of school settings, universities and other contexts in which readers and writers work.

How is history represented?

Sixteen teachers.

The Hispanic population has emerged at the largest ethnic/racial minority in the United States, and has also become a major political constituency.

This book provides an introduction to classical social theory through discussion, application, and synthesis of the work of Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and George Herbert Mead.

For social studies teachers reeling from the buffeting of top-down educational reforms, this volume offers answers to questions about dealing with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

The Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) model of leadership has shown that effective leader-follower relationships predict employee well-being and performance.

Critical qualitative research and social education are vital for the world of the 21st century.

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.

Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1960s Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today is an effort by students of curriculum studies, along with their professor, to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists of the 1960s in contemporary terms.

Historians often ignore the day-to-day struggles of ordinary people to improve their lives.

Wedemeyer stresses that learning is a natural idiosyncratic, and continually renewable human trait and survival resource.

Organizational science profits from taking new perspectives using a simple model to understand why behaviors of particular types occur within them.

The result of half a century of research and experimentation in economics and management, this Treatise is intended for management practitioners.

This book explores internal migration in contemporary India from various vantage points and examines its relationship with development.

Behavioral Strategy for Competitive Advantage contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of behavioral strategy research.

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.

The purpose of this publication is to provide school leaders and other educators with insight into practical uses of data and how to create school cultures conducive to effective data use.