Sociology

La obra de Nicos Poulantzas (Atenas, 1936 - Paris, 1979) constituye uno de los mayores intentos dentro del marxismo por desarrollar y sistematizar una teoria del Estado.

In Esperanza School: A Grassroots Community School in Honduras, Eloisa Rodriguez takes us into the daily lived experiences of members of a community school, Esperanza School, situated in a rural area in Honduras.

This third book in International Research on School Leadership, focuses on the changing nature of instructional leadership in the 21st century.

Why with hundreds and hundreds of books on leadership to choose from, why another one?

This book, Blurring the Lines, has immediate appeal to policy-makers, and analysis in public and private sectors, as well as legal scholars and practitioners.

Pressing Forward: Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in America's High Schools is organized to place secondary education, specifically the goals of preparing young adults to be college and career ready, in contemporary perspective, emphasizing the changing global economy and trends in policy and practice.

The focus of this book extends the discourse on student engagement beyond prescriptive definitions and includes substantive ethical and political issues relating to this concept.

This book investigates issues surrounding the creation of social policy and support systems for children and families in this emerging democracy.

It is now nearly thirty years since sociocultural theories of learning created great excitement and debate amongst those concerned with learning in diverse contexts.

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.

Yes We Can: Improving Urban Schools through Innovative Educational Reform is a empirically-based book on urban education reform to not only proclaim that hope is alive for urban schools, but to also produce a body of literature that examines current practices and then offer practical implications for all involved in this arduous task.

The Hispanic population has dramatically grown since the middle of the 20th Century.

Women Leaders: Advancing Careers recognizes that while the majority of students enrolled in educational leadership preparation programs continue to be women; women's advancement to top school executive roles is still not comparable to that of men.

Values, attitudes, and beliefs have been depicted in movies since the beginning of the film industry.

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.

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.

Sixteen teachers.

The purpose of Career Development in Higher Education is to provide a broad and in-depth look at the field of career development as it applies to individuals involved in higher education activities, in a variety of educational and vocational training settings.

The twin objectives of the series Psychological Perspectives on Contemporary Educational Issues are: (1) to identify issues in education that are relevant to professional educators and researchers; and (2) to address those issues from research and theory in educational psychology, psychology, and related disciplines.

(orginally published by Lexington Books, A division of Rowman & Littlefield)Researching and Teaching Social Issues: The Personal Stories and Pedagogical Efforts of Professors of Education is comprised of original personal essays in which notable teacher educators delineate the genesis and evolution of their thought and work vis-a-vis the teaching of social issues.

With the national push towards inclusion, more students with disabilities are being placed in general education settings.

Ubiquitous Learning: Strategies for Pedagogy, Course Design, and Technology bridges the gap between digital media and education, by presenting an intriguing look on the future of 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.

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.