Society and Social Sciences

Ethnographic inquiry serves as a unique educational resource that is accessible to students and teachers of all economic and social classes and therefore well suited to building democratic communities in the 21st Century.

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

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.

Over the last 35 years, studies focusing in young children's knowledge about the mental world have developed into an important area.

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.

What obligations to each other do people have or think they have?

This book is a study of the contributions of Catholic K-12 schools in the United States to the public interest from the 1800's to the present.

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The impetus for this volume lives in a rich and vibrant past.

Sometimes you need to hear the story from the beginning.

Until recently educators were expected to provide all the knowledge students would need to ensure their future.

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 book provides the most current and complete version of statements defining a competent instructional designer, for those who are or aspire to practice in virtually any context, anywhere in the world.

Creativity is a hot topic in education.

Play therapy interventions are critical elements of providing responsive services within the context of comprehensive school counseling programs.

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

Public education is suffering attacks that are well funded and extraordinarily complex and multifaceted.

Cross-Cultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters addresses both established and very recent research in cultural and comparative cross-cultural psychology.

This book examines what equity means in a nation where the schools are becoming more diverse.

The purpose of the volume is to explore the theory, development and use of visual displays and graphic organizers to improve instruction, learning and research.

Over the course of the past decade and a half, we, Samuel Totten and Jon E.

High stakes testing, standards, and accountability politics is taking us away from the importance of the affective domain in curriculum development.

Discover the Path to Genuine Concentration in a Chaotic Digital AgeEver feel like your attention is slipping through your fingers, pulled apart by endless notifications and digital noise?

Filipino Americans have a long and rich history with and within the United States, and they are currently the second largest Asian group in the country.

Through rapid developments in commerce, transportation and communication, people once separated by space, language and politics are now interwoven into a complex global system (Friedman, 2005).

We are in the midst of yet another global crisis in capitalism.

In Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling, Jeanne Cameron invites the reader to see schooling and early school leaving through the eyes of high school dropouts themselves.

This volume sheds new light on the question of a "e;Soviet model"e; by examining how a particular Soviet system of science and higher education emerged, how it was exported and imported across varying local, national and international settings, and how key aspects of it outlived the political system that fostered it.

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

The networks of Tennessee politicians, school leaders, and academics are rife with significant contributors to the national fabric of educational reform.

This book is a critically important contribution to the work underway to transform schooling for students who have historically been denied access to a quality education, specifically African American children.

Though the Filipino American population has increased numerically in many areas of the United States, especially since the influx of professional immigrants in the wake of the 1965 Immigration Act, their impact on schools and related educational institutions has rarely been documented and examined.

Although there has been an increase in literature regarding children of color with disabilities, it mainly focuses on their experiences in one social context.

Catholic elementary school principals, speaking out in a major nationwide survey, report faithful commitments alongside acute challenges in the operation of their schools, and they identify financial management, marketing, Catholic identity, enrollment management and long-range planning as their schools' top five areas of need.

Over the last 35 years, studies focusing in young children's knowledge about the mental world have developed into an important area.

Teaching is not merely a technical process- it is one that requires creative and inspirational thinking, not only on the part of students but for teachers themselves as artful, reflective beings.

Queer South Rising: Voices of a Contested Place is a collection of essays about the South by people who identify as both Southern and queer.

Cross-Cultural Psychology: Why Culture Matters addresses both established and very recent research in cultural and comparative cross-cultural psychology.

Continuing to Disrupt the Status Quo?

International Education Inquiries is a book series dedicated to realizing the global vision of Education 2030.

The field of education has been and will continue to be essential to the survival and sustainability of the Black community.

The currency of social capital serves as an important function given the capacity to generate external access (getting to) and internal accountability (getting through) for individuals and institutions alike.

Across the United States and globally, school districts are regularly facing a shortage of both willing and highly qualified candidates to assume positions as school leaders.

Clinical simulations provide school leaders with opportunities to enact and examine their leadership approaches, decisions, and policies, without consequence.

Career Counseling Across the Lifespan: Community, School, and Higher Education is the latest volume in the Issues in Career Development Book Series, edited by Grafton Eliason, John Patrick, and Jeff Samide, from California University of Pennsylvania.

Many of the current challenges facing institutions of higher education require a shift in thinking, practice, and approaches to change.

Improving the use of evidence in teacher preparation is one of the greatest challenges and opportunities for our field.

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.

International Education Inquiries is a book series dedicated to realizing the global vision of Education 2030a.

Traditionally, American educators and communities have looked to Europe and Asia for ideas for rethinking and reforming education for America's diverse children.