Society and Social Sciences

The book series, entitled "e;Research in Curriculum and Instruction"e;, will focuses on a) considerations of curriculum practices at school, district, state, and federal levels, b) relationship of curriculum practices to curriculum theories and societal issues, c) concerns derived from curriculum policy analyses and from analyses of various curriculum advocacies, and d) insights derived from investigations into curriculum history.

This research project has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, and the Program of Research on Private Higher Education at the University at Albany.

This book provides practical guidance and strategies for successfully completing a Ph.

This book analyzes the impact of culture on employee justice judgments and reactions to perceptions of fairness and unfairness.

This book includes contributions from a variety of different perspectives on employee turnover.

Schools are increasingly being called upon to aid in the development of resilience in young people in order to be proactive and prevent the consequences of poor social-emotional health and well-being.

This work looks at service learning.

This installment in the book series "e;Family, School, Community, Partnership"e;, edited by Diana B.

This book was written to bring together a summary of the current knowledge on merit pay and to further advance understanding of this type of incentive pay plan.

American Educational Thought: Essays from 1640-1940 contains primary source readings from the mid 1600s to 1940.

This book is the first volume in the series Research in Educational Diversity and Excellence.

Broad-based, inclusive decision-making is the historical foundation for determining what should and can be taught, how institutions should grow, and who should become a part of the academic community.

This workbook is designed to be used with Recovery the Native Way, a short book in this series that deals with the impact that your Native heritage might have on your substance abuse as well as how your traditions might contribute to a fruitful and positive recovery.

This volume in "e;The Handbook of Research on Middle Level Education"e; gives an introduction to professional preparation and development of middle level teachers and administrators.

The purpose of this book is to document the work of the Show-Me Project (1997-2007) and to highlight lessons learned about curriculum implementation.

This book is divided into three parts.

A volume in International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice.

Two major real-world problems prompted this study: maintaining the Catholic identity of the Catholic schools, and increasing interest in character education.

Improving Student Achievement: Reforms that Work expands on the first volume in the Milken Family Foundation series on education policy, Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement.

The topic of "e;dispositions"e; is central to teacher education and to teacher educators.

Education, East and West, is today mostly Western in orientation.

A look at the challenges facing education in Central Asia.

The first volume of the series, Maintaining Focus, Energy, and Options Over the Career, examines how individuals enact and keep their career vital over their work life.

This is Book V in the series, Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

Modern educators are currently ideologically in one of two camps: those who see American education as heading in the right direction, and those who fear that it has gone tragically astray.

This timely and accessible book presents a challenge to accepted wisdoms about both the nature of mathematics and of education.

This book examines whether or not and how personal religion associates with school cultural capital.

This volume contains the proceedings of the First International Curriculum Conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum (CSMC).

Maximising self-concept is recognised as a critical goal in itself and a means to facilitate other desirable outcomes in a diversity of settings.

For the first time, this book brings together three controversial topics: homogeneous grouping of students within classrooms by ability or achievement criteria, tracking of students into courses of study by the same criteria, and retention of students in their present grade so that they repeat a year's work instead of being promoted.

In this book, noted Nordic researchers and teacher educators provide insights into early childhood discourses and practices in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Twenty-seven academics from the UK, U.

The purpose of this volume is to provide a review and analysis of the theory, research, and practice related to geospatial technologies in social studies education.

The purpose of this book is to provide a superstructure within which one can design effective and efficient instruction, a system in which predictable and validatable learning will occur, a system in which one will be able to direct the learner's activities toward a mutual goal in an environment of positive relationships.

Over the past five years the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research has welcomed research projects by the very best qualitative, organizational researchers in the world.

This volume represents a serious attempt to understand what it is that structures the pedagogical experience.

The Secure Child: Timeless Lessons In Parenting and Childhood Education was designed to contribute meaning to the adage "e;what was old is new again.

Studies in School Improvement is the eighth volume in a series on research and theory in school administration dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

The aim of this set of books is to combine the best of current academic research into the use of Communities of Practice in education with "e;hands on"e; practitioner experience in order to provide teachers and academics with a convenient source of guidance and an incentive to work with and develop in their own Communities of Practice.

Sections covered in this book include: defining virtual organizations and implications for human resource management; outsourcing human resources; job analysis and competency assessment; training and development; performance management; compensation; and negotiations.

The editors and contributors of these ten articles focus on the idea that communication includes both what is happening and being said among participants in a classroom and also the politics, values and ideologies that serve as the foundation of the practice.

The purpose of this book is to reach out to teachers, parents, coaches, and students who may be hoping to, or just investigating the possibility of, how to get started with robotics.

This work discusses issues relating to distance education and distributed learning.

Assessment for learning is meant to engage, motivate, and enable students to do better in their learning.

The book provides a description of the cognitive revolution which began in the 1950s and reached full fruition in the late 1960s.

The primary purpose of this book is to trace the theoretical methodological foundations of American educational technology.

The purpose of this practical guide is to facilitate college students' academic success by fostering self-regulated learning skills or learning to learn through the use of Integrative Learning Technologies (ILT).

This book is divided into three parts: integrating the non-work context into theories of organizational justice; non-work reactions to injustice; and commentary.

(Sponsored by SIG-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education)This research anthology is the fifth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group - Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG - REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education.

Interdisciplinarity is increasingly viewed as a necessary ingredient in the training of future oriented 21st century disciplines that rely on both analytic and synthetic abilities across disciplines.