Society and Social Sciences

There are many teaching and curriculum programs that attempt to make education relevant to the wider sociocultural environment of learners.

This book documents progress to date in what works in distance learning (DL).

Teacher preparation programs in the United States and around the world have finally begun to address this deficiency in their programs.

The Encyclopedia of Middle Grades Education provides a comprehensive overview of the field.

What is (R)Evolutionary Leadership?

This volume of The David C.

Includes discussion on the rationale of teaching about genocide; the history of genocide; and 10 cases studies of genocide perpetrated in the 20th century.

Development of this text has been based on the notion that workforce education and development (WFED) systems-such as, secondary and postsecondary vocational and technical education (VTE), career education and guidance, human resource and organizational development (HROD), and adult training and retraining including literacy programs, have essential roles to play in supporting both individual and national efforts to successfully participate in and reap the benefits offered by globalization.

This book will be a practical guide to developing and implementing online courses.

This book is a defense of linguistic pluralism and language policies and practices in education that sustain that ideal.

The authors of the nine other chapters in this book have struggled with the issues discussed above in several different ways.

The aim of this book is to present some recent research findings on dif-ferent aspects of multicultural education, thus informing educators of issues, policies and new approaches to multicultural education being used around the world.

The significant change in public schools over the last two decades warrants a response in how we prepare teachers.

A study of successful reading instruction.

This book is motivated by our experiences in working with students and their families in urban communities.

The introduction of the psychological construct of self-efficacy is widely acknowledged as one of the most important developments in the history of psychology.

Taken together, these authors explore the many and varied challenges faced by teacher educators generally, and social studies teacher educators specifically.

The issues that these authors address in this book are some of the most salient in American society.

A discussion of the contributions made by African Americans to public and private black schools in the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Proven Solutions for Improving Supply Chain Performance is a collection of about 175 descriptions of scientific management studies in the management of supply chains.

This volume of Research in Social Issues in Management critically examines theoretical underpinnings of organizational justice and corporate social responsibility by identifying motives underlying desires for justice and by considering responses to injustice.

Working with Mixed Heritage Students offers a collection of writings that bridges the social science and educational literature related to mixed heritage identity development and schooling in diverse contexts.

The objective of this book is to advance our understanding of the design, implementation and evaluation of test-driven external accountability policies for improving both academic excellence and equity.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the film industry has confronted, challenged, and explored various social issues through its films.

This book is for new faculty, graduate students, teachers, administrators, and other academics who want to write more clearly and have their work published.

(Sponsored by the Middle Level Education Research SIG and the National Middle School Association)The Young Adolescent and the Middle School focuses on issues related to the nature of young adolescence and the intersection of young adolescence with middle level schooling.

Distance education is defined as institution-based formal education where the learning group is separated, and where interactive telecommunications systems are used to connect learners, resources, and instructors.

This book introduces and explains this important new technology from the perspective of educators.

Thirteen contributions from academics representing a variety of disciplines confront issues relating to social justice in a post-9/11 world.

In this volume, gender and schooling in the early years addresses a broad range of issues including, but not limited, to gender equity in education.

This book is a step-by-step guide for correctly applying Fishbein and Ajzen's theories which together form "e; .

This book provides an insight into the possibilities that so-called "e;Electronic Government"e; has to offer.

This installment in the series "e;Adolescence and Education"e;, edited by Tim Urdan and Frank Pajares, focuses on International Perspectives of Adolescence.

The volume 3 of this series is designed to present educators with current research and emerging issues in teaching, learning and motivation in a multicultural context.

This unique and visionary text is a compilation of fascinating case studies by New York State teachers, parents and professors.

This book is divided into seven chapters including: a broad overview of mathematical cognition; development of mathematical cognition; working memory, automaticity and mathematical problem solving; mathematical problem solving; and methematical learning disabilities.

Computer science is increasingly becoming an essential 21st century skill.

Look, Listen, Learn, LEAD: A District-Wide Systems Approach to Teaching and Learning in PreK-12 lays out the transformational journey of Hampton City Schools (HCS), an urban school division of 30 schools in southeastern Virginia.

Like the schools in which it is taught, social studies is full of alluring contradictions.

The book is based on the recently held Symposium on mathematics and its connections to the arts and sciences, namely the second Mathematics and its Connections to the Arts and Sciences (MACAS2)Symposium in Odense, Denmark (May 29-31, 2007).

The book provides new conceptual frameworks to understand good practice in the field of mobile learning.

Algebra is the gateway to college and careers, yet it functions as the eye of the needle because of low pass rates for the middle school/high school course and students' struggles to understand.

Over the past twenty years, educational policy has been characterized by top-down, market-focused policies combined with a push toward privatization and school choice.

In this book, a study is presented that investigates how municipal politicians make sense of recent European crises.

This installment of selected writings by James D.

This book provides a detailed account of an educational experiment in a middle school in Shanghai, China.

Ademas disponible en ingles: Rethinking Education for a Global, Transcultural WorldRepensar la educacion es esencial en un mundo, global, transcultural, cambiante y comunicado.

Racism by Another Name: Black Students, Overrepresentation, and the Carceral State of Special Education is a thought-provoking and timely book that provides a landscape for understanding and challenging educational (in)opportunities for Black students who are identified for special education.

More than one in every five Latin Americans lives on less than $2 a day, and Latin America is the most unequal region in the world.

This is the third and final book in the series Transformative Pedagogies in Teacher Education.