Society and Social Sciences

This volume provides examples of current developments on the role of ICT for education, development, and social justice within an international context.

This group of essays is written to provide a series of suggestions to Native people who seek to deal with alcoholism from the perspective of their unique heritages and with an understanding that the pressures to which Native traditions and societies have been subjected may trigger dysfunctional behavior, such as excessive drinking.

This eighth volume in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series includes eight essays selected from manuscripts submitted by participants in the seventh annual conference of the International Association of Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement, held in Tampa, Florida, in October, 2007.

This Handbook provides windows into worldwide research endeavors, including countries not usually widely known in international education studies.

Studies like the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) have compared the performance of U.

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

Machiavelli Had it Easy is an engaging text for the emerging discipline of governance.

In an increasingly global learning environment, teachers are challenged to meet a myriad of student needs-provide basic literacy and mathematics skills, improve scientific and technological thinking, increase bilingual and multi-lingual competencies.

Concerned scholars and educators, since the early 20th century, have asked questions regarding the viability of Black history in k-12 schools.

This volume dedicated to the engagement of African American males in community colleges furthers the research agenda focused on improving the educational outcomes of African American males.

This book comprises an examination of novice teachers' experiences in schools and cultures of schooling across the contexts of Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada.

Through courses, internships, community engagement, social organizations, and daily interactions with others, every day we accumulate experiences; however, learning does not happen through experience but from reflection on experiences.

Leading scholars attempting to illuminate the developing trends in explaining and understanding the role that affect plays in justice and vice versa.

Jakob von Uexkull founded Umwelt research with a clear idea - that humans are not qualitatively different than other species.

Many books on multicultural education focus on a country and provide indepth discussion of issues pertinent to that country at the time.

How can professional development for teachers be more efficient and effective?

This text is a study of literacy based upon a set of correspondence, the Osborne Family Papers, 1812-1968, housed in the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University.

Universal Primary Education programs are being promoted around the globe as the solution to poverty and health problems, but very little in-depth qualitative knowledge is available about the experiences of these programs in children's life-worlds.

This book is divided into four parts: overview and scope of the problem; current challenges to funding of school infrastructure; the future of school infrastructure funding; and conclusion.

Practitioners in the field of educational technology require a high level of problem solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills to deal with learning issues that are often complex and multidimensional.

While Research on the effectiveness of electronic portfolios for assessment and accreditation is emerging, many who are now using, or who are beginning to use, electronic portfolios are looking to justify the cost and effort involved.

In Dreams Deferred, a follow-up to Of Borders and Dreams (1996), Chris Carger takes us further into the life of Alejandro Juarez, Jr.

This book presents a range of evidence-based analyses focused on the role of contextual factors on urban teacher learning.

This volume seeks to address select questions drawn from the matrix of the complex issues related to culturally responsive evaluation.

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.