Society and Social Sciences

This book series on Theory and Research in Educational Administration is about understanding schools.

This volume is the seventh in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series, and presents a collection of papers selected from those presented at the Sixth International Service-learning Research, hosted by Portland State University in Portland, Oregon in October 2006.

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.

Measuring History complements the cases presented in Wise Social Studies Practices (Yeager & Davis, 2005).

This book brings to social scientists a new look at how human beings are striving towards understanding others-- and through that effort--making sense of themselves.

Most knowledge about adolescent development is based on adolescents living in the United States or Europe.

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.

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

This is a practical guide to motivating younger and older learners.

This volume will highlight papers presented at the second Nebraska Symposium on Information Technology in Education.

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

The Other Three R's model began as an American Psychological Association (APA) initiative, sponsored by Robert J.

With the publication of this book, the scholarly journal Issues in Education: Contributions from Educational Psychology is moving to a book series publication format.

This comprehensive compendium of research focuses on key aspects of Catholic education in the United States.

This book attempts to offer not just a bird's-eye view of the communities of designers project, but also to help identify broad themes and issues that can inform discussions and policies of technology integration at other institutions.

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

In this collection of 19 articles contributors cover the nature of the relationship between the press and social science, especially in education.

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

Through the chapters in this volume we learn about the research foci and/ or questions that these classroom teachers are interested in examining, the mathematics content through which they engaged their students in these explorations, the data sources they used to make sense of their focus and questions, and their roles in the research.

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

The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines.

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

The chapters in this volume illustrate how teachers are bringing creativity, higher-order thinking, and meaningful learning activities into particular school settings despite pressures of standards and testing.

This book argues that conventional interpretations of Freudian psychology have not accounted for the existence and complexity of death anxiety and its intrinsic relation to the creation of illusions and delusions.

In this volume we describe exemplary programs in teacher education that attempt to address some of the issues alluded to above.

This third volume of LMX Leadership: The Series addresses the question of how leaders prepare their teams for required loosely directed, highly coordinated, and above all, flexible operations.

Colleges and universities across the country continue to struggle supporting students with marginalized identities, including (but not limited to) gender, race, ethnicity, sexual identity, ability level, socio-economic status, religious identity, and citizenship status.

The collection of papers in this volume have a combined synergy that exudes a sense of hope and confidence that our progress in the Professional Development Schools research movement has been substantial and vibrant, even though some would argue that the strides are not enough nor fast enough to make a significant difference.

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

Colleges and universities across the country continue to struggle supporting students with marginalized identities, including (but not limited to) gender, race, ethnicity, sexual identity, ability level, socio-economic status, religious identity, and citizenship status.

William Stern was an important German psychologist.

William Stern was an important German psychologist.

This installment of selected writings by James D.

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Mentoring has become an important aspect of professional development in a wide variety of fields such as education engineering and business.

In this book we are interested in patterns of education, rehabilitation service, socialization, and ideas about blindness that in large part produce the above-mentioned distinct patterns.

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

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

This book is the fourth in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

Covering such issues as teaching quality, the interface between public and private schooling, and measuring school efficiency, this text addresses the improvement of educational productivity in the USA

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

As the first volume in a series sponsored by SIG-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans of the American educational Research Association and California Association for Asian and Pacific American Education, this book sheds important light on the educational needs of Asian and Pacific American students in k- college.

An exploration of evaluator role and identity.

Democratic decline in the United States and globally, a lack of confidence in political institutions and an increasingly violent and divisive political climate raise many questions for the state of political learning and civic engagement.

The book is divided into three parts.

This book is designed to encourage and support in-service and pre-service teachers who want to conduct classroom-based action research about literacy teaching and learning.

This book is a valuable one for teacher educators and teacher education programs in the United States and Europe, since it is organized around numerous data sources.