This book sets out to explore the intersections between matters not frequently yoked in academic discussions: spirituality, social justice, and the learning of world languages.
This series of Works on stress and coping is centered on understanding the sources, experiences, and consequences of stress and coping in the educational arena.
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 book focuses on the inherent contradiction between bureaucracy, hierarchy, and the vision inspired by the architecture of modern information technology of a more egalitarian culture in public organizations.
The introduction of the psychological construct of self-efficacy is widely acknowledged as one of the most important developments in the history of psychology.
This book, "e;The perspective of women's entrepreneurship in the Age of Globalization"e; addresses the issue of female entrepreneurship development in the context of globalization.
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.
The books in this series aim to be provide a forum for sharing ideas, concepts and results of research and practice in the field of public management, and to stimulate critical thinking about alternative approaches to problem solving and decision making in the public sector.
Fourteen American and Canadian academics contribute 13 chapters placing race at the center of an understanding of social studies practices in education.
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.
How Stakeholders Can Support Teacher Quality compiles the proceedings from the Milken Family Foundation's National Education Conference (NEC), which took place in Washington, D.
In seinem satirischen Sachbuch-Debut Alpha-Boys geht Comedian Aurel Mertz dorthin, wo wenig geweint und noch weniger gelacht wird: zu den Brutstatten der neuen Mannlichkeit.
In this anthology, Saracho (curriculum and instruction, University of Maryland) and Spodek (early childhood education, University of Illinois) present work reviewing the current state of knowledge on the education of students who are not fully proficient in English.
This volume will examine the historical emergence of the concept of career including early ideas about the meaning and role of work and how it fits with life.
This volume not only illustrates the research that is being done in the area of human resources in entrepreneurial firms but it raises many issues that exemplify the complexity of the topic.
Diese Publikation ist seit 36 Jahren uberfallig, denn es ist kein Geheimnis, dass in der Aufarbeitung der Punk-Geschichte der DDR die Frauen der DDR-Punkszene unterreprasentiert sind, obwohl sie existent und sichtbar waren, obwohl sie genauso aktiv waren, denselben Repressionen ausgesetzt waren und denselben Widerstand leisteten wie ihre mannlichen Wegbegleiter.
Language and culture play a critical role in the teaching of mathematics and this role intensifies when considering the teaching of mathematics in dual language classrooms.
Language and culture play a critical role in the teaching of mathematics and this role intensifies when considering the teaching of mathematics in dual language classrooms.
This volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship on social studies education by providing thoughtful reflections on research methods in the field.
This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining the ways in which films can promote students' historical understanding while also addressing the potential drawbacks to using film.
As a result of the AIDS epidemic, many nations around the world have faced the demands of caring for a particularly vulnerable population of children, the orphans of parents who have died of AIDS or whose caregivers are terminally ill from the disease.
This volume covers topics including: translation issues in cross-cultural research; African American teachers for African American students; the social mediation of metacognition; and cross-cultural similarities and differences in affective meaning of achievement.
Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Authors Going Deeper with Holistic Education is a collection of essays and poems offering testimony to the holism of original traditional Indigenous ways of knowing, teaching and learning.
Most of the 12 articles are from a 1992 double issue of Linguistics and Education devoted to intertextuality--the notion that texts influence each other.
Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Authors Going Deeper with Holistic Education is a collection of essays and poems offering testimony to the holism of original traditional Indigenous ways of knowing, teaching and learning.
In this book, noted Nordic researchers and teacher educators provide insights into early childhood discourses and practices in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
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.
This volume on teaching small classes is divided into the sections: lessons learned about best teaching practices in small classes; implementing and supporting small class programmes; evaluating small class initiatives; and teachers voices.
Topics covered in this volume include: research on web-based learning; ways to reduce cognitive load in multimedia learning; gathering and organizing web-based information; the risks in cyberspace; engineering perspectives; and the pedagogical impact of course management systems.
This text is divided into four parts: exploring theoretical paradigms in design, development and enactment of PDSs; standard-based teacher education and PDSs; best practices profiles of PDSs that advance understanding of research in the field; and toward a research agenda that strengthens PDSs.
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.
Through the chapters in this volume we learn about the questions that capture the attention of teachers, the methodologies they use to gather data, and the ways in which they make sense of what they find.
The purpose of this book is to describe the approach and process involved in a program designed to assist faculty in acquiring technology skills and to apply these skills in constructing meaningful learning-centered applications.
