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This book brings together social sciencists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process.

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) has received considerable educational, research, medical and media attention the past ten years.

This book sets out to answer the call for the historic turn in organization studies through the development of an alternative methodology for history, one that we call ANTi-History.

LET THE MUSIC PLAY!

Pathways to Transformation: Learning in Relationship is an edited collection that synthesizes current research on transformative learning and expands the current knowledge-base.

We are living in an age of pervasive distrust, one so severe that journalists discuss the "e;trust deficit"e; almost as regularly as they do trade or economic shortfalls.

The focus of this book is on educational equity issues affecting immigrants and refugees around the world.

This book provides a state-of-the-art assessment of citizen participation practice and research in the United States.

This book is designed to provide practical applications of sociocultural theory with regard to teachers' roles in second language education.

(orginally published by Lexington Books, A division of Rowman & Littlefield)Researching and Teaching Social Issues: The Personal Stories and Pedagogical Efforts of Professors of Education is comprised of original personal essays in which notable teacher educators delineate the genesis and evolution of their thought and work vis-a-vis the teaching of social issues.

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This volume brings together an impressive array of respected scholars to examine the varied and complex ways in which peers influence adolescents' beliefs and behaviors in the school context.

Continuous activity and high job demands surround corporate environments.

Strategic Alliances for Value Creation is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances.

The book provides best practices from online educators who are engaged in online teaching and program development in Christian higher education.

The Brother Code: What is the role of manhood and masculinity in the lives of African American males in college?

Musical Childhoods of Asia and the Pacific agglomerates stories of young children's music and musicking from around Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Management Dynamics in Strategic Alliances is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliances that will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategic alliances.

The United States' social and economic inequities stood in high relief during the COVID-19 pandemic, spotlighting the glaringly disproportionate systemic injustices related to public health and the economic impact on minoritized communities.

Manal Hamzeh's book, Pedagogies of deveiling: muslim girls & the hijab discourse, presents an exploration of a gendering discourse, the hijab (veil) discourse, and how it was negotiated by four girls who self-identified as muslims.

Young Children and the Arts: Nurturing Imagination and Creativity examines the place of the arts in the experiences of young and very young children at home and in out-of-home settings at school and in the community.

Education-Based Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations.

The writing of this book was in part supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSFEHR 0335369).

Scholarship related to financial and consumer education largely concerns itself with the acquisition, management, and growth of financial resources.

The main objective of this book is to provide students, scholars, and practitioners a detailed background on the human resource management (HRM) practices in Mexico.

Founding documents-namely, the 1916 Report on Social Studies-is the focus of John Dewey and the Dawn of Social Studies: Unraveling Conflicting Interpretations of the 1916 Report which examines the Report in order to determine how it has been interpreted and regarded over time.

The interaction of the history of mathematics and mathematics education has long been construed as an esoteric area of inquiry.

Living Faithfully is for anyone interested in education and education policy, whether parent, community member, teacher, student of leadership or policy maker.

The global economic meltdown has highlighted the interconnectedness of nations.

The field of social studies is unique and complex.

A myth from the colonial period was that Americans could defend themselves by keeping a rifle in the closet and when needed, grab it, and march off to battle in times of crisis.

This book chronicles the journey of seven schools serving students of poverty, English Language Learners (ELLs), and students of color, which were able to sustain school improvement for a decade on either state and/or national criteria that measure student performance outcomes.

Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform features the most current empirical research about the successes and challenges of the small schools movement and the implications of such for urban public educational policy.

Women's lives are often written on our bodies.

Most teachers would agree that they teach reasoning skills in their classes.

This book, the first of a groundbreaking series, provides a solid theoretical and empirical grounding from the psychology of religion and spirituality to the emerging field of workplace spirituality.

Yes We Can: Improving Urban Schools through Innovative Educational Reform is a empirically-based book on urban education reform to not only proclaim that hope is alive for urban schools, but to also produce a body of literature that examines current practices and then offer practical implications for all involved in this arduous task.

Organization Development (OD) is a young social science.

The Hispanic population has dramatically grown since the middle of the 20th Century.

This is a book of oral narratives, collected from participants at a school created for first-generation, immigrant youth.

This edited book highlights the importance and complexity of the assistant principalship.

Designing Problem-Driven Instruction with Online Social Media has the capacity to transform an educator's teaching style by presenting innovative ways to empower problem-based instruction with online social media.

Thirty-six of the best thinkers on family and community engagement were assembled to produce this Handbook, and they come to the task with varied backgrounds and lines of endeavor.

10 Great Curricula is a collection of stories written by educators who have come to understand curricula differently as a result of their engagement with a graduate course and its instructor.

The twin objectives of the series Psychological Perspectives on Contemporary Educational Issues are: (1) to identify issues in education that are relevant to professional educators and researchers; and (2) to address those issues from research and theory in educational psychology, psychology, and related disciplines.

Creative problem solving, collaboration, and technology fluency are core skills requisite of any nation's workforce that strives to be competitive in the 21st Century.

This book describes the struggles in which inclusive-minded administrators find themselves when they promote equity initiatives.

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC).

There is an increasing proliferation of service-learning courses in colleges and universities in the U.

Contemporary science teaching approaches focus on fostering students to construct new scientific knowledge as a process of inquiry rather than having them act as passive learners memorizing stated scientific facts.