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Development and Assessment of Self-Authorship
Exploring the Concept Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book brings together new scholarship that expands and refines the concept of self-authorship across cultures. It adopts a constructive-developmental approach to self-evolution that emphasizes the interaction of personal characteristics and contextual influences on individuals’ construction of...
by Barbara Kennedy MPH MSW
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
A brilliant portrayal of Cultural Diversity, by behaviorist Barbara Kennedy, who is also the author and narrator of "The Fox and the Hawk." This gentle illustrated story will make you laugh and cry. The simplicity and clever repartee show the reader what love looks like, pure and simple. The...
Transforming Students
Fulfilling the Promise of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The recent trend of trying to measure higher education’s return on investment misses a fundamental point, argue Charity Johansson and Peter Felten. The central purpose of a college or university is to transform the lives of students—not to merely change them or help them mature. This transformation...
Mentoring Student Teachers and Interns
Strategies for Engaging, Relating, Supporting, and Challenging Future Educators
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Mentoring Student Teachers and Interns: Strategies for Engaging, Relating, Supporting, and Challenging Future Educators is an interactive how-to guide for teacher preparation professionals who are charged with the supervision and mentoring of student teachers and interns. Written for both seasoned...
Planning Educational Facilities
What Educators Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
This book covers the entire planning process educators must employ to adequately administer the planning process for a new or renovated school building. The structure of the book is to follow a sequential planning process for a new school building or renovation project from the beginning of a need...
Intercultural Education in the European Context
Theories, Experiences, Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book offers a comparative analysis of the intercultural theories and practices developed in the European context. Bringing together work on the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, The Netherlands and Sweden, it examines specific approaches to intercultural education. Structured...
How Schools Succeed
Context, Culture, and Strategic Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
All meaningful and enduring educational reform occurs locally. Evidence suggests that educational success is driven by the contextual conditions in which students learn. How Schools Succeed: Context, Culture, and Strategic Leadership, Second Edition considers a broad conception of educational context,...
Advancing Democracy Through Education?
U.S. Influence Abroad and Domestic Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This book explores the diversity of American roles in such crosscultural engagement in education for democracy, both within the United States and around the world. Crosscultural engagement in education for democracy inevitably bears the impressions of each culture involved and the dynamics among them....
by Zhu Yongxin
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
“The most important task of education is to teach children to be kind, to have a dream, and to possess the ability to learn.” --Zhu Yongxin
One of today’s leading education thinkers, Zhu Yongxin possesses a rare clarity about the purpose of education. Dialogues on the New Education is...
Public School Finance Decoded
A Straightforward Approach to Linking the Budget to Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Public School Finance Decoded discusses why the finance department needs to have a seat at the table during discussions about how to educate the whole child. Written in plain language, this book will empower school administrators to improve student achievement through understanding the impact school...
We Reap What We Sow
Modeling Positive Adulthood for Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
As anyone who lives, works, or spends any time with teenagers knows, adolescence can be both the best of times and the worst of times. Teenagers are undergoing miraculous, world-altering shifts. In light of these changes, how can society help adolescents move safely from teen to adult? How can adults...
by Andrea Riva, Silvia Giambroni, Silvia Paredes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2016
A través de la palabra estos artículos intentan generar nuevas preguntas, nuevas interpretaciones, nuevas miradas sobre cuestiones que nos conmueven y nos perturban; compartimos el esfuerzo de equiparnos de palabras y pensamiento –que sabemos serán siempre provisorios– para poder nombrar lo...
Teaching for Global Community
Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Education has long been viewed as a vehicle for building community. However, the critical role of education and schools for constructing community resistance is undermined by recent trends toward the centralization of educational policymaking (e.g. racial profiling new laws in the US—Arizona and Texas;...
Family Life and School Achievement
Why Poor Black Children Succeed or Fail
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents—these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clark contends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide...