Information Age Publishing imprint: 1717 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Over the years, educational scholars have proposed different conceptions of the curriculum. It is as if each scholar, researcher, university educator, and practitioner has developed her or his own personal definition. Unfortunately, there is no one single definition that everybody has agreed upon. Table...
Toward a Broader Understanding of Stress and Coping
Mixed Methods Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Research on stress and coping phenomena has been among the most widely studied topics in social and behavioral sciences during the past several decades. Notwithstanding, the authors in this book have expanded the base of stress and coping research by providing a valuable reference source that includes...
War or Common Cause?
A Critical Ethnography of Language Education Policy, Race, and Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
This book on bilingual education policy represents a multidimensional and longitudinal study of “policy processes” as they play out on the ground (a single school in Los Angeles), and over time (both within the same school, and also within the state of Georgia). In order to reconstruct this complex...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Perhaps the best word to describe the past fifteen or so years of the twenty first century is “change.” Spurred on by the massive layoffs, and reorganizations that took place during the recessionary period starting in late 2007, to changes in labor demographics, technology, competitiveness, and the...
The Perfect Human Capital Storm
Workplace Human Capital Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
There are numerous trends taking place around the world and especially in the U.S. with implications for organizations, the workplace, leaders, and supporting organizations like Human Resources. How organizations and their leadership react and proactively address these changes will be difference between...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The purpose of the book series is to present reviews of current research in specific areas of early childhood education. Each volume is devoted to a particular area of the field. Within each volume scholars present reviews of research on particular aspects of the field of early childhood education....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This new book emphasizes the introduction of a new blueprint, called TPS-Lean Six Sigma, for addressing the primary concerns of manufacturing and service in a more sustainable and humanized way. It leads to a High Performance Culture and allows employees to realize their full potential and contribute...
Intervention Research
From Conceptualization to Publication
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This volume continues to build on the relationship between the Research in Management Consulting series and the intervener-researchers at the Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR) in Ecully, France, extending that partnership to our recent work with the French Foundation for...
Identity and Second Language Learning
Culture, Inquiry, and Dialogic Activity in Educational Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
This collection of research has attempted to capture the essence and promise embodied in the concept of “identity” and built a bridge to the realm of second language studies. However, the reader will notice that we did not build just one link. This volume brings to light the diversity of research...
Relational Discipline
Strategies for InYourFace Kids (Revised 2nd Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This exciting work offers an entirely new way to address the discipline problems that have become so common in our public schools! Dr. Bender's emphasis on relationships as the basis of all effective discipline has now been widely recognized as cutting edge within the field, and this book presents...
The Cruciform Faculty
The Making of a Christian Professor
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
How do Christian higher education institutions orient new faculty members to their role on a Christian campus? How do they lead faculty members toward a deeper understanding of the Christian dimension of their place in higher education? Bible Colleges, Christian Universities, and Seminaries need a resource...
The Metis of Projects
How To Remain Cognizant of a Project’s (Social) Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
“The Metis of Projects” addresses veteran project manager Ben Berndt’s unease with the use of established (project) management frameworks given their general inefficacy. Despite the use of these frameworks, it is estimated that some 30% of projects still fail because they deliver too late, cost...
The Dream Weavers
Strategy Focused Leadership in Technology Driven Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
The main question that guided the thinking behind this book can be stated as follows: "What kind of leadership behavior must executives of technologydriven organizations display to spur performance excellence?" To address this question the authors conducted videotaped interviews of executives...