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Seeking the Common Dreams between the Worlds
Stories of Chinese Immigrant Faculty in North American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This is the first book that probes the lived experiences of Chinese immigrant faculty in North American higher education institutions: their struggles, challenges, successes, etc. It explores how their past experiences in China have shaped who they are now, what they do and how they pursue their teaching,...
Lost in Transition
Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Being a “student” has been and remains a highly desirable status for young people and their families in Kyrgyzstan. “Giving their children education” (dat detyam obrazovaniye) meaning “higher education” has become an imperative for many parents, even in a time of serious economic and social...
Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries Vol 4
Critical Pedagogues and Their Pedagogical Theories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This volume is the fourth, and last, volume in the series entitled Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries: An Annotated Bibliography. Volumes I and Volume 2 focused on (1) the lives and work of notable scholars dedicated to addressing why and how social issues should become an integral...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This inaugural volume of the new book series, Research in Queer Studies is a collection of memoirs or short narrative essays in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex or queer PK12 teachers and/or administrators (either “out” or “not out”) recount their personal experiences as a queer...
Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Teacher
Letters Of Advice To Help You Find Your Way
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Teacher: Letters Of Advice To Help You Find Your Way is full of the voices of queer educators and calls for educational leaders to be allies in their social justice leadership roles. Queer professionals write personal letters to junior queer colleagues answering...
Queer South Rising
Voices of a Contested Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Queer South Rising: Voices of a Contested Place is a collection of essays about the South by people who identify as both Southern and queer. The collection’s name hints at the provocative nature of its contents: placing Queer and South sidebyside challenges readers to think about each word differently....
Origine radicale des crises économiques
Germán Bernácer, précurseur visionnaire
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This book is written in the french language. Henri Savall gives his insight on the economic crises in organizations.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This book forms a basis and a starting point for a closer dialogue between musicologists, anthropologists and psychologists to achieve a better understanding of the cultural psychology of musical experience. This is done by arranging a meeting point or an arena in which different aspects of psychology...
Making Sense of Infinite Uniqueness
The Emerging System of Idiographic Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The purpose of the book is to establish a common language for, and understanding of, embodiment as it applies to mathematical thinking, and to link mathematics education research to recent work in gesture studies, cognitive linguistics and the theory of embodied cognition. Just as in past decades, mathematics...
School Leadership in a Diverse Society
Helping Schools Prepare All Students for Success
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The purpose of this work is to broaden the scholarly dialogue in educational leadership and to address the changing role of the American school principal in the twentyfirst century with regard to increasing diversity in the United States. This book seeks to provide theoretical and practical insight...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This volume in Research in Social Issues in Management expands our understanding of organizational justice and applies justice theories to develop models of ethical behavior in organizations. At a time of global economic recession and frequent business and accounting scandals, many people are questioning...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The daily process of public service provision and administration is filled with value judgments and value tradeoffs, and the safeguarding of just and fair processes is key to the public’s trust in governing institutions. In crises, public decisionmakers face complex ethical judgments under great uncertainty,...
by Shane Ralston
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Confirming his moniker as “America’s philosopher of democracy,” John Dewey engaged in a series of public debates over the course of his lifetime, vividly demonstrating how his thought translates into action. These debates made Dewey a household name and a renowned public intellectual during the...