Information Age Publishing imprint: 1717 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Management makes the world go round. This is a strong belief of the authors of this volume. The current tumultuous economic and financial crisis and the intensifying threats caused by climate change are symptoms of a global system that is out of balance. It is increasingly assumed that managers share...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Emerging Themes in International Management of Human Resources is the third volume in the Research in Organizational Analysis series. This volume investigates important human resource management (HRM) issues within an international context. The papers in this volume provide insight into several HRM...
by Maria Teresa Tatto
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
(Originally Published in 2007 by Symposium Books) This book seeks to raise the discussion of globalisation's effects on teacher education, development and work, and its reforms and institutions, to a more theoretical and analytical level, and to provide specific examples in the comparative tradition...
Mending Walls
Historical, Socio?Political, Economic, and Geographical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
This volume of the International Social Studies Forum offers papers presented at the 2016 Social Studies Education Forum International Conference that was held in Berlin, Germany in June, 2016. The authors are a cross section of international educators. The issues and research structures noted in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
(Sponsored by the Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group and the National Middle School Association) Studies like the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) have compared the performance of U.S. middle grade students (i.e., eighth graders) to those in other countries....
Teachers' Roles in Second Language Learning
Classroom Applications of Sociocultural Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This book is designed to provide practical applications of sociocultural theory with regard to teachers’ roles in second language education. By providing specific examples of teachers’ roles in the classroom, the book aims to help researchers, teacher educators, and classroom teachers make clear...
ProjectBased Second and Foreign Language Education
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Dewey's idea of Projectbased Learning (PBL) was introduced into the field of second language education nearly two decades ago as a way to reflect the principles of studentcentered teaching (Hedge, 1993). Since then, PBL has also become a popular language and literacy activity at various levels and...
Deepening Literacy Learning
Art and Literature Engagements in K8 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Otherness in Question
Development of the Self
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
This book brings to social scientists a new look at how human beings are striving towards understanding others and through that effortmaking sense of themselves. It brings together researchers from all over the World who have suggested a set of new approaches to the basic research issue of how human...
Research Methods in Social Studies Education
Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship on social studies education by providing thoughtful reflections on research methods in the field. It is not a “how to” guide but an exploration of key issues related to the design and implementation of empirical studies. The authors are active...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Historians often ignore the daytoday struggles of ordinary people to improve their lives. They tend to focus on the accomplishments of illustrious leaders. Peace Education from the Grassroots tells the stories of concerned citizens, teachers, and grassroots peace activists who have struggled to counteract...
Discovering Cultural Psychology
A Profile and Selected Readings of Ernest E. Boesch
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
This book is a landmark in contemporary cultural psychology. Ernest Boesch’s synthesis of ideas is the first comprehensive theory of culture in psychology since Wilhelm Wundt’s Völkerpsychologie of the first decades of the twentieth century. Cultural psychology of today is an attempt to advance...
Civil Society or Shadow State?
State/NGO Relations in Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
Pólvora, sangre y sexo
dialogismos contemporáneos entre la literatura y el cine en América Latina
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The book examines the links between literature and film in Latin America by using queer theory and a series of recent cultural productions whose arguments destabilize traditional gender roles and heteronormative masculinity. For many years, the connections between a literary text and its film adaptation...