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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Education institutions and organizations throughout the world are currently being held accountable for achieving and maintaining historically unmatched standards of academic quality and performance. Accreditation bodies; policy makers; boards of trustees; and teacher, parent, and student groups all place...
Placing Practitioner Knowledge at the Center of Teacher Education
Rethinking the Policies and Practices of the Education Doctorate
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Rethinking the Education Doctorate so that practitioner knowledge is at the center of programmatic concern in teacher education raises provocative education policy/practice considerations. Participants in the national Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) are doing just this. Their accounts...
Untold Narratives
African Americans Who Received Special Education Services and Succeeded Beyond Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This edited book reflects a much needed area of scholarship as the voices of African American (AA) or Black students defined by various labels such as learning disability, blindness/visual impairment, cognitive development, speech or language impairment, and hearing impairment are rare within the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
The chapters in this volume reflect the impact that teachers have on their students when "they stand in front of the classroom" and the effect their performance have on children such as teachers gender, preparation, certification, knowledge, beliefs, cognitive style, creativity, accountability,...
Encouraging a Continuing Personal Investment in Learning
Motivation as an Instructional Outcome
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The writing of this book was in part supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSFEHR 0335369). It represents a significant extension and enriched interpretation of earlier work on “motivation as an instructional outcome” (e.g., Maehr, 1976). Such enrichment and enhancement was prompted...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Values are of critical importance in the practice of career counseling as evidenced by the pervasive use of values surveys and values card sorts by career counselors, vocational and counseling psychologists, career development facilitators, career coaches, and other career development practitioners....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
This eighth volume in the Research in Social Issues in Management series explores a variety of social relations to expand our thinking about organizational justice, which is fundamentally based on relationships between organizational authorities and the employees of the organizations. These relationships...
Educational Administration, Policy, and Reform
Research and Measurement
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
This book series on Theory and Research in Educational Administration is about understanding schools. We welcome articles and analyses that explain school organizations and administration. We are interested in the "why" questions about schools. To that end, case analyses, surveys, large data base...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Volume 2 of the Research in Careers series focuses on the search for authenticity in one’s career. Although there has been growing interest in the topic within the popular press, relatively little academic research has been completed on authenticity and careers. Researchers are still refining the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Studies in School Improvement is the eighth volume in a series on research and theory in school administration dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. This selection of readings highlights a number of important factors in the stimulation...
Deconstructing ServiceLearning
Research Exploring Context, Participation, and Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
This work looks at service learning. It cover such topics as: challenges for servicelearning research; enhancing theorybased research on service learning; dilemmas of service learning teachers; the diffusion of academic service learning in teacher education; and more.
Research for What?
Making Engaged Scholarship Matter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Research on servicelearning and community engagement has exploded over the past decade. It is a field now characterized by increasing methodological and theoretical sophistication, vast quantitative and qualitative studies, interdisciplinary research, myriad subjects, and the internationalization of...
Service Learning
The Essence of the Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
The Advances in ServiceLearning Research book series was established to initiate the publication of a set of comprehensive research volumes that would present and discuss a wide range of issues in this broad field called servicelearning. Servicelearning is a multifaceted pedagogy that crosses all...