Information Age Publishing imprint: 1717 books
Advances in HelpSeeking Research and Applications
The Role of Emerging Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Research on help seeking has primarily focused on classrooms interactions that consist primarily of students asking teachers and peers for help. The rapid emergence of information and communications technologies and interactive learning environments, however, requires expanding the helpseeking landscape...
Power, Equity and (Re)Design
Bridging Learning and Critical Theories in Learning Ecologies for Youth
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This volume brings together design thinking, critical social theory, and learning sciences to describe promising learning innovations that foster rights, dignity, and social justice for youth. The contributors are emerging scholars who are leading voices working at the intersections of theory and...
The Talking Point
Creating an Environment for Exploring Complex Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
(A Collaborative Project of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras) The Talking Point is all about how people learn within groups. People can be much smarter than crowds if you measure “smart” as decisionmaking speed. Crowds can be much wiser than individuals if you measure wisdom by depth of understanding....
A Book For Every Teacher
Teaching English Language Learners
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
A Book for Every Teacher: Teaching English Language Learners is a unique and compressive text written for mainstream classroom teachers. The passion for writing this book comes from our working experiences with the K12 teachers in four school districts through our ELL Center professional development...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Multicultural Education for Learners with Special Needs in the TwentyFirst Century provides general and special educators innovative information that address the road blocks to effective practice such that diverse learners will be appropriately; identified, assessed, categorized, placed and instructed....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The underlying rationale for this book is to present research that a) highlights the explosively political and deeply divisive issues involved in managing risk and b) address the empirical deficit and theoretical challenges related to managing societal risk ethically. Extant risk management research...
Normalites
The First Professionally Prepared Teachers in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Normalites: The First Professionally Prepared Teachers in the United States is a new original work which explores the experiences of three women, Lydia Stow, Mary Swift and Louisa Harris, who were pioneers in the movement in teacher education as members of the first class of the nation's first state...
Writing Visions of Hope
Teaching TwentiethCentury American Literature and Research
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This ninechapter book narrates a writingcentered approach to the teaching of literature and literary research. As the title suggests, the book also embraces a thematic approach to reading and writing about twentiethcentury American literature, focusing on the grounds for hope in an age of despair....
ServiceLearning in Literacy Education
Possibilities for Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This edited collection will stand as the first volume that specifically describes servicelearning programs and courses designed as part of teacher education programs in the fields of literacy education, secondary English education, elementary language arts education, and related fields. The contributing...
Cultivating Achievement, Respect, and Empowerment (CARE) for African American Girls in PreK?12 Settings
Implications for Access, Equity and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
chapters discuss issues impacting the education of African American girls and many of challenges that they encounter during their schooling experiences. The chapters were written by 24 authors including a school superintendent, university administrator and professors, classroom teacher, mother and a...
Critical Issues in Preparing Effective Early Childhood Special Education Teachers for the 21 Century Classroom
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The purpose of this book is to provide a forum for an interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue with regard to preparing teachers for early childhood special education. In addition, it is aimed at examining and making available relevant and most recent scholarship to practitioners and at addressing critical...
Governance and Transformations of Universities in Africa
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
While universities world over are undergoing reforms and change, in the case of African universities as illustrated in this book, the reforms and changes are profound and can best be described as transformative. This book is unique in many ways, which makes it extraordinary. First, unlike other books...
by Waymond Rodgers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book proposes a Throughput Model that draws from computer science, economic and psychology literatures to model perceptual and judgmental processes whereby biometrics might be used to reduce risks to a company’s internal control. The book also discusses challenges in employing biometric technology...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
Mission Statement: Research in Management and Entrepreneurship is a thematic book series where each volume will focus on a single major issues in entrepreneurship. Volumes will not be published on any specific time table, but will be published when sufficient research interests exits to justify one....