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Innovating Genesis
Microgenesis and the Constructive Mind in Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Cultural psychology is currently in a phase of rapid growth. Innovating Genesis is an example of how the most central aspect of any science—its methodology—undergoes revolutionary transformation. Yet in this book we see careful continuity with the past of the discipline. The orientation to study...
Culture as the Core
Perspective on Culture in Second Language Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
This volume presents the very important issue of integrating culture into the second language classroom. Some of its chapters were originally presented at two symposia on culture learning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Culture learning in the Second Language Curriculum, held at the University...
Advancing Education Productivity
Policy Implications from National Databases
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Most of the research contained in this book was supported by grants to the individual authors from the American Educational Research Association Grants Program.
Success for All
A Comprehensive Educational Reform for Improving AtRisk Students in an Urban School in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
This book provides a detailed account of an educational experiment in a middle school in Shanghai, China. The school, called Zhabei No. 8 Middle School (hereafter No. 8 School), is located in a rundown, lower working class district. Since the mid1980s the school has experimented on an educational reform...
Embodied Wisdom
Meditations on Memoir and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Embodied wisdom: Meditations on memoir and education by Alison Pryer, Ph.D. explores the interconnectedness of body, mind and spirit within diverse educational contexts. Evocative, sensual prose carries the reader on a journey through the personal and the remembered in a layered series of autobiographical...
The Last Silver Bullet?
Technology for America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Originally this book was meant only to recommend a way to pay for placing modern technology into all of our country's public schools. As we began to formulate that financing plan, however, we realized the task was not as straightforward as we had thought. We were struck by the vehement opposition...
Hopes in Friction
Schooling, Health and Everyday Life in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Universal Primary Education programs are being promoted around the globe as the solution to poverty and health problems, but very little indepth qualitative knowledge is available about the experiences of these programs in children's lifeworlds. Hopes in Friction offers a vivid portrait of life and...
Journal of Character Education - Issue
Vol. 13 #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The Journal of Character Education is the only professional journal in education devoted to character education. It is designed to cover the field—from the latest research to applied best practices. We include original research reports, editorials and conceptual articles by the best minds in our...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Recipient of AERA Outstanding Contributions Relating Theory to Practice Award: Interpretive Scholarship for 2004
Implicit Leadership Theories
Essays and Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
This book is the third volume in the Leadership Horizons series. This series, started by Jim Meindl, is devoted to new developments in theory and research on leadership within the context of continuing and emerging organizational issues. In this spirit, the present volume delves into implicit leadership...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
This volume gathers some of the methods being developed by evaluators from university settings and the private sector. While providing models and methods, these authors also raise larger questions, such as: "How can schools meet the challenge of educating all children without being limited by the educational...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
This collection of chapters presents research focused on emerging strategies, paradigms, and theories on the sources, experiences, and consequences of stress, coping, and prevention pertaining to students, teachers and administrators. Studies analyze data collected through action research, program...
Critical Issues in Organizational Development
Case Studies for Analysis and Discussion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This case study book provides 30 cases and responses from 90 OD consultants with expert insights specific to each particular case topic. This book is the culmination of ten years of collaboration between the Homer Johnson, Peter Sorensen and Therese Yaeger, and the OD Network that originally printed...