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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
(Published in Cooperation with the Laboratory for Student Success, Temple University)
Bhutan
Ways of Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
There is a mistyeyed vision of Bhutan which has popularized it as ‘the last Shangrila’, the hidden Himalayan jewel, the travel destination of celebrities and uniqueexperiencehunters. We are not entirely comfortable with this image. Bhutan has undoubtedly become the focus of considerable media...
Western Structures Meet Native Traditions
The Interfaces of Educational Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
As Western educational practices have become global, the cultural aspects and the problems associated with them have become more apparent as they are contrasted with local ways of learning and knowing in the widely diverse societies around the world. The Western world has tended to assume that its...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Broadbased, inclusive decisionmaking is the historical foundation for determining what should and can be taught, how institutions should grow, and who should become a part of the academic community. This text brings together authors to examine faculty governance from a historical perspective, tracing...
Understanding Organizational Fitness
The Case of China
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The focus if this book has two dimensions: theoretical and empirical. The theoretical dimension is concerned with the fitness of an organization to satisfactorily address processes of transformational change. Such fitness, it will be argued, can be expressed in terms of the coherence (degree of integration)...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
As globalization brings different cultures together, human performance interventions and training solutions may be strained by cultures, policies and other lines of thinking specific to a particular country, region or continent. What is considered a systematic process of discovering and analyzing important...
Global Organization Development
Managing Unprecedented Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The purpose of this book is to address one of the most rapidly growing and important areas in the field of organization development. Despite its importance, relatively little is known about international and global organization development. This book is designed to summarize and apply the existing...
Innovations in Career and Technical Education
Strategic Approaches towards Workforce Competencies around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
This book is designed primarily for potential and inservice vocational instructors who are pursuing a program of personal and professional development which will ensure competency in this specialty. In any state in the United States, there are a number of uncredentialed instructors who teach courses...
Pruning The Ivy
The Overdue Reformation of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Higher education in America is the best in the world, but it is also desperately in need of reform. Lacking effective competition and insulated from market forces, universities have created a model fundamentally at odds with free market principles. In a system few outsiders comprehend, universities...
Doing PDS
Stories and Strategies from Successful Clinically Rich Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
SUNY Buffalo State is a unique urban comprehensive liberal arts public institution serving a large number of first generation college students. One flagship program at the college is the Professional Development Schools (PDS) consortium. Beginning in 1991 with one partner school, the SUNY Buffalo...
Cinematic Social Studies
A Resource for Teaching and Learning Social Studies With Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Action! Film is a common and powerful element in the social studies classroom and Cinematic Social Studies explores teaching and learning social studies with film. Teaching with film is a prominent teaching strategy utilized by many teachers on a regular basis. Cinematic Social Studies moves readers...
Academic Social Responsibility
Sine Qua Non for Corporate Social Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The book Academic Social Responsibility - Sine Qua Non for Corporate Social Performance is our endeavor to disseminate the awareness of the significance of responsible (especially management) education not only for academic stakeholders, but for the whole society. It is an interesting combination...
by Jim Horn, Denise Wilburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
With new student assessments and teacher evaluation schemes in the planning or early implementation phases, this book takes a step back to examine the ideological and historical grounding, potential benefits, scholarly evidence, and ethical basis for the new generation of test based accountability measures....
Qualitative Organizational Research Volume 2
Best Papers from the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Over the past ten years, the Davis Conference on Qualitative Research has become the world’s leading conference for qualitative researchers in organizational studies. The authors of the "Best Presentation Awards" at the Davis Conference from the past four years have contributed chapters to this volume....