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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Strategic Alliances in a Globalizing World contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 11 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics that speak to the growing role of strategic alliances in a globalizing business world. The chapter topics...
Nicholas Murray Butler's The International Mind
An Argument for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes with a New Introduction by Charles F. Howlett
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This new edition of Nicholas Murray Butler's The International Mind marks the 100th anniversary of its publication. Widely read at the time, it has reached the status of classic work. Butler is one of the 20th Century’s most famous college presidents. He transformed Columbia University into a famous...
Improving Student Learning
Action Principles for Families, Schools, Districts and States
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Improving Schools to Promote Learning is a concise and commonsense examination of all the moving parts that drive student learning. The book ties together the research, policies, and practices relative to the state, district, school, classroom, and family, and explains their effects on student learning....
Intersectionality and Urban Education
Identities, Policies, Spaces & Power
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
In urban education, “urban” is a floating signifier that is imbued with meaning, positive or negative by its users. “Urban” can be used to refer to both the geographical context of a city and a sense of “less than,” most often in relation to race and/or socioeconomic status (Watson, 2011)....
Managing Organizational Complexity
Philosophy, Theory and Application
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Celluloid Blackboard
Teaching History with Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
This volume advocates for including feature films in secondary history classrooms through examining the ways in which films can promote students’ historical understanding while also addressing the potential drawbacks to using film. In part one the essays explore three frameworks for the analysis...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
While critical race theory is a framework employed by activists and scholars within and outside the confines of education, there are limited resources for leadership practitioners that provide insight into critical race theory and the possibilities of implementing a critical race praxis approach to...
Learner's Privilege and Responsibility
A Critical Examination of the Experiences and Perspectives of Learners from Chinese Backgrounds in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book is about the learner side of the teaching and learning equilibrium, centering on the educational experiences and perspectives of Chinese students in the United States. These students ranged from kindergarteners, adolescents, undergraduate, graduate, to adult learners, across the educational...
Creating Socially Responsible Citizens
Cases from the AsiaPacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This book originates from a collaborative research initiative to examine how various societies in the AsiaPacific Region construct moral and civic education, and to what extent these systems achieve the democratic objective of creating socially responsible citizens. In many western societies there...
Communication and Language
Surmounting the Barriers to Crosscultural Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Communication and Language play a foundational role in the overall pursuit of equity and social justice in education. This volume does not take up the majority and dominant views which are especially visible in developments in the field of linguistic education and English language instruction. Rather,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Women and Leadership around the World is the third volume in a new series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice) that will is now being published to inform leadership scholars and practitioners. The purpose of this volume is to explore areas of women’s leadership in four...
Exploding the Castle
Rethinking How Video Games & Game Mechanics Can Shape the Future of Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Lacking a digital crystal ball, we cannot predict the future of education or the precise instructional role games will have going forward. Yet we can safely say that games will play some role in the future of K?12 and higher education, and members of the games community will have to choose between...
Crises Of Identifying
Negotiating And Mediating Race, Gender, And Disability Within Family And Schools
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Although there has been an increase in literature regarding children of color with disabilities, it mainly focuses on their experiences in one social context. Crises of Identifying: Negotiating and Mediating Race, Gender, and Disability within Family and Schools includes narratives on the familial...
Necessary Spaces
Exploring the Richness of African American Childhood in the South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In Necessary Spaces: Exploring the Richness of African American Childhood in the South, Saundra Murray Nettles takes the reader on a journey into neighborhood networks of learning at different times and places. Using autobiographical accounts, Nettles discusses the informal instructional practices...