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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
This volume provides uptodate reviews of the research on a number of social and ethical issues of increasing concern confronting today's managers and organizations. The authors, who are recognized international experts on the topics they treat, provide new theories and innovative perspectives on these...
Instructional Design
Systems Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2002
At the time of this writing the authors of Instructional Design: System Strategies have a combined experience of more than 75 years in the ?eld of instructional technology in its various guises including Educational Media, Instructional Media, Educational Media and Technology, Instructional Media...
Teaching Writing Genres Across the Curriculum
Strategies for Middle School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This volume showcases the efforts of real teachers using the teaching events from real middle school classrooms. Included is the work of eight hardworking middle school teachers who are convinced that the form and function of genre is a way to teach writing across the middle school curriculum. Each chapter...
Getting It in Writing
The Quest to Become Outstanding and Effective Teachers of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Sixteen teachers. Sixteen journeys. All on a quest to become outstanding teachers of writing. All taking different paths to acquire and hone those skills that make a teacher effective. From kindergarten to college, teachers are faced with the daunting task of instilling the art of writing in their students....
Readings in Writing Courses
Replacing Literature in Composition
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
As the title suggests, this sixchapter book responds to a question which, in Western culture, goes back to Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian, namely, What should rhetoric teachers ask their students to read? Primarily historical, the first two chapters trace conflicting answers to the question...
by Mario Martinez, Mimi Wolverton
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The purpose of this book is to offer higher education leaders, scholars, consultants, and observers a full range of strategy tools that can be applied to the higher education industry. This is accomplished by a) introducing new concepts and tools to give a comprehensive view of strategy making in higher...
Financing National Defense
Policy and Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
A myth from the colonial period was that Americans could defend themselves by keeping a rifle in the closet and when needed, grab it, and march off to battle in times of crisis. Unfortunately, providing national defense is more complicated that that; indeed it was more complicated even during the Revolutionary...
Portraying Lives
Headmistresses and Women Professors 1880s1940s
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The expansion of women’s higher education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia and New Zealand offered educated women opportunities to broaden their aspirations, horizons and experiences across many professional fields. Engaged in the public activity of teaching in a range of educational...
The Legacy of June Pallot
Public Sector Financial Management Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This book brings together a selection of June Pallot's most significant work. Written from a country (New Zealand) that led the world in many aspects of its financial management reforms, this work provides thoughtful comment on matters that remain of crucial importance today, especially the constitutional...
More Women on Boards
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
More Women on Boards: An International Perspective is the seventh volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice book series. The purpose of this volume is to explore the complexity of issues related to increasing the number of women on boards of directors around the world: how...
The Duality of Women Scholars of Color
Transforming and Being Transformed in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
The seven chapters address longstanding concerns from firsthand perspectives regarding women of color faculty in the academy, the marginalization of women of color scholars in the academy and the benefits of mentoring support. Discussion of such are threaded throughout this book. Mentoring has been...
Higher Education Finance Research
Policy, Politics, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
There is a void in the literature on how to conduct research in the finance and economics of higher education. Students, professors, and practitioners have no concise document that examines the field, provides history, definitions of terms, sources of data, and research methods. Higher Education Finance...
Mobile Learning
Perspectives on Practice and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
There can be no doubt that mobile technologies are here to stay. Global mobile traffic grew 74 percent in 2015 alone, with 563 million devices and connections added -- most of them tablets and Smartphones. This growth has been 4000-fold in the past 10 years and 400 million-fold in the past 15 years...
White Women's Work
Examining the Intersectionality of Teaching, Identity, and Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Historically, white women have had a tremendous influence on establishing the ideological, political, and cultural scaffold of American public schools. Pedagogical orientations, school policies, and classroom practices are underwritten by white, cisgender, feminine, and middle to upper class social and...