Age: 1758 books
Teach & Thrive
Wisdom from an Urban Teacher's Career Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Teacher burn out contributes to the epidemic of early career exit. At least half of all new K?12 teachers leave the profession by the time they reach their fifth year of teaching. Conversely, there are urban teachers who survive burn out and thrive as career? long educators. This book results from an...
In View of Academic Careers and CareerMaking Scholars
Innovative Ideas for Institutional Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
This volume connects career making to the general social context in which it takes place, careermaking individuals to the large institutional establishment in which they operate, and specifically career academicians to the overall knowledge enterprise from which they draw their intellectual inspiration,...
Corporate Social Performance
Paradoxes, Pitfalls and Pathways To The Better World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Corporatee Social Performance: Paradoxes Pitfalls and Pathways to the Better World is authored by a range of international experts with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives and provides a collection of ideas, examples and solutions on CSP implementation and problems that occur in this area...
Teacher Certification and the Professional Status of Teaching in North America
The New Battleground for Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This book locates recent developments in teacher certification in North America within a broader, international policy context characterized as hegemonic neoliberalism wherein economic rationalism has begun to trump professional judgment. We focus on teacher certification because it addresses fundamental...
The Psychology of Imagination
History, Theory and New Research Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This book offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. Fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity to distance oneself from the here?and?now situation in order to return to it with new possibilities....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This volume brings together an impressive array of respected scholars to examine the varied and complex ways in which peers influence adolescents’ beliefs and behaviors in the school context. The breadth of peer influence on academic and social adjustment is evident in the wide variety of topics...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Spirituality, Religion, and Peace Education attempts to deeply explore the universal and particular dimensions of education for inner and communal peace. This coedited book contains fifteen chapters on world spiritual traditions, religions, and their connections and relevance to peacebuilding and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This volume aims to stimulate interest in the under-researched role of silent partners (SPs) in multicultural education. Silent partners include formal and informal places-spaces in schools (e.g. architecture, classroom facilities, libraries, corridors, playgrounds, canteens), objects (e.g. teaching...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
This book sets out to explore the intersections between matters not frequently yoked in academic discussions: spirituality, social justice, and the learning of world languages. The contributing authors contend not only that these intersections exist, but that they are the site of issues and realities...
Schooled for the Future?
Educational Policy and Everyday Life among Urban Squatters in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
“Schooled for the future?” offers an ethnographically rich account about squatter families in Kathmandu and their struggles to improve their living conditions and create a better future through education. Examining how people children and adults experience and respond to policy initiatives aimed...
by Robert Nash, Penny A. Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
For thousands of years, religion has been a key element of human societies. Whenever we, as educators, exclude or minimize religion’s vast role in society, we leave out a large part of our world’s shared history. This is a serious act of educational omission, even neglect, on the part of our nation’s...
Model Minority Myth Revisited
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Demystifying Asian American Educational Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
This is the first in the book series on educational research sponsored by Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association (CAERDA, www.caerda.org).
Advocating for Children and Families in an Emerging Democracy
The Post Soviet Exp. In Lith.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
The editors intended for this volume to provide queer and ally athletes a space to have a voice and share the experiences that have been significant in their identity as an athletic member of the LGBT+ community. To that end, this book is a collection of autobiographical short stories of LGBT+ athletes...