Age: 1758 books
Linguistic Perspectives on English Grammar
A Guide for EFL Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The proposed book is best described as a linguistically oriented textbook taking the grammar of English as its subject matter. It is directed to professional teachers of English (ESL and EFL) and their students, as well as those currently training to become teachers of English. The book is also likely...
The Perfect Online Course
Best Practices for Designing and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
The Perfect Online Course: Best Practices for Designing and Teaching was edited under the assumption that a perfect online course can be delivered following different instructional methods and models for design and for instruction, and by implementing different teaching or instructional strategies....
Human Capital Management Research
Influencing practice and process
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
When reading current human capital management or human resources management textbooks, it is clear that many do not reflect current research. Even new Strategic HRM books are only recently reporting research that has been widely discussed in academic journals over the last 10 years. Discussion with those...
Demystifying Career Paths after Graduate School
A Guide for Second Language Professionals in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
This edited book offers concrete information and useful suggestions to graduate students who are seeking employment at institutions of higher education in North America and other parts of the world. This book also targets entrylevel faculty members who are exploring increased participation in professional...
TPS-Lean Six Sigma
Linking Human Capital to Lean Six Sigma - A New Blueprint for Creating High Performance Companies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
"How can psychology professors in the USA and other nations make their courses more international?" This question is addressed in this indispensable new sourcebook, co-authored by 73 contributors and editors from 21 countries. In recent decades psychology has evolved from an American-dominated...
Handbook on Developing Curriculum Materials for Teachers
Lessons From Museum Education Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
This book provides an essential resource for educators and museum professionals who wish to develop education focused eMuseums that feature motivational standardsbased curriculum for diverse learners. The book is divided into three sections: Section 1. Planning, Developing, and Evaluating eMuseums guides...
Educated for Change?
Muslim Refugee Women in the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Educated for Change?: Muslim Women in the West inserts Muslim women’s voice and action into the bifurcated, and otherwise male dominated, relations between the West and the Islamic East. A multilayered, multisite, educational ethnography, Buck and Silver’s study takes a novel approach to its feminist...
Distance Learning Issue
Volume 13 #3
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Distance Learning is for leaders, practitioners, and decision makers in the fields of distance learning, e'learning, telecommunications, and related areas. It is a professional journal with applicable information for those involved with providing instruction to all kinds of learners, of all ages, using...
Student Perspectives on Assessment
What Students Can Tell Us About Assessment for Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Assessment for learning is meant to engage, motivate, and enable students to do better in their learning. However, how students themselves perceive assessments (both highstakes qualifications and lowstakes monitoring) is not well understood. This volume collects research studies from Europe, North...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
This Handbook provides windows into worldwide research endeavors, including countries not usually widely known in international education studies. The goal of this compendium is to foster the understanding of research and education from different national and cultural perspectives, and to support...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
In the chapters that follow, the history and current status of early childhood education in selected countries, along with a review of current research that is being conducted in these countries will be presented. In essence this will provide a glimpse of the intellectual base of early childhood education in many parts of the world.
The Thoughts of Youth
An International Perspective on Adolescents' Ideal Persons
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Most knowledge about adolescent development is based on adolescents living in the United States or Europe. "The Thoughts of Youth" reports a study in which over 6000 adolescents from 20 regions of the world, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, described an ideal woman or ideal...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Many books on multicultural education focus on a country and provide indepth discussion of issues pertinent to that country at the time. Alternately, understanding of multicultural education is sought through comparison between a society of special interest and a reference society, often the United...