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Sustainability, Growth, and Globalization
A Social Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Over the past decade the notion of sustainability has emerged as a precept that has been applied to government, commerce, the environment and technology. This volume will discuss how sustainability is reflected in economics, political science and geography through the lens of socioeconomic change...
Reflecting the World
A Guide to Incorporating Equity in Mathematics Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Reflecting the World: A Guide to Incorporating Equity in Mathematics Teacher Education is a guide for mathematics teacher educators interested in incorporating equity concerns into their teaching. The book draws on the authors’ research and experience integrating issues of equity, diversity, and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2001
Mission Statement: Research in Management and Entrepreneurship is a thematic book series where each volume will focus on a single major issues in entrepreneurship. Volumes will not be published on any specific time table, but will be published when sufficient research interests exits to justify one....
Organizational Immunity to Corruption
Building Theoretical and Research Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The current discussion about corruption in organizational studies is one of the most growing, most fertile and perhaps most fascinating ones. Corruption is also a construct that is multilevel and can be understood as being created and supported by social and cultural interaction. As a result, an ongoing...
Leading with Character 2nd Edition
Stories of Valor and Virtue and the Principles They Teach
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
What kind of character strengths must leaders develop in themselves and others to create and sustain extraordinary organizational growth and performance? In this updated and expanded second edition, the author, John J. Sosik, answers this question by reviewing what is known about the connection between...
Gumbo for the Soul
Liberating Memoirs and Stories to Inspire Females of Color
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Rejection. Loss. Confusion. Pain. Our past and our future are intertwined. Each distinct memory becomes one life. What once hurt, eventually heals, and the lesson (or lessons) to be learned becomes one with our soul and our spirit. Our experiences provide strength instead of destruction. Our greatgrandmothers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This book highlights views on responsive, participatory and democratic approaches to evaluation from an ethos of care. It critically scrutinizes and discusses the invisibility of care in our contemporary Western societies and evaluation practices that aim to measure practices by external standards....
An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution
United Opt Out's Test of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Contributions by: Rosemarie Jensen, Shaun Johnson, Morna McDermott, Laurie Murphy, Peggy Robertson, Ruth Rodriguez, Tim Slekar, Ceresta Smith, United Opt Out National Forward by Ricardo Rosa, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth This book is intended for educators, parents and community activists...
The Qualimetrics Approach
Observing the Complex Object
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The impetus for this work emerged from Savall’s belief that there is a doubleloop interaction between social and economic factors in organizations, between behaviors and structures, and between the quality of life in organizations and their economic performance. When managers underestimate this...
Religious Charter Schools
Legalities and Practicalities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
This book explores the constitutionality of religionbased charter schools. The method of analysis uses hypothetical charter schools to answer legal questions. The answers are grounded in law using the latest precedent. The background material before examining charters sets forth both the legal and policy...
The Intended Mathematics Curriculum as Represented in StateLevel Curriculum Standards
Consensus or Confusion?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
This volume represents a detailed analysis of the grade placement of mathematics learning goals across all statelevel curriculum standards published as of May 2005. The volume documents the varied gradelevel mathematics curriculum expectations in the U.S. and highlights a general lack of consensus...
Quarterly Review of Distance Education
Volume 15 #4
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Quarterly Review of Distance Education is a rigorously refereed journal publishing articles, research briefs, reviews, and editorials dealing with the theories, research, and practices of distance education. The Quarterly Review publishes articles that utilize various methodologies that permit...
Distance Learning Issue
Volume 14 #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
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...
Recapturing the Personal
Essays on Education and Embodied Knowledge in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
In this volume, contributors discuss both the theoretical and practical applications of an embodied knowledge perspective, using the field of education as an exemplar. It should be noted that while the theorists whose writings are discussed in these pages, have made seminal contributions to the sociology...