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Rethinking Social Studies and History Education
Social Education through Alternative Texts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The book is unique in that it mixes theory and practical applications in rethinking traditional social studies education. It focuses on essays integrating media, popular culture, and alternative texts for teaching and learning in social studies and history education through a social education lens. Social...
Work and People
An Economic Evaluation of Job Enrichment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The reprint of Henri Savall’s classic Work and People, originally published in French in 1974, is part of the Research in Management Consulting series effort to look backward as well as forward in examining trends, perspectives, and insights especially from different countries and cultures into the...
Taking Your Course Online
An Interdisciplinary Journey
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
This book focuses on online pedagogy and the challenges and opportunities incumbent in the transformation of a facetoface college course. It is intended as a resource and support for new online teachers a source of ideas and strategies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives as well as pedagogical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
For decades teacher education researchers, organizations, and policy makers have called for improving teacher education by creating clinically based preparation programs (e.g. CAEP, 2013; Goodlad, 1990; Holmes, 1986, 1995; National Association for Professional Development Schools, 2008; National Council...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Why a book on gender issues in mathematics in the 21st century? Several factors have influenced the undertaking of this project by the editors. First, an international volume focusing on gender and mathematics has not appeared since publication of papers emerging from the 1996 International Congress...
Behavior Modeling Trainee Manual
Training for Developing Supervisory Skills
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
This Trainee Manual is designed to be used in conjunction with an instructordirected program based on material in Behavior Modeling Training for Developing Supervisory Skills: Instructor Manual, by the same author. Behaviormodeling training is a form of skilldevelopment training that is distinguished...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
How Stakeholders Can Support Teacher Quality compiles the proceedings from the Milken Family Foundation's National Education Conference (NEC), which took place in Washington, D.C., in May 2006. Each year, the NEC brings together practitioners, policymakers and private sector representatives to focus...
Education Redux
How to Make Schools Relevant to Our Children and Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Education Redux is a timely and incisive work answering the myriad of questions about the future of America. It is a general interest book of particular consequence to the current political and education debate. The U.S. is facing a surfeit of crises—social, political, economic and environmental....
Training Higher Education Policy Makers and Leaders
A Graduate Program Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Higher Education is a vibrant, changing field of study. With roots in multiple disciplines, these degree programs prepare the administrators, faculty, and policy makers who direct the current and future higher education enterprise. At a time when higher education is changing rapidly, these programs...
Reforming Legal Education
Law Schools at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In today’s volatile law school environment, curriculum reform has emerged as a significant focus. It is commonly understood that law schools effectively teach certain analytical skills, but are less successful in other areas, and often scramble to adapt to evolving aims. This book demonstrates how...
by Nancy T. Watson, Lei Xie, Matthew J. Etchells
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Cultural Impact on Conflict Management in Higher Education shares information regarding conflict management and resolution in higher education from a global perspective. In this book, we introduced many conflict resolution methods from different regions in the world. You can borrow some successful...
HybridContext Instructional Model
The Internet and the Classrooms: The Way Teachers Experience It
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book is a product of a dissertation project that was completed in December 2006. This project investigated teachers’ experiences in relation to teaching and learning using the hybridcontext instructional model. The dissertation itself has been noted as one of the best in providing practical tips...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Designing ProblemDriven Instruction with Online Social Media has the capacity to transform an educator’s teaching style by presenting innovative ways to empower problembased instruction with online social media. Knowing that not all instructors are comfortable in this area, this book provides clear,...
Effective Group Problem Solving
How to Broaden Particpation, Improve Decision Making, and Increase Commitment to Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This book provides a set of easy to use and proven techniques and procedures for conducting problem solving meetings more efficiently and productively, with less frustration, effort, and conflict. William M. Fox presents an approach to group problem solving—the Improved Nominal Group Technique (INGT)—that...