Age: 1758 books
The Perfect Norm
How to Teach Differentially, Assess Effectively, and Manage a Classroom Ethically in Ways That Are
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Our goal in writing this book was to validate teachers for strong efforts in their life’s work. We often observe teachers’ frustrations with what they perceive to be a multitude of different “hot topics” in education that they must attend to now, but which they expect to come and go, like...
Research as a Tool for Empowerment
Theory Informing Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Research as a Tool for Empowerment: Theory Informing Practice is an edited volume that includes an array of researchbased chapters that not only further the field of second/foreign language research, but also provide practical implications to language classrooms in international and national settings....
The Comprehensive Handbook of Constructivist Teaching
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
While many people talk about the Constructivist philosophy, there has not been a publication that provides a detailed description of what a Constructivist classroom sounds like and looks like. This book fills that void by examining the philosophy, translating it into teaching strategies, and providing...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Liminal Spaces and Call for Praxis(ing) follows the theme of the Curriculum & Pedagogy conference that highlighted issues of power, privilege, and supremacy across timelines and borders. This volume comprises of an interconnected mosaic of theoretical research and praxis. Facing the current and future...
Teaching Language and Content to Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students
Principles, Ideas, and Naterials
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This book is intended for high school content teachers, preservice teachers preparing to teach in a subject matter area, college faculty involved in both preservice and inservice teacher preparation, curriculum developers, and policy makers in teacher education. They will find teaching principles as well as concrete ideas for teaching content subject matter knowledge to diverse students.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In classrooms where children’s voices are valued, young readers and writers possess power. Their ability to exert this power through literacy is especially evident in classrooms where children, who are traditionally marginalized, can use their voices to be change agents. In this third volume of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This volume continues the collaboration between the RMC book series and the French management research think tank ISEOR (SocioEconomic Institute for Firms and Organizations). Those familiar with Henri Savall’s and his colleague Véronique Zardet’s earlier work on the socioeconomic theory of organizations...
Management of Team Leadership in Extreme Context
Defending Our Homeland, Protecting Our First Responders
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The proper balance of managerial “administrativecontrol” and managerial “teamleadership” depends upon the work context. After organizational procedures are designed by workprocess engineers, managers and their directreports in the business units, are charged to “save our ship” (SOS) by their...
Participatory Evaluation Up Close
An Integration of ResearchBased Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Empiricism provides the backbone of knowledge creation within social science disciplines (e.g., psychology, sociology) and applied domains of study (e.g., education, administration) alike. Yet, relative to such domains of inquiry, comparatively little empirical research on evaluation has occurred,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The Forum that led to this volume was the thirteenth in an ongoing annual series sponsored by the Applied Psychology Center (APC) at Kent State University. The resources and programs of the APC allowed for the prominent clinicians and scholars to attend the meeting and interact informally in the picturesque...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The purpose of Career Development in Higher Education is to provide a broad and indepth look at the field of career development as it applies to individuals involved in higher education activities, in a variety of educational and vocational training settings. The book will examine some of the field’s...
Web Based Learning
What do we know? Where do we go?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Collaborative Evaluation in Practice
Insights from Business, Nonprofit, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
One of the reasons some groups are more effective than others is collaboration; people implement evaluative decisions more willingly if they have collaborated on those decisions. This book introduces realworld applications of the Model for Collaborative Evaluations (MCE) in business, nonprofit, and education...
Talented Teachers
The Essential Force for Improving Student Acheivement
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
This book provides readers with the opportunity to hear what experts in the educational community think about the myriad issues involved in improving the quality of all teachers in our nation’s classrooms.