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War or Common Cause?
A Critical Ethnography of Language Education Policy, Race, and Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
This book on bilingual education policy represents a multidimensional and longitudinal study of “policy processes” as they play out on the ground (a single school in Los Angeles), and over time (both within the same school, and also within the state of Georgia). In order to reconstruct this complex...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Perhaps the best word to describe the past fifteen or so years of the twenty first century is “change.” Spurred on by the massive layoffs, and reorganizations that took place during the recessionary period starting in late 2007, to changes in labor demographics, technology, competitiveness, and the...
Equivalence in Measurement
EquivalenceinMeasurement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
This volume highlights research and conceptual insights into one of the most basic, and yet, perplexing research issues in managementhandling and assessing the comparability of our measurement devices across groups and measures. One of the most consistently difficult concerns in management research...
The Perfect Human Capital Storm
Workplace Human Capital Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
There are numerous trends taking place around the world and especially in the U.S. with implications for organizations, the workplace, leaders, and supporting organizations like Human Resources. How organizations and their leadership react and proactively address these changes will be difference between...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The purpose of the book series is to present reviews of current research in specific areas of early childhood education. Each volume is devoted to a particular area of the field. Within each volume scholars present reviews of research on particular aspects of the field of early childhood education....
by Steven W. Schmidt, Kathleen P. King
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Case studies have become a widelyused instructional tool in many educational environments. The use of case studies began in the 1950s at Harvard Business School. Today, they may be used as part of a course of study, or as the main focus of a course, to which other material is added. While the use of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This new book emphasizes the introduction of a new blueprint, called TPS-Lean Six Sigma, for addressing the primary concerns of manufacturing and service in a more sustainable and humanized way. It leads to a High Performance Culture and allows employees to realize their full potential and contribute...
Intervention Research
From Conceptualization to Publication
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
This volume continues to build on the relationship between the Research in Management Consulting series and the intervener-researchers at the Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR) in Ecully, France, extending that partnership to our recent work with the French Foundation for...
Identity and Second Language Learning
Culture, Inquiry, and Dialogic Activity in Educational Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
This collection of research has attempted to capture the essence and promise embodied in the concept of “identity” and built a bridge to the realm of second language studies. However, the reader will notice that we did not build just one link. This volume brings to light the diversity of research...
Stress and Quality of Working Life
Current Perspectives in Occupational Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This book was developed for the 2005 International Stress Management Association Conference in Brazil. The original book was recently published in Portuguese, but because of the popularity of the topics and the worldrenowned stress scholars who contributed chapters, we are very pleased to have the...
Relational Discipline
Strategies for InYourFace Kids (Revised 2nd Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This exciting work offers an entirely new way to address the discipline problems that have become so common in our public schools! Dr. Bender's emphasis on relationships as the basis of all effective discipline has now been widely recognized as cutting edge within the field, and this book presents...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Why do people from similar backgrounds who read the same text construct different meanings? Is there a question behind every reading goal, such that reading is an interactive process of asking and answering of questions? Do people who believe that knowledge is dynamic construct meaning differently...
The Cruciform Faculty
The Making of a Christian Professor
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
How do Christian higher education institutions orient new faculty members to their role on a Christian campus? How do they lead faculty members toward a deeper understanding of the Christian dimension of their place in higher education? Bible Colleges, Christian Universities, and Seminaries need a resource...
The Metis of Projects
How To Remain Cognizant of a Project’s (Social) Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
“The Metis of Projects” addresses veteran project manager Ben Berndt’s unease with the use of established (project) management frameworks given their general inefficacy. Despite the use of these frameworks, it is estimated that some 30% of projects still fail because they deliver too late, cost...