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Special Education International Perspectives
Biopsychosocial, Cultural, and Disability Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
The volume will be divided into four parts. Part 1 will present an overview on disability that focuses on two major themes, namely, the biopsychosocial approaches to disability and cultural views of disability. Part 2 will examine five major areas of high incidence exceptionalities: cognitive impairment,...
Special Education International Perspectives
Practices Across the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
The volume provides a comprehensive discussion of special education from across the globe. The volume includes chapters from major countries such as United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Russia and Japan as well as countries such as Nigeria, Israel and Pakistan. Discussions related to these countries...
Advanced Literacy Practices
From the Clinic to the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Advanced Literacy Practices: From the Clinic to the Classroom includes salient information about clinical literacy practices that transfer to other settings. From historical perspectives to cutting edge instructional techniques, this edited text includes elements of designing literacy clinics, models...
Inquiry-Based Learning for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Programs
A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is a learner-centered active learning environment where deep learning is cultivated by a process of inquiry owned by the learner. It has roots in a constructivist educational philosophy and is oriented around three components: 1) exploration and discovery (e.g. problem-based...
Inquiry-Based Learning for Faculty and Institutional Development
A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is a learner-centered and active learning environment where deep learning is cultivated by a process of inquiry owned by the learner. IBL has its roots in a constructivist educational philosophy and it is oriented around at least three components: 1) exploration and discovery...
Creative Social Change
Leadership for a Healthy World
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
What is our role in creating healthy organizations and a healthy world? Creative Social Change fosters a unique dialogue on the interconnections between leadership, sustainability, the long-term viability of the planet, and organizational development. Brought together, these arenas of research and...
Handbook of Strategic Recruitment and Selection
A Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
This is a theory-based text with unique features that distinguish it from other books in the field. The inclusion of a strategic component differentiates it from most other books, but the application of systems theory to recruitment and selection sets this book apart. While it includes mainstream...
Social Justice Issues and Racism in the College Classroom
Perspectives from Different Voices
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The focus of Social Justice Issues and Racism in the College Classroom is faculty and students of color at postsecondary institutions and the racial challenges they encounter in college classrooms. To achieve this aim, the book highlights the voices of various racial/ethnic groups of faculty and students,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
"How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanisation and climate change? This book throws light on the ongoing processes of rapid urban transformation in many cities in developing countries, with particular reference to cities such as Chennai in India. Due to increasing...
by Paul Zarembka, Radhika Desai
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
This work advances geopolitical economy as a new approach to understanding the evolution of the capitalist world order and its 21st century form of multipolarity. Neither can be explained by recently dominant approaches such as 'U.S. hegemony' or 'globalization': they treat the world economy as a...
Emerging and Potential Trends in Public Management
An Age of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Challenging some of the established practices of public policy and administration, which have been called into question in recent years by the financial and banking crises of 2008, the authors specifically seek to investigate current public sector management and the public managers acting in the interests of civil society to get to the heart of best practice.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In recent years labor relations have altered significantly and new and more serious forms of labor marginalization and control have emerged. This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of the conditions and use of labor in global agri-food....
Black Female Undergraduates on Campus
Successes and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Since 1976, increased attention has been paid to the diminishing numbers of Black males in higher education, and rightly so: the total numerical enrollments of Black female undergraduates has outstripped their male counterparts by a factor of nearly 2 to 1. Since intervention, however, the enrollment...
African American Male Students in PreK-12 Schools
Informing Research, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
African American Males in PreK-12 Schools: Informing Research, Practice, and Policy presents a comprehensive viewpoint on preK-12 schooling for African American males. Including theoretical, conceptual, and research based chapters, this edited volume offers readers compelling evidence of the education...