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Understanding the Principalship
An International Guide to Principal Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
This volume originates from the International Study of Principal Preparation (ISPP), a collaborative project representing nearly a decade of research on principal preparation in countries throughout the world. Through focused stages of research, the ISPP systematically examined the kinds of preparation...
by Donald C. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Volume 32 of REA continues the series' on-going presentation of new and highly engaging anthropological research. Chapters contained herein reflect the diverse range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists currently explore from various critical perspectives. Spanning deep history...
Implementing Inclusive Education
Issues in Bridging the Policy-Practice Gap
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The volume will provide an examination of issues around how policy for inclusive education can be implemented in practice. In relation to different thematic policy areas considered in each chapter these questions will be considered: • What are the main policy issues for inclusive education? •...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
This volume aims to shed light on how public service value is identified, managed, measured and reported. The concept of public value has been increasingly associated with the process of modernisation and in recent years the debate has shifted away from 'what' to 'how' public value is conceptualised...
Multi-Level Governance
The Missing Linkages
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Multi-Level Governance (MLG) is a highly influential, supple and ductile framework for interpreting governance in complex polities. Yet, criticisms have been aimed at its allegedly overly 'descriptive', rather than explanatory, power. This volume argues that progress in both the study and the practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Over the past half century, corporate social responsibility has become an important concept in management, marketing and communication literature. In the past twenty years a visible shift has been made into what was written about CSR: a move away from the financial benefits derived from such activities...
Communication and Information Technologies Annual
Digital Empowerment: Opportunities and Challenges of Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume assembles relevant research focusing on ICTs in Latin America and the Caribbean—two understudied areas of global importance. Regarding Latin America,...
Mitigating Inequality
Higher Education Research, Policy, and Practice in an Era of Massification and Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Now more than ever, the issue of access to higher education for all is a matter of global importance. As colleges and universities worldwide increasingly extend their academic programs abroad, develop internationally mixed research teams and create international curricular initiatives, it is essential...
Reimagining Business Education
Insights and Actions from the Business Education Jam
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
'Reimagining Business Education’ discusses the rationale for, and design of, the first Business Education Jam. It reviews key challenges facing business education and articulates a vision for how the role and delivery of business education could be reimagined. This book is critically important during...
by Alexander W. Wiseman, Emily Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The goal of the ARCIE volume is to examine current perspectives and future directions for the field using several essays as a context for discussion and analysis. Contributed Volume chapters begin by addressing the questions and themes discussed in these essays which will include: the use of new conceptual...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Teacher effectiveness and teacher quality have become the focus of intense international attention and concern. Around the world, governments are modifying existing certification requirements or implementing value-added modeling in order to qualify teachers without planning for the long-term consequences...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
The Annual Review of Comparative and International Education (ARCIE) is a forum for stakeholders and scholars to examine current trends and identify future directions in comparative and international education. The goal of the ARCIE volume is to examine current perspectives and future directions for...
by Alexander W. Wiseman, Emily Anderson, Alexander W. Wiseman
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The goal of the ARCIE volume is to examine current perspectives and future directions for the field using several essays as a context for discussion and analysis. The format of ARCIE pieces entails an analytic overview of published work in the field, noting key issues and future directions. It provides...
Postcolonial Sociologies
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Postcolonial theory has mostly been confined to literary studies and the humanities, but it has been slowly making its way into social science. This is a welcome development but poses new challenges. How can postcolonial thought be most fruitfully translated and incorporated into sociology? This special...