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Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary
Conditions in Organizational Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This volume of the Research in Organizational Sciences is entitled “Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary Conditions in Organizational Studies”. Received wisdom is knowledge imparted to people by others and is based on authority and tenacity as sources of human knowledge. Authority refers...
Uncovering the Cultural Dynamics in Mentoring Programs and Relationships
Enhancing Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Although cultural issues have a powerful influence on the failure and success of mentoring programs and relationships, there is scant research on this area and little in the way of guidelines that practitioners can use to help assure mentoring success. This book seeks to expand our knowledge and understanding...
by Daniel M. Wentland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
The information in Organizational Performance in a Nutshell provides a comprehensive framework for understanding questions like why does one organization thrive while another struggles for survival even though both are operating in the same industry, or how can some of the largest global organizations...
Publish Don't Perish
100 Tips that Improve Your Ability to get Published
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Today, publish or perish is hitting virtually all colleges and universities. As much as we may love to teach, without publishing we may not get a faculty position, not get tenure and promotions, and publishing often affects our salaries and ability to move to a new position. Therefore, the purpose of...
Teaching and Learning at a Distance
Foundations of Distance Education, 6th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Teaching and Learning at a Distance is written for introductory distance education courses for preservice or inservice teachers, and for training programs that discuss teaching distant learners or managing distance education systems. This text provides readers with the basic information needed to be...
Hacking Education in a Digital Age
Teacher Education, Curriculum, and Literacies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
In this collection, the authors put forth different philosophical conceptions of “hacking education” in response to the educational, societal, and technological demands of the 21st century. Teacher Educators are encouraged to draw on the collection to rethink how “hacking education” can be...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
This book offers a array of essays with challenging ideas and provoking new analyses of power asymmetries, multiple epistemologies and vital concerns for the education of a different America, the America of new immigrants, people of color with other cultures, languages and values. The new American...
What Works in Distance Learning
Sample Lessons Based on Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
The purpose of this book is to document sample lessons based on our What Works in Distance Learning: Guidelines (O'Neil, 2005). The intent is to provide an instantiation of our various distance learning guidelines. An overarching goal of our research was to create a robust and clear set of design...
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Inclusive Community for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) has received considerable educational, research, medical and media attention the past ten years. Yet the condition was first described more than a hundred years ago. Due to the disorder being confused with childhood schizophrenia, there was a lack of definitive attention...
Accessible Education for Blind Learners
Kindergarten through PostSecondary
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
(special supplemental workbook) The goal of this manual is to enhance the capacity of all members of the educational context, whether student, parent, teacher, administrator, or consultant, to activate the benefits of infused technologies for all learners, including those who are blind or have low vision....
New Directions in Social Education Research
The Influence of Technology and Globalization on the Lives of Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Through rapid developments in commerce, transportation and communication, people once separated by space, language and politics are now interwoven into a complex global system (Friedman, 2005). With the rise of new technology, local populations, businesses and states are better equipped to participate...
Higher Education Administration
50 Case-Based Vignettes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies Series Editors Edmund T. Hamann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Rodney Hopson, George Mason University For most of US history, most of America's Latino population has lived in nine states-California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado,...
Evaluative Research Methods
Managing the Complexities of Judgment in the Field
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
How do research students and their supervisors respond in a world of ‘fake news’, the destabilisation of public institutions and the rise of populism? The very foundations of our liberal democracies seem to be under threat, and this implicates social inquiry. Postgraduate research remains one...
Assessing Students in the Margin
Challenges, Strategies, and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The importance of student assessment, particularly for summative purposes, has increased greatly over the past thirty years. At the same time, emphasis on including all students in assessment programs has also increased. Assessment programs, whether they are largescale, districtbased, or teacher developed,...