Information Age Publishing: 1717 books
Training Higher Education Policy Makers and Leaders
A Graduate Program Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Higher Education is a vibrant, changing field of study. With roots in multiple disciplines, these degree programs prepare the administrators, faculty, and policy makers who direct the current and future higher education enterprise. At a time when higher education is changing rapidly, these programs...
Reforming Legal Education
Law Schools at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
In today’s volatile law school environment, curriculum reform has emerged as a significant focus. It is commonly understood that law schools effectively teach certain analytical skills, but are less successful in other areas, and often scramble to adapt to evolving aims. This book demonstrates how...
HybridContext Instructional Model
The Internet and the Classrooms: The Way Teachers Experience It
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
This book is a product of a dissertation project that was completed in December 2006. This project investigated teachers’ experiences in relation to teaching and learning using the hybridcontext instructional model. The dissertation itself has been noted as one of the best in providing practical tips...
Effective Group Problem Solving
How to Broaden Particpation, Improve Decision Making, and Increase Commitment to Action
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This book provides a set of easy to use and proven techniques and procedures for conducting problem solving meetings more efficiently and productively, with less frustration, effort, and conflict. William M. Fox presents an approach to group problem solving—the Improved Nominal Group Technique (INGT)—that...
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...
Web Based Learning
What do we know? Where do we go?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003