Emerald Publishing Limited imprint: 1159 books
by Mary Frances Rice
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
This proposed volume will profile research projects and methods that are at the top of the innovation curve in terms of their implications for teaching and teacher education. Chapters included in this volume include profiles of cutting edge work on methodological possibilities of studying diversity...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The volume highlights best practices of literacy instruction for students who have difficulties in reading. From components of effective pedagogy to instruction for specific populations, this text offers an array of expert perspectives on how to engage, scaffold, and prepare students to meet the multimodal...
by Evan Ortlieb
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Using Informative Assessments towards Effective Literacy Practices offers research driven solutions to improving student literacy success through the exploration of advancements in literacy assessment and instruction. As the first volume in the series, Literacy Research, Practice, and Evaluation,...
by Mary McVee, Lynn E. Shanahan, Evan Ortlieb
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
This edited volume provides a collection of research-based chapters that reflect the state of the art for video reflection in literacy settings. The volume foregrounds explorations of disciplinary literacies and discourses in teacher education and pre-K-12 classrooms. Authors explore literacy and...
The Coercive Community College
Bullying and its Costly Impact on the Mission to Serve Underrepresented Populations
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Few studies address workplace bullying in American higher education. Leah P.Hollis, EdD, author of Bully in the Ivory Tower addressed the issue of workplace bullying in four-year institutions. This volume replicates the study to reveal that 64% of community college respondents are affected by workplace...
21st Century Urban Race Politics
Representing Minorities as Universal Interests
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
21st Century Urban Race Politics begins by offering a twenty-first-century understanding of minority representation in historically majority-Caucasian cities and draws on case studies in cities throughout the United States. The aim of this volume is to take stock of what we know about the advantages...
by Thomas E. Scruggs, Margo A. Mastropieri
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
The focus of this volume is to identify and review issues and outcomes associated with behavioral concerns of students with learning and behavioral disabilities. Students must navigate a number of environmental conditions, task demands, and social interactions with peers and adults throughout the...
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Mobile Applications
Smartphones, Skype and Texting Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Mobile Applications: Smartphones, Skype and Texting Technologies examines new research on how mobile technologies are being used in higher education to increase learner engagement in an epoch of increasing globalization and diversity. These enabling...
Pushing the Boundaries
Multiteam Systems in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
The latest volume of Research in Managing Groups and Teams focuses on multiteam systems (MTSs), or systems of interdependent teams working toward a shared goal. MTSs have become a growing area of interest in organizational research, primarily due to their growing prominence in organizational settings....
New Directions in Educational Ethnography
Shifts, Problems, and Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Volume 13 relaunches the book series after a 9-year hiatus and addresses new directions in the field of educational ethnography. The authors in the book share methodological similarities, but their applications, contexts, treatments, and contributions to the field as evidenced here are unique and...
Communication and Information Technologies Annual
Digital Distinctions & Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Section of the American Sociological Association, Volume 10 of the Communication and Information Technologies Annual, Digital Distinctions & Inequalities, brings together nine studies of this increasingly important form of inequality....
Post-Education-for-All and Sustainable Development Paradigm
Structural Changes with Diversifying Actors and Norms
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
As the target year of achieving Education for All development goals approached in 2015, there were discussions about the post-EFA agenda, a process parallel to setting the post-Millennium Development Goals. This transition should not be understood simply as a normative framework. It has coincided...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
"Studies in Information" publishes monographs on critical issues in the information society. The book series is concerned with all aspects of information; its nature, politics, institutions, usages, and technologies, and it presents research from a wide range of disciplinary traditions....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Volume 30 contains articles on the economic history of Europe and the U.S. including "Democratization and Central Government Spending, 1870-1938: Emergence of the Leviathan?" by Jari Eloranta, Svetlozar Andreev and Pavel Osinsky; "Swedish Regional GDP 1855-2000," by Kerstin Enflo,...