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International Human Rights Law
Returning to Universal Principles
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
This clear and compelling textoffers a vastly different approach to human rights. Arguing that not only are human rights universal, but so are the obligations to protect these rights, Mark Gibney challenges the dominant territorial basis as well as the hesitancy to hold states responsible for contributing...
How to Teach without Instructing
29 Smart Rules for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
“Teaching” and “learning” are two interrelated terms used to express our thinking about a major aspect of human development. However, didactics developed into an art, the “art” of teaching, while the processes of learning were neglected and not researched. Nowadays, many people perceive...
How to Lead without Domineering
29 Smart Leadership Rules
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
How to Lead without Domineering: 29 Smart Leadership Rules is a kind of tool book which contains almost 30 suggestions for self-reflection of leaders in any kind of leading situation – on the job, in a honorary post, or in any other context. Leaders reach their own limits and the limits of others,...
Power of Personal Mastery
Continual Improvement for School Leaders and Students
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This is a book about personal mastery for school leaders and their students. It references an ongoing concern about reflection in learning, education, and human development. Innumerable ideas and concepts about this have been advanced in the past; most claim more than they can deliver. The notes and...
Experts as Effective Teachers
Understanding the Relevance of Cognition, Emotion, and Relation in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
It is an important aspect of cultural life that accomplished experts pass on their knowledge and experience to future generations. By doing so, they help students to excel. The professional knowledge experts command mostly lies in a field different from education. Therefore, experts often face difficulties...
Everyday Bias
Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
If you are human, you are biased. From this fundamental truth diversity expert Howard Ross explores the unconscious biases we each carry within us, working to inform every decision we make on a daily basis. Far from simply being malicious prejudgments of others and situations, these biases define...
Social Work and Service Learning
Partnerships for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2007
This book includes conceptual chapters that define social work service learning in contrast to fieldwork, examine its place in the curriculum, and explore how and when to implement service learning into course curricula. A second section features models for service-learning courses, such as service...
Community Engagement Findings Across the Disciplines
Applying Course Content to Community Needs
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
This book is a reference for administrators and educators at institutions of higher learning who are thinking about taking serious steps to link their educational mission to helping their surrounding communities. Various research findings across the disciplines in higher education about integrating...
by Journal of School Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
The Journal of School Public Relations is a quarterly publication providing research, analysis, case studies and descriptions of best practices in six critical areas of school administration: public relations, school and community relations, community education, communication, conflict management/resolution,...
Questioning Assumptions and Challenging Perceptions
Becoming an Effective Teacher in Urban Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
For a moment, consider “you don’t know what you don’t know”. What individuals know about urban schools is often based on assumptions and perceptions. It is important for individuals to examine these assumptions and perceptions of urban schools and the students who attend them.
While...
Preparing Children for Reading Success
Hands-On Activities for Librarians, Educators, and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Preparing Children for Reading Success: Hands-On Activities for Librarians, Educators, and Caregivers will not only familiarize anyone who reads to young children with the essentials of promoting early and emerging literacy, but also contains more than 25 ready-to-go activities that can be immediately...
A Forgotten Sisterhood
Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction, black activist women Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Nannie Helen Burroughs founded schools aimed at liberating African-American youth from disadvantaged futures in the segregated and decidedly unequal...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This authoritative handbook examines the community, district, and teacher leadership roles that affect urban schools. It will serve as a foundation for pedagogical and educational leadership practices that foster social justice, equity, and advocacy for those who have been traditionally and historically...
The Metaphorical Society
An Invitation to Social Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2001
This book introduces the novice reader to modern social theory through the creative exploration of eight major metaphors that have shaped Western understandings of human society. Rigney vividly yet concisely examines each major theoretical perspective in sociology, including functionalism, conflict...