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Mindfulness
How School Leaders Can Reduce Stress and Thrive on the Job
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Principals, superintendents, teacher leaders, and other school leaders experience considerable stress in this day of accountability and high visibility. This book address that stress level and helps school leaders learn the why, what, and how of mindfulness practice. It also helps to show how to reduce...
Land Your Dream Career in College
The Complete Guide to Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2015
Contrary to what students, and society, are conditioned to think, obtaining a college degree does not automatically result in a job, let alone a dream career. In the last year, alone, half of college graduates are either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and...
Teacher Communication
A Guide to Relational, Organizational, and Classroom Communication
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
For pre- and in-service teachers, Teacher Communication is a one-of-a-kind resource for teacher education courses and workshops that want teachers to develop effective relational, organization and classroom communication skills. Its author focuses on the interpersonal, dialogical and relational aspects...
Reflectivity and Cultivating Student Learning
Critical Elements for Enhancing a Global Community of Learners and Educators
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Many educator preparation programs have a teacher reflection component and/or model; however, the current available literature provides little information regarding reflection’s impact on teacher performance and student learning. Reflectivity and Cultivating Student Learning includes theory, research,...
by Arif Dirlik
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. Dirlik engages Chinese socialism critically but with...
Classical Social Theory and Modern Society
Marx, Durkheim, Weber
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Karl Marx, Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber are indispensable for understanding the sociological enterprise. They are among the chief founders of the discipline and among the foremost theorists of modernity, and their work can stimulate readers to reflect on their own identities and worldviews. Classical...
Institutional Racism
A Primer on Theory and Strategies for Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2007
Many people associate racism with bigoted individuals and radical groups on the fringes of society. Shirley Better argues that racism is much larger than negative attitudes and that it touches the very core of our lives as Americans. In this enhanced second edition, Better explores the historical...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2004
This collection of articles presents a critical, issue-oriented approach to law and society, emphasizing its important relationship to contemporary social problems. By exploring the interstitial area between the sociology of law, social problems and social movements, the initial chapters trace out...
Between Fear and Hope
Globalization and Race in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Globalization is transforming societies everywhere in paradoxical and contradictory ways. This book examines globalization's impact on race in the United States since the mid-1970s. On one hand, globalization is creating conditions that support intensified efforts to claim white privileges. But globalization...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
The modern discipline of International Relations (IR) is largely an Anglo-American social science. It has been concerned mainly with the powerful states and actors in the global political economy and dominated by North American and European scholars. However, this focus can be seen as Eurocentrism....
by Richard Grassby
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 1999
Invented in post-industrial 19th century Europe, the idea of capitalism originally sought to describe and explain the distinctive characteristics of an emerging modern world. Since then, capitalism has served to identify an economic system, a particular social structure, and a set of cultural values...
Human Institutions
A Theory of Societal Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
In recent years 'the New Institutionalism' has focused more on organizations in their social and cultural environments than on societal-level institutional systems. Thus, missing from these studies has been a larger sociological analysis of institutions, per se. In his newest book, leading social...
Urban Sociology
Images and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
The fifth edition of this text presents a balanced review of the ecological arguments that the urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring the broader political and economic contexts that produce and modify the urban environment. In addition to examining...
by Dana M. Britton
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The Gender of Crime introduces students to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime. Moving beyond criminological theories and research that have often neglected gender, this dynamic and provocative book shows that gender is central to the definition, prosecution, and sentencing...