Age: 1758 books
History Wars and The Classroom
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The book is entitled History Wars in the Classroom: Global Perspectives and examines how ten separate countries have experienced debates and disputes over the contested nature of the subject, for example the 'Black Armband' and 'Whitewash' factions in Australia who adopt opposingly celebratory or denigratory...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
This book provides a stateoftheart assessment of citizen participation practice and research in the United States. With contributions from a stellar group of scholars, it provides readers an overview of a field at the heart of democratic governance. Individual chapters trace shifts in participation...
Queering Classrooms
Personal Narratives and Educational Practices to Support LGBTQ Youth in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Teacher Education programs have largely ignored the needs of LGBTIQ learners in their preparation of pre?service teachers. At best in most of such programs, their needs are addressed in a single chapter in a book or as the topic of discussion in a single class discussion. However, is this minimal discussion...
by Jerry McBeath, Maria Elena Reyes, Mary Ehrlander
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Education Reform in the American States is a timely evaluation of the accountability movement in American public education, culminating in the No Child Left Behind Act, federal legislation of 2002. The authors treat the current accountability movement, placing it in historical context and addressing...
Snapshots of School Leadership in the 21st Century
Perils and Promises of Leading for Social Justice, School Improvement, and Democratic Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In the book, we provide snapshots describing this critically important time in our nation when federal educational policy implementation has been at a level previously unheard of in the United States. We present a chapter on the design and method of Voices 3, eight chapters on analyses of the focusgroup...
Governance and Transformations of Universities in Africa
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
While universities world over are undergoing reforms and change, in the case of African universities as illustrated in this book, the reforms and changes are profound and can best be described as transformative. This book is unique in many ways, which makes it extraordinary. First, unlike other books...
by Waymond Rodgers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This book proposes a Throughput Model that draws from computer science, economic and psychology literatures to model perceptual and judgmental processes whereby biometrics might be used to reduce risks to a company’s internal control. The book also discusses challenges in employing biometric technology...
Financial Accounting
A Course for All Majors
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Financial Accounting: A Course for All Majors was written for general education classes that include students from all disciplines. Chapters are concise so that students will actually take the time to read them; the writing style is nontechnical and informal so that all majors can comprehend the material;...
by Riane Eisler
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This is the book I wish could have been in the hands of Occupy Wall Street activists in the fall of 2011. --From the Introduction REAL WEALTH as defined here: "The time has come for humanity to realize the real wealth of the planet resides in the resources of the earth--plus humanity's rich cultures,...
National Defense Budgeting and Financial Management
Policy & Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The U.S. Department of Defense accounts for over half of federal government discretionary spending and over 3% of GDP. Half of all federal employees work for the Department. The annual budget for the military not only provides for those salaries, it covers the baseline and wartime operating expenses...
Creative Consulting
Innovative Perspective on Management Consulting
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Toward Assessing Business Ethics Education, edited by Diane L. Swanson and Dann G. Fisher of Kansas State University, is a sequel to their book Advancing Business Ethics Education in the Ethics in Practice IAP book series. The focus on assessment in this second book is a timely response to the urgent...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
The purpose of this book is to develop those ethical traditions. For example, Horkheimer’s books Eclipse of Reason and Critique of Instrumental Reason, and his early and now classic essay Materialism and Morality ask for a reformation of Kantian ethics. The reform sought is that categorical imperative...
A Chronicle of Echoes
Who’s Who in the Implosion of American Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"Corporate reform" is not reform at all. Instead, it is the systematic destruction of the foundational American institution of public education. The primary motivation behind this destruction is greed. Public education in America is worth almost a trillion dollars a year. Whereas American...