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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Women and Leadership in Higher Education is the first volume in a new series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice) that will be published in upcoming years to inform leadership scholars and practitioners. This book links theory, research, and practice of women’s leadership...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
For more than a century management education has fostered the development of leaders of many of the world's industrial successes with their immense creation of output that we now see as unsustainable. If we wish to avoid a time of tumultuous environmental crises in the global ecosystem management education...
Six Degrees of School Improvement
Empowering a New Profession of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Amidst the contentious debates about teacher effectiveness, most people believe that unions, education colleges, charter networks, consulting agencies, textbook publishers, test producers, professional associations, teachers, and researchers disagree with one another about the most essential school reforms....
Personal Balanced Scorecard
The Way to Individual Happiness, Personal Integrity, and Organizational Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
The Personal Balanced Scorecard (PBSC) is a journey into the inner self, where values, hopes, dreams and aspirations lie quietly waiting to be discovered. Taking the journey as an individual allows you to view your life objectively and authentically as a whole person and provides a roadmap of your...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Social Entrepreneurship as a Catalyst for Social Change contains twenty chapters on the impact of social entrepreneurial ventures within a variety of cultural and national contexts. From Brazil to Croatia, from Thailand to Greenland, this book is rare in that it provides a rich landscape in which to...
Executive Ethics
Ethical Dilemmas and Challenges for the CSuite
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Foreword by Dennis W. Bakke, best selling author of "Joy at Work". Afterword by C. William Pollard, best selling author of "The Soul of the Firm." Scott Quatro and Ronald Sims have put together an impressive group of experts that delve into the essential elements of Csuite leadership; especially, ethicsdriven...
Corporate Social Performance
Reflecting on the Past and Investing in the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Corporate Social Performance reflecting on the past and investing in the future is aimed at filling the fundamental gap that exists in our understanding of the drivers Corporate Social Performance, its evolution and relationships with the existing concepts and theories and the paradoxes that come from...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The global economic meltdown has highlighted the interconnectedness of nations. This book seeks to provide an overview of topics, issues, and best practices related to defining social justice leadership given our increasingly global world. Refugees and immigrants from around the globe now inhabit...
Research in Urban Educational Settings
Lessons Learned and Implications for Future Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Results from quantitative and qualitative research studies have painted countless images of the unique features shaping urban schools including students' experiences and how the surrounding communities affect the entire system. Race, ethnicity, social class, language, power, politics, and public image...
Transformative Pedagogies for Teacher Education
Moving Towards Critical Praxis in an Era of Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
People are on the move all across the globe and the student population is becoming increasingly more diverse. This has brought about new opportunities and challenges for educators, and teachers. In this series teacher educators a) deconstruct and problematize what it means to educate new teachers...
Indigenous Spiritualities at Work
Transforming the Spirit of Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Are you intrigued by ancient wisdom traditions? Do you ever wonder if they have any relevance in today’s world? How do Indigenous ways of being and doing balance wealth creation and wellbeing? How might Indigenous peoples define success? What are Indigenous spiritualities? How is Spiritualities...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
While Research on the effectiveness of electronic portfolios for assessment and accreditation is emerging, many who are now using, or who are beginning to use, electronic portfolios are looking to justify the cost and effort involved. The purposes of this volume are to create an indepth portrait of ways...
Merit Pay
Linking Pay to Performance in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
This book was written to bring together a summary of the current knowledge on merit pay and to further advance understanding of this type of incentive pay plan. When the writing of the first edition was begun in 1989, there were no books devoted exclusively to the subject of merit pay. Thus, this...
Curriculum Windows
What Curriculum Theorists of the 1960s Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1960s Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today is an effort by students of curriculum studies, along with their professor, to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists of the 1960s in contemporary terms. The authors explore how...