Age: 1758 books
Empowering Women Through Literacy
Views from Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
This unique volume of writings by educators in the field working with women's literacy reveals the many ways in which addressing women's empowerment through literacy continues to impact lives. Not only are teachers and learners in adult basic education (ABE), literacy and English language learning (ELL)...
Adolescence in the 21st Century
Constants and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
What is wrong with young people today? This question has captured the concerns of the older generation about the habits and attitudes of the adolescents in their midst. The assumption is that there is indeed something wrong with young people. Even Plato must have rolled his eyes, as he relates his...
Culture, Motivation and Learning
A Multicultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
The influence of culture on learning and motivation has been the topic of much research in recent years. Educational and psychological researchers are now aware that the findings of their studies may not apply to other cultures, and that in this age of globalization and multiculturalism it is very...
Toward a Spiritual Research Paradigm
Exploring New Ways of Knowing, Researching and Being
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Spirituality and spiritual experiences have been the bedrock of every civilization and together form one of the highest mechanisms for making sense of the world for billions of people. Current research paradigms, due to their limitation to empirical, sensory, psychologically, or culturally constructed...
Distance Learning
Volume 11 #4
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Distance Learning is for leaders, practitioners, and decision makers in the fields of distance learning, e'learning, telecommunications, and related areas. It is a professional journal with applicable information for those involved with providing instruction to all kinds of learners, of all ages, using...
Juggling Flaming Chain Saws
Academics in Educational Leadership Try to Balance Work and Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Challenges of worklife balance in the academy stem from policies and practices which remain from the time when higher education was populated mostly by married White male faculty. Those faculty were successful in their academic work because they depended upon the support of their wives to manage many...
Abriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening doors, closing wounds)
Latinas/os Finding WorkLife Balance in Academia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Abriendo Puertas, Cerrando Heridas (Opening Doors, Closing Wounds): Latinas/os Finding WorkLife Balance in Academia is the newest book in the series on balancing work and life in the academy from Information Age Publishing. This volume focuses on the experiences of Latina/o students, professors, and...
by Information Age Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
As a whole, the book is a working reference manual. Editorial decisions have been based on criteria which emphasized convenience and usefulness. The editors hope that the book will open to the reader the whole range of research pertinent to visual communication, and that the bibliography will direct readers to interesting and fruitful areas of knowledge.
The Mathematics Enthusiast Issue
Volume 12 #13
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Mathematics Enthusiast (TME) is an eclectic internationally circulated peer reviewed journal which focuses on mathematics content, mathematics education research, innovation, interdisciplinary issues and pedagogy. The journal exists as an independent entity. It is published on a print?on?demand...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The 21st century has brought about changes in every aspect of life through ubiquitous technology and Internet-based social media. The distances between cultures and continents have narrowed, the world has become flat, and multicultural work-teams composed of members from different countries have become...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
(sponsored by the Educational Statisticians, SIG) Multilevel Modeling of Educational Data, coedited by Ann A. O’Connell, Ed.D., and D. Betsy McCoach, Ph.D., is the next volume in the series: Quantitative Methods in Education and the Behavioral Sciences: Issues, Research and Teaching (Information...
Rethinking Social Studies
Critical Pedagogy in Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Like the schools in which it is taught, social studies is full of alluring contradictions. It harbors possibilities for inquiry and social criticism, liberation and emancipation. Social studies could be a site that enables young people to analyze and understand social issues in a holistic way finding...
Distance Learning Issue
Volume 12 #3
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Distance Learning is for leaders, practitioners, and decision makers in the fields of distance learning, e'learning, telecommunications, and related areas. It is a professional journal with applicable information for those involved with providing instruction to all kinds of learners, of all ages,...
The Changing Landscape of Youth Work
Theory and Practice for an Evolving Field
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The purpose of this book is to compile and publicize the best current thinking about training and professional development for youth workers. School age youth spend far more of their time outside of school than inside of school. The United States boasts a rich and vibrant ecosystem of Out?of?School Time...