Information Age Publishing: 1717 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
The chapters contained in the book present a new and exciting set of conceptual tools that will not only allow us to think about transfer in more productive ways, but will also enable the development of educational and measurement tools that will greatly facilitate our ability to educate the children...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Democratic political systems and the democratic way of life is aspired by most people around the world. Democracy is considered to be morally superior to other forms of political systems as it aspires to secure civil liberties, human rights, social justice and equality before the law for everyone regardless...
Bridge Leadership
Connecting Educational Leadership and Social Justice to Improve Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is the first chronicle of the history of social justice as a line of inquiry within the field of educational administration. Editors Tooms and Boske have amassed a collective voice of leaders in the field of Educational Administration who have broken barriers and expanded the field through their...
Understanding Neoliberal Rule in K12 Schools
Educational Fronts for Local and Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase “free market” gives the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the rise of global freemarket fundamentalism....
Educational Leadership for Ethics and Social Justice
Views from the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
The purpose of this book is to examine and learn lessons from the way leadership for social justice is conceptualized in several disciplines and to consider how these lessons might improve the preparation and practice of school leaders. In particular, we examine philosophy, anthropology, sociology,...
AntiRacist School Leadership
Toward Equity in Education for America’s Students Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Since the passing of Brown versus Board of Education to the election of the first Black president of the United States, there has been much discussion on how far we have come as a nation on issues of race. Some continue to assert that Barack Obama’s election ushered in a new era—making the US...
Democratizing Leadership
Counterhegemonic Democracy in Communities, Organizations and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Democratizing Leadership: Counter?hegemonic Democracy in Organizations, Institutions, and Communities promotes leadership in the democratization of culture to counter the current hegemony of domination and cultivate an alternative hegemony of collaboration. It is premised on a leadership framework...
Understanding Neoliberal Rule in Higher Education
Educational Fronts for Local and Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase “free market” gives the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the rise of global freemarket fundamentalism....
EducationBased Incarceration and Recidivism
The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
EducationBased Incarceration and Recidivism: The Ultimate Social Justice Crime Fighting Tool takes a penetrating look at the needs and challenges of society's disenfranchised jail populations. It is incumbent to encourage public awareness of the causes that underlie the destructive cycles plaguing...
Navigating the Volatility of Higher Education
Anthropological and Policy Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Applied Anthropology provides a new perspective on today’s higher education environment. Volatile and unpredictable forces affect research and instruction across many sectors and levels, and global dynamics are among the strongest drivers of change. Further, within American higher education, daunting...
Applied Developmental Psychology
Theory, Practice, and Research from Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
With a Foreword by Hiroshi Azuma.
Engaging the Avatar
New Frontiers in Immersive Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This volume has a bold agenda, in which academics create immersive worlds where the avatar is the center of the universe. As the virtual world grows, avatars move away from quasihuman interactions within virtual domiciles, gardens, and businesses to being blood cells in the blood stream, or to be...
Critical Qualitative Research in Second Language Studies
Agency and Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This volume begins by locating critical inquiry within the epistemological and methodological history of second language study. Subsequent chapters portray researcherparticipant exploration of identity and agency while challenging inequitable policies and practices. Research on internationalization,...
Authentic Leadership
An Engaged Discussion of LGBTQ Work as Culturally Relevant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This book provides new insights about the roles in which LGBTQ individuals contribute in society and various organizations. The literature is divided into two sections. Section one includes three chapters from higher education administrators, faculty and community activists. The chapters share personal...