Information Age Publishing: 1717 books
Human Capital Management Research
Influencing practice and process
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
When reading current human capital management or human resources management textbooks, it is clear that many do not reflect current research. Even new Strategic HRM books are only recently reporting research that has been widely discussed in academic journals over the last 10 years. Discussion with those...
Handbook on Developing Curriculum Materials for Teachers
Lessons From Museum Education Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
This book provides an essential resource for educators and museum professionals who wish to develop education focused eMuseums that feature motivational standardsbased curriculum for diverse learners. The book is divided into three sections: Section 1. Planning, Developing, and Evaluating eMuseums guides...
Educated for Change?
Muslim Refugee Women in the West
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Educated for Change?: Muslim Women in the West inserts Muslim women’s voice and action into the bifurcated, and otherwise male dominated, relations between the West and the Islamic East. A multilayered, multisite, educational ethnography, Buck and Silver’s study takes a novel approach to its feminist...
Student Perspectives on Assessment
What Students Can Tell Us About Assessment for Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Assessment for learning is meant to engage, motivate, and enable students to do better in their learning. However, how students themselves perceive assessments (both highstakes qualifications and lowstakes monitoring) is not well understood. This volume collects research studies from Europe, North...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
This Handbook provides windows into worldwide research endeavors, including countries not usually widely known in international education studies. The goal of this compendium is to foster the understanding of research and education from different national and cultural perspectives, and to support...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
In the chapters that follow, the history and current status of early childhood education in selected countries, along with a review of current research that is being conducted in these countries will be presented. In essence this will provide a glimpse of the intellectual base of early childhood education in many parts of the world.
The Thoughts of Youth
An International Perspective on Adolescents' Ideal Persons
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Most knowledge about adolescent development is based on adolescents living in the United States or Europe. "The Thoughts of Youth" reports a study in which over 6000 adolescents from 20 regions of the world, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, described an ideal woman or ideal...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
Many books on multicultural education focus on a country and provide indepth discussion of issues pertinent to that country at the time. Alternately, understanding of multicultural education is sought through comparison between a society of special interest and a reference society, often the United...
Sustainability, Growth, and Globalization
A Social Science Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Over the past decade the notion of sustainability has emerged as a precept that has been applied to government, commerce, the environment and technology. This volume will discuss how sustainability is reflected in economics, political science and geography through the lens of socioeconomic change...
Reflecting the World
A Guide to Incorporating Equity in Mathematics Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Reflecting the World: A Guide to Incorporating Equity in Mathematics Teacher Education is a guide for mathematics teacher educators interested in incorporating equity concerns into their teaching. The book draws on the authors’ research and experience integrating issues of equity, diversity, and social...
Organizational Immunity to Corruption
Building Theoretical and Research Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The current discussion about corruption in organizational studies is one of the most growing, most fertile and perhaps most fascinating ones. Corruption is also a construct that is multilevel and can be understood as being created and supported by social and cultural interaction. As a result, an ongoing...
Leading with Character 2nd Edition
Stories of Valor and Virtue and the Principles They Teach
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
What kind of character strengths must leaders develop in themselves and others to create and sustain extraordinary organizational growth and performance? In this updated and expanded second edition, the author, John J. Sosik, answers this question by reviewing what is known about the connection between...
Gumbo for the Soul
Liberating Memoirs and Stories to Inspire Females of Color
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Rejection. Loss. Confusion. Pain. Our past and our future are intertwined. Each distinct memory becomes one life. What once hurt, eventually heals, and the lesson (or lessons) to be learned becomes one with our soul and our spirit. Our experiences provide strength instead of destruction. Our greatgrandmothers,...