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Collaborative Evaluation in Practice
Insights from Business, Nonprofit, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
One of the reasons some groups are more effective than others is collaboration; people implement evaluative decisions more willingly if they have collaborated on those decisions. This book introduces realworld applications of the Model for Collaborative Evaluations (MCE) in business, nonprofit, and education...
Talented Teachers
The Essential Force for Improving Student Acheivement
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
This book provides readers with the opportunity to hear what experts in the educational community think about the myriad issues involved in improving the quality of all teachers in our nation’s classrooms.
American Evangelicals and Religious Diversity
Subcultural Education, Theological Boundaries, and the Relativization of Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
American Evangelicals and Religious Diversity is a qualitative study of how religion and education intersect at one conservative Christian school. The school is Evangelical and American. The school’s curriculum is biblebased and fulfills its state’s educational requirements for high school graduation....
A Recipe For Success
What YOU can Learn About Coping in a FoodBombarded World From People With PraderWilli Syndrome, an Extreme Eating Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
In North America, 64% of adults and 25% of children are overweight or obese. We are bombarded by food; it is everywhere we turn. People with PraderWilli syndrome (PWS) are an untapped expertise in combatting this problem. People with this genetic disorder gain approximately 2030% more weight on 50%...
Faith and Work
Christian Perspectives, Research and Insights into the Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Those who adhere to a faith tradition are longing for theories and insights into how they can be true to their faith within the workplace and yet be sensitive and respectful to others of varying faith commitments and beliefs. Yet for Christians, respect of other faith traditions is especially difficult...
Clinical Teacher Education
Reflections From an Urban Professional Development School Network
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Clinical Teacher Education focuses on how to build a schooluniversity partnership network for clinical teacher education in urban school systems serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations. The labor intensive nature of professional development school work has resulted in research institutions...
Completing a Professional Practice Dissertation
A Guide for Doctoral Students and Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
A growing number of both established and newly developed doctoral programs are focusing on the preparation of practitioners rather than career researchers. Professional doctorates such as the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), Doctor of Education (EdD), Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Doctor of Professional...
by Jerry W. Willis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Qualitative Research Methods in Education and Educational Technology was written for students and scholars interested in exploring the many qualitative methods developed over the last 50 years in the social sciences. The book does not stop, however, at the boundaries of the social sciences. Social scientists...
Navigating the Academic Career
Common Issues and Uncommon Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
There is an urgent need to provide academic professionals with individual, institutional, and contextual accounts of their careers and careermaking endeavors. An individual account makes academicians think about what they do and how they might do it better. An institutional account makes academicians...
Refining Familiar Constructs
Alternative Views in OB, HR, and I/O
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
This volume is based around 14 chapters and two critical analyses which provide new perspectives on important organizational constructs. The first half of the book provides chapters by advanced graduate students who are making their first contributions to understanding organizational behavior. The...
The Social Issue in Contemporary Society
Relations Between Companies, Public Administrations and People
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
It is widely observed that societies are changing, and new social issues are raising. The relationship between actors in the global environment and in the local as well, is changing because of financial crisis, new technological revolution, climate change, richness reallocation and concentration....
Facilitating the SocioEconomic Approach to Management
Results of the First SEAM Conference in North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This book is the 20th volume in the Research in Management Consulting series and the sixth major collaboration with Henri Savall, Véronique Zardet, and their team of intervenerresearchers from the SocioEconomic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR) in LyonÉcully, France. In 2013, for the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
As a followup to a 2010 volume on organizational changerelated consulting, the book continues to push our thinking about the dynamics involved in consulting with change leaders and intervening in the change process. Consulting for organizational change is a special type of consultation, with its own...
Distance Education
Statewide, Institutional, and International Applications of Distance Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Distance Learning journal is a premiere outlet for articles featuring practical applications of distance education in states, institutions, and countries. Distance Education Around the World is a collection of readings from Distance Learning journal written by practitioners for practitioners.