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Effective steps toward school enhancement
Effective Steps Toward School Enhancement is an essential guide for enhancing, improving, and turning around schools. This is a must-have book for campus leaders and district administrators, as well as policymakers and university professors who teach in educational leadership.
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Temporality
This book critically explores the philosophical issue of time and temporality in Cultural Psychology, featuring perspectives from international authors. It aims to foster dialogue between philosophy and psychology, appealing to researchers, scholars, professionals, and students in Psychology and ...
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Curriculum windows
This book examines how curriculum texts and theorists from the 1970s can inform contemporary education. The authors explore key works from the era, offering insights into curriculum, teaching, and leadership. This reflection helps educators address current challenges by learning from past theorie...
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The time is now
This book highlights how artmaking and justice-oriented work empower high school students, teachers, and community members. It explores art as a vehicle for transformation, bridging relationships, and promoting social change. The authors emphasize collaboration, diversity, and inclusivity in thei...
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Re-envisioning higher education
This book emphasizes holistic learning in higher education, integrating mind, body, and spirit. It highlights the importance of compassion, care, and service, and explores contemplative methods like meditation, qigong, yoga, arts, and dance to gain wisdom and balance, enhancing reflective and tra...
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The new peace linguistics and the role of language in conflict
This book introduces Peace Linguistics (PL) and New Peace Linguistics (NPL), focusing on the power of language to harm or help. It includes analyses of speeches by U.S. presidents and explores the evolution of PL and NPL, highlighting their impact on conflict and peace.
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The metis of projects
This book critiques established project management frameworks, highlighting their inefficacy in complex environments. It emphasizes social complexity and introduces whole systems methodologies for better management. Berndt advocates for a participative project management style to align with manag...
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A curriculum of imagination in an era of standardization
This book uses an imaginary dialogue between Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire to explore how imagination can challenge norms and inspire social change in education. The book examines the evolution and current iterations of imagination, calling for a curriculum that embraces these imaginative aspects.
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Girls and women in stem
This volume advocates for girls and women in STEM fields. It addresses overcoming social and academic entitlement, providing insights into effective strategies for encouraging participation. The book connects with readers at all levels of STEM education and workforce participation, offering inspi...
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Promising practices to empower culturally and linguistically diverse families of children with disabilities
This book offers research-supported practices to empower culturally and linguistically diverse families of children with disabilities. It includes activities for parent organizing, education, co-mentoring, and support at IEP meetings. Essential for teachers, administrators, and counselors.
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Identity and lifelong learning
This series explores the intimate connections between learning and identity in adult development. Volume 2 highlights identity and learning in informal settings, cultural domains, and life transitions. It features diverse qualitative studies and narratives, examining identity across the adult lif...
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The timing of neural and behavioral events
This monograph reviews cognitive and neuroscience studies on the timing of neural and behavioral events and their impact on human experience. It explores historical roots, conscious and unconscious processing, learning, mental speed, and cognition-emotion dynamics, offering insights for students ...
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Continuous improvement
This book describes improvement science in action for educators, schools, districts, universities and communities. It focuses on applying improvement science in educational settings to implement sustainable systemic change. The chapters, written by researchers and practitioners, aim to help other...
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Making healthcare care
In this volume, Hugo Letiche questions if there is true "care" in healthcare, arguing that patients should not be seen merely as problems to be solved. He advocates for mindful listening and engaged dialogue to address the complexity of individual healthcare situations, suggesting that this appro...
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Multicultural education for learners with special needs in the twenty-first century
This book offers innovative information for educators to effectively identify, assess, categorize, place, and instruct diverse learners. It provides best practices and direction for teaching multicultural learners with special needs, useful for educators and administrators.
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Linguistic perspectives on english grammar
This linguistically oriented textbook focuses on English grammar for ESL/EFL teachers and students, interpreters, and translators. It explores English from a functional perspective, emphasizing grammar as patterns rather than rules, and highlights the use of grammatical constructions in various c...
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Personal passionate participatory inquiry into social justice in education
This book features 14 social justice-oriented research programs on life in schools, families, and communities. It connects personal values with political and practical aspects, focusing on equity, equality, and social justice. It's aimed at educators, researchers, and policymakers advocating for ...
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Growing up between two cultures
This volume deals with social, emotional and educational issues of Muslim children growing up in a Western country. It aims at shedding light on factors that contribute to the successful adjustment of these immigrant children and ways of helping them to adjust to the new life in their new country.
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Creating visions for university-school partnerships
This volume continues the series tradition of exploring current thinking in professional development school research. It features diverse perspectives from PreK-16 educators, addressing solutions to complex educational problems. The book covers clinically rich practices, stakeholder perspectives,...
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Sustainability, growth, and globalization
This volume explores sustainability in economics, political science, and geography, focusing on socio-economic change and globalization. It uses the Costa Rican Cloud Forest community of Monteverde to illustrate how sustainability is applied in a community context with global implications.
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The blind need not apply
The Blind Need Not Apply examines the historical exclusion of blind individuals and the fight for their inclusion. The book highlights the progress made and challenges that remain in ensuring blind professionals have equal opportunities.
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Distance education
Distance Education has gained interest in educational communications and technology. This volume provides an updated definition and glossary of terms.
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Contemporary perspectives on research in theory of mind in early childhood education
Over the last 35 years, studies on young children's understanding of the mental world, known as theory of mind, have become significant. This volume shares research on theory of mind, reviewing its historical roots and offering critical analyses.
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Theoretical developments and future research in family business
This book explores family business research, highlighting its role in entrepreneurship, migration, and economic growth. It critiques the lack of strong theoretical frameworks and calls for multidisciplinary approaches from economics, sociology, and psychology to advance understanding.
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Educating the scholar practitioner in organization development
This book explores the education of Organization Development (OD) professionals, focusing on the impact of professional research doctoral programs. Alumni feedback highlights key educational elements contributing to their growth. The findings offer insights for improving OD training and doctoral ...
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Getting to know ourselves and others through the abc's
This book helps teachers and professionals increase cultural appreciation using the ABCs model of Cultural Understanding and Communication. It involves writing autobiographies, biographies, and conducting cross-cultural comparisons to improve cultural understanding and communication.
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Black males matter
This book advocates for a shift in educating Black male students by providing a strengths-based, solution-focused framework. It serves as a resource for educators and school leaders to foster academic and social success by connecting education with community cultural wealth.
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Culture and behavioral strategy
Culture and Behavioral Strategy features 10 chapters by leading scholars, exploring cultural diversity, strategic choice, and cultural intelligence in behavioral strategy. It offers empirical and conceptual insights into how culture influences strategic decisions and behaviors.
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Successful reading instruction
A study of successful reading instruction. The articles cover topics such as the use of computer technology for reading instruction, and engagement and motivation in reading instruction. They are divided into two sections: "Reading Research and Assessment" and "Reading Instruction and Practice".
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Online professional development for teachers
This book explores how to make professional development for teachers more efficient and effective, focusing on online programs. It compares exemplary programs, offering practical insights for developers, teachers, and administrators seeking impactful professional development solutions.
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Seeking the common dreams between worlds
The book explores the lived experiences of Chinese immigrant faculty in North American higher education, focusing on their struggles, challenges, and successes. It offers a deep understanding of their cross-cultural experiences through autoethnographic research, highlighting cultural, political, ...
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The contemporary superintendent
(R)Evolutionary Leadership explores how school district superintendents can balance competing commitments by pushing against the status quo while improving educational practices and outcomes. The book highlights leaders who enact radical change and view it as a controlled process.
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Conquering academia
This book highlights the experiences of diverse women pursuing doctoral degrees, exploring their challenges and opportunities. Through narratives, it addresses themes of intersectionality, lived experiences, and adopting an academic mindset. Ideal for faculty and staff in academia.
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Pressing forward
This book examines secondary education, emphasizing the need to prepare students for a global, technology-driven world. It highlights the importance of advanced coursework, lifelong learning, and diverse skills. The volume addresses high school reform, equity, and excellence, offering insights fr...
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Voices of pineland
This book traces the history of the Maine School for the Feebleminded, later Pineland Hospital, from 1908 to 1996. It explores the impact of eugenics, social forces, and key figures on the institution, providing a lens on the history of intellectual disabilities in 20th-century America.
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Trends and issues in distance education
This book captures global trends and issues in distance education through 21 chapters by over 30 international authors. It addresses conceptual and practical aspects, reflecting on diverse initiatives and technologies, from advanced 3-D computing to wind-up radios, for researchers, practitioners,...
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Corporate yoga - a primer for sustainable and humanistic leadership
This book introduces corporate yoga as a novel concept to inspire leaders & managers. It suggests using yogic principles to reframe leadership, anticipate & h&le crises & create sustainable, humanistic companies. The approach aims to transform vision statements, strategies & g...
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Shaping the space
This text explores the value of Arts education in Australia, mandated for K-9 students. It addresses the shortage of specialized Arts educators and offers insights into planning, teaching, and assessing each discipline. The book is accessible, innovative, and aligned with contemporary learning pr...
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Bending the arc toward justice
This book addresses the challenges educational leaders face in managing increasing diversity and social inequities. It offers practical, equity-focused leadership strategies for addressing these issues, while providing an intersectional view on social inequalities. An inspiration for educational ...
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Exploring issues of diversity within hbcus
This volume examines diversity at HBCUs, focusing on historical and contemporary dynamics, challenges, and opportunities. It covers equity and inclusion efforts, theories, and practices related to race, class, gender, and more. Ideal for students, faculty, and staff in higher education.
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A decade of middle school mathematics curriculum implementation
This book documents the Show-Me Project (1997–2007) and highlights lessons learned about curriculum implementation. It covers four comprehensive curriculum programs and shares insights applicable to standards-based curriculum reform. The book is valuable for mathematics supervisors, teachers, adm...
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Leadership and school quality
This book explores the relationship between school organizations and leadership behaviors, focusing on their impact on teacher and school effectiveness. It combines empirical studies and theoretical analysis to advance our understanding of schools.
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School reform proposals
An examination of the research relating to school reform proposals. It features essays covering: early childhood education; class-size reduction in grades K-3; small schools; grouping students for instruction; public schools and their communities; teacher characteristics; and more.
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The inspirational untold stories of secondary mathematics teachers
This book shares 12 untold stories of mathematics teachers, highlighting their varied journeys and the innovative components of their preparation program. It explores their passion, experiences, and reflections on early college experiences, shedding light on the developmental processes of mathema...
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Co-creating talent and human-centered organizations
This book emphasizes human-centric business models, focusing on developing talent and building resilient organizations. It explores Organization Development principles, highlighting the importance of enhancing leaders' capacities and fostering high-value organizational cultures.
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Contemporary perspectives on research on immigration in early childhood education
This volume explores how immigrant children and families develop in the US and Europe, highlighting the cultural differences between immigrant families and teachers. It reviews the impact of immigration laws, such as DACA, and the role of teachers in supporting young children's social and cogniti...
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Leadership and personal development
This book offers a modern approach to leadership and personal development, emphasizing the links between these areas. It presents proactive, flexible strategies for growth, considering sustainability, complexity, and creativity. Structured activities and proven techniques equip readers with new s...
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Beyond the campus
Beyond the Campus examines community development amid competing interests & power imbalances, highlighting university-community partnerships as one example of a tool for transformation. Ideal for faculty, consultants & researchers, the book offers insights on strengthening relationships w...
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Contemporary challenges confronting school leaders
Contemporary Challenges Confronting School Leaders is the eleventh book in a series focused on advancing our understanding of schools. It analyzes the relationships between school organizations and administrative practices that impact teacher and student effectiveness, centering on student achiev...
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Online learning communities
This book presents key perspectives on distance education, examining current trends and issues. It features insights from respected authors and experts, focusing on communities of learning in distance education.
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Trust and distrust
This book explores the socio-cultural dynamics of trust and distrust across various contexts, including witch-hunting, China's shift to capitalism, personal relationships in South Korea, political corruption in Brazil, and economic development in the Baltic States, emphasizing historical, cultura...
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Regression to the mean
This novel explores the politics and ethics of evaluation through the story of Paul Reeder, an experienced evaluator facing political, ethical, and technical challenges. It captures the complexities of evaluation politics, offering an unconventional approach to learning and teaching these vital t...
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Holistic education and embodied learning
This book explores embodied learning, emphasizing the body's role in holistic education. It covers psychological insights from Carl Jung and Wilhelm Reich, meditation, movement education like Dalcroze, and schools that nurture embodied learning, such as Waldorf education.
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Mastering hidden costs and socio-economic performance
This volume, the first in the Research in Management Consulting series, captures the latest thinking in management consulting. It addresses the role of consultants in organizational change efforts and revisits past frameworks and intervention models, updating Henri Savall and Véronique Zardet’s w...
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Maintaining focus, energy, and options over the career
This volume explores how individuals maintain career vitality over their work life. It includes theoretical perspectives on person-environment fit, midcareer renewal, retirement transition, and gender differences in international careers. Empirical studies address career dynamics, generational di...
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Planning schools for use of audio-visual materials
This edition of Planning Schools for Use of Audio-Visual Materials, edited by Ann Hyer, centers its focus on AV Instructional Materials Centers.
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Getting to the common core
This book demonstrates how teachers use research-based strategies to meet Common Core Standards while focusing on students. It includes examples from various grade levels, showing strategy implementation, student work samples, and reflections. The book emphasizes practical approaches and the flex...
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Research on enhancing the interactivity of online learning
This book reviews research, theory, and policy on interactive online learning for K-16 educators, administrators, and students. It emphasizes good pedagogy, restructuring course content, and addressing student issues like navigation and feedback. It also explores emerging trends and fosters debat...
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Refugee and immigrant students
This book addresses educational equity for immigrants and refugees, highlighting approaches that leverage experiential knowledge, multiple languages, and cultural strengths. It emphasizes hope and potential, offering suggestions for reform across various contexts, from individual teachers to broa...
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Getting ready for college begins in third grade
Getting Ready for College Begins in Third Grade guides parents and teachers in fostering skill development for blind/visually impaired children in academics, travel, social interaction, daily living, and self-advocacy. It provides practical advice to ensure the child's education and development a...
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Contemporary pioneers in teaching and learning
This volume traces the socialization, professional development, and career paths of contemporary pioneers in education and psychology through interviews. Scholars share how their childhood and mentors influenced their theoretical paths and research.
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Pruning the ivy
This book argues that American higher education needs reform due to lack of competition and market forces. It highlights issues like faculty governance, rising costs, and political conformity. The book calls for strong voices to demand reform to ensure quality education for future generations.
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Distance education and distributed learning
This work addresses distance education and distributed learning, with essays on rethinking online assessment, collaborative learning's role in social and intellectual development, and the embodiment of knowledge in virtual environments.
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Decolonizing qualitative approaches for and by the caribbean
This volume explores decolonizing qualitative research in the Caribbean, emphasizing indigenous methods and critical theory. It addresses the distrust of traditional research due to colonial legacies and highlights the importance of resistance and emancipatory research.
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Becoming one with the world
This book presents a new educational paradigm that emphasizes ecological consciousness, spiritual development, and harmony with all beings. Aimed at teachers, parents, and leaders, it blends theory and practice to foster love, inquiry, and justice in education, inspiring a holistic approach to hu...
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The politics of leadership
This book offers an objective analysis of governance in relation to quality education and explores alternative policy strategies. It emphasizes the moral responsibility of education professionals to address critical questions about education and democracy, highlighting the importance of active pa...
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Equivalence in measurement
This volume explores the challenge of ensuring measurement equivalence across diverse groups in management research. With the growing emphasis on diversity and internationalization, addressing these concerns is crucial to avoid misleading results. The book aims to guide future scholars in tacklin...
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Levantine vignettes
"Levantine Vignettes" follows history educator Daniel Osborn's journey to appreciate the Middle East's vibrancy and diversity through travel and cultural immersion. From Israel to Jordan, Lebanon, and the Palestinian West Bank, the book highlights the transformative power of living among these co...
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