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Literacy as gendered discourse
This volume focuses on literacy as gendered discourse, exploring women's experiences in various countries. The collection is valuable for professors, researchers, practitioners, and students in adult literacy, women's studies, and development studies.
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The anatomy of neoliberalism and education
This book analyzes neoliberalism and education from a Marxist perspective, exploring its political, cultural, and financial tools. It examines how neoliberalism became common sense, its imperialist impact, and its role in education. The book reinterprets neoliberal educational reforms within the ...
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Portraying lives
This book explores the expansion of women's higher education in Australia and New Zealand in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It highlights the paradox of women's empowerment and restrictions in educational careers, using portraits to frame their history. Essential for those interested in ...
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Colluding, colliding, and contending with norms of whiteness
This book analyzes the experiences of White mothers of children of color in the U.S., revealing how Whiteness norms operate. It identifies three ways of interacting with these norms: colluding, colliding, and contending. Steps are proposed to apply the model in educational and other organizationa...
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Evaluating technology in teacher education
This book reflects on the complexity of evaluating technology in teacher education, highlighting the pioneering PT3 program. It calls for nuanced evaluation models that consider pedagogy and technology integration, emphasizing the need for diverse approaches in teacher preparation programs.
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Teaching as a human activity
This book inspires new teachers, focusing on making a positive impact, building connections, effective classroom management, engaging instructional approaches, and avoiding burnout. It celebrates the passion and intelligence of teachers, highlighting ways to create meaningful, learning-filled con...
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Teaching in online, distance, and non-traditional contexts
Building on the foundational principles of educational psychology, this book offers a deep dive into the specific challenges and opportunities presented by online education, it presents case studies and research-backed strategies to help educators create engaging, effective, and inclusive online ...
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Apprentice in a changing trade
This book stems from a Swiss research project exploring how culture shapes vocational education. Studying a technical college during the shift to automated manufacturing, it examines learning environments, student engagement, and professional identity formation through activity theory and social ...
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The education of children in geographically remote regions through distance education
This book explores the history and development of distance education in Western Australia, focusing on the Schools of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE). It aims to understand SIDE's emergence, key functions, and challenges. The findings offer insights for policy, practice, and future researc...
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Home in transition
This book explores the concept of home (Heimat) from various theoretical and empirical perspectives. It addresses challenging questions about home when it is lost, threatened, or sought. Written by psychologists with insights from featured groups, it concludes with a cultural psychology model.
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Integrative strategies for the k-12 social studies classroom
This book offers insights and strategies for integrating social studies with other disciplines. It includes contributions from national experts, examples of integrative opportunities, and grade-specific lesson plans. Designed as a practical guide, it aims to help educators at all levels implement...
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Learning from television
This volume by Godwin C. Chu and Wilbur Schramm discusses the value of Learning from Television.
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Living the questions
"In Living the Questions," Wade Tillett explores how to live in the present, examining daily life and navigating multiple, often contradictory positions. He narrates from various perspectives, offering insights for anyone searching for how to live. The book provides inspiration for researchers an...
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The conflicts of 2020
In 2020, higher education faced conflicts like a global pandemic, racial protests, and economic struggles, all compounded by an election year. This book compiles perspectives from students in a 2020 graduate course on diversity and social justice, sharing experiences on identity, allyship, activi...
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Inclusive practices and social justice leadership for special populations in urban settings
This book features chapters by educators advocating for marginalized voices in education. It explores inclusive practices benefiting all students, including English language learners and LGBTQ+ students. The book offers a social justice framework for school leaders to create inclusive environment...
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Running with scissors
This book presents real case studies using action learning methodologies based on leadership theories. It illustrates how awareness, purpose, attitude, confidence, trust, and mindset are crucial for leaders to navigate complex and uncertain situations, offering insights for both believers and ske...
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Transforming healthcare with big data and ai
This book explores the convergence of healthcare and technology, focusing on AI, machine learning, wearable technologies, and data mining. It examines leveraging advanced technologies and developing data ecosystems in healthcare, offering insights from multidisciplinary experts on the future of B...
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Educational leadership and reform
This fourth volume in a series on school research and theory features 13 analyses by 27 authors, mixing young and established scholars. It covers a broad range of theoretical perspectives and methodologies, including experimental, survey, case studies, self-analysis, multilevel modeling, and stru...
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University in the 21st century
This book explores the dramatic changes in universities, from Humboldt's spirit to neoliberalism, and the impact of digitalization. It presents diverse views from students, alumni, researchers, and lecturers on grading, exams, patriarchal structures, and creating new study programs.
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In praise of radiant beings
David W. Jardine's essays offer new educational perspectives using Buddhism, ecological thinking, and hermeneutics. The book spans 25 years, providing classroom examples and scholarly insights, promoting sustainability and interrelatedness. It's a valuable resource for educators and researchers.
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Socio-economic approach to management revisited
This volume explores the evolution of the Socio-Economic Approach to Management (SEAM) by examining intervention challenges post-economic crisis. It emphasizes strategic patience, holistic intervention, and achieving short-term results while maintaining long-term focus. Collaborative interactions...
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Queer approaches
This collection supports queer educators and students, highlighting the lack of LGBTQ representation in classrooms and offering inclusive pedagogical approaches. It emphasizes the importance of inclusivity for all and provides solutions for marginalized individuals.
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Leading with character
This book explores the character strengths leaders need for extraordinary growth and performance, focusing on virtues like wisdom, courage, and humanity. Through stories of 25 famous leaders, it highlights how these virtues drive success and offers practical leadership principles for sustainable ...
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What do principals do?
The book provides empirical evidence of a high school principal's daily tasks, based on a three-year study. It identifies 72 tasks and analyzes time spent on each. Dr. Jonathan Hurst offers insights from his career, making it valuable for those in educational administration and teacher education ...
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Contemporary perspectives on capital in educational contexts
This volume analyzes the dynamics of capital in education, comparing K-12 and higher education systems. It addresses three key topic: the tenets of capital in education, how institutions and individuals navigate these tenets, and the implications for the educational pipeline.
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Contemporary issues in educational policy and school outcomes
This fifth book in a research series advances understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis. It features contributions from both new and established scholars, with 14 authors providing 9 related analyses. The series encourages young scholars to publish original work, o...
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The dark side of management
This volume explores the negative aspects of workplace behavior, known as The Dark Side of management. It includes chapters on topics like abusive supervision, dysfunctional mentors, destructive executives, and social exclusion. Each chapter offers unique insights into these behaviors and their i...
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Fostering sustainability by management education
This book offers insights and solutions for integrating corporate social responsibility (CSR) into management education. It covers values, ethics, spirituality, embedding CSR, and university social responsibility. The goal is to equip graduates to become change agents who can handle CSR complexit...
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The memory hole
This book critiques attempts to rewrite U.S. history based on current political beliefs, distorting the curriculum. It examines five key topics, highlighting the dangers of ignoring historical facts. The book advocates for a disciplined approach to teaching history, emphasizing complex and subtle...
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Educational leadership
This book connects educational leadership with international issues, drawing on the authors' experiences in U.S. public schools and research. It promotes equity, excellence, and social justice, urging leaders to empower marginalized communities. The book fosters dialogue and encourages building b...
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The online classroom
This book explores the shift in middle level education towards online learning platforms. It highlights the need for teachers, schools, and administrators to adapt to digital learning environments. Researchers and teachers share resources on virtual education and its impact on middle level learne...
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Epistemologies of ignorance in education
This book explores marginalization, oppression, and power dynamics in education. It challenges the ignorance in curriculum and policy, viewing ignorance as a by-product of knowledge production. Rooted in race, class, gender, and sexuality studies, it calls for addressing these issues in education...
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Building the successful online course
This practical guide provides strategies for developing online courses, based on a successful model from Paris Junior College with over 90% retention rates. It includes examples of multimedia support, and a straightforward approach to course creation, minimizing guesswork for effective distance l...
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Are they too hard on them? student discipline in charter and regular public schools
This book investigates whether charter schools use harsh discipline to push certain students out. Comparing discipline rates in four major cities, it examines whether charter schools are more likely than public schools to enforce strict disciplinary measures and explores the factors influencing t...
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10 great curricula
This book features stories from educators who reimagined curricula through a graduate course. It explores progressive, democratic curricula using Marsh and Willis' frameworks. The chapters highlight the power and potential of such curricula in schools and communities, offering insights for studen...
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Educational leadership and music
This book explores educational leadership through the lens of music, analyzing various artists and musical forms. It aims to break academic silos and connect disparate disciplines, highlighting how music can inform and inspire school leaders. Readers are encouraged to reflect on their own musical...
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Using data in schools to inform leadership and decision making
This book explores the use of data in schools for leadership and decision making. It examines how leaders use data, the most useful types of data, the impact on instructional practice, continuous improvement, and the challenges faced in data-driven decision making.
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Hollywood or history?
This book offers practical, classroom-ready lesson ideas for teaching social studies and world religions through Hollywood films. It aims to bridge theory and practice, fostering critical thinking and civic mindedness. Topics include Abrahamic religions, Eastern philosophies, and Indigenous Relig...
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Educational policies and youth in the 21st century
This book examines how educational policies impact diverse youth groups, including Hispanic, African American, Indigenous, lower income, and LGBT students. It highlights the unintended negative effects of policies on these groups and advocates for more sensitive, inclusive policymaking to better ...
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Mindfulness for educational practice
This book explores mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) in education, focusing on reducing stress, enhancing resilience, and improving relationships and teaching practices. It provides practical recommendations for educators and school leaders, emphasizing emotional self-awareness, collaboratio...
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Computer games and instruction
This book explores the popularity of computer games and their potential for instructional use in education, business, government, and the military. It reviews research on game-based learning, gender differences, and implications for lower socio-economic students. The book also includes insights f...
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Anti-history
This book advances ANTi-History as a method for historicizing organization studies, challenging the ahistorical nature of management theory. It applies this approach through a series of histories on Pan American Airways.
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Students as designers of their own life curricula
This book explores the concept of life curriculum, where students reconstruct past experiences to influence their future. It emphasizes integrating life experiences with school curriculum, continuously adapting values and beliefs to changes in the environment, transforming curriculum into a proce...
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European entrepreneurship research and practice
This book highlights the emergence of a distinct European school of thought on entrepreneurship over the past three decades. It emphasizes the importance of context in understanding European entrepreneurship and promotes the unique strengths of the European perspective in the field's development.
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Amerindian paths
This book comes as part of a broader project the editor is developing aiming critically to articulate some theoretical and methodological issues of cultural psychology with the research and practical work of psychologists with Amerindian peoples.
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Building and maintaining collaborative communities
Building and Maintaining Collaborative Communities explores collaboration among schools, universities, and community organizations, including both public and private sectors. This volume serves as a practical guide for administrators and organizations to plan, implement, and evaluate collaborativ...
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Memory practices and learning
This book explores memory and learning through sociocultural theory, cultural psychology, and dialogism. It examines how people engage in remembering and learning across different contexts, from detailed analyses of activities to broad studies of cultural phenomena and collective memories, comple...
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English learner instruction through collaboration and inquiry in teacher education
This book shows how teacher educators & teachers collaborate to learn from each other & English learners. It follows a framework that integrates disciplinary content with culturally & linguistically responsive teaching. It's a valuable resource for teacher education programs & sch...
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Applied psychometrics using sas
This book is a practical guide for graduate students and professionals in psychometrics, focusing on measurement reliability, validity, and scoring using SAS. It combines theory with real-world examples, SAS code, and result interpretation, making it a useful resource for both learning and practice.
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The concise apa handbook
Students often struggle with finding, using, and citing references in APA format. Existing reference books are costly and overly detailed. This handbook offers a concise, cost-effective guide with clear, user-friendly language and practical examples, simplifying APA rules with images and step-by-...
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Liminal spaces and call for praxis(ing)
This book explores power, privilege, and supremacy in education. It combines theoretical research and praxis to address corporatization challenges. Featuring scholars focused on communities of color, third world feminism, indigenous liberation, civil rights, and anticolonial movements, it aims to...
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Identity intersectionalities, mentoring, and work-life (im)balance
This book examines the intersection of personal and professional identity with work-life balance, using an intersectional perspective. It includes voices from educators across the P-20 pipeline, highlighting the complexity of work-life balance and the importance of mentoring.
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School turnaround in secondary schools
The book addresses the challenge of rapid and sustainable reform in secondary schools, focusing on turnaround strategies. It explores theoretical advancements, lessons from initiatives, and practical solutions for improving low-performing secondary schools, emphasizing college and career readines...
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Surveying borders, boundaries, and contested spaces in curriculum and pedagogy
This series advances scholarship on curriculum and instruction, educational empowerment, agency, and social justice. It aims to create democratic spaces in education through research, arts-based projects, social action, and community engagement, emphasizing democracy, transparency, and diversity.
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The future of evaluation in society
This volume honors Professor Michael Scriven, highlighting his contributions to evaluation and its future. It features discussions on paradigm shifts in evaluation by leading theorists and practitioners, recounting their interactions with Scriven. It's ideal for evaluation scholars, practitioners...
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Application of artificial intelligence to assessment
This book explores AI applications in test development, covering automated item generation, test assembly, scoring, and computerized adaptive testing. It highlights efficiency gains, methodological advancements, and practical applications, offering insights for researchers and practitioners seeki...
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A systems approach to public administration and social equity
A Systems Approach to Public Administration uses General Systems Theory to create The Plan, a series of social policies aimed at addressing global threats. It proposes Public Private Trusts in various sectors to form a Virtual Commonwealth, steering the political economy towards a sustainable, eq...
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Deep change
This book examines school and district-level reforms driven by high-stakes accountability, highlighting cases where data-driven dialogue, culture change, and organizational learning led to improvements. Commentaries and a now what? chapter offer insights for initiating meaningful changes to enhan...
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Technology in healthcare
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book captures the learnings from the BigMedilytics project. The project aimed to transform Europe’s healthcare sector by using state-of-the-art Big Data technologies delivering better access to healthcare fac...
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Read aloud handbook for native american children
This book helps teachers improve Native American children's reading scores through read alouds, developing oral language, vocabulary, and background knowledge. It discusses American Indian and Standard English, code-switching, and bilingualism. Includes an annotated bibliography of tested read al...
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Principals improving instruction
This book integrates supervision, evaluation, and professional development for principals. It offers a hands-on approach with theory and research, providing observation tools and exercises to improve practice. It emphasizes data collection and feedback to help principals and teachers identify gro...
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Visual data and their use in science education
This book defines visual data in science education, exploring its use across disciplines. It examines brain processing of visual data, conceptual frameworks, and application in education from elementary to college. It aims to create a coherent image of science teaching and learning with visual data.
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Surmounting all odds
Volume 2 in the two volume set about overcoming the odds in African American Education.
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Tps-lean six sigma
TPS-Lean Six Sigma combines Lean Six Sigma with human involvement to enhance commitment, integrity, work-life balance, and employee engagement. It aligns personal and organizational goals, creating motivated teams that drive sustainable performance improvement and quality enhancement.
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Cultural psychology of intervention in the globalized world
This volume examines interventions from benevolent exchanges to military domination through the lens of Cultural Psychology. It emphasizes the importance of meaning-making processes in understanding everyday experiences and fostering collaboration in cultural encounters and global life.
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Contemporary perspectives on research on bullying and victimization in early childhood education
This volume shares research on bullying and victimization of young children, reviewing historical roots and suggesting anti-bullying programs. It highlights important issues in early childhood education and provides valuable information for researchers. The volume aims to motivate and guide furth...
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Understanding neoliberal rule in higher education
This volume explores neoliberalism's impact on education, highlighting its influence on policy, teaching, and community relationships. It also examines global resistance to neoliberal oppression and offers strategies for creating a democratic higher education system. Essential for educators, scho...
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Curriculum windows
This book examines how curriculum texts and theorists from the 1950s can inform contemporary education. The authors explore how these works offer insights into curriculum, teaching, and leadership, helping educators reflect on past and future practices to address current educational challenges.
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Action research
Action Research: Models, Methods, and Examples: Covers the history, foundations, and basics of action research, from Kurt Lewin's early methods to modern approaches. The second part illustrates current practices, detailing methods like participatory, emancipatory, design-based action research, an...
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English language learners and math
This ethnographic study explores how Latina/o English Language Learners (ELLs) in middle school math classes negotiated their learning. Using a reform-oriented, hands-on approach, it highlights the experiences of six ELLs and their teachers, focusing on identity, participation, and success in mat...
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Corporate social performance
Corporate Social Performance discusses CSP implementation and challenges, highlighting corporate scandals and the need for genuine Corporate Social Responsibility to address global issues. It questions whether companies truly engage in CSR or do so to offset irresponsibility, emphasizing the impo...
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A closer examination of applicant faking behavior
This volume addresses the often-overlooked issue of faking in personality tests, highlighting its impact on test validity and the broader implications for psychology. It explores how faking can invalidate test scores and the potential dishonesty of applicants.
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Methods of evaluating educational technology
This volume explores methods developed by evaluators in universities and the private sector, focusing on educational technology. It addresses challenges in education, the impact of policies, and the tension between providing positive results and reexamining questions.
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Ethics and international curriculum work
This book explores the ethical dilemmas of introducing educational ideas across cultures, focusing on curriculum workers in international contexts. Through case examples and critical reflection, it examines the challenges of reconciling equity and cultural responsiveness with curriculum practices...
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Contemporary perspectives in data mining
The Contemporary Perspectives on Data Mining series features blind refereed research on data mining methods and applications, targeting both academics and business practitioners.
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