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Presents perspectives from curriculum workers/teachers/scholars/activists across theoretical landscapes and spanning a diversity of positionalities within critical intersections of power and privilege as they relate to identity, culture and curriculum as well as to social justice, schools and society.

Explores the complexity of issues related to increasing the number of women on boards of directors around the world: how these issues have been understood; how they have been more and less successfully addressed in different countries and industries; and how they are similar, and yet different, as a results of cultural and legal differences.

Explores the role of silent partners in multicultural education. Silent partners include formal and informal places - spaces in schools, objects, interactive technologies, but also often taken for granted patterns of thought, ideologies and assumptions. This book fills a significant empirical gap, and can inject public debate over working environments in schools for multicultural education.

Collaborative learning is not a trivial challenge nor is it intuitive for all teachers and learners. One must practice the essential skills in order to successfully work in a team. This book surveys the current state of the field and provides theoretical guidance and practical examples to help meet the gaps in research, development and practice.

Collaborative learning is not a trivial challenge nor is it intuitive for all teachers and learners. One must practice the essential skills in order to successfully work in a team. This book surveys the current state of the field and provides theoretical guidance and practical examples to help meet the gaps in research, development and practice.

Presents research about the dynamic development, interplay, and interconnectedness of two major discourses in citizenship education, namely national and global. Case studies and ethnographies from across the globe display a comprehensive picture of educators' attempts to promote social justice, global awareness, and multiple loyalties.

Draws attention to a form of dialogue called design dialogue. Design dialogue constructs new meaning from the bottom up. Individuals construct new meanings through individual thinking. In design dialogue, meaning results from group thinking. Group thinking is not as simple as thinking individually while being present within a group.

Using schools to prepare youth for work has a long and troubled history. The contributors to this book dive into that history, bringing up compelling issues that challenge conventional wisdom about the history of education.

Presents research about the dynamic development, interplay, and interconnectedness of two major discourses in citizenship education, namely national and global. Case studies and ethnographies from across the globe display a comprehensive picture of educators' attempts to promote social justice, global awareness, and multiple loyalties.

Using schools to prepare youth for work has a long and troubled history. The contributors to this book dive into that history, bringing up compelling issues that challenge conventional wisdom about the history of education.

The purpose of this book is to assist post-traditional students to achieve success in the Occupational, Workforce, and Leadership Studies (OWLS) Department and develop their individualized pathway to earn the interdisciplinary Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences (BAAS) degree at Texas State University.

The numerous books documenting the challenges of student athletes primarily focus on understanding the issues of student-athletes and their recommendations are often overly simplistic, failing to provide interventions that can be executed by student-athlete support personnel. This book seeks to remedy this.

The numerous books documenting the challenges of student athletes primarily focus on understanding the issues of student-athletes and their recommendations are often overly simplistic, failing to provide interventions that can be executed by student-athlete support personnel. This book seeks to remedy this.

The purpose of this book is to assist post-traditional students to achieve success in the Occupational, Workforce, and Leadership Studies (OWLS) Department and develop their individualized pathway to earn the interdisciplinary Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences (BAAS) degree at Texas State University.

Offers an idiographic perspective in order to discuss the concept of health, to define its cultural meanings and possible polysemy, and its areas of pertinence and intervention, trying to offer possible alternatives to the "normalization" of health and creating new incentives for reflection.

Offers an idiographic perspective in order to discuss the concept of health, to define its cultural meanings and possible polysemy, and its areas of pertinence and intervention, trying to offer possible alternatives to the "normalization" of health and creating new incentives for reflection.

Discusses the ways students think and their cognitive challenges as they engage with algebra. This book is a response to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM) call to better link research and practice by capturing what we have learned about students' algebraic thinking in a way that is usable by teachers.

Provides different perspectives of current status of talent management (TM) and talent development (TD) practices in select countries across the world. The aim is to provide scholars and practitioners interested in the topic with a better understanding of TM and TD practices, and an overview of factors that affect these practices.

Focuses on social and emotional learning (SEL) from a variety of perspectives. The goal of the volume is to offer a clear framing of SEL in relation to other related out-of-school time concepts and initiatives.

Examines the evolving representations of the colonial past from the mid-19th century up to decolonization in the 1960s and 70s - the so-called era of Modern Imperialism - in post-war history textbooks from across the world. The aim of the book is to examine the evolving outlook of colonial representations in history education.

Examines the evolving representations of the colonial past from the mid-19th century up to decolonization in the 1960s and 70s - the so-called era of Modern Imperialism - in post-war history textbooks from across the world. The aim of the book is to examine the evolving outlook of colonial representations in history education.

Argues that past school failures are instructive. The author identifies the structural and emotional triggers that make it difficult for educators' to overcome the social constructs that control the progress of Black students, reproduce inequities, subvert the socio-economic progress, and threaten the legitimacy of the US public school system.

Shares information regarding conflict management and resolution in higher education from a global perspective. The book introduces many conflict resolution methods from different regions in the world, highlighting the differences and similarities between contexts.

Provides a comprehensive introduction by a range of experts to the recent and rapidly developing field of learning analytics. Contributors show how this new field has the potential to increase learner success through understanding of the academic, social-emotional, motivational, identity and meta-cognitive context each learner brings.

Provides a comprehensive introduction by a range of experts to the recent and rapidly developing field of learning analytics. Contributors show how this new field has the potential to increase learner success through understanding of the academic, social-emotional, motivational, identity and meta-cognitive context each learner brings.

Explores, documents and establishes how to help founders start businesses with the collaboration of local and international resources. An incubator, accelerator or science park all have this goal but provide a variety of foci and support. At a minimum, it's important to not only attract entrepreneurs but to have support services.

Combines the best of genocide theory, the realities of the genocidal process, and how to teach about such complex and often terrible and difficult issues and facts in a theoretically, historically and pedagogically sound manner.

Although in plain sight daily, a highly successful war against American public schools has been hidden in the shadows of public consciousness. This book treats this war as part of an extensive social movement that is conducting wars against government and science, as well as against women, immigrants, the poor, and unions.

Presents information about the history of education, the changes in the systems of education over the years, and the impact of technology on learning for 21st century students. The book also contains the results of a unique study regarding the impact of iPad instruction on literacy attainment for struggling readers.

Shares examples of Pre/K-12 grade teachers, schools, or school systems that infuse race, class, gender and sexuality in the curriculum. The book offers concrete examples of social studies teachers, schools and schools systems committed to the inclusion of topics often deemed as sensitive or controversial.