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What sparks a psychologist's interest in a certain phenomenon? Is it a symptom, a syndrome, a treatment, the usual, the exceptional, the group, the individual? An epistemologist focuses on the group and delivers group results. The clinician has to focus on the patient. The patient usually focuses on the clinician. These dynamics are critically reflected in this book.

A school is only as good as its principal. This quip forms the thesis of Better Principals as it provides a bird's eye view of the enactment of Haberman's eleven core functions of a star principal. Each chapter in this volume contains reflection questions for discussion to remind us all why selecting quality principals must be paramount when hiring school leaders.

A school is only as good as its principal. This quip forms the thesis of Better Principals as it provides a bird's eye view of the enactment of Haberman's eleven core functions of a star principal. Each chapter in this volume contains reflection questions for discussion to remind us all why selecting quality principals must be paramount when hiring school leaders.

What sparks a psychologist's interest in a certain phenomenon? Is it a symptom, a syndrome, a treatment, the usual, the exceptional, the group, the individual? An epistemologist focuses on the group and delivers group results. The clinician has to focus on the patient. The patient usually focuses on the clinician. These dynamics are critically reflected in this book.

Promotes leadership in the democratization of culture to counter the current hegemony of domination and cultivate an alternative hegemony of collaboration. It is premised on a leadership framework for decision-making rooted in democratic voice and leading to collective action.

Describes an online polling strategy that allows adolescents to make known how they view conditions of learning at their school. Over 14,000 secondary students completed polls examined in the text. These polls include career exploration, time management, selective attention, motivation for Internet learning, tutoring, peer support, cheating, frustration, cyberbullying, and school stress.

Examines the latest methodological innovations, refinements and state-of-the-art developments and perspectives in the analysis of multilevel data, including current best practices of standard techniques. This volume will be particularly useful to researchers in educational policy, educational psychology including school psychology and special education, and clinical psychology.

Examines the latest methodological innovations, refinements and state-of-the-art developments and perspectives in the analysis of multilevel data, including current best practices of standard techniques. This volume will be particularly useful to researchers in educational policy, educational psychology including school psychology and special education, and clinical psychology.

Promotes leadership in the democratization of culture to counter the current hegemony of domination and cultivate an alternative hegemony of collaboration. It is premised on a leadership framework for decision-making rooted in democratic voice and leading to collective action.

Idn this volume istinguished and endowed professors describe their personal journey to the distinguished or endowed professorship; explain important life lessons that they learned during their journey; describe their current professional goals; and offer suggestions and recommendations for graduate students, untenured faculty, tenured faculty, and college/university administrators.

Idn this volume istinguished and endowed professors describe their personal journey to the distinguished or endowed professorship; explain important life lessons that they learned during their journey; describe their current professional goals; and offer suggestions and recommendations for graduate students, untenured faculty, tenured faculty, and college/university administrators.

Project?Based Learning; it's a term that most educators have heard and probably have heard good things about, Often, though, they aren't quite sure precisely what its defining characteristics are. This book will help change that, making the nature of PBL (Project-Based Learning) clear and illustrating how it can be a manageable, effective, and very enjoyable aspect of instruction.

A volume in Professional Development School Research, this exemplifies the current thinking of practitioners and researchers in the field. The authors from the Prek-16 arena illustrate the ways in which professional development schools generate possible solutions to the complex problems facing educators.

Critical inquiry is central to the ethos of service-learning pedagogy, a pedagogy that is built upon community partner participation and active reflection. Within higher education, service-learning offers an important opportunity to enhance practice within the community, allowing students to engage stakeholders and youth.

The theoretical elaboration of the notion of reflexivity can be seen as one of the ways of performing the challenging task of developing an intentional language for Psychology. By working on such a notion one can realize that common sense lies at the core of psychological science. This volume explores these ideas.

The theoretical elaboration of the notion of reflexivity can be seen as one of the ways of performing the challenging task of developing an intentional language for Psychology. By working on such a notion one can realize that common sense lies at the core of psychological science. This volume explores these ideas.

Interdisciplinarity is viewed as a necessary ingredient in the training of future oriented 21st century disciplines that rely on both analytic and synthetic abilities across disciplines. This monograph argues that interdisciplinarity and creativity are related constructs, and that the cultivation of domain general creativity is possible.

Explores issues related to educational leadership in various settings in the 21st century. This title argues that the context for leadership within many nation states and international scenarios involves interaction between multiple and diverse social cultures. It also explores three primary contexts for leadership and intercultural interaction.

A discussion of the academic motivation of adolescents. It addresses: self-efficacy and adolescents' motivation; situating motivation in sociocultural contexts; rewards and intrinsic motivation - a needs-based developmental perspective; and perceived peer norms and the need to be accepted.

Examines the excellent management and leadership practices currently taking place at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the context an economic recession. Each chapter highlights successful operations at HBCUs from management, leadership, and administrative standpoints in a manner that is not comparative of or overly reliant upon dominant literature, standards, or theories.

Explores the combined effect of the rapid growth of information as an increasingly fragmented information base, a large component of which is available only to people with money and/or acceptable institutional affiliations.

Explores the combined effect of the rapid growth of information as an increasingly fragmented information base, a large component of which is available only to people with money and/or acceptable institutional affiliations.

Presents a collection of problems in school mathematics specifically written for teachers. The book is an attempt to enrich prospective and current teachers with the deep knowledge of school mathematics and to develop their reasoning and proving skills.

By delving into the foundational concepts related to leveraging sales as a tool for organisational profit, this book gives readers important insights into the critical elements of the sales process, including consultative selling, sales force management, qualities of effective leadership in sales, and the use of technological tools.

Shares stories of faculty entry into higher education. These stories focus on the deeply personal nature of the new academic. Framed around the idea of curriculum being contextual and how life experience guides what we do, this collection of memoirs, recollections, and personal narratives allows the reader to share these lived experiences.

Shares stories of faculty entry into higher education. These stories focus on the deeply personal nature of the new academic. Framed around the idea of curriculum being contextual and how life experience guides what we do, this collection of memoirs, recollections, and personal narratives allows the reader to share these lived experiences.