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Education, East and West, is mostly Western in orientation. Asian perspectives remain relatively unrepresented in curricula, pedagogy and administrative structures. This volume describes what the West can learn from the East. It covers conceptions of and approaches to effective learning and teaching, self-regulated learning, and creativity.

Through a series of four interconnected studies, this book focuses on the youths' perceptions. It includes a chapter that examines the organizational modus operandi of several schools, eliciting field-based models for handling immigrant students.

Examines the state of technology maturity measurement, pointing out strengths and weaknesses of available measures, and proposing a complete technology maturity assessment as a potential solution. This book also includes a discussion of risk during technology development.

The CSMC is one of the National Science Foundation Centers for Learning and Teaching. This volume contains the proceedings of the First International Curriculum Conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum (CSMC).

The CSMC is one of the National Science Foundation Centers for Learning and Teaching. This volume contains the proceedings of the First International Curriculum Conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum (CSMC).

Presents a diverse range of educational practices from around the world - particularly those practices that directly strengthen and enhance student motivation and achievement in a broad range of sociocultural contexts. This title is suitable for researchers, professionals, educators, teachers, lecturers, policy-makers, and curriculum developers.

Presents a diverse range of educational practices from around the world - particularly those practices that directly strengthen and enhance student motivation and achievement in a broad range of sociocultural contexts. This volume is suitable for researchers, professionals, educators, teachers, lecturers, policy-makers, and curriculum developers.

Tackles the question, is there 'care' in health care? This volume argues that, through narratives and through complexity based social theory, the complexity of each individual situation must be transcended through mindful listening and engaged dialogue.

Explores the diversity of American roles in such cross-cultural engagement in education for democracy, both within the United States and around the world. This book focuses on the cultures, contexts, structures, people, and processes involved in education for democracy.

Traditionally, Catholic schools in the United States were staffed exclusively by priests, sisters, and brothers. This study explores the influence that a series of spirituality and virtue seminars had on lay teachers' perceptions of the Catholic school and character education.

Explores the learning and teaching of second language reading. This title brings together a range of analyses of adult foreign language reading. It provides important research findings that assist foreign language readers and those who support their efforts.

Intended for use in professional courses of study and workshops in fields such as education administration, public administration, sports administration, law enforcement, allied health and social work, human resource management, and other fields, this book offers an introduction to a vast and complex subject.

Explores how the generally accepted definition or measure of equality of educational opportunity at the beginning of the twenty-first century differs from what it was in the immediate postwar era. This work maintains that public education acquired significance as a vital part of a national agenda in conjunction with three developments.

Focuses on diverse perspectives about validity. This book offers an understanding of the core issues in validity along with directions toward possible resolutions. It presents ways to study validity and offers examples of some of the options on how to present the validity argument in the most effective ways.

Focuses on diverse perspectives about validity. This book offers an understanding of the core issues in validity along with directions toward possible resolutions. It presents ways to study validity and offers examples of some of the options on how to present the validity argument in the most effective ways.

The Public Administration Genome Project (PAGO) is a grand attempt to digitally 'map' and then usefully employ the full set of topics, variables, and interrelationships that comprise and involve all of the 'genes' that make up public administration. This book presents an overview of the whole PAGP.

Surveys the research related to statewide systems of support, to present the experience and insights of educational leaders in how such support can best be conducted, and to derive actionable principles for improving schools.

Presents eight essays selected from manuscripts submitted by participants in the seventh annual conference of the International Association of Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement, held in Tampa, Florida, in October, 2007. The volume builds upon the theme of "Sustainability and Scholarship: Research and the K-20 Continuum".

Deals with the fact that people often lose the ability to cope when their cultures are under attack; the resulting pain can lead to substance abusers. This book features Handsome Lake, a Native leader to show how his inspirational example can help Native people who seek recovery from substance abuse.

Discusses national models of content and practice that have been formulated by the American School Counselor Association, the National Career Development Revised Guidance Project, and other organizations to identify the components, competencies, and outcomes that students of different ages and aspirations need to acquire as they grow in maturity.

Discusses several national models of content and practice that have been formulated by the American School Counselor Association, and the National Career Development Revised Guidance Project, to identify the components, competencies, and outcomes that students of different ages and aspirations need to acquire as they grow in maturity.

Highlights the features that represent life online, specifically in and around the territory of e-learning. This book begins with an exploration of culture and attempts to locate the learner within a number of digital subcultures that have arisen around technologies such as mobile and handheld devices, collaborative online spaces, and podcasting.

Investigates the evolution of the geometry curriculum in the United States. This volume aims to increase awareness of the shape and nature of the modern geometry curriculum by explaining how things have come to be as they are. It is suitable for curriculum developers, researchers, teachers, and curriculum supervisors.

Investigates the evolution of the geometry curriculum in the United States. This volume aims to increase awareness of the shape and nature of the modern geometry curriculum by explaining how things have come to be as they are. It is suitable for curriculum developers, researchers, teachers, and curriculum supervisors.

Almost every significant educational policy issue in the United States implicates legal issues. This book explores compelling educational policy issues through the legal lens. It includes chapters that aim to build an understanding of both law and policy. It is suitable for educational law students and scholars, and school and society students.

Almost every significant educational policy issue in the United States implicates legal issues. This book explores compelling educational policy issues through the legal lens. It includes chapters that aim to build an understanding of both law and policy. It is suitable for educational law students and scholars, and school and society students.

Discusses how ethical business creates social value. This book offers guidelines for how to evaluate what counts as an ethical business as well as how and why ethical businesses tend to succeed better over the long term.