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Explores the contribution and the transferability of narrative inquiry from curriculum studies to daily life in education and in healthcare. This book examines the interconnectivity of reconstructed experience with the construction of disciplinary identity and knowledge.

Explores the contribution and the transferability of narrative inquiry from curriculum studies to daily life in education and in healthcare. This book examines the interconnectivity of reconstructed experience with the construction of disciplinary identity and knowledge.

Explores what academic institutions, the knowledge enterprise, and the society as a whole can do to enhance productivity, facilitate performance, and improve experience of individual academicians in their career-making endeavor.

Organized around two broad concepts - leadership and culture, which have important implications for improving schools, this book begins with an analysis of the saliency of trust in the culture of schools.

Attempts to builds the knowledge bases for diversity concerning places and peoples, and, philosophies and positionalities. This volume explores narratives of crossing cultures and developing communities, reconceptualizing democracy and reinterpreting traditions, and, seeking solidarity and sowing the seeds of social justice.

Multilevel modeling techniques allow educational researchers to more appropriately model data that occur within multiple hierarchies. This book represents an instructional resource text on multilevel modeling for quantitative researchers who plan to use multilevel techniques in their work.

The ""Pew Charitable Trusts"" defines civic engagement as ""Individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern. Addressing both offline and online civic engagement, this work provides practitioners insights on how to improve their managerial practices that relate to civic engagement.

The ""Pew Charitable Trusts"" defines civic engagement as ""Individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern. Addressing both offline and online civic engagement, this work provides practitioners insights on how to improve their managerial practices that relate to civic engagement.

Features chapters written by scholars who collectively point to a roadmap for advancing business ethics education at a critical juncture in the history of corporate America. This book provides a counterbalance to the amoral subtext that dominates much of business education, remedies assessment problems associated with accrediting standards.

Features chapters written by scholars who collectively point to a roadmap for advancing business ethics education at a critical juncture in the history of corporate America. This book provides a counterbalance to the amoral subtext that dominates much of business education, remedies assessment problems associated with accrediting standards.

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".

A monograph that presents various perspectives for talent development in the mathematics classroom and gives insights into the psychology of creativity and giftedness. It is suitable for classroom teachers, coordinators of gifted programs, and math contest coaches interested in creativity, giftedness, and talent development in mathematics.

A monograph that presents various perspectives for talent development in the mathematics classroom and gives insights into the psychology of creativity and giftedness. It is suitable for classroom teachers, coordinators of gifted programs, and math contest coaches interested in creativity, giftedness, and talent development in mathematics.

Deals with research to practice issues related to partnering with families of children birth through age 5. This volume analyzes family involvement practices across a variety of settings and programs at the early childhood level.

Deals with research to practice issues related to partnering with families of children birth through age 5. This volume analyzes family involvement practices across a variety of settings and programs at the early childhood level.

Includes short stories that capture just what it is that makes a particular teacher unforgettable. This book is suitable for teacher preparation courses, educational psychology courses, and for those who are interested in the art and science of teaching.

Discusses about preparing our thinking, feeling, and acting for the expanding 'knowledge era.' This title presents a discussion of what an appropriate knowledge-driven corporation (KDC) is. It explores a number of design issues about this transformed charter company and presents two examples of knowledge-driven corporations.

Many of us have been influenced by one or more teachers who have exercised a formative effect in our development as students and individuals. This volume features scholars in the fields of adolescence and education who provide short stories describing their memorable teacher. It is suitable for teacher preparation courses.

Cultural psychology is in a phase of rapid growth. Innovating Genesis is an example of how the central aspect of any science - its methodology - undergoes revolutionary transformation. By looking to the history of how holistic ideas might help our investigations, this book shows how contemporary science has something to learn from its own history.

Intends to create a portrait of ways in which electronic portfolios efforts can be evaluated effectively, and to provide examples of efolio evaluation in the form of case studies.

This book is written in French. Henri Savall gives his insight on the economic crises in organisations.

Seeks out and explores trends, perspectives, and insights into the world of management consulting.

Seeks out and explores trends, perspectives, and insights into the world of management consulting.

Deals with issues related to self, from the overarching theoretical perspective of Bandura and his analysis of the agentic self, highlighting the complexities of our multiple selves acting in an integrated, holistic, and dynamic fashion, to the engaging and novel treatment of self-concept as a rope by John Hattie.

Deals with a wealth of issues related to self, from the overarching theoretical perspective of Bandura and his analysis of the agentic self, highlighting the complexities of our multiple selves acting in an integrated, holistic, and dynamic fashion, to the engaging and novel treatment of self-concept as a rope by John Hattie.

An official book series of the AERA Music Education Special Interest Group, this publication aims to strengthen the research and educational base of music education. A particular emphasis of this series is the presentation of research reflecting diverse musical education settings involving students, teaching and learning.

The authors of this text are professional educators with deep experience in global education and curriculum development. They offer a valuable resource for the development, execution and assessment of faculty-led international field courses that is at once theoretical, practical and motivational.

Universal Primary Education programs are being promoted around the globe as the solution to poverty and health problems. This book offers a vivid portrait of life and the implementation of Universal Primary Education in Eastern Uganda, based on long-term fieldwork following a group of children as they grow up.

Zoltan P Dienes' name is synonymous with the Multi-base blocks which he invented for the teaching of place value. This monograph honors the seminal contributions of Dienes to mathematics education and includes articles written by Dienes himself. It also includes an interview with Dienes in which he reflects on his life, and his work.