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Use collaborative leadership strategies to attain heightened success with these best practices for team building, action research, and decision making.

In this book, aspiring, new, and veteran principals will learn how to build better school-community alliances, and use community partnerships to narrow the achievement gap.

Best-selling author Robert Ramsey gives you just what you need to avoid "simply managing" and to become a true leader instead!

The systematic analyses and application of wisdom to professional pursuits has been extremely elusive. This book aims to integrate the insights of some of the field's most respected thinkers to further our understanding of its essential characteristics, consider how it might be practically applied, and explore how it might be developed.

This user-friendly book provides secondary school teachers with a firm foundation in planning, classroom management, curriculum design, and assessment.

Rich in scholarly foundations combined with actual practice, Public Relations Online: Lasting Concepts for Changing Media connects the social and technological forces that are changing public relations. Using plain-talk discussion of theory and research, this book helps readers identify how lasting concepts for effective public relations can be applied in a changing media environment, and how a changing media environment affects the practice of effective public relations.

Rethinking Social Policy

New Managerialism, New Welfare?

This work brings together empirical and theoretical findings in social identity and social categorization. It maps the key debates in contemporary social psychology and explores a range of psychosocial phenomena, including intergroup discrimination, collective behaviour and stereotypes.

Jerome Bruner is one of the grand figures of psychology. From his role as a founder of the cognitive revolution in the 1950s to his recent advocacy of cultural psychology, Bruner''s influence has been dramatic and far-reaching. Such is the breadth of his vision that Bruner''s work has inspired thinkers in many of the major areas of psychology and has had a powerful impact on adjacent disciplines. His writings on language acquisition, culture and education are of profound and enduring importance. Focusing on the dominant themes of language, culture and self, this volume provides a comprehensive exploration of Bruner''s fertile ideas and a considered appraisal of his legacy.With a distinguished list of contributors including Jerome Bruner himself, the result is an outstanding volume of interest to students and scholars in psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, anthropology, linguistics, and education.Among the contributors are Judy Dunn, Howard Gardner, Clifford Geertz, Rom Harré, David Olson, Edward Reed, Talbot Taylor, Michael Tomasello, and John Shotter. The volume is framed by an editorial introduction that considers the distinctively philosophical dimensions of Bruner''s thought, and a final chapter by Bruner himself in which he re-examines prominent themes in his work in light of issues raised by the contributors. The volume will be invaluable to students and researchers in the fields of psychology, cognitive science, education, and the philosophy of mind.

Contains 250 entries and relevant appendices that cover: biological; psychological; social; and economic aspects of health and aging and impacts within health-care systems. This encyclopedia also covers such issues as: acute illness; Alzheimer's disease; bereavement; cataracts; centenarians; dementia; economic dependency; exercise; and more.

Inquiry is the fundamental first step in the learning process, and oftentimes the least understood. This finely edited volume enables educators to visualize inquiry as the unifying knowledge base to guide students through all major subject areas. It's a must-have guide for exploring ways to integrate concepts across different content areas.

This volume addresses the affective needs of special populations of high-ability students who are at risk of not reaching their full potential.

Various forms of grouping and acceleration are studied in this volume, along with recommendations for implementation.

Offers a scientifically balanced evaluation of competing theoretical perspectives and nosological systems for personality disorders. This book offers a synthesis of competing perspectives that provide readers with the richest and most nuanced assessment possible for each disorder.

Explores the most predominant and compelling theories on the multiple facets of giftedness, the validity of available assessments, and the development of giftedness and talent.

Groups - organizations, corporations and governments - have formal rules for the allocation of their resources and in democratic societies the decisions about allocation are generally made by simple majority voting. But does majority rule always improve social well-being? Could it sometimes lead to collective irrationality? In this thought-provoking book, Paul E Johnson considers the key questions and concepts in social choice theory.

As healthcare policy turns toward the use of evidence-based medicine, there is a heightened need for resources that cover the process of research synthesis for the purpose of healthcare outcome improvement. The authors integrate the conceptual and procedural dimensions of research synthesis to produce step-by-step instructions for clinically applicable research syntheses.

Peter Leonard provides an accessible analysis of debates about the crisis of the welfare state under the contemporary conditions of postmodern scepticism and the triumphs of global market capitalism.

This work provides a critical introduction to leisure theory from a feminist perspective, offering insights into how leisure theory has handled the question of gender difference and inequality, and analyzing the leisure experiences that women encounter and construct in their everyday lives.

Demonstrating the application of this analysis technique to the social sciences, the author explains how it can be used to determine the number of factors to be retained in a factor analysis; in selecting a subset of variables to represent a larger set; and much more.

Interpreting and Using Regression sets out the actual procedures researchers employ, places them in the framework of statistical theory, and shows how good research takes account both of statistical theory and real world demands. Achen builds a working philosophy of regression that goes well beyond the abstract, unrealistic treatment given in previous texts.

Intends to provide both students and faculty with a case study approach to the investigation of community and environmental controversies.

'Most books on Organizational Behaviour are still gender-free zones. This book however treats gender as it needs to be treated, as a fundamental organizing principle of organization'. - Professor Paul Iles, of Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores UniversityThis work offers in each chapter coverage of one or more of the principal mainstream topics before deconstructing and critiquing these and suggesting other ways of understanding these issues. A good text for students of Human Resource Management and Human Resource Development courses.

This exciting new book explores how students can use everyday objects to answer essential questions, meet curriculum standards, and grow in observation, inquisitiveness, and reflective learning.

This guide provides the practical tips and tools educators need to help their mathematically promising students develop their potential to the fullest.

Offers a collection of essays examining the racialized and gendered effects of contemporary politics of belonging. This work is useful to scholars working in the areas of multiculturalism, globalisation and culture, race and ethnic studies, gender studies and studies of post-partition societies.

What steps can be taken to incorporate a cultural perspective to the evaluation of research risks and benefits? How can investigators develop and implement respectful informed consent procedures in diverse cultural and language communities? What are ethical pitfalls and successful approaches to engaging in community and participant consultation? The Handbook of Ethical Research with Ethnocultural Populations and Communities, edited by Joseph E. Trimble and Celia B. Fisher, addresses these and other key questions in the first major work to focus specifically on ethical issues involving work with ethnocultural populations. Filling gaps and questions left unanswered by general rules of scientific conduct such as those embodied in federal regulations and professional codes, this Handbook will help guide ethical decision making for social and behavioral science research with multicultural groups for years to come. Key Features: Brings together for the first time a multidisciplinary blend of national leaders who specialize in the area of conducting research with ethnocultural populations Addresses existing issues at methodological, procedural, and conceptual levels for the responsible conduct of research in the field Incorporates as background a summary of leading research and scholarship on various topics framed within the authors' personal successes, challenges, and failures in the dynamic process of creating a multicultural research ethic Includes real-world case examples to illustrate significant ethical principles in the research venture more concretely The Handbook is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in Psychology and will also be valuable for social and medical science researchers and institutional review boards. This book will also be of interest to ethicists and bioethicists, policy makers, and foundations that fund research involving multicultural populations. .