Bücher veröffentlicht von SAGE Publications Inc

The second volume presents an in-depth analysis of ten giant cities. The contributors - all leading experts on their respective cities - describe the present and future economic, social, political and environmental problems facing each city. Both public policy failures and successes are studied. Mega-Cities looks at - New York City, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Shanghai, Delhi, Lagos, Cairo, Mexico City and Sao Paulo.

Secondary analysis has assumed a central position in social science research as existing survey data and statistical computing programmes have become increasingly available. This volume presents strategies for locating survey data and provides a comprehensive guide to US social science data archives, describing several major data files. The book also reviews research designs for secondary analysis.

Explore increasing levels of sophistication in evaluating professional development - from the participants' reaction to professional development to how to evaluate organizational support and change.

Anne Sigismund Huff and Mark Jenkins have brought leading academics together: to provide informed analysis and theory to illustrate the contribution of knowledge mapping to central issues in strategy and organization theory; to consider the contribution of these studies to management practice; and to address practical theoretic and methodological limitations of these tools, including several software tools now available to facilitate mapping.

Offers a foresight into the different hypothetical paths counselling and psychotherapy may follow. Covering a range of professional, practical and philosophical issues, this book offers predictions that are realistic, although not always optimistic.

Education Studies

Use 80 reflection breaks as individual discussion starters or as part of a comprehensive professional growth plan that is perfect for teachers at all levels.

Examines some of the major precepts of what some refer to as the 'Los Angeles School' of urban theory.

Logistic Regression is designed for readers who have a background in statistics at least up to multiple linear regression, who want to analyze dichotomous, nominal, and ordinal dependent variables cross-sectionally and longitudinally.

The field of employment and industrial relations is undergoing dramatic changes in the developed world; whilst developing economies are also experiencing their own shifts in practice and policy. The chapters in this collection provide detailed and up-to-date analyses of industrial relations developments in four contrasting economies: Australia, the United Kingdom, China and Vietnam. Readers are invited to make a comparative study of these very different regions and regimes. Chapters are contributed by leading authorities in employment and industrial relations and make the complex detail of new industrial relations laws easy to understand.This book is designed for students and scholars of employment and industrial relations, and provides an excellent reference for practitioners and students of labour economics and international and comparative human resource management.

This excellent resource assists educators seeking to establish school-community partnerships to achieve goals for their schools and the students, families, and communities they serve.

This unique resource provides a wealth of theories and strategies for teachers to help spark students' motivations to learn and succeed beyond their formal schooling years.

Introduces readers to a novel way of thinking about the familiar problems of public policy. This title sets out the crucial questions that must be asked in order to draw logical and empirically sound conclusions from observing experiences in the past, or in other places.

This text shows how to put discursive theoretical and methodological insights to work in the investigation of concrete problems in psychology. A range of traditional psychological topics are examined, from decision-making, memory and attributions to emotions, learning and the self.

In this updated collection of revolutionary articles, Sergiovanni encourages school leaders to discover the craft of moral leadership, practice effective instructional leadership, and build strong learning communities.

This resource brings a balanced approach to phonics, helping teachers find the right practical solutions to suit the children in their classrooms.

This uplifting, easy-to-read, but hard-to-forget anthology is full of powerful reminders that there is no such thing as "only a teacher."

Using case studies of mentoring in practice, this book examines the roles of mentors and practitioners and how mentoring supports personal and professional development.

Offers 3-5 session plans which include games, drama exercises and discussion that build up the children's exploration of various themes from empathy to assertiveness. This book provides various things a busy teacher needs to engage young people as participants in a PSHE curriculum.

Chronicles the reaction against the 1980s tendency for governments to opt out and leave social change to market forces, and the return of some West European governments to an interaction with concerned sections of society to cope with difficult problems and create new opportunites.

Provides a summary of Foucault's contribution to organization theory while challenging some of the conventions of traditional organizational analysis. "Foucauldian" concepts such as discipline, surveillance and power/knowledge are applied.

Explores the impact of social, cultural, structural, network and dynamic transactional processes on the conduct of relationships. This book makes a compelling case for research to be directed away from over-application of individual perspectives and towards inclusion of contextual factors.

Practical ways of undertaking research into psychotherapy are explored in this unique volume, which surveys the latest developments in psychotherapy process research and examines their implications for clinical practice.Giving equal weight to both paradigmatic and narrative approaches to explanation of the therapeutic process, contributions exemplify both relatively `pure' uses of either approach and their joint application. Each mode is seen to be especially suited to explaining a particular aspect of the overall therapeutic process and the question arises of whether or not the two approaches can be integrated. This question is addressed in terms of the implicit assumptions supporting each approach.

This text looks at the relations between indigenous and settler/immigrant populations. It highlights the experiences of ten diverse societies and examines how the internal dynamics of settler societies reflect their positions within a global economy.

Intended for professionals, academics, students and researchers in communication and media, this book analyzes the nature and directions of the changes to broadcast and electronic media in Western Europe which are taking place.

Exploring the interactions between people as they develop relationships with each other, this accessible textbook examines what lies behind the behaviour we can observe from these interactions.

This book provides a comparative overview and account of how the parties in Western Europe have perceived contemporary challenges of electoral dealignment and how they have responded - whether organizationally, programmatically, or institutionally.

Examines ethnic minority cultural and traditional healing in relation to counselling and psychotherapy. This book highlights the challenges and transformations within the field of multicultural counselling and psychotherapy by integrating debates and issues of traditional healing with contemporary practice.