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Mentoring Student Teachers and Interns
Strategies for Engaging, Relating, Supporting, and Challenging Future Educators
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Mentoring Student Teachers and Interns: Strategies for Engaging, Relating, Supporting, and Challenging Future Educators is an interactive how-to guide for teacher preparation professionals who are charged with the supervision and mentoring of student teachers and interns. Written for both seasoned...
Planning Educational Facilities
What Educators Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
This book covers the entire planning process educators must employ to adequately administer the planning process for a new or renovated school building. The structure of the book is to follow a sequential planning process for a new school building or renovation project from the beginning of a need...
Intercultural Education in the European Context
Theories, Experiences, Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This book offers a comparative analysis of the intercultural theories and practices developed in the European context. Bringing together work on the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, The Netherlands and Sweden, it examines specific approaches to intercultural education. Structured...
How Schools Succeed
Context, Culture, and Strategic Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
All meaningful and enduring educational reform occurs locally. Evidence suggests that educational success is driven by the contextual conditions in which students learn. How Schools Succeed: Context, Culture, and Strategic Leadership, Second Edition considers a broad conception of educational context,...
Advancing Democracy Through Education?
U.S. Influence Abroad and Domestic Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This book explores the diversity of American roles in such crosscultural engagement in education for democracy, both within the United States and around the world. Crosscultural engagement in education for democracy inevitably bears the impressions of each culture involved and the dynamics among them....
by Zhu Yongxin
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
“The most important task of education is to teach children to be kind, to have a dream, and to possess the ability to learn.” --Zhu Yongxin
One of today’s leading education thinkers, Zhu Yongxin possesses a rare clarity about the purpose of education. Dialogues on the New Education is...
Public School Finance Decoded
A Straightforward Approach to Linking the Budget to Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Public School Finance Decoded discusses why the finance department needs to have a seat at the table during discussions about how to educate the whole child. Written in plain language, this book will empower school administrators to improve student achievement through understanding the impact school...
We Reap What We Sow
Modeling Positive Adulthood for Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
As anyone who lives, works, or spends any time with teenagers knows, adolescence can be both the best of times and the worst of times. Teenagers are undergoing miraculous, world-altering shifts. In light of these changes, how can society help adolescents move safely from teen to adult? How can adults...
by Andrea Riva, Silvia Giambroni, Silvia Paredes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 20, 2016
A través de la palabra estos artículos intentan generar nuevas preguntas, nuevas interpretaciones, nuevas miradas sobre cuestiones que nos conmueven y nos perturban; compartimos el esfuerzo de equiparnos de palabras y pensamiento –que sabemos serán siempre provisorios– para poder nombrar lo...
Teaching for Global Community
Overcoming the Divide and Conquer Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Education has long been viewed as a vehicle for building community. However, the critical role of education and schools for constructing community resistance is undermined by recent trends toward the centralization of educational policymaking (e.g. racial profiling new laws in the US—Arizona and Texas;...
Family Life and School Achievement
Why Poor Black Children Succeed or Fail
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Working mothers, broken homes, poverty, racial or ethnic background, poorly educated parents—these are the usual reasons given for the academic problems of poor urban children. Reginald M. Clark contends, however, that such structural characteristics of families neither predict nor explain the wide...
Why School Communication Matters
Strategies From PR Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Why School Communication Matters is an easy-to-use reference for the communication dilemmas that superintendents, principals, and other school leaders face today as they lead faculty and staff, parents and students, neighbors and community leaders. This newly revised edition incorporates the monumental...
by Catherine O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In this innovative and cogent presentation of her concept of sustainable happiness, Catherine O’Brien outlines how the leading recommendations for transforming education can be integrated within a vision of well-being for all. Solution-focused, the book demonstrates how aspects of this vision are...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Globalisation, Higher Education, the Labour Market and Inequality addresses the global transformation of higher education in relation to changes in the labour market. It focuses on the relative impact of elements of globalisation on social inequality, and provides insights into the ways in which these...