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The achievement of academic excellence is inherently competitive. Deliberate government policies, globalisation and changes in communication technologies mean that competitiveness in the academic wo……続きを見る

This book is a critical assessment of the knowledge base on educational effectiveness, covering a period of five decades of research. It formulates a “lean” theory of good schooling, and identifies ……続きを見る

This book breaks down the sometimes overwhelming and difficult task of creating a successful grant winning proposal into a series of clear and definable steps that lead to grant success. The impleme……続きを見る

Kinder und Jugendliche wachsen heute völlig selbstverständlich mit Smartphone, Tablet, Notebook & Co auf. Die digitalen Medien bieten zweifelsohne Chancen und Möglichkeiten für den Einzelnen - aber ……続きを見る

Vous en avez assez de vouloir un peu plus d'argent à la fin de chaque mois sans jamais y arriver ? Vous voudriez améliorer votre situation, mais vous ne savez pas comment vous y prendre ? Alors ce l……続きを見る

Do you need good leaders to achieve good quality or does good quality create good leadership? Quality is a term frequently used to describe early years provision without any further explanation of e……続きを見る

In 1969, in the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania, the Dickson City, Olyphant, and Throop school districts merged to become the Mid-Valley School District. Soon afterward, plans we……続きを見る

"Du, Papa, bin ich eigentlich hochbegabt?" Kinderfragen lösen bei der Erwachsenenwelt meist große Heiterkeit aus. Manchmal sind sie aber auch fast wie die berüchtigten Fragen des alten Philosophen S……続きを見る

The Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) Yearbook XXIV offers 16 captivating chapters related to establishing a sense of place or belonging for P-12 students, classroom teachers, teacher candidate……続きを見る

Reform of the educational systems in the United States and all over the world are coming from a wide variety of sources?philanthropists and businesses, federal and state governments, administrators ……続きを見る

Principals are responsible for an increasing range of duties in an era of school reform, standardized testing, and more. These responsibilities are even greater in high schools, which are many times……続きを見る

Popular Music, Gender, and Postmodernism begins by tracing the migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism. The result has been a widespread fatalism over the presu……続きを見る

The knowledge base about mentoring and coaching in education has grown considerably worldwide in the last decade. The very many definitions of mentoring and coaching demand an evidence base to assis……続きを見る

In den deutschsprachigen Schulsystemen werden Elemente eines ,neuen Steuerungsmodells’ ー beispielsweise Bildungsstandards, Schulinspektionen oder Selbstevaluation ー implementiert. Die Innovationen……続きを見る

Have you ever wondered why you were doing something a certain way without any real reason other than "that's the way it has always been done" or "that is what everyone else seems to be doing"? It se……続きを見る

This book addresses the education and training of Members of Parliament (MPs). It examines existing training programs offered in various countries around the world, evaluates their strengths and wea……続きを見る

Dieses Essential vermittelt einen grundlegenden Einblick in die Hochachtsamkeit als Ressortgrenzen überwindende Art zu denken und zu handeln. An wachsenden Krisenherden und Umbruchsituationen in Ges……続きを見る

This book analyses the superintendent position and relations and shows how the well-known policy umbrella, the New Public Management (NPM), is being adapted to national contexts. School superintende……続きを見る

A Toolkit for College Professors is designed to give new and established faculty members the skills they need in order to do their jobs more effectively. Combining case studies, scenarios, practical……続きを見る

FORWARD to Professorship in STEM: Inclusive Faculty Development Strategies That Work provides best practices on how to design and implement inclusive workshops aimed at supporting faculty and staff ……続きを見る

The primary focus of the book is to emphasize the major changes in the leadership responsibilities of the school principal and to underscore the necessity for them to gain new knowledge and skills i……続きを見る

Achieving Outstanding Classroom Support in Your Secondary School shows how secondary school teachers and other school staff can work with Teaching Assistants to ensure that classroom support is maxi……続きを見る

Transforming Education challenges the current global orthodoxy that ‘educational transformation’ can be achieved through a step-by-step implementation of centralised, performance-based strategies fo……続きを見る

In this classic editiontop scholars in family research examine the nature and origin of adolescents’ contemporary patterns of sexual and romantic relationships, from the evolutionary roots of these ……続きを見る

How much have teachers and their pupils benefitted from the top-down Westminster-led control of policy held in place by a powerful national inspection regime? A Generation of Radical Educational Cha……続きを見る

Through the voices of dozens of seasoned college faculty and junior and senior students, this book shares insights and practical examples on how a college campus can be “HIP”ーutilizing high-impact ……続きを見る

· What drives school leaders? · What do they do on a day to day basis? · What helps or constrains their decision-making? · What keeps them focused amidst challenges? Rather than applying theory to p……続きを見る

Successful School Leadership identifies the characteristics, behaviours and practices of successful and effective school leaders through the adoption of a systemic view of the quality of school orga……続きを見る

Every teacher has struggled with a mixed-ability class. That is, a class that is comprised of students of different levels of skill and competence. Some students learn fast, others learn slowly. Som……続きを見る

An era of accountability has swept over the higher education landscape. Everyone it seemsーlegislatures, think tanks, newspapers, magazines, books, and bloggersーwants to “hold colleges and universi……続きを見る