Books published by Emerald Publishing Inc

Considers what beauty and love in education look like. Where can it be seen, and how can we bring this forward so it can be instructive to those who are faced with similar questions about the incredibly important craft of teaching? This collection of narratives, essays, and poetic expressions includes the perspectives of students and educators.

Examines diversity across disciplines in higher education. The book brings together contributions from the arts, sciences, and professional fields. It provides a structure to understand the ways in which people are impacted by diversity and the complicated process of engaging with diversity in a variety of contexts.

Offers a practical, hands-on guide to exploring and assessing school and university readiness and compatibility to pursue a Professional Development School partnership. The authors offer unique insights into PDS based on their experiences as educators in elementary, middle school, high school and as university professors.

Provides guidance for facilitating reflection in leadership learning and features over 50 activities from 52 reflective leadership educators. Guided by a framework for reflection in leadership learning, the book focuses on six methods for reflection: contemplative, creative, digital, discussion, narrative, and written.

Explores contemporary Chinese urban youth culture through analyses of three Chinese Internet subcultural artifacts - A Bloody Case of a Steamed Bun, Cao Ni Ma, and Du Fu Is Busy. Using Douglas Kellner's multiperspectival cultural studies, Jing Sun examines three general themes - resistance, power relations, and consumerism.

Reflection, the process of making meaning of experience, and leadership, a relational process for affecting change, are enhanced by one another. This book is a clarion call for educators and learners to make reflection a central priority.

Emphasizes the significance of orientation in Peter McLaren's contemporary work. This volume is filled with deep engagements with the concreteness of lived experience juxtaposed next to the bourgeois propaganda of the capitalist class political establishment as manifested in the Trump era.

Emphasizes the significance of orientation in Peter McLaren's contemporary work. This volume is filled with deep engagements with the concreteness of lived experience juxtaposed next to the bourgeois propaganda of the capitalist class political establishment as manifested in the Trump era.

The second of ten regionally focused texts that explores American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education in depth. The text is designed to be used by educators of Native youth and emphasizes best practices found throughout the region.

The second of ten regionally focused texts that explores American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education in depth. The text is designed to be used by educators of Native youth and emphasizes best practices found throughout the region.

The past decade has seen giant leaps in AI, machine learning, wearable technologies, and data mining capacities. This book examines the crossroads of these two fields and looks to the future of leveraging advanced technologies and developing data ecosystems to the healthcare field.

The past decade has seen giant leaps in AI, machine learning, wearable technologies, and data mining capacities. This book examines the crossroads of these two fields and looks to the future of leveraging advanced technologies and developing data ecosystems to the healthcare field.

Contains chapters by and about post-secondary educators and students. Together these chapters enhance our understanding of the inextricable link between learning and identity.

Demonstrates how principals influence success in 14 elementary schools across Mexico. The cases show the importance of learning in an international school leadership context to address cultural, social, and academic needs of students in their families. The characteristics of successful principals are alos discussed.

Demonstrates how principals influence success in 14 elementary schools across Mexico. The cases show the importance of learning in an international school leadership context to address cultural, social, and academic needs of students in their families. The characteristics of successful principals are alos discussed.

Outlines the sociocultural roots of education in the three countries, linking the tradition and philosophical orientations to each country's own history of education. The book also compares and contrasts the curriculum, especially the teaching of English as a second/foreign language, in the three countries.

Contains chapters by and about post-secondary educators and students. Together these chapters enhance our understanding of the inextricable link between learning and identity.

A collection of essays, stories, and narratives designed to inspire and empower women of colour through the use of storytelling and narratives. This second edition is a sequel to the first Gumbo for the Soul and includes more...

Outlines the sociocultural roots of education in the three countries, linking the tradition and philosophical orientations to each country's own history of education. The book also compares and contrasts the curriculum, especially the teaching of English as a second/foreign language, in the three countries.

International Education Inquiries is a book series dedicated to realizing the global vision of Education 2030. This vision involves "ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all".

A collection of essays, stories, and narratives designed to inspire and empower women of colour through the use of storytelling and narratives. This second edition is a sequel to the first Gumbo for the Soul and includes more...

International Education Inquiries is a book series dedicated to realizing the global vision of Education 2030. This vision involves "ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all".

Succession planning at all levels of an organization is crucial. Dream Catcher is an established coaching program designed for anyone who wants to invest in helping others to reach their fullest potential. The program builds leaders with the capacity to fill key roles in organisations.

Contains contributions by leading scholars on time issues in the field of strategy science research. The chapters collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on the temporal issues in strategy and organization.

Contains contributions by leading scholars on time issues in the field of strategy science research. The chapters collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on the temporal issues in strategy and organization.

Offers scholars, students, and practitioners important new knowledge about how current policies impact families, schools, and community partnerships. The book's authors share a critical orientation towards policy and policy research and invite readers to think differently about what policy is, who policymakers are, and what policy can achieve.

Provides a collection of ideas, examples and solutions on Humanistic Values in Academia. The contributors assume the crucial role of values in managing contemporary organisations emphasizing the fact that the oldest organisations managed by core values are not business corporations but the institutions like churches, armies and the universities.

Provides a collection of ideas, examples and solutions on Humanistic Values in Academia. The contributors assume the crucial role of values in managing contemporary organisations emphasizing the fact that the oldest organisations managed by core values are not business corporations but the institutions like churches, armies and the universities.

Focuses on rapid school turnaround and reform in secondary schools. Chapters offer some hope about how policymakers, practitioners, and researchers might begin to reconceptualize how they engage in and undertake the work of rapidly improving low-performing secondary schools.