Books published by Emerald Publishing Inc

This guidebook is designed to be the middle-level teacher's friend in addressing a wide variety of questions regarding the use of educational and instructional technologies. It can serve as a companion and guide through the myriad challenges and opportunities related to the effective use of technology in one's classroom and school.

Features chapters by a collection of teacher educators, researchers, teacher advocates and practitioners drawing on their research and experiences with teacher candidates to explore critical issues in teacher education. The book will be useful to teacher educators working with teacher candidates in different contexts, particularly diverse contexts.

Features chapters by a collection of teacher educators, researchers, teacher advocates and practitioners drawing on their research and experiences with teacher candidates to explore critical issues in teacher education. The book will be useful to teacher educators working with teacher candidates in different contexts, particularly diverse contexts.

Introduces professional learners (students, residents, and others in professional training) to transformative learning for building resilient professional identities amid practice environments that include widespread burnout and compassion fatigue.

The chapters in this volume serve as a means to open an intentional and explicit space for providing a critical lens on early adolescence - a lens that understands that both developmental and cultural needs of young adolescents need to be emphasized to create a learning environment that supports every young adolescent learner.

Brings together the perspectives of authors who are deeply committed to the integration of digital technology with teaching and learning. Authors discuss either a completed project, a work-in-progress, or a theoretical approach.

An international, peer-reviewed journal of educational foundations. It publishes essays that examine contemporary educational and social contexts and practices from critical perspectives.

Offers a comprehensive resource for understanding teachers' careers across the professional lifespan. Sections look closely at the particular issues that arise when recruiting an effective, committed, and diverse workforce, as well as the challenges that arise once teachers are immersed in the classroom setting.

Provides a thoughtful dialogue on the complexity of school and how best to improve it for the future. Teacher educators may find it useful to help develop teacher candidates' understanding of the nature of school.

Explores many topics related to the community college role in K-12 teacher education, including the community college mission, the policy landscape, partnerships, the transfer function, the community college baccalaureate, and others. Throughout, the authors explore implications of access, equity, and geography and conclude with recommendations.

Explores many topics related to the community college role in K-12 teacher education, including the community college mission, the policy landscape, partnerships, the transfer function, the community college baccalaureate, and others. Throughout, the authors explore implications of access, equity, and geography and conclude with recommendations.

Offers insights from teacher education researchers that illustrate the ongoing benefits and persistent challenges of educating and preparing university and school-based teacher educators. This is an important step in understanding the complex roles, practices, and responsibilities associated with high quality teacher education.

Offers insights from teacher education researchers that illustrate the ongoing benefits and persistent challenges of educating and preparing university and school-based teacher educators. This is an important step in understanding the complex roles, practices, and responsibilities associated with high quality teacher education.

Delivers a new and challenging theoretical and methodological tool box, inspired by insights developed from a broad cultural psychological perspective. The book's focus is on the consideration of work and organisations based on core concepts developed inside cultural psychology.

Written for introductory distance education courses for preservice or in- service teachers, and for training programs that discuss teaching distant learners or managing distance education systems, this text provides readers with the basic information needed to be knowledgeable distance educators and leaders of distance education programs.

Provides examples of empirical inquiries and theorizations that explore how schools can function as more than safe academic environments for gender diverse and LGBTQ students. The contributing authors attend to classrooms and educative contexts as spaces that promote affirmative inclusion.

Considers some of the challenges facing organisations today, including changes in the population, the increased competition for talent, and the rise in the use of technology. This volume also includes a number of thought-provoking articles that describe strategies for developing sound theories, and discusses the consequences of growing diversity.

Reflects on the foundations of the field of school improvement. This book is rich in research and literature about school improvement, school effectiveness, and school reform policy and implementation and thus holds significance for educational practitioners, scholars, and policy makers at all levels.

Reflects on the foundations of the field of school improvement. This book is rich in research and literature about school improvement, school effectiveness, and school reform policy and implementation and thus holds significance for educational practitioners, scholars, and policy makers at all levels.

Promotes on-going teacher reflection and development in collaborative teaching contexts. The handbook's many resources provide practical guidance for meaningful teacher development that is field-based, relevant to daily teacher work, and artfully presented to build collaboration among teachers as they reflect and learn together.

Considers how space/place, identities, and the role of digital literacies create opportunities for individuals and communities to negotiate living, being, and learning together with and through digital media.

Examines the importance and implications of a contemplative grounding for higher education. This book is the fourth in a series entitled Advances in Workplace Spirituality: Theory, Research and Application, which is intended to be an authoritative and comprehensive series in the field.

A must-read and a definitive source of information on effective management of customer service in Africa and beyond. Leveraging on unique concepts and practices developed in the field of customer service management, this book uses case studies and vignettes to reinforce learnings, drawing parallels to real life experiences.

Provides a new look at the everyday relationship between psychological processes and extraordinary aspects of ordinary phenomena. Why should we deal with ordinary things? People's life is made of everyday practical, taken-for-granted things.

Explores history, philosophy, research, politics and real human stories to encapsulate the driving forces of education that need adjustment, particularly assessment. John Hudson describes the transition from analogue to digital as the Second Renaissance, and how findings in brain research characterize how our understanding of learning has changed.

Illustrates the tensions that arise when organisations and Out-of-School Time (OST) professionals try to engage all youth, especially the traditionally underserved populations. The issues raised in this book - funding, outreach, engagement of immigrant families - have yet to be fully explored with an equity lens.

Illustrates the tensions that arise when organisations and Out-of-School Time (OST) professionals try to engage all youth, especially the traditionally underserved populations. The issues raised in this book - funding, outreach, engagement of immigrant families - have yet to be fully explored with an equity lens.

Explores participatory methodologies and tools that involve children in research. Perspectives on the role of children have transitioned from viewing children as objects of research, to children as subjects of research, to acknowledgement of children as competent contributors and agents throughout the inquiry process.

The need for more information about quality STEAM education for culturally and linguistically diverse students is pressing. This addresses this need, with chapters from asset-oriented researchers and practitioners whose work offers promising teaching and learning approaches in the STEAM subjects in K-16 education settings.

Provides an alternative to the more conventional modes of qualitative and quantitative inquiry currently used in professional training programs, particularly in education. This book features a very accessible presentation that combines application, rationale, critique, and inspiration-and is itself an example of this kind of writing.