Books published by Emerald Publishing Inc

This is a resource for teacher preparation programmes. It is also intended to serve as an instructional resource in P-12 education. The book contains pertinent instructional topics, units and lessons in global education and social justice themes. A secondary purpose of the book is to serve as a resource for graduate students and researchers whose interest is global and social justice education.

This is a resource for teacher preparation programmes. It is also intended to serve as an instructional resource in P-12 education. The book contains pertinent instructional topics, units and lessons in global education and social justice themes. A secondary purpose of the book is to serve as a resource for graduate students and researchers whose interest is global and social justice education.

Offers twelve chapters organised into three major sections that address occupational stress and quality of working life. Section 1 addresses the organisational and individual costs of occupational stress. Section 2 focuses on ways to mitigate the negative effects of occupational stress. Section 3 examines and expands our understanding of work life quality.

How do we know that mentoring works? In this age of accountability, the time is ripe for substantiating evidence through empirical research, what mentoring processes, forms, and strategies lead to more effective teachers and administrators within P-12 contexts. This book brings together reports of recent research on mentoring in K-12 settings for new teachers and new principals.

Offers twelve chapters organised into three major sections that address occupational stress and quality of working life. Section 1 addresses the organisational and individual costs of occupational stress. Section 2 focuses on ways to mitigate the negative effects of occupational stress. Section 3 examines and expands our understanding of work life quality.

How do we know that mentoring works? In this age of accountability, the time is ripe for substantiating evidence through empirical research, what mentoring processes, forms, and strategies lead to more effective teachers and administrators within P-12 contexts. This book brings together reports of recent research on mentoring in K-12 settings for new teachers and new principals.

The technology revolution has made it critical for all children to understand science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) or risk being left behind. Promising Practices for Engaging Families in STEM Learning explores how families, schools, and communities can join together to promote student success in STEM by building organized and equitable pathways for family engagement across all of the settings in which students learn –  including, schools, early childhood  programs, homes, libraries and museums –from the earliest years through adolescence.This thought-provoking monograph includes three main sections with chapters from leading thinkers in the field:· The first section provides the theoretical and research base for the importance of family engagement in STEM and draws out the challenges and opportunities that exist– from the transmission of adults’ anxiety and lack of confidence in their own STEM skills, to inequalities in out-of-school learning opportunities, to biases and misconceptions about the kinds of STEM supports offered by families from low-income and immigrant homes.· The second section builds on this research by presenting success stories, best practices, and approaches to engaging families in STEM.· The final section focuses on how policies at the local, state, and federal level can support the promotion of family engagement in STEM. Taken together, the monograph shows that STEM is a powerful mechanism to connect, engage, and empower families.· STEM provides opportunities for parents and children to spend time together asking fun and meaningful questions that link in-and out-of-school learning.· STEM creates new experiences for families to co-construct and support learning with their children from the earliest years throughout formal schooling and onto college and career pathways.· STEM also presents possibilities for families to build confidence and agency in supporting children’s interests; especially those families who might be marginalized because of their economic or language status, race, or culture.  

Explores how attending to meaning-making processes becomes crucial when researching or intervening within cultural encounters and global everyday life. It is through listening to the foreign other, to attend to their immediate experiences, as well as exploring how meaning may be mediated and co-constructed by them in everyday life that collaboration can be created and sustained.

American democracy is at a critical crossroads. Rancor, division, and suspicion are the unfortunate byproducts of the contentious 2016 presidential election. The election also bred a measure of civic uncertainty where citizens of all ages struggle to find and define their roles within a functioning democracy. No Reluctant Citizens: Teaching Civics in K-12 Classrooms is designed to help social studies teachers reinforce the centrality of civic education through a series of hands-on, participatory, and empowering activities. From civic literacy to human rights, from service learning to controversial issues, No Reluctant Citizens: Teaching Civics in K-12 Classrooms explores an array of topics that ultimately provides K-12 students the conceptual and practical tools to become civically engaged.

Presents research and provides engaging, easy-to-implement classroom activities to help elementary-grade teachers address some of today's most pressing challenges. Learn strategies - and the science behind them - to activate educational content with movement in ways that improve behaviour, increase focus, and enhance academic engagement and performance.

Examines how educational policy makers, curriculum developers, educators, learners and social activists can utilize the hitherto untapped rich resource of African traditional oral literature and visual cultures. These are epistemological reservoirs and invaluable pedagogical tools in the delivery of content in the classrooms of the present global village.

In 2015-16, the Middle Level Education Research Special Interest Group (MLER SIG) undertook a collaborative project-the development of a new middle grades education research agenda. Members of the MLER SIG identified eight research areas. This volume contains the extensive literature reviews and subsequent research questions for each of the research topics.

Examines how educational policy makers, curriculum developers, educators, learners and social activists can utilize the hitherto untapped rich resource of African traditional oral literature and visual cultures. These are epistemological reservoirs and invaluable pedagogical tools in the delivery of content in the classrooms of the present global village.

In response to the problems and possibilities associated with teaching through film, this volume offers a collection of practical, classroom-ready lesson ideas that might bridge gaps between theory and practice and assist teachers endeavouring to make effective use of film in their classrooms.

Examines ongoing challenges and policy strategies in ten countries - Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. This volume explores how countries with federal systems of government design, govern, finance, and assure quality in their educational systems spanning from early childhood to secondary school graduation.

Views international business as a complex and integrated system and takes a systems approach to study and analyse the changes, enabling readers to assess global business opportunities and risk in a comprehensive and integral manner. The topics presented give readers a broad understanding of the most relevant issues in a changing international environment.

Views international business as a complex and integrated system and takes a systems approach to study and analyse the changes, enabling readers to assess global business opportunities and risk in a comprehensive and integral manner. The topics presented give readers a broad understanding of the most relevant issues in a changing international environment.

Traces the socialization processes, professional development, career paths, and theories and research of contemporary pioneers in education and psychology. This volume contains interviews with scholars who are at the vanguard of teaching and learning. They share how their childhood development influenced their theoretical paths and research endeavours.

The book provides new conceptual frameworks to understand good practice in the field of mobile learning. The book fills a gap in the current literature by drawing on examples of best practice from leading schools in the United States, Canada and Australia. The contents include topics that are at the core of current attempts by educators to meet the demands of 21st century learning.

Traces the socialization processes, professional development, career paths, and theories and research of contemporary pioneers in education and psychology. This volume contains interviews with scholars who are at the vanguard of teaching and learning. They share how their childhood development influenced their theoretical paths and research endeavours.

Recent advances in technology have created easy access for classroom teachers and students alike to a vast store of primary sources. This fact accompanied by the growing emphasis on primary documents through education reform movements has created a need for active approaches to learning from such sources. Unpuzzling History with Primary Sources addresses this need.