Books published by Emerald Publishing Inc

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.

The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The editors of AEHJ encourage communicationbetween scholars from numerous disciplines, nationalities, institutions, and backgrounds.

The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines. The editors of AEHJ encourage communicationbetween scholars from numerous disciplines, nationalities, institutions, and backgrounds.

Explores issues of social justice and micropolitics in educational institutions. More specifically, it examines the ways in which social justice workers navigate, or can navigate, (micro) political systems in their quest to promote social justice.

Explores issues of social justice and micropolitics in educational institutions. More specifically, it examines the ways in which social justice workers navigate, or can navigate, (micro) political systems in their quest to promote social justice.

In May 2014, the French research laboratory ISEOR and the University of St. Thomas co-sponsored a conference on the application of the Socio-Economic Approach to Management (SEAM) paradigm and methodology in the US. This volume captures the ideas, applications, and exchanges of that meeting, attempting to bring the reader into the conference itself.

In May 2014, the French research laboratory ISEOR and the University of St. Thomas co-sponsored a conference on the application of the Socio-Economic Approach to Management (SEAM) paradigm and methodology in the US. This volume captures the ideas, applications, and exchanges of that meeting, attempting to bring the reader into the conference itself.

Provides a forum for an interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue with regard to preparing teachers for early childhood special education. In addition, it is aimed at examining and making available relevant and most recent scholarship to practitioners and at addressing critical issues and perspectives around preparing effective educators for the 21 century classroom and the future.

Provides a forum for an interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue with regard to preparing teachers for early childhood special education. In addition, it is aimed at examining and making available relevant and most recent scholarship to practitioners and at addressing critical issues and perspectives around preparing effective educators for the 21 century classroom and the future.

Gathers together recent research and theorising from around the world on key issues central to historical learning and instruction. What sense do students make of the history that they are taught? Are students able to organise historical knowledge? What are the relationships that obtain between history as an academic discipline, and history as a subject taught in schools?

This book has two broad purposes. It seeks to determine whether or not there is a "universal" management model through an examination of circumstance in a number of different nations and industries; and it brings to a wider audience some of the leading research in the field of management history.

This book has two broad purposes. It seeks to determine whether or not there is a "universal" management model through an examination of circumstance in a number of different nations and industries; and it brings to a wider audience some of the leading research in the field of management history.

Explores early childhood education policies and practices in the Caribbean. Chapters in the book analyse child policies and issues, critically examine progress on alignment between policies and practices, and propose recommendations for advocacy and implementation that may advance the early childhood development agenda throughout the Caribbean.

There is limited research on educational capacity building in developing countries. This volume illuminates research and collaborative initiatives between the authors and local leaders in developing countries' and Indigenous peoples in developed countries' efforts to solve the complexity of social inequities through educational access and quality learning.

There is limited research on educational capacity building in developing countries. This volume illuminates research and collaborative initiatives between the authors and local leaders in developing countries' and Indigenous peoples in developed countries' efforts to solve the complexity of social inequities through educational access and quality learning.

The last decade had abundant corporate, national and international ethical and financial scandals and crises. After this epoch of moral catastrophes stakeholders expect that corporations will take more active roles as citizens within society. This volume provides ideas, examples and solutions to corporate social performance implementation and problems that occur in this area of consideration.

Examines the role of law as potentially countering or impeding desirable education reforms. This volume calls on readers to consider how policymakers, lawyers, social scientists, and educators might best alter the course in an effort to advance a more just and less unequal educational system.

Examines the role of law as potentially countering or impeding desirable education reforms. This volume calls on readers to consider how policymakers, lawyers, social scientists, and educators might best alter the course in an effort to advance a more just and less unequal educational system.

The purpose of this volume is to share a collection of research strands on contemporary perspectives on research in assessment and evaluation in early childhood education. It provides a review and critical analysis of the literature on assessment and evaluation of programmes, children, teachers, and settings.