Books published by Emerald Publishing Inc

Focuses on online pedagogy and the challenges and opportunities incumbent in the transformation of a face-to-face college course. It is intended as a resource and support for new online teachers - a source of ideas and strategies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives as well as pedagogical perspectives - and for those experienced in the online environment.

The central issue of this volume is how to meet the linguistic and academic needs of the increasing numbers of English learners (ELs). This practical handbook brings together research, policy and practice on teacher effectiveness, pre-service and in-service programs in the context of student linguistic and cultural diversity.

Pulls together stories of young children's music and musicking from around Southeast Asia and the Pacific. A collection of truly unique traditions are interrogated through a variety of contemporary methodologies.

Empirically-based, this book on urban education reform not only proclaims that hope is alive for urban schools, but to also produces a body of literature that examines current practices and offers practical implications. This book is filled with strategies to implement and bring about reform.

Providing the capacity to transform an educator's teaching style by presenting innovative ways to empower problem-based instruction with online social media, this book provides clear, systematic design approaches for instructors who may be hesitant to explore this field and offers practical examples of how successful implementations can happen.

Empirically-based, this book on urban education reform not only proclaims that hope is alive for urban schools, but to also produces a body of literature that examines current practices and offers practical implications. This book is filled with strategies to implement and bring about reform.

Examines the importance and complexity of the assistant principalship. The assistant principal is a critical partner in creating a professional learning community that serves all students well. However, the ideal and actual roles that assistant principals exercise often create a gap that seethes with disillusionment and dissatisfaction.

Examines the importance and complexity of the assistant principalship. The assistant principal is a critical partner in creating a professional learning community that serves all students well. However, the ideal and actual roles that assistant principals exercise often create a gap that seethes with disillusionment and dissatisfaction.

Explores how psychoanalysis can enrich and complement sociocultural psychology. It presents theoretical integrations of psychoanalytical notions in the sociocultural framework, analyses the historical similarities, if not intricacies, of the two fields, and presents papers that have tried to apply an enriched theoretical framework in developmental and clinical empirical work.

A collection of stories written by educators who have come to understand curricula differently, as a result of their engagement with a graduate course and its instructor. The book represents the best of what can be found in teaching and learning, and in the quest for meaningful ways to understand curricula.

Discusses the work of five figures associated with transcendentalism concerning their views on education. Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody and Thoreau all taught at one time and held definite views about education. The book explores these conceptions with chapters on each of the five individuals and then focuses the main features of transcendental learning and its legacy.

Contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The 14 chapters cover a number of significant topics that examine the increasingly prominent role of behavioural factors in alliance evolution and management.

Intends to broaden the educational discourse in order to make room for new visions to educate future generations for peace. This book is suitable for educators at elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions to explore multiple ways to conduct effective peace education at various levels of education.

Focuses on different 'ways of knowing' - ways of understanding, ways of learning, ways of perceiving knowledge. This book includes an overview chapter comparing western and Bhutanese ways of learning and conceptions of knowledge. It is about different ways of knowing Bhutan.

Today, most American mothers work full time and children have much more free time and live in less secure urban environments. The amount of time spent attending school in Japan and the US is just one of the cultural attitudes that is examined in this book.

Expands our understanding of organisational justice and applies justice theories to develop models of ethical behaviour in organisations. By examining what it means to be just and examining relationships between justice and ethicality, this provides conceptual models for understanding the ethical challenges facing organisations.