Books published by Emerald Publishing Inc

Suitable for educators and museum professionals who wish to develop education focused eMuseums that feature motivational standards-based curriculum for diverse learners, this book provides an overview of the process of planning, creating, and evaluating an eMuseum, giving the framework and guidance needed to create an eMuseum.

Practitioners in the field of educational technology require a high level of problem solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills to deal with learning issues that are often complex and multidimensional. This book provides the material that learners can use to interact, reason and apply their problem solving skills in realistic cases.

Practitioners in the field of educational technology require a high level of problem solving, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills to deal with learning issues that are often complex and multidimensional. This book provides the material that learners can use to interact, reason and apply their problem solving skills in realistic cases.

How we understand, perceive and experience democracy may have a significant effect on how we actually engage in, and with, democracy. Within the educational context, this is a key concern, and forms the basis of the research presented in this volume within a critical, comparative analysis.

Behavior-modeling training is a form of skill-development training that distinguishes by the manner in which it integrates 'knowledge about' and 'experience with'. This work is suitable for use in conjunction with an instructor-directed program based on material in ""Behavior Modeling Training for Developing Supervisory Skills: Instructor Manual"".

Management consultants range from sole practitioners and those working in small boutique firms to members of global consultancies that literally span the world. This book helps to enhance our understanding of and insight into management consulting and the consulting process from a cross-cultural, global perspective.

Addresses what many consider to be the major issue of higher education teaching today: the need to reach all higher education students using active learning strategies. It emphasises student-focused strategies for teaching inclusively, providing valuable strategies and practical techniques for instructors to develop inclusive college classrooms that promote the learning of all students.

Paul Ernest's name is synonymous with social constructivism as a philosophy of mathematics. The title is meant to be a pun to convey the sometimes relativistic dimension to mathematical certainty that Paul argued for in developing his philosophy.

Presents a group of studies focusing on middle grades education issues. This title features ten studies that are the creme de la creme of submissions to the ""Middle Grades Research Journal"" between August 2006 and December 2008. Each study serves to exemplify how research findings can be linked to classroom practice in middle grades classrooms.

Covers topics ranging from organizational name changes and organizational afterlife, to the use of written letters to build relationships and the use of a 'creative foil' to improve one's leadership image.

Offers a discussion framework for the professor, with background material on the pharmaceutical industry. This book offers students an appreciation of the often conflicted nature of worker motivation, better preparing them for navigating their own careers.

Focuses on the test score gaps between African American and European American students. This book analyzes how changes in school characteristics such as racial composition, school composition, school expenditures, and socio economic level of neighborhoods affect achievement gap trends in the Norfolk School District.

Focuses on students' experience in the context of families, communities, and schools, and deals with issues of language, culture, and power related to multiculturalism and social justice. This book is suitable for pre-service and in-service teachers, educational researchers, administrators, and educational policy makers.

Focuses on how the educational challenges found in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East are addressed. This book examines related research, identifies useful investigative methodologies, identifies accomplishments in meeting challenges, and considers unresolved challenges.

Part of the ""Research on Education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East"" series, this book focuses on how the educational challenges found in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East are addressed.

Organized into several sections, this book presents a challenge to the field of social responsibility in business and public administration. It covers Carr and Zanettic who each have done critical theory work in public administration. It includes topics such as: rhizomatics, dialogics of co-experience, story/narrative, and post-modern.

Explores the diversity of American roles in such cross-cultural engagement in education for democracy, both within the United States and around the world. This book focuses on the cultures, contexts, structures, people, and processes involved in education for democracy.

Explores the learning and teaching of second language reading. This title brings together a range of analyses of adult foreign language reading. It provides important research findings that assist foreign language readers and those who support their efforts.

How we understand, perceive and experience democracy may have a significant effect on how we actually engage in, and with, democracy. Within the educational context, this is a key concern, and forms the basis of the research presented in this volume within a critical, comparative analysis.

Includes early childhood musical development, an international comparison of early childhood preservice teacher knowledge and skills, and a psychohistoric examination of developmentally appropriate practice. This book also focuses on psychometrics of motivation, and professional development of practicing music educators.

Includes early childhood musical development, an international comparison of early childhood preservice teacher knowledge and skills, and a psychohistoric examination of developmentally appropriate practice. This book also focuses on psychometrics of motivation, and professional development of practicing music educators.

Introduces and illustrates an armamentarium of interrupted time-series experimental designs that offer some of the powerful tools for discovering and validating causal relationships in social and education policy analysis. This title illustrates designs and statistical analyses with examples from education, behavioral psychology, and sociology.

As Western educational practices have become global, the cultural aspects and the problems associated with them have become more apparent as they are contrasted with local ways of learning and knowing in the widely diverse societies around the world. The Western world has tended to assume that its concepts of progress and development should be universally welcomed, especially in countries that are struggling economically. Most cultures tend to feel a similar preference for their own world views. However, the West has had a history of not only ethnocentrism, but colonialism, in which it has forcibly attempted to reshape the cultures, societies, politics, and economics of conquered territories in its own likeness. Though some of the more overt, political colonialist practices have been abandoned, colonial ways of thinking, thinking about thinking, and training in how to think, are still practiced, and these in turn, through the education of each nationstate's children, affect every aspect of economics, politics, and social development in the global village that our world has become. It is critical to examine the basic assumptions of Western education in order to trace their effects on local ways of knowing in many areas which may not share these assumptions, and which may be threatened and destroyed by them as global interaction in politics, economics, and education increases.The argument that education is primarily a moral endeavor may have been forced into the background for a time by rationalism and secularism, but it is reappearing as an important consideration in education once again. The question remains, however; whose morality should be institutionalized by compulsory educational programs-that of the individual, the family, the professional, the elite, the state, or the nation? And if the rules of science are no longer the single authority in identifying truth and reality, who decides the authorities we should rely on?

Attempts to provide a philosophical rationale for peace education, based upon five ethical traditions: virtue, consequentialist, conservative, aesthetic, and, care. This work addresses contributions to each of these traditions, the strengths and weaknesses of the tradition, and, the ways in which the tradition provides support for peace education.

Organized into several sections, this book presents a challenge to the field of social responsibility in business and public administration. It covers Carr and Zanettic who each have done critical theory work in public administration. It includes topics such as: rhizomatics, dialogics of co-experience, story/narrative, and postmodern.

The school, called Zhabei Number 8 Middle School, is located in a run-down, lower working class district - Shanghai, China. Since the mid-1980s the school has experimented on an educational reform program called success education. This book illustrates how this educational experiment has been carried out.

Features the examples that provide leaders, policy developers, researchers, students and community with successful strategies and principles of ICT use in education to address these needs. This book discusses how educational technology can be used to transform education and assist developing communities to close the knowledge divide.

Features the examples that provide leaders, policy developers, researchers, students and community with successful strategies and principles of ICT use in education to address these needs. This book discusses how educational technology can be used to transform education and assist developing communities to close the knowledge divide.

Emphasis on writing to learn in the content areas. This book includes a collection of quick writes Need a Space Here designed to assist students in thinking and writing about significant Need a Space Here content in the disciplines. It teaches a wide array of grade levels (K through college) and subject areas.

Highlights a number of important factors in the stimulation and implementation of school improvement, including transformational leadership. This book covers change perspectives of teachers, principals, and the community. It includes strategies for instructional change; learning environments and school culture; and dropout prevention.