Books published by Emerald Publishing Inc

Deals with issues related to self, from the overarching theoretical perspective of Bandura and his analysis of the agentic self, highlighting the complexities of our multiple selves acting in an integrated, holistic, and dynamic fashion, to the engaging and novel treatment of self-concept as a rope by John Hattie.

Deals with a wealth of issues related to self, from the overarching theoretical perspective of Bandura and his analysis of the agentic self, highlighting the complexities of our multiple selves acting in an integrated, holistic, and dynamic fashion, to the engaging and novel treatment of self-concept as a rope by John Hattie.

An official book series of the AERA Music Education Special Interest Group, this publication aims to strengthen the research and educational base of music education. A particular emphasis of this series is the presentation of research reflecting diverse musical education settings involving students, teaching and learning.

The authors of this text are professional educators with deep experience in global education and curriculum development. They offer a valuable resource for the development, execution and assessment of faculty-led international field courses that is at once theoretical, practical and motivational.

Universal Primary Education programs are being promoted around the globe as the solution to poverty and health problems. This book offers a vivid portrait of life and the implementation of Universal Primary Education in Eastern Uganda, based on long-term fieldwork following a group of children as they grow up.

Zoltan P Dienes' name is synonymous with the Multi-base blocks which he invented for the teaching of place value. This monograph honors the seminal contributions of Dienes to mathematics education and includes articles written by Dienes himself. It also includes an interview with Dienes in which he reflects on his life, and his work.

Aims to provide a comprehensive review and analysis of theory, research, and practice relevant to geo-spatial technologies in social studies education. This work also presents examples of classroom applications of emerging geo-technologies and a discussion of the practical implications for social studies teaching and learning.

Explores issues involved with teaching social theory to preservice teachers pursuing degrees through teacher education programs and experienced teachers and administrators pursuing graduate degrees. This work offers advice on missteps to avoid and provides success stories.

Presents numerous ways for classroom teachers and schools to promote respectful, responsible, caring, and sharing students in a democratic society. Beginning with Plato's message that we cannot let the formation of good citizens to chance, this book takes the reader through a brief history of character education and moral development.

Examines the role of three factors, God, Money, and Politics, in what we will call the epistemological theory of blindness; that is the theory of the construction of knowledge on blindness and touch by social and cultural change. This book also illustrates how this development has, in the main, been motivated by an attempt to assert or gain power.

Offers a comparative study on teacher education across ten major English-speaking regions of the world. This book contains chapters, which focus primarily on pre-service teacher education at the primary and post-primary levels, although some reference is also made to continuing professional development.

Offers a comparative study on teacher education across ten major English-speaking regions of the world. This book contains chapters, which focus primarily on pre-service teacher education at the primary and post-primary levels, although some reference is also made to continuing professional development.

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.

Features Hiatt-Michael's research and practice during thirty-four years as Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University. The chapters represent a range of her major thoughts on teaching, curriculum, and family-community involvement. The Foreward presents personal insights to the author's professional growth.

Organizations in different countries face challenges in boosting human performance in order to raise the level of company performance and bring about change to organizations. This book is suitable for college professors/teachers, undergraduate and graduate students; managers and aspiring managers; and, trainers in Human Resource Development.

Examining student achievement, this book explores the interrelated aspects of policy, practice and research and how they affect academic achievement. It includes sections that examine different challenges facing urban schools and their impact on student performance.

Examining student achievement, this book explores the interrelated aspects of policy, practice and research and how they affect academic achievement. It includes sections that examine different challenges facing urban schools and their impact on student performance.

Argues that leaders use emotional labour and other forms of emotional displays to influence followers and team members. This book also reveals how emotions play an important role in leadership at every level, from within-person to organization-wide leadership.

Many innovations are developed in the field of educational technology that hold fascinating promises but enjoy almost no empirical support. There are educational researchers who have done both - developed innovations and tested their potential empirically. This book discusses the most promising innovations from leading educational technologists.

Covers prescient social, political and ethical issues for the domain of education in general and mathematics education in particular from the perspectives of critical theory, feminist theory and social justice research. This book includes themes such as relevant mathematics, and the political dimensions of mathematics.

The aim of this set of books is to combine the best of current academic research into the use of Communitiesof Practice in education with "hands on" practitioner experience in order to provide teachers and academicswith a convenient source of guidance and an incentive to work with and develop in their own Communities ofPractice.This set of books is divided into two volumes: volume 1 deals principally with the issues found in colocatedCommunities of Practice, while volume 2 deal principally with distributed Communities of Practice"