Books published by Emerald Publishing Inc

Aims to reach out to teachers, parents, coaches, and students who may be hoping to, or just investigating the possibility of, how to get started with robotics. This book provides resources and insight into the exciting field of Classroom robotics. It also provides different perspectives of curricular applications of robotics for student learning.

Based around 14 chapters and two critical analyses which provide different perspectives on important organizational constructs. The chapters in this work share a common theme of attempting to provide new ways of viewing organizations and organizational behavior.

Demonstrates the broader characteristics of debates about the teaching of reading. This work sets the educational issues in the context of the social, cultural and political dynamics that inform and animate them and give them their meaning. It underlines how debates in this area are not simply national, but are global in their scale.

Harold O Rugg was professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and a leader among the social frontier group that argued that schools should help to reconstruct society. This book discusses his life story and reveals the direction of schooling in American life. It provides historical perspective on the recurring struggles over education.

In the summer of 1970, the members of the New Orleans Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals understood clearly the realities of race in the South. Houston, Texas, like other Southern cities, had made haste toward racial school desegregation as slowly as the White Southern Federal courts would allow. When the High School of Performing and Visual Arts opened its doors in Houston a year later, a new superintendent and liberaldominated Board of Education wished to demonstrate the positive potential of a voluntarily desegregated student body. HSPVA was the first United States public school for the arts specifically used for racial desegregation purposes, the prototype for the first public urban magnet program of desegregation used to replace a standing court order, and a continuing prototype for other public magnet schools for the arts across the United States.Talent Knows No Color is a 35year history of HSPVA, exemplary in both arts and academics, which chronicles multiperspective participant experiences within the context of everchanging district education policies and demographics. Ten years of school system and HSPVA archival research, examination of local newspapers, and oral history interviews allow a rich narrative unusual among the already limited number of scholarly histories of individual public schools. It is the description and analysis of everyday occurrences that assist thereader in understanding what Series Editor O. L. Davis, Jr. refers to as "e;the continuing, likely never ending, practical development of one particular high school and its curriculum."e;

Part of a series that explores and explains the lived experiences of Asian and Americans as they acculturate to American schools, develop literacy, and claim their place in US society and examines important issues in Asian American education and socialization. This book is useful for scholars and educational practitioners.

Provides practical activities, communication skills, events, resources, and policies to work with families who are English language learners. This book is primarily targeted toward preservice and novice teachers who are searching for ways to connect with families from diverse cultures and varying proficiency levels in English.

Provides practical activities, communication skills, events, resources, and policies to work with families who are English language learners. This book is primarily targeted toward preservice and novice teachers who are searching for ways to connect with families from diverse cultures and varying proficiency levels in English.

A work of the authors who see their intellectual roots in Marty Maehr's theoretical and empirical work. It contains two sections: Motivation and Self, and Culture and Motivation.

Web 2.0 is a term used to describe an apparent second generation of the World Wide Web that emphasizes collaboration and sharing of knowledge and content among users. This book presents applications and practices of Web 2.0 for teaching and learning to meet the educational challenges of students in diverse learning setting.

In the first edition of this book published in 1988, Shirley Engle and I offered a broader and more democratic curriculum as an alternative to the persistent back-to-the-basics rhetoric of the '70s and '80s. In the '90s, virtually all subject areas developed curriculum standards, many funded by the federal government.

First published in 1988, this book offered a democratic curriculum as an alternative to the persistent back-to-the-basics rhetoric of the '70s and '80s. This curriculum urged attention to democratic practices and curricula in the school if we wanted to improve the quality of citizen participation and strengthen this democracy.

Discusses both the theoretical and practical applications of an embodied knowledge perspective, using the field of education as an exemplar. This work aims to give the reader a sampling of what some of the important theoretical positions entail.

Discusses both the theoretical and practical applications of an embodied knowledge perspective, using the field of education as an exemplar. This work aims to give the reader a sampling of what some of the important theoretical positions entail.

Researchers have found that family and community have a very significant impact on student achievement and on post secondary attainment despite the considerable decline in parental involvement by high school. This title focuses on family and community connections with education during the high school years.

Web 2.0 is a term used to describe an apparent second generation of the World Wide Web that emphasizes collaboration and sharing of knowledge and content among users. This book presents applications and practices of Web 2.0 for teaching and learning to meet the educational challenges of students in diverse learning setting.

Focuses on writing journal articles, dissertations, grants, edited books, and other writing in educational settings. This book discusses the writer's craft, including issues of voice, audience, planning, drafting, revision, conventions, style, submitting to journals, editorial review, and editing.

Presents a model of research, perspective of how research design develops, reprints of articles based on the related research and assistance in conducting further research in the area of learning activities. This book is suitable for adult education human resource development, psychology and counseling researchers, students and professors.

Demonstrates the broader characteristics of debates about the teaching of reading. This work sets the educational issues in the context of the social, cultural and political dynamics that inform and animate them and give them their meaning. It underlines how debates in this area are not simply national, but are global in their scale.

Focusses on interdisciplinary semiotics which is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular cultural instances.

Focusses on interdisciplinary semiotics which is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular cultural instances.

Sets out to explore the intersections between matters not frequently yoked in academic discussions: spirituality, social justice, and the learning of world languages. This book includes essays that seek to indicate the possibilities of a neglected area of inquiry, both in terms of theory and the practices of language education.

Sets out to explore the intersections between matters not frequently yoked in academic discussions: spirituality, social justice, and the learning of world languages. This book includes essays that seek to indicate the possibilities of a neglected area of inquiry, both in terms of theory and the practices of language education.

Comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pioneers in the field of social issues and education. This book introduces the reader to the significant work of each pioneer, and also provides insights into how his/her life experiences informed his/her thinking, beliefs, goals and work.

Comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pioneers in the field of social issues and education. This book introduces the reader to the significant work of each pioneer, and also provides insights into how his/her life experiences informed his/her thinking, beliefs, goals and work.

Provides reviews of the research on a number of social and ethical issues of concern confronting managers and organizations. This book is useful for practitioners faced with these issues, as well as researchers and graduate students in management and organizational psychology.

The objective of this book is to advance our understanding of the design, implementation and evaluation of testdriven external accountability policies for improving both academic excellence and equity. This book provides new insights into debates about the efficacy of highstakes testing through critical synthesis of previous studies and through systematic analysis of the achievement gap trends over the past 15 years. The core findings have implications for contemporary national and state policy efforts, as mandated by NCLB, to close the achievement gap. The book alerts readers to scientific, institutional and technical threats to the current testdriven school accountability system, and possible consequences if we fail to counteract those threats and continue the current policy course with underfunded mandates and an overreliance on testing and sanctions.

Aims to advance our understanding of the design, implementation and evaluation of test-driven external accountability policies. This book provides insights into debates about the efficacy of high-stakes testing through critical synthesis of previous studies and through systematic analysis of the achievement gap trends.