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This work looks at managing school system change. It covers such topics as: challenges to leading and managing school and school system change; key roles and competencies for administrators; stakeholder theory analysis; understanding school culture change; and more.

This work looks at policy and university faculty governance. It covers such topics as: faculty involvement in governanace; the college trustees' role in academic governance; leadership in faculty governance; governance within the academic organization; and more.

This work looks at service learning. It cover such topics as: challenges for service-learning research; enhancing theory-based research on service learning; dilemmas of service learning teachers; the diffusion of academic service learning in teacher education; and more.

This volume of ""Advances in Teacher Education"" is about beliefs held by teachers and addresses the important topic of teacher beliefs from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

The authors define values as ""higher-order evaluative standards associated with desirable means and ends of action."" They present papers that look a ways to view values in relation to perceptions of fairness in organizations and explore work-related values, their antecedents, and consequences.

Enhancing inter-firm networks and interorganizational strategies, is part of the ""Research in Management Consulting"" series.

This work provides an overview for those interested in understanding this sector of private higher education. Topics covered include legal affairs, finance, community relations, mission and religious identity, and history.

This work provides an overview for those interested in understanding this sector of private higher education. Topics covered include legal affairs, finance, community relations, mission and religious identity, and history.

How do successful teacher education programmes deal with social, cultural and individual differences found within and between students, faculty and administrators? The aim of this work is to implicitly and explicitly explore these and related questions from an international perspective.

A historical overview of research on education in Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East. Topics covered include: the challenges and assistance of beginning teaching in Jamaica; learning cognitive skills in Israel; and a feminist analysis of sexual harassment among high school girls in Kenya.

A comprehensive picture of prominent perspectives on technology literacy for teachers and practices in preparing teachers to become technologically literate. The articles address such issues as the theoretical foundations of teacher technology knowledge, and the role of technology in teaching.

This text offers critical race perspectives on social studies. It is divided into four sections which focus on: the profession; the policies; the curriculum; and the technology.

A comprehensive picture of prominent perspectives on technology literacy for teachers and practices in preparing teachers to become technologically literate. The articles address such issues as the theoretical foundations of teacher technology knowledge, and the role of technology in teaching.

This text offers critical race perspectives on social studies. It is divided into four sections which focus on: the profession; the policies; the curriculum; and the technology.

A study of childhood in South Asia, this work addresses topics including the psychosocial concerns of children in Kabul, Afghanistan; Pakistani Punjabi Christian children in an urban low-income settlement; and the effects of insurgency, poverty and politicization of education in Nepal.

This is a study of cross-national policies and practices on information and communication technology in education.

A study of childhood in South Asia, this work addresses topics including the psychosocial concerns of children in Kabul, Afghanistan; Pakistani Punjabi Christian children in an urban low-income settlement; and the effects of insurgency, poverty and politicization of education in Nepal.

A collection of narrative inquiries of school reform. It features 14 chapters covering topics such as: ""T.P. Yaeger Middle School - A Case of 'The Monkey's Paw'""; ""Two Storied School Landscapes - Influences on Teachers' Knowledge""; and ""Destiny High School - A Case of 'The Rainbow Fish'"".

Topics covered in this volume include: research on web-based learning; ways to reduce cognitive load in multimedia learning; gathering and organizing web-based information; the risks in cyberspace; engineering perspectives; and the pedagogical impact of course management systems.

The purpose of this book is to convince administrators and providers of health care that scientific research has produced numerous tools, techniques, and approaches for managing health services that are most effective and most efficient.

The faking of personality tests in a selection context has been perceived as somewhat of a nuisance variable, and largely ignored, or glossed over by the academic literature. Identifying two critical concerns with faking, this title aims to present a corrective to this attitude.

The faking of personality tests in a selection context has been perceived as somewhat of a nuisance variable, and largely ignored, or glossed over by the academic literature. Identifying two critical concerns with faking, this title aims to present a corrective to this attitude.

Concerned about the imperative to address the endemic educational and societal challenges that pervade the lives of urban students, particularly those who live in poverty, this book is motivated by the experiences in working with students and their families in urban communities.

Aims to serve as a gathering of knowledge and ideas at the intersection of the human resource management (HRM) and management information systems (MIS)/information technology (IT) fields. The chapters are clustered into four topic areas: effective management of IT workers, IT workers and their careers, diversity in IT, and organizational issues.

Concerned about the imperative to address the endemic educational and societal challenges that pervade the lives of urban students, particularly those who live in poverty, this book is motivated by the experiences in working with students and their families in urban communities.

Highlights the teaching that can occur in the broad context of state-level testing. This book describes the particular state history tests and examines how teachers respond to them. It analyzes the state's testing efforts and how those efforts are interpreted in the context of classroom practice.