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Provides complementary yet diverse accounts of human flourishing. Each account argues that spirituality in general, and Christian spirituality in particular, are vital contributors to flourishing.

This title is divided into six chapters on: the importance of human resource strategies to high growth entrepreneurial firms; models of human resource strategies; organizing human resource strategies; best practices to manage human resources; case studies; and summary and conclusions.

Part of the ""Research in Second Language Learning"" series, this book addresses such issues as: teaching a foreign language to at-risk learners; literacy in digital environments; electronic message boards in the foreign language classroom; and advanced second language readers' inferencing.

This volume contains selected papers presented at meetings of the Society for the Study of Curriculum History across the past decade, along with several specially commissioned papers from senior scholars in the field. The book considers the dimensions and development of the American curriculum.

Dedication. The ibstpi Board. Acknowledgements. Author Biographical Sketches. Foreword. Preface. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Instructor Competencies Overview. The Evolution of Instructor Competence. Traditional Conceptualizations of Instruction. New Learning Paradigms. New Educational Technologies.

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.

The best way for students to learn to read and to come to love reading is - surprise, surprise - by reading in quantity. Unfortunately, many of today's students read far too little. This lack of time spent reading is particularly unfortunate, as reading constitutes a bedrock skill, essential in all subject areas. Thus, we teachers need to devote curriculum time to not only teaching students how to read but also to encouraging them to read extensively. This is what Extensive Reading is all about.Teachers Sourcebook for Extensive Reading provides hundreds of teacher tested ideas on how to do Extensive Reading. The book begins with an introduction to 'the what' and 'the why' of Extensive Reading. Thereafter, the book consists of three parts. Part 1 discusses finding materials for Extensive Reading. Part 2 offers ideas for motivating students to read and for activities that students might do after they read or while they are reading, including cooperative learning activities. Part 3 looks at how teachers can serve as advocates for Extensive Reading.Among the book's distinctive features are breaks for reflection, first person accounts from teachers, and ideas for doing Action Research and other forms of teacher investigation and research on Extensive Reading. We hope that you will find the Teachers Sourcebook for Extensive Reading to be a practical book, but also informed by theory and researh. We also hope this book will make a difference for your students in their test scores and, even more, in their attitude toward reading, now and in the future.

The Association officially endorses this definition of Instructional Technology which has been developed over three years by the Committee on Definition and Terminology. The Association recognizes that other theoretical frameworks exist and that these are valid, but believes that these are part of the more inclusive theoretical framework of Instructional Technology used in this definition.

A study of teaching, learning and motivation in a multicultural context. It is divided into sections on: theoretical and methodological perspectives - issues and applications; multicultural perspectives on teaching and teacher education; and success and failure in multicultural settings.

Represents an analysis of the grade placement of mathematics learning goals across all state-level curriculum standards published as of May 2005. This volume documents the varied grade-level mathematics curriculum expectations in the US and highlights a general lack of consensus across states.

This text looks at how the study of play has gained attention and concerns about play in young children have emerged. Ten chapters examine the understanding of play and its theories, play in school, pre-school and theories of pretence, mental representation and humour development.

This work looks at innovative theory and empirical research on employee turnover. It covers such topics as: the evolution of a pioneering turnover theory; constructs and processes missing from prevailing turnover formulations; and more.

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

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.

The purpose of this volume is to share a collection of research strands on contemporary perspectives on research in assessment and evaluation in early childhood education. It provides a review and critical analysis of the literature on assessment and evaluation of programmes, children, teachers, and settings.

Contains contributions by leading scholars in the field of strategic alliance research. The nine chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics that speak to the emerging perspectives in the area of behavioral strategy.

Critical inquiry is central to the ethos of service-learning pedagogy, a pedagogy that is built upon community partner participation and active reflection. Within higher education, service-learning offers an important opportunity to enhance practice within the community, allowing students to engage stakeholders and youth.

(special supplemental workbook)The goal of this manual is to enhance the capacity of all members of the educational context, whether student, parent, teacher, administrator, or consultant, to activate the benefits of infused technologies for all learners, including those who are blind or have low vision. To accomplish this purpose this manual provides background and practical information with respect to inquirybased education, infused technologies, and blindness and visual impairment. You will discover vignettes of reallife blind learners, tips from a blind educator, key components of accessible technologyinfused education including information on adaptive technologies for applications that have not yet been designed for all learners, and practical suggestions to make online courses and Web sites accessible. For those who wish to explore further,there are numerous recommendations for further reading, organized to guide the reader to specific content.

Focuses on the changing nature of instructional leadership in the 21st century. The goal is to examine instructional leadership from multiple educational and international perspectives. Unlike many leadership books that focus on conceptualizations and personal narratives, this volume provides empirical evidence of how instructional leadership is evolving in the 21st century.

Contains articles by the marketing field's researchers and scholars. This title presents a view of the marketing research methodologies.

Provides articles by the marketing field's leading researchers and academicians. This work includes chapters that are not only theoretically rigorous but also offer detail, including literature reviews, advanced methodologies, empirical studies, emerging trends, international developments, and guidelines for implementation.

The Review of Marketing Research annual series provides articles by the marketing field's leading researchers and academicians. RMR publishes long chapters that are not only theoretically rigorous but also offer richer detail, including literature reviews, methodologies, empirical studies, emerging trends, and international developments.

A volume in Research in Strategic AlliancesSeries Editor T. K. Das, City University of New YorkStrategic Alliances in a Globalizing World is a volume in the book series Research in Strategic Alliancesthat will focus on providing a robust and comprehensive forum for new scholarship in the field of strategicalliances. In particular, the books in the series will cover new views of interdisciplinary theoreticalframeworks and models, significant practical problems of alliance organization and management, andemerging areas of inquiry. The series will also include comprehensive empirical studies of selectedsegments of business, economic, industrial, government, and non-profit activities with wide prevalence ofstrategic alliances. Through the ongoing release of focused topical titles, this book series will seek todisseminate theoretical insights and practical management information that will enable interestedprofessionals to gain a rigorous and comprehensive understanding of the field of strategic alliances.Strategic Alliances in a Globalizing World contains contributions by leading scholars in the field ofstrategic alliance research. The 11 chapters in this volume cover a number of significant topics that speakto the growing role of strategic alliances in a globalizing business world. The chapter topics cover both the broader issues, such as the creation ofcompetitive advantage and expanding into institutionally different countries, and the more focused problems of alliance formation, contractualgovernance, governance structure choice, the development of alliance capability, the containment of opportunism, relationship management,sensemaking, and the intersection of culture and legitimacy. The chapters include empirical as well as conceptual treatments of the selected topics, andcollectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy areas of alliance research in the globalization context.

Examines theoretical assumptions as well as the application of innovative strategies that optimize the interface between young children and ICT from a global perspective. Despite divergent perspectives, the chapter authors share a commitment to explore the immersion of ICT into the lives of young children and consider the educational value of these tools.

Uncovers the aspects of teaching that are so hard to measure and quantify, and explores why some teachers have that ""X"" factor. This is achieved by interviewing people who are either current or retired teachers, or who were positively affected by a teacher.

Offers a concise overview of English language learning issues from foundations to current reform to practical guidelines to implement in the classroom. It provides a variety of theoretical essays, reports of research and practical guides to teaching ESL/EFL/bilingual populations.