Books published by Emerald Publishing Inc

Brings together contributions from leading scholars in different fields of psychology - cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, cultural psychology, methodology of psychology - to discuss methodological issues that were more thoroughly understood

Emphasizes the crucial relationship between education and political participation in Zambia. This book highlights citizenship education as essential for the country's social development. It analyzes the role of the media, women's groups and youth in enhancing the political, educational, and by extension, the economic lives of the Zambian people.

Describes game-changing designs using research-based strategies for inside organizational participants from CEOs, Boards of Directors, top, middle and lower managers and participants, and those people outside with a stake in its continued performance.

(Originally Published in 2007 by Symposium Books)This book seeks to raise the discussion of globalisation's effects on teacher education, development and work, and its reforms and institutions, to a more theoretical and analytical level, and to provide specific examples in the comparative tradition to illustrate teacher policy in the context of education systems' widespread variability and complexity. The contributors critically analyse current arrangements in teacher education, development and work, and highlight the forces that enter in this contested terrain, the sources of conflict and convergence, and the implication of these for teaching and learning, and for indigenous forms of knowledge and knowledge construction in the globalisation era.

Explores issues related to educational leadership in various settings in the 21st century. This title argues that the context for leadership within many nation states and international scenarios involves interaction between multiple and diverse social cultures.

Per Linell took his degree in linguistics and is currently professor of language and culture, with a specialisation on communication and spoken interaction, at the University of Linkoeping, Sweden. He has been instrumental in building up an internationally renowned interdisciplinary graduate school in communication studies in Linkoeping. He has worked for many years on developing a dialogical alternative to mainstream theories in linguistics, psychology and social sciences. His production comprises more than 100 articles on dialogue, talkininteraction and institutional discourse. His more recent books include Approaching Dialogue (1998), The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (2005) and Dialogue in Focus Groups (2007, with I. Markova, M. Grossen and A. Salazar Orvig).

Highlights the features that represent life online, specifically in and around the territory of e-learning. This title begins with an exploration of culture and attempts to locate the learner within a number of digital subcultures that have arisen around technologies such as mobile and handheld devices, collaborative online spaces, and podcasting.

Presents a framework for understanding questions like why does one organization thrive while another struggles for survival even though both are operating in the same industry, or how can some of the largest global organizations perform so poorly after being colossal leaders in their industry?

Contains articles by marketing field's researchers and academicians. This book includes literature reviews, methodologies, empirical studies, trends, international developments, guidelines for implementation, and suggestions for theory development and testing.

A work by educators in the field working with women's literacy that reveals the many ways in which addressing women's empowerment through literacy impacts lives.

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 aim of this set of books is to combine the best of current academic research into the use of Communities of Practice in education with ""hands on"" practitioner experience in order to provide teachers and academics with a convenient source of guidance and an incentive to work with and develop in their own Communities of Practice.

Attempts to offer a bird's-eye view of the communities of designers project. This book also helps the reader identify broad themes and issues that can inform discussions and policies of technology integration at other institutions.

Based primarily on the proceedings from the 2004 Milken National Education Conference (NEC), this volume expands on the first volume in the Milken Family Foundation series on education policy. The series explains to policymakers, parents, business leaders, and teachers the importance of teacher quality in increasing student achievement.

The book is divided into three parts. In Part I, basic conceptual and theoretical issues concerning communication and metacommunication are presented. Part II continues the coverage with the issues of communication and metacommunication. Part III provides further conceptual and theoretical elaborations on the phenomena.

The changes brought about by the connectivity of the Internet have so transformed the nature of post secondary learning that we need to view it differently. The new phenomenon 'the Connecticon' encompasses the paradigm created by the infrastructure, content, and multiple connections of the Web.

Part of the ""Research on African American Education"" series, this text is divided into three parts: teaching, learning and school achievement; school and political context; and post-secondary schooling and education.

This work looks at cross-cultural lives and identities in the multicultural landscape. It covers such topics as: lives in China along the Yangtze River and the Yellow River before, during and after the cultural revolution; cross-cultural lives in China and Canada; and more.