Books published by Information Age Publishing

Explores social capital as a currency conduit for creating external access and internal accountability for K-12 and higher education. The commonalities of social capital emerging in the book include Social Capital as Human Connectedness; as Strategic Advocacy; as Intentional Engagement; and as Culturally-Responsive Leadership.

Focuses on research contributions challenging the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and practices commonly accepted in physics education. This volume is a first step in thinking through what physics teaching and physics learning might address in teacher preparation programs, in-service professional development programs, and in classrooms.

Focuses on research contributions challenging the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and practices commonly accepted in physics education. This volume is a first step in thinking through what physics teaching and physics learning might address in teacher preparation programs, in-service professional development programs, and in classrooms.

Explores how sensory understandings are forms of educational, relational politics. Bringing the depth and complexity of sensory studies firmly into curriculum and foundational studies of education, contributors to this volume address this educational and political intersection from a wide variety of theoretical and practical perspectives.

Explores social capital as a currency conduit for creating external access and internal accountability for K-12 and higher education. The commonalities of social capital emerging in the book include Social Capital as Human Connectedness; as Strategic Advocacy; as Intentional Engagement; and as Culturally-Responsive Leadership.

Explores how sensory understandings are forms of educational, relational politics. Bringing the depth and complexity of sensory studies firmly into curriculum and foundational studies of education, contributors to this volume address this educational and political intersection from a wide variety of theoretical and practical perspectives.

Ornamented Lives is a theoretical synthesis of cultural psychology, aesthetics, and philosophy of meaning construction. It is an extension of the author's theory of Semiotic Dynamics (Culture in Minds and Societies, 2007) to the field of ornaments. Ornaments are not merely "e;decorations"e; but play the important role of guiding the affective depths of the human minds. This is done by capturing the whole fields of perceivable peripheral spaces and filling them with highly recursive forms. The book concentrates on the visual ornaments of various kinds, indicating in them the tensions between basic forms-linear and curvilinear. This tension is present in human construction of environments-natural growth involves curvilinear forms while human constructions introduce linearity. The basic tension between linear and curvilinear infinities is expressed in the use of spiral forms in art and architecture. The book builds a theoretical account of human beings constantly creating sublime life occasions that give them affective charge for dramatizations of ordinary living. Episodically the sublime acquires new quality-becomes aesthetic. The coverage in this book links the aesthetic, the sublime, and the mundane into one theoretical scheme within cultural psychology.

The purpose of this book is to enhance a greater collaborative focus on Latino Educational Leadership throughout the pipeline by inviting both established and up-and-coming scholars who can speak to various aspects related to developing all leaders, as well as the preparation of Latinx educational leaders, for serving Latino communities.

Do faith-based schools cause social divisions? Do their students fail to become good citizens? This familiar accusation against Catholic, and more recently Evangelical, schools, is now directed against Islamic schools. The studies presented here offer objective information from schools established by Muslim immigrants, with reassuring results.

The purpose of this book is to enhance a greater collaborative focus on Latino Educational Leadership throughout the pipeline by inviting both established and up-and-coming scholars who can speak to various aspects related to developing all leaders, as well as the preparation of Latinx educational leaders, for serving Latino communities.

This textbook is for the developing coach practitioner as well as the experienced coach practitioner that would like to develop further. The approach of this book is to look at the theoretical framework of coaching as it applies to the actual practice of coaching others and groups. It covers the comprehensive coaching curriculum that is ingrained in the 11 core competencies of coaching.