Books published by Information Age Publishing

Features the stories of faculty, staff, and administrators who are defining ""servingness"" in practice at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Servingness is conceptualized as the ability of HSIs to enroll and educate Latinx students through a culturally enhancing approach that centres Latinx ways of knowing and being.

Includes standards and indicators for teacher candidates and for the design of teacher preparation programs. SPTM outlines assessment practices related to overall quality, program effectiveness, and candidate performance. SPTM describes specific focal practices by grade band and provides guidance to stakeholders.

Examines American societal structures and institutions, beginning and ending with public education, and exposes how dysfunction and the investment in this dysfunction is a political agenda. The book focuses on the capitalization, privatization and dismantling of public education, and how other social systems are all co-dependent and symbiotic.

Deals with issues relating to the management of interpartner risks in strategic alliances. These risk issues relate to dedicated alliance function and partner-specific experience, cross-border licensing, interfirm alliance structures, an interpretive scheme for engaging with dark potentialities, and private sector intelligence.

Great leaders know that prestigious appointments do not only entail advantages, but also major responsibilities. They also know that it has never been so easy to find inspiration, a reality check, and advice on the development of their situational solutions. This book aims at providing such easy access to crucial insights into sustaining success.

Lays out a qualitative, collective case study designed to assess how students in a secondary Latina/Latino Literature class began to think dialectically about issues of social justice. By using various methods of data collection, the author ascertained how the students' thoughts and perceptions of Latinas/Latinos in the US changed over the course of the study.

Do individual behaviours influence organizational socially irresponsible practices? Each chapter in this volume aims to find an answer to this question. The book is divided into three parts: ""The dark side of organizational behaviors""; ""Individual skills and the workplace""; and ""Organizational politics, practices and tools".

Do individual behaviours influence organizational socially irresponsible practices? Each chapter in this volume aims to find an answer to this question. The book is divided into three parts: ""The dark side of organizational behaviors""; ""Individual skills and the workplace""; and ""Organizational politics, practices and tools".

Provides a much needed comparison of science teacher preparation from around the world. The intent of the book is not just to report on the "success" of each nation. Rather to ask authors to take a critical look at the process by which science teachers are educated and share with the reader both the positive and negative aspects of such preparation programs.

Considers the role professional development schools (PDSs) play in expanding opportunities for linking research and clinical practice. PDS practitioners and researchers make a compelling case for the power of micro-level initiatives to change practice. Contributors share ideas to expand PDS work beyond site-specific contexts to include a broader macro-level agenda for clinical practice.

Considers the role professional development schools (PDSs) play in expanding opportunities for linking research and clinical practice. PDS practitioners and researchers make a compelling case for the power of micro-level initiatives to change practice. Contributors share ideas to expand PDS work beyond site-specific contexts to include a broader macro-level agenda for clinical practice.

Each themed volume in this series draws on the research and innovative practices of investigators, academics, educators, politicians, administrators, and community organizers around the globe. This volume consists of three sections; each centred on an aspect of gender equity in the context of education.

Gives voice to Caribbean scholars, practitioners, and other professionals working in diverse classrooms. This book series is intended to provide an ongoing forum for Caribbean researchers, practitioners, and academics, including those of the Diaspora, to critically examine issues that influence the education of children within inclusive settings.

Gives voice to Caribbean scholars, practitioners, and other professionals working in diverse classrooms. This book series is intended to provide an ongoing forum for Caribbean researchers, practitioners, and academics, including those of the Diaspora, to critically examine issues that influence the education of children within inclusive settings.

Provides readers with a rich source of sports metaphors for understanding organisation and management processes and how to use metaphors to become more effective leaders and managers within their organisations. Each chapter discusses how sports may be used to help improve organisational productivity and effectiveness.

Each themed volume in this series draws on the research and innovative practices of investigators, academics, educators, politicians, administrators, and community organizers around the globe. This volume consists of three sections; each centred on an aspect of gender equity in the context of education.

Set in South Africa, this book affords an in-depth journey that immerses a reader into the realities of evaluation and its relation to democracy. The book starts with the broader introductory chapters that set the scene for more detailed ones which bring thorough insights into national government, local government, and civil societies' experience of democratic evaluation.

Attempts to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists of the 1990s in contemporary terms. The authors explore how key books/authors from the curriculum field of the 1990s illuminate new possibilities forward for us as scholar educators today.

Attempts to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists of the 1990s in contemporary terms. The authors explore how key books/authors from the curriculum field of the 1990s illuminate new possibilities forward for us as scholar educators today.

Provides a rich collection of chapters that provide an invaluable resource to scholars, researchers and practitioners in psychology. Psychological interventions are becoming increasingly popular in contemporary societies. This volume is intended to help psychologists and other professionals understand how general psychological knowledge can serve to guide local and particular interventions.

Provides a roadmap describing a simple approach for improving processes using teams. This book is ideal for process improvement initiatives, academic institutions, organisational change practitioners, public entities, and administrators and leaders seeking a practical approach for the promotion and implementation of organisational effectiveness.

Brings to light the great discoveries about human learning by illuminating key metaphors underlying the major learning perspectives. Such metaphors include, among others, the mind as computer, the mind as ecosystem, and the mind as cultural tools. These metaphors reveal the essence of different learning perspectives in a way that is accessible and engaging for teachers and students.