Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Focuses on the personal and social that students bring to school each day, which impacts his/her education. This work aims to teach educators how to identify and protect themselves against the pitfalls found in schools, where underlying philosophical and social differences can bring tensions that can be transmitted from one student to many.

Explores the ideology of truth and deception in China, offering an perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. This book examines rules, expectations, and beliefs regarding lying and honesty. It argues that public lying is evaluated within Chinese society by culturally specific moral values.

This book identifies the challenges that women in leadership positions face in public schools. It provides examples to illustrate these challenges as well as strategies to increase their success.

The Future of Schools will help changemakers move toward better functioning school systems and districts using reliable, participative, and practical methods.

In What Every Rookie Superintendent Should Know the author lays the foundation with a systematic mindset, a strategic thinking approach, and skills sets, which not only helps the rookie survive, but decreases the learning curve time.

Shows where our media has gone wrong and what we can do about it. This title illustrates the problems with much of contemporary media content, why it is this way, how to better manage children's media use, how to become more critical audience members, and more. It also includes a chapter on how readers can actively challenge media companies.

Looks at anti-Americanism, the questioning and dissent at the heart of democracy as well as US propaganda and how US administrations and media often focus on projecting a better image rather than addressing the issues behind why the US image is so poor.

Identifies and explains the factors that shape the domestic and international monetary strategies of the European Central Bank (ECB). Offering access to the internal decision-making at the ECB, this work is of interest to readers who want to understand this important European institution.

This book looks to the educational ideas of Horace Mann to offer guidance as to how this nation might preserve his original vision of a public school system that will offer a free and equal educational opportunity to all the children of this nation.

Here is an extensive integrated unit of study focused on that common and familiar insect_the cricket. In this edition, students are provided with more than 30 activities on crickets, which will help them learn science content and various skills.

Since the end of the Second World War, Southeast Asia has served as a surrogate space to further American imperial interests, which are economic, political, territorial, and moral in scope. This work contends that the construction of Southeast Asia as a geographic entity has been a crucial component in the creation of the American empire.

This practical guide will provide educators with a step-by-step process for gathering and using local test data to increase student achievement before students are required to take high stakes national and state assessments.

Through travels that range from Geneva to Pyongyang, this book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War the return of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward.

With over 100 examples of completed dissertations from well-known universities and colleges, this book allows the student to concentrate on what makes sense and what is important to completing his or her research to writing an effective doctoral dissertation or a master's thesis.

Provides the basic economic tools for students to understand the problems in the countries of Latin America. This third edition analyzes challenges to the neoliberal model of development and highlights macroeconomic changes in the region. It explores the contradictions of growth, and focuses on factors of competitiveness.

Aims to empower those who work in education to build more support in Congress and state legislatures. This book includes personal anecdotes that illuminate successes and failures and examples that teach from real-life experience. It is designed for educators, and shows them how to increase their political clout in the fight for education.

Argues that political regimes are created and sustained by elites. This book aims to reframe our thinking about liberal democracy and questions optimistic assumptions about the prospects for its spread in the twenty-first century.

Gun-related violence is an intractable problem. This book examines the gun control policy, and explains how it was adopted by discussing the roles and interactions of elected officials, interest groups, political parties, and the public. It focuses on the utility of gun policy.

109 IDEAS For Virtual Learning reveals the online knowledge venue that today's generation uses to learn while playing along at school to receive promotions, diplomas, and degrees. Calling that venue 'the virtual knowledge ecology', Judy Breck describes the networking of open content for learning online where knowledge is fresher, authoritative, and more compelling than at school.

Challenges the wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. This book shows how the Japanese army and navy had both the opportunity and the capability to have fought a different and more successful war.

Martin Heidegger opposed, at the deepest level, everything that informs our liberal, cosmopolitan aspirations as well as the global, technological civilization that seems to be inevitable. Part of the "20th Century Political Thinkers" series, this title explores the significance of Heidegger's political thought.

What is the relationship between faith and reason? How should faith and reason situate themselves in relation to each other? These are the chief questions that James Gilman seeks to address inFaith, Reason, and Compassion: A Philosophy of the Chrisitian Faith.

Surveys the first century of African American Methodism from its emergence in the 1860s through the changes wrought by the Civil War. From the beginning of Methodism in the United States, African Americans appropriated Methodism, helped transform it from a revitalization movement into an evangelical church.

Covers how to become a superintendent and be successful at it and presents a personal view of the superintendency. This down-to-earth book is intended for use in graduate education classes on the superintendency. Both practicing and aspiring superintendents should find it useful.