Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This book offers a lively, accessible, and informative introduction to surveillance through the lens of globalization, and globalization through the lens of surveillance.Stroem traces the state's increasing control over its citizens and critically examines the social meaning and consequences of surveillance and globalization.

This book recognizes the importance of the STEM subjects and presents ideas for making those subjects more relevant and interesting.

This book was written for K-12 practitioners and researchers, school administrators, aspiring teacher leaders, teacher teams, and community leaders who strive to meet the needs of a diverse student population.

The book is designed to give practical guidance in the development of expertise of novice and experienced teachers.

This offers a foundation to begin and sustain a discussion with preservice and in-service teachers about the role of teacher identities in the classrooms, what their teacher identity is, and how they can continue to develop it.

The scope of the book is to offer guidelines to doing philosophy with children and young people using some familiar fairy tales.

A Commitment to Teaching focuses on the beliefs teachers hold about their perceived capability in undertaking certain teaching tasks and meeting challenges in the classroom. In the context of education, teacher self-efficacy is considered a powerful influence on teachers' overall effectiveness with students.

This books helps teachers understand how to motivate and engage students so that they think critically about text.

This book examines the Colman report and other reform efforts.

This explains how to take your school from Ed Tech Dysfunction to Ed Tech Innovation.

This text offers 6th - 12th grade educators guided instructional approaches for including diverse young adult (YA) literature in the classroom.

A well-documented case for how integrated, holistic, and democratic education can actually be achieved.

This book is intended to introduce concepts about music composition to band and orchestra students of all ages.

This book provides the reader with profound scenarios, approaches and strategies to promote civility and encourage school harmony.

Making Sense of School Finance: A Practical State-by-State Approach thoroughly and clearly describes complex school finance concepts regarding local, state, and federal revenue along with authentic accounting processes in a straightforward manner for public, nonpublic, and charter school leaders.

This book discusses the complexities inherent in preserving and interpreting the extraordinary range of culturally significant objects entrusted to museums. From how museums acquire their holdings, to how they are conserved, to how accessible they are, the book presents an encompassing look at every aspect of the duties museum by definition assume

Rich with examples of innovative membership programs and discussion with museum and nonprofit leaders, this timely book provides practical advice on how to improve all aspects of the membership program through the process of continuous innovation.

This book provides educators with strategies for engaging privileged, affluent white students in developing competencies for social justice. The education of such students is not only critical for our society, but also for helping those young people transcend anxiety and cynicism to find meaning and self-confidence as activist allies.

This book defines and explores the four fundamental elements of a community college business model, demonstrates the necessity and impacts of the model, and provides guidance on managing within, effectively developing, and successfully implementing an operational framework structured to enhance student learning and success.

The book delves into mathematical mindsets, a current approach to understanding mathematical identities, as well as success and failure in mathematics.

This book will show teachers, support staff, and administrators in individual classrooms, schools or districts positive behavioral interventions.

This engaging book provides a brief, accessible introduction to the broad sweep of Mexican history, from pre-contact civilizations to the present. Focusing on political and economic processes, John Sherman provides a clear narrative, enhanced with a rich array of maps and illustrations.

A supplemental textbook that shows how outside groups, specifically dark money groups and super PACs, are profoundly changing political campaigns since Citizens United v. FEC (2010).

This text seeks to remedy the single-story paradigm that is often utilized in the literary canon by providing multicultural literature and supplementary resources that can be used across disciplines and grade levels. A more in-depth understanding of using inquiry-based approaches alongside multicultural literature in the classroom is provided.

The Language of Mathematics focuses on the substantive knowledge and relevant pedagogy required for preparing instructors to teach mathematics in K-12 school settings. The contents reflect current field-based research relevant to faculty in higher education as well as teachers in public school classrooms.

This examines how administrators can become leaders by learning what cues will help them connect with others.

Mired in an archaic purpose, American schools are inhibited by policies tethered to high minimum quality, the nation's definition of educational adequacy. This book deconstructs the barriers that obstruct the future: contemporary public education. This search uncovers the necessities for transforming educational adequacy for all US students.

This book tracks the rise of the trigger warning within historical and contemporary educational contexts.

This is a book about the troubles of adolescence in an increasingly troubled world, and how schools can help these children grow up to be compassionate and courageous citizens in communities that desperately need them to be so.

A fascinating look at the social life of women in prison. Intended to shine the light on prison social life in the face of allegations of all sorts of misconduct, deviant behaviors, and allegations.