Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

This text examines the common problems facing education systems around the world as the result of global economic, social, and cultural forces.

Jim Dueck takes parental intuition and gives it scientific validation in this book that challenges the established status quo of the education system.

This book provides tools to engage ELLs in rigorous math.

The book prescribes a way to educate ourselves and our young people how to disagree well.

More than 1,000 lakes in this wilderness area on the Montana-Wyoming border.

From swamp cabbage festivals and conch shell blowing contests to walking catfish, "The Booger," and Snooty the bachelor manatee, residents and visitors alike will discover the many fascinating elements of Florida's curious underside with this laugh-out-loud guide.

Provides readers with information to plan a cruise around the Bahamas, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, and Central America. This guide includes hints and tips on shore excursions, information on major cruise lines and their fleet, as well as practical advice on choosing and booking your vacation in the Caribbean.

Heres everything you need to know to run a successful housecleaning business from your home from finding clients to selecting cleaning products to record keeping to advertising

Discover a diverse landscape and enchanting coastline on these 50 drives along Oregon's scenic byways and back roads. This book helps travelers discover Oregon's wine country, rain forests, high desert, and legendary rivers. 81 photos & 51 maps.

Learn about the invention of the Slinky and the Zippo lighter, read about the Philly cheesesteak wars, and discover where Edsels go to die and where water runs uphill in this guide to the most wacky and outrageous people, places, and things throughout the Keystone State.

The issue of teacher as a union member and teacher as a professional is explored during the turbulent decade after the Great Recession. These concerns are explored within an historical background, and a legal and labor relations analysis of collective bargaining and teacher unions is employed.

Today women are outperforming men in college attendance and academic achievement. It's time to consider what this momentous change means for higher education and society. What forces are at play? What are the implications for higher education when women are a significant majority of students overall?

This book focuses on today's education relative to its effectiveness for preparing students for the future.

Through discussions of literature, this book outlines how English class can empower teens weathering social turbulence. Novels brim with lessons about love, heartbreak, sexuality, and belonging. Learning to tell stories, reflect, and argue gives students tools for self-expression and empathy in a world that often feels bereft of compassion.

The text reflects a growing interest in and concern regarding aspects of aging, ageism, labor market challenges, workplace issues, plus gender and racial/ethnic similarities and differences in employment history and extended worklife opportunities, as they affect older workers in this country and abroad.

Literary Research and the Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Eras: Strategies and Sources is a guide to scholarly research in the field of medieval English literature covering the period 450 CE to 1500 CE. The volume presents the best practices for building a foundation of sound scholarship practices in the field of medieval English literature.

This second edition of Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.S. and elsewhere, elaborating on people, businesses, and organizations that create, disseminate, promote, critique, and collect these materials.

This text provides an introduction to empirical international relations, a reference of data sources and foundational scholarly publications, and engagement in how to relate academic research to foreign policy.

This book examines social movements and transnational networks in the context of globalization in all its forms-economic, political, cultural, and technological alike. In addition to case studies on Islamism, feminism, and global justice,-the third edition explores the wave of right-wing populism-its origins, features, varieties, and challengers.

The activities in this book serve as a foundation for lesson planning elements that let you self-assess how your plans impact student learning.

Pathway to Teaching demystifies becoming an educator by providing strategies to aspiring teachers at each crucial stage: teacher training, student teaching, and finding a job. The presented strategies address a range of topics from the edTPA - a nationwide teacher assessment - to classroom management approaches, to ideas on self-care.

This book highlights effective and tangible marketing practices for k-12 education professionals.

This book is a resource for experienced and newly interested faculty alike to honestly explore the common challenges of diversity, equity ,and inclusion.

This book is a resource for experienced and newly interested faculty alike to incorporate EDI strategies and activities into their classrooms.

This book explores the ways student affairs professionals in higher education use social media as a new tool to help them accomplish their goals on campus.

This book shares with readers successful learning techniques employed by learning coaches and learning specialists that parents and teachers can employ with students of all ages and learning levels.

The Wisdom of the Body uses embodied cognition studies to challenge conventional approaches to learning, and offers compelling examples of how an embodied approach to education could revolutionize schools.

This book is a complete guide to interpreting women's history. It connects scholarship with the tangible resources and the sensuality that form museums and historic sites-- the objects, architecture and landscapes-- in ways that encourage visitor fascination and understanding and center interpretation on the women active in them

The Musician's Mind translates the latest cognitive and neuroscience research into clear, compelling concepts that enlighten the central pursuits of musicians' lives: teaching, learning, and performance. No matter your instrument or level of musical ability, this book will show you new ways to optimize your mind's creative power and wellbeing.