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Eleven experts take leadership thinking to the next level with insights, frameworks, and strategies for developing and empowering high-quality school leaders and sustaining values-based leadership.

This Handbook is designed to highlight current issues and techniques in spatial data analysis as well as highlighting future directions for research.

Contains chapters on intuitive cognition, complexity, emotion, team innovation, development and well-being. This textbook includes seminal papers on creativity, perception, style, culture and sustainable development. It gives an overview of the topics discussed whilst explaining their practical implications.

Provides a whole-school value based programme for young people from five to twelve years of age. Including a CD-ROM, this book helps young people to: have a sense of belonging; identify their talents; develop proactive problem solving; enhance positive social orientation; and encourage an optimistic sense of fun.

Using stories of successful practice and ideas for improving collaborative work, the book explores and maps the development of the roles in relation to children's learning that can be played by people other than qualified teachers.

Handbook of Ethnography

Features essays that demonstrate how political scientists conduct research on law, courts, and the judicial process. Illustrating the breadth and depth of judicial politics studies, this book conveys to students the array of contemporary thinking - both theoretical and methodological - at work in the field.

With the geographic size, population, and economy to be a thriving country, California is unique. But are its social problems unique or do they represent issues shared with the other forty nine states and the global community? This title sheds light on these questions and others.

Discusses nine topics central and critical to family sociology and provided thoughtful articles from diverse perspectives for each, from adolescent childbearing to the construction of family policy. This book is useful in the field of family sociology.

Supervision Kit (Book, Video, and Workbook)BookYou'll gain essential hands-on supervisory skills in this user-friendly guide. No more theories that sound good but don't work. This book offers strategies and techniques that work in real situations--because they're research based and empirically tested! A must for any educational professional who strives to help teachers be better instructors. The highlights: } Jargon-free text hands-on practices to develop a personalized supervision strategy } Field-tested tools and techniques for qualitative and quantitative observation } Comprehensive resource of traditional and alternative supervisory structures } Reproducible summary sheets, observation charts, and detachable 3" x 5" crib cards. VideoThe "fishbowl techniques" and scenarios that form the center of Supervision That Improves Teaching, Second Edition come to life in this dynamic video from John Glenn. Susan Sullivan and Jeffrey Glanz are featured in this 65-minute video, where key concepts from the book are illustrated through real-life application in three different multiracial, ethnically diverse classrooms. Then additional real-life examples from other classrooms are offered, and viewers are challenged to analyze supervision techniques themselves in an innovative "Q&A" process that turns the tape into a unique learning tool. It's the perfect companion to the text, whether for personal use or for a larger professional development process. WorkbookThis new guide for the Supervision in Practice video fully connects Sullivan's important book with the equally valuable Sullivan/Glanz video, creating a valuable tool for supervisors who are putting Sullivan's insights to use on a day-to-day basis. The guide focuses on the chapters from the book that comprise the video content, and uses ten stills from the video to 'complete the circle', offering additional applications and insights from the author. Like the book and video alone, the emphasis is on practical, applicable strategies and techniques for use in the real world, not theory or references-- the final piece of the supervision puzzle for practitioners at all levels.

This brief-easy-to-understand book explains what happens when a child discloses abuse and how various systems may respond to this disclosure, from investigation through prosecution or juvenile court involvement to therapy.Intended for children 9-18, this book is written in a supportive tone and helps children to understand what abuse is, the steps that are taken to protect the child, the process of prosecuting the abuser, and the child's own feeling and healing process.

In this timely volume, editor Janice D Hamlet has chosen essays which illuminate various aspects of African American culture, refracted through the lens of Afrocentric thought. The book examines: Afrocentric ideology and methodology; Afrocentric approaches to the dynamics of communication; the Afrocentric influence on the black aesthetic, with an examination of language, literature, oral tradition, movies and television; and the future of Afrocentric visions.

Examines various types of family aggression. This book questions assumptions, evaluating information, formulating hypotheses, and designing solutions to problems of family violence in the United States. It contains topics such as husband abuse and abuse in gay/lesbian relationships, and 'hidden forms' of family violence including wife rape.

The charismatic transformational leader, who creates a 'vision' for the future of their organization and persuades others to follow their path towards it, is now the dominant viewpoint that underpins government policies towards leadership development in the English-speaking world. This book offers a much-needed corrective to this orthodoxy by focusing on current research and thinking about 'leadership' rather than 'leaders. A wide range of prominent international contributors present a rare self critical look at their own assertions and test alternative leadership models against recent research projects. They also demonstrate how their analysis is relevant to all countries where leadership is an issue. Major features include: ] alternative theories to understanding the nature of leadership] how leadership could be analyzed] re-analysis of recent research carried out by contributors in the light of one or more of the alternative theories examined] implications of the alternative perspectives for leadership trainingThis book is recommended to all staff and students involved in educational leadership, management or administration programmes.

Demonstrates the key role of a gender perspective - both practically and theoretically - in conflict resolution, peace research and international relations.

Keeping the focus clearly on learning and teaching, the authors explore the practical issues for managers at the institutional level, within the context of their need to understand and analyze key educational values and principles.

This book critically examines the potential of, and suggests ways forward in, harnessing a versatile and powerful method of research - focus groups. The book challenges some of the emerging orthodoxies and presents accessible, insightful and reflective discussions about the issues around focus group work.

This work brings together empirical and theoretical findings in social identity and social categorization. It maps the key debates in contemporary social psychology and explores a range of psychosocial phenomena, including intergroup discrimination, collective behaviour and stereotypes.

Explores the ways in which the idea of citizenship can be a unifying concept in understanding contemporary social change. It outlines traditional linkages between citizenship and public participation, national identity and social welfare, and shows its relevance for a range of contemporary issues.

In this incisive book, Ian Burkitt critically addresses the dualisms between mind and body, thought and emotion, rationality and irrationality, and the mental and the material, which haunt the post-Cartesian world.

Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the `nation-state' and `national sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.

As communities face ever-growing gang-related problems, Gangs in America III provides the most up-to-date information on the diverse perspectives and complex issues that arise in our efforts to understand, prevent, and control gang violence and crime.

Offers international perspectives on workplace diversity. This book critiques quantitative and qualitative research methods within the field and investigates the parallels and distinctions between different workplace groups. It is intended for students and academics of human resource management and organisational behaviour.

Exploring common challenges and unpacking why performance appraisal often fails in organizations, Performance Appraisal and Management uses the latest thinking and research to equip readers with evidence-based tools and strategies for overcoming these obstacles.

This text presents a comprehensive model for ethical decision-making built around real-life case studies, helping readers to understand mental health ethics and the dilemmas within it.

This encyclopedia is the first major reference guide for students new to the field, covering traditional areas while pointing the way to future developments.

This book presents a collection of exciting ideas, suggestions, and real lesson plans from teachers who are already using STEAM in their classrooms.

This encyclopedia provides an inter-disciplinary approach, discussing the sociocultural viewpoints, policy implications, educational applications and ethical issues involved in a wide range of disorders and interventions.

Presenting the exciting history of social psychology through the experiments that shaped the field, this new text-reader helps students learn the skills needed to read and interpret primary research articles.

In all levels of social structure, from the personal to the political to the economic to the judicial, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security and Privacy uncovers and explains how surveillance has come to be an integral part of how our contemporary society operates worldwide.