Bøker utgitt av SAGE Publications Inc

This authoritative guide discusses the "do's," "don'ts," and "can'ts" that school leaders must consider when creating and implementing new school policies for wellness, nutrition, fitness, and health.

Presents a framework for strategy in entrepreneurial organizations that incorporates new venture emergence, early growth, and reinvention and innovation in established ventures. This text focusses on entrepreneurial strategies that can be crafted and implemented within various organizations as these firms proceed through the stages of development.

This guide for school leaders is filled with examples, best practice, and reflective questions on strategic planning, data-driven decision making, and transformational leadership.

Use collaborative leadership strategies to attain heightened success with these best practices for team building, action research, and decision making.

In this book, aspiring, new, and veteran principals will learn how to build better school-community alliances, and use community partnerships to narrow the achievement gap.

Best-selling author Robert Ramsey gives you just what you need to avoid "simply managing" and to become a true leader instead!

The systematic analyses and application of wisdom to professional pursuits has been extremely elusive. This book aims to integrate the insights of some of the field's most respected thinkers to further our understanding of its essential characteristics, consider how it might be practically applied, and explore how it might be developed.

This user-friendly book provides secondary school teachers with a firm foundation in planning, classroom management, curriculum design, and assessment.

Argues that we can only make sense of environmental issues if we consider them as part of a more encompassing process of social transformation. This book provides a discussion of the central themes in environmental sociology, identifying two traditions: ecological modernization theory and risk society theory.

Rich in scholarly foundations combined with actual practice, Public Relations Online: Lasting Concepts for Changing Media connects the social and technological forces that are changing public relations. Using plain-talk discussion of theory and research, this book helps readers identify how lasting concepts for effective public relations can be applied in a changing media environment, and how a changing media environment affects the practice of effective public relations.

Rethinking Social Policy

New Managerialism, New Welfare?

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.

Jerome Bruner is one of the grand figures of psychology. From his role as a founder of the cognitive revolution in the 1950s to his recent advocacy of cultural psychology, Bruner''s influence has been dramatic and far-reaching. Such is the breadth of his vision that Bruner''s work has inspired thinkers in many of the major areas of psychology and has had a powerful impact on adjacent disciplines. His writings on language acquisition, culture and education are of profound and enduring importance. Focusing on the dominant themes of language, culture and self, this volume provides a comprehensive exploration of Bruner''s fertile ideas and a considered appraisal of his legacy.With a distinguished list of contributors including Jerome Bruner himself, the result is an outstanding volume of interest to students and scholars in psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, anthropology, linguistics, and education.Among the contributors are Judy Dunn, Howard Gardner, Clifford Geertz, Rom Harré, David Olson, Edward Reed, Talbot Taylor, Michael Tomasello, and John Shotter. The volume is framed by an editorial introduction that considers the distinctively philosophical dimensions of Bruner''s thought, and a final chapter by Bruner himself in which he re-examines prominent themes in his work in light of issues raised by the contributors. The volume will be invaluable to students and researchers in the fields of psychology, cognitive science, education, and the philosophy of mind.

The McDonaldization thesis argued that contemporary life is succumbing to the standardization, flexibility and predictability of fast-food service. This text makes a critical appraisal of the thesis, discussing the rationalization of modern life, consumer culture and modern citizenship.

Contains 250 entries and relevant appendices that cover: biological; psychological; social; and economic aspects of health and aging and impacts within health-care systems. This encyclopedia also covers such issues as: acute illness; Alzheimer's disease; bereavement; cataracts; centenarians; dementia; economic dependency; exercise; and more.

Offers an overview of the psychology of racial, ethnic and minority issues and covers the breadth of psychology viewed through the lens of the racial and ethnic minority experience. This work features entries that cover topics such as: academic achievement; acculturation; community interventions; education; health; immigrants; values; and more.

Inquiry is the fundamental first step in the learning process, and oftentimes the least understood. This finely edited volume enables educators to visualize inquiry as the unifying knowledge base to guide students through all major subject areas. It's a must-have guide for exploring ways to integrate concepts across different content areas.

This volume addresses the affective needs of special populations of high-ability students who are at risk of not reaching their full potential.

Various forms of grouping and acceleration are studied in this volume, along with recommendations for implementation.

A deconstruction of the theory and practice of feminist therapy in contemporary society. Practitioners challenge the view that one model of therapy or feminism can be elevated above the rest. Whilst celebrating feminist therapy, the book also sees it as problematic.

Offers a scientifically balanced evaluation of competing theoretical perspectives and nosological systems for personality disorders. This book offers a synthesis of competing perspectives that provide readers with the richest and most nuanced assessment possible for each disorder.

Explores the most predominant and compelling theories on the multiple facets of giftedness, the validity of available assessments, and the development of giftedness and talent.

Groups - organizations, corporations and governments - have formal rules for the allocation of their resources and in democratic societies the decisions about allocation are generally made by simple majority voting. But does majority rule always improve social well-being? Could it sometimes lead to collective irrationality? In this thought-provoking book, Paul E Johnson considers the key questions and concepts in social choice theory.

As healthcare policy turns toward the use of evidence-based medicine, there is a heightened need for resources that cover the process of research synthesis for the purpose of healthcare outcome improvement. The authors integrate the conceptual and procedural dimensions of research synthesis to produce step-by-step instructions for clinically applicable research syntheses.

Peter Leonard provides an accessible analysis of debates about the crisis of the welfare state under the contemporary conditions of postmodern scepticism and the triumphs of global market capitalism.

Demonstrating the application of this analysis technique to the social sciences, the author explains how it can be used to determine the number of factors to be retained in a factor analysis; in selecting a subset of variables to represent a larger set; and much more.

Interpreting and Using Regression sets out the actual procedures researchers employ, places them in the framework of statistical theory, and shows how good research takes account both of statistical theory and real world demands. Achen builds a working philosophy of regression that goes well beyond the abstract, unrealistic treatment given in previous texts.

Intends to provide both students and faculty with a case study approach to the investigation of community and environmental controversies.