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This essential guide provides principals with specific strategies to improve the teacher evaluation process, and enrich the quality of teaching and learning at their schools.

Examines and compares youth justice systems around the world. This book also examines how youth justice is implemented in practice with a view to promoting change as well as reflection. It includes chapters which addresses the degree of compliance with international law; the extent of repenalistion; adulteration; and, tolerance.

Introduces social research methods that address the growing methods-theory gap within and across the disciplines.

Explains and interrogates these fundamental issues of research practice in the discipline. Concerned with examining the methodological challenges associated with that 'cultural turn', this title explains and discusses: qualitative and ethnographic methodologies; and the role and significance of quantitative and numerical methods.

The authors show educators how to become comfortable with data for increasing student achievement.

Do you need to conduct data analysis with SPSS but are unfamiliar with the software? This book helps you become proficient in SPSS by teaching you the fundamentals of SPSS. It includes SPSS features, including how to recode data using the Visual Bander and how to read text data using the Text Import Wizard.

The study of digital games is a lively area of research and theorising which draws upon perspectives from a range of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, media and film studies, economics, business, gender studies and computer science. This book brings together these perspectives to offer a unique survey of this field.

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.

`It is not only about sport, but the contexts [and] cultures that encircle it. The authors[...] review every known theory, topic and problem relevant to the scholarly analysis of sport.... a champion without challengers' - Ellis Cashmore, Staffordshire University, and author of Making Sense of Sports

A guide to transformations in sociological thinking that provides a systematic assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of postmodernism for sociology. Postmodernism is presented as a stimulus for sociologists to reconsider some of their central tenets and practices.

A unified treatment of the most useful models for categorical and limited dependent variables (CLDVs) is provided in this book. Throughout, the links among the models are made explicit, and common methods of derivation, interpretation and testing are applied.

Reveals the pitfalls and suggest strategies to overcome problems in the design and planning of applied research. With a focus on how to refine research questions as real world events force deviations from the original research plan, this guide discusses how to study and monitor programme implementation and statistical power analysis.

Social scientists have always recognised a divergence between approaches which emphasise the constraining power of social structure and those which interpret society through the cumulative effects of actions of individuals. In recent years there has been renewed interest in the latter through the micro-sociology of everyday life. Social scientists are now taking stock of the implications of micro-sociological research for the analysis of structure and the macro-level theory of society. In Actions and Structure the value of micro-sociological research for the analysis of social order is assessed. Individual chapters evaluate new research approaches from discourse and conversational analysis, mathematical, interactionist and phenomenological sociologies and network analysis. Throughout the authors assess how these approaches contribute to current debates around theoretical formulations of organization, structure and power.

A step-by-step approach, allows students to master testing and measurement concepts through practical exercises and feedback. Using humor, cartoons and real-world examples, this work guides the reader through the essential components of measurement, starting with measurement scales and ending with reliability and validity.

Suitable for those studying aging, especially for those attending courses in gerontology and related areas, this title deals with key contemporary themes, including population aging, households and families, health, wealth, pensions, migration, inequalities, gender, and self and identity in later life.

'The book is a useful student text that offers a wide range of well informed perspectives on the position of young people in society today. It has built on its successful first edition and should provide a useful springboard to further study'- Scolag Legal Journal'This resource will be very helpful to all those already working with children and young people and essential for those who are currently learning about how to work with children and young people'- Gill Frances, Director Children's Development National Children's BureauAre the recent policy initiatives aimed at improving life chances for young people working? Have they affected those most in need? How can young people be given more of a voice in policy making?The new edition of this bestselling text offers a comprehensive introduction to the policy developments affecting young people in today's society, covering the areas of education and training, work, youth justice, residential care and child protection. It brings together a wide-ranging series of readings written by leading experts, to encourage those working with young people, or training to do so, to critically reflect on both the theoretical and practical dimensions of their work.The themes and issues addressed in this book include: citizenship, participation and empowerment; social difference and social identity; images of youth; young people and the politics of service provision; and working with young people in different contexts.This new edition has been revised in order to bring it up-to-date on contemporary policy, law and practice changes and developments. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this accessible text will be invaluable reading for students taking courses in youth and social work, social policy, youth and criminal justice and the sociology of youth. Youth in Society is a set book for the Open University courses K201, Working With Young People and K268, Social Work with Young People.

Offers critical understandings of key areas of management theory and practice such as accounting, strategic management, marketing, business ethics and environmental management. The text also examines the relations between power and discursive practices in the modern corporation; gender and organizations; and critical methodology.

Offers a guide to the uses and importance of case study methods in social research. This title brings together key contributions from the field which reflect different interpretations of the purpose and capacity of case study research. It offers assessments of the main arguments.

Why don't best practices spread within firms? What exactly is sticky knowledge? Gabriel Szulanski defines the popular concept of stickiness and its operationalization, providing a roadmap for understanding and further researching this topical issue.

The Handbook of Visual Analysis is a rich methodological resource for students, academics, researchers and professionals interested in investigating the visual representation of socially significant issues.

Will the cycles of boom and bust, peace and war of the past 500 years continue? The noted international contributors to this volume examine the question of future dominance of the core global systems and include comprehensive discussions of the economic, political and military role of the Pacific Rim, Japan and the former Soviet Union.

An authoritative critical overview of the field and identifies future challenges and directions.

A review of the developments within the field, including the study of masculinity, the feminist implications of postmodernism, the 'cultural turn' and globalization. It reviews research and offers critical analyses of women's and gender studies in work, the welfare state, family, education, religion, violence and war and feminist global politics.

Fuzzy set theory deals with sets or categories whose boundaries are blurry or, in other words, 'fuzzy.' This book presents an introduction to fuzzy set theory, focusing on its applicability to the social sciences. It provides a guide for researchers wishing to combine fuzzy set theory with standard statistical techniques and model-testing.

Systematically tracks the two achievements of the postwar period: 'coming out' - the gay and lesbian movement as a political and cultural force.

A practical book on negotiation in various realms of life. It covers the steps in the negotiating process and describes the necessary interpersonal skills for effective negotiators. It looks at the factors that cause negotiations to break down, what to do when that happens, and the ethical and moral dimensions of negotiation.

Demonstrates that a full analysis of human reasoning and behaviour requires an understanding of both cognitive and metacognitive activities. The contributors address such questions as: are metacognitive activities similar to standard cognitive processes or do they represent a separate category.

Addresses topics in political theory including: What resources do the classic texts provide for political theorists? What areas will political theorists focus on in the future? And, can western political theory alone continue to provide a framework for responding to the challenges of modern political life?

Presented in an engaging and stimulating manner, Case Study Analysis in the Classroom: Becoming a Reflective Teacher provides beginning teachers a variety of typical classroom problems to analyze and solve.

The workings of advertising have always remained a bit of a mystery; until about 1960 virtually nothing of the effectiveness of advertising was known. This title concentrates solely on describing how advertising works. It makes the scholarship of an internationally renowned figure accessible to students taking beginning advertising courses.