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Attempts to orient and prepare aspiring and practicing administrators to be more effective in dealing with real and practical issues and problems in schools. This is a succinct, problem focused, oral history of issues articulated by newly hired and experience administrators, as they consider their decisions.

Use the Constructivist Learning Design (CLD) six-step planning framework to engage students in constructivist learning events that meet standards-based outcomes.

Presents a compelling argument that the creative and cultural inquiry undertaken by artists is a form of research. This title explores themes, practices, and contexts of artistic inquiry and positions them within the discourse of research.

Introduces the beginner to the skills needed to become a journalist in the digital age. This book shares the journalists thoughts on the profession, and shows their work - selecting stories, carrying out interviews and writing scripts. It includes chapters on interviewing, research techniques and news writing.

Helping you to meet a range of study skills, this book tells you how to get the most from your lectures, exam preparation and project development, right through to contemplating and investigating future career options.

This self-help book is written for the individual who wants to actively seek a position in school administration. The author provides workbook exercises, activities, and information sections to help the reader chart a course of action tailor made to acquire the school administration position the seek.

In this book the authors guide the readers through developing a collective vision, providing professional development, involving stakeholders in decision-making, and building support for change. Each chapter examines a different aspect of the school change process.

Despite its legal abolition, racial inequality persists in many democratic societies. Entering a new era of democracy, South Africa is endeavouring to dismantle its legally structured system of inequality. This title examines evidence which illustrates how the consciousness of whites in South Africa has been reproduced and maintained.

Glatthorn guides education professionals through the basics of the writing process, empowering them with the tools to create and enhance their own professional submissions and writings.

A seminal work on reflective practice to help teachers become creative and innovative "agents of inquiry" in their schools and classrooms.

Algebraic Identities, the Fibonacci Sequence, Patterns in Mathematics, Odds, Means, Averages . . . and that's only the beginning!

An illustrated guide to creating with students a central, evolving visual that enables all learners to actively participate, assess, and achieve in standards-based classrooms.

This volume shows how state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS), used to display patterns of crime to stimulate effective strategies and decision-making, are revolutionizing urban law enforcement. The contributors present expert information for understanding and successfully employing the latest technologies in this field.

A review of maths topics ranging from arithmetic to calculus.

This book is designed to help entrepreneurs understand how to obtain funding from an investor for the creation or development of a new business venture. It discusses how to evaluate a business concept from an investor's perspective before moving onto an examination of the practical issues involved, such as writing a compelling business plan and making a convincing presentation.

Covers pedagogy, ethnography, performance, and theory as the foundation for a performative social science. This book addresses the worlds of family, nature, praxis, and action. It also examines the ethics and practical politics of performance autoethnography, anchored in the post-9//11 discourse in the United States.

No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano and Puerto-Rican families in the United States, and provides an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race and class oppression affects minority family organization.

Presents an introductory guide to Freud and brings together: an overview of Freud's work which enables the reader to see quickly where, and in which texts, Freud develops his main ideas; and a guide to reading Freud, and to what can be done with the complexities of his texts.

What do we mean by 'diaspora' and 'hybridity'? Why are they pivotal concepts in contemporary debates on race, culture and society? This book is a politically inflected, assessment of the key debates on diaspora and hybridity. It relates the topics to contemporary social struggles and cultural contexts.

An introduction to post-structuralist theory that critically assesses how post-structuralism can be used to study space and place. Comprehensive and comprehensible - communicating an agenda for human geography - this book is a students' guide to the theoretical literature.

Updated Edition of Best Seller!Based on interviews with over 800 teachers, the authors show the transformative effects principals can have on teachers' work both in the classroom and in the wider school setting.

An overview of European politics, emphasizing convergence rather than divergence. This analytic approach to economic, cultural and political aspects of politics in Europe presents a Europe that has more in common in the late 1990s than ever before.

What is phenomenological sociology? Why is it significant? This book argues that phenomenology was the most significant, wide-ranging and influential philosophy to emerge in the twentieth century.

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The perfect introductory resource, Understanding and Using Statistics in Psychology will guide any student new to statistics effortlessly through the process of test selection and analysis.

By viewing psychotherapy and counseling as a science-based cultural enterprise, this book expands the understanding of culture in terms of the politics of identity, symbolic and practice meanings, moral ontology, and global realities. It is useful for psychotherapists, counseling practitioners, psychiatrists, and other human service professionals.

The design and evaluation of questionnaires and other written and oral materials is a challenging endeavor, fraught with potential pitfalls. This book describes a means of systematically developing survey questions through investigations that intensively probe the thought processes of individuals who are presented with those inquiries.

What Else You can Do With a PhD provides concrete advice and support for readers moving out of academia. The authors cover all the big issues including skill and interest assessment, writing an effective curriculum vitae and cover letters, preparing for interviews and evaluating job offers.