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The implementation of a 'high stakes', performace-based assessment system has resulted in financial rewards being granted to those schools demonstrating improved results, while sanctions have been imposed on schools whose academic performance is poor. Contributors to this book examine the complex issues associated with this system in the state of Kentucky and offer diverse opinion on the topic.

Gender and Sexuality

A brief historical look at America's loss of confidence in public schools is presented to show how data have been used to create half-truths and erroneous positions.

Although it has become popular to blame the media for extolling unrealistic female body images, little academic work has addressed the issue. This book, drawing together literature from sociology, gender studies and psychology, offers a broad discussion of the topic in the context of socio-cultural change, gender politics, and self-identity.

Introduces evaluation by focusing on the main kinds of 'big picture' questions that evaluations usually need to answer, and how the nature of such questions are linked to evaluation methodology choices. This book shows how to identify the right criteria for an evaluation.

How can organizations handle the opportunities and threats posed by rapidly changing markets and external conditions? How can they improve their overall effectiveness? The Third Edition of Diagnosing Organizations contains up-to-date treatments of techniques and models for diagnosing how organizations deal with challenges like these.

Using the tools of philosophy and the insights from evaluation practice this book examines the concept of value in program evaluation. The authors analyze four views of facts and values in evaluation: those rooted in a fact-value dichotomy; those of radical constructivists; those of postmodernists; and those of deliberative democrats.

This book shows you how to observe a child as they move to allow for early identification of any problems. It then tells you how to help with lots of suggested activities.

Wisdom as an outcome of education is often overlooked. Blending philosophy, research, and three decades of practice, the author offers the teachers a discussion of timeless principles of learning, including attention, contemplation, connection, participation, transformation, mystery, responsibility, wholeness, and joy and shows how to apply them.

Presents an introduction to cultural studies that guides the reader through the field's central foundations and its freshest ideas. This book grounds the reader in the foundations of cultural studies and cultural theory: language and semiology, ideology and power, mass and popular culture.

The Contours of Police Integrity presents a comprehensive overview of the potential for police misconduct worldwide. A topic of great concern around the world, the top criminal justice scholars have compiled survey and case data from 10 countries chronicling police integrity and misconduct.

Schools and colleges are being asked to deal with fundamental changes in 14-19 education. Designed to support policy makers, practioners and students of education in improving their understanding of this phase of education.

Winner of the Distinguished Book Award by the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association, 2001, (USA)

A review and critique of empirical and theoretical research on grassroots non profit-making and voluntary organizations.

This volume provides an explanation of contemporary sex stereotypes and the degree to which they prevail in different cultures. Providing data from 30 countries, the authors examine their findings from the following perspectives: affective meanings, ego studies and psychological needs.

Activities are specifically tailored to each of the eight multiple intelligences and serve as a guide to developing learning strategies in the classroom.

`This impressive book is lively, inspiring and innovative. Andrea Gilroy's energetic enthusiasm for her subject is infectious. She breathes life into the topics of research and EBP. This is a must for art therapists - at last a book that places art at the centre of our evidence in a convincingly argued, accessible and rewarding read' - Professor Joy Schaverien PhD

Offers students and academics with an overview of body concepts in both sociology and in feminism. Surveying the key concepts in the field, this book introduces us to a range of 'narratives of embodiment' and presents an analysis of some of the most important texts in feminist theories of the body.

Through an analysis, this book contextualizes the work of the key theorists and texts that have been influential in refocusing our gaze on human embodiment. It provides a critical evaluation of the work of Elias, Aries, Foucault, Bourdieu, Mary Douglas, Kristeva, Butler, Haraway and Bordo.

In 1976 Raymond Williams published his classic book Keywords. Richard Osborne presents Megawords a 21st century Keywords. The book is not simply a glossary, rather it is a map of the links between ideas and concept in the humanities, without which no self-respecting student should set sail.

Numeracy for Teaching

This book is an examination of the role of labour in the modern world. The authors assess the present condition and future prospects for workers through the geographies of place, space and scale, and in conjunction with more commonly studied components of the globalisation such as production, trade and finance.

Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method offers the first systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research.

Introduction to Accounting