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  • Serious Leisure

    A Perspective for Our Time

    by David.B Sachsman ...
    Serious Leisure offers a comprehensive view and analysis of the current state of the sociology of leisure. Defining and differentiating the way people use their free time, Robert A. Stebbins divides such activity into categories of serious (skilled), casual (unskilled), and project-based (short-term) leisure that he further separates into a variety of types and subtypes. Together they comprise ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Dumbest Generation

    How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture.For decades, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • What the Best College Teachers Do

    by Ken Bain ...
    What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators.The short answer is—it’s not what teachers do, it’s what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Jossey-Bass Reader on Educational Leadership

    Edited by Margaret Grogan ...
    The newest edition of the bestselling book on educational leadershipThis expanded and thoroughly updated edition of the popular anthology contains the articles, book excerpts, and seminal reports that define and drive the field of educational leadership today. Filled with critical insights from bestselling authors, education research, and expert practitioners, this comprehensive volume features ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • Discussion as a Way of Teaching

    Tools and Techniques for Democratic Classrooms

    by Stephen D. Brookfield, Stephen Preskill ...
    Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of the landmark book Discussion as a Way of Teaching shows how to plan, conduct, and assess classroom discussions. Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill suggest exercises for starting discussions, strategies for maintaining their momentum, and ways to elicit diverse views and voices. The book also includes new exercises and material on the ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Responsibility at Work

    How Leading Professionals Act (or Don't Act) Responsibly

    Edited by Howard Gardner ...
    Filled with original essays by Howard Gardner, William Damon, Mihaly Csikszenthmihalyi, and Jeanne Nakamura and based on a large-scale research project, the GoodWork® Project, Responsibility at Work reflects the information gleaned from in-depth interviews with more than 1,200 people from nine different professions—journalism, genetics, theatre, higher education, philanthropy, law, medicine, ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • SIMSOC: Simulated Society, Participant's Manual

    Fifth Edition (Participant's Manual)

    by William A. Gamson ...
    The official guide to SIMSOC, the dynamic group simulation game whose “potential for stimulating the learning process is staggering” (Teaching Sociology), in which players grapple with the challenge of governing society.In SIMSOC, players confront issues like abuse of power, justice, diversity, trust, and leadership as they negotiate their way through labor-management strife, political turmoil, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Integrating the Individual and the Organization

    Edited by Chris Argyris ...
    The emphasis on organizational change in the corporate life of recent years-including job redesign, autonomous groups, high performance work systems, and the redesign of control systems-owes a great deal to the pioneering work of Chris Argyris. This book examines how individuals in organizations can become more effective, in turn making organizations more effective. It explores the conventional ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Leader's Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages

    by J. Thomas Wren ...
    This book serves as a guided introduction to the richly diverse perspectives on leadership throughout the ages and throughout the world.This book serves as a guided introduction to the richly diverse perspectives on leadership throughout the ages and throughout the world. Each of the selections, introduced by the editor, presents enlightening thoughts on a different aspect of leadership. Writings ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Positive Academic Leadership

    How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Start Making a Difference

    by Jeffrey L. Buller ...
    Series series Jossey-Bass Resources for Department Chairs
    In Positive Academic Leadership, Jeffrey Buller offers new insights and practical tools, as well as language and tactics, for fostering a more effective approach to leadership. With acumen and a dash of humor, he shows leaders how they can take the focus off the negative and change what they say, their perspectives, and their strategies. This more constructive leadership style plays to the ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults

    by Stephen D. Brookfield ...
    Praise for Powerful Techniques for Teaching Adults"Stephen Brookfield has used his gifts for clear thinking and lucid writing to produce this theoretically informed, immensely practical book on how the dynamics of power and adult teaching intersect. It should be required reading for everyone who teaches adults." ??-Ronald M. Cervero, professor and associate dean, College of Education, University ... Read more

    $35.00 USD

  • Centering Educational Administration

    Cultivating Meaning, Community, Responsibility

    by Robert J. Starratt ...
    In this book, Starratt enters the national conversation among educational administration scholars and practitioners about what constitutes the core of their knowledge and practice. In Part I, he develops three main themes--cultivating meaning, community, and moral responsibility--which he then positions against national themes about the core of educational administration: school improvement, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD