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  • Professional Responsibility for Education

    Reconceptualizing Educational Practice and Institutional Structure

    by Douglas E. Mitchell ...
    By reconsidering the nature of professional work, renowned scholar Douglas E. Mitchell argues for reconceptualizing educational practices and institutional structures in ways that facilitate and protect educator professional responsibility.This book explores ways educators and their political supporters can seize the social and political power necessary to accept professional responsibility for ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • New Foundations for Knowledge in Educational Administration, Policy, and Politics

    Science and Sensationalism

    Edited by Douglas E. Mitchell ...
    This book probes the intellectual foundations of scholarly inquiry into educational administration, policy, and politics. The question of whether, and if so how, social science theories and methods contribute to an understanding of these issues is hotly debated today. Is there really a scientific basis for evaluating and/or improving educational administration, politics and policy? The ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Shaping Education Policy

    Power and Process

    Edited by Douglas E. Mitchell, Dorothy Shipps, Robert L. Crowson ...
    Shaping Education Policy is a comprehensive overview of education politics and policy, which provides conceptual guideposts for future policy development and strategies for change. Leading scholars explore the interacting social processes and the dynamics of power politics as they intersect with democratic ideals and shape school performance. Chapters cover major themes that have influenced ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Professional Responsibility

    The Fundamental Issue in Education and Health Care Reform

    Edited by Douglas E. Mitchell, Robert K. Ream ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    At the center of this book is the complex and perplexing question of how to design professional preparation programs, organizational management practices, public policy systems and robust professional associations committed to and capable of, maintaining confidence, trust and the other hallmarks of responsible professionalism. To do this, we need to rebuild our understanding of professional ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • Politics in Time

    History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

    by Paul Pierson ...
    This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Logics of Legitimacy

    Three Traditions of Public Administration Praxis

    by Margaret Stout ...
    Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
    The discipline of public administration draws predominantly from political and organizational theory, but also from other social and behavioral sciences, philosophy, and even theology. This diversity results in conflicting prescriptions for the "proper" administrative role. So, how are those new to public administration to know which ideas are "legitimate"?Rather than accepting conventional ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Advocacy Leadership

    Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education

    by Gary L. Anderson ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing educational leadership to emphasize its advocacy role. Advocacy Leadership lays out a post-reform agenda that moves ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Advancing Social Justice

    Tools, Pedagogies, and Strategies to Transform Your Campus

    by Tracy Davis, Laura M. Harrison ...
    Tools and strategies to foster transformative change for social justiceMany believe that social justice education is simply the new politically correct term for diversity-focused intervention or multiculturalism. The true definition, however, is more complex, nuanced, and important to understand. Higher education today needs clarity on both the concept of social justice and effective tools to ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • The Aims of Higher Education

    Problems of Morality and Justice

    Edited by Harry Brighouse, Michael McPherson ...
    In this book, philosopher Harry Brighouse and Spencer Foundation president Michael McPherson bring together leading philosophers to think about some of the most fundamental questions that higher education faces. Looking beyond the din of arguments over how universities should be financed, how they should be run, and what their contributions to the economy are, the contributors to this volume set ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

    Edited by Walter W. Powell, Paul J. DiMaggio ...
    Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Fall of the Faculty:The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters

    by Benjamin Ginsberg ...
    Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book, "deanlets"--administrators and staffers often without serious academic backgrounds or experience--are setting the educational agenda. The Fall of the ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Dynamics of Conflict

    A Guide to Engagement and Intervention

    by Bernard S. Mayer ...
    The Dynamics of ConflictWhen it was published in 2000, Bernie Mayer’s The Dynamics of Conflict Resolution quickly became one of the seminal works in the conflict resolution field. The book bridged the gap between abstract theoretical approaches and practical handbooks and became an immensely valuable and accessible resource for experienced and novice practitioners, as well as for professors and ... Read more

    $55.00 USD