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  • Teaching in Rural Places

    Thriving in Classrooms, Schools, and Communities

    by Devon Brenner, Jayne Downey, Karen Eppley, Ann K. Schulte, Amy Price Azano ...
    This fully updated teacher education textbook invites preservice and new teachers to think critically about the impact of rurality on their work and provides an overview of what it means to live, teach, learn, and thrive in rural communities. It underscores the importance of teaching in rural schools as an act of social justice—work that dismantles spatial barriers to economic, social, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sharing Leadership Stories in Rural Education

    Leading Rurally across Australia and the United States

    Edited by Simone White, Jayne Downey, Melyssa Fuqua ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book brings together the two fields of ‘educational leadership’ and ‘rurality’ and builds on the growing field of inquiry into the significance of ‘adding the rural’ to all aspects of education. It explores the vibrancy and variety of opportunities and challenges that are met by rural education leaders and researchers from two particular countries, Australia and the United States. It ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Rural Education Across the World

    Models of Innovative Practice and Impact

    Edited by Simone White, Jayne Downey ...
    This book brings together authors from United States, South Africa, United Kingdom, China, Canada and Australia to provide insights and case studies from across a range of contexts to explore the interplay between the notions of rurality, innovation and education. The book reveals a hopeful and resilient approach to innovative rural education and scholarship collectively and provides important ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • Development Fieldwork

    A Practical Guide

    Edited by Regina Scheyvens ...
    This book provides an invaluable guide to undertaking development fieldwork in both the developing world and in western contexts. It takes you through all the key stages in development research and covers:Research design and the roles of quantitative and qualitative methods.Research using archival, textual and virtual data, along with using the internet ethically.Practical as well as personal ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • Intercultural Readiness

    Four Competences for Working Across Cultures

    by U. Brinkmann, O. van Weerdenburg ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Drawing on research from 30,000 individuals and their practical experience as intercultural management consultants, the authors provide insights into the broader landscape of intercultural management through their exploration of 4 competencies: Intercultural Sensitivity, Intercultural Communication, Building Commitment and Managing Uncertainty. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Indigenous Planning

    Edited by Ryan Walker, Ted Jojola ...
    Series Book 70 - McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series
    Centuries-old community planning practices in Indigenous communities in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia have, in modern times, been eclipsed by ill-suited western approaches, mostly derived from colonial and neo-colonial traditions. Since planning outcomes have failed to reflect the rights and interests of Indigenous people, attempts to reclaim planning have become a priority ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Extending Educational Reform

    From One School to Many

    by Amanda Datnow, Lea Hubbard, Hugh Mehan ...
    In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts to extend from one school to many?Through qualitative data from several studies, this book explores ... Read more

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  • The New Synthesis of Public Administration Fieldbook

    by Jocelyne Bourgon ...
    The New Synthesis (NS) brings together the role of government, people and society in a co-dependent and dynamic governing system. The purpose is to invent new solutions and build a better future - together. One thousand participants have been involved in some ways in the NS Initiativein the period between 2012-2015. One thousand journeys of discovery have been unfolding since. This second NS book ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Educational Leadership

    Context, Strategy and Collaboration

    Edited by Maggie Preedy, Christine Wise, Nigel D Bennett ...
    Series series Published in association with The Open University
    Drawing together current thinking and research by leading writers in the field, this Reader will help you to understand and critically analyse key strategic aspects of educational leadership, including:- leadership perspectives and values- external and internal contexts- autonomy and accountability- partnership and collaboration- leading strategy and change.The book explores major challenges for ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology

    The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America

    by Allan Collins, Richard Halverson ...
    Are schools making the most of new technologies? Are they tapping into the learning potential of today’s Firefox/Facebook/cell phone generation? Allan Collins and Richard Halverson argue that the way computers have transformed our workplaces and lives can and should be adapted to transform American schooling. This groundbreaking book offers a vision for the future that goes well beyond the walls ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A Socially Critical View Of The Self-Managing School

    Edited by John Smyth ...
    The shift from the model of central government educational control to school- based management has been widely adopted and acclaimed and has created the general impression of increased democracy and participation.; The international contributors to this book tackle this important policy issue and look behind the scenes of the moves towards school self- management. They investigate the phenomenon ... Read more

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  • Learning Outside the Academy

    International Research Perspectives on Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Richard Edwards, Jim Gallacher, Susan Whittaker ...
    This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other.The contributions to this book are based on material ... Read more

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