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The distinct focus of the book is key European features - 'contexts matter' - to promote and stimulate what 'European' might mean in any given context. The book valorizes different contexts and key strengths of the European perspective.

This is an edited (introduced and annotated) book by the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky who belongs to the most well-known social scientists of the previous century. The book deals with an aspect of his life and work that is little known, notably his involvement with child studies.

Offers lessons and strategies that combine the power of inquiry-driven teaching with a funds of knowledge approach to capitalize on the lived civic experiences of urban youth and children. The book presents six strategies for making civic and social studies education relevant and engaging.

The distinct focus of the book is key European features - 'contexts matter' - to promote and stimulate what 'European' might mean in any given context. The book valorizes different contexts and key strengths of the European perspective.

Provides a resource for classes in diversity and inclusion in organisations, HR management, organisational behaviour, organisational sociology, and industrial and organisational psychology. Apart from theories and research on diversity and inclusion, the book also considers implications for designing HR policies and processes in organisations.

Offers lessons and strategies that combine the power of inquiry-driven teaching with a funds of knowledge approach to capitalize on the lived civic experiences of urban youth and children. The book presents six strategies for making civic and social studies education relevant and engaging.

Provides a resource for classes in diversity and inclusion in organisations, HR management, organisational behaviour, organisational sociology, and industrial and organisational psychology. Apart from theories and research on diversity and inclusion, the book also considers implications for designing HR policies and processes in organisations.

Details how the UN's promotion of higher education for peace and international understanding sometimes unintentionally contributes to the reproduction of conflict and violence across diverse cultures. Kevin Kester shows this through an indepth examination of peace curricula, pedagogy and policy in one United Nations higher education institution.

Explores general provisions, theoretical economic and legal bases and all practical tools for alternative methods of judging economic conflicts. The dynamics of modern business at the new stage of economic development in the 21st century is accompanied by the emergence of various kinds of economic conflicts between business entities.

Explores the interconnected issues of public health and public policy as they relate to queer issues in the Deep South. The book also points to trends, themes, and dynamics at work in the Deep South that are also implicated in the queer experience in other parts of the US.

Explores hidden figures and concerns of social connectedness, mentoring practices, and identity constructs that uncover unnoticed talent pools and encourage STEM matriculation among Black STEM students' in preK-12 and post-secondary landscapes.

Explores hidden figures and concerns of social connectedness, mentoring practices, and identity constructs that uncover unnoticed talent pools and encourage STEM matriculation among Black STEM students' in preK-12 and post-secondary landscapes.

Addresses a long-standing need for a book that focuses on the success, not failure, of Latino students. Bringing together researchers and practitioners, this unique book provides research-based recommendations from early to later school years on ""what works"" for supporting high achievement.

Addresses a long-standing need for a book that focuses on the success, not failure, of Latino students. Bringing together researchers and practitioners, this unique book provides research-based recommendations from early to later school years on ""what works"" for supporting high achievement.

For the last thirty years, educators have been fascinated yet puzzled with how to build Professional Development Schools. Clinically Based Teacher Education in Action: Cases from PDSs addresses that perplexity by providing images of the possible in school-university collaboration.

For the last thirty years, educators have been fascinated yet puzzled with how to build Professional Development Schools. Clinically Based Teacher Education in Action: Cases from PDSs addresses that perplexity by providing images of the possible in school-university collaboration.

Compares student discipline rates in four major US cities among regular and charter schools to determine whether charter schools are more likely than regular schools to discipline students. The book also studies the relationships among a host of variables by six different discipline categories.

The purpose of this text is to elicit discussion, reflection, and action specific to pedagogy within education, especially higher education, and circles of experiential learning, community organizing, conflict resolution and youth empowerment work. Vulnerability itself is not a new term within education; however the pedagogical imperatives of vulnerability are both undertheorized in educational discourse and underexplored in practice. This work builds on that of Edward Brantmeier in Re-Envisioning Higher Education: Embodied Pathways to Wisdom and Transformation (Lin, Oxford, & Brantmeier, 2013). In his chapter, "e;Pedagogy of vulnerability: Definitions, assumptions, and application,"e; he outlines a set of assumptions about the term, clarifying for his readers the complicated, risky, reciprocal, and purposeful nature of vulnerability, particularly within educational settings.Creating spaces of risk taking, and consistent mutual, critical engagement are challenging at a moment in history where neoliberal forces impact so many realms of formal teaching and learning. Within this context, the divide between what educators, be they in a classroom or a community, imagine as possible and their ability to implement these kinds of pedagogical possibilities is an urgent conundrum worth exploring. We must consider how to address these disconnects; advocating and envisioning a more holistic, healthy, forward thinking model of teaching and learning. How do we create cultures of engaged inquiry, framed in vulnerability, where educators and students are compelled to ask questions just beyond their grasp? How can we all be better equipped to ask and answer big, beautiful, bold, even uncomfortable questions that fuel the heart of inquiry and perhaps, just maybe, lead to a more peaceful and just world?A collection of reflections, case studies, and research focused on the pedagogy of vulnerability is a starting point for this work. The book itself is meant to be an example of pedagogical vulnerability, wherein the authors work to explicate the most intimate and delicate aspects of the varied pedagogical journeys, understandings rooted in vulnerability, and those of their students, colleagues, clients, even adversaries. It is a work that "e;holds space."e;

The purpose of this text is to elicit discussion, reflection, and action specific to pedagogy within education, especially higher education, and circles of experiential learning, community organising, conflict resolution and youth empowerment work.

Features the stories of faculty, staff, and administrators who are defining ""servingness"" in practice at Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). Servingness is conceptualized as the ability of HSIs to enroll and educate Latinx students through a culturally enhancing approach that centres Latinx ways of knowing and being.

Includes standards and indicators for teacher candidates and for the design of teacher preparation programs. SPTM outlines assessment practices related to overall quality, program effectiveness, and candidate performance. SPTM describes specific focal practices by grade band and provides guidance to stakeholders.

Examines American societal structures and institutions, beginning and ending with public education, and exposes how dysfunction and the investment in this dysfunction is a political agenda. The book focuses on the capitalization, privatization and dismantling of public education, and how other social systems are all co-dependent and symbiotic.

Deals with issues relating to the management of interpartner risks in strategic alliances. These risk issues relate to dedicated alliance function and partner-specific experience, cross-border licensing, interfirm alliance structures, an interpretive scheme for engaging with dark potentialities, and private sector intelligence.

Great leaders know that prestigious appointments do not only entail advantages, but also major responsibilities. They also know that it has never been so easy to find inspiration, a reality check, and advice on the development of their situational solutions. This book aims at providing such easy access to crucial insights into sustaining success.

Lays out a qualitative, collective case study designed to assess how students in a secondary Latina/Latino Literature class began to think dialectically about issues of social justice. By using various methods of data collection, the author ascertained how the students' thoughts and perceptions of Latinas/Latinos in the US changed over the course of the study.

Do individual behaviours influence organizational socially irresponsible practices? Each chapter in this volume aims to find an answer to this question. The book is divided into three parts: ""The dark side of organizational behaviors""; ""Individual skills and the workplace""; and ""Organizational politics, practices and tools".

Do individual behaviours influence organizational socially irresponsible practices? Each chapter in this volume aims to find an answer to this question. The book is divided into three parts: ""The dark side of organizational behaviors""; ""Individual skills and the workplace""; and ""Organizational politics, practices and tools".

Provides a much needed comparison of science teacher preparation from around the world. The intent of the book is not just to report on the "success" of each nation. Rather to ask authors to take a critical look at the process by which science teachers are educated and share with the reader both the positive and negative aspects of such preparation programs.