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Though many psychological theories refer to imagination as a relevant phenomena, we still lack knowledge about imaginative processes. This book expands our knowledge about imaginative processes as higher mental function, by starting from the empirical and phenomenological studies.

Though many psychological theories refer to imagination as a relevant phenomena, we still lack knowledge about imaginative processes. This book expands our knowledge about imaginative processes as higher mental function, by starting from the empirical and phenomenological studies.

Presents the strengths and gifts of the scholar-contributors and the opportunity to ""turn the stories"" through accessible and meaningful reflective ""telling"". The collection concludes with a discussion of salient implications for working-class students and scholars, those who support their learning, and higher education institutions and programs.

Presents the strengths and gifts of the scholar-contributors and the opportunity to ""turn the stories"" through accessible and meaningful reflective ""telling"". The collection concludes with a discussion of salient implications for working-class students and scholars, those who support their learning, and higher education institutions and programs.

The world of middle level education is evolving. Increasingly, online learning platforms are complementing or replacing traditional classroom settings. In this volume, researchers and teachers share a variety of resources centred on the growing world of virtual education and its implications for the middle level learner, educator, and classroom.

The world of middle level education is evolving. Increasingly, online learning platforms are complementing or replacing traditional classroom settings. In this volume, researchers and teachers share a variety of resources centred on the growing world of virtual education and its implications for the middle level learner, educator, and classroom.

Provides a diverse but integrated set of opinion pieces, analyses and cases about Russian business, covering markets and macro perspectives, strategy and governance, innovation and entrepreneurship, internationalization and leadership. The book illustrates the under reported and multifaceted nature of the life of Russian business.

Provides a diverse but integrated set of opinion pieces, analyses and cases about Russian business, covering markets and macro perspectives, strategy and governance, innovation and entrepreneurship, internationalization and leadership. The book illustrates the under reported and multifaceted nature of the life of Russian business.

Contains contributions by scholars in the field of behavioural strategy research. Chapters deal with a number of significant issues relating to how behavioural strategy may serve to create competitive advantage, covering topics such as decision change timing, top management regulatory focus, and cognitive foundations of pricing decisions.

Presents perspectives from curriculum workers/teachers/scholars/activists across theoretical landscapes and spanning a diversity of positionalities within critical intersections of power and privilege as they relate to identity, culture and curriculum as well as to social justice, schools and society.

Contains contributions by scholars in the field of behavioural strategy research. Chapters deal with a number of significant issues relating to how behavioural strategy may serve to create competitive advantage, covering topics such as decision change timing, top management regulatory focus, and cognitive foundations of pricing decisions.

Explores the complexity of issues related to increasing the number of women on boards of directors around the world: how these issues have been understood; how they have been more and less successfully addressed in different countries and industries; and how they are similar, and yet different, as a results of cultural and legal differences.

Presents perspectives from curriculum workers/teachers/scholars/activists across theoretical landscapes and spanning a diversity of positionalities within critical intersections of power and privilege as they relate to identity, culture and curriculum as well as to social justice, schools and society.

Explores the complexity of issues related to increasing the number of women on boards of directors around the world: how these issues have been understood; how they have been more and less successfully addressed in different countries and industries; and how they are similar, and yet different, as a results of cultural and legal differences.

Explores the role of silent partners in multicultural education. Silent partners include formal and informal places - spaces in schools, objects, interactive technologies, but also often taken for granted patterns of thought, ideologies and assumptions. This book fills a significant empirical gap, and can inject public debate over working environments in schools for multicultural education.

Collaborative learning is not a trivial challenge nor is it intuitive for all teachers and learners. One must practice the essential skills in order to successfully work in a team. This book surveys the current state of the field and provides theoretical guidance and practical examples to help meet the gaps in research, development and practice.

Collaborative learning is not a trivial challenge nor is it intuitive for all teachers and learners. One must practice the essential skills in order to successfully work in a team. This book surveys the current state of the field and provides theoretical guidance and practical examples to help meet the gaps in research, development and practice.

Presents research about the dynamic development, interplay, and interconnectedness of two major discourses in citizenship education, namely national and global. Case studies and ethnographies from across the globe display a comprehensive picture of educators' attempts to promote social justice, global awareness, and multiple loyalties.

Draws attention to a form of dialogue called design dialogue. Design dialogue constructs new meaning from the bottom up. Individuals construct new meanings through individual thinking. In design dialogue, meaning results from group thinking. Group thinking is not as simple as thinking individually while being present within a group.

Using schools to prepare youth for work has a long and troubled history. The contributors to this book dive into that history, bringing up compelling issues that challenge conventional wisdom about the history of education.

Presents research about the dynamic development, interplay, and interconnectedness of two major discourses in citizenship education, namely national and global. Case studies and ethnographies from across the globe display a comprehensive picture of educators' attempts to promote social justice, global awareness, and multiple loyalties.

Using schools to prepare youth for work has a long and troubled history. The contributors to this book dive into that history, bringing up compelling issues that challenge conventional wisdom about the history of education.

The purpose of this book is to assist post-traditional students to achieve success in the Occupational, Workforce, and Leadership Studies (OWLS) Department and develop their individualized pathway to earn the interdisciplinary Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences (BAAS) degree at Texas State University.

The numerous books documenting the challenges of student athletes primarily focus on understanding the issues of student-athletes and their recommendations are often overly simplistic, failing to provide interventions that can be executed by student-athlete support personnel. This book seeks to remedy this.

The numerous books documenting the challenges of student athletes primarily focus on understanding the issues of student-athletes and their recommendations are often overly simplistic, failing to provide interventions that can be executed by student-athlete support personnel. This book seeks to remedy this.

The purpose of this book is to assist post-traditional students to achieve success in the Occupational, Workforce, and Leadership Studies (OWLS) Department and develop their individualized pathway to earn the interdisciplinary Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences (BAAS) degree at Texas State University.

Offers an idiographic perspective in order to discuss the concept of health, to define its cultural meanings and possible polysemy, and its areas of pertinence and intervention, trying to offer possible alternatives to the "normalization" of health and creating new incentives for reflection.

Offers an idiographic perspective in order to discuss the concept of health, to define its cultural meanings and possible polysemy, and its areas of pertinence and intervention, trying to offer possible alternatives to the "normalization" of health and creating new incentives for reflection.

Discusses the ways students think and their cognitive challenges as they engage with algebra. This book is a response to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM) call to better link research and practice by capturing what we have learned about students' algebraic thinking in a way that is usable by teachers.

Provides different perspectives of current status of talent management (TM) and talent development (TD) practices in select countries across the world. The aim is to provide scholars and practitioners interested in the topic with a better understanding of TM and TD practices, and an overview of factors that affect these practices.