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The Journal of Character Education is the only professional journal in education devoted to character education. It is designed to cover the field-from the latest research to applied best practices.

Based on the author's work in science and engineering educational research, this book offers broad, practical strategies for teaching science and engineering courses and describes how faculty can provide a learning environment that helps students comprehend the nature of science, understand science concepts, and solve problems in science courses.

Assessment innovation tied to technology is greatly needed in a wide variety of assessment applications. This book adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to learn from advances in developing technology enhanced innovative assessments from multiple fields.

Assessment innovation tied to technology is greatly needed in a wide variety of assessment applications. This book adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to learn from advances in developing technology enhanced innovative assessments from multiple fields.

The first in a series of ten books on American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education. This volume explores the history of California Indian education as well as current policies on early childhood education, gifted education, curriculum, counselling, funding, and research.

Teachers provide today's youth with the tools to become a positive part of society. Whether they are successful or not determines the fate of our civilization. Unfortunately, teacher training does not completely prepare the individual for this crucial role. The goal of this manual is to provide teachers with tools to quickly correct the negative situations in any teaching scenario.

Provides queer and ally athletes a space to have a voice and share the experiences that have been significant in their identity as an athletic member of the LGBT community. To that end, this book is a collection of autobiographical short stories of LGBT athletes and their experiences in sports and athletics, some who are publicly out and some who are not.

The first in a series of ten books on American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education. This volume explores the history of California Indian education as well as current policies on early childhood education, gifted education, curriculum, counselling, funding, and research.

A journal for leaders, practitioners, and decision makers in the fields of distance learning, e-learning, telecommunications, and related areas. This is a professional journal with applicable information for those involved with providing instruction to all kinds of learners, of all ages, using telecommunications technologies of all types.

A refereed, peer reviewed journal that publishes original studies providing both empirical and theoretical frameworks that focus on middle grades education. A variety of articles are published quarterly in March, June, September, and December of each volume year.

Provides queer and ally athletes a space to have a voice and share the experiences that have been significant in their identity as an athletic member of the LGBT community. To that end, this book is a collection of autobiographical short stories of LGBT athletes and their experiences in sports and athletics, some who are publicly out and some who are not.

Argues that the current model of education falls short in preparing students to think creatively, to work collaboratively and to engage actively as problem solvers. An educational sea-change is needed more than ever given the problems that face our world now and that threaten to worsen in the next few decades.

Argues that the current model of education falls short in preparing students to think creatively, to work collaboratively and to engage actively as problem solvers. An educational sea-change is needed more than ever given the problems that face our world now and that threaten to worsen in the next few decades.

Provides contributions from established scholars with fresh perspectives on ethical leadership, with challenging viewpoints that have been given little coverage in the literature to date. This book includes theoretical perspectives that are founded on unconventional approaches - radical, ""outside the box"" ideas that would be difficult to get through the conventional journal review process.

Presents pertinent research and practice on talent development management and argues that the term talent development broadly refers to management and development of high performing and high potential individuals in society required to carry out critical organisational and society roles aimed at improving human development.

Presents pertinent research and practice on talent development management and argues that the term talent development broadly refers to management and development of high performing and high potential individuals in society required to carry out critical organisational and society roles aimed at improving human development.

Provides contributions from established scholars with fresh perspectives on ethical leadership, with challenging viewpoints that have been given little coverage in the literature to date. This book includes theoretical perspectives that are founded on unconventional approaches - radical, ""outside the box"" ideas that would be difficult to get through the conventional journal review process.

Committed to scientific empiricism, this journal's editors and editorial board seek to coalesce and vitalize decades of theoretical work and research that holds promise for our understanding and improvement of organisations, especially, but not only, schools. JROE can serve as scaffold for holding more precise empirical evidence and orienting it toward theorybuilding.

Unlike other self-help books that attempt to provide readers with homespun advice for addressing difficult life challenges, The Transformational Odyssey shows readers how to take charge of their self-growth and development. It does this by providing readers with several applied techniques for engaging in deep self-learning in a more profound and fundamentally life-changing way.

Provides a contemporary look at business ethics to include the challenges, opportunities and increased need for ethical leadership in today's and tomorrow's organizations. The book discusses current and future business ethics challenges, issues and opportunities to provide the context leaders and their organisations must navigate.

This volume casts socio-economic approach to management in the context of strategy development and implementation. It develops an approach to economic and social performance, providing direction as to how managers can create and implement strategies that enhance organisational effectiveness and efficiency.

Explores teachers' evolving personal epistemologies, or the beliefs we hold about the origin and development of knowledge in the context of teaching. The chapters focus on a range of conceptual frameworks about how university and field-based experiences influence the connections between teachers' personal epistemologies and teaching practice.

Explores teachers' evolving personal epistemologies, or the beliefs we hold about the origin and development of knowledge in the context of teaching. The chapters focus on a range of conceptual frameworks about how university and field-based experiences influence the connections between teachers' personal epistemologies and teaching practice.

Imagine a place where passion for learning, authentic connection with colleagues and community, and strengths-based middle grades education thrive. Imagine places of learning and inspiration for teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and teacher candidates.

Takes a detailed look at the experiences of new leaders who are charged with turning an organisation around following an ethical scandal. The challenges confronting new leaders who are tasked with restoring trust, rebuilding reputation, and turning around an organization are discussed along with specific actions taken by these leaders during the turnaround process.

Explores the value-added nature of games for learning and the complexities involved in player experience, narrative context, and environmental-player interactions. The book emphasizes issues of scalability, the induction of player goal adoption, affordances of game-based instructional environments, and the value of games as part of an ecopsychological worldview.

Explores the value-added nature of games for learning and the complexities involved in player experience, narrative context, and environmental-player interactions. The book emphasizes issues of scalability, the induction of player goal adoption, affordances of game-based instructional environments, and the value of games as part of an ecopsychological worldview.

Imagine a place where passion for learning, authentic connection with colleagues and community, and strengths-based middle grades education thrive. Imagine places of learning and inspiration for teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and teacher candidates.

Highlights research of twenty-five authors that challenges how work stress is viewed and assessed. Additionally, a number of social and psychological influences on the stress experience are examined. The insights of these scholars will help organisations to improve the health and well-being of employees.