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Kfz-Servicemechaniker/-in auf dem Prüfstand
W. Bertelsmann Verlag 2012; US$ 32.25Hauptbeschreibung Der verkürzte Ausbildungsberuf Kfz-Servicemechaniker/in wurde ab dem Jahr 2004 erprobt, um Schulabgängern mit schwachem (Haupt-)Schulabschluss eine Berufsausbildung zu ermöglichen. Der Abschluss soll eine Beschäftigung in Kfz-Werkstätten zulassen. Die Studie untersucht die Praxistauglichkeit des neuen Qualifikationsprofils im Hinblick... more...
Every Man His Own University
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 4.99Looking for a new lease on life? Steer clear of the lukewarm pablum you'll find in most modern self-help books and stick to the classics. Russell Conwell's Every Man His Own University is an amazingly comprehensive guide for any man (or woman!) who needs to make a change -- and is willing to put in the work that that entails. Fans of Napoleon... more...
Latinos in Higher Education: Creating Conditions for Student Success
Wiley 2013; US$ 29.00Latinos’ postsecondary educational attainment has not kept pace with their growing representation in the U.S. population. How can Latino educational attainment be advanced? This monograph presents relevant contemporary research, focusing on the role of institutional contexts. Drawing particularly on research grounded in Latino students’... more...
The Key to Success
The Floating Press 1917; US$ 4.99Self-made man and renowned Baptist minister Russell Conwell helped to usher in a paradigm shift in Christian thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- and also managed to help remake the self-help genre in the process. The Key to Success is a comprehensive overview of Conwell's philosophy, and it's chock-full of ideas that will... more...
Young Person's Character Education Handbook
JIST Publishing 2005; US$ 16.95This essential guide is a fun, relevant way to introduce students to key character traits. The Young Person's Character Education Handbook helps students understand why character is important and how character contributes to success in school, at home, and in life. Each unit describes one positive character trait in an engaging and consistent way for... more...
Moral Education
Springer 2006; US$ 39.99Though divine command is rejected as a source of moral justification, the possible contribution of some religious traditions to moral education is sympathetically considered. This book addresses contemporary issues such as the links between personal morality and citizenship, including world citizenship, family values, and sexual morality. more...
Connecting Character to Conduct
ASCD 2000; US$ 22.95The decisions today?s students make ripple outward to their immediate family and school community; some affecting society in the form of academic underachievement and school violence. How can we help students make the right decisions and do the right things? Test preparation and academic rigor alone cannot help our students learn well. more...
The Integration of Moral Literacy Content and Process in Teaching
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 199.00This e-book is the culmination of a research and development project which has spanned three years and involved scholars of educational leadership from four countries. During 2005-2006, the Willower Center for Study of Leadership and Ethics, A University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Program Center based at the Pennsylvania State University,... more...
School Management and Effectiveness in Developing Countries
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 130.00This book is quite different from existing 'Western' books on school effectiveness. It describes and analyses the way in which schools operate in developing countries and also tries to explain why they are as they are. Examining them at three levels - the macro, the meso and the micro - the authors use a theoretical framework that they have... more...
Education for Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 130.00Drawing on successful practice, and relating such practice to theoretical insights, this comprehensive treatment of the challenge of educating children spiritually, morally, socially, and culturally offers enlightenment for individual teachers' classroom practice as well as for whole-school approaches. more...









