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  • Getting Thereby Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton; Rima Karami Akkary; Donna M. Beegle; Eileen Casey White; Wangeci M. Gatimu

    Springer 2012; US$ 69.95

    This book chronicles the lived experience/educational journeys of women who found themselves moving forward together pursuing doctoral degrees in Educational Leadership. Grounded in the realities of women’s lives these inspirational first-person narratives have the potential to raise awareness regarding women’s socialization, expectations,... more...

  • Precarious International Multicultural Educationby Handel Kashope Wright; Michael Singh; Richard Race

    Springer 2012; US$ 49.95

    Multiculturalism and multicultural education are at a paradoxical moment. There is work that continues as if the multicultural hegemony was still intact and on the other hand work articulated as if multiculturalism was decidedly passe. The essays in this collection will be of considerable interest to academics, policy makers and students of both multiculturalism... more...

  • State and Market in Higher Education Reformsby Hans G. Schuetze; Germán Álvarez Mendiola; Diane Conrad

    Springer 2012; US$ 69.95

    Universities have never been static. Even so, it is fair to say they have experienced a most radical transformation in the past twenty years. During this period, the role and responsibility of the state generally have been broadly limited while allowing ‘market forces’--private ownership and control--more influence. But even where the state... more...

  • Effects of Higher Education Reformsby Martina Vukasovic; Peter Maassen; Monika Nerland; Bjørn Stensaker

    Springer 1900; US$ 69.95

    Higher education is in transition. On the one hand, over the last decades it has become politically and economically more important and thus also an object of reforms. On the other hand, higher education has become less special and is no longer able to justify its unique governance arrangements. This volume presents a collection of contributions that... more...

  • The Men and Women We Wantby Jeanne D. Petit

    Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 29.15

    Should immigrants have to pass a literacy test in order to enter the United States? Progressive-Era Americans debated this question for more than twenty years, and by the time the literacy test became law in 1917, the debate had transformed the way Americans understood immigration, and created the logic that shaped immigration restriction policies... more...

  • Die dienstliche Beurteilungby Frank Bieler; Jürgen Lorse

    Erich Schmidt Verlag 2013; US$ 63.92

    Hauptbeschreibung Die transparente und rechtlich unangreifbare Leistungsmessung und -bewertung ist eine Daueraufgabe für das gesamte Personalmanagement des öffentlichen Dienstes. Die dienstliche Beurteilung ist aus der Sicht der Rechtsprechung das Schlüsselinstrument, um diese Aufgabe zu erfüllen. Das Buch "Die dienstliche Beurteilung" von Bieler/Lorse... more...

  • A Practical Guide to Fund-Raising in Schoolsby Paul Morris

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 56.95

    A practical guide to fund-raising for schools. Funding for schools from the customary sources has become more difficult and schools are having to raise funds through schemes involving community and commercial support. This guide explains everything that schools need to know about funding, including; *researching funds available *commercial funding... more...

  • The Right to Learnby Ken Brown

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 53.95

    The concept of the 'learning society' brings to mind access to education for all and a culture of lifelong learning. But government interventions in education such as the National Curriculum and standardized tests have only served to consolidate the connection between learning and schooling. Schools, furthermore, now have to juggle an increasingly... more...

  • Lessons for the Futureby Dr David Hicks; David Hicks

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 195.00

    Drawing on the latest research in futures studies, this book provides new insights into ways of helping both students and teachers think more critically and creatively about their own future and that of wider society. It acknowledges the crucial role of education in helping young people understand the nature of local and global change and the social... more...

  • Knowledgeable Womenby Sara Delamont

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 63.00

    In Knowledgeable Women Sara Delamont traces the history of women's education and the elites it produces. She examines class and gender divisions in the structure and contest of education in Britain and the USA from 1850 to the present day. Her empirical focus is of course elites - especially elite women - but the justification for this is the belief... more...