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Young People and Everyday Multiculturalism
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 50.95Unlike as with previous generations, diversity and multiculturalism are engrained in the lives of today?s urban youth. Within their culturally diverse urban environments, young people from different backgrounds now routinely encounter one another in their everyday lives and negotiate and contest ways of living together and sharing civic space. What... more...
The Great American Educational-Industrial Complex
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95The Great American Education-Industrial Complex examines the structure and nature of national networks and enterprises that seek to influence public education policy in accord with their own goals and objectives. In the past twenty years, significant changes have taken place in the way various interest groups seek to influence policies and practices... more...
Developing the Capable Practitioner
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 51.95This volume presents an edited compilation of papers about the process of developing capable professionals and practitioners in every field in higher education. Current developments are reviewed, covering the issues raised in the Dearing Report, and the importance of self-management is emphasized. more...
International Perspectives on Intercultural Education
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 69.95International Perspectives on Intercultural Education offers a comprehensive analysis of intercultural education activity as it is practiced in the countries of Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, England, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Chapters by key scholars and practitioners... more...
Assessing Basic Academic Skills in Higher Education
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 105.00Addressing the growing concerns about reading, math, and writing skills of freshman-level students, this volume provides different perspectives and approaches to the assessment of basic academic skills in higher education. The book provides an in-depth investigation into the Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP). More generally, the book provides insights... more...
A Human Relations Approach to Multiculturalism in K-12 Schools
Charles C Thomas 2013; US$ 46.95Explicit in this book is the authors belief that it is not enough to say that Americans live in culturally diverse and stratified communities in which educational opportunities are not distributed fairly; nor is it enough to reiterate that most educational opportunities are not based solely on students academic abilities. Rather, elementary... more...
Professional Experience and the Investigative Imagination
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 57.95This book explains and demonstrates how creative writing can be used successfully in the context of professional education where traditionally a more distanced approach to reporting on professional experience has been favoured. It is based on many practical examples, drawn from several years' experience of running courses for social workers, nurses,... more...
Killing Public Higher Education
Elsevier Science 2013; US$ 29.95This is an opinion piece from a highly qualified professor of science who has served in administration highlights the need for reform in our public higher education research institutions. In this well-researched reference, Dr. Stocum illustrates how the competition among the public flagship universities for more money, research prestige, and power,... more...
Facilitating Action Learning
McGraw-Hill Education 2013; US$ 40.00This book is a clear, concise and straightforward guide to a well-established approach to problem-solving and learning in groups that enables change. more...
Transferable Skills Training for Researchers
OECD Publishing 2013; US$ 49.00Researchers are embarking on increasingly diverse careers where collaboration, networking and interdisciplinarity are becoming more important. Transferable skills (e.g. communication skills and problem-solving abilities) can help researchers operate more effectively in different work environments. While researchers acquire some of these skills in the... more...









