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Wissensmanagement in der Schulentwicklung
Springer 2013; US$ 64.99Kann das im Kontext von Wirtschaftsunternehmen entwickelte Wissensmanagement für die Entwicklungsfähigkeit der Organisation Schule genutzt werden? Kaja Heitmann beantwortet diese Fragestellung aus einer systemtheoretischen Perspektive heraus sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch. Eine Analyse der Organisation, die sich den Besonderheiten... more...
Mother-Scholar
Springer 2012; US$ 69.95Mother-Scholar presents another way of knowing. The book illuminates the narratives of prominent mother-scholars in the discipline of education who are determined to (re)imagine a different educational space not only for their own children, but for all children. Todays schools are male-centered institutions in which standardized testing, rational... more...
Educational Research and Professional Learning in Changing Times
Springer 2012; US$ 69.95Educational Research and Professional Learning in Changing Times reports three dimensions of a longitudinal Australian study with the ultimate aim of improving the mathematics learning outcomes for all middle school students in preparation for the quantitative literacy requirements of the 21st century. It was also hoped to improve the prospects for... more...
Collective Responsibility
Springer 2012; US$ 39.95How to achieve school reform and organisational change has been a subject of much inquiry and interest by educators, education systems and academics. This volume advances both conceptual and methodological knowledge in understanding the cultural changes required at the school level to develop teachers collective responsibility for student learning.... more...
The World Bank and Education
Springer 2012; US$ 29.95World Bank and Education: Book Blurb For more than three decades, the World Bank has been proposing global policies for education. Presented as research-based, validated by experience, and broadly applicable, these policies are ideologically driven, insensitive to local contexts, and treat education as independent of international dynamics and national... more...
Theory into Practice
Springer 1900; US$ 69.95This book does exactly what its title suggests: it takes the theoretical and conceptual nature of leadership and positions it in the real world of school governance where teachers, administrators and community stakeholders grapple with issues of change, diversity, influence, motivation, policy, and law. Organized around the widely accepted Interstate... more...
Excellence in Education
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 35.95A thorough examination of the characteristics` belonging to a high-performing school, this book is written by the Chairman of the Specialist Schools Trust and the education advisor to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. It draws on numerous case studies of successful schools, as well as showing how previously failing schools have been turned around. Looking... more...
Shifting Strands
Springer 2012; US$ 69.95In this the sixth book of a series of exploratory and cautionary tales, Griffith revisits the sites of reflective knowledge and practical experiences that have been our historical presuppositions, and which are now in the process of flux and change. As in his previous books, historical discourse, what we know and can know about the past, is used as... more...
A Call for Engaged Leadership
Springer 2012; US$ 69.95Most, if not all, individuals who have given any thought to the subject believe that students and teachers in todays public schools deserve better. They deserve the same types of teaching and learning environments that are often found in elite private schools. Teachers in these environments combine the best of essentialist and progressive educational... more...
Leadership and Cooperation in Academia
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00Leadership and Cooperation in Academia focuses on the place and the role of universities in different societies, including their influence on the socio-economic development of those societies. Across the world academic institutions are being questioned by their stakeholders and pressured to change. Answering these questions requires that academics... more...









