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Beyond leadership : a relational approach to organizational theory in education
This book systematically elaborates Scott Eacott's \"relational\" approach to organizational theory in education. Contributing to the relational trend in the social sciences, it first surveys relational scholarship across disciplines before providing a nuanced articulation of the relational research program and key concepts such as organizing activity, auctors, and spatio-temporal conditions. It also includes critical commentaries on the program from key figures such as Tony Bush, Megan Crawford, Fenwick English, Helen Gunter, Izhar Oplatka, Augusto Riveros, and Dawn Wallin. As such, the text models an approach to, or social epistemology for building knowledge claims in relation rather than through parallel monologues. - Publisher Description
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John Dewey
Designed specifically for teachers and education students, with carefully selected articles, lectures, and book chapters covering Dewey's major ideas.
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Academic inbreeding and mobility in higher education : global perspectives
\"Academic inbreeding - hiring and promoting one's own graduates - is generally seen as a negative for academic quality and for universities - it is considered as unhealthy for universities as it is in the natural world. Yet it is remarkably widespread across the globe. This book is the first full scale international analysis of the phenomenon of inbreeding. Research from eight countries (including Argentina, China, Japan, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain and Ukraine) where inbreeding is common examines the phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, tracking its causes: historical tradition, the lack of a national labour market, the limited number of advanced degree holders, and others. Research shows that inbred faculties are not necessarily less productive than their non-inbred peers, but that inbreeding seems to foster hierarchy and a lack of innovative ideas\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Students We Share
Millions of students in the US and Mexico begin their educations in
one country and find themselves trying to integrate into the school
system of the other. As global migration increases, their numbers
are expected to grow and more and more teachers will find these
transnational students in their classrooms. The goal of The
Students We Share is to prepare educators for this present and
future reality. While the US has been developing English as a
Second Language programs for decades, Mexican schools do not offer
such programs in Spanish and neither the US nor Mexico has prepared
its teachers to address the educational, social-psychological, or
other personal needs of transnational students. Teachers know
little about the circumstances of transnational students' lives or
histories and have little to no knowledge of the school systems of
the country from which they or their family come. As such, they are
fundamentally unprepared to equitably educate the \"students we
share,\" who often fall through the cracks and end their educations
prematurely. Written by both Mexican and US pioneers in the field,
chapters in this volume aim to prepare educators on both sides of
the US-Mexico border to better understand the circumstances,
strengths, and needs of the transnational students we teach. With
recommendations for policymakers, administrators, teacher
educators, teachers, and researchers in both countries, The
Students We Share shows how preparing teachers is our shared
responsibility and opportunity. It describes policies, classroom
practices, and norms of both systems, as well as examples of
ongoing partnerships across borders to prepare the teachers we need
for our shared students to thrive.
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Transforming Engagement, Happiness and Well-Being : Enthusing People, Teams and Nations
This book aims to help leaders maximise the engagement of employees and citizens by exploring the impact of a process of active enthusiasm (PACE). Engagement of employees has long been recognised as a key factor for organisational and national success. Yet, worldwide, engagement levels languish at only 25%. Providing a practical model, developed from in-depth global research, the authors show that engagement is continuous and cannot be assessed by annual surveys. Instead it demonstrates that it is specific to individuals and will only increase if employee perceptions are improved. Readers will discover how the PACE process model can be used to maximise employee engagement through the modification of primary causal factors, and consequently generate direct outputs such as increased productivity and reduced absenteeism. Transforming Engagement and Wellbeing provides an invaluable set of tools to help leaders enthuse their people and to improve individuals' optimism and propensity for engagement, making it essential reading for academics interested in human resource management, as well as managers, leaders and policy-makers.
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Get Real
Higher education always seems to be in crisis. Governments,
foundations, professional associations, and the occasional scornful
professor all tend to lament one or another problem plaguing
America's colleges and universities. The more apocalyptic claims
state that the United States is a \"nation at risk,\" that our
students' minds have been closed, or that radical faculty have run
amok and are brainwashing our youth. In Get Real , William
G. Tierney, a leading scholar of higher education, cuts through
this noise, drawing on his experience and expertise to provide a
thought-provoking overview of the many challenges confronting
higher education and how to deal with them. In forty-nine short,
engaging essays, he aims not to stoke the flames of controversy or
promote a particular stance but to provoke creative,
forward-looking public discussion about what higher education could
and should look like in the twenty-first century. Tierney clearly
distills and offers his take on critical issues-from diversity and
free speech to the rise of for-profit colleges and student debt-but
the goal is always to give readers the background and tools to form
their own opinions. Written in a conversational tone and laced with
personal anecdotes, Get Real is informed by scholarly
literature without being weighed down by it and includes
suggestions for further reading.
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Higher education systems redesigned
\"Brings together scholars and higher education system leaders to highlight concrete examples of system change and realignment to advance student success\"--. Contents: The evolution of higher education systems from regulators to facilitators to leaders of student success / Jonathan S. Gagliardi and Jason E. Lane -- Scaling up and scaling out : a framework for system-facilitated innovation in higher education / Jonathan S. Gagliardi -- A system perspective on scaling high-impact practices in higher education / Audrey Hovannesian and Ken O'Donnell -- Embracing disruption and new educational models to transform learning across higher education systems / Houston D. Davis and Myk Garn -- Predictive analytics and choice architecture and their role in system-scale student success : empowering a mobile advising tool across campuses / Tristan Denley -- The role of higher education systems in promoting educational innovation : developing a competency-based learning environment at scale / Steven Mintz -- Enabling the culture of academic innovation : lessons learned from a systemwide course redesign initiative / Joann A. Boughman and M.J. Bishop -- Driving student success collectively : lessons scaling from campuses to systems to a network of systems / Rebecca R. Martin and Jason E. Lane -- Navigating the messy business of multi-campus system change in higher education : a framework for implementation / Jason E. Lane and Jonathan S. Gagliardi.
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Racism, Public Schooling, and the Entrenchment of White Supremacy
The racial achievement gap in U.S. education is a pervasive and consistent problem, an unavoidable fact of public schooling in this country. Because This Is Not for Us is a multi-site critical race ethnography of policy and institutional relationships in an large urban West Coast school district, focused on the practices that created and sustain the achievement gap in that district's schools. In this daring and provocative work, author Sabina Elena Vaught examines how this gap, and the policies and practices that sustain it, is produced and reproduced by structures of racism and race attitudes operative in education. She interweaves numerous interviews with and observations of teachers, principals, students, school board members, community leaders, and others to describe the complex arrangement of racial power in schooling, and concludes that the institutional relationships that create and support policy practices ensure the continued undereducation of Black and Brown youth.
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The Principal's Office
The Principal's Office is the first historical examination
of one of the most important figures in American education.
Originating as a head teacher in the nineteenth century and
evolving into the role of contemporary educational leader, the
school principal has played a central part in the development of
American public education. A local leader who not only manages the
daily needs of the school but also represents district and state
officials, the school principal is the connecting hinge between
classroom practice and educational policy. Kate Rousmaniere
explores the cultural, economic, and political pressures that have
impacted school leadership over time and considers
professionalization, the experiences of women and people of color,
and progressive community initiatives. She discusses the
intersections between the role of the school principal with larger
movements for civil rights, parental and community activism, and
education reform. The school principal emerges as a dynamic
character in the center of the educational enterprise, ever
maneuvering between multiple constituencies, responding to
technical and bureaucratic demands, and enacting different
leadership strategies. By focusing on the historic development of
school leadership, this book provides insights into the
possibilities of school improvement for contemporary school leaders
and reformers.
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Children, Democracy, and Education
Looks at the present norms and practices of a new form of democratic education and children's democratic participation, utilizing both theoretical and empirical examination of children's deliberative agency.
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