Educational administration and organization Books
Harvard Educational Publishing Group How to Change 5000 Schools: A Practical and
Book SynopsisIn How to Change 5000 Schools, Ben Levin, former deputy minister of education for the province of Ontario, draws on his experience overseeing major systemwide education reforms in Canada and England to set forth a refreshingly positive, pragmatic, and optimistic approach to leading educational change at all levels. Not long ago, public education in Ontario, Canada, was in deep trouble. Student achievement was stagnating, labor disruptions were rampant, and public satisfaction with the schools was low. In 2003, a new provincial government initiated a series of reforms that embodied a positive, outcome-focused agenda for public education. Today, student outcomes have improved, labor disruption has vanished, and teacher morale is high.
£25.46
Harvard Educational Publishing Group Transforming Public Education: Cases in Education Entrepreneurship
Book SynopsisFor nearly two decades, education entrepreneurs have been working to transform the K–12 public education system in the United States. “Social entrepreneurship” has become part of the language of a new generation of idealists, many of whom are focused on education. The nineteen cases in this book profile entrepreneurs who are pursuing opportunities to create pattern-breaking social change in our public schools—in particular, by creating high-quality educational opportunities for low-income and minority students who are dramatically underserved by the current public education system. Students are invited to explore four overarching questions: Why are there opportunities for entrepreneurs in a sector that is funded with public dollars and delivered by public agencies? Why is entrepreneurial activity aggregating around certain opportunities? What are the possibilities and constraints faced by entrepreneurs in each opportunity area? How can we evaluate the impact of these entrepreneurs’ efforts?
£45.00
Harvard Educational Publishing Group What Next?: Educational Innovation and
Book SynopsisWhen the school district of Philadelphia teamed up with the Microsoft Corporation in 2006 to redesign the American high school, the result was the School of the Future, hailed by National Public Radio as “the next big thing,” by Education Week as “a new high-tech school [that is] strutting its stuff,” and by NBC News as “next-generation education.” While technology was a crucial element at the School of the Future, the redesign sought fundamentally to rethink the models for teaching and learning. Their trademark framework for decision making, the “6Is”—introspection, investigation, inclusion, innovation, implementation, and, again, introspection—is now being used by organizations in more than fifteen countries.
£29.66
Harvard Educational Publishing Group Against the Odds: Insights from One District's
Book SynopsisAgainst the Odds offers an in-depth look at the Mapleton, Colorado, school district’s transformation of two traditional high schools into seven small schools, each enrolling fewer than four hundred students. This even-handed account chronicles both the heartening successes and frequent frustrations of a district-wide embrace of the small school model.
£26.06
Harvard Educational Publishing Group Inside School Turnarounds: Urgent Hopes, Unfolding Stories
Book SynopsisThe quest for school improvement is old. The demand for dramatic, immediate school improvement is new. Even as President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan commit $4.3 billion to making 5,000 of the nation’s worst-performing schools better now, few people know what that really looks like—or how it actually works. How do school and district leaders enact rapid and meaningful reform that truly transforms the lives and learning of their students? Inside School Turnarounds uses on-the-ground reporting and up-to-the-minute research to provide a compelling and insightful exploration of the work of school turnarounds. Veteran education journalist Laura Pappano gathers stories, ideas, emerging practices, and honest admissions about what has worked and what hasn’t for schools and districts caught in midstream as they navigate this uncertain journey. In the voices of administrators, teachers, children, and parents, Pappano’s book captures the joys and frustrations, passions and challenges of those responding to the unprecedented demands being placed on—and embraced by—turnaround schools.
£24.61
Harvard Educational Publishing Group Education Reform in New York City: Ambitious
Book SynopsisWritten in an accessible style by highly respected scholars, the papers in this volume document and analyse particular components of the Children First reforms, including governance, community engagement, finance, accountability, and instruction.The education reforms in New York City’s public schools begun under the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and School Chancellor Joel Klein have been among the most ambitious of any large urban system in the country. Aimed at instituting evidence-based practices to produce higher and more equitable outcomes for all students, the policies that comprise the Children First initiative represent an attempt at organisational improvement and systemic learning that is unparalleled in U.S. public education. The tremendous scope of the reforms, the multiple and interrelated challenges involved in their implementation, and their undeniable impact all underscore their importance in providing lessons for the field and in framing the conversation about the next level of work in district-based reform.The editors explore the theory of action behind each phase of reform, and examine the tensions and tradeoffs that played out as these reforms were implemented. Together, these thoughtful and thoroughly researched analyses promise to inform improvement in other urban systems and add to our understanding of systemic learning and change in education.Contributors include Stacey Childress, Sean P. Corcoran, Ronald F. Ferguson, Margaret E. Goertz, Eva Gold, Jeffrey R. Henig, Monica Higgins, Paul T. Hill, Ann Ishimaru, James J. Kemple, Henry M. Levin, Susanna Loeb, Marion Orr, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Megan Silander, Elaine Simon, Leslie Santee Siskin, Leanna Stiefel, Sola Takahashi, Joan E. Talbert, and Jim Wyckoff.
£28.76
Mason Publishing 1 2 3 University: Reflections on the First Fifty
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University of Nevada Press Success for All: Programs to Support Students
Book SynopsisWhile the most important measure of success for many degree-seeking students is the timely attainment of a Bachelor's degree, there remains a host of other indicators of student success that vary by student population and students' personal goals. Many of these smaller successes lead to the ultimate goal of graduation and are significant triumphs throughout the journey through higher education.Success for All is a strategic guide for administrators and educators that offers methods for advising students through the myriad of challenges they face. Every bit of success contributes to the accomplishment of a larger goal, and this book highlights success at every level. It provides a specific roadmap to the research, services, and programs at the University of Nevada, Reno and Truckee Meadows Community College that support student success in undergraduate and graduate programs regardless of a student's social, emotional, or prior academic experiences. Contributors discuss how to make students feel welcome in their social and educational environments and how to directly assist them with the timely completion of their degree. Administrators and educators demonstrate how these programs help make a positive contribution to the students and the institutions they serve while implementing practical solutions to increase graduation rates.Table of Contents An Introduction to SuccessForeword Introduction to Success at TMCC Introduction to Success at UNR Part I—Success Beyond the Traditional Classroom 1. Home Means Nevada: Students from Across the Country Attend Davidson Academy 2. The Shapes and Sizes of Success at Community Colleges 3. Creating Credential Milestones for Student Success 4. Financial Aid: Fostering Student Success 5. Obscure Beginnings to a National Model: Fitness and Recreational Sports' Role in Student Success 6. Residence Hall Students Earn Higher GPAs and Have a Higher Graduation Rate: Here's Why 7. Dispelling Myths of Studying Abroad 8. How to Engage Gen Z? Reinventing Programs to Maximize Student Participation in Group Advising Part II—Success Through Outreach 9. Dean's Future Scholars: Mentoring Makes College Possible 10. NevadaFIT Academic Bootcamps: A Recipe for Student Success 11. Closing the Achievement Gap with Nevada First in the Pack 12. The Trio Scholars Program: Addressing the Needs of Low-Income, First-Generation College Students Using a Three-Pronged Approach 13. Rising by Lifting Others: Peer Mentorship Among Students with Disabilities 14. The Journey to Seamless Transfer 15. GradFIT: Fully Inclusive Training for Diverse Graduate Students 16. The McNair Scholars Program: Augmenting Undergraduate Research Involvement and Graduate School Preparedness Part III—Success Through Tutoring 17. The Changing Face of Tutoring 18. Using Inclusion as a Lens to Support Student Success at Our Writing & Speaking Center 19. The University Math Center 20. Testing Out of Remedial Math 21. Student Success at the DRC: Math 19 — The Leap from Anxiety to Achievement Part IV—Success Through Undergraduate Research 22. The College Completion Gap: A Nationwide Snapshot 23. Assessment and Success: The Role of Foundational Competencies24. The Undergraduate Research Program at the University of Nevada 25. On the Road to Success: Achieving an Honors Education at the University of Nevada, Reno 26. Student Media Drive Journalism Student Success Part V—Success with the UNRSOM 27. School of Medicine's Post-Baccalaureate Program 28. School of Medicine's Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) Program 29. Wellness Initiatives to Support Student Success in Medical Schools Afterword: College Success Community College Student Perspective Index
£28.46
Myers Education Press Transforming Identities: How an EdD Program
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£30.40
Myers Education Press The Importance of the Dissertation in Practice
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£31.16
Myers Education Press Win-Win: W. Edwards Deming, the System of
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£30.40
Myers Education Press How to Retain Special Education Teachers
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£35.20
Rutgers University Press Crisis Leadership in Higher Education: Theory and
Book SynopsisThere was a time when crises on college and university campuses were relatively rare. Much has changed, and it has changed quite rapidly. Rather than being isolated incidents requiring the sole attention of presidents, chancellors, or communication professionals, the proliferation of crises across campuses means that crisis leadership has now become fundamental to the work of university personnel across levels, disciplines, and institutions. Drawing upon the findings of forty interviews with senior leaders from ten major research universities across the United States and a content analysis of over one thousand articles from a variety of news outlets, Crisis Leadership in Higher Education presents a theory-informed framework for academic and administrative leaders who must navigate the institutional and environmental crises that are most germane to institutions of higher education. The perspectives offered in this book remind us that it is in the chaos and uncertainty of crisis that leadership becomes most visible and most critical.Trade Review“In this time of rapid change in higher education, it is incumbent upon every academic leader to know how to act effectively in a crisis. Sound crisis leadership saves careers, keeps academic institutions from being weakened or destroyed, and helps protects the students those institutions serve. I believe that every administrator and faculty leader should be acquainted with the ideas presented in Crisis Leadership in Higher Education: Theory and Practice and be prepared to adopt the framework it presents as a means of preserving the integrity of their universities, colleges, and programs.” -- Jeffrey L. Buller * author of The Essential Academic Dean or Provost: A Comprehensive Desk Reference *"If ever there was a book for its time, Crisis in Higher Education: Theory and Practice by Ralph Gigliotti is it. The crises befalling higher education today are coming fast and furious, and the demands placed upon academic leaders are numerous. Crisis management requires a highly coordinated effort, a heightened sensitivity to context, serving the needs of multiple constituencies, and seamless execution. Dr. Gigliotti’s book is a rich study of the most current academic crises, a practical exploration of the lessons learned, and a competencies scorecard that is a valuable tool. Although leadership in higher education has historically been a neglected area of research, Ralph Gigliotti admirably steps in to fill that gap. This book is a must read for leadership scholars and academic practitioners alike." -- Gail T. Fairhurst * author of The Power of Framing: Creating the Language of Leadership *“The issue of crisis communication is vital in today's historical moment. Crisis Leadership in Higher Education is unlike any book I’ve ever seen, blending the voices of administrators with the literature on crisis in order to offer insights that will be valuable to the community of academic administrators.” -- Janie Harden Fritz, Ph.D., author of Professional Civility * editor of Journal of the Association for Communication Administration *"Read this book. Now. If you wait until you need it to address a crisis, you may end up finding yourself with lots of unintended time to read it and to consider options that might have led to better outcomes." -- Robin Kaler * Associate Chancellor for Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *"When a college or university is plunged into crisis—whether by deeds of its own making or by circumstances beyond its control—the very future of the institution may seem to hang in the balance and the quality of its leadership is tested as never before. Drawing masterfully upon interviews with forty senior leaders from major research universities and upon an exhaustive survey of news stories, Ralph Gigliotti has given us both a path-breaking analysis of higher education crises and a remarkably insightful guide to surviving and surmounting them." -- President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of History and Education, Rutgers University * Richard McCormick, Ph.D. *"Selected New Books on Higher Education" compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/247370 * Chronicle of Higher Education *"The Best Way to Prepare for Disaster: Crisis Leadership and Higher Ed" interview with Ralph Gigliotti https://evolllution.com/managing-institution/operations_efficiency/the-best-way-to-prepare-for-disaster-crisis-leadership-and-higher-ed/ * The Evolllution *"Crisis Leadership and the Higher Education Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak" by Ralph Gigliotti https://evolllution.com/managing-institution/operations_efficiency/crisis-leadership-and-the-higher-education-response-to-the-covid-19-outbreak/ * The Evolllution *"This book offers something for everyone. The interview data from senior-level higher education administrators creates a certain intimacy. The real-life case studies and crisis headlines convey real urgency facing crisis leaders. The literature review and content analysis of crisis articles give credit to the relationship between scholarship and practice. With the end-of-chapter exercises, opportunities are abundant for self- and organizational reflective practice. In reviewing this book, I was drawn to the professional inference, especially in light of our doctoral program creating a new course focusing on crisis leadership. However, this book offers much more than a course reading—it allows for professional retrospections, personal remembrances relative to how one defines or describes crisis, and how and why one engages in certain decisions/actions/responses during specific events/situations." * The Department Chair *"Post-pandemic: The power of crisis management planning," by Alaina G. Levine * Science Magazine *Table of ContentsContents 1 The Landscape of Crisis in Higher Education: Introduction and Context 2 The Social Construction of Crisis in Higher Education: The Perception of Crisis, the Reality of Crisis 3 The Process of Defining and Labeling Phenomena as Crises 4 The Characterization and Categorization of Crises in Higher Education 5 Centrality of Communication in the Theory and Practice of Crisis Leadership 6 Crisis Adaptation of Leadership Competencies Scorecard for Leaders in Higher Education 7 Implications for Effective Crisis Leadership in Higher Education Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Back in School: How Student Parents Are
Book SynopsisFifty years ago, students who were parents were a rarity in college classrooms, but by the beginning of the twenty-first century, over a quarter of all undergraduate students were parents. In Back in School, A. Fiona Pearson explores how these student parents navigate cultural norms and institutional resources, forging pathways as they journey to become better parents and successful students. Back in School examines how policy makers, professors, college administrators, counselors, and social workers provide or deny access to child care, tutoring, financial aid, or other campus- or community-based resources. Pearson further explores how social norms and governmental and organizational policies influence access to these resources and student parents’ experiences on campus and at home.Trade Review"Rich in history and policy, Back in School is a strong cultural analysis of the ways that student parents understand their own decisions to return to higher education. A compelling read!" -- Lisa Nunn * author of Defining Student Success: The Role of School and Culture *"In this thoughtful study of student parents, Pearson shows us the assumptions, organization, and values embedded in contemporary college education -- and the costs to all of us." -- Barbara Katz Rothman * author of A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization *Chronicle of Higher Education 'Selected New Books on Higher Education' compiled by Ki-Jana Deadwyler and Ruth Hammond https://www.chronicle.com/article/Selected-New-Books-on-Higher/246666 * Chronicle of Higher Education *"A meticulously researched, deftly written, accessibly organized and presented work of exceptional scholarship and relevancy." * Midwest Book Review *"Pearson’s study is a significant contribution to existing scholarship on student populations in general and student parents in particular. Insightful, well-written, and accessible, it is an ideal choice for undergraduate and graduate courses in sociology, gender studies, education, and public policy. In addition, it would be an excellent choice for faculty, support staff, and administrators who wish to further their understanding of the realities and needs of America’s increasingly diverse postsecondary student population." * Academe *"This small book is surprisingly ambitious in the reach of its argument; it is highly recommended for all those concerned with the future direction of policy around the further expansion of higher education." * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsContents 1 "We're Not Living in the Old School Anymore:" Student Parents on Campus 2 The American Dream?: Expanding Opportunities & The Changing University 3 "I'm Just Looking for Some Kind of Understanding:" Academic Resources and Campus Culture 4 What Students Want and Why 5 Weaving Existing and New Identities at Home 6 False Promises?: Go to College, Get a Job 7 "It's a Marathon, Not a Sprint:" Final Thoughts Appendix Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£26.35
Rutgers University Press Campus with Purpose: Building a Mission-Driven
Book SynopsisWhen Stephen Lehmkuhle became the chancellor of the brand-new University of Minnesota-Rochester campus, he had to start from scratch. He did not inherit a legacy mission that established what the campus did and how to do it; rather, he needed to find a way to rationalize the existence of the nascent campus. Lehmkuhle recognized that without a shared understanding of purpose, the scope of a new campus expands at an unsustainable rate as it tries to be all things to all people, and so his first act was to decide on the driving purpose of the campus. He then used this purpose to make decisions about institutional design, scope, programs, and campus activities. Through personal and engaging anecdotes about his experience, Lehmkuhle describes how higher education leaders can focus on campus purpose to create new and fresh ways to think about many elements of campus operation and function, and how leaders can protect the campus’s purpose from the pervasive higher education culture that is hardened by history and habit.Trade Review"This book provides the rare opportunity to see how an inaugural chancellor and his colleagues created an agile, responsive institution. It pushes leaders in higher education to think broadly about our purposes, look in the mirror and acknowledge what we can do better, and ask the hard questions to help us adapt to changing times." -- Freeman Hrabowski * President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County *"Campus with Purpose is a fascinating read that draws upon the rich knowledge that Stephen Lehmkuhle amassed as the inaugural chancellor at the University of Minnesota, Rochester. The author’s experiences are important examples for other university leaders, proving that presidents can create change rather than manage change." -- Robert Zemsky * author of Checklist for Change: Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise *"Why Does This Campus Exist Today? Start Planning with This Question," by Stephen Lehmkuhle * Academic Leader *"Redesigning the University by David J. Staley," by Melissa Morris-Olson * Ingenious *Building a Purpose-Driven Campus from Scratch with University of Minnesota-Rochester Chancellor Emeritus Dr. Stephen Lehmkuhle * IngenioUs podcast *Table of ContentsContents Preface 1 The Interview 2 Why Does the Campus Exist? 3 Building a Campus with Purpose: Managing the Past and the Future 4 Structure with Purpose 5 Buildings versus Space 6 Building and Flying the Plane at the Same Time 7 What I Learned about Students and Faculty 8 Leading by Purpose in Higher Education 9 Closing Comments Epilogue: Purpose and Innovation Notes Index
£20.69
Rutgers University Press Campus with Purpose: Building a Mission-Driven
Book SynopsisWhen Stephen Lehmkuhle became the chancellor of the brand-new University of Minnesota-Rochester campus, he had to start from scratch. He did not inherit a legacy mission that established what the campus did and how to do it; rather, he needed to find a way to rationalize the existence of the nascent campus. Lehmkuhle recognized that without a shared understanding of purpose, the scope of a new campus expands at an unsustainable rate as it tries to be all things to all people, and so his first act was to decide on the driving purpose of the campus. He then used this purpose to make decisions about institutional design, scope, programs, and campus activities. Through personal and engaging anecdotes about his experience, Lehmkuhle describes how higher education leaders can focus on campus purpose to create new and fresh ways to think about many elements of campus operation and function, and how leaders can protect the campus’s purpose from the pervasive higher education culture that is hardened by history and habit.Trade Review"This book provides the rare opportunity to see how an inaugural chancellor and his colleagues created an agile, responsive institution. It pushes leaders in higher education to think broadly about our purposes, look in the mirror and acknowledge what we can do better, and ask the hard questions to help us adapt to changing times." -- Freeman Hrabowski * President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County *"Campus with Purpose is a fascinating read that draws upon the rich knowledge that Stephen Lehmkuhle amassed as the inaugural chancellor at the University of Minnesota, Rochester. The author’s experiences are important examples for other university leaders, proving that presidents can create change rather than manage change." -- Robert Zemsky * author of Checklist for Change: Making American Higher Education a Sustainable Enterprise *"Why Does This Campus Exist Today? Start Planning with This Question," by Stephen Lehmkuhle * Academic Leader *"Redesigning the University by David J. Staley," by Melissa Morris-Olson * Ingenious *Building a Purpose-Driven Campus from Scratch with University of Minnesota-Rochester Chancellor Emeritus Dr. Stephen Lehmkuhle * IngenioUs podcast *Table of ContentsContents Preface 1 The Interview 2 Why Does the Campus Exist? 3 Building a Campus with Purpose: Managing the Past and the Future 4 Structure with Purpose 5 Buildings versus Space 6 Building and Flying the Plane at the Same Time 7 What I Learned about Students and Faculty 8 Leading by Purpose in Higher Education 9 Closing Comments Epilogue: Purpose and Innovation Notes Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Digital Me: Trans Students Exploring Future
Book SynopsisThe internet is where trans people have come to become. Creating an identity in digital space can be important for how trans people learn about themselves, their communities, and the possibilities available to them. While the internet and digital space is not the only way of coming to understand oneself in a community, it is a space of liberatory possibility and creativity. There is room to invent what may not yet exist for gender on the edges of what many consider to be “real.” For many, digital life can be the site of play, joy, and connection –even while the internet is not a harm-free space nor universally available. This book seeks to understand the complexities at play in the digital realm and the implications that have for gender, digital life, and higher education.Trade Review"A smart, useful and frankly overdue study of gender-marginalized people finding self and building community in the chaotic spaces of social media, online cultures, and digital platforms that permeate our lives." -- Susan Stryker * Author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution *"Digital Me is an exciting, timely contribution to ongoing academic and public conversations about the role of the internet in trans and queer lives. With a fresh set of data to work with, the authors richly theorize the online worlds of trans self-making and community-building. I trust this will soon become a dependable resource for trans college students and those who care about them." -- V Varun Chaudhry * Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University *“Although institutions of higher education have been important producers of queer and trans theories of gender, those theories have not led to radical changes in how institutions organize themselves as spaces of white, cis gendered, heteronormativity. In response the authors ask what might the future of higher education look like if we take seriously the world and self-making creativity of trans students? A deeply moving book, Digital Me bears witness to the cultivation of online trans lives, and provides sustenance, for students and teachers alike, for those who want to expand the world building possibilities of trans life and knowledge.” -- Victoria Hesford * Author of Feeling Women's Liberation *Table of ContentsPart I Logging On Introduction 1 Searching for Ourselves Online Part II Trans(form)ing Online 2 The Internet as Spatial 3 The Internet as Temporal 4 The Internet as Affective 5 The Internet as Sartorial 6 The Internet as Communal 7 The Internet as Visual Part III Prismatic Possibilities 8 The Multiplicity of Trans Life Online Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£23.79
Rutgers University Press Digital Me: Trans Students Exploring Future
Book SynopsisThe internet is where trans people have come to become. Creating an identity in digital space can be important for how trans people learn about themselves, their communities, and the possibilities available to them. While the internet and digital space is not the only way of coming to understand oneself in a community, it is a space of liberatory possibility and creativity. There is room to invent what may not yet exist for gender on the edges of what many consider to be “real.” For many, digital life can be the site of play, joy, and connection –even while the internet is not a harm-free space nor universally available. This book seeks to understand the complexities at play in the digital realm and the implications that have for gender, digital life, and higher education.Trade Review"A smart, useful and frankly overdue study of gender-marginalized people finding self and building community in the chaotic spaces of social media, online cultures, and digital platforms that permeate our lives." -- Susan Stryker * Author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution *"Digital Me is an exciting, timely contribution to ongoing academic and public conversations about the role of the internet in trans and queer lives. With a fresh set of data to work with, the authors richly theorize the online worlds of trans self-making and community-building. I trust this will soon become a dependable resource for trans college students and those who care about them." -- V Varun Chaudhry * Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University *“Although institutions of higher education have been important producers of queer and trans theories of gender, those theories have not led to radical changes in how institutions organize themselves as spaces of white, cis gendered, heteronormativity. In response the authors ask what might the future of higher education look like if we take seriously the world and self-making creativity of trans students? A deeply moving book, Digital Me bears witness to the cultivation of online trans lives, and provides sustenance, for students and teachers alike, for those who want to expand the world building possibilities of trans life and knowledge.” -- Victoria Hesford * Author of Feeling Women's Liberation *Table of ContentsPart I Logging On Introduction 1 Searching for Ourselves Online Part II Trans(form)ing Online 2 The Internet as Spatial 3 The Internet as Temporal 4 The Internet as Affective 5 The Internet as Sartorial 6 The Internet as Communal 7 The Internet as Visual Part III Prismatic Possibilities 8 The Multiplicity of Trans Life Online Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Stepping Away: Returning to the Faculty After
Book SynopsisIn no other professional field do senior leaders habitually return to the rank-and-file workforce in the twilight of their careers. Corporate CEOs rarely conclude their working lives by resuming the duties of a mid-level account executive; on the verge of retirement, four-star generals do not return to the infantry. But in academia former senior leaders often conclude their careers by reprising the roles and responsibilities of a professor. Until now, leaders and institutions have been left to navigate these transitions on their own—often learning hard lessons that might have been avoided. Stepping Away moves beyond the well-worn clichés of “stepping down” to examine how senior leadership role changes impact individuals and the institutions they serve. Drawn from empirical research involving more than fifty college presidents, provosts, and deans, this book delivers fresh understanding of the challenges and opportunities leaders face as they assume a new place in the social architecture of their campus. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, Stepping Away translates research into practical strategies that leaders can use to make this change successfully, providing guidance about when to speak up and when to remain quiet, how to develop new relationships, where to office, whether to apply for new jobs, and how to use their knowledge and skills to add value to their campus communities, on-campus and off.Table of ContentsList of “Collected Wisdom” Foreword by Leo M. Lambert 1 Stepping Away 2 Studying Administrative Transitions in the Modern American University 3 First Steps: Look as You Leap 4 The Messy Middle: Making a Transition Is Making Choices 5 “Working for Myself”: Life after Administration 6 Reimagining Leaders, Reimagining Leadership Acknowledgments Appendix: Interview Protocols Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Not Alone: LGB Teachers Organizations from 1970
Book SynopsisBetween 1970 and 1985, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) educators publicly left their classroom closets, formed communities, and began advocating for a place of openness and safety for LGB people in America's schools. They fought for protection and representation in the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, as well as building community and advocacy in major gay and lesbian teacher organizations in New York, Los Angeles, and Northern California. In so doing, LGB teachers went from being a profoundly demonized and silenced population that suffered as symbolically emblematic of the harmful “bad teacher” to being an organized community of professionals deserving of rights, capable of speaking for themselves, and often able to reframe themselves as “good teachers.” This prescient book shows how LGB teachers and their allies broadened the boundaries of professionalism, negotiated for employment protection, and fought against political opponents who wanted them pushed out of America's schools altogether.Trade Review"In this important book, Mayernick gives us new insights into LGB teachers organizing for political change in the 1970s and 1980s. Combining educational history, labor history, and LGB history, the book analyzes how teachers actively fought for equal rights at national, state, and local levels." -- Margaret Nash * professor, University of California, Riverside *"Maynerick shows how LGB educators used unions to make it possible to be an openly gay teacher for the first time in the United States. As LGBT people’s presence in education faces renewed attacks, Not Alone provides strategies and hope from the past for making schools safer for them today." -- Michael Hevel * associate professor of higher education, University of Arkansas *Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Value of Teachers 1 The National Education Association: Teacher Sexuality and Professionalism 2 The American Federation of Teachers: Negotiating National Union Policy 3 The Gay Teachers Association of New York: Community and Relationships 4 California and the Image of LGB Teachers Conclusion: Recurring Themes Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£28.90
Rutgers University Press Not Alone: LGB Teachers Organizations from 1970
Book SynopsisBetween 1970 and 1985, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) educators publicly left their classroom closets, formed communities, and began advocating for a place of openness and safety for LGB people in America's schools. They fought for protection and representation in the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, as well as building community and advocacy in major gay and lesbian teacher organizations in New York, Los Angeles, and Northern California. In so doing, LGB teachers went from being a profoundly demonized and silenced population that suffered as symbolically emblematic of the harmful “bad teacher” to being an organized community of professionals deserving of rights, capable of speaking for themselves, and often able to reframe themselves as “good teachers.” This prescient book shows how LGB teachers and their allies broadened the boundaries of professionalism, negotiated for employment protection, and fought against political opponents who wanted them pushed out of America's schools altogether.Trade Review"In this important book, Mayernick gives us new insights into LGB teachers organizing for political change in the 1970s and 1980s. Combining educational history, labor history, and LGB history, the book analyzes how teachers actively fought for equal rights at national, state, and local levels." -- Margaret Nash * professor, University of California, Riverside *"Maynerick shows how LGB educators used unions to make it possible to be an openly gay teacher for the first time in the United States. As LGBT people’s presence in education faces renewed attacks, Not Alone provides strategies and hope from the past for making schools safer for them today." -- Michael Hevel * associate professor of higher education, University of Arkansas *Table of Contents List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Value of Teachers 1 The National Education Association: Teacher Sexuality and Professionalism 2 The American Federation of Teachers: Negotiating National Union Policy 3 The Gay Teachers Association of New York: Community and Relationships 4 California and the Image of LGB Teachers Conclusion: Recurring Themes Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£107.20
Rutgers University Press Unequal Choices: How Social Class Shapes Where
Book SynopsisHigh-achieving students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to end up at less selective institutions compared to their socioeconomically advantaged peers with similar academic qualifications. A key reason for this is that few highly able, socioeconomically disadvantaged students apply to selective institutions in the first place. In Unequal Choices, Yang Va Lor examines the college application choices of high-achieving students, looking closely at the ways the larger contexts of family, school, and community influence their decisions. For students today, contexts like high schools and college preparation programs shape the type of colleges that they deem appropriate, while family upbringing and personal experiences influence how far from home students imagine they can apply to college. Additionally, several mechanisms reinforce the reproduction of social inequality, showing how institutions and families of the middle and upper-middle class work to procure advantages by cultivating dispositions among their children for specific types of higher education opportunities.Trade Review“This book provides an engaging analysis of how students from different class backgrounds think about college, focusing not on the information available but how students make sense of it. By analyzing students’ college choices in terms of their own meaning-making, Lor provides important insights into the opportunities and constraints that shape those choices. People interested in the divergent college pathways of students from lower- and upper-socioeconomic status students, and in supporting students as they embark on college search processes, will find much to learn from here.” -- Elizabeth M Lee * Author of Class and Campus Life: Managing and Experiencing Inequality at an Elite College (Cornell U *"Yang Lor’s Unequal Choices necessarily complicates how we understand the college choice process and the role social class plays in shaping students’ perceptions of themselves, the options available in the vast higher education landscape, and how they ultimately arrive at choosing one college over another." -- W. Carson Byrd * Author of Poison in the Ivy: Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Camp *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Frames of College Attendance 24 Frames of College Preparation 48 Schemas of Colleges 71 Narratives of Interdependence and Independence 97 Conclusion 119 Acknowledgments 131 References 133 Index 000
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Rutgers University Press Whither College Sports: Amateurism, Athlete
Book SynopsisIntercollegiate athletics is under assault from all sides. Its economic model is yielding increasing and unsustainable deficits and widening inequality. Coaches and athletic directors are the highest paid employees at FBS universities (NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision) by factors of five to ten, or more. Athletes are being cheated on their promised education, do not receive adequate medical care, and are not allowed to receive cash income. Substantial change, either toward reasserting the intended primacy of education for intercollegiate athletes or a further surrender to commercialism, is coming. This book lays out the starkly different paths that college sports reform can follow and what the ramifications will be on the athletes and on the institutions in which they are enrolled. Trade Review“When our attentions turn to the economic, legal and political issues impacting sports, there has been no more consistently credible source than Andy Zimbalist. Whither College Sports is the latest addition to his impressive and valuable body of work.” -- Bob Costas"Professor Zimbalist is at the top of his game with this fascinating look inside the biggest economic, social, and legal issues facing college sports in the United States. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand the multibillion-dollar college sports industry." -- Gabe Feldman * editor of The Sports Lawyers Journal *"The leading sports economist in the country lends his considerable talents to the timely titular subject, Whither College Sports, including the three phenomena that will shape the future of this uniquely American institution: ever-increasing commercialization and budget shortfalls, athletes' image-likeness rights, and sports gambling. Zimbalist's collection is a must for academics, students, and policymakers working on these issues, but also for those who love—or love to hate—college sports intelligently." -- Doriane Coleman * author of Torts: Doctrine and Process *"Andrew Zimbalist: What's Next For College Sports?" * Sportico *"NILs, Surrogate Markets And The Future Of College Sports" * Forbes *“When our attentions turn to the economic, legal and political issues impacting sports, there has been no more consistently credible source than Andy Zimbalist. Whither College Sports is the latest addition to his impressive and valuable body of work.” -- Bob Costas"Professor Zimbalist is at the top of his game with this fascinating look inside the biggest economic, social, and legal issues facing college sports in the United States. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to better understand the multibillion-dollar college sports industry." -- Gabe Feldman * editor of The Sports Lawyers Journal *"The leading sports economist in the country lends his considerable talents to the timely titular subject, Whither College Sports, including the three phenomena that will shape the future of this uniquely American institution: ever-increasing commercialization and budget shortfalls, athletes' image-likeness rights, and sports gambling. Zimbalist's collection is a must for academics, students, and policymakers working on these issues, but also for those who love—or love to hate—college sports intelligently." -- Doriane Coleman * author of Torts: Doctrine and Process *"Andrew Zimbalist: What's Next For College Sports?" * Sportico *"NILs, Surrogate Markets And The Future Of College Sports" * Forbes *Table of ContentsIntroduction Section 1: Academic Papers 1. Taxation of College Sports: Policies and Controversies Andrew Zimbalist 2. Reforming College Sports: The Case for a Limited and Conditional Antitrust Exemption Jayma Meyer and Andrew Zimbalist 3. A Win Win: College Athletes get Paid for their Names, Images, and Likenesses and Colleges Maintain the Primacy of Academics Jayma Meyer and Andrew Zimbalist 4. The Impact of College Athletic Success on Donations and Applicant Quality Benjamin Baumer and Andrew Zimbalist Section 2: Position Papers by Drake Group 1. The ‘Big Five’ Power Grab: The Real Threat to College Sports Brian Porto, Gerald Gurney, Donna A. Lopiano, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, Mary Willingham, and Andrew Zimbalist 2. Why the NCAA Academic Progress Rate (APR) and the Graduation Success Rate (GSR) should be Abandoned and Replaced with More Effective Academic Metrics Gerald Gurney, Donna A. Lopiano, Mary Willingham, Jayma Meyer, Brian Porto, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, and Andrew Zimbalist 3. Fixing the Dysfunctional NCAA Enforcement System Brian Porto, Gerald Gurney, Donna Lopiano, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, Mary Willingham, and Andrew Zimbalist 4. College Athlete Health and Protection from Physical and Psychological Harm Donna Lopiano, Janet Blade, Gerald Gurney, Sheila Hudson, Brian Porto, Allen Sack, David Ridpath and Andrew Zimbalist 5. Compensation of College Athletes Including Revenues Earned from Commercial Use of Their Names, Images and Likenesses and Outside Employment Brian Porto, Gerald Gurney, Donna Lopiano, B. David Ridpath, Allen Sack, Julie Sommer, Mary Willingham & Andrew Zimbalist Section 3: Op Eds 1. Unionizing Is Proof That College Athletics Need to Be Reformed Andrew Zimbalist 2. College Coaches’ Salaries and Higher Education Andrew Zimbalist 3. Time for a Presidential Panel to Investigate College Sports Andrew Zimbalist 4. Paying College Athletes: Take Two Andrew Zimbalist 5.Antitrust Exemption may aid College Sports’ Untenable Situation Andrew Zimbalist 6. The N.C.A.A.’s Women Problem Andrew Zimbalist 7. Big-Time College Basketball in the Cross Hairs Andrew Zimbalist 8. In The End, Commission's Reform Suggestions Only Provide A Smokescreen Of Legitimacy For The NCAA Andrew Zimbalist 9. One and Done: Take Two Andrew Zimbalist 10. How Financial Pressures Can Lead to Athletic Scandals Andrew Zimbalist 11. Female Athletes Are Undervalued, In Both Money and Media Terms Carrie N. Baker, Emma Seymour and Andrew Zimbalist 12. The Collegiate Sports Model Is Broken: It Needs Help Andrew Zimbalist 13. Sports Being on Hiatus Gives the NCAA an Opportunity to Rethink the Structure of College Sports Andrew Zimbalist, Gerry Gurney and Donna Lopiano 14. Has Higher Education Lost Its Mind? Donna Lopiano and Andrew Zimbalist 15. Theater of the Absurd and the Immoral: College Football 2020 Donna Lopiano and Andrew Zimbalist 16. Rutgers’ Athletics Deficit Reveals the Hidden Caste In The College Sports Hierarchy Andrew Zimbalist Index
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Rutgers University Press Black and Smart: How Black High-Achieving Women
Book SynopsisEven academically talented students face challenges in college. For high-achieving Black women, their racial, gender, and academic identities intensify those issues. Inside the classroom, they are spotlighted and feel forced to be representatives for their identity groups. In campus life, they are isolated and face microaggressions from peers. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, Davis addresses the significance of the various identities of high-achieving Black women in college individually and collectively, revealing the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions and in social interactions on and off campus. Based on interviews with collegiate Black women in honors communities, Black and Smart analyzes the experiences of academically talented Black undergraduate women navigating their social and academic lives at urban historically white institutions and offers strategies for creating more inclusive academic and social environments for talented undergraduates. Table of Contents1. Students Like Jada: Invisible High-Achieving Black Women 2. Beyond Black and Smart 3. Learning While Black and Brilliant 4. Thriving and Threats in Campus Life 5. Performing Authentic Identities 6. Implications for Practice and Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes Building Cultures Valparaiso: Pedagogy, practice
Book SynopsisBuilding Cultures Valparaiso takes a critical look at how pedagogy, practice and poetry are brought together at one of the most influential schools of architecture of the past 50 years: the School of Architecture and Design of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso in Chile. The editors have brought together research on the origins of the school, on the role that poetry plays in teaching and practice, and on the school’s larger historical place in the context of a global out-break of radical architectural teaching in the late 1960’s. Contributors come from both within and outside of the school and include Beatriz Colomina, David Jolly Monge and Gerald Wildgruber. In addition to original research, Building Cultures Valparaiso includes a collection of student drawings from the early years of the Valparaiso School’s Open City, a 270 hectare stretch of land along the Pacific Ocean that serves as a laboratory for living and working together. These drawings provide an insight into how the philosophy of the school translates into the making of architecture. Through its exploration of the Valparaiso School’s radical approach to teaching and making, Building Cultures Valparaiso serves as a guide for all those interested in an experimental vision of architecture. Table of ContentsIntroduction Sony Devabhaktuni 1. El camino no es el camino: Some Reflections on the Valparaíso School and its Architectural Teaching Patricia Guaita and Cornelia Tapparelli 2. Precarious Middle Ground: Some Remarks on the Presence of Hölderlin in Writings Associated with the Open City Gerald Wildgruber 3. A Pursuit for a `Change of Life:’ Pedagogical Experiences, Poetic Occupations and Historical Frictions Ignacio González Galán 4. Radical Pedagogies: Notes Towards a Taxonomy of Global Experiments Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio González Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris and Anna-Maria Meister 5. Open City Notebook Sony Devabhaktuni 6. 8 Projects in the Open City, 1973 David Jolly Monge
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Being an Interdisciplinary Academic: How Institutions Shape University Careers
Book SynopsisThis book highlights the importance of interdisciplinarity in the academic landscape, and examines how it is understood in the context of the modern university. While interdisciplinarity is encouraged by research funders, academics themselves receive mixed messages about how, when and whether to follow this route. Building upon a series of career history interviews with established interdisciplinary researchers, the author reveals fundamental misunderstandings about the nature of interdisciplinary knowledge, how this is shared, and the skills these researchers bring. The book addresses these issues on both a personal and systemic level, identifying how a resilient researcher can craft their own research trajectory to view interdisciplinarity as a truly embedded approach. Trade Review“Her book is both more reflective and more heavily researched and documented than the short memoranda prepared with colleagues, and is rewarding just for the citations alone.” (Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed, insidehighered.com, August 2, 2019)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Mixed messages for the interdisciplinary research community.- Chapter 2. "What am I?": The path to becoming an interdisciplinary academic.- Chapter 3. "Are you one of us?" How institutions impact interdisciplinary careers.- Chapter 4. The nets we weave: Consequences for interdisciplinary capacity building.- Chapter 5. Facilitating serendipity?.- Chapter 6. Towards new logics of interdisciplinarity.- Chapter 7. Conclusion: "The funding can only do so much".
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Innovative Leadership in Times of Compelling
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the need of leaders in professional and personal realms to understand the importance of innovative thinking to safeguard sustainability and enhance satisfaction and motivation among stakeholders in organizations. It provides professionals with a set of reflective stances, cautionary points, and roadmaps that enable them to do the right thing. From crisis management to spiritual practices, and from pro-social concepts to social responsibility and sustainability: the common denominator is a collective and concerted effort to develop leadership behaviors and strategies to safeguard generations to come.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Awakened Leadership: Leading With Light.- Chapter 2. Mindfulness as a Strategy to Weather Challenges.- Chapter 3. Inclusive Leadership in a Creatively Compelling World.- Chapter 4. Leading Reflectively: Treading the Noble Eightfold Path.- Chapter 5. Innovative Leadership: Tools and Techniques to Acquire Innovative and Inspiring Ideas.- Chapter 6. Transcending Emerging Barriers Through Patience.- Chapter 7. ‘the Soft Overcomes the Hard’ – Inspirations for Leadership in the 21st Century From Daoism.- Chapter 8. Nurturing Empathy.- Chapter 9. Inclusive Leadership in a Creatively Compelling World.- Chapter 10. Understanding and Reformulating Mental Models.- Chapter 11. Nurturing Sustainability as a Future-Oriented Strategy.- Chapter 12. Letting Go as a Liberation.- Chapter 13. Leading With a Moral Compass.- Chapter 14. Leadership as Merit Making: the Case of Myanmar and Applications for Western Organizations.- Chapter 15. Living the Power Shift in Business and Beyond: The World Needs a New Understanding of Power.- Chapter 16. Crisis Preparedness as a Sustainability Strategy.- Chapter 17. Imagination and Communication Toward Future Realization.- Chapter 18. Heading for the Future With the Proper Mindset.- Chapter 19. Nurturing Creativity in a Culture of Care.- Chapter 20. Community-Based Responsible Leadership and Social Value Creation in Social Enterprise Context.- Chapter 21. Design Thinking in Contemporary Political Leadership: Lessons Learned From Angela Merkel.- Chapter 22. The Futureperfect Organization—Driven by Quantum-Thinking.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Primary and Secondary Education During Covid-19:
Book SynopsisThis open access edited volume is a comparative effort to discern the short-term educational impact of the covid-19 pandemic on students, teachers and systems in Brazil, Chile, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. One of the first academic comparative studies of the educational impact of the pandemic, the book explains how the interruption of in person instruction and the variable efficacy of alternative forms of education caused learning loss and disengagement with learning, especially for disadvantaged students. Other direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic diminished the ability of families to support children and youth in their education. For students, as well as for teachers and school staff, these included the economic shocks experienced by families, in some cases leading to food insecurity and in many more causing stress and anxiety and impacting mental health. Opportunity to learn was also diminished by the shocks and trauma experienced by those with a close relative infected by the virus, and by the constrains on learning resulting from students having to learn at home, where the demands of schoolwork had to be negotiated with other family necessities, often sharing limited space. Furthermore, the prolonged stress caused by the uncertainty over the resolution of the pandemic and resulting from the knowledge that anyone could be infected and potentially lose their lives, created a traumatic context for many that undermined the necessary focus and dedication to schoolwork. These individual effects were reinforced by community effects, particularly for students and teachers living in communities where the multifaceted negative impacts resulting from the pandemic were pervasive. This is an open access book.Table of ContentsLearning from a pandemic.The impact of COVID-19 on education around the world.- Experiences with risk-management and remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: crises, destitutions, and (possible) resolutions.- The fragility of the school-in-pandemic in Chile.- Experiences of moving quickly to distance teaching and learning at all levels of education in Finland.- Covid-19 and Education on the Front Lines in Japan: What Caused Learning Disparities and How did the Government and Schools Take Initiative?.- COVID-19 and post-pandemic educational policies in Mexico. What is at stake?.- Homeschooling in Norway during the Pandemic - Digital learning with unequal access to qualified help at home and unequal learning opportunities provided by the school.- The Portuguese educational policy to ensure equity in learning in times of crises.- General Education in Russia During COVID-19: Readiness, Policy Response, and Lessons Learned.- Science, Social Responsibility, and Education: The Experience of Singapore During the COVID-19 Pandemic.- The Spanish Response to The Covid-19 Pandemic: From joint governance to Lack of governance.- The Impact of COVID-19 on a Fragile Education System: The Case of South Africa.- COVID-19 and U.S. Schools: Using Data to Understand and Mitigate Inequities in Instruction and Learning.- Ambitious and sustainable post-pandemic workplace design for teachers: A portrait of the Arizona teacher workforce.- Education In the Time Of COVID-19 In France, Ireland, The United Kingdom and The United States: Nature and Impact of Remote Learning.- The Unequal Impacts of COVID-19 on Student Learning.- Conclusions and Implications.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Principles of Leadership in School Psychology
Book SynopsisThis book provides a long overdue conceptual framework for integrating evidence-based principles of school psychology leadership across NASP (National Association of School Psychologists) domains of practice. It explicates the myriad ways in which school psychologists can and should serve as leaders across the NASP domains, examines the leadership role of school psychologists within each NASP domain, and presents both historical and contemporary contexts of the domains of practice. Key areas of coverage include: Concrete examples of school psychologists as leaders in the field. Spearheading initiatives and service delivery models involving consultation and collaboration. Academic intervention planning. Behavioral and mental health services. Crisis intervention and prevention. Consultation, program evaluation, and ethics of professional practice. The book offers a cogent framework for practitioners and trainers of school psychologists to further integrate principles of leadership into their work in the field. The volume culminates with a discussion of the role of school psychologists as advocates for the practice through legislative and social justice policy.Principles of Leadership in School Psychology is an essential resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as professionals in school and clinical child psychology, educational policy and practice, and social work as well as all interrelated disciplines.Table of ContentsChapter1. Theoretical Models of Leadership.- Chapter2. School Psychology Leadership in Academic Intervention.- Chapter3. School Psychology Leadership in Multitiered Systems of Support.- Chapter4. School Psychology Leadership in Behavioral and Mental Health Intervention and Consultation.- Chapter5. School Psychology Leadership in Crisis Intervention and Prevention.- Chapter6. School Psychology Leadership in Ethics and Professional Practice.- Chapter7. School Psychology Leadership for Marginalized Clients.- Chapter8. School Psychology Leadership in Advocacy for the Profession.- Chapter9. School Psychologists as Leaders for Social Justice.- Chapter10. Implications for Training.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Youth Participation and Learning: Critical
Book SynopsisThis book contributes to the studies on learning processes occurring outside “traditional” socialization settings such as family and school, by analysing civic and political participation and learning experiences. In this perspective, the book delves into the connections between the concepts of learning and participation and, in various ways and from different perspectives, critically interrogates learning and participation as interrelated phenomena, with the aim of revealing complexities implicated in pathways to adulthood. Being interdisciplinary in its nature (contributors come from disciplinary backgrounds such as educational sciences, child and youth studies, social work, sociology and political science), the volume provides an up-to date analysis of contemporary issues connected to youth participation and learning. The work taps into central areas of everyday life of young people and youth meaning-making and generates and presents qualitative knowledge about what it means to be young in Europe today.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Youth participation and learning.- Chapter 2. Three major challenges in young people´s political participation and a pragmatic way forward.- Chapter 3. Learning to participate in and through conflict.- Chapter 4. Professionalization of Youth Volunteering in Turkey: A case study.- Chapter 5. Youth Participation and Mediation Practices: Issues of Social Learning.- Chapter 6. Participation through Learning: Supporting Young People in Exile.- Chapter 7. The theatre as a laboratory of creativity and chaos: youth participation and informal processes of multidimensional learning.- Chapter 8. Mimesis and sharing: learning political imagination in everyday interactions.- Chapter 9. What do young people learn in formal settings of youth participation?.- Chapter 10. Politics of re-framing: Youth and the struggle for equal participation in the urban peripheries of Sweden.- Chapter 11. Young People’s Spatial Practices as a Key to a different Perspective on Participatory Educational Landscapes - Reflections on Graffiti and Parkour.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG School Leadership between Community and the
Book SynopsisThis book presents changes in UK and global educational governance in the context of a radical shift in the operating logics of politics and its interaction with education. Beginning from the colonial origins of political interest in education, the author traces a fundamental shift in the patterns of governance of schools in England in the opening decades of the 21st century. Operating through the logics of public choice economics involving both real markets and quasi-markets, policy reforms have increasingly framed school values, and the value of schooling, in line with a politically determined and nostalgic discourse of ‘British values’. This stands in contrast to a previous focus on ‘community cohesion’ which foregrounded school partnership with the parent community and wider society. Tracing the processes and mid-level actors mediating between government and school leaders, the author identifies processes of recontextualisation through which policy can be reinscribed and resisted.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance.- Chapter 2. Post-Historical Institutionalism.- Chapter 3. Leadership and Community.- Chapter 4. Schools, Leadership and the Law.- Chapter 5. School Leadership and the Market.- Chapter 6. Leadership and the Political State.- Chapter 7. Conclusions.- Chapter 8. Epilogue—From the Political to the Undifferentiated./
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Springer International Publishing AG Integrating a Social Determinants of Health
Book SynopsisThe purpose of this ground-breaking Textbook is to describe and illustrate, with pedagogical features, the process by which social determinants of health (SDOH) has been integrated throughout all courses in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Specifically, the authors describe initial steps to develop a comprehensive SDOH model for nursing education, followed by rigorously designed faculty educational materials, exemplars of SDOH instructional materials, and evaluation of this process from faculty and students. It describes a comprehensive framework that guides the development, implementation, and evaluation of SDOH across the pre-licensure and post-licensure curriculum and illustrate the process integrating SDOH throughout all aspects of didactic, simulation, and clinical education. Among the subjects addressed, the history of nursing and SDOH and the value of SDOH content in nursing courses to alleviate health disparities are described and mandates to integrate SDOH content into nursing curriculum by the leading nursing organizations are summarized. The authors also include a review of existing SDOH frameworks used in public health and medicine and present a comprehensive SDOH model for nursing education. A SDOH educational course content for faculty is detailed (Social Determinants of Health 101) and exemplars from faculty and students are provided along with an evaluation after the first year. The authors conclude with a discussion from faculty leadership; what they learned and their suggestions to other nursing programs. Although there are books published, no books exist on this topic for nursing education and practicing nurses, yet SDOH is foundational to nursing curriculum and practice. The leading nursing organizations are all mandating that SDOH be integrated into nursing courses. Hence this textbook will be a key resource for Schools of Nursing in the US and globally. The intended audience of this book are leaders and faculty of nursing education programs, national professional nursing organizations, practicing nurses at hospitals and health systems, community and public health agencies, and ambulatory care.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Social Determinants of HealthChapter 2 Integrating a Social Determinants of Health Framework into Nursing EducationChapter 3 Canvas Faculty Development SiteChapter 4 Curriculum Mapping: Integrating Social Determinants of Health within Nursing EducationChapter 5 SDOH in action: Exemplars of incorporating SDOH content in entry-level and advanced-level nursing educationChapter 6 Evaluating Social Determinants of Health Integration in Nursing CurriculaChapter 7 Aligning SDOH Pillars to Learning Outcomes and AssessmentsChapter 8 Lessons Learned
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Springer International Publishing AG Public Education in Turbulent Times: Innovative
Book SynopsisPublic Education in Turbulent Times communicates a bold vision for the future of education, addressing the evolving purpose of American public education and the structural innovations schools are using to meet the needs of a rapidly transforming world. Highlighting key challenges that emerged during the immense economic and social disruptions of recent years, the book leverages case studies of four unique school districts where school communities overcame concerns high in the public consciousness – trauma, danger, economic inequality, and racial injustice. These obstacles have hampered efforts to reclaim lost learning opportunities that could define the educational experiences of a generation of students. If educators revert to business as usual, they risk dismissing essential lessons from resilient schools that thrived in the chaos of a global pandemic and its fallout. This book provides rich insights to refocus readers’ attention on achieving a more equitable and safe education system for the future.Table of ContentsPart I Looking Back to Look Ahead1. Introduction2. Giving Voice to the ChallengesPart II Stories of Education in Trying Times3. Education in a Time of Trauma: A Story of Resilience4. Education in a Time of Danger: A Story of Choice5. Education in a Time of Need: A Story of Community6. Education in a Time of Change: A Story of JusticePart III On Reimagining Education7. The Circle Model8. Reimagine Where Schools Fit: Purpose and Context9. Reimagine How Schools Work: Structures and Personnel10. Conclusion: Innovation and Inclusion
£23.74
Springer Nature Switzerland Designing Democratic Schools and Learning
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Springer-Verlag GmbH Breaking Barriers to Doctoral Education
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Antidiskriminierungspädagogik: Konzepte und Methoden für die Bildungsarbeit mit Jugendlichen
Book SynopsisAntidiskriminierungspädagogik ist eine relativ junge Strategie, die sich zum einen für einen respektvollen Umgang mit Vielfalt einsetzt und zum anderen ein entschiedenes Eintreten gegen Diskriminierung und Herabwürdigung befördert. Das Konzept will junge Menschen befähigen mit Differenzen umgehen zu lernen, die aus sozialen Unterschieden resultieren und über die gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen, die die Konstruktion dieser Differenzen ergeben, aufklären. Der Band bietet Pädagoginnen und Pädagogen praxisorientiertes und umfassendes Werkzeug, um im beruflichen Handeln Ausgrenzung und Exklusion zu thematisieren und gegen diese vorzugehen.Table of ContentsDiskriminierung und Gesellschaft - Perspektiven auf Diskriminierung - Mehrdimensionalität von Diskriminierung und Identität - Antidiskriminierung als Mainstreaming im Schulalltag - Pädagogische Konzepte gegen Diskriminierung - Theoretische Grundlagen - Rolle von PädagogInnen - Themenvertiefung und Methoden - Literatur-, Material- und Kontakthinweise - Glossar
£56.99
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Demografischer Wandel, Bildungspolitik und
Book SynopsisDemografische Einbrüche stellen Bildungssysteme moderner Gesellschaften vor neue Herausforderungen. Rückgänge der Schülerzahlen ziehen dennoch nicht zwangsläufig Schulschließungen und Personalabbau mit sich. Der Blick nach Polen zeigt alternative Umgangsweisen mit demografischer Schrumpfung im Bildungssektor sowie ihre Folgen für die Lehrerbeschäftigung. Infolge expansiver Strategien im Bildungsbereich konnten Schließungstendenzen der internen Arbeitsmärkte des öffentlichen Dienstes überwunden und Einstellungssperren für junge Lehrer vermieden werden.Table of ContentsTheoretische Erklärungsansätze der Beschäftigungspolitik im öffentlichen Dienst.- Das polnische Bildungssystem im Wandel: Demografie, Struktur und Arbeitsrecht.- Schulaufsicht, Gewerkschaften und Gemeinde als Mitgestalter der Personalpolitik in polnischen, öffentlichen Schulen.- Exkurs: Schulschließungen.- Demografischer Wandel und weitere Bedingungen zur Lehrerbeschäftigung.- Wie reagieren Lehrerarbeitsmärkte auf demografische Schrumpfung?.- personalpolitische Reaktionsweisen auf Schrumpfung in polnischen öffentlichen Schulen.- Lehrerarbeitsmärkte in Zeiten demografischer Schrumpfung: alte Muster, neue Herausforderungen, nichtintendierte Folgen.
£36.09
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Ganztagsschulen in lokalen Bildungsnetzwerken
Book SynopsisMit der Einrichtung von Ganztagsschulen verbindet sich ein enormes Potenzial: Schulen könnten mit ihren Kompetenzen und Kapazitäten zur Aufwertung von Stadtteilen beitragen, könnten Bildungsverständnis und soziales Kapital verstärken und moderne Lebensstile und Lebensformen unterstützen. Umgekehrt könnten die Öffnung für die Nachbarschaft und die Vernetzung mit anderen Institutionen die Schule von erdrückender Überforderung entlasten und dazu beitragen, dass sie ihrem Bildungsauftrag wieder gerecht werden kann. Zahlreiche Probleme verhindern jedoch in der Praxis die Ausschöpfung dieses Potentials. Die AutorInnen haben an sechs verschiedenen Schulstandorten untersucht, welche Schwierigkeiten die positiven Effekte von vernetzten Ganztagsschulen bisher behindern und zeigen auf, welche Chancen in Schulentwicklung und Stadtteilvernetzung liegen.Table of ContentsSchulen im Stadtteil.- Institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen für Ganztagsschulen und ihre Partner.- Kooperation und Vernetzung von Ganztagsschulen und Partnern im Stadtteil.- Stadtteilvernetzung von Ganztagsschulen: Potenziale und Probleme.- Schulentwicklung und Stadtteilvernetzung: Aussichten und Perspektiven.
£31.34
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Innovationen im Bildungswesen: Analytische
Book SynopsisDas Ziel des Bandes ist ein Versuch, die Educational Governance-Perspektive systematisch mit der sich in der Erziehungswissenschaft nunmehr etablierenden Innovationsforschung zu verknüpfen. Der Band möchte die Produktivität möglicher Verknüpfungen von Educational Governance und sozialwissenschaftlicher Innovationsforschung eruieren. Verbunden mit dieser Themenstellung ist die grundlegende These, dass der Begriff der Innovation eine bisherige Leerstelle im Begriffsgebäude der Educational Governance zu markieren und füllen vermag. Im Band konzeptionell zusammengestellt sind Forschungsbeiträge, die sich dem Thema des Entstehens und Etablierens von Neuerungen im Bildungswesen aus unterschiedlichen theoretischen Perspektiven und verschiedenen forschungsmethodischen Ansätzen nähern. So bietet der Band auch einen systematischen Überblick über aktuelle Felder und Befunde der bildungssystembezogenen Innovationsforschung.Table of ContentsInnovation, Differenz und Integration.- Innovationen als Gegenstand oder Ergebnis von Veränderungen.- Innovieren als zielgerichtete Tätigkeit des Veränderns.- Wandel als emergenter Innovationsprozess.- Innovativität als Eigenschaft von Systemen und Personen.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Leadership - What Really Matters: A Handbook on Systemic Leadership
Book SynopsisWhat does really matter for daily leadership? How would a good and effective manager be characterized? Daniel F. Pinnow describes in a very illustrative way the essentials of collaborating with people in the business environment. This standard reference book exists as a 4th edition in German and is also available in Chinese. It provides a comprehensive and easy-to-understand overview over the most important leadership approaches in theory and practice. The credo of the author is: Leadership is an art of creating a world where others would love to join in.Table of ContentsLeadership in the 21st century.- Leadership in a time of crisis?.- Occupation or calling.- What makes for good leadership?.- Considering the whole.- Leading with your heart and head.- The instruments of systemic leadership: Employee interview, Coaching, Conflict management, Feedback culture, Goal-setting process, Delegating, Team development.- Ten central theses about leadership.
£55.79
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Wenn Experten in die Schule kommen:
Book SynopsisDas Buch befasst sich mit der Beratung von Schulen bei ihrer Entwicklungsarbeit durch externe Experten: Was bewirken Unternehmensberater, was Pädagogische Berater, wenn sie in Schulen aktiv werden? Drei theoretische Zugänge – die Beratungstheorie, die Schulentwicklungstheorie und das Konzept von Educational Governance – bilden den Rahmen. Präsentiert werden Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung, die erstmals Erkenntnisse zur externen Schulentwicklungsberatung in Deutschland zur Verfügung stellt. Das DFG-geförderte Forschungsprojekt liefert auf der Basis von Befragungs- und Fallstudiendaten umfassende Informationen zu Rahmenbedingungen, zur Gestaltung, zum Ablauf und zu den Effekten der externen Schulentwicklungsberatung.Table of ContentsTheoretische Einbindung.- Fragestellungen und methodisches Vorgehen.- Häufigkeiten und Erscheinungsformen externe Schulentwicklungsberatung.- Unternehmensberater und schulische Organisationsentwicklung.- Schulpraktiker als Berater für Unterrichtsentwicklung.- Systematischer Fallvergleich und theoretische Einordnung – Konsequenzen für die Schulentwicklung.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Schlüsselkompetenz personale Kontrolle:
Book SynopsisUnternehmen und ihre Mitarbeiter schauen heute hoffnungsvoll auf Schlüsselkompetenzen. Die Fähigkeit, sich weiterzuentwickeln, ist ausschlaggebend für den Erfolg ganzer Volkswirtschaften geworden. Was können Personalentwickler und Bildungsverantwortliche in der Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung dafür tun? Personale Kontrolle ist die Schlüsselkompetenz, die den Zugang schafft. Handlungsnah, ökonomisch und doch auf alle Lebensbereiche übertragbar, hilft Personale Kontrolle nicht nur beim Erreichen von Unternehmens- und Karrierezielen. Sie reguliert das selbständige Lernen im Alltag, beim Blended Learning und auch in Krisenzeiten. Empirische Studien zeigen außerdem: Wer personale Kontrolle gezielt fördert, der eröffnet den Weg in eine Erfolgsspirale des Lernens.Table of ContentsPsychologische Ansätze zu beruflicher Bildung und Entwicklung.- Personale Kontrolle als Schlüsselkompetenz.- Untersuchung zu Kontrollverhalten in beruflichen Bildungsmaßnahmen.- Kontrollverhalten aus-, fort- und weiterbilden.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Kooperationsmanagement in der Praxis:
Book SynopsisDas Gelingen komplexer Kooperationen ist eine zentrale Herausforderung des 21. Jahrhunderts, die sich in einer globalisierten Wirtschaft und in fast allen Politikfeldern widerspiegelt. Ob Flughafenausbau, Gesundheitsreform, Reform des Bildungssystems oder Abbau von Staatsverschuldung: Die Komplexität solcher gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen erfordert ein anspruchsvolles Zusammenspiel von unterschiedlichen Organisationen und Institutionen aus Verwaltung, Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft zum Teil über Ländergrenzen und Kontinente hinweg. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH verfügt über mehr als 30 Jahre Erfahrung in der Gestaltung von Kooperationen weltweit und hat ihr umfassendes Know-how in diesem Buch konsolidiert. Das Managementmodell Capacity WORKS richtet sich an alle, die selbst in Kooperationskontexte eingebunden sind: an Führungskräfte, Manager oder Berater in Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und Politik, sowie im Non-Profit-Bereich. Es bietet eine umfassende Einführung in die Herausforderungen erfolgreichen Kooperationsmanagements und liefert bewährte Vorgehensweisen für die Praxis. Fünf Erfolgsfaktoren beschreiben die verschiedenen Facetten, die helfen, die Ziele und Wirkungen komplexer Kooperationssysteme im Blick zu behalten: Strategie, Kooperation, Steuerungsstruktur, Prozesse sowie Lernen und Innovation werden konzeptionell durchdrungen und durch eine umfangreiche Toolbox ergänzt, um die praktische Arbeit in diesen Erfolgsfaktoren zu unterstützen. Gleichzeitig liefert dieses Handbuch einen umfassenden Einblick in die Welt des Kooperationsmanagements für nachhaltige Entwicklung mit zahlreichen Praxisbeispielen, erprobten Anwendungskontexten sowie Einblicken in die Arbeit der internationalen Zusammenarbeit. Table of ContentsZiele und Wirkungen.- Erfolgsfaktor Strategie.- Erfolgsfaktor Kooperation.- Erfolgsfaktor Steuerungsstruktur.- Erfolgsfaktor Prozesse.- Erfolgsfaktor Lernen und Innovationen.- Toolbox: Übersicht und Blickrichtungsfragen.- Zitationen.- Verzeichnis der Abbildungen.- Verzeichnis der Arbeitshilfen.- Danksagung.-
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Netzwerke im Bildungswesen: Eine Einführung in
Book Synopsis‚Netzwerke im Bildungswesen‘ liefert als Einführung und Lehrbuch einen umfassenden Überblick über die Methoden und Befunde sozialwissenschaftlicher Netzwerkanalysen mit Bezug auf Bildungsinstitutionen und Bildungsprozesse. Zudem werden Ansätze und Erfolgskriterien zur Gestaltung von Netzwerkprojekten aufgezeigt, wie sie im deutschen Bildungssystem aktuell wichtig und verbreitet sind. In der Auseinandersetzung mit den zum Teil konkurrierenden und konzeptionell widersprüchlichen Ansätzen zielen die Autor_innen dieser Einführung auf eine sensiblere Verwendung des Netzwerkbegriffs im öffentlichen wie auch im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs zur Schulreform.Table of ContentsNetzwerke als Analysegegenstand.- Netzwerkgestaltung im Bildungswesen.- Netzwerke zwischen Theorie und Praxis.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Governance von Bildung im Wandel:
Book SynopsisIn den letzten Jahren sind tiefgreifende Veränderungen der institutionellen Regelungsstrukturen der europäischen Bildungssysteme zu beobachten. Inzwischen hat sich mit der Educational Governance ein eigenständiger Forschungsbereich etabliert, der sich der Transformation von Steuerungsformen im Bildungsbereich zuwendet. Ziel des vorliegenden Bandes ist die Analyse der veränderten Governance-Praxen. Die Aufmerksamkeit der empirischen Beiträge ist dabei vor allem auf national und sektoral unterschiedliche Prozesse und Wirkungen von Governance-Modi gerichtet. Darüber hinaus werden theoretische und methodische Weiterentwicklungen der interdisziplinär verstandenen Educational-Governance-Forschung zur Diskussion gestellt.Table of ContentsGovernance-Forschung: Leistungen, Grenzen, Differenzierungen.- Empirische und historische Beiträge zur Governance-Forschung.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Erfolg in der Sozialen Arbeit: Im Spannungsfeld
Book SynopsisDie vorliegende Arbeit untersucht und analysiert die makro- und mikropolitischen Prozesse, Interessenlagen, Strategie- und Machtoptionen der beteiligten Akteure im Hinblick auf die komplexe Erfolgs- und Effektivitätsdiskussion in der Sozialen Arbeit. Den qualitativen Zugang liefern die aktuellen Entwicklungen in der Eingliederungshilfe für behinderte Menschen im Lichte der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention. Ansatzpunkt weitergehender Analysen stellt die Hypothese dar, dass die am Dienstleistungsprozess beteiligten Akteure sich nicht nur von fachlichen Argumenten bei der spezifischen Definition von erfolgreicher und effektiver Arbeit leiten lassen, sondern individuelle, politische, ökonomische und professionelle Interessen eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Dies hat weitreichende Folgen für das Professionsverständnis Sozialer Arbeit und nicht zuletzt für die „Kunden“ sozialer Dienstleistungsbringung.Table of ContentsEffektivität und Effizienz Sozialer Arbeit.- Eingliederungshilfe für behinderte Menschen.- Sozialrechtliches Dreieckverhältnis.- Ökonomisierung Sozialer Arbeit.- Transformation der Wohlfahrtsproduktion.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Analyse der Wissenskommunikation in einer
Book SynopsisAlexander Wohlwender analysiert wesentliche Bedingungsfaktoren der Wissenskommunikation in ihrem Zusammenhang mit verschiedenen Formen der Wissenskommunikation in einer Matrixorganisation. Wissen und dessen Kommunikation sind in den komplexen Problemstellungen der heutigen Arbeitswelt essentielle Erfolgsfaktoren für die Wissensnutzung und damit für den kompletten Produktentstehungsprozess. Die detaillierten Zusammenhänge zwischen den Bedingungsfaktoren der Wissenskommunikation und deren Beziehung zur Wissensnutzung fanden in komplexen Organisationsstrukturen bisher aber wenig Beachtung. Untersuchungsgegenstand ist eine Forschungs- und Entwicklungsabteilung einer Organisation in der Luftfahrtindustrie.Table of ContentsWissenskommunikation in Organisationen und in der Matrixorganisation.- Untersuchung der synchronen und asynchronen, formellen und informellen Wissenskommunikation.- Implikationen für Forschung und Praxis.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Gestión de la Cooperación en la Práctica: Diseñar
Book SynopsisLa Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH cuenta con más de 30 años de experiencia en el diseño de cooperaciones en todo el mundo, y ha condensado su extensa gama de conocimientos en esta obra. El modelo de gestión Capacity WORKS se dirige a todas aquellas personas involucradas en contextos de cooperación: personal directivo, responsables o asesores del sector privado, de la administración pública, del ámbito de la política y del sector sin fines de lucro. Provee una introducción completa a los retos que plantea una gestión exitosa de la cooperación y ofrece procedimientos de probada eficacia para la práctica. Sus cinco factores de éxito describen distintas facetas, cuya perspectiva ayuda a mantener a la vista los objetivos y resultados de sistemas de cooperación complejos: analiza las bases conceptuales de la estrategia, la cooperación, la estructura de conducción, los procesos y el aprendizaje e innovación, y las completa con una amplia caja de herramientas que prestan apoyo en el trabajo práctico con estos factores de éxito. El presente manual ofrece asimismo un acercamiento amplio y profundo al mundo de gestión de la cooperación para el desarrollo sostenible, con numerosos ejemplos prácticos de distintos contextos , así como un acercamiento a la labor de la cooperación internacional.Table of ContentsPrólogo.- Introducción.- El modelo Capacity WORKS en síntesis.- Objetivos y resultados.- Factor de éxito Estrategia.- Factor de éxito Cooperación.- Factor de éxito Estructura de Conducción.- Factor de éxito Procesos.- Factor de éxito Aprendizaje e Innovación.- Caja de herramientas.- Citas.- Índice de figuras.- Índice de fichas de trabajo.- Agradecimientos.
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