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Leading Continuous Improvement in Schools Enacting Leadership Standards to Advance Educational Quality and Equity

Leading Continuous Improvement in Schools Enacting Leadership Standards to Advance Educational Quality and Equity

This volume provides a set of principles and systematic methods for improvement to help district and school leaders achieve the continuous improvement goals embedded in the Professional Standard for Educational Leadership (PSEL) and the National Educational Leadership Program (NELP) standards. Bringing the PSEL Standard 10 to life this book tackles the why how and what of continuous improvement through an equity lens. In the first section Leading Continuous Improvement in Schools provides an overall introduction to and rationale for continuous improvement situating current approaches to continuous improvement situating current approaches to continuous improvement in education within broader historical and sectoral contexts. The second section highlights how the tenets of improvement science – such as making iterative incremental evidence-based advancements; utilizing practical measurements; and acknowledging variability – position school and system leaders to adaptively integrate systematic and evidence-based approaches to change as part of ongoing organizational processes. The book concludes with a section that invites readers to consider leadership approaches that forward improvement work how leaders can build internal capacity to engage in improvement and how policy can support efforts to build and sustain the capacity for continuous improvement. Special features include beginning-of-chapter highlights end-of-chapter connections to standards and action inventories through each chapter. Overall the volume provides a focus on the continuous improvement aspects of the NELP and PSEL standards that serves as a bridge supporting students preparing to become educational leaders in their journey from learning about continuous improvement to learning how to lead continuous equity-oriented improvement work in their own contexts. | Leading Continuous Improvement in Schools Enacting Leadership Standards to Advance Educational Quality and Equity

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Transnational Enterprises Their Impact On Third World Societies And Cultures

Transnational Enterprises Their Impact On Third World Societies And Cultures

This book represents the first attempt to conceptualize the social and cultural impact of transnational enterprises on host nations and to provide empirical and analytical material on the subject. Well-known social scientists focus on three critical areas: social inequalities knowledge systems and lifestyles and values. Collectively they advance | Transnational Enterprises Their Impact On Third World Societies And Cultures

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Communication Yearbook 8

Communication Yearbook 8

The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems processes and impacts across the discipline. Sponsored by the International Communication Association each volume provides a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1984. | Communication Yearbook 8

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Communication Yearbook 10

Communication Yearbook 10

The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems processes and impacts across the discipline. Sponsored by the International Communication Association each volume provides a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1987. | Communication Yearbook 10

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Communication Yearbook 9

Communication Yearbook 9

The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse state-of-the-discipline literature reviews that advance knowledge and understanding of communication systems processes and impacts across the discipline. Sponsored by the International Communication Association each volume provides a forum for the exchange of interdisciplinary and internationally diverse scholarship relating to communication in its many forms. This volume re-issues the yearbook from 1986. | Communication Yearbook 9

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Socratic Questions New Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates and its Significance

Socratic Questions New Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates and its Significance

This book first published in 1992 introduces some of Socrates’ problems and some of the problems about him. It seeks at the same time to advance new views arguments and information on Socrates’ mission techniques ethics and later reception. From civil disobedience to ethics this collection provides stimulating discussions of Socrates’ life thought and historical significance. | Socratic Questions New Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates and its Significance

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The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise Clio Takes the Stand

The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise Clio Takes the Stand

This book scrutinizes the emergence of historians participating as expert witnesses in historical forensic contribution in some of the most important national and international legal ventures of the last century. It aims to advance the debate from discussions on whether historians should testify or not toward nuanced understanding of the history of the practice and making the best out of its performance in the future. | The Emergence of Historical Forensic Expertise Clio Takes the Stand

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The Third Indochina Conflict

The Third Indochina Conflict

The Third Indochina Conflict (1975-) is seen by some as the escalation of a local quarrel between Vietnam and Kampuchea; others attribute it to the attempts of external powers to advance their own interests by encouraging conflict among the various Indochinese states; most agree that it is a logical-but not inevitable-consequence of the First (1946-54) and Second (1959-75) Indochinese conflicts. The contributors to this book analyze the origins and development of the Third Indochinese Conflict and the problems posed by the complex issues involved.

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Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice

Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice

This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs. The book situates digital-era problems relative to those of previous sociotechnical milieux and argues that technical advance perennially embeds corrosive effects on social relations and relations of production recognizing variation across contexts and relative to entrenched societal hierarchies of race and other axes of difference and their intersections. Societal tolerance despite abundant evidence for harmful effects of digital technologies requires attention. The book explains blindness to social injustice by technocratic thinking delivered through education as well as truths embraced in the data sciences coupled with governance in universities and the private sector that protect these truths from critique. Institutional inertia suggests benefits of communitarianism which strives for change emanating from civil society. Scaling postcapitalist communitarian values through communitybased peer production presents opportunities. However enduring problems require critical reflection continual revision of strategies and active participation among diverse community citizens. This book is written with critical geographic sensibilities for an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and graduate and undergraduate students in the social sciences humanities and data sciences. | Algorithms and the Assault on Critical Thought Digitalized Dilemmas of Automated Governance and Communitarian Practice

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China the UN and Human Rights Implications for World Politics

China the UN and Human Rights Implications for World Politics

Addressing the problem of reconciling China’s voting record in the UN on human rights and repressive policy at home this book argues that domestic factors determine the way the Chinese government acts on wider human rights issues. China has a very active voting record in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on human rights resolutions and is active internationally on such rights something at odds with its increasing repression of human rights at home. Using rational choice’s emphasis on actors acting to advance their preferences the author argues that it is the perceived domestic threat to the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that determines the way the Chinese government acts on the human rights issues explored in this book. The author documents the pattern of this relationship through an in-depth examination of China’s voting in the UNGA on human rights issues and statements made by Chinese delegates in the UN on human rights issues. This book will appeal to students of China human rights international relations and international organizations and for both state and non-state actors seeking to advance policy changes regarding China and human rights. In addition the findings have policy implications for INGOs and states seeking to influence China’s policies. | China the UN and Human Rights Implications for World Politics

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Linguistics for Language Teachers Lessons for Classroom Practice

Linguistics for Language Teachers Lessons for Classroom Practice

This book is an accessible introduction to linguistics specifically tailored for teachers of second language/bilingual education. It guides teachers stepwise through the components of language focusing on the areas of linguistics that are most pertinent for teaching. Throughout the book there are opportunities to analyze linguistic data and discuss language-related issues in various educational and social contexts. Readers will be able to identify patterns in actual language use to inform their teaching and help learners advance to the next level. A highly readable account of how language works this book is an ideal text for teacher education courses. | Linguistics for Language Teachers Lessons for Classroom Practice

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The Overseers of Early American Slavery Supervisors Enslaved Labourers and the Plantation Enterprise

The Overseers of Early American Slavery Supervisors Enslaved Labourers and the Plantation Enterprise

Enmeshed in the exploitative world of racial slavery overseers were central figures in the management of early American plantation enterprises. All too frequently dismissed as brutal and incompetent they defy easy categorisation. Some were rogues yet others were highly skilled professionals farmers and artisans. Some were themselves enslaved. They and their wives with whom they often formed supervisory partnerships were caught between disdainful planters and defiant enslaved labourers as they sought to advance their ambitions. Their history revealed here in unprecedented detail illuminates the complex power struggles and interplay of class and race in a volatile slave society. | The Overseers of Early American Slavery Supervisors Enslaved Labourers and the Plantation Enterprise

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World Yearbook of Education 2017 Assessment Inequalities

World Yearbook of Education 2017 Assessment Inequalities

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on assessment systems and efforts to advance equity in education at a time of growing inequalities. It considers new economic trends and investigates how constraints appear to be influencing assessment and identification practices. The volume is organized around the following main issues: political motives behind the expansion of an assessment industry; the associated expansion of an SEN industry and; growth in consequential accountability systems. It ultimately seeks to provide reframings and reconceptualizations of assessment and identification by offering new insights into economic and cultural trends influencing them. | World Yearbook of Education 2017 Assessment Inequalities

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US Imperialism The Changing Dynamics of Global Power

US Imperialism The Changing Dynamics of Global Power

This book offers a broad and deep examination of the dynamics of US imperialism. Petras analyzes imperialism not only as economic domination showing that its impact in the world takes many forms including cultural political and historical. He points to the disruptive effects it has on other world regional economies and cultures. Capitalism and imperialism take diverse forms but both are intimately tied to the projection of state power in the service of capital—a strategy designed to advance the geopolitical and economic interests of the US economic elite and ruling class—interests that are equated with the 'US national interest'. | US Imperialism The Changing Dynamics of Global Power

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Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management An Educator's Handbook

Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management An Educator's Handbook

This book advances educational understanding and practice in Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management (OSHRM). It develops new theoretical perspectives on learning in OSHRM and introduces and evaluates a range of educational approaches methods and techniques to advance teaching and assessment and student learning in the field. Chapters are evidence-based and provide practical advice for enhancing the effectiveness of OSHRM programmes and courses in universities colleges and human resource development settings globally. With contributions from leading educators in OSHRM the book both advances understanding and provides practical guidance for the design of programmes courses and classes. Importantly it illustrates innovative classroom and virtual learning experiences that will secure student engagement; cultivate critical and creative thinking; and enhance students’ employability leadership and enterprise capabilities. A distinctive contribution of the book lies in the inclusion of student viewpoints on the understandings and educational advances proposed by the authors. Significantly the book demonstrates how recent changes affecting higher education such as globalisation mass participation and marketisation and most recently the pandemic crisis can be embraced as opportunities to advance both educational understanding and educational policy and practice in OSHRM. This book will be invaluable for university educators internationally in the fields of OSHRM and for HR developers working in management and leadership development and the book has relevance to both groups whatever their career stage from absolute beginners through to advanced practitioners. | Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management An Educator's Handbook

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Rethinking the American Animal Rights Movement

Rethinking the American Animal Rights Movement

Along with Civil Rights and Women’s liberation Animal Rights became one of leading social moments of the twentieth century. This book critically reviews all principal contributions to the American animal rights debate by activists campaigners academics and lawyers while placing animal rights in context with other related and competing movements. Rethinking the American Animal Rights Movement examines the strategies employed within the movement to advance its goals which ranged from public advocacy and legal reforms to civil disobedience vigilantism anarchism and even terrorism. It summarizes key theoretical and legal frameworks that inspired those strategies as well as the ideological motivations of the movement. It highlights the irreconcilable tension between moral and legal rights verses humane treatment of animals as prescribed by advocates of animal welfarism. The book also looks back to the nineteenth century origins of the movement examining its appeal to a sentimentalist conception of rights standing in marked contrast with twentieth century rights theory. After providing an extensive social history of the twentieth century movement the book subsequently offers a diagnosis of why it stalled at the turn of millennium in its various efforts to advance the cause of nonhuman animals. This diagnosis emphasizes the often-contradictory goals and strategies adopted by the movement in its different phases and manifestations across three centuries. The book is unique in presenting students activists and scholars with a history and critical discussion of its accomplishments failures and ongoing complexities faced by the American animal rights movement.

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A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness

A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness

This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the final crowning chapter of the Darwinian revolution by developing a philosophy for the science of animal consciousness. It advocates a Darwinian bottom-up approach that treats consciousness as a complex evolved and multidimensional phenomenon in nature rather than a mysterious all-or-nothing property immune to the tools of science and restricted to a single species. The so-called emergence of a science of consciousness in the 1990s has at best been a science of human consciousness. This book aims to advance a true Darwinian science of consciousness in which its evolutionary origin function and phylogenetic diversity are moved from the field’s periphery to its very centre thus enabling us to integrate consciousness into an evolutionary view of life. Accordingly this book has two objectives: (i) to argue for the need and possibility of an evolutionary bottom-up approach that addresses the problem of consciousness in terms of the evolutionary origins of a new ecological lifestyle that made consciousness worth having and (ii) to articulate a thesis and beginnings of a theory of the place of consciousness as a complex evolved phenomenon in nature that can help us to answer the question of what it is like to be a bat an octopus or a crow. A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness will appeal to researchers and advanced students interested in advancing our understanding of animal minds as well as anyone with a keen interest in how we can develop a science of animal consciousness.

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Mastering Objective-C A Beginner's Guide

Mastering Objective-C A Beginner's Guide

Mastering Objective-C is a detailed guide for beginners that gives a modern programmer’s viewpoint on Objective-C. It introduces the principles of Objective-C and current Apple programming skills and libraries allowing the reader to make the best use of the tools available. Concise and easy to understand this book covers many topics including an introduction to key concepts of language and primary toolkits as well as the Foundation and AppKit frameworks to help quickly advance with the necessary information. This book explains how to structure applications properly and organize code for optimum performance. The fundamental principles explained here are helpful to beginner and intermediate users interested in learning this highly technological and diverse language. | Mastering Objective-C A Beginner's Guide

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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics is written for those wanting to acquire comprehensive knowledge of China the diaspora and the Sino-sphere communities through Chinese language. It examines how Chinese language is used in different contexts and how the use of Chinese language affects culture society expression of self and persuasion of others; as well as how neurophysiological aspects of language disorder affect how we function and how the advance of technology changes the way the Chinese language is used and perceived. The Handbook concentrates on the cultural societal and communicative characteristics of the Chinese language environment. Focusing on language use in action in context and in vivo this book intends to lay empirical grounds for collaboration and synergy among different fields.

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Designing Personalized Learning Experiences A Framework for Higher Education and Workforce Training

Designing Personalized Learning Experiences A Framework for Higher Education and Workforce Training

Designing Personalized Learning Experiences offers theoretically grounded and pragmatic approaches to designing personalized learning initiatives for higher education and organizational contexts. With current research concluding that a multitude of variables can enable learners to direct their own experiences and achieve their goals new guidance is needed to hone the range of instructional approaches activities and interactions available to support adult learners. This book offers practical strategies on how to design and implement effective personalized learning interventions advance learning and engagement encourage ownership over the learning process and decrease attrition. Professionals in instructional design learning and development organizational development consultancies and beyond will be emboldened by the work to leverage a mix of technology-enabled social and content interactions. | Designing Personalized Learning Experiences A Framework for Higher Education and Workforce Training

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The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy

The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy

In The Artist-Philosopher and New Philosophy Smith argues that Western Metaphysics has indeed come to what Heidegger describes as “an end. ” That is hardly to say philosophy as such is over or soon to disappear; rather its purpose as a medium of cultural change and as a generator of history has run its course. He thus calls for a New Philosophy conceptualized by the artist-philosopher who “makes” or “poeticizes” New Philosophy spanning literary and theoretical discourses and operating across art in all its forms and across culture in all its locations. To this end Smith proposes the establishment of schools and social networks that advance the training and development of artist-philosophers as well as global digital networks that are themselves designed toward this “ever-becoming community. ”

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Writing Support for International Graduate Students Enhancing Transition and Success

Writing Support for International Graduate Students Enhancing Transition and Success

Using qualitative data collected from more than twenty universities across the US Writing Support for International Graduate Students describes and theorizes agency- and advocacy-driven practices programs and policies that are most effective in helping international students learn graduate-level writing and communication skills. It uses compelling narratives and cases to illustrate a variety of program models and support practices that fostered the students’ process of academic transition and success. Employing an ecological framework the book seeks to advance academic conversation about how writing scholars/instructors and program administrators as well as other academic service professionals working with this student body can formulate policies develop programs and implement practices that best help these students grow as writers and scholars in their disciplines. | Writing Support for International Graduate Students Enhancing Transition and Success

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Superpowers and Client States in the Middle East The Imbalance of Influence

Superpowers and Client States in the Middle East The Imbalance of Influence

This book first published in 1991 examines in detail superpower-client relations in the Middle East. The Middle East with its protracted and seemingly insoluble conflict and complex patterns of loyalty and hostility is the ideal setting for the study of such relationships. Using the USSR and Syria and the USA and Israel as case studies this book illuminates the extent of superpower influence on client states but also the real constraints on their exercise of that influence. In analysing specific contexts over this period the authors advance that tension between goals and constraints often favours the client state and that superpower relations are not those of dominance and subordination but bargaining relations in which clients have great leverage. | Superpowers and Client States in the Middle East The Imbalance of Influence

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