Karen Robert: 61 books
Keeping and Improving Today's School Leaders
Retaining and Sustaining the Best
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
With dwindling funds and resources, tougher state and federal standards, and fatigue from more regulations and testing, many school administrators are giving up_or 'crashing' and leaving their posts. This book examines the process of sustaining and retaining quality leaders at the school and district...
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence
Applying a Model for Democratic Professional Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Renewed Accountability for Access and Excellence advances discussion of a conceptualized model for cultivating democratic professional practice in education (DPPE) and considers its relationship with contemporary teaching and leading praxes. A diverse and highly qualified group of scholars and practitioners...
Innovations in Child and Family Policy
Multidisciplinary Research and Perspectives on Strengthening Children and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that are considered to be at the heart of child and family policy: family creation, economic support, childrearing, and family care-giving. Innovations begins by defining child and family policy and discussing...
Roman Catholicism in the United States
A Thematic History
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
The essays written by established and newer scholars seeks to fill a void in the lacuna by bringing to bear the centrality of Catholic people, groups, and movements on U.S. history, mainly from the mid-19th century to the present, with the essays “linked by a common desire to enrich narratives of United States history.
Studies in Urbanormativity
Rural Community in Urban Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era
Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
For decades, North American cities racked by deindustrialization and population loss have followed one primary path in their attempts at revitalization: a focus on economic growth in downtown and business areas. Neighborhoods, meanwhile, have often been left severely underserved. There are, however,...
Law and American Education
A Case Brief Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
This third edition expands coverage on such topics as the law and students with disabilities, confidentiality, sexual harassment, student searches and tuition vouchers. It also includes some new topics such as bullying, copyright law, and the law and the internet.
Both public and nonpublic...
Violence, Conflict, and World Order
Critical Conversations on State Sanctioned Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2006
This is an ethnographic collection of 12 edited talks and conversations from a conference on violence, conflict, and the world order held at Eastern Kentucky University. The conference was organized by Carole Garrison, Chair of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at EKU, who arranged for video recording...
by Robert L. Hubbard, Jr., K. Lawson Younger
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
This NIVAC Bundle includes the six historical books found in the NIV Application Commentary series.
Law and American Education
An Instructor's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2002
Educators working with Palestini's textbook Law and American Education: a Case Brief Approach will find this comprehensive pedagogical tool useful. It contains the full briefs for the cases excerpted in the text, as well as diacritical and pedagogical suggestions. In addition to chapter-by-chapter...
by Karen Jones, Robert Lomax
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
This clear and concise textbook is an invaluable guide for students embarking on their social work placements. Packed with tips, quotes, activities and illustrations, it offers coherent advice on how to get the best out of practice learning opportunities, as well as an insight into students' perspectives...
Does Religious Education Work?
A Multi-dimensional Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Society for Educational Studies Annual Book Prize winner: 2nd Prize
This ground-breaking volume draws upon a rich and variegated range of methodologies to understand more fully the practices, policies and resources available in and to religious education in British schools. The descriptions,...
by Julie Zigo, Marcia Lajoie, Felicity Baker
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2013
There is a rapidly emerging and developing area of music therapy practice that uses electronic music technologies in a range of therapeutic and clinical settings to help clients with complex needs. This edited volume explains cutting edge technologies and how to apply these tools in practice.
With...
Cognitive Therapy for Command Hallucinations
An advanced practical companion
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Auditory hallucinations rank amongst the most treatment resistant symptoms of schizophrenia, with command hallucinations being the most distressing, high risk and treatment resistant of all.
This new work provides clinicians with a detailed guide, illustrating in depth the techniques and strategies...