Rosemary: 955 books
Direct payments and personal budgets (third edition)
Putting personalisation into practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In the context of the Care Act 2014, this third edition of the leading textbook on personalisation considers key policy changes since 2009 and new research into the extension and outcomes of personal budgets. Direct payments and personal budgets have developed rapidly, transforming the whole of adult...
Data Protection Compliance in the UK
A Pocket Guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Data Protection Compliance in the UK has been published to be an easy-read introduction for any employee required to support compliance with the DPA. It is essential reading if you have a responsibility for the security of personal data, especially if you are a director, a manager or an IT professional.
Leading in Place
Leadership Through Different Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In Leading in Place, the authors open up new avenues in the debate on leadership by drawing the reader’s attention to the ways in which women can be—and are—leading in organizations and communities in sometimes unconventional, often unrecognized, ways.
Through surveys and interviews,...
Managing Online Instructor Workload
Strategies for Finding Balance and Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Managing Online Instructor Workload is a groundbreaking book that offers strategies, advice, illustrative examples, and a four-step process for identifying challenges and rethinking, prioritizing, managing, and balancing one's online instruction workload.
Based on surveys and interviews with...
Your Career, Your Life
Career Management for the Information Professional
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Career development must be based on an understanding both of the working context and of one’s own personal needs. This forms the basis of guidance given in this book, which includes contributions from three other specialists in career management and organizational dynamics. Your Career, Your Life...
From the Other Side of the Desk
A Practical Guide to Shortening Your Job Search
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
If you’re in the market for a new job, you’re probably also in the market for some sage advice on how to polish up your skills and differentiate yourself from the competition. From the Other Side of the Desk: A Practical Guide to Shortening Your Job Search by longtime hiring manager-turned-career...
by Dr. Rosemary Papa
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
A practical and visionary look at creative educational leadership in today's digital environment
Technology Leadership for School Improvement provides prospective and current K–12 educational leaders with practical coverage of the skills and knowledge necessary to manage and administrate...
Planning an Appropriate Curriculum in the Early Years
A guide for early years practitioners and leaders, students and parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The foundation stage has a fundamental role in the laying of foundations for children's learning. In this new edition the author uses a wide range of material, including research evidence, to offer an additional dimension to work currently taking place in the Foundation Stage.
Each chapter...
Primary Mathematics
Capitalising on ICT for Today and Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Primary Mathematics provides a comprehensive introduction to teaching and learning mathematics in today's classrooms. Drawing links to the Australian Curriculum, this book covers the core learning areas of measurement, space and geometry, early number concepts, data and statistics, chance and probability,...
STEM Learning with Young Children
Inquiry Teaching with Ramps and Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This teacher’s guide provides the background information, STEM concepts, and strategies needed to successfully implement an early STEM curriculum (Ramps and Pathways) with young children, ages 3–8. R&P actively engages young children in designing and building ramp structures using...
Fashion Management
A Strategic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
This new textbook, authored by a team of expert researchers and lecturers based at the London College of Fashion, is one of the first in the field to examine strategic management in the context of the fashion industry, catering specifically for students hoping to work in the sector. International...
by María Magdalena Camou, Silvana Maubrigades, Rosemary Thorp
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book presents evidence of the evolution of the gender inequalities in Latin America during the twentieth century, using basic indicators of human development, namely education, health and the labour market. There are very few historical studies that centre on gender as the main analytical category...
New Homes and You
A Professional Guide for the New Home Salesperson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
THIS BOOK IS INTENDED AS A GUIDE FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS CONSIDERING A POSITION AS A SALES AGENT IN THE NEW HOME INDUSTRY. IT OFFERS ADVICE AND DIRECTION FOR MAKING THE NECESSARY CONTACTS TO GET STARTED AND PROVIDES ORGANIZATIONAL ASSISTANCE AND CONSTRUCTIVE IDEAS. AN OUTLINE FOR HANDLING AN ESCROW...
Re-Designing Learning Contexts
Technology-Rich, Learner-Centred Ecologies
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
What do we mean by the word ‘context’ in education and how does our context influence the way that we learn?
What role can technology play in enhancing learning and what is the future of technology within learning?
Re-Designing Learning Contexts seeks to re-dress the lack of attention...