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Toh, Glenn – Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education, 2021
This book is about education, ideology, power and identity investment and concerns an influential East Asian expatriate community. Specifically, it seeks to understand particular ways in which the Japanese white-collar elite live as a closed and self-referentially defined in-group, despite the manifestly multicultural ethos of their Singaporean…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Immigrants, Foreign Nationals
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Panconesi, Gianni, Ed.; Guida, Maria, Ed. – IGI Global, 2017
Modern technology has enhanced many aspects of life, including classroom education. By offering virtual learning experiences, educational systems can become more efficient and effective at teaching the student population. The "Handbook of Research on Collaborative Teaching Practice in Virtual Learning Environments" highlights program…
Descriptors: Guides, Teacher Collaboration, Virtual Classrooms, Cooperative Learning
Austin, Roger; Hunter, Bill – Routledge Research in Education, 2013
National governments and multi-national institutions are spending unprecedented amounts of money on ICT on improving the overall quality of school learning, and schools are increasingly expected to prepare young people for a global economy in which inter-cultural understanding will be a priority. This book explores and analyzes the ways ICT has…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Sense of Community, Group Unity, Global Approach
Martin, Ann M. – American Association of School Librarians, 2013
This book takes the mystery out of leadership by illustrating the visible and invisible components of leadership. Essential questions, reflective strategies, and practical tips within each chapter will bring school librarians to their next level in leadership while they recognize the hidden leadership opportunities in daily tasks that are already…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Leadership Qualities, School Libraries, Librarians
Kadushin, Charles – Oxford University Press, 2012
Despite the swift spread of social network concepts and their applications and the rising use of network analysis in social science, there is no book that provides a thorough general introduction for the serious reader. "Understanding Social Networks" fills that gap by explaining the big ideas that underlie the social network phenomenon.…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Social Science Research, Best Practices
Arthur, James, Ed.; Cremin, Hilary, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
What are the key issues in Citizenship Education today? "Debates in Citizenship Education" encourages student and practising teachers to engage with and reflect on some of the key topics, concepts and debates that they will have to address throughout their career. It places the specialist field of Citizenship Education in a wider context…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational History, Foreign Countries, International Education
Stewart, Trae, Ed.; Webster, Nicole, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
Interest in and research on civic engagement and service-learning have increased exponentially. In this rapid growth, efforts have been made to institutionalize pedagogies of engagement across both K-12 and higher education. As a result, increased positive attention has been complemented equally by well-founded critiques complicating experiential…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, Evaluators, Elementary Secondary Education
Facing History and Ourselves, 2008
This resource book reflects the way that migration affects personal identity and offers educators and students the resources to examine this migration through methods of storytelling. It reveals experiences of immigrants from the individual to the collective through memoirs, journalistic accounts, and interviews. These experiences reflect a recent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Factors, Minority Groups, Immigrants