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Hamidullah, Madinah F., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Public affairs and nonprofit program administrators and directors interested in (or tasked with) implementing undergraduate programs require a resource where they can find information for recruiting and retaining the next wave of public and nonprofit workers. While similar to graduate public affairs programs, undergraduate programs may differ in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Public Affairs Education, Personnel Selection, Outcomes of Education
MacCallum, Kathryn, Ed.; Parsons, David, Ed. – Springer, 2022
This book provides a single source of reference for educators interested in understanding how industry-based ideas have been adapted into different educational contexts, and supports their utilisation in practice. The link between industry-based ideas and their application in education has enabled educators to develop engaging, collaborative, and…
Descriptors: Industry, Educational Practices, Cooperation, Teaching Methods
Anne E. Campbell – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
In the mid-1980s, the federal government designated the community in which this study was conducted as a relocation site for Southeast Asian refugees. The local school district received more than 300 students in grades k-8 from Cambodia and Laos. The students had limited formal schooling, had lived in refugee camps for 2-5 years, and less than 5%…
Descriptors: Refugees, English Learners, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts
Witt, Peter A., Ed.; Caldwell, Linda L., Ed. – Sagamore-Venture, 2018
Out-of-school time (OST) settings are powerful contexts for youth development when programs and services are intentionally designed. "Youth Development Principles and Practices in Out-of-School Time Settings" increases the capacity of students and professionals to facilitate youths' optimal transition to adulthood through maximizing the…
Descriptors: Student Development, Adolescent Development, Youth Programs, After School Programs
Barton, Erin E.; Smith, Barbara J. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2015
Inclusion is clearly related to better outcomes for young children--but reports from the US Department of Education show the practice has grown by just 5% over the past 27 years. This is the how-to book preschool administrators, school district leaders, child care directors, and faculty need to step up the progress of early childhood inclusion…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Inclusion, Program Development
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Kirkgöz, Yasemin, Ed.; Dikilitas, Kenan, Ed. – English Language Education, 2018
This volume offers research-based studies on English for Specific Purposes in higher education from across the world. By drawing on international studies, the book brings together diverse ESP practices and aspects of relevant issues in the development of ESP programs, teachers and learners in a coherent fashion. There is a growing need for…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Second Language Instruction
Schlechty, Phillip C. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
In Phillip Schlechty's best-selling book "Working on the Work", he outlined a motivational framework for improving student performance by improving the quality of schools designed for students. "Engaging Students" offers a next-step resource in which Schlechty incorporates what he's learned from the field and from the hundreds of workshops he and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Questionnaires
Ross, D. H. – 1988
This publication compiles the findings and conclusions of the 3-year first phase (1980-83) of the Unesco Sub-regional Project for Special Education in Eastern and Southern Africa. It presents the state of the art of special education and prospects for future development in Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Seychelles, Somalia,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Programs
Cookson, Peter S., Ed. – 1998
This book provides an overview of program planning for adult learning from philosophical and pedagogical perspectives. It contains 19 papers and an introduction by the editor, Peter S. Cookson. The following are included: "A Conceptual Context for Program Planning" (Peter S. Cookson); "Prototypical Program Planning…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Continuing Education, Educational Finance
Gartner, Alan; Lipsky, Dorothy Kerzner – 2002
This book and accompanying video are intended to be a practical guide to implementing a whole school approach to inclusion, emphasizing the changes in the roles and activities of all school personnel. The book, which is included with the purchase of the video, is designed to serve as a hands-on free-standing resource. It begins with discussion of…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Educational Legislation
Stanton, Timothy K.; Giles, Dwight E., Jr.; Cruz, Nadinne I. – 1999
This history of service learning traces the work of 33 advocates, scholars, and practitioners since the early 1960s. Chapter 1 defines service learning and identifies a representative and influential group of "service learning pioneers." Chapter 2, titled "Early Connections Between Service and Education," by Seth S. Pollack, offers a conceptual…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Community Development, Educational History, Educational Innovation
Mann, Philip H., Ed. – 1976
In a response to new legal requirements for handicapped child education, this monograph presents a sample of current viewpoints from professionals at different levels of education and in related professions concerned with shared responsibility roles in the mainstreaming of handicapped children. The first section consists of six articles dealing…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Programs, Educational Responsibility, Evaluation Needs
Gaskins, Irene; Elliot, Thorne – 1991
Improving reading instruction has been the primary focus at the Benchmark School in Media, Pennsylvania. This book describes the various phases of Benchmark's development of a program to create strategic learners, thinkers, and problem solvers across the curriculum. The goal is to provide teachers and administrators with a handbook that can be…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Practices, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Maki, Peggy L. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2004
This book offers colleges and universities a framework and tools to design an effective and collaborative assessment process appropriate for their culture and institution. It encapsulates the approach that Peggy Maki has developed and refined through the hundreds of successful workshops she has presented nationally and internationally. Maki starts…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Philosophy, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Kraft, Richard J., Ed.; Kielsmeier, James, Ed. – 1995
This anthology is a compilation of 59 articles that includes items previously published in the "Journal of Experiential Education" and presentations given at conventions of the Association for Experiential Education. Based on John Dewey's belief that "all genuine education comes through experience," this book aims to inform educators,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Educational Research
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