Educational Administration and Organisation Books

This book discusses the strategies that the Singapore Education System has embarked to encourage school change and innovations. It documents the change journey of Specialized Schools and Future Schools in Singapore with a view to understand the key...

This book documents and deconstructs the concept of educational leadership within various education settings originating from diverse global environments. It focuses on presenting different readings of educational leadership via distinct theoretical and...

This collected book is about the eduLab projects, an initiative with focus on Scaling Change through Apprenticising and Ecological Leadership, designed to surface and spread ground-up information and communication technology-based pedagogical...

The book addresses the concept of diversity and inclusiveness (D&I) and brings stories from the corporate, practitioners, think tanks and NGOs. It advocates the need and implementation of the D&I concept to build society of the future. It strives to...

This book explains the strategic appeal of innovation and entrepreneurship education based on the systematic analysis of the key characteristics and constraints of China's economic transformation and upgrading. The book presents results related to...

This book investigates the subjectivities in education arising from the triumphant mobilisation of care as portrayed in educational advertisements, and provides a novel theory of affective governmentality based on empirical research on affect,...

This book provides an overview of the evolution of education in the United Arab Emirates from its humble beginnings in palm frond huts, to today's proliferation of prestigious international schools and global university branch campuses. The chapter...

This book introduces the construct of teacher adaptive practices, extending existing research on teacher adaptability into classroom practices. It identifies specific teaching practices that constitute the just-in-time adaptation during lessons that...

This book introduces a new wellbeing dimension to the theory and practice of learning space design for early childhood and school contexts. It highlights vital, yet generally overlooked relationships between the learning environment and student learning...

This book unravels the mysteries of the Chinese school system to enable international scholars to better understand the logic of basic education in China. By collecting the latest, first-hand empirical data, it outlines a panoramic and vivid portrait of...

This book is a Festschrift for Emeritus Professor Stephen Kemmis, who has a long and eminent career as an educational researcher and academic spanning over 40 years. His work in curriculum, evaluation, critical practice, action research and practice...

This book investigates the implementation of the education policy for migrant children, arguing that it has been selectively implemented: while some policy themes have been effectively implemented, others have not. Four factors underlie this selective...

Drawing on empirical, interdisciplinary research, this book presents a critical review of some of the major issues that are of interest to researchers, policymakers and planners in developing as well as advanced countries, including...

Creating a successful and distinctive approach to learning and teaching at scale is a challenge facing all universities. This brief presents the Self-Organizing University (SOU), a transformational whole-of-organization solution for the design, delivery,...

This is a deliberately provocative book. It critiques current student behaviour management practices, seeks to explain the flawed assumptions that justify those practices, and proposes how things could be better for children in our schools if different...

Unlocking Academic Achievement: A Principal's Guide to Improved Measurable Results uncovers the mindsets, approaches, strategies and structures that strong school administrators instill across classrooms to lead students to high levels of standards...

Overcoming Education is for educators who want to make a difference, but are struggling with complex challenges, difficult people, or staying up past 7:30p.m. on Friday. This book will empower you and your team to break down your challenges into small...

Reading in college is hard. Hundreds of pages coming at you from textbooks and academic articles to literary classics and lab reports.If only someone who knew the academic world could explain how to manage your college reading and make the most of the...

"Price Action Insights: Master the Art of Trading" is your essential guide to mastering trading strategies and building market wealth. Written by Haffizulla Khan, a seasoned trader with over six years of experience and over 3,000 students trained...

The Docklands Light Railway was initiated in the 1980s to expand the mobility of a growing region of the Docklands in London. However, as the economic viability of the region improved, especially with the introduction of the Asian business Port (ABP),...

"Building a Safety Culture - Transforming Mindsets" is an essential guide for organizations seeking to prioritize safety as a core value. This book explores the key components of cultivating a robust safety culture that empowers every individual. It...

Artificial intelligence (AI) serves as a transformative force in bridging global divides within transnational higher education by reimagining access and engagement across diverse cultural landscapes. By harnessing AI's capabilities to analyze and adapt...

You constantly hear about secret societies and behind-the-scenes machinations controlling the world, but have you ever considered that one of the most powerful and influential secret societies has been in existence for over 400 years?This book delves...

La serie "Háblame de TIC" (@hablame de tic) es un proyecto de difusión de investigaciones empíricas acerca del uso y apropiación de las Tecnologías de Información y de la Comunicación (TIC) en la cual se busca discutir, desde una mirada crítica y...

Like many other nations, Australia experienced social and economic transformation. They had to implement career development measures that would sustain the progress needed because their way of life was being threatened by the international crisis...

Fibonacci Scalping: Unleashing the Magic of Rapid Profits"Are you ready to elevate your trading game and unlock the secrets to consistent profits in the fast-paced world of scalping? In "Fibonacci Scalping: Unleashing the Magic of Rapid Profits," you...

¿Te resulta difícil concentrarte en tus estudios? ¿Sientes que tu mente divaga y no puedes mantener la atención en lo que estás haciendo? Si es así, no estás solo. La buena noticia es que "Cómo Mejorar la Concentración y la Atención Durante el Estudio"...

This book deals with effective school leadership and its essential role in improving the efficiency and equity of schooling. It provides school leaders with instruments and processes to examine the big picture of leadership as the key intermediary...

This book is a longitudinal life history of the lives and work of primary school principals in Ireland. It provides a unique opportunity to peer inside the realities of leading schools in changing times. In a system that until recently did not prepare...

The aim of this book is to deepen our understanding of financial crimes as phenomena. It uses concepts of existential philosophies that are relevant to dissecting the phenomenon of financial crimes. With the help of these concepts, the book makes clear...

Systems of state education are a crucial means for realizing the state's focal aspiration of guaranteeing solidarity and civil loyalty (Van Kemenade, 1985 pp. 854ff. ). The means at hand include the state's structuring and...

It is a great pleasure to present this book, edited by a distinguished team at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and with excellent contributors from nine countries in the region and beyond. The book is a truly comparative...

The quality of the academics who undertake the work of teaching and research is critical to the significance, status and relevance of our universities. There is widespread evidence that doctoral students are not being properly prepared for the changing...

Our colleges and universities are being led in large part by baby boomers who are now in later midlife. Huge numbers of those middle-aged leaders will retire within the next 10 years. While we know that being in later midlife and impending retirement...

In the coming decades, the general public will be required ever more often to understand complex environmental issues, evaluate proposed environmental plans, and understand how individual decisions affect the environment at local to global scales. Thus...

As clocks struck midnight on the 31st December 2009 announcing the dawn of a new decade, amidst the jubilation of a new beginning we paused momentarily to re?ect on the decade that had just past. It was a dif?cult era for many people and organisations...

This book explores to what extent transnational influences change national/local values and practices in the Nordic educational systems. It provides country cases and thematic chapters that give nuanced insights into the influence of transnational...

This volume provides insightful analysis of the way higher education engages with socially excluded communities. Leading researchers and commentators examine the validity of the claim that universities can be active facilitators of social mobility,...

Based on a study of one secondary school located in a disadvantaged community in Australia, this book provides a different perspective on what it means to 'play the game' of schooling. Drawing on the perspectives of teachers, parents and students, this...

This book presents a new and refreshing look at student assessment from the perspective of leading educational theorists, researchers, and practitioners. The authors call for boundary-breaking assessment that reflects clear...

Introduction: Principals in Succession - Transfer and Rotation in Educational Administration; Robert E. White and Karyn Cooper.- Prologue: The Construction of the Principalship - Institutional Ethnography and Principal Selection and Succession; Alison...

External drivers are pressing for a more privatized approach to higher education and research, a greater reliance on technology and the more efficient use of resources. This book analyzes recent changes in institutional...

Since 2005 a dozen states and more than 15 specialties have reported a physician shortage or anticipate one in the next few years. This anticipated shortage and a worsening of physician distribution are compounded by a projected increased demand for...

Acknowledgements Author Biographic Descriptions Opening (J. Koch)Chapter 1. Introduction: Seeds Germinating and Growing (K. C. Wieseman, M. H. Weinburgh) First Seeds: Aloneness Leads to Building Community Chapter 2. Enculturation into Science Education:...

1 Diversity and differentiation in higher education. Frans van Vught. 1.1 Introduction. 1.2 Classical studies. 1.3 Recent perspectives. 1.4 Arguments in favour of diversity. 1.5 Studies on differentiation and diversity in higher education. 1.6 A...

Since its beginnings, science education has been under the influence of psychological theories of knowing and learning, while in more recent years, social constructivist and sociological frameworks have also begun to emerge. With little work being done...