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  • The Data Toolkit

    Ten Tools for Supporting School Improvement

    How to accelerate analysis into actionUsing data for school improvement is a key goal of Race to the Top, and now is the time to make data-driven school improvement a priority. However, many educators are drowning in data. Boost your professional learning community′s ability to translate data into action with this new book from Pam Robbins and Robert T. Hess. The Data Toolkit provides ten easy-to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Futures of School Reform

    The Futures of School Reform represents the culminating work of a three-year discussion among national education leaders convened by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Based on the recognition that current education reform efforts have reached their limits, the volume maps out a variety of bold visions that push the boundaries of our current thinking. Taken together, these visions identify ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Educational Leadership and Critical Theory

    What Can School Leaders Learn from the Critical Theorists

    Series series Educational Leadership: Innovative, Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    This book shows how critical theory can help school leaders and administrators to prepare students for the ever-changing political, cultural, economic, and societal conditions of the world. The contributors use ideas from critical theorists including Adorno, Fromm, Marcuse and Habermas and connect them with contemporary theories and debates in educational leadership from moral education to ... Read more

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  • Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand

    Edited by Martin Crotty, Robert Hess ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape from wartime trials and tribulations. War has limited the fortunes of some sporting codes – and some individuals – while others have blossomed in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Religion and Prevention in Mental Health

    Research, Vision, and Action

    Here is the first book which highlights the unique resource of religion in the field of prevention. Until now, religious systems have been a largely undertapped resource of talent, energy, care, and physical and financial assets. Religion and Prevention in Mental Health is a significant new volume that lays a general foundation for preventive work in the religious area. It presents a number of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Geographies of Journalism

    The Imaginative Power of Place in Making Digital News

    Series series Disruptions
    Geographies of Journalism connects theoretical and practical discussions of the role of geotechnologies, social media, and boots-on-the-ground journalism in a digital age to underline the complications and challenges that place-making in the press brings to institutions and ideologies. By introducing and applying approaches to geography, cultural resistance, and power as it relates to discussions ... Read more

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  • Reimagining Journalism and Social Order in a Fragmented Media World

    This book examines journalism’s ability to promote and foster cohesive and collective action while critically examining its place in the intensifying battle to maintain a society’s social order.From chapters discussing the challenges journalists face in covering populism and Donald Trump, to chapters about issues of race in the news, intersections of journalism and nationalism, and increased ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Sport and Christianity

    Historical Perspectives

    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Sport and Christianity examines sport and Christianity from a variety of historical perspectives, with the main focus on the period from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.The book is not limited to a narrow definition of Christianity, but rather encompasses a wide range of denominations, related philosophies and viewpoints. The contributors are international, and the geographical ... Read more

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  • Early Formal Education

    Current Theory, Research, and Practice

    by Robert Hess ...
    The future of any society lies in its ability to train and socialize its young. The stability of its institutions, political systems, the productivity of its industrial resources, and the creativity of its intellectual talent reflect the success of those who have been given responsibility for shaping and developing its youth. If these teaching functions are not adequately performed, through ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The National Mental Health Association

    Eighty Years of Involvement in the Field of Prevention

    by Robert E Hess ...
    Here is a unique and important volume that pays tribute to the contributions of the National Mental Health Association to the field of prevention.For more than 80 years, the National Mental Health Association has been a major force in the advancement of the field of prevention. It has pursued an impressive three-pronged mission of promoting health, preventing mental illness, and improving the care ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Prevention

    Toward a Multidisciplinary Approach

    by Robert E Hess ...
    This new book takes a detailed look at different disciplines as they relate to prevention. Authors examine how a multidisciplinary approach to prevention can refine and increase the effectiveness and comprehensiveness of the field. Given the complexity of the problems facing society today, many professionals are recognizing the strong need for collaborative efforts in the area of prevention. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Ecology of Prevention

    Illustrating Mental Health Consultation

    by Robert E Hess ...
    This provocative volume offers an enlightening look at mental health consultation as a preventive service. To enhance the prospects of consultation being preventive, consultation is defined as an ecological enterprise. Although attention is given to outcomes, process is the key in this book. This beneficial volume presents ten valuable principles to guide the work of a consultant, plus case ... Read more

    $33.99 USD