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  • Leading and Learning Together

    Cultivating School Change From Within

    Leadership, coupled with learning, is an ongoing process in which everyone has a participatory role in school or district change efforts. Providing a useful antidote to the plethora of packaged curriculum and external professional development providers, this book focuses on reclaiming agency, advocacy, and inquiry for leaders and teachers in the places they know best—their schools and districts. ... Read more

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  • School Leadership in Latin America

    Evidence, Analysis, and Implications for Educational Policy

    Series series Education (R0)
    This edited volume assembles groundbreaking research on school leadership in Latin America, a region long underrepresented in international literature. It bridges a significant knowledge gap by examining school leaders—who they are, their skills, beliefs, practices, and impacts within their educational communities. Researchers from diverse countries and organizations contribute perspectives using ... Read more

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  • Conservation Paleobiology

    Science and Practice

    In conservation, perhaps no better example exists of the past informing the present than the return of the California condor to the Vermilion Cliffs of Arizona. Extinct in the region for nearly one hundred years, condors were successfully reintroduced starting in the 1990s in an effort informed by the fossil record—condor skeletal remains had been found in the area’s late-Pleistocene cave deposits ... Read more

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  • Progress in Plant Nutrition: Plenary Lectures of the XIV International Plant Nutrition Colloquium

    Food security and sustainability of agro-ecosystems through basic and applied research

    Series Book 98 - Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences
    These papers include two lectures which address the role of Plant Nutrition in the sustainability of agro-ecosystems and the production of enough high quality food to feed the growing world population. Recent advances in Plant Nutrition are reviewed in the 11 papers presented in each of the Symposia devoted to: genetics and molecular biology of Plant Nutrition, nutrient functions, the role of the ... Read more

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  • Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms

    Building an Education Renaissance After a Global Pandemic

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    This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of ... Read more

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    This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide students opportunities to develop such skills. It analyses comprehensive education reforms in Brazil, Finland, ... Read more

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  • Distributed Leadership

    Series Book 4 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
    James Spillane, the leading expert in Distributed Leadership, shows how leadership happens in everyday practices in schools, through formal routines and informal interactions. He examines the distribution of leadership among administrators, specialists, and teachers in the school, and explains the ways in which leadership practice is stretched over leaders, followers, and aspects of the situation, ... Read more

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    Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts

    High-Risk Fe**minism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established ... Read more

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    Scores of books and articles have been written in the popular press and mainstream marketplace about leadership: who leaders are, what they do, and why they matter. Yet in academia, there is a dearth of rigorous research, journal articles, or doctoral programs focused on leadership as a discipline. Why do top business schools espouse mission statements that promise to "educate the leaders of the ... Read more

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  • Knowledge Society and Education in the Asia-Pacific

    Recent Trends and Future Challenges

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    This book explores recent trends in the knowledge-based society and education field in Asia-Pacific and discusses future challenges in the region. It presents studies on the development of scientific thought in the field on the knowledge-based society in the Pacific Circle. This book explores the theoretical framework of the knowledge-based society framed by the borders imposed by the Pacific ... Read more

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  • Positive School Leadership

    Building Capacity and Strengthening Relationships

    This landmark book translates positive and asset-based understandings of organizations to develop a powerful model of school leadership that is grounded in both existing research and the complexities of life in schools. The authors—both senior scholars in educational leadership—apply insights from positive psychology to the role and function of educational leaders. The Positive School Leadership ... Read more

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