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Developing Corporate Character (DP11)Author: Alan L. WilkinsPublisher: Jossey-BassPublication Date: Jan 16, 1991Number of Pages: 252 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1555421334ISBN-13:...

How do students learn to reason and think about complex issues?This book fills a critical gap in our understanding of along-neglected facet of the critical thinking process: reflectivejudgment...

"Addressing parents and teachers, this straightforward explorationof motivation for learning as a lifelong trait is a significantcontribution to the understanding of a complex process."--Publishers...

Educating Professionals: Responding to New Expectations for Competence and AccountabilityAuthor: Lynn CurryPublisher: Jossey-BassPublication Date: May 06, 1993Number of Pages: 403 pagesBinding:...

Building on the concepts of professional competence that he introduced in his classic The Reflective Practitioner, Schon offers an approach for educating professional in all areas that will prepare...

Empowered Teams: Creating Self-Directed Work Groups That Improve Quality, Productivity, and ParticipationAuthor: Richard S. WellinsPublisher: Jossey-BassPublication Date: Aug 30, 1993Number of Pages:...

Author: Jonathan BrennanPublisher: Jossey-BassPublication Date: Oct 20, 2020Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1119783143ISBN-13: 9781119783145

The Challenges and Joys of Juggling There has been growing demand for workshops and materials to help those in higher education conduct and use the scholarship of teaching and learning. This book...

The avalanche of day-to-day responsibilities facing those in community colleges threatens to bury ethical intent. This book addresses the importance of ethical leadership and explores real-world...

Written by experts in teaching and administration, this guide offers practical, research-based information for faculty members and administrators in search of new approaches for assessing and...

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life -- A Companion JournalAuthor: Richard RohrPublisher: Jossey-BassPublication Date: Jan 2013Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A fatal flaw in accountability programs is the fragmented university that leaves academic departments--the units most responsible for institutional results--out of the performance loop. Currently,...

This book presents successful programs, techniques, and strategies for helping adult learners tap into their rich and diverse life experiences as a basis for growth and lifelong learning.Author: Jack...

Learn to raise independent, can-do kids with a new edition of the book that started a movement In the newly revised and expanded Second Edition of Free-Range Kids, New York columnist-turned-movement...

Provides practical answers to the most pressing questions faceddaily by today's global managers. Based on groundbreaking researchconducted by the Institute for the Future on behalf of...

Sponsored by the Association of Governing Boards of Universitiesand Colleges Provides expert guidance in performing the many complex roles oftrusteeship.Author: Richard T. IngramPublisher:...

Groups That Work (and Those That Don't): Creating Conditions for Effective TeamworkAuthor: J. Richard HackmanPublisher: Jossey-BassPublication Date: Jan 16, 1991Number of Pages: 544 pagesBinding:...

This comprehensive guide describes practical interventions for virtually every major behavioral problem that students may exhibit from kindergarten to grade 12. It focuses on promoting a healthy and...

The Changing Role of Health Care Managers A valuable guide that helps health care managers redefine theirresponsibilities so they can function more effectively in thisdramatically evolving industry...

Examines a wide range of practical methods for increasing employeeinvolvement and brings together the best of each approach into acomprehensive model for implementing participative management atall...

This book reveals the complex factors that influence the real and perceived effectiveness of academic leaders. It shows that the qualities commonly thought to be indicators of good leadership are...

Foreword by Kenneth A. Feldman Not since Feldman and Newcomb's 1969 landmark book, TheImpact of College on Students has there been such acomprehensive resource available on what is known about the...

Charles E. Schaefer and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo's classic guide offers parents, teachers, counselors, and others the help they need to find the words to talk to kids and answer their questions. The...

This superb, rational, and highly readable volume answers a deeply felt need. Parents and educators alike have long struggled to understand what meanings race might have for the very young, and for...

Dissolve the distractions of ego to find our authentic selves in God In his bestselling book Falling Upward, Richard Rohr talked about ego (or the False Self) and how it gets in the way of spiritual...

"A humane blueprint for school reform that--instead of startingwith a 'deficiency' model of what teachers can't do and giving them'inservice' workshops ad infinitum--would build on the...

Focuses on evolving self images and changing relationships with families, friends, lovers, and the world at large.Author: William H. BergquistPublisher: Jossey-BassPublication Date: May 06,...

An essential companion for university faculty interested in conducting scholarly inquiry into their classroom teaching, this practical guide presents a formal model for making visible the careful,...

Guidelines for Improving Your Return on Investments Learn how to lower financial risk with these strategies for benefits-based information technology (IT) investment planning. The authors provide a...

Involving Colleges details the extracurricular environments of fourteen diverse involving colleges and universities and shows how and where successful conditions and characteristics can be adapted to...