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Leadership of Networks and Performance: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
In contrast to hierarchical leadership within intra-organizational contexts, leaders of inter-organizational networks have to lead across organizational boundaries without hierarchical fiat or directive authority. The central research question of Susanne Ruckdäschel is how leadership behavior of network managers can influence network performance. Hereby, relational leadership in the form of em…
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- 978-3-658-07033-5
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Educational Contexts and Borders through a Cultural Lens
This book provides a “context” of discussion for researchers and educational experts in order to rethink the relationship between actors, practices and borders within the educational contexts. The research in educational psychology has often challenged the concept of “educational context”. According to the different theoretical frameworks, the construct of contexts, their borders and th…
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- 978-3-319-18764-8
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- 7 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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- XXI, 366
Leadership of Assessment, Inclusion, and Learning
This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities associated with assessment. In particular, it offers guidance to school and district personnel charged with fair and appropriate assessment of students who represent a wide variety of abilities and cult…
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- 978-3-319-23347-5
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Communication Theory
This book is an introduction to communication theory — the theory of how humans share, encode, and decode what they know, what they need, and what they expect from each other
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Education, Theory and Pedagogies of Change in a Global Landscape
Where does theory come from in educational research and how is it operationalized in diverse, interdisciplinary contexts and professional settings? This volume examines the places and spaces of theory in doctoral work across a wide range of interdisciplinary themes and fields of inquiry on a global scale.
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- 978-1-349-55934-3
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- XV, 223
Leadership in Surgery
How does one become a successful leader? This book teaches the theories and concepts behind leadership and explains the skills and traits needed to become a good leader. Teaching surgical faculty and trainees (i.e., residents and fellows) how to successfully lead will create more effective surgeon leaders. The skills and theories reviewed in this Volume are highly useful for numerous leadersh…
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- 978-3-319-11107-0
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Education, Globalization and the Nation
Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union.
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- 978-1-349-55932-9
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- X, 224
Leadership in Diverse Learning Contexts
This book presents the outcomes of research and practical endeavour in some of the diverse contexts in which learning takes place: classrooms, schools, professional development settings, community projects and service sector agencies. It invites the reader to engage with two related questions of contemporary concern in the leadership field: "What can we learn about the important influence o…
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- 978-3-319-28302-9
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Education, Equity, Economy: Crafting a New Intersection
This volume will introduce the readers to an alternative nexus of education, equity and economy, pointing to economies and educations that promote a less stratified and exploitive world, and as the chapter authors demonstrate, this view has a wide range of applications, from technology, mathematics, to environmental catastrophes and indigenous cultures. This first volume in the new book seri…
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- 978-3-319-21643-0
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- XI, 237
Leadership for Change in Teacher Education: Voices of Canadian Deans of Educa…
Leadership for Change in Teacher Education: Voices of Canadian Deans of Education presents a rich sampling of diverse perspectives on the topic in a unique collection of reflections contributed by Canadian deans of education. The focus of the inquiry, “What would we hear from deans of education invited to share their perspectives on leadership for change in contemporary teacher education?” …
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