A comprehensive guide to educational leadership preparation, this book helps foster an understanding of adult developmentthat enables education leaders to support professional learning-or build capacity-across schools.

This text brings Bourdieu's corpus into the arena of elementary and secondary educational reform and change, and offers policy, research and practice discussions.

This book is an invaluable guide to help researchers and graduate students understand ethical concerns within real-life research situations.

Examines how people of color fit into the fabric of America and how the media tell them and others how they fit.

Guides students through cases and exercises that explore crisis communication and management in action, building the necessary skills for effective crisis management.

This book encourages students to adopt a particular mindset towards journal articles., a mindset that recognizes the many strengths of social research-especially its advantages over ordinary ways of knowing things.

Takes an integrated, cross-cultural approach that weaves various developmental and neuroscience research into every chapter. This book includes separate chapters on bilingualism and sign language and offers integrated coverage of the social aspects of language acquisition and language use.

This book links sociological concepts, debates and theories relating to key areas such as poverty, social exclusion, education, social class and social justice to develop understanding of how sociological perspectives will impact upon social work placements and practice.

Offering students the opportunity to determine and understand statistical analysis by first choosing the answers to basic design questions, readers will find that this hands-on book simplifies a complex research design into a few basic components.