The future of public education and democracy is at risk. Powerful forces are eroding commitment to public schools and weakening democratic resolve. Yet even in deeply troubling times, it is possible to broaden social imagination and empower effective advocacy for systemic progressive reform. Re-envisioning Education and Democracy explores challenges and opportunities for restructuring public education to establish and sustain more broadly inclusive, deeply democratic, and effectively transforming approaches to social inquiry and civic participation. Re-envisioning Education and Democracy adopts a non-traditional format to extend social awareness and imagination. Within each chapter, one episode of an evolving strategic narrative traces the life cycle of a systemic reform initiative. This is followed by an exploratory essay that draws from theory, research, criticism, and practice to prompt consideration of focal issues. Woven through each chapter is a poetically framed meditative stream informed by varied historical and cultural conceptions of oracles. A developmental sequence of social learning strategies (exploratory democratic practices), accompanied by thematic bibliographic references, are included to model democratic teaching and learning applicable in classroom and community settings.

The Job Search Cookbook provides career seekers, and their career coaches with a trackable system to guide them through the job search process. This unique job search management system is based on the principles of assisting individuals to move from step-to-step within a normal job hiring cycle. Using a job search board provides a visual representation of the job search process and assists individuals in monitoring their progress each step of the way. The main benefit of this book is that it provides the job seeker a methodology and framework for their job search. By utilizing a social network audit, the Cookbook presents a means for job seekers to tap into the hidden job market where over 80% of the jobs are found. The online job search tracking tool (www.snagpad.com) will enable the reader to visually monitor his or her progress, and if they are working with a career coach a means to track progress, identify any corrective actions, and get the most out of limited face-to-face time. Ultimately, the cook- book is a recipe for job search success.

This is the definitive introduction to coaching and mentoring, written by an experienced and multidisciplinary team. Taking you all the way through from the emerging theory to informed practice, the book covers: * Skills, purposes and outcomes of coaching and mentoring processes * The many settings in which they take place - public, private and voluntary * Coaching and mentoring's evidence base and how it is assessed * The professionalization of coaching and mentoring and a move towards integration. Supported by a wide range of case studies, activities, further questions and topics for discussion, this book is a comprehensive but accessible introduction. The authors take a critical approach and go beyond the basics, to support your development as a critically reflective practitioner. It is essential reading for those studying coaching and mentoring, and professionals looking to integrate coaching and mentoring into their organizations.

This book is a guide for college students exploring career options who are interested in working to promote peacebuilding and the resolution of conflict. High school students, particularly those starting to consider college and careers, can also benefited from this book. A major feature of the book is 30 stories from young professionals, most recently graduated from college, who are working in the field. These profiles provide readers with insight as to strategies they might use to advance their peacebuilding careers. The book speaks directly to the Millennial generation, recognizing that launching a career is a major focus, and that careers in the peace field have not always been easy to identify. As such, the book takes the approach that most any career can be a peacebuilding career provided one is willing to apply creativity and passion to their work.

This book represents a compilation of ideas that career practitioners use in their everyday work and covers all facets of what is broadly termed career guidance.Presenting a smorgasboard of 48 ideas from over 50 experienced career practitioners, researchers and theoreticians from six countries, this book is an essential resource for everyday work in the career guidance field, including counselling, programs, assessment and education.Practical activities, instruments, methodologies, reviews and ideas are presented in an easy-to-read format suitable for a range of client groups including adults, adolescents, primary aged children, rural and remote communities, and indigenous populations.Topics include: Vocational assessment and counsellingCareer exploration amongst rural disadvantaged childrenEntrepreneurship for university studentsIdentifying skillsCareer insight in higher educationUsing narrative with clients in remote areasResilience with youth in high risk settingsACT techniques in career contextsOrganising career fairsSelf-directed work searchCareer transitionStructured mentoring for girlsMedico-legal vocational assessment.

The school-to-work transition is a critical part of the human life-span for young adults, their families, and society. The timing of the transition varies greatly and its co-occurrence with a number of other life transitions make it challenging to summarize or generalize. Individual differences and normative developmental factors, as well as external contextual factors such as global pandemics, changing economic circumstances, workplace demands, and cultural shifts, intersect to create a range of challenges and opportunities for those navigating this transition. Written by internationally renowned scholars in developmental psychology, applied psychology, counseling, and sociology, the chapters in this book highlight the trends, issues, and actions that researchers, academics, practitioners, and policy makers need to consider in order to effectively support young adults' transition to work pathways. This volume provides an explicitly international perspective on this area, broad coverage of psychological topics on the school-to-work transition, and an inclusive focus on sub-groups and minority groups, making it a must-read for those who support young adults as they move from school to work.

Understanding the whole concept of guidance and counseling will also enable students appreciate the role of such services in their choice of career. This book gives a clear picture of such concepts that makes for interesting, reading and practice for students youths. The unique feature of this book is that it has a specific chapter for courses and the required subjects that would help students realize their career goals without confusion. This book will assist all stake holders in education i.e. the counselors, teachers, and parents understand the adolescence period not only as a period of storm and stress but as an interesting and enriching period if properly managed.

Die meisten Ingenieure in der Praxis sind fur Kosten verantwortlich. Deshalb ist es fur diese Berufsgruppe von grosser Bedeutung, Kosten richtig zu erfassen und auf die entsprechenden Leistungen verursachungsgerecht zu verrechnen. Dieser Band zeigt an einem Beispiel aus der Praxis, wie eine Kostenarten- und Kostenstellenrechnung aufgebaut und ein Betriebsabrechnungsbogen erstellt wird. Wichtig wird zunehmend, wie Kosten durch ein entsprechendes Kostenmanagement eingespart werden koennen. Die entsprechenden Werkzeuge und Massnahmen zur Vermeidung von Verschwendung, zur Erhoehung von Effizienz und Produktivitat sowie die Einfuhrung von erfolgreichen kontinuierlichen Verbesserungsprozessen werden vorgestellt.

Meet fascinating women in STE@M, follow their "plays" and create your Dream Career. This book is real-life story-telling at its best. Sharing their career-changing challenges, discoveries, actions and results, the young women of STE@M prove that using knowledge of software or technology, engineering, art or math is required in almost all fields the new workplace demands. Set aside endless graphs and tedious analytics. Instead, reflect upon the inspirational words and imagery painted by powerful young women whose experiences foretell success at a time of great workplace change. Our story-tellers, successful pioneers in the new world of work, have written this beautifully illustrated book to - and for - you in your high school years. Their powerful words will inspire the courageous, offer staying power to the ambitious and daring to those who have been held-back by misplaced fear the STE@M word sometime evokes. For example, you'll meet a young woman from a poor family whose parents did not encourage thoughts of college and whose greatest ambition throughout much of her high school years was to paint pictures on a pier in San Francisco. A teacher inspired her, mentored her and encouraged her to explore the connections between science, art and life. She began to see other options for her life. Unfortunately, life changing challenges in her family interfered with her new-found ambitions. So, how did this young woman overcome life's trials and find a new direction filled with adventure, travel and exciting work? How did she become one of our real-life models for today's teens? How might she inspire you? Well...for those answers, you will have to read the rest of her story. It's in the book While the book is intended to inspire teens who are looking at preparing for a future unlike the past; it is an equally important reading experience for teachers, parents and friends who are travelers sharing the road to the future.