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Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Barbara Schneider Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Barbara Schneider
R6,499 Discovery Miles 64 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters. It explores today's populations rarely noticed, such as undocumented students, first generation college students, and LGBTQs; and emphasizing the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity and social class. Sociologists often center their work on the sources and consequences of inequality. This handbook, while reviewing many of these explanations, takes a different approach, concentrating instead on what needs to be accomplished to reduce inequality. A special section is devoted to new methodological work for studying social systems, including network analyses and school and teacher effects. Additionally, the book explores the changing landscape of higher education institutions, their respective populations, and how labor market opportunities are enhanced or impeded by differing postsecondary education pathways. Written by leading sociologists and rising stars in the field, each of the chapters is embedded in theory, but contemporary and futuristic in its implications. This Handbook serves as a blueprint for identifying new work for sociologists of education and other scholars and policymakers trying to understand many of the problems of inequality in education and what is needed to address them.

Evidence and Public Good in Educational Policy, Research and Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Mustafa Yunus Eryaman, Barbara... Evidence and Public Good in Educational Policy, Research and Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Mustafa Yunus Eryaman, Barbara Schneider
R3,901 Discovery Miles 39 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume draws together interdisciplinary approaches from political philosophy, social work, medicine and sociology to analyze the theoretical foundations and practical examples of evidence-based and evidence-informed education for the public good. It presents a range of conceptions of the evidence-based and evidence-informed education and a justification for why the particular examples or issues chosen fit within that conception for the sake of public good. It explores the current literature on evidence-based and evidence-informed educational policy, research and practice, and introduces a new term, 'evidence free', meaning actions of some policymakers who disregard or misuse evidence for their own agenda. The demands about the quality and relevance of educational research to inform the policy and practice have been growing over the past decade in response to the Evidence-Based Education movement. However the literature is yet to tackle the question of the interrelationships between evidence, research, policy and practice in education for the public good in an international context. This book fills that gap.

Handbook of Education Policy Research (Hardcover): Gary Sykes, Barbara Schneider, David N. Plank Handbook of Education Policy Research (Hardcover)
Gary Sykes, Barbara Schneider, David N. Plank
R11,354 Discovery Miles 113 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Co-published by Routledge for the American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Educational policy continues to be of major concern. Policy debates about economic growth and national competitiveness, for example, commonly focus on the importance of human capital and a highly educated workforce. Defining the theoretical boundaries and methodological approaches of education policy research are the two primary themes of this comprehensive, AERA-sponsored Handbook.

Organized into seven sections, the Handbook focuses on (1) disciplinary foundations of educational policy, (2) methodological perspectives, (3) the policy process, (4) resources, management, and organization, (5) teaching and learning policy, (6) actors and institutions, and (7) education access and differentiation.

Drawing from multiple disciplines, the Handbook s over one hundred authors address three central questions: What policy issues and questions have oriented current policy research? What research strategies and methods have proven most fruitful? And what issues, questions, and methods will drive future policy research? Topics such as early childhood education, school choice, access to higher education, teacher accountability, and testing and measurement cut across the 63 chapters in the volume. The politics surrounding these and other issues are objectively analyzed by authors and commentators.

Each of the seven sections concludes with two commentaries by leading scholars in the field. The first considers the current state of policy design, and the second addresses the current state of policy research.

This book is appropriate for scholars and graduate students working in the field of education policy and for the growing number of academic, government, and think-tank researchers engaged in policy research.

For more information on the American Educational Research Association, please visit: http: //www.aera.net/.

Scale-Up in Education - Issues in Practice (Paperback): Barbara Schneider, Sarah-Kathryn McDonald Scale-Up in Education - Issues in Practice (Paperback)
Barbara Schneider, Sarah-Kathryn McDonald
R1,483 Discovery Miles 14 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Scale-Up in Education, Volume 2: Issues in Practice explores the challenges of implementing and assessing educational interventions in varied classroom contexts. Included are reflections on the challenges of designing studies for improving the instructional core of schools, guidelines for establishing evidence of interventions' impacts across a wide range of settings, and an assessment of national efforts to bring reform to scale in high-poverty schools. This volume also includes findings and insights from several federally funded research projects charged with bringing conceptual and analytic rigor to studies of successful scale-up. All of the chapters address the challenges of conducting scientific research in schools and provide insights for obtaining the support of teachers and school administrators. The result is a highly readable volume ideally suited for educators interested in the issues that inform intervention research, researchers concerned with designing practical studies that are methodologically sound, and policymakers engaged in evidence-based school reform.

Scale-Up in Education - Issues in Practice (Hardcover): Barbara Schneider, Sarah-Kathryn McDonald Scale-Up in Education - Issues in Practice (Hardcover)
Barbara Schneider, Sarah-Kathryn McDonald
R2,645 Discovery Miles 26 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Scale-Up in Education, Volume 2: Issues in Practice explores the challenges of implementing and assessing educational interventions in varied classroom contexts. Included are reflections on the challenges of designing studies for improving the instructional core of schools, guidelines for establishing evidence of interventions' impacts across a wide range of settings, and an assessment of national efforts to bring reform to scale in high-poverty schools. This volume also includes findings and insights from several federally funded research projects charged with bringing conceptual and analytic rigor to studies of successful scale-up. All of the chapters address the challenges of conducting scientific research in schools and provide insights for obtaining the support of teachers and school administrators. The result is a highly readable volume ideally suited for educators interested in the issues that inform intervention research, researchers concerned with designing practical studies that are methodologically sound, and policymakers engaged in evidence-based school reform.

Scale-Up in Education - Ideas in Principle (Hardcover): Barbara Schneider, Sarah-Kathryn McDonald Scale-Up in Education - Ideas in Principle (Hardcover)
Barbara Schneider, Sarah-Kathryn McDonald
R2,944 Discovery Miles 29 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Scale-Up in Education, Volume 1: Ideas in Principle examines the challenges of "scaling up" from a multidisciplinary perspective. It brings together contributions from disciplines that routinely take promising innovations to scale, including medicine, business, engineering, computing, and education. Together the contributors explore appropriate methods for estimating the effects of innovations in larger, more diverse settings and provide theories and models to guide the design of innovations most likely to remain viable at large scales. Specially-commissioned commentaries also discuss the analytical requirements and theoretical possibilities of a program of educational research on scale-up built upon these foundations. This volume is ideally suited for researchers, policymakers, and graduate students charged with determining the effectiveness of educational interventions. With its insights into the conceptual and methodological prerequisites for obtaining rigorous, actionable evidence of intervention effects, the volume provides reading for program evaluation courses in schools of education and public policy.

Transforming Schools (Hardcover): Peter W., Jr. Cookson, Barbara Schneider Transforming Schools (Hardcover)
Peter W., Jr. Cookson, Barbara Schneider
R5,899 Discovery Miles 58 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Government policies at the state, local, and federal levels have always shaped the daily lives of U.S. schools. Issues of equity and access dominate, and the newer issue of global competition is also important. This volume of essays by noted theorists and practitioners considers current educational policy issues. Topics and contributors include: Achievement and Mobility-Aaron Pallas; Tracking-Maureen Hallinan; Dropouts-Gary Natriello; Governing the Big-City School System-Kenneth Wong; International and Comparative Analysis-Rolland Paulston; Politics of a National Curriculum-Michael Apple; School Leadership-James Cibulka; Parental and Community Involvement-Mary Driscoll; Advocacy-Judith Cohen; Reform and Policy-Kathy Borman, et al. An index is provided.

Transforming Schools (Paperback): Peter W., Jr. Cookson, Barbara Schneider Transforming Schools (Paperback)
Peter W., Jr. Cookson, Barbara Schneider
R1,672 Discovery Miles 16 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Government policies at the state, local, and federal levels have always shaped the daily lives of U.S. schools. Issues of equity and access dominate, and the newer issue of global competition is also important. This volume of essays by noted theorists and practitioners considers current educational policy issues. Topics and contributors include: Achievement and Mobility-Aaron Pallas; Tracking-Maureen Hallinan; Dropouts-Gary Natriello; Governing the Big-City School System-Kenneth Wong; International and Comparative Analysis-Rolland Paulston; Politics of a National Curriculum-Michael Apple; School Leadership-James Cibulka; Parental and Community Involvement-Mary Driscoll; Advocacy-Judith Cohen; Reform and Policy-Kathy Borman, et al. An index is provided.

Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence - An Experiential Approach: A Special Issue of Applied Developmental Science... Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence - An Experiential Approach: A Special Issue of Applied Developmental Science (Hardcover)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Barbara Schneider
R4,019 Discovery Miles 40 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.

Scale-Up in Education - Ideas in Principle (Paperback): Barbara Schneider, Sarah-Kathryn McDonald Scale-Up in Education - Ideas in Principle (Paperback)
Barbara Schneider, Sarah-Kathryn McDonald
R1,409 Discovery Miles 14 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Scale-Up in Education, Volume 1: Ideas in Principle examines the challenges of 'scaling up' from a multidisciplinary perspective. It brings together contributions from disciplines that routinely take promising innovations to scale, including medicine, business, engineering, computing, and education. Together the contributors explore appropriate methods for estimating the effects of innovations in larger, more diverse settings and provide theories and models to guide the design of innovations most likely to remain viable at large scales. Specially-commissioned commentaries also discuss the analytical requirements and theoretical possibilities of a program of educational research on scale-up built upon these foundations. This volume is ideally suited for researchers, policymakers, and graduate students charged with determining the effectiveness of educational interventions. With its insights into the conceptual and methodological prerequisites for obtaining rigorous, actionable evidence of intervention effects, the volume provides reading for program evaluation courses in schools of education and public policy.

Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence - An Experiential Approach: A Special Issue of Applied Developmental Science... Conditions for Optimal Development in Adolescence - An Experiential Approach: A Special Issue of Applied Developmental Science (Paperback)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Barbara Schneider
R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The SAGE Handbook of Sociology of Education (Hardcover): Mark Berends, Stephen Lamb, Barbara Schneider The SAGE Handbook of Sociology of Education (Hardcover)
Mark Berends, Stephen Lamb, Barbara Schneider
R4,078 Discovery Miles 40 780 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The SAGE Handbook of Sociology of Education offers a diverse and timely perspective on the intricate relationships between education and society, with expert contributions covering topics such as social stratification, educational policy, and the impact of COVID-19 on early childhood education.

Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018): Barbara... Handbook of the Sociology of Education in the 21st Century (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Barbara Schneider
R6,460 Discovery Miles 64 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters. It explores today's populations rarely noticed, such as undocumented students, first generation college students, and LGBTQs; and emphasizing the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity and social class. Sociologists often center their work on the sources and consequences of inequality. This handbook, while reviewing many of these explanations, takes a different approach, concentrating instead on what needs to be accomplished to reduce inequality. A special section is devoted to new methodological work for studying social systems, including network analyses and school and teacher effects. Additionally, the book explores the changing landscape of higher education institutions, their respective populations, and how labor market opportunities are enhanced or impeded by differing postsecondary education pathways. Written by leading sociologists and rising stars in the field, each of the chapters is embedded in theory, but contemporary and futuristic in its implications. This Handbook serves as a blueprint for identifying new work for sociologists of education and other scholars and policymakers trying to understand many of the problems of inequality in education and what is needed to address them.

Evidence and Public Good in Educational Policy, Research and Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed.... Evidence and Public Good in Educational Policy, Research and Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Mustafa Yunus Eryaman, Barbara Schneider
R3,791 Discovery Miles 37 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume draws together interdisciplinary approaches from political philosophy, social work, medicine and sociology to analyze the theoretical foundations and practical examples of evidence-based and evidence-informed education for the public good. It presents a range of conceptions of the evidence-based and evidence-informed education and a justification for why the particular examples or issues chosen fit within that conception for the sake of public good. It explores the current literature on evidence-based and evidence-informed educational policy, research and practice, and introduces a new term, 'evidence free', meaning actions of some policymakers who disregard or misuse evidence for their own agenda. The demands about the quality and relevance of educational research to inform the policy and practice have been growing over the past decade in response to the Evidence-Based Education movement. However the literature is yet to tackle the question of the interrelationships between evidence, research, policy and practice in education for the public good in an international context. This book fills that gap.

Wissenschaft Und Kultur in Bibliotheken, Museen Und Archiven - Klaus-Dieter Lehmann Zum 65. Geburtstag (German, Hardcover,... Wissenschaft Und Kultur in Bibliotheken, Museen Und Archiven - Klaus-Dieter Lehmann Zum 65. Geburtstag (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2011 ed.)
Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Klaus G Saur, Peter-Klaus Schuster
R5,449 R4,879 Discovery Miles 48 790 Save R570 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Festschrift for the 65th birthday of the president of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Foundation for Prussian Cultural Heritage) contains more than 60 contributions by individuals from culture and politics, libraries and publishers. Among the contributors are Heinz Berggruen, W. Michael Blumenthal, Karl Dedecius, Wolfgang Fruhwald, Vittorio E. Klostermann, Norbert Lammert, Hermann Leskien, Jutta Limbach, Wolf D. Lucius, Michael Naumann, June Newton, Elisabeth Niggemann, Paul Raabe, Petra Roth, Henning Schulte-Noelle, Ruth Wagner, Christina Weiss, Karin von Welck, Christoph Wolff and Klaus Wowereit, et al. The subjects cover a spectrum ranging from the visual arts to museum designs and many aspects of books, publishering, librarianship and the promotion of culture."

Handbook of Education Policy Research (Paperback): Gary Sykes, Barbara Schneider, David N. Plank Handbook of Education Policy Research (Paperback)
Gary Sykes, Barbara Schneider, David N. Plank
R4,286 Discovery Miles 42 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Co-published by Routledge for the American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Educational policy continues to be of major concern. Policy debates about economic growth and national competitiveness, for example, commonly focus on the importance of human capital and a highly educated workforce. Defining the theoretical boundaries and methodological approaches of education policy research are the two primary themes of this comprehensive, AERA-sponsored Handbook.

Organized into seven sections, the Handbook focuses on (1) disciplinary foundations of educational policy, (2) methodological perspectives, (3) the policy process, (4) resources, management, and organization, (5) teaching and learning policy, (6) actors and institutions, and (7) education access and differentiation.

Drawing from multiple disciplines, the Handbook s over one hundred authors address three central questions: What policy issues and questions have oriented current policy research? What research strategies and methods have proven most fruitful? And what issues, questions, and methods will drive future policy research? Topics such as early childhood education, school choice, access to higher education, teacher accountability, and testing and measurement cut across the 63 chapters in the volume. The politics surrounding these and other issues are objectively analyzed by authors and commentators.

Each of the seven sections concludes with two commentaries by leading scholars in the field. The first considers the current state of policy design, and the second addresses the current state of policy research.

This book is appropriate for scholars and graduate students working in the field of education policy and for the growing number of academic, government, and think-tank researchers engaged in policy research.

For more information on the American Educational Research Association, please visit: http: //www.aera.net/.

Abitur und Matura zwischen Hochschulvorbereitung und Berufsorientierung (German, Paperback, 2014 ed.): Franz Eberle, Barbara... Abitur und Matura zwischen Hochschulvorbereitung und Berufsorientierung (German, Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Franz Eberle, Barbara Schneider-Taylor, Dorit Bosse
R1,629 Discovery Miles 16 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Die Tradition des Gymnasiums als vorbereitende Schule der Begabtesten fur ein universitares Studium ist von der Realitat langst uberholt, denn einerseits nehmen nicht alle AbiturientInnen ein Studium auf und andererseits wurden weitere Zugange zur Universitat geschaffen. Die AutorInnen diskutieren einige wichtige Fragen, die sich im Zusammenhang mit diesem Wandel stellen: Muss das Gymnasium kunftig auch auf berufsbildende Ausbildungsgange auf der Tertiarstufe vorbereiten? Wie vielen Jugendlichen sollte der Zugang zum Gymnasium offen stehen? Ist das Konzept der allgemeinen Studierfahigkeit noch haltbar oder braucht es mehr Spezialisierungsmoglichkeiten? Wo und wie soll kunftig die Selektion fur den tertiaren Bildungsweg erfolgen: auf der abgebenden Stufe Gymnasium oder mittels Prufungen der aufnehmenden Bildungsgange?"

Kundenmanagement im Krankenhaus - Service - Qualitat - Erreichbarkeit (German, Paperback, 2014 ed.): Volker Nurnberg, Barbara... Kundenmanagement im Krankenhaus - Service - Qualitat - Erreichbarkeit (German, Paperback, 2014 ed.)
Volker Nurnberg, Barbara Schneider
R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Die Autoren nehmen in ihrem Buch einen Vergleich von 200 deutschen Krankenhausern im Hinblick auf die Kundenorientierung vor. Kriterien sind hierbei zum einen die Erreichbarkeit der Kliniken und zum anderen deren Aktivitat im Bereich Social Media. Anhand dieser Parameter wird ein Vergleich erstellt, welcher ein Benchmarking auf der Basis einer zuverlassigen Datengrundlage ermoglicht. Auf diesem Weg werden eventuelle Schwachstellen sowie Moglichkeiten fur deren Beseitigung und fur die Steigerung der Dienstleistungsfahigkeit aufgezeigt. Das Buch bietet hochaktuelle Informationen fur Fuhrungskrafte aus den Bereichen Geschaftsleitung, Marketing und Qualitatsmanagement im Gesundheitsbereich sowie fur Verbande, Krankenkassen und im Pflegebereich tatige Personen."

Die Koordinierung Der Leistungen Der Sozialen Pflegeversicherung in Der Europaischen Union (German, Paperback, 2003 ed.):... Die Koordinierung Der Leistungen Der Sozialen Pflegeversicherung in Der Europaischen Union (German, Paperback, 2003 ed.)
Barbara Schneider
R871 Discovery Miles 8 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Data Literacy for Educators - Making It Count in Teacher Preparation and Practice (Paperback): Ellen B. Mandinach, Edith S.... Data Literacy for Educators - Making It Count in Teacher Preparation and Practice (Paperback)
Ellen B. Mandinach, Edith S. Gummer; Foreword by Barbara Schneider
R1,158 R911 Discovery Miles 9 110 Save R247 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Data literacy has become an essential skill set for teachers as education becomes more of an evidence-based profession. Teachers in all stages of professional growth need to learn how to use data effectively and responsibly to inform their teaching practices. This groundbreaking resource describes data literacy for teaching, emphasizing the important relationship between data knowledge and skills and disciplinary and pedagogical content knowledge. Case studies of emerging programs in schools of education are used to illustrate the key components needed to integrate data-driven decisionmaking into the teaching curricula. The book offers a clear path for change while also addressing the inherent complexities associated with change. Data Literacy for Educators provides concrete strategies for schools of education, professional developers, and school districts.

Corporal Rhetoric - Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era (Hardcover): Barbara Schneider Corporal Rhetoric - Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era (Hardcover)
Barbara Schneider
R1,349 Discovery Miles 13 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examines public discourse from the Progressive Era over the state's right to regulate women's bodies and their reproduction When Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes determined in 1927 that sterilization was a legitimate means of safeguarding the nation's health, he was asserting the state's right to regulate the production of the national body. His opinion represented a culmination of arguments about reproduction and immigration that had been circulating for years but that intensified during the Progressive Era. Arguments about reproductive and immigration practices surged to the foreground, and tectonic shifts in the conceptual schemes and practices of reproduction in the United States followed. Drawing on feminist historiography and genre studies, Corporal Rhetoric: Regulating Reproduction in the Progressive Era explores the rhetoric of medical research, new technologies, and material practices that shifted the idea of childbirth as an act of God or Nature to a medical procedure enacted by male physicians on the bodies of women made passive by both drugs and discourse. Barbara Schneider considers how efficiency, the hallmark of scientific management, was raised to a cardinal virtue by its inclusions in the powerful mediums of presidential speeches, national educational policies, and eugenics discourse to reclassify babies, long regarded as gifts, as either valuable assets or defective products. Schneider shows how the legal system drew upon medicine, scientific management, and the emerging discipline of sociology to restrict women's labor in order to preserve reproductive capacity, categorized by Supreme Court opinions as a public good rather than a private capacity. Throughout, she ties the arguments developed during this era to current debates about mothering rhetorics, reproductive rights, immigration, and conceptions of the nation. By weaving together medical research reports, clinical practices, case studies, legal opinions and legislative acts, and the epistemology of scientific management, Schneider illuminates the network that women such as Margaret Sanger, Jane Addams, Lillian Gilbreth and multiple others negotiated as they sought to give women room to exercise their reproductive capacity. Through her analysis of the machinery of these discourses and the material uptake of their genres in the daily practices of reproductive bodies, Schneider offers a provisional theory of corporal rhetoric that begins to answer the call for a new material theory of the body.

Hearing (Our) Voices - Involving Service Users in Mental Health Research (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed): Barbara Schneider Hearing (Our) Voices - Involving Service Users in Mental Health Research (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
Barbara Schneider
R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hearing (Our) Voices describes two innovative participatory action research projects - one on communication with medical professionals, the other on housing - carried out by a group of people diagnosed with schizophrenia under the guidance of Professor Barbara Schneider. Participants designed the research, conducted interviews and focus groups, participated in data analysis, and disseminated research results through a number of innovative strategies including theatre performances, a documentary film, a graphic novel, and a travelling exhibit.

Emerging from these projects is the central and significant finding that people diagnosed with schizophrenia are caught between their dependence on care and their longing for independent lives. The research presented in Hearing (Our) Voices points to a way to resolve this paradox and transform lives through the inclusion of people diagnosed with schizophrenia in research, in decision-making about their own treatment and housing, and in public discourse about schizophrenia.

Workplace Flexibility - Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce (Hardcover): Kathleen Christensen, Barbara... Workplace Flexibility - Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce (Hardcover)
Kathleen Christensen, Barbara Schneider
R3,671 Discovery Miles 36 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although today's family has changed, the workplace has not and the resulting one-size-fits-all workplace has become profoundly mismatched to the needs of an increasingly diverse and varied workforce. As changes in the composition of the workforce exert new demands on employers, considerable attention is being paid to how workplaces can be structured more flexibly to achieve the goals of employers and employees.

Workplace Flexibility brings together sixteen essays authored by leading experts in economics, demography, political science, law, sociology, anthropology, and management. Collectively, they make the case for workplace flexibility, as well as examine existing business practices and public policy regarding flexibility in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Workplace Flexibility underscores the need to realign the structure of work in time and place with the needs of the changing workforce.

Considering the positive and negative consequences for employer and employee alike, the authors argue that, although there is not an easy solution to creating and implementing flexibility practices in the United States or abroad redesigning the workplace is essential if today's workers are effectively to meet the demands of life and work and if employers are successfully able to attract and retain top talent and improve performance."

Workplace Flexibility - Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce (Paperback): Kathleen Christensen, Barbara... Workplace Flexibility - Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce (Paperback)
Kathleen Christensen, Barbara Schneider
R1,066 Discovery Miles 10 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although today's family has changed, the workplace has not and the resulting one-size-fits-all workplace has become profoundly mismatched to the needs of an increasingly diverse and varied workforce. As changes in the composition of the workforce exert new demands on employers, considerable attention is being paid to how workplaces can be structured more flexibly to achieve the goals of employers and employees.

Workplace Flexibility brings together sixteen essays authored by leading experts in economics, demography, political science, law, sociology, anthropology, and management. Collectively, they make the case for workplace flexibility, as well as examine existing business practices and public policy regarding flexibility in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Workplace Flexibility underscores the need to realign the structure of work in time and place with the needs of the changing workforce.

Considering the positive and negative consequences for employer and employee alike, the authors argue that, although there is not an easy solution to creating and implementing flexibility practices in the United States or abroad redesigning the workplace is essential if today's workers are effectively to meet the demands of life and work and if employers are successfully able to attract and retain top talent and improve performance."

Becoming Adult - How Teenagers Prepare For The World Of Work (Paperback, New Ed): Barbara Schneider, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Becoming Adult - How Teenagers Prepare For The World Of Work (Paperback, New Ed)
Barbara Schneider, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is an examination of how the credit card industry has changed the way Americans buy, loan, and live. It is part history and part expose of the damaging social and political consequences of America's increasing reliance on credit cards. Using original research and consumer interviews, Manning analyzes the growth of the credit card industry and its related businesses by looking at the story of its consumers - the people who use credit for convenience and those who rely on it for financial stability. In addition to providing a consumer history of credit card usage, Robert Manning analyzes the larger societal attitudes toward debt. The history of the credit card industry's expansion is one of the creation of a new class of consumers who utilize credit and its steep interest and penalty rates for economic survival. Manning discusses the societal toll that the credit card nation is placing on the young, the elderly, and all those in search of the good life marketed by the credit card and banking industries.

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