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The library profession has changed rapidly in the wake of advanced
technologies. Once regarded as the gatekeepers of information found
in books, today s library professionals are shifting from a
traditional center of attention to a new focus on all areas of
information studies. Technology and Professional Identify of
Librarians: The Making of the Cybrarian brings into focus both the
positive and negative aspects that technology places on the
professional identity of librarians. Highlighting the new methods
involved in data management, communication, and Library Information
education and research; this book is a necessary means for
librarians, students, and researchers to obtain an up to date
understanding of what it means to maintain relevancy in the
information age."
Discourse, Learning, and Schooling explores theoretical and methodological relationships between childrens' discourse--or socially used language--and their learning in educational settings. Authors in this volume address a range of issues, including literacy, authorship, the construction of self, and classroom interaction. The chapters range from research studies of classroom discourse to essays reflecting on discourse and literacies. Collectively these chapters reflect both sociocognitive perspectives on relations among discourse, learning, and schooling, and sociocultural perspectives on discourse and literacies among diverse cultural groups.
Winner of the GOLD Nonfiction Book Award presented by the
Nonfiction Authors Association! Speaking Out on Governance presents
a range of viewpoints concerning the role of today's corporation
and its board of directors. The author engages in candid discussion
with subject matter experts including boardmembers, corporate
attorneys, academics, institutional investors, regulators, and
activists. These interviews of leading authorities in the corporate
governance arena provide the reader with unique insight into the
vitally important but often misunderstood role played by the board.
Deborah Hicks Midanek discusses perspectives regarding what
directors of businesses actually do and should do; the true
motivations and concerns of the various parties seeking to
influence corporate behavior; legal issues surrounding the board;
and the key similarities and differences of opinion that may help
improve effectiveness of all parties and increase board and
director effectiveness. This book is essential reading for
corporate directors and would-be directors, senior managers,
attorneys, consultants and anyone interested in what drives
organizational behavior.
Boards of directors are sitting ducks. Shareholders complain and
even attack, management manipulates, and individual board members
have little power, able to act only as part of the board as a
whole. Governance issues are front and center, yet there is often
little understanding, even among board members, of the key role
that they play. Written in an accessible and human voice, The
Governance Revolution: What Every Board Member Needs to Know, NOW!
provides information and context essential to anyone seeking to
understand how corporations and their stewards-the board of
directors-can and should function in the volatile world we inhabit.
Deborah Hicks Midanek offers useful insight into what board members
of corporations actually do, the current standards for board
members and why they exist. She includes a timely discussion of how
clarity of purpose can improve board and director effectiveness.
Informed by her long experience serving public, private, and family
owned corporate boards as well as those of charitable, and
government organizations, she provides essential context regarding
the evolution of board practice as well as candid discussion of the
issues involved in the relentless effort to improve corporate
governance processes. Focused mainly on the dominant public
corporation, she also explores the special challenges of serving
private and family owned as well as nonprofit and public agency
boards. Written by a seasoned board member, and liberally laced
with stories and cases illustrating the tricky issues directors
wrestle with, this book is the essential common-sense companion for
anyone working with a board, serving on a board, or wanting to do
so. Directors, aspiring directors, investors, and students of
corporate behavior will benefit from this highly readable
description of the cloistered boardroom. For Roger Trapp's article
in Forbes featuring a discussion of this title click here
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogertrapp/2018/10/22/independent-directors-nehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/rogertrapp/2018/10/22/independent-directors-need-to-stand-up-to-activists/#7060008826b0ed-to-stand-up-to-activists/#7060008826b0
For a Roundtable discussion in Financier Worldwide Magazine
featuring Deborah Hicks Midanek please click here
https://www.financierworldwide.com/roundtable-risks-facing-directors-officers-aug18#.W1BqQdVKiUk
Click here for a review in Financial Analysts Journal
https://www.cfapubs.org/doi/abs/10.2469/br.v13.n1.10 Click here for
an excerpt on Corporate Board Member:
https://boardmember.com/what-is-the-governance-revolution/
Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students' lives when
everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and
learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of poverty?
"The Road Out" is a gripping account of one teacher's journey of
hope and discovery with her students--girls growing up poor in a
neighborhood that was once home to white Appalachian workers, and
is now a ghetto. Deborah Hicks, set out to give one group of girls
something she never had: a first-rate education, and a chance to
live their dreams. A contemporary tragedy is brought to life as she
leads us deep into the worlds of Adriana, Blair, Mariah, Elizabeth,
Shannon, Jessica, and Alicia: seven girls coming of age in poverty.
This is a moving story about girls who have lost their childhoods,
but who face the street's torments with courage and resiliency. "I
want out," says 10-year-old Blair, a tiny but tough girl who is
extremely poor and yet deeply imaginative and precocious. Hicks
tries to convey to her students a sense of the power of fiction and
of sisterhood to get them through the toughest years of
adolescence. But by the time they're sixteen, eight years after the
start of the class, the girls are experiencing the collision of
their youthful dreams with the pitfalls of growing up in chaotic
single-parent families amid the deteriorating cityscape. Yet even
as they face disappointments and sometimes despair, these girls
cling to their desire for a better future. The author's own life
story--from a poorly educated girl in a small mountain town to a
Harvard-educated writer, teacher, and social advocate--infuses this
chronicle with a message of hope.
Discourse, Learning, and Schooling explores theoretical and
methodological relationships between childrens' discourse - or
socially used language - and their learning in educational
settings. Within the fields of education and psychology, the role
that discourse plays in social processes of learning and teaching
has emerged as a critical, empirical and theoretical question.
Authors in this volume address a range of issues, including
literacy, authorship, the construction of self and classroom
interaction. The chapters range from research studies of classroom
discourse to essays reflecting on discourse and literacies.
Collectively these chapters reflect both sociocognitive
perspectives on relations between discourse, learning, and
schooling, and sociocultural perspectives on discourse and
literacies among diverse cultural groups.
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