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Primed for Success: The Story of Scientific Design Company
This is the remarkable story of an entrepreneurial firm that helped to create the petrochemical industry as we know it today. The author also highlights the important role chemical engineers played in developing and commercializing new technologies based on the conversion of hydrocarbons into petrochemicals, which also led to the transfer of technological dominance from Germany to the United States. These developments are illustrated by the participants’ personal histories, in the form of interviews and recorded oral histories. In addition, the book presents a highly relevant case study for engineers and managers in the chemical industry.
Handbook of Moral and Character Education
The Handbook of Moral and Character Education offers a definitive, state-of-the-art synthesis of leading scholarship in moral and character education. A subject of international interest and the focus of numerous governmental curricular mandates, the moral development and character formation of students are increasingly recognized as an essential component of a well-rounded schooling experience. This comprehensive volume explores the philosophical, psychological, and educational issues that define the field; links robust theoretical and empirical foundations to effective classroom practice; highlights implications for civic engagement and social justice; and follows the lessons learned from ...
Teamwork in the Management of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
First Published in 2000. The work described in this book offers one model of 'peer consultancy' that supports teachers in providing an inclusive and effective education for pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties. Developing peer support systems for teachers in school gives focus to teachers' learning and supports them as they work toward more inclusive education. Hill and Parsons present the topic so that its contents may be used as an action research programme in school to test the efficacy of peer support systems for teachers.
Managing Challenging Children
Full of clearly explained, useful strategies to help manage behaviour effectively, with anecdotes from real-life classroom situations.
Primary and Secondary Education During Covid-19
This open access edited volume is a comparative effort to discern the short-term educational impact of the covid-19 pandemic on students, teachers and systems in Brazil, Chile, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. One of the first academic comparative studies of the educational impact of the pandemic, the book explains how the interruption of in person instruction and the variable efficacy of alternative forms of education caused learning loss and disengagement with learning, especially for disadvantaged students. Other direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic diminished the ability of families to suppo...
Primed for Life
Midlife crisis is very dreading, especially among men. Even though they mask their condition with masculine flippancy or bravura, they suffer from slings and arrows, too. In this collection of essays compiled by Lorna Kalaw-Tirol, delve deeper into some of midlife men’s inner lives. “Here are gems of glimpses into men’s inner lives that we will find nowhere else except in good fiction.” — From the Foreword by Mariel N. Francisco
PRIMED for Character Education
Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from AERA's Moral Development and Education SIG! In PRIMED for Character Education, renowned character educator Marvin W Berkowitz boils down decades of research on evidence-based practices and thought-provoking field experience into a clear set of principles that leaders, administrators, and teacher-leaders can implement to help students thrive. The author’s original six-component framework offers a comprehensive guide to shaping purposeful learning environments, healthy relationships, core values and virtues, role models, empowerment, and long-term development in any PreK-12 school or district. This engaging and heartfelt book features tips for practice, anecdotes from award-winning schools, and straightforward tenets from moral education, social-emotional learning, and positive psychology.
The Complete Guide to Behaviour for Teaching Assistants and Support Staff
By providing a thorough grounding in the theory behind behavior management, followed by suggestions for successful strategies to use in the classroom, The Complete Guide to Behaviour for Teaching Assistants and Support Staff gives the reader the confidence to manage the challenging behavior of children and young people in educational contexts. Written specifically for teaching assistants and support staff, this book covers behavior, motivation and discipline issues with their specific role and position in mind. Supported by the views and responses of current students on Foundation Degrees and those working towards HLTA status, the book reflects the difficulties, dilemmas and successes of this vital group of people working in today’s classrooms. Useful features include: chapter objectives exercises and activities case studies further reading
