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The Art in Peacemaking:
An Initiative of the Partnership for Conflict Resolution in the Arts
Young people bring many challenges and sensitive issues with them when they enter community arts programs. Often these challenges exist as disputes young…

This book explores some of the main findings of a piece of research funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (award 00 23 7661) that the authors, Rachel Johnson, Oliver Fulton, and Stephen Watson conducted at Lancaster University from…

Change was the story of the 20th century and will inevitably be the story of the 21st. In order to survive and prosper, organizations in the private and the public sectors will need to respond in a timely and flexible way to social, techno- logical,…

In working with educators every day who are down in the trenches making a difference in the lives of their students, I have come to realize something that is so, so exciting. We already have in place the talent and resources to transform our…

This book is for anyone who is interested in teaching. It started as an attempt to map out and summarize reliable knowledge about teaching and how it functions to aid learning. It was written, in the first place, mainly for students training to…

Learning is fundamentally about change – persistent change in a person’s abilities, attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, mental models, and skills. In the past, technology to support learning has been touted as offering many opportunities for dramatic…

One of the most important factors in creating blended learning solutions
is to recognize where it fits in the broader context of organizational
learning and development. Much of the underpinning concepts of
learning and development have already…

This book would not have been possible without the teachers and principals who invited me into their classrooms and schools. These warriors of compassion are unrelenting in their struggle to create educational settings that are responsive to every…

One of the aims of this book is to provide an extended description of the instructional context of Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI). Previous publications on this instructional framework have appeared in journals devoted to reporting…