"This book documents a radical shift in thinking from focusing on the school as the place where curriculum is made to realizing the ways children and families are engaged as curriculum makers in homes, in communities, and in the spaces in-between, outside of school. The narrative inquiry framing this book investigates the tensions experienced by teachers, children and families as they make curriculum attentive to lives. It draws on a res ..."
"In a climate of increasing emphasis on testing, measurable outcomes, competition and efficiency, the real lives of children and their teachers are often neglected or are too messy and intricate to legislate and quantify. As such, curricula are designed without including the very people that compose the identities of schools. Here Clandinin takes issue with this tendency, bringing together a collection of narratives from seven writers wh ..."
Accountability(2nd Edition) Getting a Grip on Results by Bruce Klatt, ShaunMurphy, David Irvine Paperback, 115 Pages, Published 2003 by Bow River Publishing Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-9730365-2-7, ISBN: 0-9730365-2-4
"The first book to demonstrate how to implement accountability agreements, Accountability represents a promise and an obligation, both to managers and to the people they manage, to deliver specific, defined results. Accountability is essential to the running of every efficient organization, showing that to operate from a position of accountability is to recognize that each individual stands at the centre of a circle of influence and sho ..."
"The first book to demonstrate how to implement accountability agreements, Accountability represents a promise and an obligation, both to managers and to the people they manage, to deliver specific, defined results. Accountability is essential to the running of every efficient organization, showing that to operate from a position of accountability is to recognize that each individual stands at the centre of a circle of influence and sho ..."
Volken Dragon's Blood by ShaunMurphy Paperback, Published 2017 by Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-5497-6714-2, ISBN: 1-5497-6714-3
Robin Comprehensive Treatment of a Vulnerable Adolescent (Signed) by Lois Barclay Murphy, J. Cotter Hirschberg, ShaunMurphy Hardcover, 362 Pages, Published 1982 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-07060-2, ISBN: 0-465-07060-4
"Zhao Jinglun agreed that there was little chance that the liberal educational
model once epitomized by his own alma mater, Qinghua University, would
reestablish itself. The fact that only five percent of China's high school graduates
went to ..."
"Together these essays show that although the Soviet government has made great strides in improving the living conditions of its citizens, Soviet living standards and services are relatively poor by Western standards and several important ..."
"Five years after Beijing's pragmatic new leadership embarked on its Four Modernizations program, the obstacles to change in China are becoming apparent, agree the contributors to this book. Focusing on developments since Mao's death and pointing to the negative effects of China's massive bureaucracy, the regime's reluctance to give up Soviet-style"
"The underlying emphasis of this text is that by becoming accountable, leaders increase their credibility in the organization in which they function. This practical guide shows how to achieve that end."
Quality of Life in the Soviet Union(1st Edition) (A Special Study of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for) by Horst G. Herlemann, ShaunMurphy Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1987 by Westview Pr (Short Disc) ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-0191-4, ISBN: 0-8133-0191-2
"This book examines the deep-seated problems in the Middle East and their impact on the United States and its allies. It discusses the full range of Western security interests in the region and explores the disruptive effects of the double-edged sword of nationalism and modernization."