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The Inside Track: An Inspirational Guide to Conquering Adversity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

The Inside Track: An Inspirational Guide to Conquering Adversity

What happens when you put a non-criminal and one of the world's top experts in personal growth, into one of the toughest prisons in the UK? In 2017, that's exactly what happened to Peter Sage when, during a civil matter, he was found in contempt of court.

How to Master Your Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

How to Master Your Life

What if your purpose was your own - not society's, not the bank, not teachers and peers. What if you had the freedom and confidence to take control of your life today? This book will teach you how to master your life by giving you the four keys of excellence; unstoppable mindset, financial freedom, ultimate leadership, and how to live by your values.

Membership Roles in Field Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 100

Membership Roles in Field Research

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987-06
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  • Publisher: SAGE

There are a range of roles that can be played by ethnographers in field research. The choice of role will affect the type of information available to the researcher and the kind of ethnography written. The authors discuss the problems and advantages at each level of involvement and give examples of modern ethnographic studies.

Urban Regeneration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Urban Regeneration

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-02-11
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Providing students and practitioners with a detailed overview of the key theoretical and applied issues, this book is a comprehensive and integrated primer on regeneration. The various chapters: review the history and context of urban regeneration; consider funding implications; look at environmental, social and community issues, as well as employment, education and training; focus on managing urban regeneration; consider land use issues; and discuss monitoring and evaluation. The book concludes with a comparative analysis, with examples from America and Europe, and a discussion of future trends. The book represents the first systematic overview of urban regeneration in one volume and is set to become the standard referenc

The Everything Guide to Writing Children's Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

The Everything Guide to Writing Children's Books

Rev. ed. of: The everything guide to writing children's books / Lesley Bolton. c2002.

Cognitive Development Today
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

Cognitive Development Today

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992-05-28
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  • Publisher: SAGE

`At the end of the day, what is crucial is to enable educationalists to promote and apply their own metatheories and models of child development which they feel comfortable with and which enable children to develop. ... Peter Sutherland should be credited with making a significant contribution towards achieving this fundamental goal' - Educational Psychology in Practice ` ... this book deserves to become a classic in the field. Will appeal alike to academics and students in higher education, and to serving teachers- BPS: Educational Review Section This book provides a general outline of the dominant schools of thought on cognitive development, with a focus on Piaget. His views are outlined and a range of critical responses and alternatives are detailed. The author examines the application of these schools of thought to teaching pre-school, primary and secondary children. Each chapter includes a summary and questions for discussion. The book concludes with a glossary of terms.

The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 665

The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-03-18
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  • Publisher: SAGE

The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management is the first substantive scholarly work to provide a map of the state of art research in the growing field emerging at the intersection of complexity science and management studies. Edited and written by internationally respected scholars from management and related disciplines, the Handbook will be the definitive reference source for understanding the implications of complexity science for management research and practice. Part One: Foundations introduces complexity science and its implications for the foundations of scientific knowledge, including management knowledge. Part Two: Applications presents the numerous ways in which complexity science models and tools, as well as complexity thinking, are being applied to management and organizational phenomena and the insights gained as a result. Part Three: Interfaces highlights how complexity science is transforming various non-management fields and, in so doing, creating exciting interfaces for bridging between management and related disciplines.

Reflective Practice and Professional Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Reflective Practice and Professional Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-08
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  • Publisher: SAGE

The connections between reflective practice and professional development are the focus for this book, which offers guidance to support lasting change and provides strategies to enable self-initiated professional development. The book includes: - traditional approaches to reflective practice - how to enhance the effectiveness of reflective practice - putting reflective practice in context - how reflective practice can improve attainment for students and staff - an Appendix of useful resources. With case studies and examples of relective practice from trainee teachers and from students studying across a range of Education courses, this book equips the reader to develop their own reflective practice framework. Relevant also to practitioners working across the children′s workforce, it encourages personal and professional development for the whole range of professionals working in education and care. Peter Tarrant is a Teaching Fellow at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh.

Leadership
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 577

Leadership

Adopted at more than 1,600 institutions in 89 countries and translated into 15 different languages! The market-leading Leadership: Theory and Practice by Peter G. Northouse presents an academically robust account of the major theories and models of leadership with a focus on how theory can inform practice. Northouse uses a consistent structure for each chapter that allows readers to easily compare and contrast different theories. Case studies and questionnaires provide students with practical examples and opportunities to deepen their understanding of their own leadership style. The fully updated Ninth Edition features a new chapter on inclusive leadership, 17 new real-world cases that profile leaders from across the globe, a new discussion on leadership and morality, and examples of timely issues such as leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.

Local Governance in Western Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Local Governance in Western Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-12-20
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  • Publisher: SAGE

This text provides a comprehensive introduction to local government and urban politics in contemporary Western Europe. It is the first book to map and explain the significant processes of change characterizing local government systems and to place these in a genuinely comparative context. Students are introduced to the traditional structures and institutions of local government and shown how these have been transforming in response to increased economic and political competition, new ideas, institutional reform and the Europeanization of public policies in Europe. At the books core is the perceived transition from local government to local governance. This key development is traced thematically across a w