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Scholarship Students in Elite South African Schools: The Gift of a Scholarship (Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education #16)
by Jennifer Wallace Jennifer FeldmanThis book provides a narrative account of the experiences of twenty former scholarship students from historically disadvantaged communities who attended elite public and private secondary schools. It draws on in-depth, one-on-one semi-structured interviews conducted with former scholarship recipients who were between the ages of 19 and 24 years at the time of the interviews. Various themes are explored, specifically focusing on elite schooling in relation to the experiences and navigational practices of the scholarship recipients and the adjustments that they felt they needed to make in order to fit into the elite school space.The book analyses and discusses the reflective experiences of students who were awarded a scholarship to attend an elite secondary school. It reveals that accepting the gift of a scholarship is far more complex, multi-layered, and at times harsh and even painful for the individual recipients than is possibly realized by those involved in this practice. This book contributes to academic educational debates within the sociology of education, elite schools and schooling in the post-apartheid South African context.
Scholarship Unbound (RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education)
by Kerry Ann O'MearaExamining a number of academic institutions, this book highlights how they have broadened their promotion policies in order to weigh faculty professional service equally with scholarship.
Scholarship and Freedom
by Geoffrey Galt HarphamA powerful and original argument that the practice of scholarship is grounded in the concept of radical freedom, beginning with the freedoms of inquiry, thought, and expression. Why are scholars and scholarship invariably distrusted and attacked by authoritarian regimes? Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that at its core, scholarship is informed by an emancipatory agenda based on a permanent openness to the new, an unlimited responsiveness to evidence, and a commitment to conversion. At the same time, however, scholarship involves its own forms of authority. As a worldly practice, it is a struggle for dominance without end as scholars try to disprove the claims of others, establish new versions of the truth, and seek disciples. Scholarship and Freedom threads its general arguments through examinations of the careers of three scholars: W. E. B. Du Bois, who serves as an example of scholarly character formation; South African Bernard Lategan, whose New Testament studies became entangled on both sides of his country’s battles over apartheid; and Linda Nochlin, whose essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” virtually created the field of feminist art history.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning und disziplinäre Forschung: Eine komplexe Beziehung (Doing Higher Education)
by Nerea Vöing Carla Bohndick Jonas Leschke Robert KordtsIn der Nachfolge Boyers (1990) und anderer Autor:innen im englischsprachigen Raum hat sich Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) auch im deutschsprachigen Raum nicht als fachspezifische Forschung (Boyer: Scholarship of Discovery), sondern als systematische Erkundung (inquiry) der zumeist eigenen Lehre und des studentischen Lernens durch Hochschullehrende entwickelt. Dabei sind die Abgrenzungen zwischen den beiden Konzepten Forschung und SoTL allerdings weder konzeptionell noch konkret geklärt. Es stellen sich Fragen wie: Ist SoTL Forschung und wenn ja, ab wann? Mit welchen Methoden und Ansätzen wird SoTL durchgeführt? Welche fachspezifischen, nicht sozialwissenschaftlichen, Methoden oder Ansätze für SoTL gibt es? Dieser Band exploriert diese und andere Fragen zum einen aus der Perspektive von Lehrenden, die selbst in SoTL aktiv sind, zum anderen aus einer allgemeineren bildungswissenschaftlichen und hochschuldidaktischen Perspektive.
Scholarship, Money, and Prose: Behind the Scenes at an Academic Journal
by Michael ChibnikAn illuminating guide to publishing a scholarly journal written by a former editor-in-chiefAmerican Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association, published quarterly, reaching more than 12,000 readers with each issue and representing four distinct subfields. The journal publishes articles that add to, integrate, synthesize, and interpret anthropological knowledge; commentaries and essays on issues of importance to the discipline; and reviews of books, films, sound recordings, and exhibits. From 2012 to 2016, Michael Chibnik was editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist. In Scholarship, Money, and Prose, he writes a candid account of the complex and challenging work entailed in its production.Providing detailed ethnographic and historical descriptions of the operations of a major journal and behind-the-scenes anecdotes of his experiences, Chibnik makes transparent the work of an editor-in-chief. He reveals how he assembled diverse materials, assessed contradictory peer reviews of manuscripts submitted for publication, and collaborated with authors to improve the legibility and clarity of their articles. He also examines controversies that emerged from his columns on open access and biological anthropology and the inclusion of politically charged material in the journal.Scholarship, Money, and Prose sheds light on two aspects of successful editing that are common to academic journals whatever their subject matter. The first task is to strike a balance among different theoretical perspectives and topical specialties. This pressure is particularly salient in a field like anthropology in which scholars differ greatly in the extent to which they adopt a scientific or humanistic perspective. Second, editors must attend carefully to the need to keep costs down and revenues up in an economic environment in which libraries are cutting subscriptions and publishers are considering the future sustainability of journals. Relevant to a wide range of disciplines, Scholarship, Money, and Prose serves as a window onto the past, present, and future of scholarly publishing.
Scholarship, Practice and Education in Comparative Law: A Festschrift in Honour of Mary Hiscock
by John H. Farrar Vai Io Lo Bee Chen GohThis book examines how law functions in a multitude of facets and dimensions. The contributions shed light on the study of comparative law in legal scholarship, the relevance of comparative law in legal practice, and the importance of comparative law in legal education. The book will particularly appeal to those engaged in the teaching and scholarship of comparative law, and those seeking to uncover the various significant dimensions of the workings of law. The book is organised in three parts. Part I addresses scholarship, with contributors examining comparative legal issues as critique and from a theoretical framework. Part II outlines practice, with contributors discussing the function of comparative law in such comparatively diverse areas as international arbitration, environment, and the rule of law. Part III appraises comparative law in education.
Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2001
by Peterson’sPeterson's Scholarships, Grants & Prizes contains comprehensive profiles of millions of awards worth billions of dollars --the resource for anyone looking for private aid to help finance a college education. This valuable resource provides up-to-date information on millions of privately funded awards available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards, based on ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service, and other categories, that are available from private sources, such as foundations, corporations, and religious and civic organizations.
Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2013
by Peterson'S PublicationsPeterson's Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2013 is the must have guide for anyone looking for private aid money to help finance an education. <P><P>This valuable resource provides up-to-date information on millions of privately funded awards available to college students. The comprehensive scholarship and grant profiles include those awards based on ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service, and other categories, which are available from private sources, such as foundations, corporations, and religious and civic organizations. In addition, there are informative articles containing advice on avoiding scholarship scams, winning scholarships with a winning essay, and getting in the minority scholarship mix.
Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2013
by Peterson'sPeterson's Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2013 is the must have guide for anyone looking for private aid money to help finance an education. This valuable resource provides up-to-date information on millions of privately funded awards available to college students. The comprehensive scholarship and grant profiles include those awards based on ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service, and other categories, which are available from private sources, such as foundations, corporations, and religious and civic organizations. In addition, there are informative articles containing advice on avoiding scholarship scams, winning scholarships with a winning essay, and getting in the minority scholarship mix.
Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2013
by Peterson'sPeterson's Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2013 is the must have guide for anyone looking for private aid money to help finance an education. This valuable resource provides up-to-date information on millions of privately funded awards available to college students. The comprehensive scholarship and grant profiles include those awards based on ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service, and other categories, which are available from private sources, such as foundations, corporations, and religious and civic organizations. In addition, there are informative articles containing advice on avoiding scholarship scams, winning scholarships with a winning essay, and getting in the minority scholarship mix.
Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2015
by Peterson'sPeterson's Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2015 is the must have guide for anyone looking for private aid money to help finance an education. This valuable resource provides up-to-date information on millions of privately funded awards available to college students. The comprehensive scholarship and grant profiles include those awards based on ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service, and other categories, which are available from private sources, such as foundations, corporations, and religious and civic organizations. In addition, there are informative articles containing advice on avoiding scholarship scams, winning scholarships with a winning essay, and getting in the minority scholarship mix.
Scholastic rBook, Flex
by ScholasticA student workbook that provides instruction in reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing and grammar skills.
School Adjustment: Why Some Students Fade and Others Flourish
by Moshe IsraelashviliThis book offers a thorough, up-to-date review of the literature on school adjustment, covering key processes involved in major educational transitions-from elementary (1st grade) to secondary (junior high) and high school. Adopting a preventive approach, it provides real-world examples of interventions aimed at promoting successful school adjustment, that would later lead to students' academic and personal flourishing. The book also discusses significant challenges that researchers, practitioners, and parents need to address. Readers will gain both a deeper theoretical understanding of the importance and process of school adjustment and practical guidance on how to foster it in diverse, real-life contexts. Perfect for educators, psychologists, and caregivers, this resource blends research with actionable insights to support student success.
School Administrative Aide: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe School Administrative Aide Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: coding/decoding information; name and number checking; office record keeping; understanding and interpreting written material; and more.
School Around the World (Customs Around the World)
by Mary MeinkingLearning is important no matter where you are. But some classrooms are very different than others. Discover all types of schools around the world in this fun, engaging series that develops kids' understanding of our diverse global community and their place in it.
School Attendance Aide: Passbooks Study Guide (Career Examination Series)
by National Learning CorporationThe School Attendance Aide Passbook® prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: interviewing; office record keeping; coding/decoding information; clerical operations with letters and numbers; understanding and interpreting written material; and more.
School Behavioral Health: Interconnecting Comprehensive School Mental Health and Positive Behavior Support
by Mark D. Weist Kathleen B. Franke Robert N. StevensThis book examines the prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems in youth and the implications of little or low-quality mental health services available for them. It describes aspects of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and school mental health (SMH) that work together to form a comprehensive service delivery model called the Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF). The term school behavioral health (SBH) is used to describe SMH and PBIS working together, as in the ISF. The book examines perspectives of key stakeholders through a series of research forums, during which participants identified critical themes for the advancement of SBH in South Carolina and the southeast region of the United States. Chapters address key themes of school behavioral health from these forums, such as collaboration, schoolwide approaches, quality of services, and support for specific populations, including military families and youth involved in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. The book addresses barriers to providing behavioral health services at school as well as recommendations from key stakeholders for advancing SBH along these critical dimensions. This volume is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as practitioners, clinicians, and therapists across such interrelated disciplines as clinical child and school psychology, educational policy and politics, social work, public health, school counseling, family studies, juvenile justice, child and adolescent psychiatry, and child welfare and well-being services.
School Behaviour and Families: Frameworks for Working Together
by Sue RoffeyThis book focuses on the relationship that schools have with parents and carers, especially in the early stages of behavioral difficulty. It aims to promote the best possible partnership with parents in what is often a sensitive and emotionally fraught situation. It contains an overview of the context and a general theoretical framework for home school interactions on behavior; research findings on factors which facilitate or inhibit effective partnerships, helping teachers understand why some parents/carers are reluctant to become involved or may appear aggressive and suggests ways in which schools might usefully respond; and chapters written by contributors with specific expertise in working with parents who have harmed their children, the carers of children in foster families and residential homes, mobile families (including travelers and asylum seekers), and families from diverse communities. The book is intended primarily for teachers and school managers at every phase of education, but will also be of interest to educational psychologists, home-school liaison officers, support staff, counselors, mentors, LEA officers and anyone working in parent partnership schemes.
School Blues
by Daniel PennacDaniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning him the task of writing a novel. This was the moment Pennac realized that no-one has to be a failure for ever. In School Blues, Pennac explores the many facets of schooling: how fear makes children reject education; how children can be captivated by inventive thinking; how consumerism has altered attitudes to learning. Haunted by memories of his own turbulent time in the classroom, Pennac enacts dialogues with his teachers, his parents and his own students, and serves up much more than a bald analysis of how young people are consistently failed by a faltering system. School Blues is not only universally applicable, but it is unquestionably a work of literature in its own right, driven by subtlety, sensitivity and a passion for pedagogy, while embracing the realities of contemporary culture.
School Blues
by Daniel PennacDaniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning him the task of writing a novel. This was the moment Pennac realized that no-one has to be a failure for ever. In School Blues, Pennac explores the many facets of schooling: how fear makes children reject education; how children can be captivated by inventive thinking; how consumerism has altered attitudes to learning. Haunted by memories of his own turbulent time in the classroom, Pennac enacts dialogues with his teachers, his parents and his own students, and serves up much more than a bald analysis of how young people are consistently failed by a faltering system. School Blues is not only universally applicable, but it is unquestionably a work of literature in its own right, driven by subtlety, sensitivity and a passion for pedagogy, while embracing the realities of contemporary culture.
School Boards in America
by Gene I. MaeroffSchool boards spend almost $500 billion in taxpayer-provided funds, they employ more than 6 million people, offering pensions and lifetime health benefits that have helped build the obligation that has put state governments in fiscal peril. This book lifts the veil of obscurity from school boards and makes readers think about the issues.
School Boards in the Governance Process
by Lejf Moos Jan Merok PaulsenThis book analyses local school district governance in a comparative, cross-cultural perspective based on national studies of local school boards in the Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The overarching research question explored by the national studies contained in this volume is: How are transnational influences of standardization and accountability, alongside national policies, transformed into local policy cultures by the school boards? In all the Nordic countries, the municipalities are equivalent with the school district level, and municipalities, as such, play a role as the interface between state policies and the schools. This book discusses the variation across different national systems in the Nordic countries in the degree of decentralism, as well as the processes through which sources of political autonomy are put into practice by school boards. It explores the interplay between context and policy-making at the local level, and analyses how local discourses expressed by school boards differ from national policies and trans-national influences. The book's analysis of the country-cases and thematic chapters shows that there are both important similarities and significant differences in governance functions, power relations and understandings of school board chairs and members between the countries studied. Moreover, the book analyses the many ways in which these similarities and differences affect the work context of school leaders and teachers in the Nordic countries.
School Budgeting for Hard Times: Confronting Cutbacks and Critics
by Dr William K. PostonA win-win solution to the battle of the budget Are you challenged to improve your school’s productivity with existing or even diminishing resources? This invaluable reference will show you how to do more with less. Educator William K. Poston, Jr. contends that the needs of curriculum and learning should drive the budgeting process, not the other way around. The solution is implementing performance-based budgeting. This text gives step-by-step instructions for: Using assessment data to determine budget priorities Applying quality enhancement principles to the process Incorporating measurable performance to attain funding
School Buildings Rehabilitation
by Vasco Peixoto Freitas João M.P.Q. Delgado Ricardo M.S.F. AlmeidaThis book discusses the effect of different school building rehabilitation strategies on the classrooms' indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and presents a multi-objective methodology for school building enclosure optimization combining artificial neural networks and lifecycle costs. The special features of this book are that it (a) presents the state-of-the-art in school building rehabilitation, (b) covers the IEQ assessment of several school buildings, including non-rehabilitated and rehabilitated according to different strategies; and (c) proposes a multi-objective optimization procedure. The rehabilitation of a school building should be regarded as a procedure combining a number of (sometimes conflicting) variables and objectives, including energy, IEQ and costs (initial, operational and maintenance), in the search for an "optimum solution. " The main benefit of the book is that it discusses the main topics related to school building rehabilitation, presents results of the IEQ assessment on 9 school buildings and launches a discussion on how the "in-use" performance of schools is key to understanding how designed performance is actually experienced. It maps the most commonly used multi-objective algorithms and artificial neural network architectures and proposes a methodology for combining these numerical tools with dynamic building simulations and lifecycle cost analysis to optimize school building enclosures. This methodology will be of value to scientists and engineers alike, while also addressing a variety of related disciplines, such as civil and mechanical engineering, architecture and mathematics.
School Bullying
by Robin May Schott Dorte Marie SøndergaardBullying is a socially and culturally complex phenomenon that until now has largely been understood in the context of the individual. This book challenges the dominance of this approach, examining the processes of extreme exclusion that are enacted in bullying - whether at school, through face-to-face meetings or virtual encounters - in the context of group dynamics. Contributors draw upon qualitative empirical studies, mixed methods and statistics, to analyse the elements that allow bullying to emerge - the processes that produce exclusion and contempt, and the relations between children, teachers and parents. Introducing a new definition of bullying, this book goes on to discuss directions for future research and action, including more informed intervention strategies and re-thinking methods of prevention. Exploring bullying in the light of the latest research from a wide variety of disciplines, this book paves the way for a new paradigm through which to understand the field.