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  • Improving Quality of Education by Supporting Rural Teachers

    Practice in Africa and China

    Edited by Jing Liu, Yuchi Zhao ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book explores the complex terrain of support systems for rural teachers' professional development. It identifies, interprets, and consolidates features of effective rural teacher support systems through case studies from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and China. By examining what works and why, the book offers a compendium of policy recommendations and strategies. These are tailored not ... Read more

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  • Rural School Improvement in Developing Countries

    Edited by Yuchi Zhao, Jing Liu ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book examines the rural school improvement programs implemented in four developing countries, including China, Myanmar, Uganda, and Kenya. It analyzes research questions such as problems faced by rural schools in these countries, approaches or models adopted to improve these rural schools, specific interventions to address the problems and their effectiveness, and lessons learnt ... Read more

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  • Empowered Educators

    How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World

    by Linda Darling-Hammond, Dion Burns, Carol Campbell, A. Lin Goodwin, Karen Hammerness, Ann McIntyre, Mistilina Sato, Ken Zeichner, Ee-Ling Low ...
    Discover how high-performing systems shape teaching quality around the worldProducing highly skilled and committed teachers is not the work of a single innovative school or the aggregation of heroic individuals who succeed against the odds. In high-performing countries, the opportunities for teachers to learn sophisticated practices and continue to improve are embedded systemically in education ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Pursuing Horizontal Management

    The Politics of Public Sector Coordination

    by B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    From the first, specialization and coordination have presented governments with a conundrum: specialized program might be best for delivering one service to the public, but combining such programs for all public services inevitably produces costly redundancies and inefficiencies. In this long-awaited book, Guy Peters brings his expertise and extensive experience to bear on the problem of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Research for Development

    A Practical Guide

    by Sophie Laws, Caroline Harper, Nicola Jones, Rachel Marcus ...
    Research for Development offers a comprehensive guide to commissioning, managing and undertaking research in development work. It serves both as a practical reference manual and an indispensable learning tool.Divided into three parts, the book provides a complete overview of the research process spanning:- the uses, planning and management of research- reviewing existing evidence- learning ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Integrating Gender into the Design of Cash Transfer and Public Works Programmes – Fao Technical Guide 2: A Toolkit on Gender-Sensitive Social Protection Programmes to Combat Rural Poverty and Hunger

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Many social protection programmes, including cash transfers, public works programmes and asset transfers, target women as main beneficiaries or recipients of benefits. Extending social protection to rural populations has great potential for fostering rural women's economic empowerment. However, to tap into this potential, more needs to be done. There is much scope for making social protection ... Read more

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  • Strengthening Coherence between Agriculture and Social Protection to Combat Poverty and Hunger in Africa Diagnostic Tool

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Agriculture and social protection are fundamentally linked in the context of rural livelihoods in Africa. Poor and food-insecure families depend primarily on agriculture and partly on non-farm income and private transfers for their livelihoods, and are the main target of social protection interventions (FAO, 2015). When embedded within a broader rural development framework, stronger coherence ... Read more

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  • Humanitarian Work Psychology and the Global Development Agenda

    Case studies and interventions

    Edited by Ishbel McWha-Hermann, Douglas C. Maynard, Mary O'Neill Berry ...
    In recent years, a new movement has emerged within organizational psychology, transposing the established principles of the field onto arenas of more pressing humanitarian need, including the humanitarian treatment of all workers in all work settings. Humanitarian Work Psychology (HWP) stretches the parameters of the discipline to focus on regions, communities, and groups of workers that can ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Exploring the School Leadership Landscape

    Changing Demands, Changing Realities

    by Professor Peter Earley ...
    In a rapidly changing educational climate, leadership is more crucial than ever to school performance. Internal capacity and effective partnerships are essential to navigate through change and meet the ever-growing and changing demands of stakeholders, including policy-makers and children.Drawing on a wealth of research, Exploring the School Leadership Landscape critically considers the ways in ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Humanitarian Work Psychology

    Edited by S. C Carr, M. MacLachlan, A. Furnham ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Contextualizing Humanitarian work in history, justice, methods and professional ethics, this book articulates process skills for transformational partnerships between diverse organizations, motivating education, organisational learning and selecting the disaster workforce. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Strategy for Tackling Poverty in Nigeria

    An Evaluation of What the National Youth Service Corps (Nysc) Members’ Community Perceives as Their Support Needs in Nigeria in “Tackling Poverty” and “How to Sway Policy-Makers, Using Social Marketing Techniques (Smt)?

    by Ebikinei Stanley Eguruze ...
    This research evaluates what the National Youths Service Corps members community perceives as their support needs in Nigeria in tackling poverty. It also analyses the process of leveraging policymaking, using social marketing techniques. It seeks a deeper understanding of the poverty elimination processes in Nigerian and beyond. A mixed-methods research design was adopted engaging a quantitative ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Evaluation Enterprise

    A Critical View

    Edited by Jan-Eric Furubo, Nicoletta Stame ...
    Series series Comparative Policy Evaluation
    Today, evaluation is part of governing systems and is supported by powerful institutions. It is taken for granted that evaluation leads to betterment. However, evaluation itself is seldom analyzed from a critical perspective. In this book, Jan-Eric Furubo and Nicoletta Stame have assembled an international line-up of distinguished experts and emerging scholars to fill this void.Examining ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD