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Emerald Points eBook Series

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  • Critical Perspectives on Primary School Governance in England

    Training for Empowerment

    by Sarah Chung ...
    Series series Emerald Points
    Critical Perspectives on Primary School Governance in England explores how primary school governor training shapes educational leadership and accountability. Drawing on original mixed-methods research and the critical pedagogy of Paulo Freire, Dr Sarah Chung challenges the compliance-driven models that dominate current training provision. Instead, this book advocates for a transformative, dialogic ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

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  • The Future of the Fifth Child

    An Overview of Global Child Protection Programs and Policy

    by Sid Gardner ...
    The premise of this book is that 400 million childrenone in five children aliveare abused and neglected in ways that could affect their entire lives, and that greater progress in protecting those children is both urgent and possible.The book reviews the long history of child maltreatment from prehistoric times to the present, contrasting statements about precious, innocent children with the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Political Turbulence

    How Social Media Shape Collective Action

    by Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale, Taha Yasseri ...
    How social media is giving rise to a chaotic new form of politicsAs people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form a growing part of collective action today, from ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • 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

    $21.59 USD

  • Multigrade Teaching In Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons From Uganda, Senegal, And The Gambia

    by Mulkeen Aidan; Higgins Cathal ...
    In Africa, with the expansion of coverage of primary education in recent decades, many of the remaining out-of-school children are in hard to reach areas, with low population density and poor transport. Providing access to education is challenging in such contexts, as the population in any village is often too small to support a conventional primary school. One of the answers is the use of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 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

    $80.99 USD

  • Social Work Skills for Community Practice

    Applied Macro Social Work

    by Mary-Ellen Brown, MSW, MPA, LCSW, PhD, Katie Stalker, MSW, PhD ...
    Focuses on skill-building to facilitate positive social changeWith straightforward content enriched by practical and applicable learning experiences, this comprehensive text prepares social work students for careers in community organizing and macro practice. It focuses on building the social work skills required for organizing communities, including cause-based coalitions, geographically/identity ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • 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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  • Development As Leadership-Led Change: A Report For The Global Leadership Initiative

    by Andrews Matthews; McConnell Jesse; Wescott Alison ...
    Development involves change, but many development initiatives produce unimpressive results. The authors ask why and consider how to close the gap between the intended change and what we actually see in the evidence.This paper presents the findings of a study, initiated by the multi-donor Global Leadership Initiative and led by the World Bank Institute (WBI), to examine leadership in the change ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Humanitarian Work Psychology and the Global Development Agenda

    Case studies and interventions

    Edited by Ishbel McWha-Hermann, Douglas C Maynard, Mary O'Neil 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

    $65.99 USD

  • 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

    Free

  • Democracy's Double-Edged Sword

    How Internet Use Changes Citizens' Views of Their Government

    by Catie Snow Bailard ...
    "Playing into the hands of neither the cyber-optimists nor the cyber-pessimists . . . this book makes a major contribution to our understanding." —Talia Stroud, author of Niche News: The Politics of News ChoiceThe beauty of democracy is not only that citizens can vote a candidate into office but that they can also vote one out. As digital media has grown omnipresent, it becomes more important for ... Read more

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