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Understanding Education Policy
Analysis of education policy often follows a particular orientation, such as conservative or neo-liberal. Yet, readers are often left to wonder the true meaning and conceptual framing behind these orientations. Without this knowledge, the policy analysis lacks true rigor, its value is diminished as ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Policy and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Students
This book addresses policy research on homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools. It covers quantitative and qualitative research into policy impacts for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex students. It draws on a large-scale Australian study of the impacts of different kinds of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Improving Services for Transgender and Gender Variant Youth: Research, Policy and Practice for Health and Social Care Professionals
This expert guide to working with transgender and gender variant youth offers ways to make positive change to service provision for practitioners working with this group. Based on the latest research, the recommendations made by the author are backed up by statistics and data, and refer to first-han... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
A Student-centred Sociology of Australian Education: Voices of Experience (Critical Studies of Education #13)
This book is based on a comparative study from 2018, of four different approaches to education, according to 2,500 Australians’ experiences of them, on a range of topics. It shows that whilst the critical approach has strong research-based support across the board, sometimes a liberal, conservative ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships across Differences
Control, Conquer, and Prevail! Everybody's biased. The truth is, we all harbor unconscious assumptions that can get in the way of our good intentions and keep us from building authentic relationships with people different from ourselves. Tiffany Jana and Matthew Freeman use vivid stories and fun (ye... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The B Corp Handbook, Second Edition: How You Can Use Business as a Force for Good
B Corps are a global movement of more than 2,700 companies in 60 countries—like Patagonia, Ben & Jerry's, Kickstarter, Danone North America, and Eileen Fisher—that are using the power of business as a force for good. B Corps have been certified to have met rigorous standards of social and environmen... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Subtle Acts of Exclusion: How to Understand, Identify, and Stop Microaggressions
This practical, accessible, nonjudgmental handbook is the first to help individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees can feel a sense of belonging in their workplace. Our workplaces and society are growing more diverse, but are we supporting inclusive cu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Including LGBT Parented Families in Schools: Research to Inform Policy and Practice
by Tiffany Jones • Trent MannThis book explores the experiences of LGBTQ+ parented families in school communities and provides a voice for this overlooked group who are becoming an increasingly common form of family diversity in school communities. Approaching the topic from a strength-based psychological perspective, the b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Erasing Institutional Bias: How to Create Systemic Change for Organizational Inclusion
All humans have bias, and as a result, so do the institutions we build. Internationally sought-after diversity consultant Tiffany Jana empowers readers to work against institutional bias no matter what their position is in an organization. Building upon the revelatory power of her book Overcoming ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Uplifting Gender and Sexuality Education Research (Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education)
This book showcases and celebrates the work of Gender and Sexuality Education scholars in order to challenge current negative interpretations of the field, and work towards new shared visions. The editors and contributors call for, affirm and offer examples of pathways towards exciting and dynamic c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Outcomes Based Funding and Race in Higher Education
by Tiffany Jones • Sosanya Jones • Kayla C. Elliott • Latoya Russell Owens • Amanda E. Assalone • Denisa GándaraThis book examines how Performance or Outcomes Based Funding (POBF) policies impact racial equity in higher education. Over the last decade, higher education has become entrenched in a movement that holds colleges and universities more accountable to its supporters. There are pressures to answer q... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People's Experiences in Australia
This Briefs is the first national study on female-to-male (FtM) transgender people's experiences in Australia. It describes an extensive study that fills the current gap in Australian research on the specific experiences and beliefs about transition for contemporary Australian FtM transgender peopl... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Psychiatry, Mental Institutions, and the Mad in Apartheid South Africa (African Studies)
In the late 1970s, South African mental institutions were plagued with scandals about human rights abuse, and psychiatric practitioners were accused of being agents of the apartheid state. Between 1939 and 1994, some psychiatric practitioners supported the mandate of the racist and heteropatriarchal... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Harlequin E Shivers Box Set Volume 4
Discover uncanny places and irresistible passions in the latest Gothic romance box set from Harlequin EThe Headmaster by Tiffany ReiszAt the remote Marshall School, Gwen Ashby stumbles upon the job-and the man-of her dreams. Stern, enigmatic Edwin Yorke simmers with a heat Gwen longs to unleash. But... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN TOURISM, 3rd Edition (Cabi Tourism Texts)
by James Wilson • Larry Dwyer • Noel Scott • Kanes K. Rajah • Yvette Reisinger • Brent Ritchie • Geoff Southern • Luiz Moutinho • Anne-Mette Hjalager • Scott McCabe • Mercedes Melchior-Navarro • María Moral-Moral • Eduardo Parra-López • Shirley Rate • Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez • S. F. Witt • Vanessa Yanes-Estévez • Ronnie Ballantyne • Yawei Jiang • Jithendran Kokkamikal • Dawn Gibson • Kun-Huang Huarng • José Alberto Martínez-González • Rafael Alberto Pérez González • Alejandro P Rez-Ferrant • Tiffany Hui-Kuang YuThis comprehensive textbook has, at its core, the importance of linking strategic thinking with action in the management of tourism. It provides an analytical evaluation of the most important global trends as well as an analysis of the impact of crucial environmental issues and their implications. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Strategic Management in Tourism (CABI Tourism Texts)
by James Wilson • Larry Dwyer • Yvette Reisinger • Brent Ritchie • Geoff Southern • Luiz Moutinho • Anne-Mette Hjalager • Scott McCabe • Mercedes Melchior-Navarro • María Moral-Moral • Eduardo Parra-López • Shirley Rate • S. F. Witt • Vanessa Yanes-Estévez • Ronnie Ballantyne • Yawei Jiang • Jithendran Kokkamikal • Dawn Gibson • Kun-Huang Huarng • José Alberto Martínez-González • Tiffany Hui-Kuang Yu • Professor Noel Scott • Alejandro Pérez-Ferrant • Professor Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez • Kanes Rajah • Rafael Alberto PérezThis comprehensive textbook has, at its core, the importance of linking strategic thinking with action in the management of tourism. It provides an analytical evaluation of the most important global trends, as well as an analysis of the impact of crucial environmental issues and their implications. ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases: International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2021, Virtual Event, September 13-17, 2021, Proceedings, Part I (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1524)
by Christopher Buckley • Min Zhou • Lee Cooper • Rita Ribeiro • Donato Malerba • Bodo Rosenhahn • João Gama • Riccardo Guidotti • Anna Monreale • Pedro M. Ferreira • Meng Sun • Philippe Fournier-Viger • Ricard Gavaldà • Michael Kamp • Yamuna Krishnamurthy • Valerio Bitetta • Ilaria Bordino • Andrea Ferretti • Francesco Gullo • Christine Largeron • Massimiliano Ruocco • Giovanni Ponti • Tim Verbelen • Pablo Lanillos • Holger Fröning • Franz Pernkopf • Gregor Schiele • Michaela Blott • Lorenzo Severini • Przemyslaw Biecek • Irena Koprinska • Linara Adilova • Ibéria Medeiros • Eirini Ntoutsi • Salvatore Rinzivillo • Jefrey Lijffijt • Adrien Bibal • Tassadit Bouadi • Benoît Frénay • Luis Galárraga • José Oramas • Bo Kang • Tiphaine Viard • Pascal Welke • Erlend Aune • Claudio Gallicchio • Günther Schindler • Mykola Pechenizkiy • Daniela Cialfi • Maxwell Ramstead • Giuseppina Andresini • M. Saqib Nawaz • Sebastian Ventura • Naghmeh Ghazaleh • Jonas Richiardi • Damian Roqueiro • Diego Saldana Miranda • Konstantinos Sechidis • Guilherme GraçaThis two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 21th Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, held in September 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held online. The... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases: International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2021, Virtual Event, September 13-17, 2021, Proceedings, Part II (Communications in Computer and Information Science #1525)
by Christopher Buckley • Min Zhou • Lee Cooper • Rita Ribeiro • Donato Malerba • Bodo Rosenhahn • João Gama • Riccardo Guidotti • Anna Monreale • Pedro M. Ferreira • Meng Sun • Philippe Fournier-Viger • Ricard Gavaldà • Michael Kamp • Yamuna Krishnamurthy • Valerio Bitetta • Ilaria Bordino • Andrea Ferretti • Francesco Gullo • Christine Largeron • Massimiliano Ruocco • Giovanni Ponti • Tim Verbelen • Pablo Lanillos • Holger Fröning • Franz Pernkopf • Gregor Schiele • Michaela Blott • Lorenzo Severini • Przemyslaw Biecek • Irena Koprinska • Linara Adilova • Ibéria Medeiros • Eirini Ntoutsi • Salvatore Rinzivillo • Jefrey Lijffijt • Adrien Bibal • Tassadit Bouadi • Benoît Frénay • Luis Galárraga • José Oramas • Bo Kang • Tiphaine Viard • Pascal Welke • Erlend Aune • Claudio Gallicchio • Günther Schindler • Mykola Pechenizkiy • Daniela Cialfi • Maxwell Ramstead • Giuseppina Andresini • M. Saqib Nawaz • Sebastian Ventura • Naghmeh Ghazaleh • Jonas Richiardi • Damian Roqueiro • Diego Saldana Miranda • Konstantinos Sechidis • Guilherme GraçaThis two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 21th Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, held in September 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held online. The... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021