The Role of the Head (Routledge Revivals)

The Role of the Head (Routledge Revivals)
Author: R. S. Peters
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317498593

First published in 1967, this book looks at what the role of a headteacher should be, challenging the traditional views of the head and the authoritarian structure of schools. Contributors explore new concepts of the head’s role in school and authors include both theorists and headteachers coming from various backgrounds including those that are historical, philosophical, sociological, and practical. The book also benefits from some more down-to-earth musings by heads on the job. The collection as a whole offers a stimulating variety of views on a subject which is of importance to all teachers, as well as those concerned with management and decision making. Although first published some time ago, it explores issues that are ever present today.

Professions and Power (Routledge Revivals)

Professions and Power (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Terence J. Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2016-06-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315471353

First published in 1972, this book rejects as inadequate the ‘trait’ and ‘functionalist’ theories of the professions and instead presents an alternative framework to analyse the contemporaneous occupational change in industrial societies. The author describes how occupational specialisation creates varying degrees of social distance between producers and consumers of goods or services, thus several institutions of control social have developed — collegiate, corporate or oligarchic patronage, mediative. The author looks at the social conditions necessary for the development of these methods of control and the apparent decline of professionalism in both developed and undeveloped societies.

The Role of the Head

The Role of the Head
Author: Richard Stanley Peters
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2015
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781317498575

First published in 1967, this book looks at what the role of a headteacher should be, challenging the traditional views of the head and the authoritarian structure of schools.

The Domestic Structure of European Community Policy-Making in West Germany (Routledge Revivals)

The Domestic Structure of European Community Policy-Making in West Germany (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Simon Bulmer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2015-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317488083

The Federal Republic of Germany’s position in the European Community had been described as one of interdependence, penetration and integration. Of the three terms this research addresses itself most directly to penetration: to the links between the German political system and policy-making at the Community level. These links operated in two directions. Thus membership for the European Community (EC) imposed certain constraints on German domestic policy-making. Although this research, first published in 1986, concentrates on the structural inter-relationship between the German political system and EC decisions, its main focus of attention is the articulation of German ‘interests’ in the EC policy process. This book will be of interest to students of politics and history.

A Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths (Routledge Revivals)

A Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths (Routledge Revivals)
Author: G Gaskell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 849
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317589424

G. A. Gaskell’s Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths, first published in 1923, examines several different aspects of religion, including examples from Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology to modern-day Christianity, providing explanations of gods, events, and symbols in alphabetical order. This is a perfect reference book for students of theology or the history of religion.

The Brain of Robert Frost

The Brain of Robert Frost
Author: Norman N. Holland
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2024-02-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 100384829X

Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to literary criticism. The Brain of Robert Frost combines psychoanalysis with the findings of brain research and cognitive psychology to model the way we create and respond to literature. Norman Holland draws three central ideas from ‘the mind’s new science’: the critical ‘supercharged’ period in infancy when individuality is formed; the binding of emotion to intellect deep in the old brain; the top-down, inside-out, feedback processing of language in the new. Then, using Robert Frost as an example both of a writer and a reader, and comparing Frost’s reading of a poem to readings by six professors of literature, Holland builds a new, powerful way of thinking about literary criticism and teaching. A book about literary cognition, The Brain of Robert Frost furthers our understanding of the reading process, of poet’s brains, and of our own.

What Brain Research Says about Student Learning

What Brain Research Says about Student Learning
Author: Perry R. Rettig
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2024-07-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475872097

Parents want to work with their children’s teachers to help them succeed in school. What Brain Research Says about Student Learning provides parents and teachers the most recent findings in brain research and learning theory in a very approachable way. The reader will see how the child’s brain develops, learns, remembers, and creates new meaning and understanding. User-friendly discussions of learning and teaching theories will show strategies both parents and teachers can use to capitalize on this new understanding about the child’s developing brain. Topics include: learning environment, developmental stages, lesson planning, teaching strategies, assignments, and assessments. The book concludes with a variety of actual samples from these topic areas.

The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Inter-war Depression (Routledge Revivals)

The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Inter-war Depression (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Ian Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317574044

The great inter-war depression has long been seen as an unprecedented economic disaster for the peoples of the non-European world. This book, with its detailed assessment of the impact of the depression on the economies of Africa and Asia, challenges the orthodox view, and is essential reading for those with a teaching or research interest in the modern economic history of those continents. Established specialists in the modern economic history of parts of Africa or Asia put forward a number of revisionist arguments. They show that some economies were left essentially unscathed by the depression, and that for many export-dependent peasant communities which did face a severe drop in cash income as world commodity prices collapsed from the late 1920s, there was a range of important responses and reactions by which they could defend their economic welfare. For many peasant communities the depression was not a disaster but an opportunity.

Ethics in the British Civil Service (Routledge Revivals)

Ethics in the British Civil Service (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Richard A. Chapman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2012-06-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780415612098

First published in 1988, this book is about the application of moral standards in the course of official work in the British civil service. It approaches the subject by examining the career of Sir Edward Bridges, Head of the Civil Service from 1945 to 1956. The book raises questions, of major importance at the present time, about methods of work and the standards expected of civil servants.

Adaptive Protection of the Heart

Adaptive Protection of the Heart
Author: Felix Z. Meerson
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1990-11-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780849351501

This book explores the possibilities of protecting the heart against stress and ischemia through adaptation to intermittent hypoxia or to mild, nondamaging stress exposure. These possibilities are based on studies that show an increase in the potency and efficiency of stress-limiting systems when subjected to repeated stress actions, adaptation to high altitude hypoxia, or adaptation to increased physical loads. Any stress reaction is coupled with an activation of central and local stress-limiting systems, such as GABA-ergic, opioidergic, and serotonergic systems in the brain, as well as antioxidants, prostaglandins, and adenosine in executory organs. The book also presents the use of metabolites of stress-limiting systems rather than adaptation as a means to prevent cardiac arrythmias. It also discusses genetically determined deficiencies of stress-limiting systems and their role in the etiology of stress-induced diseases. Cardiologists and researchers studying stress and its effect on cardiovascular systems will find this book extremely useful.