Struggling for Effectiveness
Author: Stephen Brown
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 0773540563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical and constructive examination of Canada's assistance to developing countries.
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Struggling for Effectiveness
Author: Stephen Brown
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 0773587098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) allocates vast sums of money each year, providing vital assistance to countless individuals across the developing world. Yet many observers and insiders have sharply criticized CIDA for its lack of concrete results. Presenting a range of work by scholars and practitioners, this collection offers the most comprehensive examination of CIDA's efforts in over a decade. Contributors explore recent trends in Canadian foreign aid, including topics such as its place in Canadian politics, gender and security concerns, advocacy and public engagement, the complexity of CIDA policies, and CIDA's relationship with non-governmental organizations. The perspectives assembled in Struggling for Effectiveness bring clarity to the issue of foreign aid while judiciously gauging Canada's record and offering concrete suggestions for strengthening CIDA's efforts to help people living in poverty. Extensively researched and comprehensive in scope, Struggling for Effectiveness will be indispensable to anyone interested in Canadian assistance abroad and Canada's place in a rapidly changing world. Contributors include Stephen Baranyi (University of Ottawa), David Black (Dalhousie University), Elizabeth Blackwood (Simon Fraser University), Stephen Brown (University of Ottawa), Dominique Caouette (Université de Montréal), Adam Chapnick (Canadian Forces College), Denis Côté (Canadian Council for International Cooperation), Molly den Heyer (Dalhousie University), Nilima Gulrajani (Oxford University), Hunter McGill (University of Ottawa), Anca Paducel (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva), Rosalind Raddatz (University of Ottawa), Ian Smillie (independent scholar and consultant), Veronika Stewart (Simon Fraser University), and Liam Swiss (Memorial University of Newfoundland).
Rethinking Canadian Aid
Author: Stephen Brown
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2016-06-09
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0776623664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2013, the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which had been Canada’s flagship foreign aid agency for decades, and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). As the government is rethinking Canadian aid and its relationship with other foreign policy and commercial objectives, the time is ripe to rethink Canadian aid more broadly. Edited by Stephen Brown, Molly den Heyer and David R. Black, this revised edition not only analyzes Canada’s past development assistance, it also highlights important new opportunities in the context of the recent change in government. Designed to reach a variety of audiences, contributions by twenty scholars and experts in the field offer an incisive examination of Canada’s record and initiatives in Canadian foreign aid, including its relatively recent emphasis on maternal and child health and on the extractive sector, as well as the longer-term engagement with state fragility. The portrait that emerges is a sobering one. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Canada’s changing role in the world.
School Effectiveness and School-based Management
Author: Yin Cheong Cheng
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0750704578
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to bridge the widening gap between ongoing educational reforms and the lack of advances in knowledge, research and practice. Included is a description of new mechanisms in fields such as leadership, staff development and curriculum change.
Managerial Effectiveness and Effective Functioning of the B.Ed. College Principals
Author: Dr. M. Ramakrishna Reddy
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-02-28
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1365749576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducation is an instrument of social change. It is a process which brings about modifications in the behaviour of society. It helps individuals to develop their own perspectives on the world around them and pushes them to think both creatively and conceptually about many different subjects. It enables individuals to effectively participate and contribute to the progress of humanity.
Handbook of Effective Literacy Instruction
Author: Barbara M. Taylor
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Published: 2014-07-21
Total Pages: 641
ISBN-13: 1462519245
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The intent of this handbook is to provide a comprehensive, forward-looking, research-based resource for teachers, teacher-educators, and researchers on the key, inter-connected components of effective literacy instruction. The book is designed so that it is a readily useable resource for pre-service and practicing teachers as well. Every chapter in sections I, II, III, and IV includes substantial suggestions for implementing research-based practices in the classroom and for engaging in professional learning to help teachers increase their effectiveness as literacy instructors. Every chapter in section IV also includes substantial suggestions for fostering collaboration among staff and, when applicable, parents within schools"--
The Best of Corwin: Differentiated Instruction in Literacy, Math, and Science
Author: Leslie Laud
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2011-09-28
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1452296588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContent-specific DI guidance from the best minds in education The Best of Corwin series showcases key chapters from critically acclaimed Corwin publications for a powerful compilation of perspectives on important education issues and topics. In this collection, current research on the most effective differentiation practices for teaching students at all levels of proficiency in literacy, mathematics, and science is brought alive through the many strategies and classroom examples from prominent authors Topics covered include: Reading and writing: A comprehensive array of models for differentiating reading instruction, an approach to gradual release of responsibility to accelerate progress, and multi-tiered writing instruction Mathematics: Support for both low- and high-achieving students, including interventions and challenges, and the implementation of RTI in math instruction Science: Models and methods for increasing student achievement through differentiated science inquiry From the differentiation of content to the differentiation of instructional methods to the pacing of material to meet different students′ needs, everything you need to begin and master differentiated instruction is right here!
Design Principles for Teaching Effective Writing
Author: Raquel Fidalgo Redondo
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-11-20
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9004270485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents effective instructional programs focused on two perspectives on writing: the teaching and learning of writing as a skill and the use of writing as a learning activity in various school subjects or skills acquisition. It is focused on analysing micro-design features of the programs (such as learning activities, supporting materials, specific strategies, instructional techniques) but also, macro-design rules of intervention programs (such as, instructional sequence, instructional stages) based on research evidence provided for previous studies. This volume goes beyond a practical volume because it provides additional reflection and discussion about theoretical background and empirically based evidence which support the specific intervention programs described. Several chapters in this book include links to an Open Access e-book where teacher and student materials for the authors’ instructional approaches can be found (see ToC).
Fighting Rommel
Author: Kaushik Roy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1000690598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFighting Rommel examines how and why some armies innovate under pressure while others do not. Focusing on the learning culture of the British Imperial Forces, it looks at the Allied campaign during the Second World War against the Afrika Korps of Rommel. The volume highlights the hitherto unexplored yet key role of the British Indian Army, the largest volunteer force in the world. It also introduces ‘learning culture’ as a heuristic device. Further, it goes on to analyze military innovation on the battlefield, in victory and defeat. A major intervention in the study of the Second World War, this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of military history, especially British and German, battlefield history, and defence and strategic studies.
British representations of the Spanish Civil War
Author: Brian Shelmerdine
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2024-07-30
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1526186063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the reception of the Spanish Civil War in British popular culture, and how supporters of both sides in Britain used the rhetoric and imagery of the conflict to bolster support for their respective causes in the arena of British public opinion. Brian Shelmerdine finds that traditional notions of Spain as a country of bullfighting, bandits and flamenco were pervasive and were significant in shaping wider UK government policy towards Spain. He carefully assesses the different political perceptions of the 1930s Spanish scene, the role of the Catholic Church, the depiction of the two sides in terms of class, race and ethnicity, humanitarian appeals, and the plight of the Basques. The book is fluently written, and should make fascinating and entertaining reading for scholars of British society and culture in the twentieth century, as well as those investigating international impact of the Spanish Civil War.
