Capacity Building for School Improvement. At a time when there is a high demand for capacity building in schools, many administrators and practitioners find little if any empirical studies on how this can be achieved in practice. This is an easy to read and enjoyable book, but, one that digs deep into practice. Patricia Stringer allows the reader, who could be anyone with an interest in education, leadership and school development, to identify contextual problems and difficulties that limit capacity building and suggests pathways to overcome them.

It presents current empirical work on social processes in educational institutions and their outcomes.

Education can support persons in their moral and personal identity development. They either make theoretical ideas more practical or they use practical experiences and concerns to rethink theoretical notions. All the chapters try to link theory and practice. Human beings have the possibility to give meaning to their lives and to create coherence in experiences.

Chapter 6 introduces Intercultural and Interreligious Sensitivity Scales with their theoretical frameworks and earlier empirical work.

This, in part, has much to do with the inertia in school systems and the nature of the work. This book explores the importance of school leadership and the use of digital media to develop social capital in schools. Second, strategic imperatives such as the singular focus on teaching and learning for student success, the need to build workforce capacity in schools, the need to ensure system wide implementation of reforms and the importance of collaboration and team building.First, there are the structural elements that all successful school systems have in common including revised curriculum standards, a reliable assessment system, technical skills of teachers and school leaders, a comprehensive data system, rewards and remuneration of workforce and policy documents to support change.

The main question guiding the instrument development, dealt with in Part 2, asks how we can distinguish professional morality from the general notion that people should be good. In order to answer this question, vocational education but also a trainer’s pedagogical duties and responsibilities are discussed. Identified communalities are combined to form a new model of professional ethos. Part 1 offers a critical discussion on different theoretical approaches of professional morality.

The Handbook of Moral Motivation offers a contemporary and comprehensive appraisal of the age-old question about motivation to do the good and to prevent the bad.

A must read for anyone interested in moral education. There is a whole generation of students and scholars that is growing up with a knowledge about moral development without learning about the roots of the field.

These characteristics are constantly challenged in present society, in which subject-matter goals and instrumental skills are gaining more importance than socially-valued goals, thus tipping the scales in favour of cognitive skills.

Essays in Part I reflect early allegiance to liberalism and explore its core ideas as they should be interpreted to guide moral education.Part III then consists of essays that represent attempts to come to terms with the becoming of two minds exemplified in the tension between the ideas about liberalism expressed in Parts I and II. Those in Part II express disaffection with that allegiance, taking a distinctly critical stance toward liberalism.

The authors of the book include educational thinkers such as Nel Noddings, Michael Apple, David Hansen, Pasi Sahlberg, and Wiel Veugelers as well as scholars and practitioners from six different countries and diverse professional and cultural backgrounds. Educators in all disciplines can reframe their teaching and schools to be more cooperative and civic-minded and challenge views of marginalized, immigrant, undocumented and refugee communities as strangers.

The second section presents a comparative analysis of education policies in Mexico, Chile and Colombia, in particular the way the curricula of civic and citizenship education is designed and implemented.

This book provides in-depth and practical reflection on these and other challenging ethical questions arising during disasters. Healthcare ethics issues are addressed in the first part of this book.

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Any research involving humans raises ethical questions and requires appropriate regulation and oversight. Both parts examine ethical challenges where seeking to do good, harm can be done. Large-scale casualties lead to decisions about who to treat and who to leave behind, cultural challenges, and communication ethics.

). Ethical issues associated with public health and health policy--related, for example, to pandemic plans and vaccination policies (c. It covers (i) conceptual foundations of public health ethics, (ii) methodological approaches and (iii) normative analyses of specific issues and cases.

Evidence-based information for valid benefit-harm assessment is often rare and hard to get for participants in public health interventions. Bridging theoretical foundations with practical applications, this volume provides a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners and students concerned with public health practice and policy.).

Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. The main audience for the casebook is public health practitioners, including front-line workers, field epidemiology trainers and trainees, managers, planners, and decision makers who have an interest in learning about how to integrate ethical analysis into their day to day public health practice. This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics.

This book is the first to describe cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic factors that influence the regional significance of these impacts and frame them for bioethics and policy analyses. These manifestations of climate change harm public health..

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This book is the first to describe cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic factors that influence the regional significance of these impacts and frame them for bioethics and policy analyses. Given their goals and social responsibilities, influential health organizations recognize health impacts compounded by geography, social values, social determinants of health, health behaviors, and relationships between humans and environments primarily described in feminist ethics and environmental ethics..Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy Health impacts are relevant to, but seldom addressed in bioethics, global health, public policy, or health or environmental policy.

This book provides in-depth and practical reflection on these and other challenging ethical questions arising during disasters.The second part focuses on disaster research ethics.

There are few practical training resources for public health practitioners, especially resources which include discussion of realistic cases which are likely to arise in the practice of public health. This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics.

This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases.Topics covered in this volume include responsible use of antimicrobials; control of multi-resistant hospital-acquired infections; privacy and data collection; antibiotic use in childhood and at the end of life; agricultural and veterinary sources of resistance; resistant HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria; mandatory treatment; and trade-offs between current and future generations.

The book is of interest to scholars and practitioners of the ethics and politics of public health, bioethics, privacy and data technology, and health policy.Understanding health surveillance practices, the concerns it raises, and how to respond to them is critical not only to ethical and trustworthy but also to publicly acceptable and ultimately sustainable surveillance practices. Public health surveillance aims to identify emerging health trends, population health trends, treatment efficacy, and methods of health promotion--all apparently laudatory goals. This book presents a comprehensive theory of the ethics and political philosophy of public health surveillance based on reciprocal obligations among surveillers, those under surveillance, and others potentially affected by surveillance practices.

This book presents a comprehensive theory of the ethics and political philosophy of public health surveillance based on reciprocal obligations among surveillers, those under surveillance, and others potentially affected by surveillance practices. These issues are ever more pressing in pandemic times, where misinformation can travel quickly and suspicions about disease spread, treatment efficacy, and vaccine safety can have devastating public health effects. The book is of interest to scholars and practitioners of the ethics and politics of public health, bioethics, privacy and data technology, and health policy.

The later sections consist of 14 chapters that present the actual stories of these public health problems and challenges.

Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health. This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats to global public health in coming decades; and it has thus become a major topic of discussion among leading bioethicists and scholars from related disciplines including economics, epidemiology, law, and political theory.Topics covered in this volume include responsible use of antimicrobials; control of multi-resistant hospital-acquired infections; privacy and data collection; antibiotic use in childhood and at the end of life; agricultural and veterinary sources of resistance; resistant HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria; mandatory treatment; and trade-offs between current and future generations.

That approach explores the problems and the ethical challenges of public health from the inside, from the perspective of those experiencing health problems to the challenges of those who must address these problems. Because it relies on the natural and universal appeal of stories, the book also serves to introduce the field of public health to students considering a career in public health. It complements epidemiological or surveillance evidence, and reveals stakeholder perspectives crucial for public health practitioners to develop effective and ethical public health interventions.

The importance of purposeful networks of practice at all levels of a system in supporting education change and improvement is a theme across the chapters.The book will appeal to teacher educators interested in examining the fit between their practices and their goals in helping teachers to build knowledge and practice, including those working in indigenous settings..