This book provides an accessible approach to teaching strategies that will improve the quality of student learning and behavior. The author advocates that the key to effective learning, and therefore the key to a successful school, is not complex management systems but good quality teaching.
With this aim clearly in sight he incorporates recent psychological developments on individual learning differences with practical classroom applications. He presents new approaches in three key areas: processing capacity, cognitive style and understanding the structure of knowledge. These are central to the understanding of pupil differences. They affect our perception of how pupils can be helped to learn, why pupils find some aspects of their schoolwork difficult, and why pupils behave as they do.
With simple explanations and practical activities this book will help both primary and secondary teachers to improve pupils learning and help them to manage behavior more effectively. The new insights into difficult behavior will also be of interest to counselors and educational psychologists.
Sustainable Business: Theory and Practice of Business under Sustainability Principles
Author(s): Geoffrey Wells
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication Date: 31 Jan. 2013
Language: English
Print length: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1781001855
ISBN-13: 9781781001851
Book Description
Recent surveys of international CEOs confirm that companies increasingly see sustainability as critical to their business strategy. The rigorous academic framework for the field of sustainable business required to respond to this need is now emerging. This book presents important new work in the theory of the sustainable firm, in the application of sustainability principles to key management disciplines, in sustainable business in practice, and in the international challenges that are critical to sustainability demands.
Sustainable Business will prove invigorating for both undergraduate and graduate students on business, society and sustainability themed courses. Policymakers and practitioners will find the urgent global sustainability issues and sub-disciplines essential.
Contributors: J. Benson, J. Chia, N. Chileshe, N. Evans, E.C. Fein, S.K. Lodhia, S. Pullen, J. Ratnatunga, S. Sandhu, S.R. Sardeshmukh, J. Sawyer, C.M. Scott-Young, M.P. Shanahan, A. Sharp, J. Shen, A. Tziner, V. Waye, G. Wells, L. Wilson, G. Zillante, J. Zuo
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘This is an immensely useful and important book. By applying sustainability theory and practice to all areas of business management for firms of all sizes it has the potential to make a significant difference to the long term viability of businesses and the societies in which they operate.’ –Juliet Roper, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
About the Author
Edited by Geoffrey Wells, formerly University of South Australia