How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity
Founded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated to teaching a balanced combination of practical and academic skills. Connie Goddard uses the CMTS as a door into America's early era of industrial education and the transformative idea of "learning to do." Rooting her account in John ......
How Industrial Education Fostered Democratic Opportunity
Founded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a short-lived but influential institution dedicated to teaching a balanced combination of practical and academic skills. Connie Goddard uses the CMTS as a door into America's early era of industrial education and the transformative idea of "learning to do." Rooting her account in John ......
Restoring a Critical Element of Professional and Technical Education
A unique handbook for collegiate faculty, instructors, administrators, and graduate students in education to help professional and technical students discover meaning, purpose, and vocation through their scholarship. College students are looking for more than instrumental career knowledge and skills, they are looking for something to care about ......
Restoring a Critical Element of Professional and Technical Education
The book's theme is helping students find meaning, purpose, and vocation in their education. Its focus is on enhancing and amplifying the pedagogy and curricula of collegiate professional and technical education programs to meet the goals of this theme.
Niche Methods to Improve Higher Education in the 21st Century
There are many Centers of Excellence (COE) in community colleges and universities in the United States. Presently, a number of these provide approximately an extra year beyond various existing degrees. Most of these COEs deal with a variety of training and educational needs and work directly with the appropriate business communities. They provide ......
Niche Methods to Improve Higher Education in the 21st Century
There are many Centers of Excellence (COE) in community colleges and universities in the United States. Presently, a number of these provide approximately an extra year beyond various existing degrees. Most of these COEs deal with a variety of training and educational needs and work directly with the appropriate business communities. They provide ......
Ground Transportation: A Practical Career Guide includes interviews with knowledgeable professionals in this stable, lucrative, and growing profession:
SweetSuccess delves into the complexities of excellence and how to achieve it in all areas of life. The author intelligently and astutely explores myriad realms of topics that balance faiths, cultures, social mores, relational lifestyles, philosophies--the whole gamut of life--to expand and enhance readers perspectives and worldview.
A Handbook on Collection Gifts and Donations for Museums and Donors 2e
This authoritative guide from the American Alliance of Museums and overseen by a blue-ribbon Editorial Advisory Board is intended for museums and donors alike, on the donation process, current standards and best practices, ethical and legal issues, and IRS updates and valuation considerations.
A Handbook on Collection Gifts and Donations for Museums and Donors 2e
This authoritative guide from the American Alliance of Museums and overseen by a blue-ribbon Editorial Advisory Board is intended for museums and donors alike, on the donation process, current standards and best practices, ethical and legal issues, and IRS updates and valuation considerations.
The sixth edition of Museum Registration Methods is a comprehensive guide to registration and collections management of museum collections, from acquisition, use, and deaccessioning.
The sixth edition of Museum Registration Methods is a comprehensive guide to registration and collections management of museum collections, from acquisition, use, and deaccessioning.
Unlocking Ideas for Audience Engagement and Sustainable Revenue
Rich with examples of innovative membership programs and discussion with museum and nonprofit leaders, this timely book provides practical advice on how to improve all aspects of the membership program through the process of continuous innovation.
A successfully managed project is a carefully planned and organized effort. A critical and essential skill for any art service manager is project management-the ability to organize resources--labor, budgets, materials-- and handle constraints so that a project's goals are successfully accomplished.
This book discusses the complexities inherent in preserving and interpreting the extraordinary range of culturally significant objects entrusted to museums. From how museums acquire their holdings, to how they are conserved, to how accessible they are, the book presents an encompassing look at every aspect of the duties museum by definition assume
