NFPress's documents Rss

Policy Development in Education

A manual for skills development, discussion and evaluation of issues relating to policy development in educational institutions.
  • $5.00
  • NFPress published this 12 / 05 / 2009
  • 48 reads
  • 0 comments

Doing Ethics/ Concerns and Procedures

How to separate real from only apparent ethical concerns. Techniques and supporting explanations are given. Distinctions between prudence and ethics are illustrated. Whether organizational regulati...
  • NFPress published this 11 / 25 / 2009
  • 47 reads
  • 0 comments

Questionable Assumptions in Social Decision Making

In program or policy development, some assumptions are unavoidable. Others are very likely wrong.
  • NFPress published this 10 / 11 / 2009
  • 192 reads
  • 0 comments

Discussion Manual for Organizational Studies

A manual of exercises promoting discussion and clarification of basic concepts pertaining to or supporting organizational studies. The nature of a systems, calculative rationality, causal analysis,...
  • $5.00
  • NFPress published this 09 / 01 / 2009
  • 347 reads
  • 0 comments

Workbook: Values & Ethics

Theory, examples, and practical cases for analysis and discussion on the nature of values and ethical decision. Self- and schooling priorities are examined through matrices and questionnaires. Cos...
  • $5.00
  • NFPress published this 08 / 31 / 2009
  • 636 reads
  • 0 comments

Philosophy of Education Workbook

Provides examples and explanations of educational and philosophical concepts and cases as well as practice in analysis and practical application. Reasoning and discourse analysis is introduced...
  • $5.00
  • NFPress published this 08 / 30 / 2009
  • 652 reads
  • 0 comments

Workbook: Social Foundations of Education

A manual containing short documents for discussion and analysis, simulations,practice tests, and constructive interpretation exercises to supplement normal coursework. Support theory for the act...
  • $5.00
  • NFPress published this 08 / 30 / 2009
  • 791 reads
  • 0 comments

Manual: Higher Education History

A manual of topics, issues and supporting theory for advanced classes in the history of higher education.
  • $5.00
  • NFPress published this 08 / 30 / 2009
  • 582 reads
  • 0 comments

Standards in a Pluralistic Society

The task of developing critical practical distinctions in consonance with the best traditions and knowledge bases that inform one's field of practice is made formidable by both the pluralism and dy...
  • NFPress published this 08 / 30 / 2009
  • 355 reads
  • 0 comments

School to Work Responsibility

The link between school and the world of work is tenuous and easily overwhelmed by intervening events and conditions. Responsibility only accrues to those who control outcomes. School personnel can...
  • NFPress published this 08 / 29 / 2009
  • 135 reads
  • 0 comments

Analyzing Controversy

A manual of Sources, Forms and Solution Methods for Dealing with Controversy. Deal with implementation difficulties caused by vague sloganeering. Use consistent approaches to dealing with value con...
  • $7.50
  • NFPress published this 08 / 29 / 2009
  • 389 reads
  • 0 comments

The Columbine Massacre

Mislocating the causes.
  • NFPress published this 08 / 29 / 2009
  • 207 reads
  • 0 comments

Preventing Plagiarism & Cheating

Various methods of cheating are described, e.g. cribsheets,electronic communication,toilet paper notes, etc. Methods of testing and teaching that reduce student compulsion to cheat are discussed.
  • $5.00
  • NFPress published this 08 / 29 / 2009
  • 1,728 reads
  • 0 comments

The Plagiarism Book

A manual to help writers recognize and avoid plagiarism and learn methods of adequate paraphrasing and citation. Techniques of text transformation are demonstrated. Exercises are provided. Can be u...
  • $7.50
  • NFPress published this 08 / 29 / 2009
  • 730 reads
  • 0 comments

Introduction: On Woman

Famous and infamous men are cited for their misconceptions (or support) of persons of the female gender. A portal to multiple documents.
  • NFPress published this 08 / 29 / 2009
  • 122 reads
  • 0 comments

New Foundations Blog Topics

A sampling of blog topics relating current events to perennial concerns. A portal to multiple documents.
  • NFPress published this 08 / 29 / 2009
  • 105 reads
  • 0 comments

Gallery of Educational Thinkers

A list of thinkers whose ideas are compared in terms of the same eight basic questions. A portal to multiple documents.
  • NFPress published this 08 / 29 / 2009
  • 247 reads
  • 0 comments

Employee Resistance to Change

Employees' resistance to change is rational, if certain preparation has not been taken to introduce it in a manner which makes clear its benefits.
  • NFPress published this 08 / 29 / 2009
  • 825 reads
  • 0 comments

Avoiding Medication Errors

Policies trying to reduce error by compelling nurses to practice arithmetic are pointless. Organizational processes precipitate error in treatment.
  • NFPress published this 08 / 29 / 2009
  • 585 reads
  • 0 comments