‘There’s no place like home’; ‘safe as houses’; ‘home is where the heart is’: ideas of the house and home are rich in cultural clichés and contradictory meanings. Playing at Home explores the different ways in which artists have engaged with this popular everyday theme – from ‘broken homes’ to haunted houses, doll’s houses, mobile homes and greenhouses. The book considers how issues of gender, identity, class and place can overlap and interact in our relationships with ‘home’, and...

Maeve Merrit thought her life in London would be quiet after she freed Mermeros, the djinni she found in a sardine can. But Mermeros has different plans. Maeve's friend Tommy, now adopted by Mermeros's new owner, finds himself in danger when his new father uses one of Mermeros's magical wishes — and both vanish without a trace. With no guardian to keep him safe, Tommy is at risk of being sent back to the orphanage.Now, Maeve, Tommy, and their friend Alice must embark on an epic adv...

A rebellious girl is fed up with the strict rules of her London boarding school for "Proper Young Ladies." When a punishment forces her to dig through the trash, she discovers an old sardine tin containing a grumpy, stubborn djinni who refuses to be bossed around by a schoolgirl.Soon, she's being chased by an orphan from the neighboring charitable home, a mysterious man with fiery whiskers, an irritable school employee, and a ruthless business tycoon all determined to claim the dji...

Six months after high school, Jill Perry faced pressure to abort or marry, entering an abusive teen marriage marked by betrayal, addiction, and loss. Determined to raise her son well, she turned her focus to the church and, eventually, ministry. After remarrying, Jill thought she'd found peace, but within a decade, she was trapped in a second toxic marriage of infidelity and strife, struggling to stay strong for her three children. Alone and broken, she cried out to God.In her lowe...

The Improvement Science Dissertation in Practice provides a narrative and illustration about the purpose and features comprising the Dissertation in Practice and how this culminating experience is well suited to using Improvement Science as a signature methodology for preparing professional practitioners. This methodology, when combined with the Dissertation in Practice experience in EdD programs, reinforces practitioner learning about and skills for leadership and change. As a gu...

Reclaiming the Education Doctorate: A Guidebook for (re)Designing EdD Programs is a practical guide for those seeking to (re)design a professional practice doctorate program in education that prepares Scholarly Practitioners. To tackle the comprehensive change process necessary for (re)designing the EdD, this book will guide the reader with an improvement lens that looks at the roots of the confusion of the EdD, the system that created it, and the framework that helped to reclaim ...

The big tan dog has lived his life on the city streets. He is a smart survivor and has a pack of good friends that make his challenging days fun. But one day, an encounter with the local animal shelter leaves him wondering if he might find a home of his ownand a special person who finds him special as well.

The intent of Challenges in (Re)designing EdD Programs: Supporting Change with Learning Cases is to provide faculty, who are seeking to redesign their EdD programs into professional practice doctorate, with case examples that describe common challenges and pitfalls encountered during the redesign process. Each of the cases portray real situations generated from case study research conducted by the chapter authors. Each case is comprised of three parts: a) a contextual overview of ...

The purpose of this book is to highlight the efforts of the members of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) to prepare Scholarly Practitioners in the field of education leadership. The volume is edited by Jill Alexa Perry, Executive Director of CPED, a consortium of 86 schools of education in the US, Canada and New Zealand. CPED is a collaboration of faculty working together since 2007 to re-envision professional practice preparation in education. Contributing authors inc...

The mission of the Action Research Across Educational Disciplines series is to present targeted volumes of action research findings from a wide variety of educational settings. Specifically, this series aims to highlight the issues that commonly impact practitioners, counselors, administrators, and other stakeholders in education.The rationale for such a series comes from the continually evolving educational landscape, resulting from changing student demographics and societal needs...

The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)—an inter-institutional action project of the Carnegie Foundation—is a consortium of universities pursuing the goals of instituting a clear distinction between the professional doctorate in education and the research doctorate; and improving reliably and across contexts the efficacy of programs leading the professional doctorate in education. To this end, the aim is to advance the Education Doctorate (EdD) as the highest quality degree ...

Navigating the Doctoral Journey: A Handbook of Strategies for Success, Second Edition provides doctoral students with a practical, cross-disciplinary handbook for successfully navigating the doctoral process-from initial program selection to program completion to post-program. With a dual focus on professional (EdD, DNP, etc.) and research (PhD) degrees, topics include preparing to enter a doctoral program, understanding the nature and purpose of research, developing social networ...