Most Popular Books by Brian Boyd

The Continuing Professional Development series sets out to demystify professional development in education, and does so from a Scottish perspective. All books in the series approach their subject in an accessible manner that allows teachers and educators to perceive how continuing professional development can enhance job satisfaction - as well as making a real difference to the most important client group of all: the pupils and students in their care. In The Learning Classroom, Brian Boyd considers the large range of initiatives which have asked teachers to promote creativity, enterprise, citizenship (amongst others), as well as the growing interest in international ideas such as multiple intelligences, learning styles and teaching for understanding, to name but a few. The book looks at the key aspect of a number of these ideas as they impact on classrooms and describes how teachers can create a learning classroom which will incorporate the key elements of these initiatives.

This story begins with Cozmo, the magician''s apprentice, being set a task which involved exercising his mathematical skills. But like all good apprentices, he winds up in trouble. And this is where the adventure begins for the reader.

Interactions between CEOs and their boards of directors are a prominent focus of management and strategy research. Despite the extensive literature on CEO-board relations, to date there has been limited integration of theoretical perspectives and measurement schemes. Through an extensive analysis of published studies, we hope to facilitate future research on CEO-board relations. We begin with a comparison of key theoretical approaches. Next, we conduct a content analysis of 51 empirical articles. We find that prior studies have an unbalanced focus regarding both topics and theoretical perspectives, and that there is limited consistency in the choice of measures. Based on this review, we lay out a number of promising directions for future research. We also find that, while there has been progress in international research on CEO-board relations, there are still many unanswered questions regarding the generalizability of governance theories across different geographic settings.

A history and criticism of selections from literature written in English from the middle ages to the end of the 19th century. Includes notes for students and teachers. Suggested level: senior secondary.

In October 2002 a performance audit of the Treasury''s management of international financial commitments was tabled in the Parliament (Audit Report No.10 of 2002-03). This audit is a follow-up to that audit. The objective was to assess the progress made by the Treasury in addressing the four major audit findings and two recommendations of the 2002 audit report.

The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of the administration of grants made to the ARTC.

An insider''s view of the Builders Labourers Federation as it faced a Royal Commission and repeated attempts at deregulation in the 1980s. Includes a chronology of events. Written by a leading official of the BLF in the 1980s who is now an officer of the Victorian Trades Hall Council.

The objective of this follow-up audit was to assess the extent to which DOTARS had implemented the nine recommendations contained in the original audit.

Over the past decade, many colleges and universities have worked to develop stronger models to emphasize technology integration in the classroom. To remain effective it is periodically necessary to ask Faculty and School Leaders what they perceive are technologically important skills of current and future classroom teachers. It is apparent that preservice teacher candidates will ultimately enter a professional teaching environment that is far different from previous generations, seeded with potential to supplement instruction with effective technology applications. Whether these new technologies are implemented in a sustainable integration effort will depend on the skills of teacher candidates entering the profession in conjunction with continued support after employment. This study was completed to address the surface level and latent attitudes, beliefs, and barriers to successful technology integration in the classroom. Faculty and School Leaders were compared for similarities and differences, and the relationships were explored both quantitatively and qualitatively for whole group and individual perspectives. Aspects of these comparisons have direct implications for technology integration in the classroom, as well for guiding continued training for preservice and inservice teachers.

Charting the diverse changes over millennia that culminated in the emergence of the world''s first agricultural communities, this study questions current assumptions about the nature of the relationship between people, their animals and their technologies. Brian Boyd criticizes the prevailing technological emphasis in the study of agriculture and offers a new view of the invention and use of cultural products.