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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480440903321

Titolo

The contemporary superintendent : preparation, practice, and development / / Bruce G. Barnett [and eleven others] ; edited by Lars G. Björk, Theodore J. Kowalski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-4833-6135-7

1-4833-6352-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

371.2/011

Soggetti

School superintendents - United States

School management and organization - United States

Educational leadership - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Chapter 1 - Evolution of the School District Superintendent Position; Chapter 2 - Characteristics of American School Superintendents; Chapter 3 - National Education Reform Reports: Implications for Professional Preparation and Development; Chapter 4 - Learning Theory and Research: A Framework for Changing Superintendent Preparation and Development; Chapter 5 - The Superintendent as Instructional Leader: Current Practice, Future Conceptualizations, and Implications for Preparation

Chapter 6 - Superintendent as Organizational ManagerChapter 7 - Superintendent as Educational Statesman and Political Strategist; Chapter 8 - Reconceptualizing the Superintendency: Superintendents as Applied Social Scientists and Social Activists; Chapter 9 - Preparing Superintendents to be Effective Communicators; Chapter 10 - Women Superintendents and Role Conception: (Un)Troubling the Norms; Chapter 11 - Superintendents of Color: Perspectives on Racial and



Ethnic Diversity and Implications for Professional Preparation and Practice; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A strong superintendent is critical to the success of an entire school district, and this exciting new resource details the issues surrounding the state policies that appoint superintendents.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910799962603321

Autore

Gunderson David S.

Titolo

Handbook of Mathematical Induction : Theory and Applications

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : CRC Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-429-14793-7

1-4200-9365-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 893 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Discrete mathematics and its applications

Disciplina

511.3/6

Soggetti

Proof theory

Induction (Mathematics)

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Probabilities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

What is mathematical induction? -- Foundations -- Variants of finite mathematical induction -- Inductive techniques applied to the infinite -- Paradoxes and sophisms from induction -- Empirical induction -- How to prove by induction -- The written MI proof -- Identities -- Inequalities -- Number theory -- Sequences -- Sets -- Logic and language -- Graphs -- Recursion and algorithms -- Games and recreations -- Relations and functions -- Linear and abstract algebra -- Geometry -- Ramsey theory -- Probability and statistics.

Sommario/riassunto

"Handbook of Mathematical Induction: Theory and Applications shows how to find and write proofs via mathematical induction. This comprehensive book covers the theory, the structure of the written proof, all standard exercises, and hundreds of application examples from nearly every area of mathematics.In the first part of the book, the



author discusses different inductive techniques, including well-ordered sets, basic mathematical induction, strong induction, double induction, infinite descent, downward induction, and several variants. He then introduces ordinals and cardinals, transfinite induction, the axiom of choice, Zorns lemma, empirical induction, and fallacies and induction. He also explains how to write inductive proofs.The next part contains more than 750 exercises that highlight the levels of difficulty of an inductive proof, the variety of inductive techniques available, and the scope of results provable by mathematical induction. Each self-contained chapter in this section includes the necessary definitions, theory, and notation and covers a range of theorems and problems, from fundamental to very specialized. The final part presents either solutions or hints to the exercises. Slightly longer than what is found in most texts, these solutions provide complete details for every step of the problem-solving process."--Provided by publisher.