Making sense of social networks in schools / / Terrence E. Deal, Ted Purinton, Daria Cook Waetjen ; foreword by Guilbert C. Hentschke ; cover designer, Scott Van Atta

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910479941103321
• Autore: Deal Terrence E.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2009; ©2009
• ISBN: 1-4522-9805-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.200973
• Soggetti: School administrators - Training of - United States; Social networks - United States; Communication in education - United States; School management and organization - 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword: Social Capital and the Educator""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Authors""; ""Introduction - The New Principal Encounters a Locked Door: Through a Smoky Cloud""; ""Outside Looking in""; ""Overview of the Book""; ""Chapter 1 - A Glimmer of Networks: Saw an Eyeball Peepinâ€?""; ""Business Research""; ""Predominance of Networks""; ""Impact on Schools""; ""Misreading Clues""; ""The Context of Leadership""; ""Managing Networks""; ""Finding Direction""; ""Chapter 2 - Network Basics: Green Door, Whatâ€?s That Secret Youâ€?re Keepinâ€??""; ""Nuts and Bolts""""Network Players""; ""Whole Networks""; ""The Key to the Green Door""; ""Chapter 3 - Limitations of Task Networks: Door Slammed, Hospitalityâ€?s Thin There""; ""Searching for the Boss""; ""Turned Down by the Boss""; ""No Access""; ""Finding Access""; ""Awareness""; ""Resources""; ""Stephanie Relaxes the Rule Book""; ""Chapter 4 - Friendship Networks: The Happy Crowd""; ""Finding Friends""; ""Someone Who Understands Me""; ""Someone Convenient""; ""The Impact of Comfortable Connections""; ""Emotional Contagion""; ; ""Informal Induction""; ""Jasmineâ€?s Cost-Benefit Decision""; ""Friendship and Productivity""""The Blessings and Curses of Friendship Networks""; ""Chapter 5 - Power Networks: Wish Theyâ€?d Let Me in""; ""Politics as Usual""; ""Power Stars""; ""Power as Perception""; ""Power Players""; ""Baskets and Eggs""; ""Working the Power Networks""; ""Principals as Politicians""; ""Chapter 6 - Culture Networks: They Laugh a Lot behind the Green Door""; ""Stories and Traditions""; ""Ties That Bind""; ""The Way Things are Done around Here""; ""Tribal Leaders, Mavericks, Mavens, Gossips, and Spies""; ""The Door Ajar""; ""Cultural Players""; ""Trust Thy Neighbor""; ""The Spirit Moves Her: A Principal Assumes the Dais""""The Ghost of Garvey""; ""A Bonding Moment""; ""Reflecting on Garveyâ€?s Green Door""; ""Chapter 7 - Scoping and Working the Networks: Midnight, One More Night without Sleepinâ€?""; ""Promises and Caveats of Network Study""; ""Beyond Individual Players""; ""Learning Communities, Culture, and Communication""; ""Making Sense of School Networks""; ""Opening a can of Worms: Big Brother or the Future of Leadership?""; ""Inside the Green Door""; ""Appendix: Research on Networks in Sociology, Business, and Education""; ""Network Literature""; ""Network and Related Literature in Education""""Our Endeavors in Social Network Analysis""; ""References""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: With sample social network maps and steps for developing your own, this resource shows leaders how to navigate task, friendship, power, and culture networks to promote school goals.

Braids : proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Artin's Braid Group, held July 13-16, 1986 at the University of California, Santa Cruz, California / / Joan S. Birman, Anatoly Libgober, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910788786303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1988]; ©1988
• ISBN: 0-8218-7666-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (766 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 78 , 0271-4132
• Disciplina: 514/.224
• Soggetti: Braid theory
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences on Artin's Braid Group ... held at the University of California, Santa Cruz, California on July 13-26, 1986, with support from the National Science Foundation"--T.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents -- Organizing Committee -- List of Participants -- Introduction -- A construction of integrable differential system associated with braid groups -- Mapping class groups of surfaces -- Automorphic sets and braids and singularities -- The operator algebras of the two dimensional Ising model -- Artin's braid groups, classical homotopy theory, and sundry other curiosities -- Classification of solvorbifolds in dimension three - I -- Pure braid groups and products of free groups -- Polynomial covering maps -- Arithmetic analogues of braid groups and Galois representations -- Application of braids to fixed points of surface maps -- Statistical mechanics and the Jones polynomial -- Hurwitz action and finite quotients of braid groups -- Heights of simple loops and pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms -- Linear representations of braid groups and classical Yang-Baxter equations -- A survey of Heeke algebras and the Artin braid groups -- On divisibility properties of braids associated with algebraic curves -- The panorama of polynomials for knots, links and skeins -- The structure of deleted symmetric products -- Braid group technique in complex geometry, I: Line Arrangements ; in Cp2 -- Problems -- Polynomials from braids -- The Jones polynomial of satellite links about mutants -- On the deformation of certain type of algebraic varieties -- Braids and discriminants -- tk moves on links -- Mutually braided open books and new invariants of fibered links -- Generalized braid groups and self-energy Feynman integrals -- Markov classes in certain finite symplectic representations of braid groups -- The braid index of an algebraic link -- Markov algebras.