Stephen Tierney seeks to help leaders explore their own capabilities and potential. Leadership can be learnt. The three Ways - Being, Knowing and Doing - represent a mirror to help leaders reflect upon and improve their practice. In turn, current leaders are called upon to accept the responsibility to grow the leaders of the future.
In his second book, Tierney argues that the purpose of education must move to the heart of the educational debate. Purpose will significantly influence what schools and the education system as a whole will do next.
Children and Adolescents in Trauma presents a variety of creative approaches to working with young people in residential children's homes, secure or psychiatric units, and special schools.The contributors describe a wide range of approaches, including art therapy and literature, and how creative methods are applied in cases of abuse, trauma, ......
The Role of Games and Social Media in Higher Education
The college application process - which entails multiple forms, essays, test scores, and deadlines - can be intimidating. For students without substantial school and family support, the complexity of this process can become a barrier to access. William G. Tierney, Tracy Fullerton, and their teams at the University of Southern California ......
Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide in International Relations-edited by Daniel Maliniak, Susan Peterson, Ryan Powers, and Michael J. Tierney-analyzes the gap between knowledge produced by IR scholars and what policy practitioners find relevant, providing guidance on how and when to bridge the gap.
Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide in International Relations-edited by Daniel Maliniak, Susan Peterson, Ryan Powers, and Michael J. Tierney-analyzes the gap between knowledge produced by IR scholars and what policy practitioners find relevant, providing guidance on how and when to bridge the gap.
Many schools and programs in low-income neighborhoods lack access to the technological resources, including equipment and Internet service, that those in middle- and upper-income neighborhoods have at their fingertips. This inequity creates a persistent digital divide, not a simple divide in access to technology per se, but a divide in both ......
Reimagining Self and Nation through Narratives of Childhood in Peru
Mining Memory examines how twentieth-century narratives and films reimagine the self and the nation by representing child and adolescent protagonists and their evolution. The book shows that beyond representing the struggles of individual subjects, narratives of childhood are part of a process of constructing and reconstructing cultural identity.
Stephen Tierney has spent thirty years working in schools, twenty nine of those in different leadership positions. In Liminal Leadership, he suggests that the education system is currently at a threshold; and it may be one in which the teaching profession is diminished or augmented. Using an honest and personal account of Stephen's own journey as ......
