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Good Writing Guide for Education Students 4ed
7,
18/05/2017,
£21.99
£19.79
This practical, down-to-earth guide is tailored for Education students and uses real examples of students' work to explain what tutors look for and how to get there.
Educational Research 4ed
Hardback,
19/01/2011,
£93.00
£83.70
Using this textbook, students will develop an understanding of the multiple research methods and strategies used in education and related fields, the ability to read and critically evaluate published research, and the ability to write a proposal, construct a questionnaire, and conduct an empirical research study on their own.
EFA Global Monitoring Report 2013/2014: Teaching and Learning: Achieving Equality for All
Paperback,
29/01/2014,
£35.00
£29.50
Educational Issues in the Learning Age
Paperback,
06/07/2000,
£34.99
£24.49
This work, aimed at undergraduates, explores a wide range of issues and questions in education, such as - how does education define the way people see themselves culturally? The authors discuss such topics as education and training, reflective practice and governance.
Born to Fail?: Social Mobility: A Working Class View
Paperback,
29/09/2017,
£14.00
£12.60
Sonia Blandford, CEO of award-winning charity Achievement for All, about the facing up to the realities of the white working class and how to address social mobility from the inside.
Teacher Educators in the Twenty-first Century: Identity, knowledge and research
Paperback,
30/04/2018,
£20.00
£18.00
This book links theory, policy and practice in a critical examination of the relationship between the professional identity, knowledge, learning needs and research experience of teacher educators. The book draws these themes together as a means to support the induction and further professional development of teacher educators.
Vygotsky: Philosophy and Education
Paperback,
19/11/2013,
£20.75
£18.68
Vygotsky Philosophy and Education reassesses the works of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky work by arguing that his central ideas about the nature of rationality and knowledge were informed by the philosophic tradition of Spinoza and Hegel. .
Introducing Research in Early Childhood
Paperback,
10/11/2018,
£24.99
£22.49
Exploring research methods in the context of early childhood, this popular guide approaches complex ideas in a clear style linking directly to practice. It covers all students need to know about undertaking research in early childhood, including action research, ethics and carrying out a research project.
Introducing Research in Early Childhood explains exactly what `research' is, and provides a clear understanding of its importance to an early years or early childhood studies degree.
Understand what it means to think critically, and unpick childhood research. Appreciate the importance of ethics
. Get to know how research is designed and carried out
. Learn how to analyse, examine and understand the importance of others research
. Get to grips with translating research into real life in a classroom setting.
This title is co-authored with Jo Josephidou, Senior Lecturer in the
School of Childhood and Education Sciences at Canterbury Christ Church University
Wellbeing in the Primary Classroom: A practical guide to teaching happiness
Paperback,
06/09/2018,
£19.99
£17.99
Doing Educational Research: Overcoming Challenges In Practice
Paperback,
02/07/2019,
£29.99
£26.99
Exploring the challenges and obstacles that need to be overcome in education research, this text offers universal guidance that the reader can apply to their own research project.
Education: The Basics
Paperback,
17/06/2011,
£18.99
£17.09
Education: The Basics is a wide ranging introduction to education as an academic subject, taking into account both theory and practice. Covering the study of education as whole, including the schooling system, the nature of knowledge and methods of teaching, this book takes into account the viewpoints of both teachers and pupils within international contexts.
Education Research: The Basics
Paperback,
25/06/2019,
£16.99
£15.29
Concise, engaging and accessible, Education Research: The Basics discusses key ideas about the nature and purpose of education research: what it can and cannot achieve, how it has been used over the years and where and how it has had an impact.
Research Methods In Education 8ed
Paperback,
01/10/2017,
£42.99
£38.69
This rewritten, expanded and updated 8th edition of the long-running bestseller Research Methods in Education is the most comprehensive and accessible introductory text in the field. Thoroughly updated with nine new chapters, this new edition offers rich practical advice underpinned by clear, theoretical foundations.
Communication, Collaboration & Creativity: Researching Adult Learning
Paperback,
04/02/2011,
£25.00
£22.50
Researching adult learning combines the presentations from the Third Nordic Conference on Adult Learning. This title covers the broad field of adult education.
Teacher Preparation in Northern Ireland: History, Policy and Future Directions
Hardback,
22/08/2019,
£63.99
£57.59
This book addresses the history of teacher preparation in Northern Ireland, paying particular attention to the distinctive political and religious influences in the country and how these have impacted teacher education.
The Professional Doctorate in Education: Activism, Transformation and Practice
Hardback,
01/02/2022,
£61.99
£55.79
The book explores and analyses, from a variety of conceptual perspectives, the encounters with self and others that professional doctorate programmes in education both necessitate and enable. It documents the ways in which professional identities, bodies of knowledge and practices are thereby challenged, renegotiated and strengthened.
Educational Research and Policy-Making
Paperback,
23/08/2007,
£36.99
£33.29
Provides an insight into the troubled relationship between research and policy-making in education. This book shows how these areas of social and intellectual endeavour are in a state of dynamic change and how they are becoming mutually inter-permeable and posing challenging problems for each other.
Putting Research into Practice in Primary Teaching and Learning
Paperback,
05/04/2000,
£24.99
£23.09
This text explores the practical implications of a research focus for each area of the primary curriculum, including RE, drama and ICT, along with the special needs and promoting positive behaviour. Photocopiable resources provide examples of research-based activity for use in the classroom.
Distress in the City: Racism, Fundamentalism and a Democratic Education
Paperback,
15/01/2016,
£24.99
£22.49
This case study of one distressed post-industrial city struggling with various discontents is based on the stories of those who live there. They illuminate how racism, Islamophobia and Islamism take hold, and show how the city is emblematic of wider problems across the world today. But the book also describes the resources of hope in the city.
Understanding Research in Early Childhood Education
Paperback,
28/07/2005,
£32.99
£23.09
Using clear and concise language, the author illustrates how to avoid common pitfalls in misrepresenting research findings and how to apply these findings in the classroom. Readers need no previous expertise in the field to benefit from this guide.
Early Childhood Educational Research
Paperback,
01/07/1998,
£34.99
£24.49
This work focuses on the field of early years research. It argues that the educational research community has blossomed in the UK in recent years, with the growth of higher degrees and practitioner research within this area.
Development Education;debates & dialogues
Paperback,
02/07/2008,
£15.99
£11.19
This book aims to stimulate debate and dialogue on development education, involving academics, policy-makers and practitioners, to identify issues and themes for research and pose questions for future practice.
Doing Early Childhood Research 2ed
Paperback,
01/07/2010,
£26.99
£24.29
This book demystifies the research process and shows how to select methods which are appropriate for working with young children in early childhood settings or at home.
Your Dissertation in Education 2ed
Paperback,
10/03/2016,
£22.99
£20.69
Written specifically for students from a range of educational disciplines, including teacher training, early childhood and education studies, Your Dissertation in Education is a straight-forward, plain English guide to doing and writing your project or dissertation.
Understanding Career Counselling: Theory, Research and Practice
Paperback,
14/03/2006,
£37.99
£34.19
Explores the theory, research and practice of career counselling from a British perspective. Divided into two parts, this book provides a comprehensive account of theories of career development and career counselling and their implications for practice. Taking a critical approach, it also shows how research informs our understanding of the field.
Research Engagement For School Development
Paperback,
03/11/2011,
£23.99
£16.79
This book will make a timely contribution because of the rising level of interest both in school-based practitioner action research, and in the notion of 'evidence informed' policies and strategies, which is topical in the UK and in other parts of the English speaking world.
Stories of Practitioner Research in the Early Years
Paperback,
21/05/2012,
£34.99
£24.49
Improving Your Reflective Practice through Stories of Practitioner Research shows how research has informed and created effective and valuable reflective practice in early years education, and offers depth to the arguments for a research-orientated stance to this vital field of study.
History Of Education For The 20th C
Paperback,
21/11/2000,
£15.99
£14.39
How should we promote the discipline of History of Education? How can we challenge the tendency to take the past for granted and focus solely on the future? This book provides an agenda for History of Education in the twenty-first century by exploring themes and opening up areas of further debate.
Rethinking Children and Research
Paperback,
08/04/2010,
£34.99
£31.49
Considers the way people approach research into childhood and children's lives and examines the debates concerning the forms and goals of such research. This title discusses theoretical and practice-based perspectives in the context of key developments in research theory and philosophy of children.
Doing Qualitative Educational Research
Paperback,
26/04/2001,
£39.99
£27.29
Reflecting the trials and tribulations and the problems and promises of conducting research, this guide reveals it as a much more complex process than is usually recognised, often messy and disorganised. It looks at issues from choosing topics through methods to publication of findings.
Ethics and Education Research
Paperback,
15/09/2014,
£26.99
£24.29
With contributions from across the globe, this is the first book of its kind to focus specifically on the ethics of education research. Part of the popular BERA/SAGE Research methods in Education series.
Practitioner Research in Early Childhood
Paperback,
01/09/2015,
£30.99
£27.89
Supports and inspires practitioners on how to research their implementation of meaningful and sustainable change in early childhood contexts.
Researching Early Childhood Education
Paperback,
01/10/1998,
£47.99
£30.79
The book highlights the main research agendas of these countries, and includes a special chapter discussing the strengths and weaknesses of comparative research, and proposing a way forward for the field.
Struggle For The History Of Education
Paperback,
17/02/2011,
£42.99
£27.29
Sets out a vision for a future of study in the history of education which contributes to education, history and social sciences alike. Drawing on thirty years of experience as a researcher and teacher in the history of education, the author presents a critique of the history of education in the modern world.
Teaching Study Skills and Supporting Learning
Paperback,
07/09/2001,
£36.99
£33.29
Sets study skills teaching in context and outlines positive environments to enhance student skills. It addresses areas such as supportive infrastructures, induction, and supporting 'at risk' students. Topics include: interactive group skills, revision and exam strategies, writing, memory and critical analysis skills.
Study to teach: A Guide to Studying in Teacher Education
Paperback,
30/09/1999,
£34.99
£24.49
Suitable for those preparing to teach or involved in further professional development, this title integrates theories of learning with practical strategies for approaching a topic. It discusses such areas as: active reading and using the library; referencing correctly; making notes and writing clearly; and, presenting your work orally.
Understanding Schools and Schooling
Paperback,
22/11/2001,
£36.99
£25.89
Provides students with the knowledge about school policy and process that they need in order to address and respond to current trends and discourses in critical, well-informed ways that will enhance their teaching and job satisfaction.
Managing Research
Paperback,
01/05/2003,
£33.99
£23.79
Research is a longstanding and well-recognized function of universities but in recent years the research context has altered dramatically, and research policy, funding and management have become ever more complex. This book helps us to understand the changes in and complexity of managing research in universities.
Little Learning: Broodings from the Back of the Class
Paperback,
08/03/2007,
£4.99
Brings together journalist and broadcaster Libby Purves' experiences as journalist, parent, governor and former pupil of half a dozen assorted schools from Bangkok to Tunbridge Wells. This collection of the best of her writing in the "Times Educational Supplement" also displays her opinions and ideas on teaching and learning.
Routledge Education studies Reader
Paperback,
03/12/2009,
£34.99
£31.49
This text provides an authoritative overview of the key aspects of education for students beyond the introductory stages of a degree programme in Education Studies, enabling students to deepen their understanding.
Wonder-Full Education: The Centrality of Wonder in Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum
Paperback,
03/07/2015,
£44.99
£40.49
Offering a rich understanding of the nature and roles of wonder in general, this book provides multiple suggestions for how to evoke wonder in children about the content of the curriculum and shows how this can routinely be done in everyday classrooms.
Open and Distance Learning in the Developing World 2ed
Paperback,
30/11/2006,
£19.99
£13.99
Sets the expansion of distance education in the context of general educational change. This book explores its use for basic and non-formal education, schooling, teacher training and higher education. It provides answers to problems and poses questions for the consideration of those, involved in implementing and delivering distance learning.
Struggles over Difference:Curriculum,texts and pedagogy in the Asia-Pacific
7,
30/06/2005,
£24.05
£18.20
Building Academic Success on Social and Emotional Learning: What Does the Research Say?
7,
30/04/2004,
£35.95
£32.36
In this book, nationally recognized interdisciplinary leaders examine the relationships between social-emotional education and school success - specifically focusing on interventions that enhance student learning. Offering scientific evidence and practical examples, this volume points out the many benefits of SEL programs.
Key Concepts in Education
7,
07/10/2008,
£30.99
£27.89
A concise quick reference source for students who need to know all the essentials in one easy flick of a book
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