This text provides a clear overview and assessment of the educational policy systems at work in the UK. Accessibly written and covering pre-school and Higher Education policy-making as well as Primary and Secondary, the author examines the evolution of education policy from the Education Act of '44 to the academies of today.

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.

This up-to-date third edition covers a wide range of key themes that all Education Studies students will be addressing in their course.

Education under siege considers the English education system as it is and as it might be. It identifies the current system's strengths and weaknesses and proposes radical changes to ensure fair education for all.

Deals with learning in the home, specifically about the role that 'educational' media such as books, magazines and software can play in that process. This book traces the political and commercial context of the market for educational commodities government initiatives, and the production of educational media by publishers and distribution.

In the 1960s educational philosophers showed enormous interest in the nature of knowledge and the curriculum. This work responds to the need to reinstate conceptual problems of truth, knowledge and the curriculum on the agenda for debate.

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.

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.

Addresses the problems involved in educational research and the issues surrounding its contribution to policy making and practice. This work examines the diverse approaches within qualitative research and considers what role research should play and examine the case for randomized controlled trials and for action research.

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.

Filled with practical advice, this book provides a comprehensive overview of online learning tools and offers strategies for using these resources in course design, highlighting some of the most relevant and challenging topics in e-learning today.

This book outlines approaches to networked e-learning course design that are underpinned by a belief that students learn best in these contexts when they are organised in groups and communities. As such, the book is one of the first to provide a detailed analysis of what goes on in e-learning groups and communities.

Gilly Salmon has achieved continuity and illumination of the seminal five stage model, together with new research-based developments, in her much-awaited third edition of E-moderating-the most quoted and successful guide for e-learning practitioners.

Under achievement is endemic. Children are still not becoming the brilliant learners they could be, and schools continue to demotivate their pupils. Why is this? The answer, argues former headmaster Michael Brearley, lies in the failure to nurture intelligence - Emotional Intelligence.

Eric Jensen--a leading expert in the translation of brain research into education, argues in Enriching the Brain that we greatly underestimate students' achievement capacity. Drawing from a wide range of neuroscience research as well as related studies, Jensen reveals that the human brain is far more dynamic and malleable than we earlier believed.

This book draws on a 4-year study of boundaries between university-based professional education and professional practice, analysing the epistemic nature of professional work and identifying sources of capability needed for people to engage successfully in it.