This book offers a unique and provocative guide for all lecturers committed to providing the best education and training possible in the changing world of Further Education.

Considers the responses of reading scholars, such as Barbara Comber, Henrietta Dombey, Laura Huxford and David Wray, to one child as a reader. This book analyzes the various approaches to literacy including psycho-linguistic, cognitive-psychological, socio-cultural and socio-political.

Although the successful teaching of literacy is characterised by good quality oral work, speaking and listening is not included in the National Literacy Strategy Framework. This book shows how an integrated programme of work can be developed to teach literacy and includes work plans and practical classroom activities.

This accessible book provides a guide to the context of portfolio development and its importance not just to assessment but to the patient experience.

The creative industries are a growing economic as well as cultural force. This book investigates their organizational dynamics and shows how companies structure their work processes to incorporate creative employees' needs for autonomy while at the same time controlling and coordinating their output.

This book is aimed at students from all disciplines undertaking research projects for the first time. Unusually for a book of this kind it also deals with the design issues involved in presenting information.

This book offers the kind of advice and encouragement that part-time students find difficult to source elsewhere, by recognizing that many of the challenges confronting them are unique to their situation.

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.