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Social and Emotional Learning: A Critical Appraisal
Paperback,
15/04/2013,
£32.99
£29.69
Social and Emotional Learning is currently a dominant theme in education systems across the world. This book is the first truly balanced, critical appraisal of this important field.
Psychology of Effective Learning and Teaching
Paperback,
04/05/2005,
£36.25
£32.63
Written in a clear and accessible way, this practical guide will help teachers to develop their understanding of psychology and its application in enhancing the quality classroom teaching. As both a practising teacher and chartered psychologist, Matt Jarvis identifies a range of ideas that can be used in the real world of the classroom.
Neuroscience for Teachers: Applying Research Evidence from Brain Science
Paperback,
18/09/2017,
£20.00
£18.00
Expertly unpacks, in an easy-to-read and instantly useable way, what every teacher needs to know about the brain and how we really learn - and what that suggests for how they should teach.
Positive Mental Health: A Whole School Approach
Paperback,
10/09/2018,
£15.99
£14.39
Targeted strategies for developing a whole school approach to mental health provision, emphasising the importance of creating a whole school culture which promotes a positive attitude towards mental health.
How Children Fail
Paperback,
14/08/1995,
£12.99
£11.69
Since its first publication in 1964, this book has helped two generations of parents and teachers understand what actually happens in the classroom. Holt's astute observation of children, his clear simple style, and his lifelong conviction that we can do better by our children make How Children Fail an enduring classic.
Time and the Rhythms of Emancipatory Education: Rethinking the temporal complexity of self and society
Paperback,
08/05/2018,
£38.99
£35.09
Education in Popular Culture: Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners
Paperback,
02/05/2008,
£48.99
£44.09
Demonstrating how popular culture both reflects and constructs social and professional ideas about the teacher, this book looks at a number of themes that are central to debates about education including bullying, underachievement and sexuality.
Video Research in the Learning Sciences
Paperback,
12/06/2007,
£69.99
£62.99
A comprehensive exploration of key theoretical, methodological, and technological advances concerning uses of digital video-as-data in the learning sciences as a way of knowing about learning, teaching, and educational processes. This title is intended for researchers, university faculty, teacher educators, and graduate students in education.
Pedagogy, Symbolic Control, and Identity
Paperback,
30/05/2000,
£52.00
£46.80
This volume, the fifth in the series developing Bernstein's code theory, presents a clear account of the developments of this code theory and shows the close relation between its development and the empirical research to which the theory has given rise.
Vygotsky the Teacher: A Companion to his Psychology for Teachers and Other Practitioners
Paperback,
30/08/2021,
£24.99
£22.49
This highly accessible guide to the varied aspects of Vygotsky's psychology emphasises his abiding interest in education. Vygotsky the Teacher analyses and discusses the full range of his ideas and their ground-breaking educational implications.
Critical Pedagogy and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Keeping Communities Together in Times of Crisis
Paperback,
02/06/2022,
£19.99
£17.99
How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice
Paperback,
03/03/2020,
£19.99
£17.99
How Learning Happens introduces 28 giants of educational research and their findings on how we learn and what we need to learn effectively, efficiently and enjoyably. Many of these works have inspired researchers and teachers all around the world and have left a mark on how we teach today.
Curriculum: Theory, Culture and the Subject Specialisms
Paperback,
15/06/2021,
£16.99
£15.29
This book sets out the principles of curriculum theory and provides a common framework and practical strategies for the successful implementation and effective management of powerful knowledge-based curriculum for all.
Botheredness
Paperback,
30/12/2022,
£16.99
£15.29
A funny, engaging, rapturous read that will inspire teachers to reclaim their professional imagination and reignite the excitement they felt when they entered the teaching profession. It's about botheredness. A made-up word that everyone understands.
A Curious Curriculum
Paperback,
31/10/2022,
£24.99
£22.49
Details the insightful and transformational steps that a school can take towards designing and delivering a rich, rigorous and wide-ranging curriculum.
Addressing Student Sexual Violence in Higher Education: A Good Practice Guide
Paperback,
01/05/2020,
£19.99
£17.99
This book is the first practical guidance on how to address sexual violence, using a comprehensive institution-wide approach. The authors provide how-to level information on policy writing, responding to disclosures, developing comprehensive prevention and response education programmes, conducting trauma-informed investigations and sanctioning.
Unpacking School Lunch: Understanding the Hidden Politics of School Food
Paperback,
19/05/2022,
£17.99
£16.19
This book delves into the heated political battles over what kids eat at school, shedding light onto how policymakers craft food policy for schools. The book takes readers inside schools, through the history of school food programs in the United States and England, and into the policy terrain that makes school lunch difficult to change.
How to Excel in Your Doctoral Viva
Paperback,
29/09/2022,
£24.99
£22.49
How to excel in your doctoral viva offers an accessible guide to approaching and preparing for a PhD viva examination. It guides the reader through the course of preparing for their viva examination, with chapters focusing on organisation to dealing with viva concerns.
Psychoanalysis and Education: Minding a Gap
Paperback,
29/06/2012,
£35.99
£32.39
Suitable for teachers, trainers, policy-makers, clinicians, researchers, and diverse academics who want to look beyond bland superficialities to deeper struggles for self and understanding, this book provides topical application of psychoanalytic theory to the context of education, including schools, universities, and adult learning.
Understanding Education: A Sociological Perspective
Paperback,
21/08/2009,
£17.99
£16.19
Who should be educated, when, by whom and how? What purposes should education serve? Why does education matter? These fundamental questions of value are not always seen as central to the sociology of education. This book argues that they are pivotal and provides an introduction to the field that is designed to open up these debates.
Keep Your Coooooool!: Stress Reducing Strategies for Key Stage 2 and 3
Paperback,
01/01/2002,
£29.99
£18.89
Teaching, Learning and Psychology
7,
28/04/2006,
£28.99
£26.09
Presenting a range of psychological theories, this book shows how psychology can be used to effectively deliver educational objectives and enhance children's learning. It considers the role that schools can play in the social development of children through: teaching and managing individual pupils; teaching and managing groups of pupils; and more.
Counselling Pupils in Schools: Skills and Strategies for Teachers
Paperback,
01/09/2000,
£34.99
£24.49
This book is an extremely comprehensive introductory guide on counselling skills and strategies for teachers.
Using Psychology in the Classroom
Paperback,
21/02/2012,
£31.99
£28.79
Covering a range of current issues and topics, this book explores how psychological approaches can help teachers in key areas of practice.
What Every Teacher Needs to Know About Psychology
Paperback,
05/08/2016,
£18.00
£16.20
David Didau and Nick Rose attempt to lay out the evidence and theoretical perspectives on what they believe are the most important and useful psychological principles of which teacher ought to be aware.
Freud And Education (routledge Key Ideas In Education)
Paperback,
16/11/2010,
£34.99
£24.49
Explores key controversies of education through a Freudian approach.
Clinical counselling in further and higher education
Paperback,
11/02/1999,
£32.99
£23.09
A range of well-known contributors show how they work with the dynamics of the context to bring about therapeutic change.
Taking Issue:Debates in Guidance and Counselling
7,
22/10/1998,
£42.99
£38.69
This OU Reader looks at how guidance and counselling in the context of learning is developing. It focuses on the different types of guidance and counselling in learning available to students and practitioners alike.
Counselling and guidance in schools
Paperback,
01/08/1996,
£32.99
£29.69
Drawing on two years of school-based research carried out by the authors, this work addresses the issues in practice for teachers counselling or guiding students in schools. The book aims to report the research from three angles: the perspective of the pupil, the teacher and the school development.
Undoing Homophobia in Primary Schools
Paperback,
15/02/2010,
£16.99
£15.29
A celebration of recognition, affirmation and inclusion by primary teachers, who have challenged the taken-for-granted norms and silences in primary schools around sexual orientation and gender expression. With examples of good practice, and examples of children's work, it is suitable for teachers, teacher trainers, and policy makers.
Directions in Educational Psychology
7,
15/12/1997,
£53.99
£48.59
Directions in Educational Psychology has been compiled to pay tribute to Professor Dennis Child of the University of Leeds. The book is divided into four sections: Teaching, learning and learning how to teach, Measurement and assessment, Children with special educational needs and Moving into the world of work.
Educational Psychology (Undergraduate Revision Guide)
Paperback,
13/02/2014,
£13.99
£12.59
The Psychology Express undergraduate revision guide series will help your students to understand key concepts quickly, revise effectively and make their answers stand out.
New Kinds of Smart: How the Science of Learnable Intelligence is Changing Education
Paperback,
01/03/2010,
£29.99
£26.99
New Kinds of Smart presents the most important of these changes to practising teachers and educators, and invites them to think about their implications for school.
Promoting Positive Thinking
Paperback,
01/01/2004,
£27.99
£25.19
Help pupils towards increased emotional intelligence using this book's practical ideas for developing confidence and optimism amongst learners. The book includes: An explanation of the differences between self-esteem, confidence and optimism, complete coverage of how low self-esteem can manifest itself and workable solutions.
Beautiful Risk of Education
Paperback,
20/04/2014,
£42.99
£38.69
Argues for a 'risk-based' approach to pedagogy, based on WB Yeats' view that education is not about filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
Learning Relationship: Psychoanalytic Thinking in Education
Paperback,
01/10/2006,
£32.99
£29.69
Offers a psychoanalytic perspective on learning and teaching and on many of the issues which preoccupy those who work in educational institutions. This book looks at the origins of learning in children's early relationships and at factors which help and hinder the educational process in later childhood and adolescence.
Can Education Change Society?
Paperback,
28/11/2012,
£39.99
£35.99
In this work, Apple pushes educators toward a more substantial understanding of what schools do and what we can do to challenge the relations of dominance and subordination in the larger society.
Handbook of Implementation Science for Psychology in Educati
Paperback,
27/03/2014,
£55.99
£50.39
Aims to help policy makers, stakeholders, practitioners and teachers in psychology and education provide more effective interventions in educational contexts.
Learning and Awareness
Paperback,
12/04/1997,
£39.99
£35.99
The aspect of learning as in experiencing the world is the focus of this book. It offers an answer to instances of learning in educational institutions by looking at differences in the structure of the learner's awareness and in the meaning of the learner's world.
Sustainable Knowledge: A Theory of Interdisciplinarity
Hardback,
02/12/2013,
£54.99
£49.49
Sustainable Knowledge rethinks the nature of interdisciplinary research and the place of philosophy and the humanities in society and offers a new account of what is at stake in talk about 'interdisciplinarity'.
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