Explores debates around learner-centred education (or child-centred education) as a strategy for developing teachers' classroom practice and asks whether a 'Western' construct is appropriate for application in all societies and classrooms.

Offers a creative approach to the psychology of learning. This book focuses on the idea that learning in schools and other educational settings is best understood by paying attention to both individual learners and the educational contexts in which learning takes place. It encourages teachers, parents and other educators to think about learners.

Designed for BA, PGCE and ITE courses, this text brings together recent thinking together with research findings and examples of best practice in PE.

Provides an account of how children learn with maps and how teachers can best teach them. This work includes aspects of map use, such as reading and interpreting maps, and covering maps of all scales. It integrates the digital and conventional mapping, and Internet and CD-ROM cartography with applications of Geographic Information Systems.