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  • Writing Groups for Doctoral Education and Beyond Writing Groups for Doctoral Education and Beyond
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    Writing Groups for Doctoral Education and Beyond

    Writing is the principal means by which doctoral candidature is monitored and measured; this, combined with the growing tendency to use publications as proxy measures of individual and institutional productivity, underlines the centrality of writing in...
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  • African Philosophy of Education Reconsidered African Philosophy of Education Reconsidered
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    African Philosophy of Education Reconsidered

    In this book Yusef Waghid considers an African philosophy of education guided by communitarian, reasonable and culture dependent action in order to bridge the conceptual and practical divide between African ethnophilosophy and 'scientific' African...
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  • Women Leaders in Higher Education Women Leaders in Higher Education
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    Women Leaders in Higher Education

    Leadership in universities is physically, intellectually and emotionally demanding work. It involves multiple and complex tasks and responsibilities such as staff management, strategic management, operational planning, financial and resources management,...
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  • Political Contexts of Educational Leadership Political Contexts of Educational Leadership
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    Political Contexts of Educational Leadership

    Co-published with UCEA, this exciting new textbook is the first to tackle the ISLLC Standard #6-the political context of education. This unique volume helps aspiring school leaders understand the dynamics of educational policy in multiple arenas at the...
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  • Contemporary Developments in Games Teaching Contemporary Developments in Games Teaching
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    Contemporary Developments in Games Teaching

    The teaching of games is a central component of any physical education or youth sport programme. Contemporary Developments in Games Teaching brings together leading international researchers and practitioners in physical education and sports coaching to...
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  • Thinking with Feeling Thinking with Feeling
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    Thinking with Feeling

    Are emotions good or bad for thinking and learning?Have you ever wondered why a good lesson of one year falls flat in another?Why do students behave the way they do?Teachers are expected to foster productive thought yet the neglect of emotion in the...
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  • The Architecture of Productive Learning Networks The Architecture of Productive Learning Networks
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    The Architecture of Productive Learning Networks

    The Architecture of Productive Learning Networks explores the characteristics of productive networked learning situations and, through a series of case studies, identifies some of the key qualities of successful designs. The case studies include networks...
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  • School Choice in China School Choice in China
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    School Choice in China

    School Choice in China explores the major characteristics of schooling options in China, highlighting how largely middle-class parents exploit their cultural, economic and social capital for their children's admission into choice schools. It highlights...
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  • Educating Learners with Down Syndrome Educating Learners with Down Syndrome
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    Educating Learners with Down Syndrome

    Educating Learners with Down Syndrome importantly incorporates the voices of individuals with Down syndrome, whose personal narratives add significance to the research mission of the text and demonstrate the authors' inclusive philosophy. Aimed at...
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  • Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory
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    Pragmatism, Post-modernism, and Complexity Theory

    The first collection of the key works of the major curriculum studies scholar William E. Doll, Jr., this volume provides an overview of his scholarship over his fifty-year career and documents the theoretical and practical contribution he has made to the...
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  • Education and Power Education and Power
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    Education and Power

    First published in 1982, Education and Power remains an important volume for those committed to critical education. In this text Michael Apple first articulated his theory on educational institutions and the reproduction of and resistance to unequal...
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  • What's So Important About Music Education? What's So Important About Music Education?
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    What's So Important About Music Education?

    What's So Important About Music Education? presents a new philosophy of music education for the United States, rooted in history and current perspectives from ethnomusicology. J. Scott Goble explores the societal effects of the nation's foundations in...
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  • Architecture Live Projects Architecture Live Projects
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    Architecture Live Projects

    Architecture Live Projects provides a persuasive, evidence-based advocacy for moving a particular kind of architectural learning, known as Live Projects, towards a holistic integration into current and future architectural curricula. Live Projects are...
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  • Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability
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    Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability

    This book provides a multifaceted exploration of changing social attitudes toward disability. Adopting a tripartite approach to examining disability, the book looks at historical, cultural, and education studies, to break down some of the unhelpful...
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  • Tech Tools for Improving Student Literacy Tech Tools for Improving Student Literacy
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    Tech Tools for Improving Student Literacy

    Technology isn't just fun to use in the classroom, it can also make real improvements in students' literacy development. In this book, authors Hilarie Davis and Bradford Davey show you how and why to use tech tools to help enhance the teaching of...
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  • Teach Now! Science Teach Now! Science
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    Teach Now! Science

    Being taught by a great teacher is one of the great privileges of life. Teach Now! is an exciting new series that opens up the secrets of great teachers and, step-by-step, helps trainees to build the skills and confidence they need to become first-rate...
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  • Teaching and Learning in the Early Years Teaching and Learning in the Early Years
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    Teaching and Learning in the Early Years

    This best-selling text book provides a broad-ranging and up-to-date review of thinking and best practice within nursery and infant education. Written around the basic truth that an effective early years curriculum must start with the children, their...
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  • Learning-Focused Leadership in Action Learning-Focused Leadership in Action
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    Learning-Focused Leadership in Action

    Learning-Focused Leadership in Action explores what it means for educational leadership to be "learning-focused," what this looks like in practice at both the school and district level, and how such changes can be set in motion.
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  • The Use of Children's Literature in Teaching The Use of Children's Literature in Teaching
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    The Use of Children's Literature in Teaching

    The Use of Children's Literature in Teaching reveals the impact of politics, professional guidelines and restrictive measurements of literacy on the emerging identities of young teachers. It places renewed emphasis on the importance of creative teaching...
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  • Knowledge, Expertise and the Professions Knowledge, Expertise and the Professions
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    Knowledge, Expertise and the Professions

    It has long been recognised that specialised knowledge is at the core of what distinguishes professions from other occupations. The privileged status of professions in most countries, however, together with their claims to autonomy and access to...
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  • Assessing Children's Learning (Classic Edition) Assessing Children's Learning (Classic Edition)
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    Assessing Children's Learning (Classic Edition)

    "It is my sincere wish that the teachers of those thousands of children, who increasingly are also teacher educators, read and learn from Assessing Children's Learning. The hope is that they will go on to make a reality of the 'imaginary but not...
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  • The State of College Access and Completion The State of College Access and Completion
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    The State of College Access and Completion

    Despite decades of substantial investments by the federal government, state governments, colleges and universities, and private foundations, students from low-income families as well as racial and ethnic minority groups continue to have substantially...
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  • Assessment and Documentation in Early Childhood Education Assessment and Documentation in Early Childhood Education
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    Assessment and Documentation in Early Childhood Education

    Documentation in early childhood education is typically seen as a means to enhance the quality of care and education, and as a way to take account of the child's view.  Assessment and Documentation in Early Childhood Education considers the increasing...
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  • Understanding Staff Development (Routledge Revivals) Understanding Staff Development (Routledge Revivals)
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    Understanding Staff Development (Routledge Revivals)

    First published in 1996, this book charts the philosophical landscape of staff development at a time when the subject of 'quality' in university teaching and learning was under examination. This book will be of interest to staff developers of all kinds...
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  • Common Knowledge (Routledge Revivals) Common Knowledge (Routledge Revivals)
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    Common Knowledge (Routledge Revivals)

    First published in 1987, this book offers a radical departure from the traditionally individualistic psychologies which have underpinned modern approaches to educational theory and practice. The authors present a study of education as the...
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  • Moving Beyond Boundaries in Disability Studies Moving Beyond Boundaries in Disability Studies
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    Moving Beyond Boundaries in Disability Studies

    This book is recommended reading for students, researchers and activists interested in Disability Studies and is directly relevant to policy makers and practitioners in a position to reshape rights, spaces and innovations in response to the priorities...
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  • Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South
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    Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South

    How we understand education quality is inextricably linked with perspectives on social justice. Questions of inclusion, relevance and democracy in education are increasingly contested, most especially in the global South, and improving the quality of...
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  • Diverse Perspectives on Inclusive School Communities Diverse Perspectives on Inclusive School Communities
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    Diverse Perspectives on Inclusive School Communities

    What is an inclusive school community?How do stakeholders perceive their roles and responsibilities towards inclusive school communities?How can school communities become more inclusive through engagement with individual perspectives?Diverse Perspectives...
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  • Evaluating Teaching and Learning Evaluating Teaching and Learning
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    Evaluating Teaching and Learning

    Every semester, colleges and universities ask students to complete innumerable course and teaching evaluation questionnaires to evaluate the learning and teaching in courses they have taken. For many universities it is a requirement that all courses be...
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  • Learning Across Sites Learning Across Sites
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    Learning Across Sites

    The ever evolving, technology-intensive nature of the twenty-first century workplace has caused an acceleration in the division of labour, whereby work practices are becoming highly specialised and learning and the communication of knowledge is in a...
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  • Poetry - From Reading to Writing Poetry - From Reading to Writing
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    Poetry - From Reading to Writing

    Poetry - From Reading to Writing covers the process of writing poetry, from reading poems through to writing them. It is intended particularly for teachers at key stage 2 level, but other teachers will also find it valuable. It is clearly and accessibly...
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  • The Right to Higher Education The Right to Higher Education
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    The Right to Higher Education

    The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of under-representation continue to perplex policy-makers and practitioners,...
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  • The Struggle for the History of Education The Struggle for the History of Education
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    The Struggle for the History of Education

    The history of education is a contested field of study, and has represented a site of struggle for the past century of its development. It is highly relevant to an understanding of broader issues in history, education and society, and yet has often been...
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  • Narratives from the Nursery Narratives from the Nursery
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    Narratives from the Nursery

    This accessible and timely book builds upon and contributes to ongoing debates surrounding professionalism in the early years workforce. In a sector where policy is rapidly changing, Jayne Osgood challenges existing assumptions concerning professional...
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  • Teaching Religion and Science Teaching Religion and Science
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    Teaching Religion and Science

    Can religion and science co-exist successfully in the classroom? How can you encourage an environment where differing views are treated positively? How do you help students apply their understanding of religious beliefs and scientific theory to a range...
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  • The New Instructional Leadership The New Instructional Leadership
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    The New Instructional Leadership

    Co-published with UCEA, this exciting new textbook is the first to tackle the ISLLC Standard 2-Instructional Leadership. In light of recent curriculum reforms, accountability policies, and changing demographics, today's leaders must not only have...
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  • Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning
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    Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning

    In today's society, people and organisations increasingly undergo processes of transition. Experiences of change affect all areas of life: our jobs, relationships, status, communities, engagement in civil society, lifestyles, even understandings of our...
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  • Promoting Health and Wellbeing through Schools Promoting Health and Wellbeing through Schools
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    Promoting Health and Wellbeing through Schools

    The contribution schools can make to improving students' health and wellbeing is increasingly recognised. Schools that have embraced this role and adapted policies and practices to create an environment in which young people feel safe and happy have...
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  • Learning to Belong Learning to Belong
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    Learning to Belong

    This fascinating book draws on a diversity of disciplines exploring the importance of participatory approaches to children's early education and shows how fostering a sense of identity is essential to early learning.
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  • Understanding Pupil Behaviour Understanding Pupil Behaviour
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    Understanding Pupil Behaviour

    This book describes a system of successful classroom behaviour management techniques developed by the author over more than twenty-five years. It outlines the difficulties confronting teachers trying to manage pupils' misbehaviour in schools and...
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  • Researching Violence, Democracy and the Rights of People Researching Violence, Democracy and the Rights of People
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    Researching Violence, Democracy and the Rights of People

    Violence, democracy and rights are issues that are not fully addressed in research methodology literatures, yet violence is of vital interest in substantive and theoretical debates across the social sciences, education, philosophy, politics and cultural...
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  • Activity Theory in Practice Activity Theory in Practice
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    Activity Theory in Practice

    This ground-breaking book brings together cutting-edge researchers who study the transformation of practice through the enhancement and transformation of expertise. This is an important moment for such a contribution because expertise is in transition -...
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  • Reclaiming Childhood Reclaiming Childhood
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    Reclaiming Childhood

    Children are cooped up, passive, apathetic and corrupted by commerce... or so we are told. Reclaiming Childhood confronts the dangerous myths spun about modern childhood. Yes, children today are losing out on many experiences past generations took for...
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