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Improving Research through User Engagement
Series: Improving Learning
There are increasing calls for social science researchers to work more closely with research users. References to engaging users in and with research are now common in research funding requirements, national research strategies and large-scale research programmes. User engagement has therefore...
Published February 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Development
Learning Teaching
Teachers, both in and beyond teacher education programmes, are continual learners. As society itself evolves, new settings and the challenges they provide require new learning. Teachers must continually adapt to new developments that affect their work, including alterations to qualification systems...
Published January 11th 2010 by Routledge
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Activity Theory in Practice
Promoting Learning Across Boundaries and Agencies
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 - moving toward collaboration in...
Published August 19th 2009 by Routledge
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Improving Inter-professional Collaborations
Multi-Agency Working for Children's Wellbeing
Series: Improving Learning
** Shortlisted for the NASEN Special Educational Needs Academic Book Award 2009 ** Inter-professional collaborations are invaluable relationships which can prevent the social exclusion of children and young people and are now a common feature of welfare policies worldwide. Drawing on a four year...
Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
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The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Psychology of Education
Series: RoutledgeFalmer Readers in Education
The editors of this essential Reader recognise the valuable and varied benefits of connecting the two fields of education and psychology, and have carefully selected contributions to reflect current trends in the subject and examples of how knowledge has an impact on practice. This lively and...
Published December 10th 2003 by Routledge
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Rethinking Teacher Education
Collaborative Responses to Uncertainty
Rethinking Teacher Education is a thorough and critical analysis of the ambivalences and uncertainties that face those in teacher education. The authors draw on their different experiences of teacher education to try to make sense of current practices and where they might lead.The book analyzes...
Published October 9th 2002 by Routledge