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1. Doing Events Research

   From Theory to Practice

   By Dorothy Fox, Mary Gouthro, John Brackstone

   This is the first events management specific research methods text which encourages students to think about the importance of research in informing good practice and to appreciate the role that it plays in the events industry. Additionally, it provides students with innovative ideas and inspiration...

   To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Modelling High-level Cognitive Processes

   By Richard P. Cooper With Contributi, Peter G. Yule, John Fox, David W. Glasspool, Richard P. Cooper

   This book is a practical guide to building computational models of high-level cognitive processes and systems. High-level processes are those central cognitive processes involved in thinking, reasoning, planning, and so on. These processes appear to share representational and processing...

   To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
3. Improving Learning How to Learn

   Classrooms, Schools and Networks

   By Mary James, Robert McCormick, Paul Black, Patrick Carmichael, Mary-Jane Drummond, Alison Fox, John MacBeath, Bethan Marshall, David Pedder, Richard Procter, Sue Swaffield, Joanna Swann, Dylan Wiliam

   Series: Improving Learning

   Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whilst this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils how to learn. This book makes a major contribution to the creation of such a...

   Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge
4. Learning How to Learn

   Tools for Schools

   Edited by Mary James, Paul Black, Patrick Carmichael, Colin Conner, Peter Dudley, Alison Fox, David Frost, Leslie Honour, John MacBeath, Bethan Marshall, Robert McCormick, David Pedder, Richard Procter, Sue Swaffield, DYLAN WILIAM

   Series: Improving Practice (TLRP)

   Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. This book offers a set of in-service resources to help teachers develop new classroom practices informed by sound research. It builds on previous work associated with ‘formative assessment’ or ‘assessment for learning’....

   Published October 11th 2006 by Routledge
5. Globalization and the Gulf

   Edited by John W. Fox, Nada Mourtada-Sabbah, Mohammed Al Mutawa

   For centuries, the Arabian Gulf has been a crossroads where seafaring people and Bedouins alike travelled great distances transacting business. Events of the past few years, both good and bad, have directed the world’s attention to the Arabian Peninsula, where a rich cultural tradition is rapidly...

   Published June 7th 2006 by Routledge
6. Modelling High-level Cognitive Processes

   By Richard P. Cooper With Contributi, Peter Yule, John Fox, David W. Glasspool

   This book is a practical guide to building computational models of high-level cognitive processes and systems. High-level processes are those central cognitive processes involved in thinking, reasoning, planning, and so on. These processes appear to share representational and processing...

   Published April 30th 2002 by Psychology Press
7. Challenging Ways Of Knowing

   In English, Mathematics And Science

   Edited by Dave Baker, John Clay, Carol Fox

   This work provides an analysis of how knowledge is constructed and defined by teachers and lecturers in schools and universities/colleges. It considers how everyday uses of reading, writing, numeracy and science are cast aside in favour of academic language and academic discourse, arguing that such...

   Published March 14th 1996 by Routledge
8. Techniques of Description

   Spoken and Written Discourse

   By Gwyneth Fox, Michael Hoey, John M. Sinclair

   This book is a tribute to Malcolm Coulthard, who has been remarkably active and influential across a wide range of English Language Studies. He is particularly well-known for his pioneering work in spoken and written discourse analysis and most recently, for his work in forensic linguistics. This...

   Published March 3rd 1993 by Routledge