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1. Leaving Residential Care

   Edited by Jim Black, Paul Brearley, Penny Gutridge, Dr Gwyneth Roberts, Gwyneth Roberts

   Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. The International Politics of Mass Atrocities

   The Case of Darfur

   Edited by David R. Black, Paul D. Williams

   Series: Security and Governance

   The ongoing crisis in Darfur, Sudan has stimulated a huge amount of political and academic interest across the world. The crisis has been both reflective and constitutive of key areas of contestation and change within contemporary international society. This book examines the crisis in Darfur as...

   Published December 15th 2009 by Routledge
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. Leaving Residential Care

   Edited by Jim Black, Paul Brearley, Penny Gutridge, Dr Gwyneth Roberts, Gwyneth Roberts

   Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...

   Published September 26th 2001 by Routledge
6. Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Automobile Insurance

   Samuel P. Black, Jr. and the Rise of Erie Insurance, 1923-1961

   By Samuel P. Black, John Paul Rossi

   Series: Garland Studies in Entrepreneurship

   This study explores the development of automobile insurance through the career of one of the industry's entrepreneurs, Samuel P. Black, Jr., and Erie Insurance, the company he helped build....

   Published July 15th 2001 by Routledge
7. Testing: Friend or Foe?

   Theory and Practice of Assessment and Testing

   By Paul Black

   Owing to daily work pressures and concerns, many teachers have little opportunity for considering and furthering their understanding of different issues surrounding assessment. Written in a user-friendly, jargon-free style, this text provides the reader with points of growth or change in the field...

   Published October 29th 1997 by Routledge
8. Changing the Subject

   Innovations in Science, Maths and Technology Education

   Edited by J. Myron Atkin, Paul Black

   Change in education is too often a process which enthusiasts, ranging from top policy makers to groups of teachers, plan and drive forward, but in which they all find unexpected pitfalls. Every innovation depends on the commitment of schools and teachers to make it work. But often that commitment...

   Published April 24th 1996 by Routledge