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1. Critical Events in Teaching & Learning

   By Peter Woods

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This volume describes and analyses exceptional educational events – periods of particularly effective teaching representing ultimates in teacher and pupil educational experience. The events themselves are reconstructed in the book through teacher and pupil voices and through documentation. A model...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
2. Divided School

   By Peter Woods

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   In this ethnographic study of a secondary school in the UK, the author presents an incisive account of school life from the various points of view of the pupils, teachers and parents. He describes and analyses major areas of experience and methods of adapting to school for both the children and...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
3. Sociology and the School (RLE Edu L)

   By Peter Woods

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This is an introduction to interactionist work in education during the 1970s and 80s. The interactionist viewpoint concentrates on how people construct meanings in the ebb and flow of everyday life – what they think and do, how they react to one another – and has in recent years established itself...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
4. Pupil Strategies (RLE Edu L)

   Explorations in the Sociology of the School

   Edited by Peter Woods

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   What do pupils actually do in school? There are remarkably few studies that take the pupils’ perspective and reconstruct experience from their point of view within the context of their own cultures and careers. This volume brings together a number of research studies on various aspects of how...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
5. Teacher Strategies (RLE Edu L)

   Explorations in the Sociology of the School

   Edited by Peter Woods

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This book takes as its focus the key interactionist concept of ‘strategy’, a concept fundamental to many current concerns in the sociology of the school, including the understanding of the links between society and the individual, a more accurate description of certain areas of school life and...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
6. Creative Learning in the Primary School

   By Bob Jeffrey, Peter Woods

   Creative Learning in the Primary School uses ethnographic research to consider the main features of creative teaching and learning within the context of contemporary policy reforms. In particular, the authors are interested in the clash between two oppositional discourses - creativity and...

   Published December 8th 2008 by Routledge
7. The Biomass Assessment Handbook

   Edited by Frank Rosillo-Calle, Peter de Groot, Sarah L. Hemstock, Jeremy Woods

   The increasing importance of biomass as a renewable energy source has lead to an acute need for reliable and detailed information on its assessment, consumption and supply. Responding to this need, and overcoming the lack of standardized measurement and accounting procedures, this handbook provides...

   Published April 30th 2008 by Routledge
8. Successful Writing for Qualitative Researchers

   2nd Edition

   By Peter Woods

   Series: Routledge Study Guides

   It is always difficult to know how to write up research, and as academics and postgraduates alike come under increasing pressure to improve rates of publication a text like this one is essential reading for all researchers. The book discusses all aspects of translating research into writing,...

   Published September 21st 2005 by Routledge
9. Successful Writing for Qualitative Researchers

   By Peter Woods

   Series: Routledge Study Guides

   It is always difficult to know how to write up research, and as academics and postgraduates alike come under increasing pressure to improve rates of publication a text like this one is essential reading for all researchers. The book discusses all aspects of translating research into writing,...

   Published September 18th 2005 by Routledge
10. Enhancing Teaching in Higher Education

    New Approaches to Improving Student Learning

    Edited by Peter Hartley, Amanda Woods, Martin Pill

    This book brings together a collection of ground-breaking research and tested techniques in the field of learning and teaching in higher education. It provides an accessible, authoritative account of the latest developments, outlining how to apply learning theory and best practice to everyday...

    Published March 16th 2005 by Routledge