Education Books

New and Published Books

1. Planning for Schematic Learning in the Early Years

   A practical guide

   By Karen Constable

   Edited by Sandy Green

   What are schemas and why should you know about them? How can schemas be identified in young children? What does schematic learning look like and how does it meet the needs of individual children? All children are different, they look different, sound different, behave in different ways and...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Reframing Educational Research

   Resisting the 'what works' agenda

   Edited by Valerie Farnsworth, Yvette Solomon

   Possibilities for the use of research in educational practice are often written off due to the history, politics and interests of the ostensibly separate worlds that researchers and practitioners occupy. However, a more optimistic account highlights the ways these communities share a common need...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Styles of Practice in Higher Education

   Exploring approaches to teaching and learning

   Edited by Carol Evans, Maria Kozhevnikov

   This book highlights important discussions occurring within the styles field that have direct relevance for the development of effective twenty-first century learning environments. Styles research in this context is used as an umbrella term to encompass cognitive styles, learning styles, and...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
4. Innovation and change in English language education

   Edited by Ken Hyland, Lillian L C Wong

   Questions about what to teach and how best to teach it are what drive professional practice in the English language classroom. Innovation and change in English language education addresses these key questions so that teachers are able to understand and manage change to organise teaching and...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education

   Edited by Jo Brownlee, Gregory Schraw, Donna Berthelsen

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Personal Epistemology and Teacher Education, edited by Joanne Brownlee, Gregg Schraw and Donna Berthelsen, provides an international perspective on teachers’ personal epistemology, or beliefs about the nature of knowledge and knowing. Research from The Netherlands, Cyprus, Australia, United States,...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
6. Teaching and Learning with Technology

   Beyond Constructivism

   Edited by Concetta M. Stewart, Catherine C. Schifter, Melissa E. Markaridian Selverian

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Today, new media is both augmenting and extending the traditional classroom with a variety of technology-based tools available to both students and faculty, and has created "new" virtual classrooms for anywhere, anytime availability to education. Despite the enormous potential for technology to...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
7. Teacher Learning That Matters

   International Perspectives

   Edited by Mary Kooy, Klaas van Veen

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   In the continuing global call for educational reforms and change, the contributors in this edited collection address the critical issue of teacher learning from diverse national contexts and perspectives. They define "teacher learning that matters" as it shapes and directs pedagogical practices...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
8. WTO/GATS and the Global Politics of Higher Education

   By Antoni Verger

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   Since the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was created in 1995, there has been international pressure towards the liberalization of education all over the world, as well as new challenges to the traditional internationalization rationale in the field of higher education. Nevertheless,...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
9. Pedagogy of Multiliteracies

   Rewriting Goldilocks

   By Heather Lotherington

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Based on case studies from public schools in Toronto, Canada, this book chronicles an inspiring five-year journey to develop thinking about and teaching literacy for the 21st century. The research, which was classroom-based and developed by public school teachers in collaboration with university...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
10. Memory and Pedagogy

    Edited by Claudia Mitchell, Teresa Strong-Wilson, Kathleen Pithouse, Susann Allnutt

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Memory work – the conscious remembering and study of individual and shared memories – is increasingly being acknowledged as a key pedagogical tool in working with children. Giving students opportunities and support to remember and study their selves as individuals and as communities allows them to...

    Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge