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1. Changing Schools Through Systematic Inquiry

   Why and how school leaders do research

   By Pat Thomson, Jill Blackmore

   Educational systems around the world now understand that school change is dependent on the understandings and skills of those that lead them. There is an increasing understanding that school change is more effective when it is locally designed to suit specific histories and conditions, and that...

   To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
2. Helping Doctoral Students Write

   Pedagogies for Supervision, 2nd Edition

   By Barbara Kamler, Pat Thomson

   Helping Doctoral Students Write offers a proven approach to effective doctoral writing. By treating research as writing and writing as research, the authors offer pedagogical strategies for doctoral supervisors that will assist the production of well-argued and lively dissertations. It is clear...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Understanding the Field of Educational Leadership

   Pierre Bourdieu

   By Pat Thomson

   Series: Critical Studies in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration

   Bringing Bourdieu to the study of Education Management, Leadership and Administration assumes a normative opposition to a meritocratic view of education. Through a lifetime’s explication of the ways in which schooling both produces and reproduces the status quo, Bourdieu offers a powerful critique...

   To Be Published June 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning

   Edited by Julian Sefton-Green, Pat Thomson, Ken Jones, Liora Bresler

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

   The concept of creative learning extends far beyond Arts-based learning or the development of individual creativity. It covers a range of processes and initiatives throughout the world that share common values, systems and practices aimed at making learning more creative. This applies at individual...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals

   Strategies for getting published

   By Pat Thomson, Barbara Kamler

   It’s not easy getting published, but everyone has to do it. Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals presents an insider’s perspective on the secret business of academic publishing, making explicit many of the dilemmas and struggles faced by all writers, but rarely discussed. Its unique approach is...

   Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Changing Schools

   Alternative Ways to Make a World of Difference

   Edited by Terry Wrigley, Pat Thomson, Robert Lingard

   Changing Schools places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change. It draws on forteen case studies to explore school change which is oriented towards social justice and democracy. In an age of global mobility, economic polarization and unprecedented...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
7. Researching Creative Learning

   Methods and Issues

   Edited by Pat Thomson, Julian Sefton-Green

   It is a common ambition in society and government to make young people more creative. These aspirations are motivated by two key concerns: to make experience at school more exciting, relevant, challenging and dynamic; and to ensure that young people are able and fit to leave education and...

   Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Doctoral Student's Companion

   Getting to Grips with Research in Education and the Social Sciences

   Edited by Pat Thomson, Melanie Walker

   Series: Companions for PhD and DPhil Research

   In the contemporary world it is clear that the need to study beyond Masters Level is increasing in importance for a wide range of practitioners in diverse professional settings. Students across the world are choosing doctorates not only to become career academics, but to go beyond the academic...

   Published March 30th 2010 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor's Companion

   Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social Sciences

   Edited by Melanie Walker, Pat Thomson

   Series: Companions for PhD and DPhil Research

   Accompanying The Routledge Doctoral Student’s Companion this book examines what it means to be a doctoral student in education and the social sciences, providing a guide for those supervising students. Exploring the key role and pedagogical challenges that face supervisors in students’ personal...

   Published March 30th 2010 by Routledge
10. School Leadership - Heads on the Block?

    By Pat Thomson

    Most teachers become heads for idealistic reasons, wanting to make a difference to the lives of children and young people. Yet serving heads suggest the job is getting harder, talking openly about stress and leaving the job. Many teachers now see headship as a risky business, and succession...

    Published February 1st 2009 by Routledge