Book Series

Improving Learning

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Improving Learning in a Professional Context

A Research Perspective on the New Teacher in School

Edited by Jim McNally, Allan Blake

Improving Learning in a Professional Context provides vital new evidence on exactly how teachers learn to be teachers; evidence that is likely to affect and…

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September 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49340-6 (Routledge)

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Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education

Edited by Miriam David, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Gill Crozier, Pauline Davis, Hubert Ertl, Alison Fuller, Geoff Hayward, Sue Heath, Chris Hockings, Gareth Parry, Diane Reay, Anna Vignoles, Julian Williams

Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of socio-economic,…

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September 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49542-4 (Routledge)

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Improving Learning in Later Life

By Alexandra Withnall

With life expectancy increasing, there is growing emphasis on encouraging older people to continue learning. This comes as part of a strategy to allow them…

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July 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46172-6 (Routledge)

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Improving the Context for Inclusion

Personalising Teacher Development through Collaborative Action Research

By Andy Howes, S.M.B. Davies, Sam Fox

This timely book addresses the need for increasing multi-agency capacity in schools, as the success of initiatives such as ‘Every Child Matters’ or ‘personalised learning’…

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June 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47342-2 (Routledge)

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Improving Disabled Students' Learning

Experiences and Outcomes

By Mary Fuller, Jan Georgeson, Mick Healey, Alan Hurst, Katie Kelly, Sheila Riddell, Hazel Roberts, Elisabet Weedon

How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view

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May 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48049-9 (Routledge)

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Improving Working as Learning

By Alan Felstead, Alison Fuller, Nick Jewson, Lorna Unwin

Interest in learning at work has captured the attention of many people around the world, often taking centre stage in policy debates about improving economic…

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April 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49646-9 (Routledge)

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Improving Learning in College

Rethinking literacies across the curriculum

By Roz Ivanic, Richard Edwards, David Barton, Marilyn Martin-Jones, Zoe Fowler, Buddug Hughes, Greg Mannion, Kate Miller, Candice Satchwell, June Smith

What's the problem with literacy at college? How might everyday literacy be harnessed for educational ends?

Based on the first major study of literacy practices in…

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February 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46912-8 (Routledge)

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Improving Inter-professional Collaborations

Multi-agency working for children's wellbeing

By Anne Edwards, Harry Daniels, Tony Gallagher, Jane Leadbetter, Paul Warmington

** Shortlisted for the NASEN Special Educational Needs Academic Book Award 2009 **

Inter-professional collaborations are invaluable relationships which can prevent the social exclusion of children…

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January 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46870-1 (Routledge)

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Improving Classroom Learning with ICT

By Rosamund Sutherland, Susan Robertson, Peter John

Improving Classroom Learning with ICT examines the ways in which ICT can be used in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning in different settings…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46174-0 (Routledge)

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Improving Learning, Skills and Inclusion

The Impact of Policy on Post-Compulsory Education

By Frank Coffield, Sheila Edward, Ian Finlay, Ann Hodgson, Ken Spours, Richard Steer

How can opportunities for teaching and learning be improved to ensure that many more people participate, gain qualifications and obtain decent jobs? Will government policies…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46181-8 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Improving What is Learned at University: An Exploration of the Social and Organisational Diversity of University Education
By John Brennan, Robert Edmunds, Muir Houston, David Jary, Yann Lebeau, Michael Osborne, John T.E. Richardson
To be published January 4th 2010

Improving Mathematics at Work: The Need for Techno-Mathematical Literacies
By Celia Hoyles, Richard Noss, Phillip Kent, Arthur Bakker
To be published April 26th 2010

Improving Learning through the life-course: Learning Lives
By Gert Biesta, John Field, Ivor F. Goodson, Phil Hodkinson, Flora J. Macleod
To be published September 1st 2010

Improving Research through User Engagement
By Mark Rickinson, Anne Edwards, Judy Sebba
To be published September 30th 2010

Improving Literacy at Work
By Alison Wolf, Karen Evans
To be published November 12th 2010