Education Books

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41. Trends and Issues in Action Learning Practice

    Lessons from South Korea

    By Yonjoo Cho, Hyeon-Cheol Bong

    Dynamic workplaces demand continuous employee learning and development to keep up with current and effective organizational contexts. Action learning is among the most widely used and effective interventions for leadership and organizational development around the world. This timely book provides...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
42. Living Languages: An Integrated Approach to Teaching Foreign Languages in Secondary Schools

    By Catherine Watts, Clare Forder

    Edited by Catherine Watts

    Living Languages is simply bursting with practical and original ideas aimed at teachers and trainee teachers of foreign languages in secondary schools. Written by a team of experienced linguists, this book will inspire and motivate the foreign language classroom and the teachers who work within it....

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
43. Working with Multimodality

    Rethinking Literacy in a Digital Age

    By Jennifer Rowsell

    In today’s digital world, we have multiple modes of meaning-making: sounds, images, hypertexts. Yet, within literacy education, even ‘new’ literacies, we know relatively little about how to work with and produce modally complex texts. In Working with Multimodality,...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
44. Imagery and Text

    A Dual Coding Theory of Reading and Writing, 2nd Edition

    By Mark Sadoski, Allan Paivio

    Imagery and Text, Second Edition extends the first edition’s unified theory of cognition in literacy from the perspective of Dual Coding Theory (DCT), one of the most influential and empirically sound theories of cognition ever developed. This theory provides a comprehensive, systematic account of...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
45. Research and Practice in Physical Education

    By Deborah Tannehill, Ann MacPhail, Ger Halbert, Frances Murphy

    Research findings in education can provide invaluable insight into how teaching practice can be improved, but research papers are often inaccessible and hard to digest. This innovative new text is designed to assist physical education students, pre-service teachers, practising teachers and teacher...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
46. Supporting Students for Success in Online and Distance Education

    Third Edition

    By Ormond Simpson

    Supporting Students for Success in Online and Distance Learning, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of student support both on and off campus. While online and distance learning are the world’s fastest growing areas of educational development, they have a fundamental weakness—their...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
47. The Heart of Teaching

    Empowering Students in the Performing Arts

    By Stephen Wangh

    The Heart of Teaching is a book about teaching and learning in the performing arts. Its focus is on the inner dynamics of teaching: the processes by which teachers can promote—or undermine—creativity itself. It covers the many issues that teachers, directors and choreographers experience, from...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
48. Language, Literacy, and Pedagogy in Postindustrial Societies

    The Case of Black Academic Underachievement

    By Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
49. School Psychology and Social Justice

    Conceptual Foundations and Tools for Practice

    Edited by David Shriberg, Samuel Y. Song, Antoinette Halsell Miranda, Kisha Radliff

    School psychology practice does not exist in a vacuum and is not value-neutral. As the role and function of the school psychologist continues to evolve and expand, social justice provides a needed real-world framework for school psychology students, practitioners, supervisors, and professors to...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
50. Introductory Statistics

    A Conceptual Approach Using R

    By William B. Ware, John M. Ferron, Barbara M. Miller

    This comprehensive and uniquely organized text is aimed at undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses in education, psychology, and other social sciences. A conceptual approach, built around common issues and problems rather than statistical techniques, allows students to understand the...

    Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge