Classroom Practice Books

New and Published Books

1. Workplace Learning in Physical Education

   By lisahunter, Richard Tinning, Tony Rossi, Erin Flanagan, Doune Macdonald

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Pre-service and beginning teachers have to negotiate an unfamiliar and often challenging working environment, in both teaching spaces and staff spaces. Workplace Learning in Physical Education explores the workplace of teaching as a site of professional learning. Using stories and narratives from...

   Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Aesthetic Experience in Science Education

   Learning and Meaning-Making as Situated Talk and Action

   By Per-Olof Wickman

   Series: Teaching and Learning in Science Series

   This book examines the role of aesthetic experience in learning science and in science education from the perspective of knowledge as action and language use. The theoretical underpinnings are based on the writings of John Dewey and Ludwig Wittgenstein. In their spirit aesthetics is examined as it...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Contemporary Psychometrics

   Edited by Albert Maydeu-Olivares, John J. McArdle

   Series: Multivariate Applications Series

   Contemporary Psychometrics features cutting edge chapters organized in four sections: test theory, factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and multivariate analysis. The section on test theory includes topics such as multidimensional item response theory (IRT), the relationship between IRT...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Psychology Press
4. Religion in Education

   Innovation in International Research

   Edited by Joyce Miller, Kevin O'Grady, Ursula McKenna

   Series: Routledge Research in Religion and Education

   This volume explores numerous themes (including the influence of ethnography on religious education research and pedagogy, the interpretive approach to religious education, the relationship between research and classroom practice in religious education), providing a critique of contemporary...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. Understanding Early Years Inequality

   Policy, assessment and young children's identities

   By Alice Bradbury

   Understanding Early Years Inequality uses critical sociological perspectives to examine the impact of changing assessment policy on primary school classrooms, with a particular focus on issues of inequality. Drawing on accounts of life in early years classrooms, Alice Bradbury suggests that a...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching

   2nd Edition

   By Julie Vargas

   This book shows teachers and other human service professionals working in school settings how to employ non-aversive, behavior analysis principles in classrooms and other school settings. Marked by its clear writing and multitude of real-classroom examples, this book is appropriate for...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences

   By Norman Cliff, John A. Keats

   This book provides an alternative method for measuring individual differences in psychological, educational, and other behavioral sciences studies. It is based on the assumptions of ordinal statistics as explained in Norman Cliff's 1996 Ordinal Methods for Behavioral Data Analysis. It provides the...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Psychology Press
8. Better Behaviour through Home-School Relations

   Using values-based education to promote positive learning

   By Gill Ellis, Nicola S. Morgan, Ken Reid

   How can we create effective partnerships between home, school and the community? How can the relationships and communication between families and school be strengthened? How can families help schools to improve behaviour in their children, both at home and at school? Using a tried and tested...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
9. Teaching in Primary Schools in China and India

   Contexts of learning

   By Nirmala Rao, Emma Pearson, Kai-ming Cheng, Margaret Taplin

   Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

   This book compares primary education in urban and rural China and India. It focuses on how the sociocultural context including educational policy, educators and parents’ beliefs, and the conditions under which teaching and learning occur shape classroom pedagogy and determine children’s attainment....

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
10. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners

    Instructional Strategies and Assessment Tools for School Psychologists

    By Holly S. Hudspath-Niemi, Mary Lou Conroy

    Series: School-Based Practice in Action

    There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners increases school psychologists’ knowledge...

    Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge