Teaching & Learning Books

New and Published Books

1. Children as Researchers in Primary Schools

   Choice, Voice and Participation

   By Sue Bucknall

   How often do your primary school pupils have the opportunity to engage in open-ended, sustained pieces of work that offer them choice and control? Do you find that the curriculum restricts openings to provide your pupils with real challenge? Is your school grappling with finding effective ways in...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Contemporary Debates in Childhood Education and Development

   Edited by Sebastian Suggate, Elaine Reese

   What are the risks and benefits of non-parental care for young children? What are the short- and long-term effects of academically vs. play-focused environments for learning? How and when should we teach reading? What are the purposes of Education? What is the best way to teach mathematics...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
3. How to be a Brilliant English Teacher

   2nd Edition

   By Trevor Wright

   Now in its second edition, Trevor Wright’s hugely popular How to be a Brilliant English Teacher is packed with practical advice drawn from his extensive and successful experience as an English teacher, examiner and teacher trainer. This accessible and readable guide offers sound theoretical...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
4. Teaching Contemporary Themes in Secondary Education: Technology, Culture and Communication

   By Jonathan Savage, Clive McGoun

   Series: Teaching contemporary themes in secondary education

   The media has a huge impact on how we view society and the world, and new technologies continue to transform the way in which we work and learn. It is therefore essential that young people can engage critically in their consumption of media and the internet and are able to make informed decisions...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Cooperative Learning in Physical Education

   A research based approach

   Edited by Ben Dyson, Ashley Casey

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   Cooperative Learning is a dynamic instructional model that can teach diverse content to students at different grade levels, with students working together in small, structured, heterogeneous groups to master subject content. It has a strong research tradition, is used frequently as a professional...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Building Positive Relationships with Parents of Young Children

   A guide to effective communication

   By Anita Hughes, Veronica Read

   Positive relationships between practitioners and parents are essential for young children’s wellbeing, but achieving this can be difficult if there is not enough understanding about how relationships work when one person (the practitioner or teacher) has to play the professional role. Strong...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. Participatory Learning in the Early Years

   Research and Pedagogy

   Edited by Donna Berthelsen, Jo Brownlee, Eva Johansson

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   The early years are an important period for learning, but the questions surrounding participatory learning amongst toddlers remain under-examined. This book presents the latest theoretical and research perspectives about how ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) contexts promote democracy and...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. Brilliant Ideas for Using ICT in the Inclusive Classroom

   By Sally McKeown, Angela McGlashon

   Series: David Fulton / Nasen

   How can you use ICT to boost the achievement of all your pupils? This practical teachers’ guide will help you to unlock the enormous potential of new technology in order to enhance pupils’ learning, particularly for young people with additional needs. Written by two of the UK’s leading technology...

   Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Evaluating Teaching and Learning

   A practical handbook for colleges, universities and the scholarship of teaching

   By David Kember, Paul Ginns

   Every semester, colleges and universities ask students to complete innumerable course and teaching evaluation questionnaires to evaluate the learning and teaching in courses they have taken. For many universities it is a requirement that all courses be evaluated every semester. The laudable...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
10. Educating for Diversity and Social Justice

    By Amanda Keddie

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Educating for Diversity and Social Justice foregrounds the personal stories of educators who are engaging the space of schooling as a site of possibility for realizing the goals of social justice. It is a book inspired by a vision of education as a practice of freedom where young people –...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge