Continuing Professional Development 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. Education, Professionalism, and the Quest for Accountability

   Hitting the Target but Missing the Point

   By Jane Green

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   This book focuses on education and its relation to professional accountability as viewed from two different, but not unrelated, perspectives. First, the book is about the work of professionals in schools and colleges (teachers, head teachers, leaders, principals, directors and educational managers,...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Action Research

   Principles and practice, 3rd Edition

   By Jean McNiff

   Since its first publication, Action Research: Principles and Practice has become a key text in its field. This new updated edition clearly describes and explains the practices of action research and its underlying values, and introduces important new ideas, including: all professionals should be...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession

   Faculty Culture at For-Profit Colleges and Universities

   By Vicente M. Lechuga

   The rapid success of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) only recently has caught the attention of scholars in academe. The continuing expansion of the proprietary higher education sector has lead to fundamental questions regarding the purpose and function of FPCUs. As new technologies...

   Published February 12th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Creativity in the Primary Curriculum

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Russell Jones, Dominic Wyse

   Are you striving to establish a more creative and imaginative classroom? Are you interested in: the generosity of creativity; creative conjecture; being an advocate for creativity; welcoming the unexpected, the unpredictable and the unconventional; taking risks; learning which...

   Published January 16th 2013 by Routledge
7. Continuing Professional Development

   By Andrew Friedman

   Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the means by which the professions across the world ensure that their knowledge and skills remain up to date and relevant to changing needs and environments. CPD significantly contributes to the quality and reputation of the professions and therefore to...

   Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Beating Bureaucracy in Special Educational Needs

   Helping SENCOs maintain a work/life balance, 2nd Edition

   By Jean Gross

   Series: David Fulton / Nasen

   Are you overwhelmed by the amount of paperwork that SEN generates in your school? Would you like to spend more time actually improving the quality of teaching and learning for pupils with SEN or disabilities? If so, this is an essential book for you. Government are asking schools to identify...

   Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Workplace Bullying in Higher Education

   Edited by Jaime Lester

   Higher education leaders, managers, human resource professionals, faculty, and staff increasingly face uncivil, bullying behaviors in academe. This can manifest itself as constant public humiliation by a new department chair, exclusion of a contingent faculty member, undermining of work performance...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
10. Promoting Health and Well-being in Social Work Education

    Edited by Beth R. Crisp, Liz Beddoe

    Social work educators can play an important part in ensuring that the promotion of health and well-being is firmly on the social work agenda for service users, as well as for students and educators. Nevertheless, this has not been a priority within social work education and presents a challenge...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge