Secondary Education Books

New and Published Books

1. India Infrastructure Report 2012

   Private Sector in Education

   By Idfc Foundation

   Today, India’s education sector remains a victim of poor policies, restrictive regulations and orthodoxy. Despite being enrolled in schools, children are not learning adequately. Increasingly, parents are seeking alternatives through private inputs in school and tuition. Students are dropping out...

   Published December 25th 2012 by Routledge India
2. Teaching with the Screen

   Pedagogy, Agency, and Media Culture

   By Dan Leopard

   Teaching with the Screen explores the forms that pedagogy takes as teachers and students engage with the screens of popular culture. By necessity, these forms of instruction challenge traditional notions of what constitutes education. Spotlighting the visual, spatial, and relational aspects of...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. Routledge Handbook of Sports Coaching

   Edited by Paul Potrac, Wade Gilbert, Jim Denison

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Over the last three decades sports coaching has evolved from a set of customary practices based largely on tradition and routine into a sophisticated, reflective and multi-disciplinary profession. In parallel with this, coach education and coaching studies within higher education have developed...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Don’t Call it Literacy!

   What every teacher needs to know about speaking, listening, reading and writing

   By Geoff Barton

   "Every teacher in English is a teacher of English," said George Sampson, one of the early school inspectors, back in 1921. It’s never been truer, or more relevant. Literacy has a major impact on young people’s life-chances and it is every teacher’s responsibility to help build their communication,...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
7. Teaching and Learning Languages

   A practical guide to learning by doing

   By Jemma Buck, Christopher Wightwick

   This publication provides essential reading for any language teacher. Pupil engagement in the language-learning process is key to success, and with this in mind the authors provide a comprehensive list of ideas as well as explaining the underlying principles of successful language-learning. Neil...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Debates in Geography Education

   Edited by David Lambert, Mark Jones

   Series: Debates in Subject Teaching

   Debates in Geography Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with and reflect on key issues, concepts and debates in their specialist subject teaching. It aims to enable geography teachers to reach their own informed judgements and argue their point of view with deeper...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Complexity Thinking in Physical Education

   Reframing Curriculum, Pedagogy and Research

   Edited by Alan Ovens, Tim Hopper, Joy Butler

   Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport

   In the past two decades, complexity thinking has emerged as an important theoretical response to the limitations of orthodox ways of understanding educational phenomena. Complexity provides ways of understanding that embrace uncertainty, non-linearity and the inevitable ‘messiness’ that is...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Learning in History

    Edited by Terry Haydn

    Nearly all history teachers are interested in how new technology might be used to improve teaching and learning in history. However, not all history departments have had the time, expertise and guidance which would enable them to fully explore the wide range of ways in which ICT might help them to...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge