Theories of Learning Books

New and Published Books

1. Language Teaching Through the Ages

   By Garon Wheeler

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Konrad Koerner, a leading historian of linguistics, has long said that an academic field cannot be considered to have matured until it has history as one of its subfields. The history of linguistics is a growing area, having come into its own in the 1960s, especially after Noam Chomsky looked for...

   Published February 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Affective Learning Together

   Social and emotional dimensions of collaborative learning

   Edited by Michael Baker, Jerry Andriessen, Sanna Järvelä

   Series: New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction

   In the twenty-first century, being able to collaborate effectively is important at all ages, in everyday life, education and work, within and across diverse cultural settings. People are increasingly linked by networks that are not only means for working and learning together, but are also ways of...

   Published January 27th 2013 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. Interpersonal Regulation of Learning and Motivation

   Methodological Advances

   Edited by Simone Volet, Marja Vauras

   Series: New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction

   Interpersonal Regulation of Learning and Motivation is the first book in the field to focus on major methodological advances in research on interpersonal regulation of learning and motivation. Interest in developing ways of capturing the dynamics of interpersonal regulation in real-life learning...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Social Reconstruction Learning

   Dualism, Dewey and Philosophy in Schools

   By Jennifer Bleazby

   Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

   This volume argues that educational problems have their basis in an ideology of binary opposites often referred to as dualism, which is deeply embedded in all aspects of Western society and philosophy, and that it is partly because mainstream schooling incorporates dualism that it is unable to...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Media, Animal Conservation and Environmental Education

   Edited by John Blewitt

   Natural History filmmaking has a long history but the generic boundaries between it and environmental and conservation filmmaking are blurred. Nature, environment and animal imagery has been a mainstay of television, campaigning organisations and conservation bodies from Greenpeace to the Sierra...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Virtual Literacies

   Interactive Spaces for Children and Young People

   Edited by Guy Merchant, Julia Gillen, Jackie Marsh, Julia Davies

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   The growth of interest in virtual worlds and other online spaces for children and young people raises important issues for literacy educators and researchers. This book is a timely and much-needed collection of current research in the area. It provides a synthesis of knowledge and understanding and...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. Living Languages: An Integrated Approach to Teaching Foreign Languages in Primary Schools

   By Catherine Watts, Clare Forder, Hilary Phillips

   Edited by Catherine Watts

   Living Languages is simply bursting with practical and original ideas aimed at teachers and trainee teachers of foreign languages in primary 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 October 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. Language, Learning, Context

   Talking the Talk

   By Wolff-Michael Roth

   Series: Foundations and Futures of Education

   In what way do educators understand the language they use to make sense of the educational environment? How does language enable educators and how can they consciously make the most of its potential? Using the right language and setting the correct tone in the school classroom has repercussions for...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. Developing Research in Teacher Education

    Edited by Ian Menter, Jean Murray

    Good teacher education, informed by relevant research, is judged by policy makers and practitioners alike to be central to increasing the quality of schooling in many countries of the world. Yet, in the UK, research on teacher education is often acknowledged to be less well developed than other...

    Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge