Theories of Learning Books

New and Published Books

1. Resourcing Early Learners

   New Networks, New Actors

   By Sue Nichols, Jennifer Rowsell, Helen Nixon, Sophia Rainbird

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   The landscape of early childhood education and care is changing. Governments world-wide are assuming increasing authority in relation to child-rearing in the years before school entry, beyond the traditional role in assisting parents to do the best they can by their children. As part of a social...

   Published May 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Learning and Research in Virtual Worlds

   Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Aleks Krotoski

   Virtual worlds are places where humans interact, and as such they can be environments for research and learning. However, they are complex and mutable in ways that more controlled and traditional environments are not. Although computer-mediated, virtual worlds are multifaceted social systems like...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Adolescent Literacies in a Multicultural Context

   Edited by Alister Cumming

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   This book presents results from a four-year project addressing the central question: What factors, challenges, and contexts contribute to and constrain literacy achievement among at-risk adolescent learners with culturally diverse backgrounds? Researchers consider the importance of several,...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Applied Linguists Needed

   Cross-disciplinary Networking in Endangered Language Contexts

   Edited by Lida Cope

   It is a fact that the world’s languages are dying at an alarming rate. This comprehensive volume aspires to raise awareness among applied linguists and language practitioners about the needs and concerns of endangered language communities. It suggests that the way forward lies in building language...

   Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Developing Thinking and Understanding in Young Children

   An introduction for students, 2nd Edition

   By Sue Robson

   Developing Thinking and Understanding in Young Children presents a comprehensive and accessible overview of contemporary theory and research about young children’s developing thinking and understanding. Throughout this second edition, the ideas and theories presented are enlivened by transcripts of...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
8. A Chinese Perspective on Teaching and Learning

   Edited by Betty C. Eng

   Series: Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia

   Bringing together educators from a range of backgrounds - psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, and teaching - this volume shows how Asian cultural values and beliefs can provide a lens through which to understand and envision how curriculum and pedagogy can be creatively adapted,...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. The Routledge International Handbook of Learning

   Edited by Peter Jarvis, Mary Watts

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

   As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
10. Learning the Virtual Life

    Public Pedagogy in a Digital World

    Edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas

    Digital technologies have transformed cultural perceptions of learning and what it means to be literate, expanding the importance of experience alongside interpretation and reflection. Learning the Virtual Life offers ways to consider the local and global effects of digital media on educational...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge