Education Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. Music Education

   Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today, 4th Edition

   Edited by Michael Mark

   Music Education: Source Readings from Ancient Greece to Today is a collection of thematically organized essays that illuminate the importance of music education to individuals, communities and nations. The fourth edition has been expanded to address the significant societal changes that have...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Teaching English, Language and Literacy

   3rd Edition

   By Dominic Wyse, Russell Jones, Helen Bradford, Mary Anne Wolpert

   ‘This book is comprehensive, up-to-date, critical and authoritative. It is also, above all, well written. It will undoubtedly become standard reading for the next generation of teachers in training and practising teachers will also learn a great deal from dipping into its contents.' - David Wray,...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. Exploring Education

   An Introduction to the Foundations of Education, 4th Edition

   By Alan R. Sadovnik, Peter Cookson, Jr., Susan Semel

   This much-anticipated fourth edition of Exploring Education offers an alternative to traditional foundations texts by combining a point-of-view analysis with primary source readings. Pre- and in-service teachers will find a solid introduction to the foundations disciplines -- history, philosophy,...

   Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. Educational Leadership and Technology

   Preparing School Administrators for a Digital Age

   By Virginia E. Garland, Chester Tadeja

   Providing models of exemplary use and the latest research, Educational Leadership and Technology reveals the transformational power of emerging technologies to improve student learning, and explores how leaders can bring about this technology integration. This book provides an overview of roles and...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
6. Understanding the Te Whariki Approach

   Early years education in practice

   By Wendy Lee, Margaret Carr, Brenda Soutar, Linda Mitchell

   Series: Understanding the… Approach

   Understanding the Te Whariki Approach is a much–needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Te Whariki approach, introducing the reader to an innovative bicultural curriculum developed for early childhood services in New Zealand. It will...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Working with Multimodality

   Rethinking Literacy in a Digital Age

   By Jennifer Rowsell

   In today’s digital world, we have multiple modes of meaning-making: sounds, images, hypertexts. Yet, within literacy education, even ‘new’ literacies, we know relatively little about how to work with and produce modally complex texts. In Working with Multimodality,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. Introductory Statistics

   A Conceptual Approach Using R

   By William B. Ware, John M. Ferron, Barbara M. Miller

   This comprehensive and uniquely organized text is aimed at undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses in education, psychology, and other social sciences. A conceptual approach, built around common issues and problems rather than statistical techniques, allows students to understand the...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
10. Teaching History Creatively

    Edited by Hilary Cooper

    Series: Learning to Teach in the Primary School Series

    Fresh and innovative, Teaching History Creatively will foster creativity in both learners and practitioners alike. By introducing teachers to a wealth of available approaches to historical enquiry, this book ensures creative, active and effective learning which includes plenty of challenges, clear...

    Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge