Arts education in ireland

Arts in Education in Ireland: From Pedagogy to Practice examines the distinctive nature of arts-based learning in education in Ireland. It draws on recent research from pedagogy to practice in Irish schools. It examines the relevance of arts-based learning against the backdrop of the drive for 21...

Effective science communication (third edition)

This book is a practical guide for scientists to articulate their research compellingly to both their peers and other audiences, bridging the communication gap in the scientific community.

Reimagining business schools for the 21st century

What will business schools look like in the future and ensure that their research has true societal impact? And how will they respond to the huge technological changes that are transforming education? These are just some of the questions posed in this special collection of essays to mark the 60th...

Phd thesis by publication in social science research

Focusing on education, library and broader social science research, this practical book is the ultimate guide for PhD students undertaking a thesis by publication (TBP) - a thesis that includes scholarly outputs produced during the period of doctoral study.Answering key questions and highlighting...

The double game of music

The book uses the metaphor of ‘double games’ to critically analyse how music education, as a series of games, is played. Examining the intertwinement of social power with players’ belief in the purity of their game, and of material with symbolic economies, the authors unravel the complex social d...

Beginning theory

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and tec...

Integrating computing into the undergraduate physics curriculum

For decades, physics education has remained largely unchanged, even as computation has become central to modern science. This book highlights how educators around the world are integrating computational thinking into undergraduate physics courses.Through case studies and practical examples, contr...

Qubuild

A new classroom approach for primary teachers to teach the explicit knowledge of scientific question-asking.

Teaching information literacy reframed

In this important new book, bestselling author and expert instructional librarian Burkhardt decodes the Framework, putting its conceptual approach into straightforward language while offering more than 50 classroom-ready Framework-based exercises. Guiding instructors towards helping students cros...

Contemporary black urban music

This course will examine Contemporary Black Urban Music and its historical development by tracing the evolution of soul and funk music into rap and hip-hop.

Fear of physics

A fear of physics can be problematic for both students and citizens when making science-based decisions. This book discusses reasons behind this fear and the remedies to counter it in terms of attitudes, course planning and execution, laboratory work, information technology, and more.

Effective science communication (second edition)

From preparing funding applications and publishing scientific papers, to presenting at conferences and engaging with different publics, Effective Science Communication will help you to get the most out of your research. This second edition brings the text up to date and includes additional materi...

Facilitating effective sixth form independent learning

Facilitating Effective Sixth Form Independent Learning is a stage-by-stage guide for educators who are interested in setting up a teaching programme to facilitate the independent learning of Sixth Form students.

Learning and sustainability in dangerous times

Stephen Sterling is a pioneer in sustainability education. This collection of his essential writings is freshly curated by the author and offers a new overview and chapter by chapter introductions that link together his thinking to inform the growing and urgent debate on the role and nature of ed...

Art education and contemporary culture

Using Ireland as a model, Art Education and Contemporary Culture offers a comprehensive treatment of art education in primary and secondary schools, institutions of higher education, cultural institutions and the diverse communities they serve. Gary Granville has brought together a diverse group ...

Critical lessons in interculturality

Critical Lessons in Interculturality: Failing Better argues that our obsession with intercultural success is limiting. This book proposes a paradigm shift, urging us to see failure not as an endpoint, but as a rich, essential site for critical learning and a more realistic understanding of human ...

Exeter's university

Tracing the development of the University of Exeter over the six decades since it was granted its royal charter in 1955, this book tells the history of the institution and its community. Includes interviews with leading university figures, contributions from former students, and a postscript look...

Teaching religion (new updated edition)

TEACHING RELIGION is the first book to trace the developments in religious education in England and Wales in the half century to 1994. It starts with the 1944 Butler Act and ends with the DFE Circular of 1994 which was issued to take further the RE provision in the 1988 Education Reform Act.

A cultural history of school uniform

What’s a djibbah, how long has the old school tie been around and do yellow petticoats really repel vermin? This book will provide answers to these questions and more, in an engaging foray into 500 years of British school uniform history from the charity schools of the sixteenth century through t...

Higher education in the gulf

This book will be useful to those in the West and in the Middle East with an interest in the contemporary state of the higher educational system in the region and in education in general. It concentrates on the Gulf, but the problems of control, development, curriculum and purpose in higher educa...

The city on the hill

In 1955 the former University College of the South West was granted a royal charter and became the University of Exeter. This is the history of an institution that is also a community, a focus of teaching and research set within a particular environment but also part of the wider world. 130 col. ...

Is your school lying to you? get the career you want. get the life you deserve.

Now what? education, career and life choices: how to plan, adapt and embrace your inner entrepreneur in the post-covid world

Compositions, orchestrations, adaptations and arrangements

This anthology consists of original compositions and arrangements as well as adaptations, arrangements and orchestrations of pre-existing compositions of Ron Westray, to date.

No size fits all

“No Size Fits All” makes the current all-or-nothing debates over public school policy passé by offering a bold and novel “third way” that could revolutionize American education.

Martin luther and the german reformation

A concise, critical study of Martin Luther and his impact on the modern world. The book is extensively based on the writings of Martin Luther and draws connections between Luther’s life and teachings and the contemporary world.  

Teaching later british literature

Designed for both first-time teachers of survey courses in later British literature and more experienced instructors seeking a new way to approach familiar material, ‘A Handbook to Teaching Later British Literature’ presents a synthetic and adaptable framework for guiding students through British...

The importance of sentiment in promoting reasonableness in children

On Becoming Reasonable” explores the contributions that 18th Century Scottish philosophers Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and David Hume make to our understanding of important factors in the development of children as they gradually acquire central features of reasonableness.

The insider's secrets to getting your school leadership job

The Insider’s Secrets to Finding Your School Leadership Job: This practical 125-page self-help professional guide coaches school and district leadership candidates step-by-step through the hiring process for their dream jobs in public education.

John ruskin and nineteenth-century education

John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Proust and William Morris among others. A great educator, Ruskin is the force behind key debates in education today. The essays in ‘John Ruskin and Nineteenth-Century Education‘ examine Ruskin’s influence on educating girls, libraries, cr...

Voices of the unvoiced

This book describes the Pukhtun women’s educational struggle in the traditionalist Pukhtun society to succeed against the odds. The sample women call for Pukhtun feminism for their emancipation and empowerment in Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Practical rationality, learning and convention

This volume consists of a selection of the writings of Christopher Winch on topics on and related to the philosophy of education from 1988 until the present.

Jazz theory – contemporary improvisation, transcription and composition

This course offers advanced work in composition, analysis, arranging and current theoretical ideas and processes relevant to improvisors and composers.

Changes in the higher education sector

This book considers the essential attributes of excellence in teaching as well as the main current factors both internally and externally that are driving higher educational institutes to raise their quality of teaching. It looks at the latest teaching methodologies that promotes deep learning an...

Internationalisation of post-1992 uk universities

The internationalisation of post-1992 universities is seen as an unmitigated success. ‘Internationalisation of Post-1992 UK Universities’ looks closely at the drivers towards internationalisation and questions the cost to the organisation and the effect overseas.

The language experience approach and the science of literacy instruction

This book considers Russell Stauffer’s Language Experience Approach (LEA), an approach that must be judged by its impact on student learning and not on the age of conception. The nature of wholistic teaching in early childhood and beyond is explored, and developmental maturation for the different...

The miss(ed) opportunities of teaching with the department of education

To inform and engage a broader audience about the stakes involved in educational mismanagement from an education and business perspective.

A pedagogist’s memoir

The memoir now looms large as a pedagogical tool for multiple levels of schooling and of education. Addressed essentially to senior students in schools, students undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate teacher preparation courses in universities.

The ethics of internationalisation

The commercial turn in the internationalisation of higher education generates numerous paradoxes for the university. The Ethics of Internationalisation is a critique of the ethical dilemmas confronting transnational scholars and the political threat to the university posed by the neoliberal knowl...

The value of voice in shared leadership and organizational behavior

In the worlds of education and business, there is a disconnect between stakeholders, their roles and responsibilities in guiding and leading organizations in a shared leadership model. Currently, leaders have a conceptual understanding of shared leadership but lack the tools to effectively guide ...

The theory and practice of creative coaching

The Theory and Practice of Creative Coaching is the result of ten years of research and experimentation into the place and role of creativity in learning about and undertaking the skills of coaching in the workplace. The contents outline a wide variety of approaches and ideas to enhance and devel...

Towards third generation learning and teaching

This book gives up-to-date descriptions of the forces that drive change in learning and teaching, offering a perspective of learning in the near future.

Daily giving service

In Daily Giving Service: A History of the Diocesan Girls’ School, Hong Kong, Moira M. W. Chan-Yeung and her fellow contributors present a comprehensive history of one of Hong Kong’s oldest girls’ schools. As an alumna of the school, Chan-Yeung traces the history of her alma mater from its establi...

International status anxiety and higher education

This volume provides a critical perspective on the Soviet legacy of superpower competition in the higher education systems of China and Russia. The book examines the tensions among multi-level forces that strive to advance progressive university policies and practices on the one hand, and on the ...

Negotiating inseparability in china

This is the first book-length study of graduates from the Xinjiang Class, a program that funds senior high school–aged students from Xinjiang, mostly ethnic Uyghur, to attend a four-year course in predominately Han-populated cities in eastern and coastal China. Based on longitudinal field researc...

Voice therapy for children

Voice Therapy for Children is a bilingual instructional manual that aims to maximize speech therapy students’ and clinicians’ competence, knowledge, and effectiveness in managing pediatric voice caseloads. This is a unique text that goes beyond general descriptions of therapeutic technique and ph...

The chinese idea of a university: phoenix reborn

In The Chinese Idea of a University: Phoenix Reborn, Rui Yang conceptualizes the cultural foundations of modern university development in Chinese societies. Instead of focusing on the uniqueness of the societies, this book aims to prove that one educational purpose could be fulfilled via many pat...

Education, skills and international cooperation

This book highlights some of Kenneth King's diverse contributions to international and comparative education, African studies and development studies over more than four decades. From his pioneering work on the first educational commissions to Africa, through his research on skills training in th...

Evolving creative mindsets

Although the arts have been firmly planted in the Hong Kong school system since the 1950s, they are often sacrificed in place of core subjects and preparation for examinations. Drawing on over fourteen years of exploration and experience, Yau makes the case that arts are critical to cultivating c...

Radical collections: re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions

This volume looks at the role that archivists and librarians play in compiling collections – do they “curate” history? To what extent are they gatekeepers of knowledge? It shines a light on pressing topical issues within library and information services (LIS)- to encompass selection, appraisal an...

Effective teaching in large stem classes

This text is the ultimate guide to teaching large STEM classes, suitable for university teachers at all stages of their teaching career, covering research-informed theoretical and practical issues and supported by case studies.

Astronomy education, volume 2

This book is a practical guide for astronomy instructors who want to develop their first online course as well as those who want to add new tools to their existing courses. It explores online course design, integrating new and social media into online learning experiences, adaptive learning syste...

Employability for phd students in stem

The employability of a STEM PhD rises if the candidate has mastered communication skills, both writing and speaking; has multidisciplinary expertise; and develops a capacity to up-skill regularly to stay ahead of the emerging digital technologies.

Astronomy education volume 1

This book focuses on the practical implementation of evidence-based strategies that are supported by research literature. Chapter topics include an overview of learner-centered theories and strategies for course design and implementation, the use of Lecture Tutorials, the use of technology and si...

The investigative science learning environment: a guide for teacher preparation and professional development

The goal of this book is to help prepare future physics teachers who will engage their students in learning physics by practicing it and implement the ISLE approach in their classrooms.

Creative thinking in university physics education

This book explores the neglected notion of creative thinking in physics in universities and describes how to embed opportunities for students to develop their creative competence in class.

Problem-based approaches to physics

This book is an argument for problem-based approaches to learning in higher education, based on curriculum design at programme level, with examples drawn from physics and natural sciences. It is valuable reading for curriculum designers of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and academics w...

Assessment in university physics education

This book explores issues regarding student assessment in university-level physics education. With a firm emphasis on practical experience and numerous examples of current assessments, the book serves as a guide to academics new to assessment, as a refresher to more experienced academics who wish...

Effective science communication

This book is devoted to the variety of ways that scientists are expected to communicate in their day-to-day professional lives, providing advice on how to publish your work in scientific journals, apply for grants, effectively communicate your research to both scientific and non-scientific audien...

Developing qualifications frameworks in eu partner countries

This publication puts forward the view that qualifications systems are useful tools for modernising education and training. National qualifications frameworks are treated as one aspect of qualifications systems which is useful for improving education.

300 creative physics problems with solutions

 This collection of exercises, compiled for talented high school students, encourages creativity and a deeper understanding of ideas when solving physics problems.