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  • Research as a Tool for Empowerment

    Theory Informing Practice

    Edited by David Schwarzer, Melanie Bloom, Sarah Shono ...
    Series series Research in Second Language Learning
    Research as a Tool for Empowerment: Theory Informing Practice is an edited volume that includes an array of research-based chapters that not only further the field of second/foreign language research, but also provide practical implications to language classrooms in international and national settings. Chapters in this volume present a bridge between methodologically sound second/foreign language ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Creating Experiential Learning Opportunities for Language Learners

    Acting Locally while Thinking Globally

    Edited by Melanie Bloom, Carolyn Gascoigne ...
    Series Book 111 - Second Language Acquisition
    While much research has been done on experiential learning opportunities in study abroad settings, there are fewer publications devoted to experiential learning in the domestic context. This volume aims to fill that gap by providing a collection of chapters highlighting research-based innovations in experiential learning in domestic settings. The book focuses on three experiential learning ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Action Research and Reflective Practice

    Creative and Visual Methods to Facilitate Reflection and Learning

    by Paul McIntosh ...
    The use of reflection as a tool to support and develop practice is becoming increasingly recognised across education, healthcare and the social sciences. Reflection is assumed to create depth of knowledge and meaning, both for self and those practised upon. Running alongside the use of reflection is the prevalent use of action research which some see as a way of approaching the study of human ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Doing Research with Children

    A Practical Guide

    by Tommy MacKay, Jayne Taylor, Anne D Greig ...
    This Third Edition of Doing Research with Children is practical introduction to the process of designing, doing and writing up research with children and young people. At the centre is a commitment to engaging with children and young people as active research participants rather than as passive subjects. In the new edition, you′ll find up to date information on the fast-changing political and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Education Myths

    What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So

    by Jay P. Greene ...
    How can we fix America's floundering public schools? The conventional wisdom says that schools need a lot more money, that poor and immigrant children can't do as well as most American kids, that high-stakes tests just produce teaching to the test, and that vouchers do little to help students while undermining our democracy. But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong?In Education Myths: What ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Qualitative Research from Start to Finish

    by Robert K. Yin, PhD ...
    This book will help readers understand the practice of qualitative research--whether they want to do it, teach it, or just learn about it. All the major research phases are encompassed (startup, design, data collection, analysis, and composing), including newly emerging trends. Numerous easy-to-read vignettes show how other scholars have successfully implemented specific procedures. Equally ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Learning Analytics Goes to School

    A Collaborative Approach to Improving Education

    by Andrew Krumm, Barbara Means, Marie Bienkowski ...
    Learning Analytics Goes to School presents a framework for engaging in education research and improving education practice through the use of newly available data sources and analytical approaches. The application of data-intensive research techniques to understanding and improving learning environments has been growing at a rapid pace. In this book, three leading researchers convey lessons from ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Beyond the Campus

    Building a Sustainable University - Community Partnership

    by Debra Harkins ...
    This book explores how we approached the issue of community development in the context of competing interests and a differential power imbalance. We used a process-based model for supporting community transformation, a phenomenon in which university–community partnership is but one example.The people who most will want to read and use Beyond the Campus are faculty (e.g., executive coaches and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Learning Relations (Routledge Revivals)

    by Doreen Grant ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Dissatisfied with the effects of schooling on children from low-income families, Doreen Grant left her post as head of a secondary school in Liverpool and turned to research for solutions to this perennial social problem. This is a popular account of her involvement with under-privileged Glaswegian parents and children, and her attempt to address the problem of underachievement from the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve

    Profiles of Programs Helping All Students to Learn

    by James Deneen ...
    Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve compares the academic achievements of students in the United States to those of students in other countries. Examining fundamental questions and educational issues, James Deneen identifies what all students should learn and discusses what American students currently learn.Deneen argues that failing schools can become successful by studying examples of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Cockeyed Education

    A Case Method Primer

    by Gerard Giordano ...
    Should educators pay students? Should they make them wear sunglasses, regulate their clothing, allow them to bring animals into classrooms, discourage them from playing videogames, or transform their schools into gymnasiums? These are some of the suggestions that Cockeyed Education examines.This book enables readers to differentiate substantive from cockeyed suggestionsfor improving schools.. It ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Creating Meaningful Inquiry in Inclusive Classrooms

    Practitioners' stories of research

    Edited by Phyllis Jones, Teresa Whitehurst, Jo Egerton ...
    In recent years, the concept of teachers as researchers in both special and mainstream school settings has become part of our everyday language. Whilst many educational practitioners will see the need for research within their setting, many may not be familiar with the technical elements they believe are required.Creating Meaningful Inquiry in Inclusive Classrooms shows how practitioners can ... Read more

    $72.99 USD