All Outputs (18)

Transitions to School: Perspectives and Experiences from Latin America. Research, Policy, and Practice (2022)
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Urbina-Garcia, A., Perry, B., Dockett, S., Jindal-Snape, D., & Garcia-Cabrero, B. (Eds.). (2022). Transitions to School: Perspectives and Experiences from Latin America. Research, Policy, and Practice. Springer

This book showcases the quality work that Latin American researchers have done on transition to school in Latin American countries by offering the English-speaking world, first-hand access to some Latin American transitions research, practices, and p... Read More about Transitions to School: Perspectives and Experiences from Latin America. Research, Policy, and Practice.

Coaching and Mentoring: A complete introduction (2022)
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Holmes, A. (2022). Coaching and Mentoring: A complete introduction. Kindle Direct Publishing

A complete introduction to Coaching and Mentoring. Provides you with the theory and practical tools and techniques to become an effective coach or mentor. Do you want to be a great Coach and Mentor? This book provides you with a comprehensive introdu... Read More about Coaching and Mentoring: A complete introduction.

Theorising and Implementing Mobile Learning: Using the iPAC Framework to Inform Research and Teaching Practice (2020)
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Kearney, M., Burden, K., & Schuck, S. (2020). Theorising and Implementing Mobile Learning: Using the iPAC Framework to Inform Research and Teaching Practice. Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8277-6

This book focuses on teaching and learning with mobile technologies, with a particular emphasis on school and teacher education contexts. It explains a robust, highly-acclaimed contemporary mobile pedagogical framework (iPAC) that focuses on three di... Read More about Theorising and Implementing Mobile Learning: Using the iPAC Framework to Inform Research and Teaching Practice.

Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia (2018)
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Ploner, J. (2018). J. Ploner, & P. Naef (Eds.). Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia. Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315180977

Described as ‘cultural crossroads’ or ‘mosaic’, ‘powder keg’, ‘border’, ‘bridge’ or Europe’s ‘Other’, the region comprising former Yugoslavia has, over time, conjured up ambiguous imaginaries associated with political unrest, national contest and eth... Read More about Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia.

Uncertainty in teacher education futures: Scenarios, politics and STEM (2018)
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Schuck, S., Aubusson, P., Burden, K., & Brindley, S. (2018). S. Schuck, P. Aubusson, K. Burden, & S. Brindley (Eds.), Uncertainty in teacher education futures: Scenarios, politics and STEM. Springer Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8246-7

This book discusses the use of futures methodologies to examine and critique teacher education and investigate drivers of change in teacher education contexts, providing readers with futures tools that they can use to explore curricula and pedagogies... Read More about Uncertainty in teacher education futures: Scenarios, politics and STEM.

Technology-enhanced and collaborative learning: Affordances, approaches and challenges (2017)
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Martin, S. (2017). S. Martin, & M. Notari (Eds.). Technology-enhanced and collaborative learning: Affordances, approaches and challenges. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Tourism at the Olympic Games: Visiting the world (2016)
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Ploner, J., & Robinson, M. (2016). Tourism at the Olympic Games: Visiting the world. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315674773

Going far beyond being just a mega sport event, the Olympic Games are, and have been in the past, important settings for tourism and cultural change. Hosting the Olympic Games presents a unique opportunity for countries to promote, regenerate, and de... Read More about Tourism at the Olympic Games: Visiting the world.

Key questions in education (2016)
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Smith, J. (2016). Key questions in education. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

The media is full of reference to failing schools, troublesome pupils, underperforming boys, disappearing childhood and a teaching profession in crisis as more and more teachers contemplate abandoning their careers. Key Questions in Education looks a... Read More about Key questions in education.

Researching and Evaluating iPad in Learning (2016)
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Burden, K., & Jones, S. (2016). Researching and Evaluating iPad in Learning. Apple Books

As mobile devices, like iPad, become more common in classrooms and schools there is a growing demand from school leaders and teachers to better understand the impact these devices are having on learning. This is not an academic interest but a practic... Read More about Researching and Evaluating iPad in Learning.

Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World (2016)
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Bottery, M. (2016). Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World. Bloomsbury Publishing

Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World argues that current crises in educational policies and practice, including the recruitment and retention of educational leaders, ultimately derive from the interactions between four key challenges w... Read More about Educational Leadership for a More Sustainable World.

Socially just, radical alternatives for education and youth work practice: Re-imagining ways of working with young people (2015)
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Cooper, C., Gormally, S., & Hughes, G. (Eds.). (2015). Socially just, radical alternatives for education and youth work practice: Re-imagining ways of working with young people. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137393593

Challenging dominant discourses in neoliberal marketized societies about working with disconnected young people, this book argues that alternative, radical approaches to formal and informal education are necessary to challenge repressive practices, a... Read More about Socially just, radical alternatives for education and youth work practice: Re-imagining ways of working with young people.

Digital Technologies for School Collaboration (2014)
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Gouseti, A. (2014). Digital Technologies for School Collaboration. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137372857

Web-based school collaboration has attracted the sustained attention of educators, policy-makers, and governmental bodies around the world during the past decade. This book sheds new light on this topical but ever so complex issue. Drawing on a wealt... Read More about Digital Technologies for School Collaboration.

Empowerment and participation in youth work (2011)
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(2011). Empowerment and participation in youth work. Learning Matters

In today's society, many young people feel marginalised and unable to find their own voice. It is vital therefore that youth workers are able to work with them to tackle this in a meaningful way. Drawing on the real experiences and difficulties faced... Read More about Empowerment and participation in youth work.

Critical discourse analysis of interprofessional online learning in health care education (2011)
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Loke, J. C., Colquhoun, D., & Lee, K. W. (2011). Critical discourse analysis of interprofessional online learning in health care education. Nova Science

This book demonstrates how information about the student inter-professional online learning experience which may not have been captured in existing approaches, may be observed using CDA. This book exemplifies the importance of research work which set... Read More about Critical discourse analysis of interprofessional online learning in health care education.

Education and poverty in affluent countries (2010)
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Dyson, A., Raffo, C., Gunter, H., & Jones, L. (2010). Education and poverty in affluent countries. Routledge

A Victorian class conflict? : schoolteaching and the parson, priest and minister, 1837-1902 (2009)
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Smith, J. (2009). A Victorian class conflict? : schoolteaching and the parson, priest and minister, 1837-1902. Sussex Academic Press

Effective communication and engagement with children and young people, their families and carers (2009)
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Shaw, A., Dunhill, A., & Elliott, B. (2009). Effective communication and engagement with children and young people, their families and carers. Learning Matters Ltd

This book focuses on providing information and guidance for professionals involved in the newly emerging multi-agency, interdisciplinary children's workforce. It does so by helping them to understand the theory behind the issues relating to communica... Read More about Effective communication and engagement with children and young people, their families and carers.

Effective Communication and Engagement with Children and Young People, their Families and Carers, (2009)
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(Ed.). (2009). Effective Communication and Engagement with Children and Young People, their Families and Carers,. Learning Matters