Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams, this book proves that education's key responsibility should be to create enthusiastic learners who will go on to thrive as adults in a swiftly-changing, dynamic world.

Covers various methods employed by educational research. This book includes material on complexity theory, ethics, sampling and sensitive educational research, experimental research, questionnaire design and administration with guidance, and, qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

A comprehensive anthology that helps deepen students' thinking about their qualitative research purposes, questions, and decision-making.

Gain access to a personal collection of 101 highly effective drama games and activities suitable for children or adults. Chapters include improvisation, mime, ice-breakers, group dynamics, rehearsal, story-telling, voice and warm-ups. This unique book has been developed over a thirty year career in education and theatre, through workshops with actors, teachers and children around the world. 'I ...

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Noam Chomsky as political gadfly, groundbreaking scholar, and intellectual guru: key issues in Chomsky's career and the sometimes contentious reception to his ideas.

Enhancing learning by empowering stakeholders within educational institutions increasingly underpins theoretical and conceptual frameworks in the field of educational leadership and management. This book draws on this key and developing notion of 'distributed leadership' and focuses on the relationship between leadership and learning.

A practical guide to conducting research in Education. It examines conceptual foundations of statistics in order to better understand quantitative research. It is suitable for beginning educational researchers to grasp some of the most pertinent elements of designing and conducting research.

Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (MSTE) emerged as a research discipline in the 1960s, and continues to reflect the distinctive flavour and character of its roots in Western societies, and science. This book arises from needs in the mathematics and science education research community in Southern Africa.

Lifelong learning is the concept that 'It's never too soon or too late for learning', a philosophy that has taken root in a whole host of different organizations. Lifelong learning is attitudinal; that one can and should be open to various ideas, decisions, skills or behaviors. This book presents research in this field.

Covers educational institutions at every level, from preschool through graduate and professional training, with a focus on historically black and predominantly black colleges and universities. This work also covers individuals, organizations, associations and publications that have had a significant impact on African American education.

Suitable for overseas students studying at English-medium colleges and universities, this practical writing course enables international students to meet the required standard of writing and use an appropriate style for essays, exams and dissertations.

This bestselling resource has been extensively revised, reorganised and updated for the NEW AS and A Level Business Studies specifications that start teaching from September 2008. The 4th edition of these market-leading texts from this respected and trusted team of authors now include the additional expertise of Alain Anderton to give you the best resources for you and your students. New Edition

A comprehensive anthology that helps deepen students' thinking about their qualitative research purposes, questions, and decision-making.

Offers teachers and parents a collection of 190 ready-to-use activities that are complete with student worksheets, discussion questions, and evaluation suggestions to help students acquire the basic skills needed to achieve independence and success in everyday life.

A key text on educational research methods combining a practical and accessible approach, including examples set in context, with the required academic rigour and content.