The contributors look at a range of issues in the teaching of mathematics that will enable students to build upon their learning and place their teaching into a wider context. This book presents the... more »

As computers become more widely used in schools, it is clear that they have the potential not just to support the achievement of conventional goals, but also to redefine what we mean by reading, wri... more »

Based on the most extensive research on community college teaching to date, this book examines the nature of teaching and the institutional forces that shape it in various arenas. Drawing on observa... more »

An innovative edited collection of essays examining the theory/practice debate as it has been articulated pedagogically. The contributors seek to determine whether a revolutionary pedagogy is possib... more »

In less than a generation, higher education has undergone tremendous economic and cultural changes Academic Keywords takes an honest look at the state of academia today. Arranged alphabetically, thi... more »

In Feminist Engagements some of the top names in feminist education read, resist and revise the works of the major twentieth-century theorists in education and cultural studies. These essays provide... more »

This book examines the new donor concept "education for all" which was coined at a World Bank initiated conference in 1990 in Jomtien, Thailand. What does "education for all" really mean? The battle... more »

Sport and Physical Education: The Key Concepts offers an up-to-date companion to the changing face of sport science. This accessible and fully cross-referenced A-Z guide, written specifically for st... more »

The Psychology of Education covers the range of contemporary psychological knowledge applied to education. Completely up-to-date and written in an engaging style, this book covers:*the nature of lea... more »

Problem-based learning places the student at the centre of a process which integrates what is learned in a lecture with what the student actually experiences in practice. The authors of this book us... more »

This wide ranging sourcebook draws together a range of recent and specially commissioned pieces which examine how policy development and research findings have influenced planning and assessing lear... more »

Early years education is currently in the spotlight as teachers and policy makers consider how best to provide high quality provision for the youngest children in our schools and nurseries. Young ch... more »

This book addresses the problem of how best to evaluate and improve the standard of teaching in higher education in a climate of accountability and appraisal. Linking educational theory with the pra... more »

This book works on the premise that an 'educated' woman was in early modern Europe something quite different than an educated man. Education was understood as preparation for one's station in life. ... more »

This book debunks the argument that quality in education can only be achieved by limiting, or trading off, equality. The quality of schooling is a major issue for Third World nations across the glob... more »

In most cities in the United States and Canada, the local college or university is the largest and most important employer in town. The role of the university and its relationship to the community h... more »

Throughout the debate over how - and if - AIDS education should be taught to school age children, teachers who want to bring the subject of AIDS into their classroom have had few, if any, resources ... more »

Contributors to this book systematically describe Korea's higher education system, provide data heretofore unavailable in the English language, present a fundamentally Korean view of the important i... more »

From some of the leading feminist scholars in education comes a collection of writings discussing how they use feminist post structural theory in their classrooms and research. Drawing on real-life ... more »

Designed for all music teachers, this book provides a careful and clear examination and analysis of the fundamental concepts involved in music. Professor Swanwick investigates questions such as: Wha... more »

Using case studies from eighteen secondary schools the authors analyse the effectiveness of a range of management styles and offer practical advice on how to effectively manage resources within a sc... more »