Organized around Ginsberg and Wlodkowski's highly-acclaimed Motivational Framework for Culturally-Responsive Teaching, an extensively field-tested and research-validated pedagogical model that helps teachers plan and reflect on lessons in ways that work together to enhance student motivation and learning.

This guide serves as a foundational text to creating and leading groups. Designed primarily for the beginning group worker from any of the helping professions, the book also acts as a valuable resource for those with more group experience.

By using a simple, identical format for each case, this text facilitates student learning through comparative review, providing a deeper understanding about the complexity and steps required to achieve nonprofit social innovation.

Rich in stories from the author's own research, and examples of graduate students' research dilemmas, this book is a both theoretical and practical guide to all aspects of narrative inquiry.

In this volume, evaluators from a wide range of backgrounds assess how empowerment evaluation has been used in practice since the publication of the first edition in 1996, looking at theories and concepts, as well as evaluation principles.

Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.

The complete guide to doing a literature search and review also contains a wealth of features to calm students overwhelmed at the prospect of doing their dissertation or thesis

Exploring the key theoretical approaches and methods of intervention with older people, this uniquely positive, practical book helps social workers to identify, understand and facilitate their service-users' wishes for wellbeing and a fulfilling older age.

A rich and dynamic introduction to the varieties of religious life and the central issues in the sociology of religion today. It leads the reader through the key ideas and main debates within the field as well as offering in-depth descriptions and analysis of specific religions and movements.

The new edition of the best-selling introductory guide to Masters-level PGCE courses for all students embarking on postgraduate initial teacher training.