Practical and engaging, this book shows how work placements can be used to practice and develop your research and professional skills. It helps you successfully secure and undertake a social science work placement or internship, understand your role as a researcher and maximize the benefits of experiential learning.

In this book, teacher, education consultant and researcher Jon Tibke fact-checks prevailing 'neuromyths' by shining a light on what scientific research is truly relevant for the classroom and exploring the current limits of our understanding.

The new Fifth Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research has been significantly revised, and draws together a team of leading scholars to present the latest in the theory and practice of qualitative research.

This book provides conceptual, user-friendly coverage of the generalized linear model (GLM). Themes covered include testing assumptions, examining data quality, and nonlinear and non-additive effects modelled within different types of linear models.

This second edition provides a contemporary overview of education and social justice, helping readers to understand and analyse the inequalities that exist in today's world, how they are manifested in education systems and how education can engage with and address these issues.

In a new textbook designed for students new to statistics and social data, Gorard focuses on non-inferential statistics as a basis to provide readers with fundamental statistical literacy. Assuming no previous statistical knowledge, the author demystifies the subject in an engaging and approachable style.

Unrivalled in the way it makes the teaching of statistics through the use of IBM SPSS statistics compelling and accessible to even the most anxious of students. The only statistics textbook you and your students will ever need just got better!

Find out how to avoid common mistakes and challenge some of the myths about what good teaching really is.

Provides readers with the essential knowledge and skills to undertake effective assessments and appropriate interventions. It focuses on key issues such as resilience, professional values, ethics, complexity and reflective practice.

This original and creative text interrogates the methodological underpinnings of contemporary urban scholarship, with reference to different global sites and situations, as well as to recent debates around postcolonial, planetary, and provincialized urban theories.