This volume documents the growth of a new kind of interdisciplinary teamwork that is evolving among practitioners, researchers, teacher educators, and community partners. Its premise: the design of learning environments and the development of theory must proceed in a mutually supportive fashion. Scientific researchers have learned that a prerequisite to studying the kinds of learning that matter is helping to shoulder the responsibility for ensuring that these forms of learning occur.

To supp...

Introducing students to the research process in a range of educational contexts, this updated Second Edition contains everything they need if they are studying on a research methods course or doing a research project for themselves.

Exploring a range of teaching approaches to meet different learning styles, this book helps trainee teachers become confident, reflective teachers of reading.

This practical, up-to-date guide helps trainee teachers understand the theory behind phonics and how children's learning of reading can develop using synthetic phonics.

Cutting Edge Third Edition builds on the distinctive task-based approach that has made this course so popular. Engaging texts, new video content and a comprehensive digital package are just some of the features that make this fully revised edition even more effective.

Encapsulates the broad ideas of the series by presenting the evolving theory behind the construct of academic language, a definition and examples of each of its components, and a template for direct classroom application.

An engaging and informative core text that enables students to think clearly and critically about the scientific process of research.

Focuses on three fundamental questions to help reduce curricular and organisational clutter in the interest of clarity and focus: What does it mean to understand? What is most important to understand? How do we prioritize our strategic effort to help students understand what is most important?

A practical overview of creative teaching and learning for both novice and seasoned primary teachers, updated in line with the new Primary National Curriculum.

This new edition of the European adaptation of Anita Woolfolk's market-leading US text, Educational Psychology, is essential reading for anyone studying or interested in education and learning from a psychology perspective. The second edition includes new work in the areas of Assessment for Learning and Attachment Theory, as well as reflecting recent changes in Special Educational Needs provision. The text shows how information and ideas drawn from cutting-edge research in educational psychol...