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1. Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals

   Strategies for Getting Published

   By Pat Thomson, Barbara Kamler

   Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals focuses on a writing task that is increasingly required of doctoral students and is a necessity for early career researchers and more experienced writers alike. It presents a theorized approach to writing that is crucially combined with strategies designed to...

   To Be Published August 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Understanding the Field of Educational Leadership

   Pierre Bourdieu

   By Pat Thomson

   Series: Critical Studies in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration

   Bringing Bourdieu to the study of Education Management, Leadership and Administration assumes a normative opposition to a meritocratic view of education. Through a lifetime’s explication of the ways in which schooling both produces and reproduces the status quo, Bourdieu offers a powerful critique...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Changing Schools

   Alternative Ways to Make a World of Difference

   Edited by Terry Wrigley, Pat Thomson, Robert Lingard

   Changing Schools places educational and social aims at the centre of a discussion of educational change. It draws on forteen case studies to explore school change which is oriented towards social justice and democracy. In an age of global mobility, economic polarization and unprecedented...

   Published August 8th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning

   Edited by Julian Sefton-Green, Pat Thomson, Ken Jones, Liora Bresler

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

   The concept of creative learning extends far beyond Arts-based learning or the development of individual creativity. It covers a range of processes and initiatives throughout the world that share common values, systems and practices aimed at making learning more creative. This applies at individual...

   Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge
5. Researching Creative Learning

   Methods and Issues

   Edited by Pat Thomson, Julian Sefton-Green

   It is a common ambition in society and government to make young people more creative. These aspirations are motivated by two key concerns: to make experience at school more exciting, relevant, challenging and dynamic; and to ensure that young people are able and fit to leave education and...

   Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
6. The Routledge Doctoral Student's Companion

   Getting to Grips with Research in Education and the Social Sciences

   Edited by Pat Thomson, Melanie Walker

   Series: Companions for PhD and DPhil Research

   In the contemporary world it is clear that the need to study beyond Masters Level is increasing in importance for a wide range of practitioners in diverse professional settings. Students across the world are choosing doctorates not only to become career academics, but to go beyond the academic...

   Published March 30th 2010 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor's Companion

   Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social Sciences

   Edited by Melanie Walker, Pat Thomson

   Series: Companions for PhD and DPhil Research

   Accompanying The Routledge Doctoral Student’s Companion this book examines what it means to be a doctoral student in education and the social sciences, providing a guide for those supervising students. Exploring the key role and pedagogical challenges that face supervisors in students’ personal...

   Published March 30th 2010 by Routledge
8. School Leadership - Heads on the Block?

   By Pat Thomson

   Most teachers become heads for idealistic reasons, wanting to make a difference to the lives of children and young people. Yet serving heads suggest the job is getting harder, talking openly about stress and leaving the job. Many teachers now see headship as a risky business, and succession...

   Published February 1st 2009 by Routledge
9. Doing Visual Research with Children and Young People

   Edited by Pat Thomson

   Visual media offer powerful communication opportunities. Doing Visual Research with Children and Young People explores the methodological, ethical, representational and theoretical issues surrounding image-based research with children and young people. It provides well-argued and illustrated...

   Published May 15th 2008 by Routledge
10. Helping Doctoral Students Write

    Pedagogies for Supervision

    By Barbara Kamler, Pat Thomson

    This essential guide offers a new approach to doctoral writing, written specifically for doctoral supervisors. Rejecting the DIY websites and manuals that promote a privatised skills-based approach to writing research, Kamler and Thomson offer a new framework for scholarly work to help...

    Published July 26th 2006 by Routledge