Teaching & Learning Books

New and Published Books

1. Brilliant Ideas for Using ICT in the Inclusive Classroom

   By Sally McKeown, Angela McGlashon

   Series: David Fulton / Nasen

   How can you use ICT to boost the achievement of all your pupils? This practical teachers’ guide will help you to unlock the enormous potential of new technology in order to enhance pupils’ learning, particularly for young people with additional needs. Written by two of the UK’s leading technology...

   Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Evaluating Teaching and Learning

   A practical handbook for colleges, universities and the scholarship of teaching

   By David Kember, Paul Ginns

   Every semester, colleges and universities ask students to complete innumerable course and teaching evaluation questionnaires to evaluate the learning and teaching in courses they have taken. For many universities it is a requirement that all courses be evaluated every semester. The laudable...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. Educating for Diversity and Social Justice

   By Amanda Keddie

   Series: Routledge Research in Education

   Educating for Diversity and Social Justice foregrounds the personal stories of educators who are engaging the space of schooling as a site of possibility for realizing the goals of social justice. It is a book inspired by a vision of education as a practice of freedom where young people –...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. Principles for Effective Pedagogy

   International responses to evidence from the UK Teaching & Learning Research Programme

   Edited by Mary James, Andrew Pollard

   The UK Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) worked for ten years to improve outcomes for learners in schools and other sectors through high quality research. One outcome of individual projects and across-Programme thematic work was the development of ten ‘evidence-informed’ principles...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
5. Visible Learning for Teachers

   Maximizing Impact on Learning

   By John Hattie

   In November 2008, John Hattie’s ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than 15 years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning. Visible...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. Everyday Maths through Everyday Provision

   Developing opportunities for mathematics in the early years

   By Elaine Bennett, Jenny Weidner

   Children are born naturally mathematical, so why is it sometimes so difficult to observe children being mathematical? Why do so many of us think we are ‘bad’ at maths and how does this subconsciously affect the provision, experiences and opportunities we provide for young children who are starting...

   Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
7. Orchestrating Inquiry Learning

   Edited by Karen Littleton, Eileen Scanlon, Mike Sharples

   There is currently a rapidly growing interest in inquiry learning and an emerging consensus among researchers that, particularly when supported by technology, it can be a significant vehicle for developing higher order thinking skills. Inquiry learning methods also offer learners meaningful and...

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
8. Storytelling across the Primary Curriculum

   By Alastair K Daniel

   Starting from the question ‘what is a story?’ Storytelling Across the Primary Curriculum leads the reader through the theory and practise of storytelling as an educational method – a method taught by the author over the last ten years through Primary English teaching programmes. This practical...

   Published November 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Understanding Young Children’s Learning through Play

   Building playful pedagogies

   By Pat Broadhead, Andy Burt

   This timely and accessible text introduces, theorises and practically applies two important concepts which now underpin early years practice: those of ‘playful learning' and 'playful pedagogies'. Pat Broadhead and Andy Burt draw upon filmed material, conversations with children, reflection,...

   Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Values Education Resource File

    A Practical Kit for Exploring the things that Matter

    By Ray Baxter

    The Values Education Resource File: A practical kit for exploring the things that matter Start exploring today! The Values Education Resource File is a highly practical kit, developed with schools for schools, to provide you with a straightforward way of thinking about the things that matter to...

    Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge