Theories of Learning Books

New and Published Books

1. Applied Linguists Needed

   Cross-disciplinary Networking in Endangered Language Contexts

   Edited by Lida Cope

   It is a fact that the world’s languages are dying at an alarming rate. This comprehensive volume aspires to raise awareness among applied linguists and language practitioners about the needs and concerns of endangered language communities. It suggests that the way forward lies in building language...

   Published January 26th 2012 by Routledge
2. Developing Thinking and Understanding in Young Children

   An introduction for students, 2nd Edition

   By Sue Robson

   Developing Thinking and Understanding in Young Children presents a comprehensive and accessible overview of contemporary theory and research about young children’s developing thinking and understanding. Throughout this second edition, the ideas and theories presented are enlivened by transcripts of...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
3. A Chinese Perspective on Teaching and Learning

   Edited by Betty C. Eng

   Series: Routledge Series on Schools and Schooling in Asia

   Bringing together educators from a range of backgrounds - psychology, sociology, social work, counseling, and teaching - this volume shows how Asian cultural values and beliefs can provide a lens through which to understand and envision how curriculum and pedagogy can be creatively adapted,...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. The Routledge International Handbook of Learning

   Edited by Peter Jarvis, Mary Watts

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

   As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
5. Learning the Virtual Life

   Public Pedagogy in a Digital World

   Edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas

   Digital technologies have transformed cultural perceptions of learning and what it means to be literate, expanding the importance of experience alongside interpretation and reflection. Learning the Virtual Life offers ways to consider the local and global effects of digital media on educational...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. Preventing Classroom Disruption (RLE Edu O)

   Policy, Practice and Evaluation in Urban Schools

   By David Coulby, Tim Harper

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   There has always been considerable debate about the best solutions to deal with disruptive behaviour in schools. On the one hand is the strategy of segregating disruptive pupils while on the other is a commitment to keeping such pupils in the ordinary school. This book advocates the latter...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
7. Aspects of Learning (RLE Edu O)

   By Brian O'Connell

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   The time has passed when learning was identified purely as a process involving the ability to store and recall knowledge and facts, and the competence to produce them when required. These abilities still seriously concern the potential teacher and this book duly examines them, but the ‘whys’ and...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
8. Classroom Environment (RLE Edu O)

   By Barry Fraser

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   The increasing impact of performance based judgments on schools and teachers in the classroom has its critics and supporters. Some oppose the trend and seek to deny the importance of quantitative measures. Others have sought to find ways of implementing educational measurement constructively and...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
9. Observing Children in the Primary Classroom (RLE Edu O)

   All In A Day

   By Richard Mills

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   In a sequence of observations of six children aged 5-11 in six different state schools this book offers a slice of classroom life, a microcosm of the educational scene. Since the book was first written there have been many changes in the curriculum, structure, governance and funding of British...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
10. Inside the Secondary Classroom (RLE Edu O)

    By Sara Delamont, Maurice Galton

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

    Focusing on pupils moving from primary to middle or secondary school, it describes and evaluates the schools’ programmes to ease transfer, and includes material provided by the pupils themselves. The main body of the book is a rich and detailed account of the first months of life in new secondary...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge