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  • What’s the Evidence?

    An Investigation into Teacher Quality

    Edited by Rachel White, Alyson Simpson ...
    This book gives an account of a recent study into the nature of teacher quality that moves beyond typical discussions of teacher impact on student results and into what it means to be a teacher.It describes how a range of different research methodologies were combined to design a process for research-informed examinations of teacher quality and the predictive validity of teaching performance ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Dialogic Pedagogy

    Discourse in Contexts from Pre-school to University

    Edited by Anne Thwaite, Alyson Simpson, Pauline Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Taking a dialogic approach, this edited book engages in analysis and description of dialogic discourse in a number of different educational contexts, from early childhood to tertiary, with an international team of contributors from Australia, Finland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. The chapters focus mostly on dialogic face-to-face discourse, with some examples of online interactions, and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Future Directions in Literacy

    International Conversations Conference 2007

    Edited by Alyson Simpson ...
    Selected, edited papers from the conference in September 2007.The link between research and practice has never been more significant as global awareness about literacy pushes us to question the success of programs in schools. National reports on literacy were challenged during the conference. Grounded evidence was given of literacy programs that work to make a difference for groups with diverse ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Developing Habits of Noticing in Literacy and Language Classrooms

    Research and Practice across Professional Cultures

    Edited by Alyson Simpson, Francesca Pomerantz, Douglas Kaufman, Sue Ellis ...
    Noticing is an essential aspect of professional expertise in teaching – a skill that draws on deep professional knowledge in ways that affect how teachers are aware of, respond to and meet the needs of their students. Being a ‘noticing teacher’ in the language and literacy classroom can make a real difference to students’ progress as readers and writers, to their literacy attainment and to their ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Use of Children's Literature in Teaching

    A study of politics and professionalism within teacher education

    by Alyson Simpson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Teacher Education
    The Use of Children's Literature in Teaching reveals the impact of politics, professional guidelines and restrictive measurements of literacy on the emerging identities of young teachers. It places renewed emphasis on the importance of creative teaching with children’s literature for the empowerment of teacher agency to enhance the learning of their students.Framing the debate alongside the issue ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Case of the iPad

    Mobile Literacies in Education

    Edited by Cathy Burnett, Guy Merchant, Alyson Simpson, Maureen Walsh ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book brings together an international group of literacy studies scholars who have investigated mobile literacies in a variety of educational settings. Approaching mobility from diverse theoretical perspectives, the book makes a significant contribution to how mobile literacies, and tablets in particular, are being conceptualised in literacy research. The book focuses on tablets, and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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    A Guide to Theory and Practice

    by Nick Lee, Ian Lings ...
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    $102.59 USD

  • Thematic Analysis

    A Practical Guide

    by Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke ...
    **Winner of the 2022 British Psychological Society Book Award - Textbook Category**Developed and adapted by the authors of this book, thematic analysis (TA) is one of the most popular qualitative data analytic techniques in psychology and the social and health sciences. Building on the success of Braun & Clarke′s 2006 paper first outlining their approach - which has over 100,000 citations on ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Bilingual Families

    A Practical Language Planning Guide

    by Eowyn Crisfield ...
    Provides clear and practical advice for parents of multilingual children.Does your family or community speak more than one language? Do you wonder how to help your children successfully learn or keep those languages? Do you want your children to have the gift of bilingualism and aren’t sure where to start – or how to keep going?Every multilingual family has unique language needs. Bilingual ... Read more

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  • Introducing Qualitative Research In Psychology

    by Carla Willig ...
    This vital student resource takes six different approaches to qualitative methods and discusses the techniques to use these in research. ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Teaching for Understanding

    What it is and how to do it

    by Douglas P Newton ...
    First published in 2012. Why does understanding really matter? Why do some learners fail to understand? At a time when league tables can be everything, examination grades matter. Perhaps more than many would admit, the cost is a lack of understanding. The new edition of Teaching for Understanding provides practical advice about how to support understanding in both children and adults. It is for ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Understanding Language Teaching

    From Method to Postmethod

    by B. Kumaravadivelu ...
    Series series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    This book traces the historical development of major language teaching methods in terms of theoretical principles and classroom procedures, and provides a critical evaluation of each. Drawing from seminal, foundational texts and from critical commentaries made by various scholars, Kumaravadivelu examines the profession's current transition from method to postmethod and, in the process, elucidates ... Read more

    $54.99 USD