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  • Soft Systems Methodology in Education

    Applying a Critical Realist Approach to Research on Teacher Education

    by Jenny Gilbert, Simon Pratt-Adams ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the application of Soft Systems Methodology in educational research as a qualitative research tool to generate theory, and identifies the mechanisms that engender the behaviours and discourse of social groups. Grounded within the literature from philosophy and science, the approach is predicated on the ontology and epistemology of critical realism. The authors consider the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Retail and Community

    Business, Charity and the End of Empire

    by Nadia Awal, Jessica Field, Triona Fitton, Majorie Gehrhardt, Jenny Gilbert, Nick Gray, Harshad Keval, Ruth MacDonald, Ian Mitchell, Massimiliano Papini ...
    Retail has never existed in a vacuum.This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local to the global, between the late nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.Historians, sociologists, archivists and heritage professionals engage with current debates on ... Read more

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  • Urban Design and the British Urban Renaissance

    Edited by John Punter ...
    Are Britain’s cities attractive places in which to live, work and play? Asking that question, this is a critical review of how the design dimension of the Urban Renaissance strategy was developed and applied, based on expert academic assessments of progress in Britain’s thirteen largest cities. The case studies are preceded by a dissection of New Labour’s renaissance agenda, and concluded by a ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

    The Reflective Professional

    by Greg Light, Roy Cox, Susanna C. Calkins ...
    ′This book provides teachers in higher education with what they need - a compelling framework for improving student learning. It combines a comprehensive synthesis of the latest research on learning and teaching with practical strategies for implementing it in their classrooms′ - Professor Ken Bain, Author of What the Best College Teachers Do, Vice Provost for Instruction, Montclair State ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Cultural Quarters

    Principles and Practice

    Edited by Simon Roodhouse ...
    The much-praised Cultural Quarters returns in a revised edition, offering new case studies and new chapters on the economics of cultural quarters and the importance of historical buildings. This definitive text provides a conceptual context for cultural quarters through a detailed discussion of urban design and planning. Drawing on several case studies (from Bolton, Birmingham, Ireland and Vienna) ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process

    by Steve Tiesdell, David Adams ...
    Series Book 50 - Real Estate Issues
    Urban design enables better places to be created for people and is thus seen in Urban Design in the Real Estate Development Process as a place-making activity, rather than the application of architectural aesthetics. Urban design policy can change the 'decision environment' of developers, financiers, designers and other actors in the real estate development process to make them take place-making ... Read more

    $109.00 USD

  • British Fashion Design

    Rag Trade or Image Industry?

    by Angela McRobbie ...
    British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile training with practice, and their precarious position between the twin supports of the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Language and Learning in Multilingual Classrooms

    A Practical Approach

    by Dr. Elizabeth Coelho ...
    Series Book 16 - Parents' and Teachers' Guides
    This book is a research-based practical guide for educators who work with students whose linguistic and cultural background is different from their own. Illustrated with many practical examples of classroom activities, projects, and teaching strategies, the book is also an introduction to immigrant education for school administrators and educational planners in communities or regions that are in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Education plc

    Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners?In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive, analytic and empirical account of the privatisation of education. He questions the kind of future we want for education and what role privatisation and the private sector may have in that future. Using policy sociology to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Doing Work Based Research

    Approaches to Enquiry for Insider-Researchers

    by Carol Costley, Paul Gibbs, Geoffrey C Elliott ...
    With the growth of work based learning and practitioner research this book leads the way by addressing key issues faced by ′insider-researchers′ - learners, practitioners and managers doing research projects in the organizations and communities in which they themselves work, or where they are already familiar with the setting.The authors explore the implications of these research contexts, and ... Read more

    $78.29 USD

  • Landscape Architectural Research

    Inquiry, Strategy, Design

    by M. Elen Deming, Simon Swaffield ...
    A practical, single-source guide to successful strategies for landscape architecture researchAs the scope of landscape architecture expands to engage with other disciplines, and streams of information directing this field continue to grow and diversify, it becomes increasingly important for landscape architects to be able to implement a range of effective research strategies when seeking, creating ... Read more

    $63.00 USD

  • Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals)

    How People Are Creating Their Own Environment

    by Nick Wates, Charles Knevitt ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987, this title was one of the first to explore the emerging popular movement of Community Architecture, championed by Prince Charles, which gained momentum throughout Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The conceptual framework rests fundamentally on the principle that the built environment is most effective when those who live in a particular area are actively engaged with its ... Read more

    $55.99 USD