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  • Managing Your Research Project

    A Guide for Researchers

    by Inger Mewburn, Pat Thomson, Helen Kara, Aimee Grant ...
    Series series Insider Guides to Success in Academia
    Managing Your Research Project is a practical and accessible guide that will help researchers navigate the complexities of project management. This user-friendly resource offers valuable insights and tools for funded, commissioned, unfunded, and student research in academic settings.Instead of advocating for a single project management approach, the book provides a variety of options, empowering ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Resistance in Educational Leadership, Management, and Administration

    Edited by Amanda McKay, Pat Thomson, Jill Blackmore ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration
    This edited volume brings together a range of perspectives on Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) and various theories of resistance or compliance along with how policy and politics play out in school communities.The book makes a significant contribution to debates around theorising educational leadership and the implications of discourses on schooling and the politics of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Detox Your Writing

    Strategies for doctoral researchers

    by Pat Thomson, Barbara Kamler ...
    There are a number of books which aim to help doctoral researchers write the PhD. This book offers something different - the scholarly detox. This is not a faddish alternative, it’s not extreme. It’s a moderate approach intended to gently interrupt old ways of doing things and establish new habits and orientations to writing the PhD.The book addresses the problems that most doctoral researchers ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Refining Your Academic Writing

    Strategies for Reading, Revising and Rewriting

    by Pat Thomson ...
    Series series Insider Guides to Success in Academia
    Revision is often taken as a largely instrumental process which happens after the real work of writing is done – it is an unavoidable and tedious process. Refining by contrast is imaginative work, it requires craft, connoisseurship and courage, and builds knowledge about academic writing purposes and practices. Refining Your Academic Writing will help you complete your writing project and provides ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Schools and Cultural Citizenship

    Arts Education for Life

    by Pat Thomson, Christine Hall ...
    ‘Why study the arts at school?’ This book offers a fresh perspective on this question. Informed by rigorous research, the book argues that the arts help young people to develop key skills, knowledge and practices that support them to become both critical appreciative audiences and socially engaged cultural producers. Drawing on a three-year study in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Why Garden in Schools?

    by Lexi Earl, Pat Thomson ...
    Series series Routledge Spaces of Childhood and Youth Series
    This book delves into the complex history of the gardening movement in schools and examines the question why gardens should be built in schools. It offers practical guidance for teachers to begin thinking about how to approach educational gardening.A resurgence of interest in school gardens is linked to concerns about children’s health, food knowledge, lack of outdoor play and contact with the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • School Scandals

    Blowing the Whistle on the Corruption of Our Education System

    by Pat Thomson ...
    With almost daily reports of failings in school management, what can be done to improve educational outcomes for everyone?Pat Thomson takes on England’s muddled education system, highlighting failings caused by the actions of ministers in successive governments. While corrupt actions are taken by some, it is predominantly the corruption of the system that is at fault. She exposes fraudulent and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Schooling the Rustbelt Kids

    Making the difference in changing times

    by Pat Thomson ...
    'A truly exceptional book.' - Michael W. Apple, University of Wisconsin, Madison'A gripping insight into the local struggles facing disadvantaged schools and a compelling account of the injustice of their place in the bigger picture.' - Professor Geoff Whitty, Director, Institute of Education, University of LondonSchools in disadvantaged areas are struggling in the current economic and political ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Routledge Doctoral Supervisor's Companion

    Supporting Effective Research in Education and the Social Sciences

    Edited by Melanie Walker, Pat Thomson ...
    Series 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 development, the contributors outline the research capabilities which are essential for confidence, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • 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 contribute to the creative economy that will underpin growth in the twenty-first century.Transforming these ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Routledge Doctoral Student's Companion

    Getting to Grips with Research in Education and the Social Sciences

    Edited by Pat Thomson, Melanie Walker ...
    Series 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 arena, in order to make a personal and educational, as well as an economic investment, in their workplace ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Inspiring School Change

    Transforming Education through the Creative Arts

    by Christine Hall, Pat Thomson ...
    Recognising performance and accountability pressures on schools,Inspiring School Change shows how a commitment to the arts in education can meet core school agendas of pupil and parent engagement, attainment, improved teaching and inclusion. Schools are under pressure to develop their students’ creativity and to improve their cultural education. This book fills a gap by marshalling the arguments ... Read more

    $54.99 USD