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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ursula edgington”
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  • Mental Health among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Students

    A Critical Perspective

    by Nike Bahr, Nubia Brewster, Julia Grzywinski, Julia Grzywinski, Nicole Campbell, Philip Dearman, Ursula Edgington, Beth Edmondson, Susan Hafen, Victoria McDermott0, Rahul Mitra1, Elizabeth-Ann Pandzich2, Sandra Smeltzer3, Lukasz Swiatek4, Jessica Wendorf Muhamad5, Teresa Heinz Housel7, Patrice M. Buzzanell8, Erinn C. Cameron9, Robert D. Hall0, Andrea L. Meluch1, Juan S. Muhamad2, Alena Amato Ruggerio3, Vanessa R. Sperduti4, Maria Elena Villar5, Dave M. Walton6, Erica Knotts7 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Health Communication
    Mental Health among Higher Education Faculty, Administrators, and Graduate Studentsaddresses how many academics who experience mental distress or mental illness are afraid to speak out because of cultural stigma and fears of career repercussions. Many academics’ reluctance to publicly disclose their struggles complicates attempts to understand their experiences through research or popular media, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Emotional Labour and Lesson Observation

    A Study of England's Further Education

    by Ursula Edgington ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book presents research on emotion work and the emotional labour of teaching and learning based in England’s further education sector, where an increasing emphasis on marketised systems means accountability and audit cultures have become embedded within everyday teaching practice. Uniquely, this book explores micro-level issues of the managerial policies relating to classroom lesson ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Teaching with Sociological Imagination in Higher and Further Education

    Contexts, Pedagogies, Reflections

    Edited by Christopher R. Matthews, Ursula Edgington, Alex Channon ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book uses research and personal stories from university lecturers to explore pedagogical strategies that illuminate how students’ minds can be ‘switched on’ in order to unlock their extraordinary potential. It presents diverse ways to create inspiring learning environments, in chapters written by internationally respected experts in the broad field of the social sciences.Each author ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • 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 fifteen 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 Learning for Teachers takes the next step and brings those ground breaking concepts to a completely new ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Action Research Planner

    Doing Critical Participatory Action Research

    by Stephen Kemmis, Rhonda Nixon, Robin McTaggart ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    A fully-updated and reworked version of the classic book by Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart, now joined by Rhonda Nixon, The Action Research Planner is a detailed guide to developing and conducting a critical participatory action research project. The authors outline new views on ‘participation’ (based on Jürgen Habermas’s notion of a ‘public sphere’), ‘practice’ (as shaped by practice ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Designing Listening Tests

    A Practical Approach

    by Rita Green ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the crucial role that sound file selection plays in assessing listening ability and introduces the reader to the procedure of textmapping, which explores how to exploit a sound file. The book discusses the role of the task identifier, the task instructions and the example, and analyses the strengths and weaknesses of different test methods. Guidelines for developing listening ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Designing Assessment for Quality Learning

    Edited by Claire Wyatt-Smith, Valentina Klenowski, Peta Colbert ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book brings together internationally recognised scholars with an interest in how to use the power of assessment to improve student learning and to engage with accountability priorities at both national and global levels. It includes distinguished writers who have worked together for some two decades to shift the assessment paradigm from a dominant focus on assessment as measurement towards ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Research on Teacher Thinking (RLE Edu N)

    Understanding Professional Development

    by James Calderhead, Pam Denicolo, Christopher Day ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This is a companion volume to the editors’ Insights into Teachers’ Thinking and Practice (Falmer Press, 1999) and seeks to carry the discussion on further illustrating that there is a continuing intensity of thought, activity and debate on how to conceptualise research on teacher thinking, and thus generate knowledge for further understanding and action. The ethical questions on undertaking ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Critical Perspectives on Service-Learning in Higher Education

    by S. Deeley ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Through innovative analysis of theory and practice, this book offers refreshing critical perspectives on service-learning in higher education. It constructs a theoretical paradigm for service-learning which extends to critical pedagogy, and investigates critical reflection and academic reflective writing, supported throughout by empirical evidence. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reflective Practice in Action

    80 Reflection Breaks for Busy Teachers

    by Thomas S. C. Farrell ...
    No matter how busy your schedule, you can renew and refresh your professional growth by using these reflection breaks!Strongly believing that educators should always reflect on their day′s work, teacher and writer Thomas S. C. Farrell designed this new book with busy teachers in mind. The 80 reflection breaks featured can be used as individual discussion starters or as part of a comprehensive ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Learning in Real and Virtual Worlds

    Commercial Video Games as Educational Tools

    by P. Lacasa ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Packed with critical analysis and real-life examples, this book explores how children's video games can cultivate learning. Lacasa takes several commercial video games and shows how they can be used both in and out of the classroom to teach initiative and problem-solving, encourage creativity, promote literacy, and develop reasoning skills. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Policy, Professionalization, Privatization, and Performance Assessment

    Affordances and Constraints for Teacher Education Programs

    by Theresa J. Gurl, Limarys Caraballo, Leslee Grey, John H. Gunn, David Gerwin, Héfer Bembenutty ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume reviews the background of mandated teacher performance assessment with an emphasis on policy, privatization, and professionalization. The authors discuss the potential impact of mandated teacher performance assessments on teacher education in the content areas of mathematics, English, and social studies. The perspectives and empirical research examined in this conceptual analysis ... Read more

    $49.49 USD