Provides an introduction to analysing media texts. This book with its award winning DVD, helps students learn how to do semiotic, genre and narrative analysis, content and discourse analysis, and engage with debates about the politics of representation.
This comprehensive book is an essential read, intended to support the numerous modules that cover this theme and striving to encourage readers to become critical, questioning practitioners in the LLS.
Summerhill is a world-renowned school in England where pupils decide when and what they will learn. Known as 'the oldest children's democracy in the world', Summerhill allows... Læs mere
Offers practical guidance for parents, teachers and other early years workers who want to give children a good start in mathematical development.... Læs mere
Learning through the arts has the potential to stimulate open ended activity that encourages discovery, exploration, experimentation and... Læs mere
This book reflects the transformative potential of critical reflection and provides practitioners, students, educators and researchers with the key concepts and methods necessary to improve practice through effective critical reflection.
This major text for Education Studies students provides a critical a critical analysis of key issues encourage students' thinking about education in the broadest terms.
On Becoming an Innovative University Teacher shows readers how to plan and run innovative activities to engage their students in effective reflective learning.
Drawing on research, this book offers a deeper understanding of topics such as distributed leadership, dialogue, organisational memory, trust, self-assessment and inquiry, and purpose linked to learning.
Offering your clients more than just therapy, this work gives you the know-how to bring elements of a coaching approach into your counseling process - adding increased benefits to your clients' experience as well as your practice.
Understanding Health Inequalities second edition provides an accessible and engaging exploration of why the opportunity to live a long and healthy life remains profoundly unequal.
This practical book helps coaches to improve their practice through reflection and professional support in their work. It explains how these developments can be made alone, with colleagues or with a supervisor, utilising a range of tried and tested frameworks.