Positive Psychology uses a storytelling approach to provide a broad and objective understanding of the science of well-being, and to show how this knowledge can be applied to our own lives and to the well-being of entire societies.
Clear, nuanced introduction to digital text mining and data analysis specifically for students in digital humanities and computational social science.
This exciting leadership textbook takes a student-centric approach, encouraging students to reflect on their own experiences and showing them the potential for them to transform into leaders in their every day lives.
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Pieter Verdegem explores the ways society and data are interwoven, tackling the implications of big data for democracy, identify and the global economy and offering an interdisciplinary overview of a rapidly changing field.
This comprehensive guide applies evidence-based practice to real-life educational scenarios over a broad range of topics, covering everything a student of Educational Psychology needs to know.
This book supports students and practitioners in Early Childhood Studies, Early Years, Education and related disciplines in understanding self-regulation.
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The only accessible, practical and discipline-specific qualitative methods textbook on the market. Introduces theoretical issues in parallel with step-by-step guidance on ‘how to do qualitative research’ and ‘how it has been done’ in seminal published research.
A much-needed book aimed at helping educators to research, create, resource, and deliver a diverse curriculum. Going through the protected characteristics, this book seeks to provide practical and evidence-based solutions to any teacher who wishes to diversify their teaching.
This text is both a practical account of the research process, and an invitation to think more deeply and reflexively about the imperfect, multifaceted nature of social research itself.
This is your indispensable guide to navigating the rise of generative AI as an academic. It thoughtfully explores rapidly evolving AI capabilities reshaping higher education, examining challenges and ethical dilemmas across the sector.