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Teaching professionals need to be able to successfully respond to change, and when necessary drive change within schools. This work focuses on helping teachers to explore ways of working with children, with colleagues and with communities. It is useful for teachers working towards Advanced Skills Teacher or Chartered Teacher status.

Contains a collection of essays and bibliographies, providing scholars with references to a select list of critical texts, pertaining to an array of social science methods and practices, useful when doing fieldwork. Leading scholars reflect upon the methodological approaches of their own and other disciplines.

This collection chronicles the many ways in which teachers create professional learning communities through collaborations with colleagues, mentees, faculty groups, learners, families, and neighborhoods.

Offers an overview of the fundamental ideas that inform geographic information science. This book provides descriptions of the concepts and techniques that anyone using GIS software must fully understand to analyse spatial data.

Provides professional guidance for practitioners in educational support roles, and offers tools and strategies for working confidently with pupils from across the autistic spectrum.

Social Work Research Methods is the first book to expand social work research methods to include alternative models and integrate these methodologies into general social work practice. In addition to traditional positivist research, author Teresa Morris also describes research methods for post positivism, critical theory and constructivism in a straight forward and accessible style.

Barker focuses on the significance and future of cultural studies. He analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the field, providing both an authoritative diagnosis of the subject and a balanced prognosis, investigates the boundaries of cultural studies and elucidates the main themes of study.

Doing Social Science Research gives an introductory overview of the process of social research, from research design to data collection and analysis. It provides students and teachers with a mix of resources to help them to get to grips with the main methods of social research.

This refreshing and authoritative book provides readers with a guide to the essential thinking, research and concepts in interactionism and explains why the interactionist influence has not been fully acknowledged in Britain.

Takes a global perspective on the issues and policies of ageing.

This book is designed to teach beginners how to use SPSS, one of the most widely used computer package for analysing quantitative data.

Intends to bridge the gap between what managers actually do and organizational strategies. This book provides an activity-based framework for studying strategy as practice, with empirical evidence to illustrate the dynamics of this framework in real terms.

Ian Shaw shows how evaluation practice can utilize qualitative approaches to gain an understanding that more traditional quantitative approaches may fail to do. Three broad sections include discussions of: the foundations of evaluation and recent trends; evaluation and action programmes and policies; and the practice of evaluation.

This core textbook not only provides ethical and legal issues, along with representative case studies, it also-and more importantly-helps students to develop their own framework for ethical reasoning. The author surveys various methods of ethical reasoning and then helps students to apply ethical principles to novel professional circumstances.

Black Pioneers in Communication Research is the only book in the field of communication that-through personal interviews-systematically explores the lives, careers, and profound conceptual contributions of the men and women who have helped shape the contours of humanistic and social scientific inquiry within communication studies and beyond.

Offering a systematic introduction to the terms, processes and effects of journalism "Key Concepts in Journalism" presents a combination of practical considerations with theoretical issues and further reading suggestions. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding.

A practical guide to dealing with bullying in secondary schools. It presents what we know about bullying, describes development issues for adolescence and discusses the social context of the school. It also analyzes key features of healthy and unhealthy schools, and sets out a whole school approach to bullying.

This practical book deals with the emotional and moral dimensions of school leadership.

In this book, Madeline Ehrman and Zoltan Dornyei demonstrate how concepts from clinical and social psychology can help linguists and teachers understand the conditions which make second language learning more or less effective.

The authors help educators and parents deal with key issues concerning children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and cover working with family members, schools, and agencies.

Describes the author's life before and after diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome. This book follows his through primary and secondary school, where his lack of social interaction and anger land him in trouble, and where he is bullied for being different. It helps those unfamiliar with Asperger's Syndrome to understand the condition better.

The theoretical foundations of management strategy are identified and outlined in this text. Five theories are considered in the light of questions about how organizations operate efficiently, cost minimization, wealth creation, individual self-interest and continued growth.

Examines what is meant by democratic leadership, and shows its relevance to school education and learning. It shows how the ideals and theories of democratic leadership can translate into practice, and sets out some of the challenges that democratic leadership poses in the context of contemporary education.

Newton's succinct guide to teaching design and technology uses ideas that have been road-tested and developed over his many years of teaching and of training student teachers and practitioners.

How best can we understand why the application of information and communication technology in organizations succeeds or fails? Calling on technical, organizational, social, psychological and economic perspectives, this book provides a fresh and comprehensive framework for answering this question.

The implementation of a 'high stakes', performace-based assessment system has resulted in financial rewards being granted to those schools demonstrating improved results, while sanctions have been imposed on schools whose academic performance is poor. Contributors to this book examine the complex issues associated with this system in the state of Kentucky and offer diverse opinion on the topic.

Gender and Sexuality