Philosophy, Risk and Adventure Sports

Edited by Mike J. McNamee

With interest and participation in extreme and adventure sports growing year on year, the time is ripe for a thoughtful and analytical assessment of this...

Published May 24th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Changing Curriculum

By History of Education Society

This was originally published in 1971.Recent years have seen a renewal of interest in the field of curriculum development. Until now, however, relatively little account...

Published May 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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Sport and Physical Education: The Key Concepts

By Tim Chandler, Mike Cronin, Wray Vamplew

An accessible and fully cross-referenced A-Z guide, this book has been written specifically for students of sport studies and physical education, introducing basic terms and...

Published May 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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Understanding Spelling

By Olivia O'Sullivan, Anne Thomas

How do children learn to spell and what kinds of teaching support them most effectively?

Based on a three-year longitudinal study of children's spelling in different...

Published April 20th 2007 by Routledge.

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Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy

By Bronwyn Williams, Amy Zenger

Movies are filled with scenes of people of all ages, sexes, races, and social classes reading and writing in widely varied contexts and purposes. Yet...

Published April 16th 2007 by Routledge.

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Science Education for Gifted Learners

Edited by Keith Taber

Science is central to our modern technological society, yet many of the most able pupils who could become the scientists of tomorrow turn away from...

Published April 12th 2007 by Routledge.

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Handbook of Distance Education

Edited by Michael Grahame Moore

The second edition of this award-winning book continues the mission of its predecessor, to provide a comprehensive compendium of research in all aspects of distance...

Published April 12th 2007 by Routledge.

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Teaching Science to Every Child

Using Culture as a Starting Point

By John Settlage, Sherry A. Southerland

Teaching Science to Every Child proposes a fresh perspective for teaching school science and draws upon an extensive body of classroom research to meaningfully address...

Published April 6th 2007 by Routledge.

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Getting Science

The Teacher's Guide to Exciting and Painless Primary School Science

By Brian Clegg

Science is rightly a fundamental part of primary school education, but that doesn’t make it easy to teach - especially for teachers without a science...

Published April 5th 2007 by Routledge.

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Improving Primary Literacy

Linking Home and School

By Anthony Feiler, Jane Andrews, Pamela Greenhough, Martin Hughes, David Johnson, Mary Scanlan, Wan Ching Yee

Parents can play an immensely important role in supporting their children's literacy learning at home, but how can primary teachers enlist the support of parents...

Published April 5th 2007 by Routledge.

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