Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education

Edited by James Albright, Allan Luke

In this volume scholars from around the world focus on how a Bourdieusian stance can enable a powerful socicultural and cultural analysis of literacy education...

Published July 3rd 2008 by Routledge.

Back to the Basics of Teaching and Learning

"Thinking the World Together"

By David W. Jardine, Patricia Clifford, Sharon Friesen

This book is about an ecological-interpretive image of "the basics." Essays detailing everyday, lived events in classroom life are presented to help readers see beneath...

Published June 30th 2008 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Embracing Mathematics

On Becoming a Teacher and Changing with Mathematics

By Peter Appelbaum, David Scott Allen

This alternative textbook for courses on teaching mathematics asks teachers and prospective teachers to reflect on their relationships with mathematics and how these relationships influence...

Published May 19th 2008 by Routledge.

The Essential Speaking and Listening

Talk for Learning at Key Stage 2

By Lyn Dawes

Talk is the medium through which children learn; and yet children may not realise why their contributions to classroom talk are so important. This book...

Published May 9th 2008 by David Fulton Publis.

Contexts of Learning Mathematics and Science

Lessons Learned from TIMSS

Edited by Sarah J. Howie, Tjeerd Plomp

This book is the result of research from over fifteen countries, asking which background and environmental factors influence achievement in mathematics and science. This research is based...

Published April 15th 2008 by Routledge.

Thinking and Learning About Mathematics in the Early Years

By Linda Pound

How can early years practitioners help young children to become not only numerate but aspiring mathematicians who love numbers, shapes and mathematical comparisons?

The introduction...

Published March 20th 2008 by Routledge.

Interdisciplinary Education in the Age of Assessment

Edited by David M. Moss, Terry A. Osborn, Douglas Kaufman

Interdisciplinary Education in the Age of Assessment addresses a prevalent need in educational scholarship today. Many current standards-driven curricula follow strict subject-specific guidelines, leaving educators...

Published March 7th 2008 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Levinas and Education

At the Intersection of Faith and Reason

Edited by Denise Egéa-Kuehne

This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for...

Published February 20th 2008 by Routledge.

35 years of the Cambridge Journal of Education

Edited by Nigel Norris

Even though the curriculum can be tightly specified and controlled by strong accountability mechanisms, it is teachers who decisively shape the educational experiences of children...

Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge.

The Really Useful Literacy Book

Being Creative with Literacy in the Primary Classroom

By Tony Martin, Chira Lovat, Glynis Purnell

The Really Useful Literacy Book provides inventive ideas for the classroom together with an accessible and informative summary of the theories that underpin them. Written...

Published January 17th 2008 by Routledge.