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Edexcel Psychology for A Level Year 1 & AS: Revision Guide(PDF)

Each topic is covered on one spread helping students get straight to the point. Description (AO1) is on the left of the spread split into separate segments to aid revision. Evaluation (AO3) is on the right, each point illustrating the all-important chains of reasoning. Exam-style questions, including AO2 application questions on concepts and methods, are on every spread providing lots of practice. Detailed exam advice section is included, with hints and tips offered throughout the book. Lots of illustrations and the odd corny joke help make it very user-friendly!

Edexcel Psychology for A Level Year 2: Revision Guide (PDF)

Each topic is covered on one spread helping students get straight to the point. Description (AO1) is on the left of the spread split into separate segments to aid revision. Evaluation (AO3) is on the right, each point illustrating the all-important chains of reasoning. Exam-style questions, including AO2 application questions on concepts and methods, are on every spread providing lots of practice. Detailed exam advice section is included, with hints and tips offered throughout the book. Lots of illustrations and the odd corny joke help make it very user-friendly!

WJEC Level 3 Applied Certificate and Diploma Criminology: Study and Revision Guide (PDF)

The perfect companion to the popular Level 3 Criminology Student Book, this Study and Revision Guide summarises key information in a manageable and highly-visual way. Written by experienced teachers and examiners Carole A Henderson and Laura Neasham. Includes a wealth of practice exam questions and model answers to help students refine their exam technique. Offers invaluable guidance to ensure students are well prepared for the controlled assessments with a summary covering key points for the Assessment Criteria. Criminological theories are broken down and advice is provided to help students apply and evaluate these theories. Engaging activities and other stimulating features such as 'Take it further', 'Test Yourself' and 'Explore Online' consolidate learning and encourage students to put their knowledge into action.

Children's Lives, Children's Futures: A Study of Children Starting Secondary School (Continuum Studies in Educational Research #42)

In many Western societies there is concern that children from less advantaged social backgrounds have limited aspirations, and are disproportionately unlikely to go to university. Children's Lives, Children's Futures explores how children in their first year of secondary school feel about school, its place in their lives and its role in their futures. The authors use child voice to look at the ways in which children are active constructors of their lives, and the implications this has for the alignment between education and ambition.The authors explore the nature of children's engagement with education, the choices and constraints they experience and the reasons some young people fail to take advantage of educational opportunities.

Using the Medical Model in Education: Can Pills Make You Clever?

David Turner examines commonly held beliefs about learning, knowledge and intelligence, and critically assesses claims that certain drugs can improve learning and memory.

Processing Instruction and Discourse

Processing Instruction is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning, contrasting with traditional grammar instruction in its focus on structured input rather than learners' output. This book compares student assessment after traditional grammar instruction and after Processing Instruction to assess the positive benefits of this method of second language teaching. Rather than examining sentence-level tasks, the study looks at the relative effectiveness of Processing Instruction on discourse-level linguistic ability. Case studies using empirical data from second language learners of Japanese, Italian and English are used to highlight the benefits to the learner of this method of enhanced input. This monograph will be of interest to postgraduates and academics researching second language acquisition and applied linguistics.

Education in Hegel (Continuum Studies in Educational Research)

In this wide-ranging and compelling set of essays, Nigel Tubbs illustrates how a philosophical notion of education lies at the heart of Hegelian philosophy and employs it to critique some of the stereotypes and misreadings from which Hegel often suffers. With chapters on philosophical education in relation to life and death, self and other, subject and substance, and to Derrida and Levinas in particular, Tubbs brings Hegelian education - read as recollection - to bear on modern social and political relations. He argues, in sum, that Hegelian philosophy comprehended in terms of education yields a theory of self and other that can inform and reform relations between rich and poor, West and East. Finally, the book addresses the most controversial aspect of any defence of Hegel, namely the comprehension of the absolute and its imperialist implications for Western history. The author argues passionately that through a notion of philosophical education Hegel teaches us not to avoid the dilemmas that are endemic to modern Western power and mastery when trying to comprehend some of our most pressing human concerns.

Lifelong Learning and Development: A Southern Perspective (Continuum Studies in Educational Research)

This fascinating monograph explores lifelong learning in the context of development as it is used for low and middle income countries, particularly with reference to Africa and South Asia. Taking a broadly postcolonial and critical theory perspective, thus privileging texts from the 'global South' that highlight pre-colonial origins for lifelong learning, it critiques the discourse of development as it applies to education for low income countries, and explores relevant texts that apply lifelong learning principles to nation building and other development issues. Professor Preece draws on the broader philosophical and sociological concerns of authors from low and middle income countries in order to highlight values, cultures and learning priorities that are often forgotten in the dominant and usually instrumentalist policy texts for lifelong learning. She includes reference to African Renaissance texts on African philosophies and education traditions, feminist theories on lifelong learning, Southern feminist approaches to gender issues, and comparative research literature that addresses the dangers of uncritical international transfer.

Advancing Music Education In Northern Europe

Advancing Music Education In Northern Europe (PDF)

Advancing Music Education in Northern Europe tells the story of a unique organization that has contributed in profound ways to the professional development of music teachers in the Nordic and Baltic nations. At the same time, the book offers reflections on how music education and approaches to the training of music teachers have changed across recent decades, a period of significant innovations. In a time where international partnerships appear to be threatened by a recent resurgence in protectionism and nationalism, this book also more generally demonstrates the value of formalized international cooperation in the sphere of higher education. The setting for the discussion, Northern Europe, is a region arguably of great importance to music education for a number of reasons, seen, for instance, in Norway’s ranking as the “happiest nation on earth”, the well-known success of Finland’s schools in international-comparative measures of student achievement, how Sweden has grappled with its recent experience as “Europe’s top recipient of asylum seekers per capita”, and Estonia’s national identity as a country born from a “Singing Revolution”, to name but a few examples. The contributors chronicle how the Nordic Network for Music Education (NNME) was founded and developed, document its impact, and demonstrate how the eight nations involved in this network – Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – are making unique contributions of global significance to the field of music education.

New KS2 Maths SATS Practice Papers: Pack 3 (for the 2019 tests) (PDF)

Bang-up-to-date for the SATS in 2019 and beyond, this pack contains two full sets of CGP’s realistic KS2 Maths SATS practice tests, plus complete, pupil-friendly answers and mark schemes for hassle-free marking. Simple but highly effective. We’ve also added in a pupil-friendly answer book, so pupils can mark their own work - brilliant! This is Pack Three: for even more practice, Pack One, (9781789081176), Pack Two (9781789081183), Pack Four (9781789081213) and Pack Five (9781789081190) are also available.

New KS2 English SATS Practice Papers: Pack 2 (for the 2019 tests) (PDF)

Inside this pack you’ll find two full sets of KS2 English SATS practice tests which are perfect for students working towards their SATS. The content and style is perfectly matched to the new SATS in 2019 and beyond. What’s more, we’ve included a full mark scheme along with complete answers make for quick and easy marking. Brand new in this pack, you’ll find an easy-to-use pupil answer book so pupils can mark their own answers! This is Pack Two: for even more practice, Pack One (9781789081091), Pack Three (9781789081138), Pack Four (9781789081114) and Pack Five (9781789081121) are also available.

New KS2 Maths SATS Practice Papers: Pack 2 (for the 2019 tests)

"This fantastic pack is fully up-to-date for the SATS in 2019 and beyond! It contains two full sets of ultra-realistic KS2 Maths SATS practice tests, plus complete answers and mark schemes for speedy marking. This pack also includes a brand new, pupil-friendly answer book, so pupils can mark their own work. This is Pack Two: for even more practice, Pack One (9781789081176), Pack Three (9781789081206), Pack Four (9781789081213) and Pack Five (9781789081190) are also available. "

New 9-1 GCSE Physics AQA Revision Question Cards (PDF)

"Reading over study notes doesn’t mean you’ll automatically remember everything - to really put your GCSE Physics knowledge to the test, try these superb CGP Revision Question Cards! There are 95 cards in the pack, covering every key Grade 9-1 AQA topic. Each one starts off with quick questions to warm you up, followed by harder questions to get your brain into top gear. Flip the card over and you’ll find full answers to each question, carefully written to help you understand everything you need to know. Along the way, we’ve packed in plenty of diagrams and expert revision tips, and there are even questions on Working Scientifically and Practical Skills. Amazing! You’ll find matching study notes for the whole course in CGP’s AQA GCSE Physics Revision Guide (9781782945581). And of course, we have Revision Question Cards for AQA GCSE Chemistry (9781789080537) and Biology (9781789080520) too. "

New 9-1 GCSE Chemistry AQA Revision Question Cards

"Reading over study notes doesn’t mean you’ll automatically remember everything - to really put your GCSE Physics knowledge to the test, try these superb CGP Revision Question Cards! There are 95 cards in the pack, covering every key Grade 9-1 AQA topic. Each one starts off with quick questions to warm you up, followed by harder questions to get your brain into top gear. Flip the card over and you’ll find full answers to each question, carefully written to help you understand everything you need to know. Along the way, we’ve packed in plenty of diagrams and expert revision tips, and there are even questions on Working Scientifically and Practical Skills. Amazing! You’ll find matching study notes for the whole course in CGP’s AQA GCSE Physics Revision Guide (9781782945581). And of course, we have Revision Question Cards for AQA GCSE Chemistry (9781789080537) and Biology (9781789080520) too. "

New KS2 English SATS Practice Papers: Pack 3 (for the 2019 tests) (PDF)

This pack of English SATS Practice Papers will help prepare pupils for the tests in 2019 and beyond! It contains two more sets of fully updated English SATS papers, plus a detailed answer book with mark scheme. To make this pack even better, we’ve added in a new pupil-friendly answer book, so pupils can even mark their own work! This is Pack Three: for even more practice, Pack One (9781789081091), Pack Two (9781789081107), Pack Four (9781789081114) and Pack Five (9781789081121) are also available.

A Sense of Place: Mindful practice outdoors

Being outside and connecting with nature is key to young children's learning and wellbeing, especially in a busy, fast-changing and digitalised world. Outdoors, children can more easily connect to their bodies, and learn about themselves and others and how to be in the world. They use their senses to explore, understand and become mindful of the earth and the people around them. But how can Early Years practitioners best support young children as they engage with nature, while also passing on the values about the future of the planet? Annie Davy presents tried-and-tested strategies that support the wellbeing and learning journey of children through mindfulness, with a focus on learning outdoors and connecting with the world. A Sense of Place is an easily accessible guide that will make outdoor learning more interesting and fun, while also supporting children's development of resilience and resourcefulness so that they can survive and thrive in the world as they grow.

Research Methods for Understanding Professional Learning (Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education)

Practitioners are experts in their field and this book introduces research methods that help to make that expertise explicit. There is worldwide recognition of the importance of high quality, reflective practice that both engages with existing research evidence and engages in the production of new evidence. Research Methods for Understanding Professional Learning demonstrates how the knowledge about what happens in a practice context and the skills used to succeed there can be used as the building blocks for developing research methods and tools to best investigate practice. The experienced author team introduce a framework for understanding practice and for designing research about practice using a wealth of real research examples across all phases of education. This practical guide provides suggestions of a unique mix of research methods and tools, moving beyond just action research methodology, allowing the reader to engage with research design and assess how well the data gathered will answer their research question.

Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods: Generative Entanglements (Feminist Thought in Childhood Research)

Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods charts the evolving nature of feminist theory and research methods in childhood studies and the generative potential this holds for researchers, academics and educators to continue to push ideas and practices. The book traces the threads of affect and effect that feminist theories and methodologies have made over time to thinking more, and differently, about gender in childhood. In the wake of the 'new materialist turn' in feminist research, the book sought to address two pressing questions: what is especially new about feminist new materialism, and what is especially feminist about feminist new materialism. These questions are generative, troubling, unsettling and invited the contributors on an adventure that involved re-turning and reconfiguring ideas and practices about gender and childhood. Along with the editors, Jayne Osgood (UK), and Kerry H. Robinson (Australia), five key international feminist scholars, Mindy Blaise (Australia), Bronwyn Davies (Australia), Debbie Epstein (UK), Jen Lyttleton-Smith (UK), and Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw (Canada) collaborated on this book project. Their reflective accounts capture the contribution of their own work and that of their peers, to advancing research practices and theorisations of gender in childhood. Having all approached the study of gendered childhoods in creative and critical ways, these important feminist researchers re-engage and critically reflect on their earlier work alongside their more contemporary contributions to the field. The book is as much about the processes involved in its creation as it about the material/digital end product. The chapters work with both familiar and unfamiliar feminist methodological frameworks that bring affect, materiality and embodiment, as well as textual representations of gender and childhood, into play. The book engages with, and generates artwork, poetry, photographs as a means to grapple with how gender, childhood, family, curriculum and policy have been, and might be researched. The book captures a lively, collaborative, feminist experiment that sought to make space for fresh conceptualisations of gender in childhood. Issues addressed include: social justice and transformative methodologies in childhood research; advancing theoretical perspectives that contribute to fresh understandings of gender in young children's lives; the ways that research into gender in childhood play out in educational agendas; and the specific gender issues perceived critical to address in contemporary childhoods lived in the post-Anthropocene.

Mastering Primary History (Mastering Primary Teaching)

Mastering Primary History introduces the primary history curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make learning history irresistible.Topics covered include:· Current developments in history· History as an irresistible activity · History as a practical activity · Skills to develop in history· Promoting curiosity · Assessing children in history· Practical issuesThis guide includes examples of children's work, case studies, readings to reflect upon and reflective questions that all help to show students and teachers what is considered to be best and most innovative practice, and how they can use that knowledge in their own teaching to the greatest effect. The book draws on the experience of three leading professionals in primary history, Karin Doull, Christopher Russell and Alison Hales, to provide the essential guide to teaching history for all trainee primary teachers.

Mastering Primary Religious Education (Mastering Primary Teaching)

Mastering Primary Religious Education introduces the primary religious education curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make religious education irresistible.Topics covered include:· Current developments in religious education· Religious education as an irresistible activity · Religious education as a practical activity · Skills to develop in religious education· Promoting curiosity · Assessing children in religious education· Practical issuesThis guide includes examples of children's work, case studies, readings to reflect upon and reflective questions that all help to show students and teachers what is considered to be best and most innovative practice, and how they can use that knowledge in their own teaching to the greatest effect. The book draws on the experience of two leading professionals in primary religious education, Maria James and Julian Stern, to provide the essential guide to teaching religious education for all trainee and qualified primary teachers.

Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem

A rigorous, compelling and balanced examination of the British public school system and the inequalities it entrenches.Private schools are institutions that children who are already privileged attend and have those privileges further entrenched, almost certainly for life, through a high-quality, richly-resourced education. The Engines of Privilege contends that in a society that mouths the virtues of equality of opportunity, of fairness and of social cohesion, the continuation of this educational apartheid amounts to an act of national self-harm that does all of us serious damage. Intrinsic to any vision of the future of Britain has to be the nature of our educational system. Yet the quality of conversation on the issue of private education remains surprisingly sterile, patchy and highly subjective. Accessible, evidence-based and inclusive, Engines of Privilege aims to kick-start a long overdue national debate. Clear, vigorous prose is combined with forensic analysis to compelling effect, illuminating the painful contrast between the importance of private schools in British society and the near-absence of serious, policy-making debate, above all on the left.

Statistics in Plain English, Fourth Edition

This introductory textbook provides an inexpensive, brief overview of statistics to help readers gain a better understanding of how statistics work and how to interpret them correctly. Each chapter describes a different statistical technique, ranging from basic concepts like central tendency and describing distributions to more advanced concepts such as t tests, regression, repeated measures ANOVA, and factor analysis. Each chapter begins with a short description of the statistic and when it should be used. This is followed by a more in-depth explanation of how the statistic works. Finally, each chapter ends with an example of the statistic in use, and a sample of how the results of analyses using the statistic might be written up for publication. A glossary of statistical terms and symbols is also included. Using the author’s own data and examples from published research and the popular media, the book is a straightforward and accessible guide to statistics. New features in the fourth edition include: sets of work problems in each chapter with detailed solutions and additional problems online to help students test their understanding of the material, new "Worked Examples" to walk students through how to calculate and interpret the statistics featured in each chapter, new examples from the author’s own data and from published research and the popular media to help students see how statistics are applied and written about in professional publications, many more examples, tables, and charts to help students visualize key concepts, clarify concepts, and demonstrate how the statistics are used in the real world. a more logical flow, with correlation directly preceding regression, and a combined glossary appearing at the end of the book, a Quick Guide to Statistics, Formulas, and Degrees of Freedom at the start of the book, plainly outlining each statistic and when students should use them, greater emphasis on (and description of) effect size and confidence interval reporting, reflecting their growing importance in research across the social science disciplines an expanded website at www.routledge.com/cw/urdan with PowerPoint presentations, chapter summaries, a new test bank, interactive problems and detailed solutions to the text’s work problems, SPSS datasets for practice, links to useful tools and resources, and videos showing how to calculate statistics, how to calculate and interpret the appendices, and how to understand some of the more confusing tables of output produced by SPSS. Statistics in Plain English, Fourth Edition is an ideal guide for statistics, research methods, and/or for courses that use statistics taught at the undergraduate or graduate level, or as a reference tool for anyone interested in refreshing their memory about key statistical concepts. The research examples are from psychology, education, and other social and behavioral sciences.

Challenging the Intersection of Policy with Pedagogy (Thinking About Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education)

Asking key questions about how policies and systems impact on children’s early years and rethinking the ways in which young children’s learning and development becomes integral to policy, this insightful text challenges the common misconception that policy development and pedagogical implementation are separate endeavours. Challenging the Intersection of Policy with Pedagogy explores symbiotic dynamics between policy and practice in the early years to consider the implications of policies relating to documentation, professional well-being, mentoring, the role of the family, language development and diversity. Written to provoke group discussion and extend thinking, opportunities for international comparison, points for reflection and editorial provocations will help students, educators, integrated service providers and policy makers engage critically with a variety of understandings of how policy and practice interact. Considering the role of learning environment, the practitioner, the wider community and policy, chapters are divided into four key sections which reflect major influences on practice and pedagogy: Being alongside children Those who educate Embedding families and communities Working with systems Considering diverse settings and contexts, perspectives, policies and systems, this text will enhance understanding, support self-directed learning and provoke and transform thinking at both graduate and postgraduate levels, particularly in the field of early childhood education and care.

Games and Learning Alliance: 7th International Conference, GALA 2018, Palermo, Italy, December 5–7, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11385)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2018, held in Palermo, Italy, in December 2018.The 38 revised regular papers presented together with 9 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers cover the following topics: games for skills training; game design; methods and tools; gamification and innovative game approaches.