Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education

This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars ...

Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis provides an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data coll...

The Common Core is placing a heavier emphasis on nonfiction, but that doesn't mean you have to give up your literature lessons! In this book, Engli...

This CHOICE award-winning author has teamed up with a national, education technology and social media expert to write a comprehensive book on socia...

How should you prepare for the first day of class? How can you encourage all students to participate in discussions? How do you ensure disabled stu...

How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they v...

This is a companion volume to the editors’ Insights into Teachers’ Thinking and Practice (Falmer Press, 1999) and seeks to carry the discussion on ...

Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis provides an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data coll...

The second edition of Giving a Lecture builds upon the reputation and success of the Key Guides for Effective Teaching in Higher Education series. ...

Universities have become essential players in the generation of knowledge and innovation. Through the commercialization of technology, they have de...

Do the arts improve academic achievement? What does it mean to ‘teach’ art? What should the balance of classic and pop be in the music curriculum? ...

Research findings in education can provide invaluable insight into how teaching practice can be improved, but research papers are often inaccessibl...

With a unique focus on the relationship between assessment and engagement this book explores what works in terms of keeping students on course to s...

At the time of its publication in 1923, Charles Homer Haskins' The Rise of Universities was considered remarkable for its erudition, succinctness, ...

Focus Groups: From Structured Interviews to Collective Conversations is a conceptual and practical introduction to focus group. As the title indica...

Preparing teachers to work in our nation’s classrooms presents an array of challenges for teacher educators. Recently, organizations such as the A...

Since the 1960s, Japan has been a historical leading study abroad destination for US undergraduate students. This book explores the long-term impac...

Multiliteracies and Early Years Innovation: Perspectives from Finland and Beyond brings together internationally renowned scholars to investigate a...

Although scholarly examinations of privilege have increased in recent decades, an emphasis on privilege studies pedagogy remains lacking within ins...

The landscape of higher education (HE) has dramatically altered in the past 30 years and it continues to evolve and change. More students are enter...

One of the key challenges facing schools today is that of reducing marginalisation amongst pupils in educational contexts. This timely book provide...

The first few years of teaching are critical to the professional development of effective English teachers. In these crucial years, new teachers es...

The use of reflection as a tool to support and develop practice is becoming increasingly recognised across education, healthcare and the social sci...

Composing Our Future is the ideal book for music teacher-educators seeking to learn more about composition education. While much has been written o...

The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of lifelong learning has...

With a unique focus on the relationship between assessment and engagement this book explores what works in terms of keeping students on course to s...

One of the key challenges facing schools today is that of reducing marginalisation amongst pupils in educational contexts. This timely book provide...

How teachers form and maintain classroom and staffroom relationships is crucial to the success of their work. A teacher who is able to accurately i...

As the complexity of 21st century disciplines has increased it has become necessary to rethink the design and delivery of learning to more effectiv...

The landscape of higher education (HE) has dramatically altered in the past 30 years and it continues to evolve and change. More students are enter...

Gerald Grace here explores the concept of role conflict and the current theorizing about the problems of the teacher’s role. He investigates four p...

Nearly two-thirds of students require some form of remediation before taking college-level classes, and community colleges have become increasingly...

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the means by which the professions across the world ensure that their knowledge and skills remain up t...

Why is it that some teachers have a kind of magical charisma and charm which sets them apart from their peers? This book gives us a fresh and excit...

What are the key issues in Citizenship Education today?Debates in Citizenship Education encourages student and practising teachers to engage with a...

Dynamic principles of professional development are directly and indirectly defined and applied with no particular order of sequence as one or more ...

How can teacher educators engage pre-service and in-service teachers in learning about and framing their teaching from a critical literacy perspect...

Supporting Change in Autism Services explores the theoretical and practical dimensions of improving service provision for children, young people an...

The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification....

Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School helps mentors of trainee and newly qualified primary school teachers to both develop their own mentoring s...

‘Tom Bennett is the voice of the modern teacher.’ - Stephen Drew, Senior Vice-Principal, Passmores Academy, UK, featured on Channel 4’s Educating E...

Social scientists are paying increasing attention to the business and financial elites: There’s a great need to understand who these elites are, wh...

Comparative research on higher education in developing and transitional countries is often focused on such issues as access, finance, student mobil...

Overcoming Disaster: What Colleges Learned from Catastrophe to Recovery provides a resource to help leaders at many levels in an organization under...

Do the arts improve academic achievement? What does it mean to ‘teach’ art? What should the balance of classic and pop be in the music curriculum? ...

Violence, democracy and rights are issues that are not fully addressed in research methodology literatures, yet violence is of vital interest in su...

Every semester, colleges and universities ask students to complete innumerable course and teaching evaluation questionnaires to evaluate the learni...

Leading Learning and Teaching in Higher Education brings together contemporary ideas on leadership, engagement and student learning into a practica...