This text provides a solid introduction to concepts such as statistical control, mediation, moderation, and path modeling necessary to students taking intermediate and advanced statistics courses across the social sciences.

Through a reflective lens, this book equips teachers and support staff to help all students thrive by identifying and fostering each teacher's and child's individual differences and unique strengths.

Explores the many conceptual choices an evaluator needs to make - from attention to stakeholders, to weighing ethical risks, to writing a useful report - when doing an evaluation. This book presents evaluation as a series of choices for the reader.

This volume of primary readings and overview essays provides a comprehensive introduction to the sociology of organizations. The readings represent a wide range of theoretical perspectives and substantive topics. Most readings are either classics in the field or works that are widely used and cited.

Drawing from educational and psychological research, this heavily revised second edition offers a detailed analysis of how reading comprehension happens combined with practical teaching strategies for the primary classroom.

In this book, teacher, education consultant and researcher Jon Tibke fact-checks prevailing 'neuromyths' by shining a light on what scientific research is truly relevant for the classroom and exploring the current limits of our understanding.

This is a practical 'how-to' guide, exploring how teaching can support your research. Written by lecturers who have taught for many years, the 'voice of experience' sections support and encourage you in your move towards becoming a successful and confident educator.

Since 1997 Representation has been the go-to textbook for students learning the tools to question and critically analyze media texts and images. This long-awaited third edition has been updated throughout to engage with the impact of digital technology and culture, and the changes in political culture, social movements and the cultural industries. The new edition includes: A new preface by Sean Nixon, focusing on digital media, and theories of representation. A new Afterword by Kobena Mercer ...

This text provides a clinically oriented introduction to neuropsychology through a relational lens that emphasizes the importance of social and environmental factors on brain function, trauma, and recovery.

A critical exploration of historical power structures and forces of oppression that shaped the field of psychology, and a compelling call to move towards the decolonisation of the discipline in today’s university.