Organized around Ginsberg and Wlodkowski's highly-acclaimed Motivational Framework for Culturally-Responsive Teaching, an extensively field-tested and research-validated pedagogical model that helps teachers plan and reflect on lessons in ways that work together to enhance student motivation and learning.

The author has been involved in a dispute with his employer, Lancaster University, about what he sees as irregularities in the REF process. In this title, he criticizes the REF for discouraging innovation and harming staff morale, and questions the REF's claim to provide 'expert review of the outputs' - the very heart of its legitimacy.

There is a war on for the future of the university worldwide. The stakes are high, and they reach deep into our social condition. This book analyses the position, and argues for the necessity of taking sides with the latter. It does so with a sense of urgency, because the market fundamentalists are on the march.

This book is a guide for trainee and beginning teachers on how to use talk in the classroom. It explores the theory behind the teaching of language and communication skills and includes lots of practical advice on how to translate this into the classroom.

Bringing together two core areas of the curriculum, play and literacy, this book offers an innovative approach to examining literacy and language development within the context of children's play.

This book guides trainees through each step of their journey and helps them build the knowledge, confidence and skills to succeed.

This book is a user-friendly, accessible study skills guide designed to support the course materials, subject content and approaches students will encounter.

In today’s society the presence of safety risks and hazards like wildfires, pandemics, industrial activities and an increasing population combined with a more demanding environment demand a lot of the Dutch emergency response organizations or safety regions. Safety regions comprise the regional fire service and the regional medical service and stand in relationship with a large array of stakeholders like law enforcement, public administrations and the Dutch Department of Defense. The region...

Written for both preservice and in-service school counselors and those who support them, this essential guide prepares readers to take an active role in creating equitable conditions for success for all students.