Approaching the subject from a focussed international and pluralist perspective, this book provides advanced-level treatment of all the core areas to give postgraduate students a wide-ranging and dynamic introduction

Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way.

The only all-encompassing guide to everything you need to know to teach and train in post compulsory education!

Creamer's practical and original approach enables students and researchers to feel confident when designing their own fully integrated mixed methods studies to answer their research questions.

Analyzing Inequalities: An Introduction to Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Using the General Social Survey is a practical resource for helping students connect sociological issues with real-world data in the context of their first undergraduate sociology courses. This worktext introduces readers to the GSS, one of the most widely analyzed surveys in the U.S.; examines a range of GSS questions related to social inequalities; and demonstrates basic techniques for analyzing this data online...

This book identifies the mindset, processes, and actual behaviors that contribute to successful reform efforts and provide school leaders with concrete tools enabling them to be more effective.

This Second Edition helps students to practise organization development skills in unison with learning about theories of organizational change and human behaviour.

Patty McGee helps teachers transform student writers by demonstrating what to do to build tone, trust, motivation, and choice into daily lessons, conferences, and revision suggestions.

Education is evolving rapidly. To sustain change, school communities need broad support for shifts in teaching and learning that promise better outcomes for learners. This requires collaborative inquiry and hard conversations involving everyone with a stake in student success. Designed to promote and provoke conversations inside and outside schools, All Together Now will inspire educators and fellow stakeholders to embark on the challenging work ahead.

Readers will find a clear, four-part fra...

This applied text combines clear explanations of intermediate-level statistics with a rich set of exercises to develop students' skills in selecting, performing and evaluating statistical tests. Each exercise involves writing a brief abstract so that students can translate results into a cohesive and concise story about their data.