How to successfully finish a PhD?

Completing a PhD is a long and challenging journey. Many PhD candidates start that journey full of enthusiasm, but lose direction and motivation along the way. Often, this loss of momentum happens because they, like their supervisors, focus too much on the content and neglect the process.

This travel guide teaches you how to successfully navigate the PhD process so that you can enjoy the journey more and reach your destination with better results and in good ...

Our world has changed a great deal since we first (or last) designed education. The current educational setting – a bunch of students in a classroom, at a set time and place, with one teacher sharing their knowledge as an omniscient authority – is still very much the same as it was a century ago.

In the Netherlands, the educational landscape provides, at least in theory, a great deal of freedom for schools to transform the contemporary learning environment as well as our vision of learnin...

This is the guide to safeguarding for anyone training to teach in primary or secondary schools and qualified teachers wishing to deepen their professional knowledge. It offers practical guidance on managing all aspects of safeguarding as part of a busy teaching role.

Imagine yourself fresh out of high school, ready to tackle the challenges and adventures that await at university. From navigating the stress of academic demands to forging meaningful friendships, the transition can be daunting. But beyond the pursuit of a degree lies a deeper journey—one of emotional growth, social connection, and personal discovery.

Written by the Department of Social, Cultural, and Student Oriented Services (DSCS) and its visionary team, this book is a testament to years...

Using vignettes focused on engagement, leadership, implementation frameworks, and collaborative learning, the authors demonstrate how to uncover and remedy inequities.

This self-contained monograph reports the recent approaches, methods and practices of technology-enabled personalized learning. It serves to provide some useful references for researchers and practitioners in the field in conceptualizing and deploying personalized learning.

Teaching English Literature 16 - 19 is an essential new resource that is suitable for use both as an introductory guide for those new to teaching literature and also as an aid to reflection and renewal for more experienced teachers. Using the central philosophy that students will learn best when actively engaged in discussion and encouraged to apply what they have learnt independently, this highly practical new text contains: discussion of the principles behind the teaching of literature at t...

Most students struggle with learning how to find references, use them effectively, and cite them appropriately in a required format. One of the most common formats is that of APA. The authors all have vast experience teaching writing courses to various levels of students from undergraduates to graduates in other countries.

However, there was lacking a book that could explain the basics of APA in simple, easy-to-understand language for non-native speakers of English, who are often unfamiliar w...

Praise for previous editions:- 'A wealth of theory, research, practical advice, case studies and tasks in one volume...Indispensable for both HEI tutors and mentors, and an important book to recommend to all MFL students.' - Language Learning Journal'Presenting clear, straightforward, factual information on all current issues facing MFL student teachers ... An excellent reference guide during the first years of teaching.' - Mentoring and TutoringLearning to Teach Foreign Languages in the Seco...

Have you ever felt you're not getting through to the person you're talking to, or not coming across the way you intend? You're not alone. That's the bad news. But there is something we can do about it.

Heidi Grant Halvorson, social psychologist and bestselling author, explains why we're often misunderstood and how we can fix that. Most of us assume that other people see us as we see ourselves, and that they see us as we truly are. But neither is true.

Our everyday interactions are colored by ...