Rebooting Policy Analysis is a savvy introduction to policy analysis that gets students thinking not just about how decisions should be made, but how they are made.

Mentors learn how to develop student-centered approaches, promote collective efficacy, engage in coaching conversations, and prevent teacher burnout in this book designed to support teachers while promoting student learning.

Exploring Lifespan Development, Fourth Edition , the shorter, essentials version of Development Through the Lifespan , Seventh Edition, covers the same topics and contains the same number of chapters, but presents only the essential information, with an exceptionally strong emphasis on applications. Exploring Lifespan Development also includes all the great features Berk's texts are known for - an engaging writing style, exceptional multicultural and cross-cultural focus, rich examples, the m...

This book provides practitioners and undergraduates with a greater understanding of the position of the researcher, how to facilitate research and the ways in which research underpins raising achievement and change in the workplace.

This book is a "survival guide" for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited resources.

Unlike other books about coaching, Making Sense of Coaching examines the process of coaching rather than its techniques and goals and addresses issues such as the problematic relationship between coach and coachee in business coaching when the explicit goal is to improve individual performance within an organisation.

If you've ever wondered anything, really-just out of curiosity-then you've got what it takes to lead your students to restored curiosity and success.

Written by one of the field's leading researchers, Disability and the Sociological Imagination is the first true undergraduate text for the relatively new and growing area of sociology of disability. The text discusses the major theorists, research methods, and bodies of knowledge that represents sociology's key contributions to our understanding of disability.