For many teachers and teacher education students, research is initially, a daunting prospect. Educational Research: Creative Thinking and Doing, Second Edition, is an accessible and engaging text which introduces students to the broad field of educational research and demonstrates how to use research when thinking about issues arising from educational and social policy, as well as schools and classrooms, within organizational and institutional contexts. Assuming no previous experience, the book covers the basic principles, reviewing imperatives and theoretical approaches, and explains how to tackle the necessary processes and procedures for conducting research and presenting the results. The new edition has been updated to highlight the contemporary focus on mixed methodology and collaborative research, and there is increased coverage of research in science and social science educational contexts to balance with its emphasis on helping arts and humanities teacher education students to use and to do research.

Educational Research: Creative Thinking and Doing

Education & Teaching

O'Toole, John

Beckett, David

Schools & Teaching

Oxford University Press

For many teachers and teacher education students, research is an initially daunting prospect. This accessible and engaging text will introduce students to the broad field of educational research demonstrating how to use research to think about issues arising from classroom settings, organizations, or wider professional activities. It provides students with the confidence to address firstly the basic principles, imperatives and theoretical approaches, and then explains how to tackle the necessary processes and procedures.

In both paid and unpaid work contexts adults learn powerfully from their experiences. In this book, the authors argue that this should be the basis for a new perception of what is truly educational in life. Drawing on the works of Aristotle, Wittgenstein and Russell, along with contemporary conceptual work, they use both philosophical argument and empirical example to establish their view.This work will be of essential interest to philosophers of education and educational theorists worldwide. It will also interest teachers, trainers, facilitators, and all those with an interest in adult and vocational education.

Life, Work and Learning: Practice in postmodernity (Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education)

Business & Money

Hager, Paul

Management & Leadership

Routledge

Across the verdant forests, lush fields, stormy seas, and riotous streets of 1800s America unfurls David Beckett's new adventure, a tale centered on the friendship linking young William Finnegan and wise Thomas Garrett. The author's commitment to biographical research and his gift for engaging dialogue breathe life into a plethora of real-world figures, true 19th Century villains and heroes. In these pages, furtive, anti-government conspirators, voodoo priestesses, dragoon soldiers, savvy politicians, bounty hunters, intrepid explorers, conniving lawyers, commercial tycoons, bold suffragettes, and clever smugglers vie for survival and supremacy, each battling to reshape our young republic. The Chords of Memory tackles complex, nuanced subjects with care and compassion. Ultimately, this rousing work of historical fiction spotlights what's best and bravest in our national character. -- U.N. Ambassador Sichan Siv

The Chords of Memory

Literature & Fiction

United States

Blazing Lantern, LLC

Life, Work and Learning

Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice (Educational Philosophy and Theory)

Expertise, Pedagogy and Practice takes as its focus recent work on situated and embodied cognition, the concepts of expertise, skill and practice, and contemporary pedagogical theory. This work has made important steps towards overcoming traditional intellectualist and individualist models of cognition, group interaction and learning, but has in turn generated a number of important questions about the shape of a model that emphasizes learning and interaction as situated and embodied. Bringing together philosophers, cognitive scientists and education theorists, the collection asks and explores a variety of different questions. Can a group learn? Is expertise distributed? How can we make sense of a normative dimension of expertise or skill? How situation-specific is expertise? How can groups shape or generate expert practice? Through these lenses, this collection advances a more experientially holistic approach to the characterisation and growth of human expertise. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Life, Work and Learning (Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education)

Over 100,000 readers have already dramatically improved their presentations using the practical, instantly usable tools presented in this book. Presentation is the single most influential activity in your career. Improving your ability to present yourself and your work guarantees increased earning potential and a faster track to success in your business life. TEDx Speech Coach David Beckett has coached over 130 Startups to win over $40Million in investment, and has helped thousands of professionals make massive leaps in the quality of their presentations. In this book, David shares the tools that helped those presenters succeed. You'll find numerous workable methods and examples, which you can immediately put into place in your next presentation: tools that will enable you to overcome your nerves, structure your story, and deliver your best presentations yet. Learn how to; - Prepare your content and yourself - Use the Power of Three - Make a great impression in the first 60 seconds - Make your presentation interactive - Finish with a bang

Three Minute Presentation 33 three minute tools to help you deliver outstanding presentations

Skills

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Cana Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Tuscany Press, LLC.

<div>This book centres on a broadened view of complexity that will enrich engagement with complexity in the social sciences.&nbsp;The key idea&nbsp;is to employ complexity theory to develop a holistic account of practice, agency and expertise.&nbsp;In doing so, the book acknowledges and builds upon the relational character of reductive accounts. It&nbsp;draws upon recent theoretical work on complexity, emergence and relationality to develop a novel account of practice, agency and expertise in and for workplaces. Biological, psychological and social aspects of these are integrated. This novel account overcomes problems in current views of practice, agency and expertise, which suffer from reductive, or fragmented, analyses, based upon individuals, groups, or networks. In retrieving the experiential richness of human activity - often esteemed as the basis of generative and creative life - this book shows how complexity both emerges from, and is, a non-reductive feature of, human experience, especially in daily work. </div> <div> "...an ambitiously wide-ranging volume, questioning the key tenets of respected approaches ..... and offering ..... 'novel accounts', which draw on features of complexity thinking.... ...But they go further than any of us in their argument that: 'whatever reductive moves are made, they 'flow' from holistic accounts of relationality which have already affectively engaged the purposes of a co-present group.' This is the intellectual contribution that is built consistently and persuasively across the chapters."&nbsp; Professor Emerita Anne Edwards, Oxford University "Hager and Beckett have written a book that will challenge more commonly held notions of agency, practice, skills, and learning. Centering their argument on complexity theory or, as they prefer, complexity thinking, Hager and Beckett argue that it is through relations that we raise questions about, gather data from, and make working sense of the complexity that surrounds us. Groups then, particularly small groups, hold and implement agentive power. And what the authors call co-present groups--ones in which holistic relationality occurs socially, and affectively in distinctive places--"draw us closer to each other, and harness our normativity by enabling negotiability and reason-giving." If your field of study involves anything remotely sociocultural in nature or if you are just interested in the complex ways we engage as humans with our worlds, you should find a place for this book in your library." Bob Fecho, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York NY, USA </div>

The Emergence of Complexity: Rethinking Education as a Social Science (Perspectives on Rethinking and Reforming Education)

Job Hunting & Careers

Springer

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