Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: woods peter

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  • SUCCESSFUL WRITING FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCHERS
    PETER WOODS / PAT SIKES
    The fully updated third edition of Successful Writing for Qualitative Researchers includes new material on the nature of qualitative research and the significance of contemporary circumstances in which academic writers have to work, as well as ethical considerations and authorial responsibilities. It provides a wealth of information and practical tips required to successfully t...

    $820.00

  • LIFE IN SCHOOL
    MARTYN HAMMERSLEY / PETER WOODS
    There can be little doubt that pupils’ own interpretations of what happens in their schools represent a crucial link in the educational chain. We need to understand how pupils respond to different forms of pedagogy and school organization, and why they respond in the ways they do, in order to increase the effectiveness of our schooling. In the ten years prior to first publicati...

    $580.00

  • MULTICULTURAL CHILDREN IN THE EARLY YEARS
    PETER WOODS / MARI BOYLE / NICK HUBBARD
    How do multicultural children and their parents experience the very beginning of their school careers? How do teachers mediate the demands of the educational system, and how do the children adapt? What kind of access to the National Curriculum is offered to multicultural children? Originally published in 1999, the authors answer these questions by drawing on two years’ intensiv...

    $1,000.00

  • CHANGING SCHOOLS
    LYNDA MEASOR / PETER WOODS
    Changing schools at 11 or 12+ is a critical, often traumatic event in a pupil’s career. Earlier studies had looked at this transitional stage from the schools’ point of view, in the light of institutional aims and objectives. Originally published in 1984, this richly detailed and readable study looks at it from the pupils’ point of view: it illustrates their perceptions of the ...

    $1,000.00

  • TEACHABLE MOMENTS
    PETER WOODS / BOB JEFFREY
    Creative teaching is an art form – aesthetic, intuitive and expressive. The proliferation of new educational policies in the early 1990s and the related increase in tensions and dilemmas facing schools, combined with the growing demand for a wider range of skills and knowledge among children meant that there was an even greater need for creative teaching than before the Nationa...

    $1,000.00

  • CREATIVE TEACHERS IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS
    PETER WOODS
    Is creative teaching still possible in English schools? Can teachers maintain and promote their own interests and beliefs as well as deliver a prescribed National Curriculum? Originally published in 1995, this book explores creative teachers’ attempts to pursue their brand of teaching despite the changes. Peter Woods has discovered a range of strategies and adaptations to this ...

    $1,000.00

  • RESTRUCTURING SCHOOLS, RECONSTRUCTING TEACHERS
    PETER WOODS / BOB JEFFREY / GEOFF TROMAN / MARI BOYLE
    Drawing on wide ranging research this book, originally published in 1997, explores how the policy changes of previous years were affecting primary teachers and their work at the time. Within the context of worldwide restructuring, the thoughts, feelings and activities of teachers in their daily work are examined. The core argument is that what used to be a complex but fulfillin...

    $1,000.00

  • EDUCATING ALL
    ELIZABETH GRUGEON / PETER WOODS
    Originally published in 1990. Following the Swann Report of 1985 and its pleas for ‘Education for All’ the need for multicultural education in all areas was generally recognised. This need was particularly pressing in primary schools since racial attitudes are formed early in life and may be difficult to change later. This book documents and evaluates a number of approaches in ...

    $640.00

  • SOCIOLOGY AND TEACHING
    PETER WOODS
    First published in 1988, this work considers the ways in which the sociology of education can inform educational practice. It examines the research which marries the two fields and considers the thinking behind it. It addresses key themes such as: sociological awareness or imagination, and how it might be stimulated and enriched by educational study; reflectivity for both teach...

    $960.00

  • DIVIDED SCHOOL
    PETER WOODS
    In this ethnographic study of a secondary school in the UK, the author presents an incisive account of school life from the various points of view of the pupils, teachers and parents. He describes and analyses major areas of experience and methods of adapting to school for both the children and their teachers; school experience is shown to be widely varying from boredom, despai...

    $1,480.00

  • SOCIOLOGY AND THE SCHOOL (RLE EDU L)
    PETER WOODS
    This is an introduction to interactionist work in education during the 1970s and 80s. The interactionist viewpoint concentrates on how people construct meanings in the ebb and flow of everyday life – what they think and do, how they react to one another – and has in recent years established itself as one of the leading approaches in education. It has generated illuminating rese...

    $1,420.00

  • PUPIL STRATEGIES (RLE EDU L)
    WOODS, PETER
    What do pupils actually do in school? There are remarkably few studies that take the pupils’ perspective and reconstruct experience from their point of view within the context of their own cultures and careers. This volume brings together a number of research studies on various aspects of how pupils cope with schools. The theoretical papers consider amongst other issues a devel...

    $1,420.00

  • CRITICAL EVENTS IN TEACHING & LEARNING
    PETER WOODS
    This volume describes and analyses exceptional educational events – periods of particularly effective teaching representing ultimates in teacher and pupil educational experience. The events themselves are reconstructed in the book through teacher and pupil voices and through documentation. A model of ‘critical event’ is derived from the study, which might serve as a possible fr...

    $1,420.00

  • CREATIVE LEARNING IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL
    BOB JEFFREY / PETER WOODS
    Creative Learning in the Primary School uses ethnographic research to consider the main features of creative teaching and learning within the context of contemporary policy reforms. In particular, the authors are interested in the clash between two oppositional discourses - creativity and performativity - and how they are resolved in creative teacher practice. The book compleme...

    $1,280.00

  • TESTING TEACHERS
    BOB JEFFREY / PETER WOODS
    Since the 1992 Education Act inaugurated national arrangements for inspection, schools have operated within an 'inspection climate' which pervades every aspect of school life on a continual basis. The significance of OFSTED inspections cannot be overestimated. They are often the most challenging, searching, uncompromising and stressful events teacher have ever experienced. What...

    $1,380.00

  • INSIDE SCHOOLS
    PETER WOODS
    Ethnography has much to offer teachers, especially at a time of growing interest in the `teacher-reseacher' and in `action' and `collaborative' research. ...

    $960.00

  • ENHANCING TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    HARTLEY, PETER / WOODS, AMANDA / PILL, MARTIN
    This book brings together a collection of ground-breaking research and tested techniques in the field of learning and teaching in higher education. It provides an accessible, authoritative account of the latest developments, outlining how to apply learning theory and best practice to everyday teaching and providing advice on overcoming problems of implementation. Evidence is dr...

    $640.00

  • INTRODUCING THE LEARNING SCIENCES
    SHAARON E. AINSWORTH / PRYCE R. DAVIS / PETER J. WOODS / JONATHAN G. HALLS / LENKA SCHNAUBERT
    Learning Sciences is a cutting-edge interdisciplinary field that investigates how people learn and applies these insights to improve educational practices. This essential textbook introduces the field with a focus on classroom teaching, making complex theories accessible and relevant to educators at all levels. By blending principled understanding with room for teachers’ creati...

    $860.00

  • RESEARCHING THE ART OF TEACHING
    PETER WOODS
    This book is a follow-up to Inside Schools. It reviews the position of ethnography in educational research in the light of current issues and of the author's own research over the past ten years. Starting from an analysis of teaching as science and as art, Peter Woods goes on to review the general interactionist framework in which his own work is situated, and how this relates ...

    $1,660.00