Understanding Staff Development (Routledge Revivals)

Understanding Staff Development (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Graham Webb
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135099065

First published in 1996, this book charts the philosophical landscape of staff development at a time when the subject of ‘quality’ in university teaching and learning was under examination. Graham Webb considers three main issues in his research. He focuses on what the basis for educational and staff development actually is and looks at the weaknesses of the then current practices, as well as deliberating over the future of informed staff development. This book will be of interest to staff developers of all kinds and more generally, to anyone concerned with education and human development.

Understanding Student Learning (Routledge Revivals)

Understanding Student Learning (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Noel Entwistle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317513576

First published in 1983, Understanding Student Learning provides an in-depth analysis of students’ learning methods in higher education, at the time. It examines the extent to which these learning methods reflected the teaching, assessment and individual personalities of the students involved. The book contains interviews with students, experiments and statistical analyses of survey data in order to identify successes and difficulties in student learning and the culmination of these techniques is a clearer insight into the process of student learning.

Young People's Understanding of Society (Routledge Revivals)

Young People's Understanding of Society (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Adrian Furnham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 131724608X

First published in 1991, this book represents the first wide-ranging review of young people’s understanding of the social world and the functioning of society. Taking a social cognitive view of adolescence, it focuses on the processes by which young people learn to understand other people’s thoughts, emotions, intentions and behaviour. Concentrating on the social world of politics, economics, work, gender and religion, the authors cover such issues as: politics and government; work and unemployment; law and legislative matters; religion; marriage and the family; social class; and racial and ethnic differences. This work will be of interest to students of sociology and psychology.

Routledge Revivals: Vocational Education and Training in the Developed World (1979)

Routledge Revivals: Vocational Education and Training in the Developed World (1979)
Author: Leonard Cantor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351374737

First published in 1989, this book primarily sets out to provide detailed accounts of the policy towards and the provision of vocational education and training in five countries of the developed world: Japan, Australia, the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the United Kingdom. Professor Cantor concentrates on the training of skilled personnel at operative, craft, and technician levels, and describes provision both within public and private institutions, such as further education colleges, and in industry and business. Comparisons are drawn between each country, for example between the ‘British’ traditions of vocational education and training in Australia and the United Kingdom, and the more ‘entrepreneurial’ approach of Japan and the United States.

Routledge Revivals: Further Education Today (1979)

Routledge Revivals: Further Education Today (1979)
Author: Leonard Cantor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351376446

First published in 1979, this critical review covers further education in England and Wales, giving an overview of its administrative framework. Cantor and Roberts examine education for the sixteen to nineteen age group, giving details on school and college structure as well as an analysis on course and certification developments. The study examines different subjects in the English and Welsh higher education system, including chapters on technician and business education, as well as art, agriculture, and management education. This revised third edition of the original work also looks at teacher education, staff development, research and curriculum development, taking steps to imagine what would happen to education in England and Wales after the decade of the 1980s.

Handbook of Educational Ideas and Practices (Routledge Revivals)

Handbook of Educational Ideas and Practices (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Noel Entwistle
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1175
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317510070

First published in 1990, the Handbook of Educational Ideas and Practices was written for practitioners and students in the field of education and its related services and was designed to appeal to educationists no matter what their nationality. Focusing mainly on compulsory schooling, it provides summaries of the thinking, research findings, and innovatory practices current at the time. However, the book is also careful to present a complete picture of education and therefore includes a separate section for education beyond school which covers pre-school level, post-secondary level, and adult and continuing education. There are also other chapters dealing with aspects of organization, curriculum, and teaching in various forms of tertiary education. Indeed, each topic has been discussed by an acknowledged expert writing in sufficient detail in order to resist trivialization.

Explaining International Production (Routledge Revivals)

Explaining International Production (Routledge Revivals)
Author: John H. Dunning
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317576160

John Dunning’s general theory of international production, first propounded in the late 1970’s, has generated considerable debate. This work thoughtfully reassesses the paradigm, and extends the analysis to embrace issues of theoretical and empirical importance. In a collection of essays, the changing characteristics of international production are examined, and an interdisciplinary approach suggested for understanding the multinational enterprise in the world economy. This book, first published in 1988, will be of value not only to economists and international business analysts, but to scholars in other fields, notably organizational, marketing and management specialists.

Psychology and Ethical Development (Routledge Revivals)

Psychology and Ethical Development (Routledge Revivals)
Author: R. S. Peters
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317494652

First published in 1974, this book presents a coherent collection of major articles by Richard Stanley Peters. It displays his work on psychology and philosophy, with special attention given to the areas of ethical development and human understanding. The book is split into four parts. The first combines a critique of psychological theories, especially those of Freud, Piaget and the Behaviourists, with some articles on the nature and development of reason and the emotions. The second looks in historical order at ethical development. The third part combines a novel approach to the problem of understanding other people, whilst the fourth part is biographical in an unusual way. The volume can be viewed as a companion to the author’s Ethics and Education and will appeal to students and teachers of education, philosophy and psychology, as well as to the interested non-specialist reader.

Common Knowledge

Common Knowledge
Author: Derek Edwards
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2013-12-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415632943

This book is about education as a communicative process, about how knowledge is presented, received, controlled, understood and misunderstood by teachers and children in the classroom.

The Awakening Giant (Routledge Revivals)

The Awakening Giant (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Andrew Pettigrew
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136720936

First published in 1985, this book is about Imperial Chemical Industries’ response to the changing social, political, business and economic environment over the past twenty years. Using personal interviews and archival material, Andrew Pettigrew examines the evolution of business strategy, organisation structure and culture, technology and union-management relations within this corporate giant over an extended period of time. It is a compelling account, told from the inside, by one of the world’s leading management and organisation theorists. The Awakening Giant has made a major practical and theoretical contribution to the study of corporate strategy, organisational analysis and change, and business history. Anyone with an interest in managing change in a large corporation will find this reissue rewarding reading.