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Getting Started with English Language Learners
ASCD 2007; US$ 23.95A veteran educator provides insights and strategies for educators unaccustomed to working with students whose native language is not English. more...
Professing in the Postmodern Academy
Baylor University Press 2002; US$ 34.95Professing in the Postmodern Academy examines the landscape of religiously affiliated higher education in America from the perspective of faculty members critically committed to the future of church-related institutions. The book includes articles on a variety of topics from members of the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of Church-Related College,... more...
Studying at a Distance
McGraw-Hill Education 2003; US$ 105.00Provides practical help and encouragement for those who have not previously studied 'at a distance'. This work includes motivation, goal setting, time management and coping. It refreshes basic study skills and helps with research projects. It surveys e-learning developments. It also gives comments and advice from other distance learning students. more...
Media Bias Reporting Social Research: Hammersley
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95In recent years, the importance of disseminating the findings of social research has been given increased emphasis. The most effective way in which this can be done is via the mass media. However, there are frequent complaints that media coverage of social and educational research is very limited and often distorted. Through a detailed analysis of... more...
To Hold and Be Held
Routledge 2006; US$ 34.95Integrates the concepts of the 'holding environment' and attachment theory and describes how they are applied in a clinical setting. This book also uses metaphor to both derive meaning from the language of the therapeutic process and to apply that meaning within a systems framework to effect significant therapeutic change. more...
Developing Reading and Writing in Second Language Learners
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 33.95A Co-Publication of Routledge, the Center for Applied Linguistics, and the International Reading Association This book is a shorter version of Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners, reporting the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. This book concisely summarizes what is known from empirical... more...
Cultural Education-Cultural Sustainability
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 58.95This volume is a path-breaking contribution to the study of efforts of diaspora, indigenous, and minority groups, broadly defined, to use education (formal and informal) to sustain cultural continuity while grappling with the influences and demands of wider globalizing, nationalizing, or other homogenizing and assimilatory forces. Particular attention... more...
Supporting Multilingual Learners in the Early Years
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 33.95Shortlisted for the Nasen Book that supports SEN and Disability Issues Award 2008 Are children who are exposed to more than one language from birth at an advantage or a disadvantage when starting school? Supporting Multilingual Learners in the Early Years examines the theoretical, ideological and practical issues involved in the education... more...
What Really Works in Special and Inclusive Education
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 46.95Teachers around the globe are anxious to develop genuine, evidence-based policies and practices in their teaching of children with special educational needs, yet this field is notorious for the significant gap that exists between research and practice. What Really Works in Special and Inclusive Education presents educators of learners with special... more...
Extended Schools and Children's Centres
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 42.95Featuring helpful checklists, models of good practice, templates and photocopiable resources that can be used in development work, this highly practical book will be an invaluable resource for anyone involved with implementing Every Child Matters in extended schools and children?s centres. As well as setting out roles and expectations, this unique... more...









