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Peter Woods
This book explores how the Catholic Church can connect powerfully with young people through the evangelising mission of the Catholic school. The understanding, commitment, and intentional focus of educators in…
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Graham Bartlett
The powerful, gripping first-hand account of Brighton's Babes in the Wood murders from long-serving detective Graham Bartlett, with bestselling author Peter James.
Peter H. Wood
Peter H. Wood's groundbreaking history of Blacks in colonial South Carolina, with a new foreword by National Book Award winner Imani Perry.
Peter Mallet Hale
Reprint of the original, first published in 1890.
This book was developed as part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the journal Education 3-13, which has always had primary education as its main…
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…
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…
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…
This book takes as its focus the key interactionist concept of ‘strategy’, a concept fundamental to many current concerns in the sociology of the school, including the understanding of the…
Ethnography has much to offer teachers, especially at a time of growing interest in the ‘teacher-researcher’ and in ‘action’ and ‘collaborative’ research.
Peter Wood
Matthew Wasn’t Always a Problem Child, But Now He’s Screwing Up… Big Time
After Matthew’s parents’ marriage collapsed and his brother and father both disappeared, this once-popular high school kid…
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This book 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.
This volume describes and analyses exceptional educational events - periods of particularly effective teaching representing ultimates in teacher and pupil educational experience.
Examines the changes to teaching and learning in the wake of the 1988 Education Reform Act.
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Surviving Myself--The Making of a Middleweight is a coming-of-age memoir about a sensitive little sweetheart who throws a dynamite left hook--a punch that catapults him into Madison Square Garden to…
This book showcases the diverse nature of policy, provision and practice for special educational needs and disability (SEND) across different international settings.
Ethnography has much to offer teachers, especially at a time of growing interest in the “teacher-reseacher’ and in "action’ and "collaborative’ research.
Originally published in 1995, this book explores creative teachers’ attempts to pursue their brand of teaching despite the changes in education. Peter Woods has discovered a range of strategies and…
This Open University reader brings together contributions from such established names as Robin Alexander and Mary-Jane Drummond, who examine the changes to teaching and learning in the wake of the…
This book links two important aspects of European economic development in the past thirty years: The pace of technical and management innovation and the growing significance of technical and business…
This book examines pupils’ experience of school from their own perspectives, showing a range of responses involving both pain and pleasure. It brings together a wide range of material to…
Traces the birth and evolution of diversity, illuminating how it came to sprawl across politics, law, education, business, entertainment, personal aspiration, religion and the arts as an encompassing claim about…
An anthology of editorials from New Left Review
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The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a…
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Peter Wood Cotterill
This intriguing collection of the author’s stories includes the novella IRhinos ( cos they keep on charging! ), which is about a very mixed group of people attending what…
Peter Wood, Dr
When Calen encounters a baby dolphin with special abilities life on a great space habitat in the Asteroid Belt changes forever. He and his friends become involved with Artificial Intelligences…
Jarra and Mirrigan, both with serious disabilities, both with serious abilities, experience and influence events which change the world.
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Discusses the lives of blacks in the American colonies, from the 16th century when slaves were first brought over by the Spanish to the onset of the American Revolution.
Hailed as the uber guru’ by the Economist Tom Peters (b. 1942) is one of the most influential business thinkers of our age. He is the subject of this new…
David Asirvatham,Peter Woods (The Open University UK)
The great potential of e-learning is yet to be tapped. Most e-learning systems are designed with the concept that one-shore-fits-all. That is, the same set of learning materials are presented…
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…
Julie Brunelle,Peter Wood
Learn the techniques of the great artists and get inspiration from their art to find the artist in you
Peter Wooding,Graham Burton
Science produces fascinating puzzles: why is there such a range of placental structures when other mammalian organs are so structurally uniform ? Comparative placental studies can facilitate the identification of…
