Theories of Learning

This book examines the implications of computer-generated learning for curriculum design, epistemology, and pedagogy, exploring the ways these technologies transform the relationship between knowledge and learning, and between teachers and students. It argues that these technologies and practices ha..

In this introductory text the authors look closely at widely held assumptions about ‘race’ and schooling in Britain, and evaluate the role of the school in a multi-ethnic society. Focusing on contemporary issues and concerns, they consider such controversial questions as: Is the education system rig..

Grounded in philosophical approaches to cognition, this book presents a radical reframing of how children learn geometrical concepts in their early years. The book exhibits the shortcomings of other theories, including embodiment and enactivist approaches and advances an understanding of mathematics..

When Albert Hunt joined the staff of the Regional College of Art, Bradford, in 1965, he found himself working mostly with ‘non-academic’ students on a fascinating range of games, projects and theatre events outside the main stream of exam-oriented education. In this title, first published in 1976, A..

When Albert Hunt joined the staff of the Regional College of Art, Bradford, in 1965, he found himself working mostly with ‘non-academic’ students on a fascinating range of games, projects and theatre events outside the main stream of exam-oriented education. In this title, first published in 1976, A..

While some forms of knowledge emerge as legitimised and authoritative; other forms are resisted or repressed. This collection draws on a range of psychoanalytic and social theory, in order to explore writing as a practice that can stabilise or unsettle subjectivities; the unconscious relations betwe..

Language is the basic means of communication in the classroom. It is therefore vital that teachers should know something about its acquisition, development, possible defects and the ways in which they may understand and develop its communicative powers._x000D_ Peter Herriot describes the relationshi..

Language is the basic means of communication in the classroom. It is therefore vital that teachers should know something about its acquisition, development, possible defects and the ways in which they may understand and develop its communicative powers._x005F_x000D_ Peter Herriot describes the relat..

Language, Learning, Context aims to help educators understand the ways in which they use language and the sense in which they are as much subject to its possibilities as they are able to consciously mobilize those possibilities...

This book brings together leading representatives of activity-theoretically-oriented and socioculturally-oriented research around the world, to discuss creativity as a collective endeavour strongly related to learning to face the societal challenges of our world. As history shows, major accomplishme..

This book examines learning and research in virtual worlds.   The scope of the work is inclusive of virtual worlds from Second Life™ to World of Warcraft™ and their application in real world academic work across a myriad of disciplines.  _x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special ..

This book examines learning and research in virtual worlds.   The scope of the work is inclusive of virtual worlds from Second Life™ to World of Warcraft™ and their application in real world academic work across a myriad of disciplines.  _x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue ..