Theories of Learning

If the body of knowledge of a profession is a living landscape of practice, then our personal experience of learning can be thought of as a journey through this landscape. Within Learning in Landscapes of Practice, this metaphor is further developed in order to start an important conversation about ..

If the body of knowledge of a profession is a living landscape of practice, then our personal experience of learning can be thought of as a journey through this landscape. Within Learning in Landscapes of Practice, this metaphor is further developed in order to start an important conversation about ..

Learning Patterns in Higher Education brings together a cutting edge international team of contributors to critically review our current understanding of how students and adults learn, how differences and changes in the way students learn can be measured in a valid and reliable way, and how the qual..

Learning Patterns in Higher Education brings together a cutting edge international team of contributors to critically review our current understanding of how students and adults learn, how differences and changes in the way students learn can be measured in a valid and reliable way, and how the qual..

How exactly do we learn to be a person through living? In this book, Peter Jarvis demonstrates the ways in which we become social human beings.  It will appeal to a wide variety of audiences involved in the study of learning and development...

How exactly do we learn to be a person through living? In this book, Peter Jarvis demonstrates the ways in which we become social human beings.  It will appeal to a wide variety of audiences involved in the study of learning and development...

This book brings together a range of international studies to support the implementation of cooperative group work in the classroom. In spite of extensive research into the benefits of this approach, in many countries, it is not widely used, largely due to a lack of understanding of how to put this ..

Linguistics and the Teacher is a collection of essays by linguists on different aspects of the relationship between linguistics and education. All the contributors are united in their belief that linguistics should be a central element in the education of teachers, and argue for principled and syste..

This book brings together essays from education scholars who are studying the interconnections between pedagogy and memory in the context of social themes and social inquiry within educational research...

This book brings together essays from education scholars who are studying the interconnections between pedagogy and memory in the context of social themes and social inquiry within educational research...

This collection, written with teachers, scholars, and researchers in mind, focuses on the essential issue of helping students learn how to want to write._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of Reading and Writing Quarterly...

Practice thinking has emerged as a central concern in social theory and research, evident in a burgeoning literature on practice theory, practice-based approaches to research, and site studies on particular manifestations of practice. This book engages with the notion of ‘practice’ across four theme..