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Teachers’ Worlds and Work: Understanding Complexity, Building Quality
Understanding what influences the quality of teachers’ work across a career is key to building and sustaining their on-going commitment and effectiveness. Teachers’ Worlds and Work provides a new, research-informed consideration of key elements which independently and together influence teachers' wo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Places of the Soul: Architecture and environmental design as a healing art
For Christopher Day, architecture isn’t just about the appearance of buildings but how they’re experienced as places to be in. Occupants’ experience can differ radically from designers’ intentions as their concerns and thinking differ. Additionally, multi-sensory ambience, spatial sequential experie... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
A Passion for Teaching
This book is a celebration and an acknowledgement of the various forms of intellectual, physical, emotional and passionate endeavours in which teachers at their best engage. Christopher Day demonstrates that teachers with a passion for teaching are those who are committed, enthusiastic and intellec... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Spirit and Place: Healing Our Environment, Healing Environment
Built environment surrounds us for 90% of our lives but only now are we realising its influence on the environment, our health, and how we think, feel and behave both individually and socially.Spirit & Place shows how to work towards a sustainable environment through socially inclusive processes of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
The Routledge International Handbook of Teacher and School Development (Routledge International Handbooks of Education)
The International Handbook of Teacher and School Development brings together a collection of research and evidence-based authoritative writings which focus on international teacher and school development. Drawing on research from eighteen countries across seven continents, the forty chapters are gro... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2005 -
Living Architecture, Living Cities: Soul-Nourishing Sustainability
It’s widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities – the places where most of us live. As this powerful new book elucidates, global sustainability is therefore directly dependent on urban design. In Livin... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The New Lives of Teachers (Teacher Quality and School Development)
by Christopher Day • Qing GuThe New Lives of Teachers examines the varied, often demanding commitments on teachers’ lives today as they attempt to pursue careers in primary and secondary education. Building upon Huberman’s classic study, it probes not only teachers’ everyday lives, but also the ways in which they negotiate the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Developing Teachers and Teaching Practice: International Research Perspectives
Pressure is increasing on all those involved in education, from teachers to policy-makers, to transform schools as organisations, while continuing to implement effective new approaches to teaching and learning. The demand is not only to reach attained targets, but also to be accountable for teaching... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Partnership in Education Management (Routledge Library Editions: Education Management)
Originally published in 1988. The National Development Centre for School Management Training was established in Bristol University Department of Education in September 1983. Funded by the DES, the Centre worked both with the providers of management training -universities, polytechnics and colleges o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1988 -
Consensus Design
Consensus Design offers a practical step by step guide to co-design; an increasingly important consideration for architects as they compete for work.The text moves from identifying the methodology of the process to developing a series of principles and practical steps which illustrate how consensus ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Resilient Teachers, Resilient Schools: Building and sustaining quality in testing times (Teacher Quality and School Development)
by Christopher Day • Qing GuThis book unpicks the complex, dynamic blend of individuals’ psychological and professional assets, workplace conditions and leadership support which enable teachers who stay in teaching to continue to make a difference in their careers, regardless of shifts in policy, workplace, professional and pe... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Leading Schools Successfully: Stories from the field
Leading Schools Successfully: Stories from the field considers international research focussing on leadership in schools. Based on the ISSPP (International Successful School Principalship Project) which has conducted over one hundred multiple perspective case studies of successful school principals ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Environment and Children
How does the built environment affect children - their health, their behaviour, education and development? To support them, what do we need to consider and what do we need to do? Can our surroundings foster environmental and social awareness and responsibility?Based on Christopher Day's experiences ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
The Population Biology of Tuberculosis
Despite decades of developments in immunization and drug therapy, tuberculosis remains among the leading causes of human mortality, and no country has successfully eradicated the disease. Reenvisioning tuberculosis from the perspective of population biology, this book examines why the disease is so ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
How School Principals Sustain Success over Time
This work represents a publishing event in education research. Genuinely groundbreaking, it is the result of longitudinal research from five nations over five years. The authors set themselves an unprecedented task: to analyze how it is that successful school principals sustain positive outcomes ove... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
New Understandings of Teacher's Work
Within educational research that seeks to understand the quality and effectiveness of teachers and school, the role emotions play in educational change and school improvement has become a subject of increasing importance. In this book, scholars from around the world explore the connections between t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Quality and Change in Teacher Education
How teachers may be better educated for a changing global world is a challenge that faces many systems of education worldwide. This book addresses key issues of quality and change in teacher education in the context of the new public management achievement agendas which are permeating teacher educa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
A Decade of Research on School Principals: Cases from 24 Countries (Studies in Educational Leadership #21)
This book provides a unique map of the focus and directions of contemporary research on school leadership since 2000 in 24 countries. Each of these directions has its own particular cultural, educational and policy history. Taken together, the various chapters in the volume provide a rich and vari... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Research on Teacher Thinking: Understanding Professional Development (Routledge Library Editions: Education)
This is a companion volume to the editors’ Insights into Teachers’ Thinking and Practice (Falmer Press, 1999) and seeks to carry the discussion on further illustrating that there is a continuing intensity of thought, activity and debate on how to conceptualise research on teacher thinking, and thus ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Insights Into Teachers' Thinking And Practice
A collection of original research conducted by scholars from Europe and North America. The papers consider the evolution of research on teachers' thinking, the nature of professional knowledge, and philosophical and moral dimensions of teachers' thinking.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1990 -
Issues in Educational Drama (Routledge Revivals)
Published in 1983, this book is a collection of original papers which explore concerns in the teaching of drama in education. All chapters have been written by significant practitioners of drama in education and attempt to locate the growing understanding of the educational drama process in the real... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1983 -
Joyce's Love Stories
In his comprehensive study of love in James Joyce's writings, Christopher DeVault suggests that a love ethic persists throughout Joyce's works. DeVault uses Martin Buber's distinction between the true love for others and the narcissistic desire for oneself to frame his discussion, showing that Joyc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Ascension
MORTAL INSTRUMENTS MEETS EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY Katherine Munroe is most definitely not your typical teen and just about the only thing typical are her high school boy problems. She does however have quite the amazing ability to draw and much to her own confusion she accidentally lights things on fire.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times
A revelatory and game-changing narrative that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world. With majestic prose, Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteen... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
An extraordinary and beautifully illustrated exploration of the medieval world through twelve manuscripts, from one of the world's leading experts.Winner of The Wolfson History Prize and The Duff Cooper Prize. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a captivating examination of twelve illuminated m... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016