Learning and Personality
How does an introverted student succeed in a classroom built for extroverts? This book documents how socially active methods can harm students who learn best through reflection, revealing a glaring conflict within education and a mass misunderstanding of introversion.
Learning and Teaching with Geomedia is a practical introduction to the field for secondary education. It provides ready-to-use learning environments that foster spatial citizenship and are easily applied in any school with a web browser or mobile phone.
Learning and Using Multiple Languages
This volume presents the latest research on multilingual language learning. Adopting a multilingual perspective, it analyzes grammatical, social, and affective factors across diverse age groups and global settings. Essential for both researchers and teachers.
Learning Approaches
This book critically describes the major learning theories, from behaviorism to constructivism. It explores key research and its practical implications for the classroom, making it a valuable resource for teachers, educators, students, and researchers.
Learning Citizenship by Practicing Democracy
This volume brings together international perspectives on learning citizenship by practicing democracy. It explores learning democracy in educational institutions, communities, and participatory budgeting, sharing a commitment to deepen democracy worldwide.
Learning Democratic Practices
This book examines how democracy works by viewing political parties as “communities of practice.” Through interviews with partisans, it shows how they learn to function, revealing what is happening to “democracy” in the United States and how it got that way.
Learning Disabilities
While smart, many students with learning disabilities don’t know how to learn. This book examines evaluation procedures and intervention programs that recognize student strengths and address their needs, providing guidance for educators and building their capacity to help.
Drawing on a life of work in Africa, this book explores cross-cultural communication. It dismantles myths about African languages, arguing that Africans are not “anglophone” or “francophone,” but afrophone. Why do some international projects succeed while others fail?
Learning from Memory
This book, with contributions from international social scientists, explores the link between body, memory, and digital technologies. It outlines a sociology of memory, throwing light on human behavior and the neurobiological factors that underpin it.
Learning Progressions for Maps, Geospatial Technology, and Spatial Thinking
This book is a resource for researching learning progressions for maps, geospatial technology and spatial thinking. Featuring contributions from experts, it offers advice and guidance on research methods, data interpretation, and avoiding common pitfalls.
Learning Spaces for Inclusion and Social Justice
Stemming from a Nordic research project conducted in Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, this anthology draws lessons from success stories of individual immigrant students and whole school communities in developing learning contexts that are equitable and socially just.
This book addresses learning styles in second language development. It explores various models of style and their significance for educators, concluding with a discussion of the practical exploitation of learning style awareness in second language education.
Following the recent ‘turn to religion’ that has been so important to English Studies in the 21st century, this monograph builds on many of the recent biographies of Shakespeare that have explored the playwright’s religious views, with a specific focus on his King Lear.
Learning to Teach
Diverse teacher educators share stories of their experiences as students and teachers. This collection reveals how these experiences influence their teaching, offering effective practices for culturally diverse learners with a focus on social justice, equity, and inclusion.
Thomas Hill Green’s work on ‘the common good’ provides the means to evaluate the conduct of political establishments. One of the most important contributions to political philosophy by any English philosopher, it continues to fuel lively debate today.
Lee Miller, Photography, Surrealism and the Second World War
Hilditch considers how Lee Miller’s war photographs can be interpreted as ‘surreal documentary’ combining a surrealist sensibility with a need to inform. Each chapter contains a close analysis of specific photographs in a generally chronological study with a thematic focus.
Lee Miller’s Surrealist Eye
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
Left and Right
The “great dichotomy” between left and right has gained renewed visibility in the current economic crisis. Should we think with the dichotomy, or beyond its strictures? This volume provides theoretically sound and empirically informed answers.
This exercise in ethical criticism regards cultural texts as friends for conversation. It explores female agency, colonialism, and slavery through figures from Joan of Arc to Princess Diana and texts from The Thousand and One Nights to a radical re-reading of Middlemarch.
Legacies of Slavery
Moving beyond the Atlantic world, this volume reconsiders slavery as a global institution. Scholars from diverse fields examine its indelible mark on societies everywhere, telling a tale of survival, resistance, and the resilience of the human spirit.
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