This book explores key contemporary issues in education, featuring the latest theoretical perspectives and policies, aimed at supporting the professional development and understanding of those working or intending to work in the education sector. Both school- and college-based education have faced rapid change over the last few years. A strong research base around the impact of these changes is emerging, enabling a critically informed debate on policy and practice developments. The book provides an up to date evidence-based overview of key changes, their underlying rationale and an examination of alternative viewpoints. The content is concise and focused while still developing readers’ critical thinking skills through tasks embedded within each chapter as well as a distinct section on critical reflective thinking. Other key topics include inclusion, leadership, community education, comparative education, research and education futures.

This concise handbook helps educators write for the rhetorical situations they will face as students of education, and as preservice and practicing teachers. It provides clear and helpful advice for responding to the varying contexts, audiences, and purposes that arise in four written categories in education: classroom, research, credential, and stakeholder writing. The book moves from academic to professional writing and chapters include a discussion of relevant genres, mentor texts with salient features identified, visual aids, and exercises that ask students to apply their understanding of the concepts. Readers learn about the scholarly and qualitative research processes prevalent in the field of education and are encouraged to use writing to facilitate change that improves teaching and learning conditions. Book Features: · Presents a rhetorical approach to writing in education. · Includes detailed student samples for each of the four major categories of writing. · Articulates writing as a core intellectual responsibility of teachers. · Details the library and qualitative research process using examples from education. · Includes many user-friendly features, such as reflection questions and writing prompts.

Theories in Educational Psychology’s purpose is to introduce readers to the pioneering educational psychology theories that continue to shape our understanding of the classroom learning environment, present support for the theories from perspectives in the current research literature, and share how these theoretical traditions have translated into effective teaching methods. Each chapter will be infused with practical teaching examples, classroom vignettes, and instructional strategies so readers are continually confronted with how theory translates to practice. In addition to becoming familiar with the conceptual understanding of core theoretical knowledge, readers will also be presented with current thinking about each theory and an introduction to important related topics at the close of each chapter. The chapters will also conclude with activities designed to help readers reflect on their learning of each chapter’s content.

Written with level 3 readers firmly in mind, this book offers concise, accessible, one-stop coverage of the Level 3 Award in Education and Training, including the Learning and Development units. It takes account of new policies and legislation, emerging technologies and the current post-compulsory teaching and learning climate. The text encourages reflection of practice throughout, supported by case studies and activities aimed at consolidating and contextualising the information. The content covers the full range of relevant LSIS units, includes a detailed glossary plus chapters on the micro-teach and writing essays and assignments, and is fully mapped to the latest ETF Standards. Written by the successful team who produced A Complete Guide to the Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training and A Complete Guide to the Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training.

Foreword / Rebecca Oxford -- Introduction / Ali H. Al-Hoorie and Fruzsina Szabó -- General reflections. Motivating in the language classroom : a discourse of 'social control'? / Ema Ushioda -- Motivation, mediation, and the individual : a sociocultural theory perspective / Matthew E. Poehner -- Too much psychology? : the role of the social in language learning motivation / Ofelia García -- Engagement and self-regulation. Engagement : the active ingredient in language learning / Sarah Mercer -- Engaging the learner : linking motivational practice to learners' development / Phil Hiver -- Learning goals, self-regulation and L2 motivation / Alastair Henry -- Self-determination and engagement in language learning : a dialogic process / W. L. Quint Oga-Baldwin and Emiko Hirosawa -- Selves approaches. Using the self as a basis for a motivation system : has it been worth the trouble? / Peter D. MacIntyre -- The L2 motivational self system : using the selves in the classroom / Mostafa Papi -- Language learning in rural America : creating an ideal self with limited resources / Amy S. Thompson -- Using technology to harness the power of L2 possible selves / Flor-de-lis Gonzalez -- Emotions and affect. Emotion in second language acquisition : reflections on its birth and unexpected growth / Jean-Marc Dewaele -- Enhancing emotional engagement in speaking tasks : a cognitive-behavioural theory approach / Kate Maher and Jim King -- Emotional contagion : optimizing language teacher-learner synergy / Tammy Gregersen and Ahmed Abdulteef Al Khateeb -- Group-DMCs and group-level emotion in the L2 classroom / Christine Muir -- Emerging topics. Complexity theory : from metaphors to methods / Ali H. Al-Hoorie and Phil Hiver -- "Oh, hi. Hello" : critical discourse analysis as a means of understanding desire for English / Martin Lamb -- Migration, plurilingualism and motivation : extending the research agenda / Vera Busse -- English as a lingua franca and student motivation / Zana Ibrahim -- Using neuroELT maxims to raise student motivation / Robert S. Murphy -- How good class group dynamics socializes well-being into cultures, biologies, and brains / Yoshifumi Fukada, Tim Murphey, Tetsuya Fukuda and Joseph Falout -- Afterword / Lourdes Ortega.

Ideal for lecturers new to delivering higher education in universities, colleges and the private sector. It is specifically organised to cover the requirements of the new Academic Professional Apprenticeship, both teaching and research specialisms, and also supports lecturers undertaking the Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education. The contents are fully mapped to the Higher Education Academy’s UK Professional Standards Framework and the VITAE research standards. It is designed for both teaching and research lecturer apprenticeship routes and includes clear guidance to help pass the end-point assessment. There is a focus on the holistic development of the academic professional within the current context of higher education.

A Concise Guide to Writing a Thesis or Dissertation provides clear, succinct, and intentional guidelines about organizing and writing a thesis or dissertation. Part I provides an overview for writing a thesis or dissertation. It describes the big picture of planning and formatting a research study, from identifying a topic to focusing on writing quality. Part II describes the framework and substance of a research study. It models the pattern generally found in a formal, five-chapter research study. Each chapter of a thesis or dissertation has a specific purpose, and this book focuses on each in an easy-to-follow structure. Chapter One reviews the headings and contents expected in the introduction of a study. Chapter Two provides advice for writing a literature review. Chapter Three discusses what to include when describing the methodology. These first three chapters form the proposal section of a study. Two additional chapters present results (Chapter Four) and provide discussion and conclusions (Chapter Five). Appendices offer resources for instructors and students, including a rubric for evaluating writing, exercises to strengthen skills in APA format, sample purpose statements, a research planning organizer, and a guide for scholarly writing. The book is designed overall to be a practical guide and resource for students for their thesis or dissertation process. Note to readers: Due to publishing limitations, some of the titles within the book do not accurately conform with APA format. For precise APA format, please see the APA manual (2010, pp. 62-63), or refer to Table 1.1, (p. 8) or Table D.1 (p. 107) in this book.