Product Description: Calls to understand ‘what works’ in education are being made the world over. We need to know not only ‘what works’ but under what conditions, how and why. Causation is central to this. Researchers, educationists, readers and users of research need to know the effects of causes and the causes of effects...read more

Product Description: Interest in complexity theory, a relation of chaos theory, has become well established in the business community in recent years. Complexity theory argues that systems are complex interactions of many parts which cannot be predicted by accepted linear equations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book focuses on issues which can be used in planning and analyzing curricula. The authors believe it is vital to fuse theory and practice in analyzing and developing curricula, to avoid 'curricula myopia'. The book offers a fresh look at curriculum theory and its application to primary schools...read more

Product Description: `This is an exceptional book. It tempted me to throw out most of my collected works on the management of change, because the author has somehow succeeded by including almost every aspect of educational change that any practitioner would wish to consider...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Completed in the wake of the Government's acceptance of the Dearing Report, this work aims to enable primary and secondary school teachers to develop, introduce, manage and monitor the cross-curricular themes of the National Curriculum...read more