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  • Vygotsky the Teacher

    A Companion to his Psychology for Teachers and Other Practitioners

    by Myra Barrs ...
    This highly accessible guide to the varied aspects of Vygotsky’s psychology emphasises his abiding interest in education. Vygotsky was a teacher, a researcher and educational psychologist who worked in special needs education, and his interest in pedagogy was fundamental to all his work. Vygotsky the Teacher analyses and discusses the full range of his ideas and their far-reaching educational ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Making Poetry Happen

    Transforming the Poetry Classroom

    Edited by Dr Sue Dymoke, Dr Myra Barrs, Dr Andrew Lambirth, Dr Anthony Wilson ...
    UKLA Academic Book Award 2016: Highly CommendedMaking Poetry Happen provides a valuable resource for trainee and practicing teachers, enabling them to become more confident and creative in teaching what is recognized as a very challenging aspect of the English curriculum. The volume editors draw together a wide-range of perspectives to provide support for development of creative practices across ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • James Britton on Education

    An Introductory Reader

    Edited by Myra Barrs, Tony Burgess, John Richmond, Jenifer Smith, John Yandell ...
    James Britton’s work addresses central educational questions that are as relevant today as they were half a century ago. Britton was the architect of a theory of language and learning which has influenced the thinking and practice of generations of teachers across the anglophone world. This Reader helps teachers and students explore his theories of the relationships between language and thought, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Vygotsky Anthology

    A Selection from His Key Writings

    Edited by Myra Barrs, John Richmond ...
    The Vygotsky Anthology brings together, for the first time, a selection of extracts from the best translations available of Vygotsky’s writings, spanning the entire arc of his career.Vygotsky was arguably one of the greatest educational psychologists of the 20th century. Grounded in his experience as a teacher, an expert in special education, a research psychologist and an outstanding theorist, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Closing the Vocabulary Gap

    by Alex Quigley ...
    As teachers grapple with the challenge of a new, bigger and more challenging school curriculum, at every key stage and phase, success can feel beyond our reach. But what if there were 50,000 small solutions to help us bridge that gap?In Closing the Vocabulary Gap, the author explores the increased demands of an academic curriculum and how closing the vocabulary gap between our ‘word poor’ and ... Read more

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  • Mind in Society

    The Development of Higher Psychological Processes

    by L.S. Vygotsky ...
    The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Mind in Society corrects much of this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky's important essays. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Art as Therapy

    An Introduction to the Use of Art as a Therapeutic Technique

    Edited by Tessa Dalley ...
    Art as Therapy introduces the theory and practice of art therapy in a concise, accessible and informative way. Tessa Dalley's introduction gives an overview of basic issues, research and development. Subsequent chapters, written by specialists, are chosen to demonstrate the ways in which art therapy can be applied to different client groups, in a variety of clinical settings. These include ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology

    by Rollo May ...
    Rollo May draws on the insights of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, and other great thinkers to offer a helpful roadmap of the ideas and techniques of existential psychotherapy.He pays particular attention to the causes of loneliness and isolation, and to our search for stability in an age of anxiety. ... Read more

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  • Listening in the Language Classroom

    by John Field ...
    Series series Cambridge Language Teaching Library
    This book challenges the orthodox approach to the teaching of second language listening, which is based upon the asking and answering of comprehension questions. The book's central argument is that a preoccupation with the notion of 'comprehension' has led teachers to focus upon the product of listening, in the form of answers to questions, ignoring the listening process itself. The author ... Read more

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  • Psychology

    by Amelie von Zumbusch ...
    Series series The Britannica Guide to the Social Sciences
    This volume is a comprehensive overview of the scientific discipline that studies psychological and biological processes and behavior in humans and other animals. It features chapters on the history of the field, the thought process, memory, theories of personality, and key figures—such as William James, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, B. F. Skinner, and Daniel Kahneman—who helped shape the field. The ... Read more

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  • Psychic Retreats

    Pathological Organizations in Psychotic, Neurotic and Borderline Patients

    by John Steiner ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    Essentially clinical in its approach, Psychic Retreats discusses the problem of patients who are 'stuck' and with whom it is difficult to make meaningful contact. John Steiner, an experienced psychoanalyst, uses new developments in Kleinian theory to explain how this happens.He examines the way object relationships and defences can be organized into complex structures which lead to a personality ... Read more

    $60.99 USD