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  • Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals

    Strategies for getting published

    by Pat Thomson, Barbara Kamler ...
    It’s not easy getting published, but everyone has to do it. Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals presents an insider’s perspective on the secret business of academic publishing, making explicit many of the dilemmas and struggles faced by all writers, but rarely discussed. Its unique approach is theorised and practical. It offers a set of moves for writing a journal article that is structured and ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Refining Your Academic Writing

    Strategies for Reading, Revising and Rewriting

    by Pat Thomson ...
    Series series Insider Guides to Success in Academia
    Revision is often taken as a largely instrumental process which happens after the real work of writing is done – it is an unavoidable and tedious process. Refining by contrast is imaginative work, it requires craft, connoisseurship and courage, and builds knowledge about academic writing purposes and practices. Refining Your Academic Writing will help you complete your writing project and provides ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • School Scandals

    Blowing the Whistle on the Corruption of Our Education System

    by Pat Thomson ...
    With almost daily reports of failings in school management, what can be done to improve educational outcomes for everyone?Pat Thomson takes on England’s muddled education system, highlighting failings caused by the actions of ministers in successive governments. While corrupt actions are taken by some, it is predominantly the corruption of the system that is at fault. She exposes fraudulent and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • School Leadership - Heads on the Block?

    by Pat Thomson ...
    Most teachers become heads for idealistic reasons, wanting to make a difference to the lives of children and young people. Yet serving heads suggest the job is getting harder, talking openly about stress and leaving the job. Many teachers now see headship as a risky business, and succession planning, while necessary, will not on its own be sufficient to attract the diverse range of applicants ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Schooling the Rustbelt Kids

    Making the difference in changing times

    by Pat Thomson ...
    'A truly exceptional book.' - Michael W. Apple, University of Wisconsin, Madison'A gripping insight into the local struggles facing disadvantaged schools and a compelling account of the injustice of their place in the bigger picture.' - Professor Geoff Whitty, Director, Institute of Education, University of LondonSchools in disadvantaged areas are struggling in the current economic and political ... Read more

    $61.82 CAD

  • You Can't Bring That in Here!

    by Pat Thomson ...
    There's something for everyone in this collection of funny short stories. It's packed full of talking pigs, UFOs, gorillas, witches, mischievous house elves, flying postmen and lots more! Find out how Bozo the gorilla helps Jimmy deal with his lazy big brother, what Dinah Price does when she finds the three bears tucked up in her bed and what fate Agnethia Toadfax, trainee witch, has in store for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Educational Leadership and Pierre Bourdieu

    by Pat Thomson ...
    Series series Critical Studies in Educational Leadership, Management and Administration
    Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He argued for, and practiced, rigorous and reflexive scholarship, interrogating the inequities and injustices of modern societies. Through a lifetime’s explication of the ways in which schooling both produces and reproduces the status quo, Bourdieu offered a powerful critique and method of analysis of the history of ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Schools and Cultural Citizenship

    Arts Education for Life

    by Pat Thomson, Christine Hall ...
    ‘Why study the arts at school?’ This book offers a fresh perspective on this question. Informed by rigorous research, the book argues that the arts help young people to develop key skills, knowledge and practices that support them to become both critical appreciative audiences and socially engaged cultural producers. Drawing on a three-year study in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Detox Your Writing

    Strategies for doctoral researchers

    by Pat Thomson, Barbara Kamler ...
    There are a number of books which aim to help doctoral researchers write the PhD. This book offers something different - the scholarly detox. This is not a faddish alternative, it’s not extreme. It’s a moderate approach intended to gently interrupt old ways of doing things and establish new habits and orientations to writing the PhD.The book addresses the problems that most doctoral researchers ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Alternative Educational Programmes, Schools and Social Justice

    Edited by Glenda McGregor, Martin Mills, Pat Thomson, Jodie Pennacchia ...
    Alternative education caters and cares for students whose regular schools have failed and excluded them. Fifty years of international research reports that alternative settings are characterised by close and powerful staff–student relationships, a curriculum which is relevant, engaging and meaningful, and the strong sense of agency afforded young people by the opportunity to make decisions. ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Helping Doctoral Students Write

    Pedagogies for supervision

    by Barbara Kamler, Pat Thomson ...
    Helping Doctoral Students Write offers a proven approach to effective doctoral writing. By treating research as writing and writing as research, the authors offer pedagogical strategies for doctoral supervisors that will assist the production of well-argued and lively dissertations.It is clear that many doctoral candidates find research writing complicated and difficult, but the advice they ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD

  • Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools

    by Professor Pat Thomson, Professor Christine Hall ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education
    Schools are complex institutions. They do not easily reveal themselves to researchers who rely on only one or two methods. Understanding a school, its neighbourhood and its students requires a researcher with a more complex repertoire of verbal, statistical and visual research strategies.Place-Based Methods for Researching Schools shows how multiple methods can be used together to research schools ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD