Takes a holistic approach to using ICTs to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom. It weaves together evidence of teachers’ and learners’ experiences of ICT outside school, how policy and management issues impact on learning, and what actually happens when ICT is fully integrated into teaching and learning.
Takes a holistic approach to using ICTs to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom. It weaves together evidence of teachers’ and learnersâ...
Improving Classroom Learning with ICT examines the ways in which ICT can be used in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning in different settings and across different subjects.
Weaving together evidence of teachers' and learners' experiences of ICT, the authors:
explain why the process of integrating ICT is not straightforward;
discuss whether hardware and infrastructure alone are sufficient to ensure full integration and exploitation of ICT investment;
emphasise the pivotal role that teachers play...
Improving Classroom Learning with ICT examines the ways in which ICT can be used in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning in different set...
Many tools are on offer to politicians and other policy-makers when they seek to change policy outcomes. Often they choose to concentrate on one set of tools, but fail to see the costs as well as the benefits - and may not consider the available evidence regarding their effectiveness. This innovative new textbook clearly sets out the main tools of government, and provides an analysis of their efficacy when applied to public problems.
Each chapter examines the relative benefits and costs of using a key tool that is available to improve policy outcomes, drawing on a diverse...
Many tools are on offer to politicians and other policy-makers when they seek to change policy outcomes. Often they choose to concentrate o...
Provides an overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. This book explains the common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis: institutionalism; network theory; socioeconomic theories; rational choice; and, ideas-based. It is suitable for students of public policy and policy analysis.
Provides an overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. This book explains the common and widely used frameworks in the study of po...
Using a unique dataset spanning fifty years of policy-making in Britain, this book traces how topics like the economy, international affairs, and crime have shifted in importance. It takes a new approach to agenda setting called focused adaptatio n, and sheds new light on key points of change in British politics, such as Thatcherism and New Labour.
Using a unique dataset spanning fifty years of policy-making in Britain, this book traces how topics like the economy, international affairs, and crim...
Many tools are on offer to politicians and other policy-makers when they seek to change policy outcomes. Often they choose to concentrate on one set of tools, but fail to see the costs as well as the benefits - and may not consider the available evidence regarding their effectiveness. This innovative new textbook clearly sets out the main tools of government, and provides an analysis of their efficacy when applied to public problems. Each chapter examines the relative benefits and costs of using a key tool that is available to improve policy outcomes, drawing on a diverse literature, a large...
Many tools are on offer to politicians and other policy-makers when they seek to change policy outcomes. Often they choose to concentrate on one set o...
Provides an overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. This book explains the common and widely used frameworks in the study of policy analysis: institutionalism; network theory; socioeconomic theories; rational choice; and, ideas-based. It is suitable for students of public policy and policy analysis.
Provides an overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. This book explains the common and widely used frameworks in the study of po...
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to local government and urban politics in contemporary Western Europe. It is the first book to map and explain the change in local political systems and to place these in comparative context.
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to local government and urban politics in contemporary Western Europe. It is the first book to map and...
Based on a major research project (the InterActive Project), this book explores and illustrates how digital technologies can transform learning across the curriculum. Using a wide range of educational settings, it helps practitioners think about, plan and execute effective learning in their classrooms and beyond.
Based on a major research project (the InterActive Project), this book explores and illustrates how digital technologies can transform learning across...
Behavioural public policies, or nudges, have become increasingly popular in recent years, with governments keen to use light-touch interventions to improve the success of their public policies. In this unique book, Peter John explores nudges, their successes and limitations, and sets out a bold manifesto for the future of behavioural public policy. This book traces the beginnings of nudge in behavioural economics and tracks the adoption of its core ideas by policy-makers, providing examples of successful applications. By considering the question `how far to nudge?', John reviews why it is...
Behavioural public policies, or nudges, have become increasingly popular in recent years, with governments keen to use light-touch interventions to im...
