Improving Learning: Professional Practice in Secondary Schools

Glover and Law (both education, Nottingham Trent U.) report findings of a study of students in ten secondary schools, investigating students' thoughts about the context and process of their learning experience. The authors summarize their findings on the environment, challenge, practice, relationships, and overall educational attainment arising from a variety of approaches to teaching and learning, and outline some of the developmental work being done to equalize achievement between the genders. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Derek Glover is a Visiting Professor of Education at Nottingham Trent University. After 18 years' experience as the head of a large community school in Oxfordshire, he completed his PhD with the Open University and has now gone on to his 'second career' - teaching, researching and publishing extensively, particularly in the fields of school organization, financial management and the management of school reputation. He and Sue Law have previously co-written Managing Professional Development in Education and Educational Leadership and Learning.

Sue Law is Professor of Education and Head of the Department of Secondary and Tertiary Education at Nottingham Trent University. After teaching in schools and colleges for 20 years, she became Director of Continuing Professional Development at Keele University, where she established innovative distance-learning MBA and MA educational management programmes. She now balances the leadership responsibilities of a large University department with researching and publishing on teachers' professional development, education management and educational policymaking.