The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in
research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and …

Background: Interprofessional curricula have often lacked explicit reference to theory
despite calls for a more theoretically informed field that illuminates curricular assumptions …

Policies around the world increasingly call for teachers to become 'agents of change', often
linked to social justice agendas. However, there is little clarity about the kind of …

A new challenge of learning in work organizations--both in business and public
administration--is to master entire life cycles of product, production and business concepts …

One force pulls researchers toward individual applications and separate variations of certain
general, often vague ideas. The other force pulls researchers toward learning from each …

This book is a collection about cultural-historical activity theory as it has been developed
and applied by Yrjö Engeström. The work of Engeström is both rooted in the legacy of …

The authors have grouped the theories into three classical" families" which differ in their
views relative to the prime motives underlying human nature. They show how theories are …

Student retention and progression has exercised the HE sector for some time now, and there
has been much research into the reasons why students drop out of Higher Education …

** Shortlisted for the NASEN Special Educational Needs Academic Book Award 2009** Inter-
professional collaborations are invaluable relationships which can prevent the social …

Government agencies struggle to address wicked problems because they are open-ended,
highly interdependent issues that cross agency, stakeholder, jurisdictional, and geopolitical …