The aim of this book is to bridge the gap between introductory and more advanced ‘technical’ books on quantitative methods, helping the reader to progress clearly.

This book aims to deconstruct ethnography to alert systems designers, and other stakeholders, to the issues presented by new approaches that move beyond the studies of ‘work’ and ‘work practice’ within the social sciences (in particular anthropology and sociology). The theoretical and methodological apparatus of the social sciences distort the social and cultural world as lived in and understood by ordinary members, whose common-sense understandings shape the actual milieu into which syste...

Educational Neuroscience presents a series of readings from educators, psychologists, and neuroscientists that explore the latest findings in developmental cognitive neurosciences and their potential applications to education.Represents a new research area with direct relevance to current educational practices and policy makingFeatures individual chapters written collaboratively by educationalist, psychologists, and neuroscientists to ensure maximum clarity...