Professor James Smith: 4 books

Book cover of Science and Technology for Development
by Professor James Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

How can science realize its potential and help us tackle global inequality, environmental change and crippling poverty? How can more appropriate technologies be developed for those most in need? Science has long promised much -- new crops, new medicines, new sources of energy, new means of communication...
Book cover of Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk

Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk

The Biggest Change in North-South Relationships Since Colonialism?

by Professor James Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010

Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk offers a fresh, compelling analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This essential new critique argues that investment in biofuels may reconfigure risk and responsibility,...
Book cover of Primary Science: Teaching Theory and Practice
by Professor John Sharp, Mr Graham A Peacock, Mr Rob Johnsey
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017

Now with online resources to support teaching practice! An extensive knowledge of the primary science curriculum is not enough for trainee teachers, they need to know how to teach science in the primary classroom. This is the essential teaching theory and practice text for primary science...
Book cover of The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity

The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity

Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students

by Sunya T. Collier, Dean Cristol, Sandra Dean
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010

Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
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