Further and Higher Education in the UK has expanded greatly in recent years, bringing into education large numbers of young people who present teachers with new challenges. At the same time, there is an immense pressure to improve the quality of learning and teaching, and to encourage students to be active participants in the process.
This book is aimed at teachers, aspiring teachers and other professionals in upper secondary schools, further education colleges and universities who wish to increase learner motivation and to create opportunities for greater learner autonomy. It will:
* relate learning theory to practice
* provide practical help for teachers to understand how they tend to interact with students
* suggest how they may build a repertoire of teaching styles that foster sharing of responsibility with learners for more effective learning.

Further and Higher Education in the UK has expanded greatly in recent years, bringing into education large numbers of young people who present teachers with new challenges. At the same time, there is an immense pressure to improve the quality of learning and teaching, and to encourage students to be active participants in the process.
This book is aimed at teachers, aspiring teachers and other professionals in upper secondary schools, further education colleges and universities who wish to increase learner motivation and to create opportunities for greater learner autonomy. It will:
* relate learning theory to practice
* provide practical help for teachers to understand how they tend to interact with students
* suggest how they may build a repertoire of teaching styles that foster sharing of responsibility with learners for more effective learning.

I realised that we would never have a future in this godforsaken place. One by one we would gradually die. We were always hungry as we never had enough to eat and we had little hope of ever leaving. I became so desperate I knew I had to do something about our situation. As a young girl, Ewa Lugwiga Cisalowicz was turned out of her Polish family home by invading Soviet soldiers in 1939. For the next five years, her family were transported to various labour camps under Stalin's rule. The conditions were so appalling that every day was a struggle to survive. With five younger siblings to feed, as well as her mother and father, starvation was at the forefront of Ewa's mind. In desperation, she learned how to forage in the forest to help feed her family, knowing that if she had been caught, she would have been shot. This true story about life in the most desperate of times is as moving as it is compelling. Ewa's spirit, determination and positive outlook serve as a wonderful inspiration and her strength shines through the prose. Pick this book up to marvel, cry and rejoice as one of the grimmest periods of recent history is narrated first-hand.