Monthly Archive for August, 2010

We are accepting book proposals for the imprint The Learner.

NEW LEARNING. The Learner publishes cutting edge ideas on teaching and learning—ideas which point to the emerging shape of a new world of learning. These are some of the things of interest and concern for The Learner:

• the blurred institutional boundaries between the family, work and formal education
• early childhood learning, once the domain of the family, and now a site of formal learning
• literacy, literacies, multiliteracies
• learning in and out of school: what children learn at home, from their peers, from the media
• new educational workplaces: self-governing schools, customised curricula, knowledge and teaching markets
• just-in-time and just-enough learning—learning what you need to know when and where you need to know it
• lifelong and lifewide learning
• work integrated learning
• new learning technologies
• global and multicultural education
• new pedagogies that demand as well as grant greater value to the volition and subjectivity of the learner

… and this is only the beginning of the new world of learning unfolding before us, all of which is of critical concern to the authors and readers of The Learner.

Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication.

Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work.

If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.