This accessible yet authoritative book considers and encourages flexible, playful and innovative practices in the teaching of writing, and shows how certain practices can develop children's creative and linguistic potential and their overall skill

Based upon the concepts and objectives of the National Literacy Strategy, this accessible and lively book combines creativity with skills teaching to stimulate and improve children's written work.

A study of creativity in the context of education, an issue of great importance for teachers and students alike. It considers just how creativity "works" and how it can be encouraged. The book has an international and an historical sweep, and features many examples.

There is a growing awareness at government level that creativity is not so different to the current desire of educating children for the workforce. The author considers a variety of issues and perspectives raised by this new attention on creativity.

If you feel your classroom practice is either restricted by current initiatives or that there simply isn't time to develop children's own ideas then this is the book you need. Each section of the book has been written by teacher trainers in conjunction with primary teachers.

This book draws on criminology, sociology, psychology and neuroscience to offer a balanced perspective of crime, the criminal and criminality and is essential reading for courses on criminal and forensic psychology and psychological criminology.

This book is a major contribution to the comparative histories of crime and criminal justice, focusing on the legal regimes of the British empire during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.