Looks at how children learn before applying the findings, and statutory frameworks, to best practice in the classroom. This book includes material on: inclusion and personalisation, collaborative working, and foreign languages. It emphasises on: outdoor learning, fostering partnerships with parents and carers, and multiple intelligences.

Offers hundreds of practical hints and tips for implementing brain-based learning in early years settings for practitioners, students and parents. This book presents practical suggestions on how to implement brain-based learning techniques in early years settings.

A memoir of a young boy's unusual travels with his mother. The author recreates his boyhood experiences, relating how he and his mother travelled throughout the United States, and tracing his experiences and changes from young boy to manhood against the background of a violent and wildly optimistic America.

"A tremendous talent. Every page fizzes with vitality." --Kevin Barry, author of Beatlebone