Many teachers and school leaders are tired, stressed and overstretched. This book argues that creating a positive environment for staff wellbeing and school performance is rooted in the culture and climate of our schools. It provides a roadmap to recovery for struggling schools, guiding readers towards improved mental wellbeing.

Presents an overview of various aspects of secondary school life - through the eyes of its students. This book examines how student experiences can help teachers to take stock of their teaching styles and methodologies, and allows a look at the way schools are run on a daily basis.

Bringing together the frameworks to investigate the role that race plays in hallmark policies of neoliberal school reforms such as school closings, high-stakes testing, and charter school proliferation, this book examines how that reform expands racial and economic inequality, and share grassroots stories of resistance to these reforms.

Guiding readers past the sterile debates about City Academies and dumbed-down exams, this book proves that education's key responsibility should be to create enthusiastic learners who will go on to thrive as adults in a swiftly-changing, dynamic world.

In When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour, Paul Dix upends the debate on behaviour management in schools and offers effective tips and strategies that serve to end the search for change in children and turn the focus back on the adults.

Offering insights and solutions, this book acts as a practical guide to coach practitioners in their personal and professional development, helping them to raise the achievement of children exhibiting challenging behaviour. It draws practitioners towards a holistic understanding of ourselves and how we impact on children's learning and behaviour.

What do America's children learn about American history, American values, and human decency? Who decides? In this absorbing book, Jonathan Zimmerman tells the dramatic story of conflict, compromise, and more conflict over the teaching of history and morality in 20th Century America.

A textbook that promotes thoughtful engagement with key issues and theories that inform an understanding of childhood development. It intends to turn readers away from our collective tendency to simplify the experiences of young children and replace this with an understanding of the social dynamic that constitutes childhood.

Addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences. The author argues that a carefully planned, knowledge-based elementary curriculum is essential to providing the foundations for children's life success.

Multiprofessional working unpacked for students and professionals.

With the opening of Children's Centres and the implementation of the Every Child Matters agenda, multi-agency working is now a reality. This book will provide advice and guidance on successful strategies to employ when working with parents and interdisciplinary staff.

This book presents the findings of an ethnolinguistic study of the language and social behaviour of a group of British-born children from families of settled migrants who speak languages other than English in their homes and communities. It provides an analytical description of the social and linguistic behaviour of the children.

This essential resource provides a framework for good practice in racial equality for everyone working in the early years sector, and gives practitioners the tools and knowledge to implement race equality policies and action plans

Explores the inter-relationship between the three fields and considers how these relationships have informed teaching practice, especially in the school context. In this book, reflective exercises, interviews, chapter summaries and useful websites will encourage and support student learning and the application of new concepts.

This book guides trainees through each step of their journey and helps them build the knowledge, confidence and skills to succeed.