This book is designed to help teachers to think through the possibilities and protocols of consulting students about teaching and learning and to consider how to do this within the context of their own school.

Orphaned at the age of nine, Mikey Cuddihy left the US to board at the experimental Summerhill School. Like Hideous Kinky, this memoir describes coming of age in the strange and dangerous world of the unravelling social experiment of the late 1960s.

This guide provides a step-by-step approach for implementing cooperative learning, covers the key factors that make this method work, and provides guidelines for measuring the program's effectiveness.

Draws on a case study of an inter-agency project to identify factors contributing to successful inter-agency work.

Explains the requirements of the CPD Co-ordinator role. This title advises on how to assess your school's development needs, engage staff, get middle leaders and the Senior Leadership Group on board and boost morale. It provides guidance on how to observe colleagues for development, and how to conduct an exemplary NQT induction programme.

This book offers guidelines for involving staff, parents, and students in school development, with a CD-ROM of reproducibles to customize the program to your own school culture.

An overview of the loss, grief, trauma and shame that marginalised students encounter and the effects on personal learning and success. Covering a range of issues faced by young people, the analyses of case studies suggest means for change with strategies for effective practice.

This book is based on the changes a five year-old, Angelica will see in her lifetime. It predicts that the career of teaching will change and the work of the professional educator will differ significantly.

This is a collection of 150 enjoyable and inspiring games and activities to help support learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL) in the inclusive classroom. This bank of ideas will support you in helping newly arrived pupils settle into their class and school, and are easy to integrate into your planning.

Sets out a new vision for how education can be transformed to enable all young people to flourish. Filled with practical examples and research, this title intends to inspire the change our children urgently need.

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.

In this re-released classic edition of Critical Incidents in Teaching - in print since 1993 and which includes a new introduction from the author - David Tripp shows how teachers can draw on their own classroom experience to develop it.

Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy, and Planetary Crisis

Cross-curricular teaching and learning are the new buzz-words in primary classrooms. This book focuses on history and geography to explore different contexts and strategies for making links between the full range of primary subjects, so that learning can be more integrated and relevant to learners.

Against the background of globalization and campaigns to provide basic education for all the world's children, this title compares primary and elementary schooling in England, France, India, Russia and the United States. It is structured around three levels of analysis: systems, school and classrooms.

In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend.

Emphasising collaborative learning strategies, the authors explore and challenge the nature of learning within the national curriculum, looking at ways of including diversity in science, history, maths and poetry.

This book presents a new way for educators at all levels - from early years to university - to think about curriculum priorities. It focuses on the curriculum as a form of specialised knowledge, optimally designed to enable students to gain access to the best knowledge available in any field.

A collection of 50 think pieces showcasing perspectives on curriculum theory and practice, presented by the British Educational Research Association, in conjunction with the British Curriculum Forum.

A must-read leadership fable of how a school leader inspired real transformational change by leading in accordance with his own values and beliefs.

Data in education is increasingly important but, despite their best efforts, teachers and educators frequently struggle to understand the core principles of data use and interpretation. This book will help readers understand the use of statistics in education, and show them how to use data effectively in classrooms and schools.

Designed for both individual teachers and school teams, this text demonstrates how to approach and manage disruptive students and behaviour through a series of detailed strategies presented in the context of a research base and complete with case studies.