Details the insightful and transformational steps that a school can take towards designing and delivering a rich, rigorous and wide-ranging curriculum.

This practical handbook aims to support the work of all those who are interested in the dialogic teaching approach and improving the quality of teaching and learning, especially trainee and serving teachers, teacher educators, school leaders and researchers.

The sixth edition of this popular book has been written to help international students succeed in writing essays and reports for their English-language academic courses. Thoroughly revised and updated in a streamlined format, it is designed to let readers find the support they need easily, both in the classroom and for self-study.

Everything you need to know to become a successful teacher in the FE and Skills Sector.

This text is a practical guide which supports practitioners to undertake research with confidence and understanding.

Packed full of practical examples from both inside and outside the classroom this is an essential resource for any teacher interested in doing effective action research.

A practical guide to action research, with both theoretical underpinning and a focus on real issues for researchers. Part of our brand new series on Education Research published in association with BERA.

A focused guide for trainee and beginning teachers on Adaptive Teaching offering 'how to' guidance and support for placements and the first years of teaching.

Adaptive Teaching offers a grounded, compassionate guide to inclusive education. Based on a highly successful CPD programme, it is a thoughtful guide for teachers and school leaders who wish to learn more about SEND and gain sensible advice on how to teach inclusively by working smarter, not hard

Using Helene Cixous' notion of 'l'ecriture feminine' as an analogy for transformational learning and an investigative tool, Hoult explores why some adult learners are able to survive and thrive in the education system, despite facing significantly more challenges than the average student.

This book is about student success and how to support and improve it. It takes as its point of departure that we--as faculty, assessment directors, student affairs professionals, and staff--reflect together in a purposeful and informed way about how our teaching, curricul, and assessment work in concert to improve student learning.

Uses psychoanalytic theories of learning to explore contemporary issues in education.

This A-Z guide is an essential resource to support those teaching in HE today to enhance their practice.

This introductory text, now in its fifth edition, shows, first and foremost, the importance of philosophy in educational debate and as a background to any practical activity such as teaching. Updates include new chapters on religious education and moral education, as well as questions for reflection at the end of each chapter.

For beginning researchers, theory can be one of the most stimulating yet daunting aspects of academic work. This book provides new educational researchers with an accessible introduction to the process of selecting and applying theories in their own work.

An original, thought-provoking account of one teacher's global journey to understand what really makes a good school.

Based on the experiences of teachers using action research with their pupils for the first time, this introductory text demystifies the issues commonly faced by the novice researcher.

Explores the contribution made by art and creativity to early education and learning, by focusing upon and understanding more about the role of the 'atelier' in the pioneering pre-schools of Reggio Emilia.

Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education provides a contemporary higher education volume that offers a scholarly perspective on tertiary level art and design education. Providing a theoretical lens to examine studio education, the authors suggest a student-centred model of curriculum that supports the development of creativity.

This book presents the argument that the creative and cultural inquiry undertaken by artists is a form of research.

This volume addresses the issue of "voice" in special education reserch, the voices of the researchers as well as those of "the researched", and the ways in which research mediates identities. It follows on from the well-known and controversial Making Difficulties ( Paul Chapman Publishing).