A step-by-step, interactive guide for students covering every stage of doing their education research project.

A funny, engaging, rapturous read that will inspire teachers to reclaim their professional imagination and reignite the excitement they felt when they entered the teaching profession. It's about botheredness. A made-up word that everyone understands.

This friendly book is jargon-free and no prior scientific knowledge is assumed of the reader. It is thought-provoking reading for practising teachers across all age ranges, trainee teachers, parents, head teachers, educational policymakers, academics and educational psychologists.

Bringing the Froebel Approach to your Early Years Practice looks at the founder of the kindergarten and his profound influence on provision and practice for young children today. The Froebelian approach is not a method but includes distinctive principles which shape and guide practice.

This book explains how the Montessori approach works offering guidance on planning and assessment methods alongside practical activities for practitioners to try.

In this book, nationally recognized interdisciplinary leaders examine the relationships between social-emotional education and school success - specifically focusing on interventions that enhance student learning. Offering scientific evidence and practical examples, this volume points out the many benefits of SEL programs.

Divided into eight sections, this book covers: children's lives and voices: school, home and community; children's development, learning, diversity and need; its aims, values and contexts for primary education; the structure and content of primary education; outcomes, standards and assessment in primary education; and, teaching in primary schools.

In this work, Apple pushes educators toward a more substantial understanding of what schools do and what we can do to challenge the relations of dominance and subordination in the larger society.

In contemporary pedagogy, 'class' has become one nomadic sign among others: it has no referent but only contingent allusions to similarly traveling signs. This text brings back class as a materialist analysis of social inequalities originating at the point of production and reproduced in all cultural practices.

An introduction to conducting educational research for trainee teachers or anyone undertaking classroom-based research.

Researching adult learning combines the presentations from the Third Nordic Conference on Adult Learning. This title covers the broad field of adult education.

Offers busy professionals a full overview of the challenges and concerns facing schools. This collection of thematically organised popular articles from the "Times Educational Supplement" covers subjects ranging from tackling truancy to teaching children to write and from teenage suicide to pets in the classroom.

A guide for busy teachers on planning lessons. It provides a comprehensive treatment of short-term, medium-term and long-term planning, preparing resources and differentiation.

Reflects on the link between constructing students as consumers and the purpose of higher education, and the implications for student identity and learning.

This tenth anniversary edition of Knud Illeris's classic 2008 text is an updated and definitive collection of today's most influential learning theorists, now containing additional chapters from John Hattie and Gregory Donoghue, Sharan Merriam, Gert Biesta and Carolyn Jackson.

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.

Drawing on two years of school-based research carried out by the authors, this work addresses the issues in practice for teachers counselling or guiding students in schools. The book aims to report the research from three angles: the perspective of the pupil, the teacher and the school development.

Updated Edition of Bestseller! Marlowe and Page bring together constructivist theory with step-by-step guidance and ready-to-use checklists to make constructivist learning a reality in your classroom.

This book looks at The Wroxham School in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, which has embraced the' Learning without Limits' approach across the whole school.

With practical exercises, insights and inspiring examples, Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas clearly demonstrate how to break away from old habits, free up your mind and foster a productive and innovative mind-set to liberate your creativity.

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.