Provides an insight into the troubled relationship between research and policy-making in education. This book shows how these areas of social and intellectual endeavour are in a state of dynamic change and how they are becoming mutually inter-permeable and posing challenging problems for each other.

Aims to provide SENCOs and classroom teachers with a practical guide to managing and supporting their in-class support. The text should help them, amongst other things, to define the roles and reponsibilities of support staff.

Nurture groups are spreading throughout the UK. This text is written in response to the support given by the DfEE to the project and the recognition by every special needs policy document that they provide early intervention for children showing signs of emotional and behavioural difficulties.

This text highlights issues which underpin the professional capabilities of existing and aspiring subject leaders. The content is designed to build on the skills, knowledge, understanding and attributes which serving Heads of Department and subject co-ordinators already possess.