This key text examines the impact of teaching assistants on pupils' learning, and provides a conceptually and empirically strong explanatory framework that shows teachers and student teachers how teaching assistants can be better deployed.

This volume explores the implications of the terrorist attack on America of September 11th 2001 and the "war on terrorism" for border controls, cross-border relations and economic integration in North America.

Exposes the consequences on child development of both our low expectations of fellow human beings and our safety-obsessed culture. This book argues that we need to identify what the real problems are - and how much they matter.

Arising from work by the Gender and Lifelong Learning Group of the Gender and Education Association, this book presents reconceptualisations of lifelong learning. It argues that the field of lifelong learning is based on certain hidden values and assumptions and examines the mechanisms by which exclusionary discourses and practices are maintained.