Gives teachers advice on how to make learning fun through the use of 'talk' and collaborative group work. This book offers advice on the difficulties and rewards that can be gained when employing different forms of talk-based teaching in the classroom. It also shows that bringing the child's experience into a lesson through talk has many benefits.

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.

This book explores how the meanings of race are made and remade in everyday acts of consumption: it is through the consumption of products, TV, new media, books, food, design, toys and games, plants, animals and landscapes that we make sense of ourselves and others.