This book explores the impact of digital media on young children's lives and the role that it plays in the social construction of childhood. It highlights the pressing issues relating to young children's media use drawing on key research and examines the impact of digital media on their learning, development and socialization.

This book has been designed to provide practical strategies and approaches to support the motor and coordination development of children within an educational setting. It demonstrates how professionals can positively impact on children's educational progress, outcomes and social participation.

Unlocking the English Legal System will help you grasp the main concepts of the legal system in England and Wales with ease. The 8th edition has been fully updated throughout to reflect recent developments and changes in the law.

Sonia Overall invites us to see walking as a creative writing method. She sets out a particular form which she calls walking-writing and suggests ways to gather materials, submit to the sensory, explore your home like a tourist, and scour the streets like a metal-detector in search of the hidden, the forgotten and the overlooked.

This book focuses on the conceptual, historical, and material maintenance of "race" and race thinking, with a particular focus on racial trauma as a system of violence enacted on marginalised identities by systemic, narcissistic structures of white supremacy.

A material culture book that celebrates the way the Tudors experienced the world through their five senses, the first book of its kind

Young Children Learning

This book critically examines Bonhoeffer's social theology in Sanctorum Communio from the perspective of Zizek's theological materialism.

The book addresses the issue of native-speakerism, an ideology based on the assumption that 'native speakers' of English have a special claim to the language itself, through critical qualitative studies of the lived experiences of practising teachers and students in a range of scenarios.

Structured to support teaching assistants studying for a foundation degree, this book provides an academic underpinning to each of the key topics studied. The book: develops the theoretical knowledge needed to enhance work in the classroom; and encourages students to reflect on their own practice.

Provides guidance on how to teach English to language students with drama. This book covers the sector of teaching English language students using drama, plays and with theatre techniques. It also covers various subjects including how to plan class work, choosing appropriate texts, and working with students with theatrical techniques.

This book explores the possibility that cinema can challenge our contemporary nihilism and restore belief in new transformative possibilities for life.

This book will introduce the skills required to work with the challenges of community nurse activities, from working in people's homes, organizing yourself, working with carers, assessment skills and working with other professions.

How do we know what works in primary schools? The answer lies in research. In understanding, conducting, disseminating and learning from research. This book is your guide to research in primary education.

Drawing on a range of case studies to demonstrate the unique interaction between the past and the present which occurs within the professional education context, this book argues 'education biographies' offer a more realistic and nuanced model for early education professional development.

Suitable for teachers, trainers, policy-makers, clinicians, researchers, and diverse academics who want to look beyond bland superficialities to deeper struggles for self and understanding, this book provides topical application of psychoanalytic theory to the context of education, including schools, universities, and adult learning.