Early years education is currently in the spotlight as teachers and policy makers consider how best to provide high quality provision for the youngest children in our schools and nurseries. Young children do have specific needs, and the education we offer them should reflect these needs. Education must ... more »

Product Info A useful and comprehensive introduction to research, this book identifies and demystifies aspects more relevant to the education student. more »

Product Info Sexual Bullying draws together a number of theories on gender, adolescent behaviour and schooling to examine the social processes at work in four comprehensive schools. more »

This new book explores the arguments for inclusive schools. It combines a theoretical examination of inclusion and its rationale with the story of a group of schools in which teacher, assistants and children have to make inclusion happen. more »

Product Info This practical, comprehensive and user-friendly text will prove invaluable for students on Primary PGCE courses, lecturers and newly qualified science teachers. more »

A detailed study of all aspects of mentoring in PE. The views of teachers in the UK, Australia and the USA are combined to discuss issues such as the need of PE mentors in schools; planning mentor training programmes and trainees' experiences of mentoring. more »

Product Info Young argues the need to rethink post-16 education to shift focus onto vocational education, school-work issues and lifelong learning. more »

This book offers a fascinating yet disturbing account of the significance of racism in the lives of young children and shows how they make sense of experiences with their understanding of race, gender and sexuality. more »

Written by practising teachers, Challenge of English in the National Curriculum examines the role of past and present policy, while also answering key questions on the practical day to day issues of concern to teachers of English. more »