The contributors of this book provide practical guidance on the introduction of staff appraisal into a range of schools, outline a planning process for the establishment and preparation for staff ap... more » more »

Centred around the topic of school leadership, this book addresses the difficulties and challenges which present themselves to school leaders across the western world. All the evidence is primary and secondary school-based. more »

This book provides a compelling account and analysis of the delicate balance between power and resistance and the ways in which developing conceptions of 'self' must be entered into any theoretical ... more » more »

This books looks at how the notion of the learning society has developed over the years, and how, and why, flexibility has become a more central concept in much policy and academic debate. more » more »

Argues for the financial backing from governments and industry for adult education and will help adult and community educators draw comparisons between their own work and that of their colleagues in other developed countries. more »

Brendan Evans explains both the policy processes and ideological assumptions underpinning recent innovations. He sets the debate in the context of changing initiatives over the last thirty years, and looks at recent schemes such as the TECs. more »

This book examines the role of psychology in informing adult education practice. The approach is to examine the seminal traditions of some key psychological theories and the issues and problems in a... more » more »

Product Info This book is about how special education policy and practice is being negotiated within the context of educational reform in the USA and Britain. more »

Product Info This book provides a hard-hitting account of the realities of exclusion and examines the behaviour which typically results in exclusion. more »

Product Info Higher education institutions are concerned with the quality of teaching and learning experiences they provide for students, including the increasing number of overseas students. more »

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"The nation needs to be confronted with the crime that we're committing and the promises we are betraying. This is a book about betrayal of the young, who have no power to defend themselves. It is not intended to make readers comfortable." Over the past several years, Jonathan Kozol has visited ... more »