Ron Clark's THE EXCELLENT 11 contains eleven sections, each with a theme directly related to teaching and raising children. In each section, the author gives advice, tells stories of his experiences, and explains the importance of each theme within the learning environment. The learning environment includes ... 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 »

This book reasserts the importance for a strong view of knowledge for a robust sociology of knowledge, for analysing and formulating curricula and for a relevant approach to education policy. ... more » more »

Community education is now a worldwide phenomenon, though its form varies widely depending on the social and historical context of each country and the needs of its people. This book examines the range of community education now being undertaken. more »

This book focuses on theoretical and methodological issues, though with a clear series of links to practices in assessment, especially state and national approaches to classroom based assessment in the USA, UK and Australia. more »

Examines teaching methods, motivating learners and matching work to children, how to structure children's learning, teaching literacy, special educational needs and working with parents. more » more »

Argues that pre-school children have a less apprehensive view of the future than adolescents and that an effective programme in the early years can counteract the difficulties youths experience. more » more »