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 »

How and why is mathematics taught? This book seeks to improve on our current answers. The contributors provide various perspectives in this richly cross-referenced work. Relevant to policy makers, practitioners and researchers. more »

Product Info A new and revised edition which takes into account the many changes which have taken place both within the education system and within training courses. more »

Working with case studies of actual practice, Jean McNiff argues that educational knowledge is created by individual teachers as they attempt to express their own values in their professional lives.... more » more »

What is an effective school and what is an effective teacher? This book answers questions like this through conversational dialogues between a principal, a pre-service teacher and experienced teache... more » more »

... Thinkers on Education looks at fifty of the most significant contributors of modern times to the debate on education. Among those included are: * Pierre Bourdieu * Elliot Eisner * Hans J. Eysenck * Michel Focault * Henry Giroux * Jurgen Habermas * Susan Isaacs * A.S. Neill * Herbert Read * Simone Weill ... more »

This book gives practical guidance on doing an action research project as part of an award-bearing course. Packed with useful advice, it takes the practitioner-researcher through many stages of a project, from planning to writing. more »

Throughout the debate over how - and if - AIDS education should be taught to school age children, teachers who want to bring the subject of AIDS into their classroom have had few, if any, resources to guide them. Teaching AIDS responds to the need for AIDS education material with a practice-based, interactive ... more »