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 »

The Professors' Guide to Getting Good Grades in College is the first book to reveal the insider secrets about how professors really grade. The book offers high-value, practical tips about how to succeed at each of the five grade-bearing moments of the semester: (1) The Start (2) The Class (3) The Exam ... more »

Product Info The contributors to this book consider a range of meanings and their relevance for a number of aspects of teaching. more »

Product Info Brings together case studies from a wide range of societies with varying social expectations in order to examine how childhood differs from adulthood. more »

This book encourages those embarking on practitioner research to consider the validity of innovative methods and styles of reporting. It explores issues at a theoretical as well as a practical level... more » more »

A thought provoking book which shows how the teaching and learning of history can be improved by the use of story. 'In Practice' sections at the end of each chapter apply the themes to classroom wor... more » more »

Explores some of the historical antecedents of the current position of science in the lives of younger children. Current teaching practice is examined and on this basis speculations are made about the future direction of this subject. more »

In Feminist Engagements some of the top names in feminist education read, resist and revise the works of the major twentieth-century theorists in education and cultural studies. These essays provide an excellent feminist introduction to such important scholars as John Dewey, W.E.B. DuBois, Michel Foucault ... more »

With the current conservative emphasis on cultural literacy, this revised paperback edition of a path breaking statement serves as a reminder that our educational practices and policies are never ne... more » more »

This book aims to clarify the 'big picture' of monitoring and assessment. It takes on the whole canvass from marking to public examinations and aims to make this topic meaningful and coherent for th... more » more »

This book examines the strands of thinking involved in historical enquiry at any level, while using case studies to illustrate the experiences of pre-school children and historical thinking. more » more »