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

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 »

This book gives a series of briefings on the main issues in primary education and the implications for schools and is presented in a convenient A-Z format.

International philosophers of education explore the diverse strands of the liberal tradition in education. Issues covered include social justice, national identity, curriculum, critical thinking and... more »

This text directly focuses on student empowerment through meaningful research. It makes explicit the relationship between teaching method, classroom practice, and the production of knowledge. ... more »

International contributors focus on the challenges to the educational system posed by children and young people who experience a variety of social and economic disadvantages.

This book is designed to help teachers to deal with and resolve the most awkward situations within a school in the most effective and ethical ways.

Attention is given to general aspects of learning and assessment before examining the response of boys to specific subjects within the curriculum. Personal, social and health education concerns are ... more »

This text focuses on religious education, history, geography and cross-curricular planning in the primary school. It includes discussion of the purpose of education, and how the humanities fit into ... more »

This text explores international comparisons in mathematics education and highlights strengths and weaknesses in various systems world-wide, allowing teachers, researchers and academics to compare a... more »

This book tackles the issue of whether and how thinking should be taught in schools and explores how best to help children become effective thinkers and learners.

This book offers practical advice and guidance on how children can be helped to use language to transform knowledge and experience into understanding across the curriculum, and thus become active le... more »

In this collection of essays, David Hornbrook and a team of contributors focus on practical strategies for developing the drama curriculum in primary and secondary schools. The book also clearly exp... more »

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

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, p... more »

This book compares and contrasts special needs approaches with school effectiveness strategies and sets out theories about inclusive schooling that arise out of a detailed scrutiny of practice.more »

This book focuses on the convergence of open and distance learning approaches with conventional education, driven to a considerable extent by a range of technologies which support learning and which... more »

This book investigates teachers reading and evaluations of coursework texts in order to identify the crucial issues affecting the accurate assessment of school mathematics.

This book includes both the formative and performative aspects of language use - the texts and the processes.

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.

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

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 ... more »

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

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 »

This book offers teachers and student-teachers in training a number of practical strategies for developing and improving teaching and learning.