This collection focuses on continuing gender inequalities, and social and educational injustices in girls' lives. It begins to redress two dominant, current trends: namely, the narrow focus on boys&#
This insightful edited collection brings together the perspectives of leading and emerging scholars in early childhood education and play from within Europe, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the Un
"New Kinds of Smart is an intelligent book about intelligence, the many things that go into it, and how educators can help students to get more of the cornucopia."Professor David Perkins, Harvard Univ
The authors are well-known in the Assessment field and this work presents their highly original analysis...It promotes a professional learning approach that will undoubtedly help educationalists in sc
"This innovative and challenging book offers a refreshing and vigorous response to those who seek to create childhoods that are standardized, over-regulated and framed within a 'one-size-fits-all' app
In recent years,-----BT) has become an increasingly pop-----recommended by GPs and a range of other-----BT's appeal lies in the fact that it is time-limited------alternatives.The editors of this book
"This is an innovative book which takes account of the professional development of the qualified nurse as it relates to their specific role as a mentor... The case studies provide an excellent framewo
Issues in Teaching Numeracy in Primary Schools is a bestselling guide for all trainee and practising primary school teachers, classroom assistants and mathematics specialist teachers. It provides an
* How do pupils make sense of the past?* What is the relationship between the way historians construct interpretations of the past and the way pupils learn history in schools?This book draws together
"Understanding Governance" provides a challenging reinterpretation which interweaves an account of recent institutional changes in central, local and European Union government with methodological inno
This book is about living with aphasia -- a language impairment which can result from a stroke. Drawing on in-depth interviews with fifty aphasic people, it explores the experience of aphasia from the
Children arrive in their science classrooms with their own ideas and interpretations of the phenomena they are to study even when they have received no systematic instruction in these subjects whatso
"....undeterred by sociological pessimism, Colin Lankshear hacks away at the underbrush, clearing a path for a new critical-liberatory discourse"James Paul Gee, Clark University, Worcester, Massachus
This book examines the questions of whether we have become passive citizens, if young people have lost political interest, and whether the media is responsible for a decline in political participation
The first edition of this book immediately became a defining text for feminist television criticism, with an influence extending across television, media and screen studies - and the second edition wi
Do you feel that your writing lets you down? Are you concerned about how to punctuate properly? Do you have problems turning your thoughts into writing? Do you need some help with referencin
*What do we mean by social and cultural change?*What is the nature of total war?*How do wars come to happen?*What are the consequences of war?In exploring these four key themes, this collection provid
