An up-to-date and global perspective exploring the socio-cultural issues facing Early Childhood today.

Lesson planning and subject knowledge go hand in hand in this exciting new edition covering all teachers need to know to confidently teach the computing curriculum as well as explore opportunities for cross-curricular teaching.

The second, thoroughly revised and expanded, edition of The SAGE Handbook of Visual Research Methods presents a wide-ranging exploration and overview of visual research methods today, aiming to exemplify diversity and contradictions in perspectives and techniques.

Detailing over 60 different special needs conditions this book is an ideal 'go-to-guide' to help teachers understand, identify and work with children who have special needs.

New edition of this essential text for secondary teacher trainees covering all the key issues for learning and teaching in secondary schools. Linked to the new Teachers' Standards.

A user-friendly guide to the Philosophy of Education, its extent, its key thinkers and movements, and its potential contribution to a range of educational concerns.

Can baboons read? That is the thought-provoking question that opens this wonderfully accessible book for trainee and practising primary school teachers to fully understand the process of reading comprehension. It develops subject knowledge and provides practical strategies and lesson ideas to teach comprehension confidently.

By examining the historic background of observing and planning, and describing examples of good practice in different group settings, this book will help to monitor a child's progress - what is needed now and to work out what is needed next.

This book guide students through the challenging field of special educational needs and disability, offering essential support as they develop a critical and up-to-date understanding of the practical challenges and opportunities concerning inclusion.

This book provides an alternative to the 'school' of today, creating the conditions for teachers to go on a co-adventure with children and allow their magic to thrive.