This book approaches research methods from a practice-first perspective that aligns research with professional experiences and identifies the tools and resources readers can use when conducting their own research.

This book will help you communicate clearly, help you learn, help you connect, help you be better. At the heart of its innovation is the belief that we can "self-coach" ourselves to become better communicators.

This book gives beginning primary school teachers clear guidance on how to successfully teach music without recourse to specialized training.

This comprehensive, up-to-date core text covers all aspects of the early childhood studies course. Throughout, key theories and research findings are highlighted and explored to help readers make links between theory and early years practice.

Fully up to date with the SEND Code of Practice this book explores all the key contemporary issues relevant to supporting children with special needs in an early years context. Combining theory with practice, it demonstrates how to ensure children's individual needs are at the heart of early years provision.

Using Goleman's five components of emotional intelligence as a basis, this book shows teachers how to both develop and enhance their own emotional intelligence for use in the classroom.

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A guide to the essential knowledge, understanding and practical support that primary trainees need to know for teaching all curriculum subjects creatively.

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This book introduces the reader to interdisciplinary approaches to child development and extends thinking outside the traditional topics. It covers key aspects of child development theory as well as considering the professions students will enter, through an interdisciplinary lens.