This book provides guidance on how every early years practitioner can use their knowledge, skills, personality and experience to positively influence and lead practice, and in doing so improve opportunities for children and their families.

This book takes a genuine theory and practice approach and looks at the main areas of global early years curricula, dedicating a chapter to each. It also includes discussion of key elements of early years education such as play, assessment and SEND.

Exploring family engagement issues across early years through to pre-adolescence, this book will enable teachers and parents to explore their roles and involvement in their child or pupil's education.

Using empirical research this text gives faculty and graduate teaching assistants the tools for understanding why certain teaching practices work and how to adjust their teaching to changing classroom room and online environments.

The sequel to the ground-breaking Learning Stories, this book further discusses the philosophy behind the notion of narrative assessment while being practical guide on how to write ‘good stories’ and engage with a range of audiences.

A guide to the complexities of working with difference and diversity in counselling and psychotherapy.

Enriching and empowering teaching in universities, with a focus on transformational practice and education for social justice.

This text helps students develop critical skills in diagnosis, case conceptualization and treatment-planning by presenting a series of diagnostic cases based on characters from popular culture. Using a unique and engaging approach, this allows students to practice skill development before they actually start working on real client scenarios.

This book offers guidance on reimagining stakeholder roles, research on best practices, principles for designing policies, and messages from thought leaders inside and outside the field of education.