The purpose of this book is provide guidance for how to construct the incubator of normal lessons so that thoughtful minds are naturally grown.

Unpacking the vital elements of SEND, Special Educational Needs in the Early Years seeks to empower students to not only understand the impact of policy on practice, but to question it.

Drawing on international examples from the UK, US, Australia and South East Asia, this book offers a commentary on fairness that is highly relevant to the changing context of assessment today.

Bringing together two core areas of the curriculum, play and literacy, this book offers an innovative approach to examining literacy and language development within the context of children's play.

This new text for education undergraduates covers a broad range of themes from across the education sector and focuses on some key contemporary issues. The text includes links to both up-to-date research and more seminal, often cited research and theories.

This text is an introduction to learning and teaching in the post compulsory sector, going further than other texts in its exploration of the sector.

Despite the fact that we live in a primarily visual world, it turns out that we usually perceive only moderately, because we tend to interpret reality more according to expectations and routine than according to reality itself. Asking stupid questions means brainstorming about everything that you initially take for granted, which you would therefore never talk about because it's too obvious.

The stupid questions will teach you to find the hidden naked truth beneath the assumed reality. This f...

Russell outlines the transformative power of a progressive and thoughtful education - which for Russell takes the form of education in knowledge - with characteristic clarity and humour.

'Professional Capital is an incisive critique of the failing reform movements in many countries and a powerful manifesto for the only strategy that can and does work. Hargreaves and Fullan set out exactly and undeniably why the only way to move forward is to honor and improve the profession of teaching. This book should revolutionize how policy makers and practitioners alike think and act in education.' - Sir Ken Robinson, educator and author 'I love the focus on professional capital and deci...

Global, multi-faceted, and applied: the most contemporary introduction to leadership, which considers individual, organizational, and societal perspectives. Providing a robust and engaging overview of the leadership field, Exploring Leadership is a highly practical and insightful guide that supports the personal and professional development of both aspiring and experienced leaders. Investigating the complex dynamics of power, identity and purpose in organizations and wider society, this essen...