Every child valued and empowered to learn-this book shows you how! This book is focused on a set of strategies that have a positive effect on student learning and attachment to schooling, in spite of real and powerful social inequalities. This evidence-based book is drawn from research showing that students from all backgrounds in identity safe classrooms learn better and like school more than their peers in other classrooms. In identity safe classrooms, teachers strive to ensure that student...

An accessible guidebook to the different approaches taken by ethnographers studying education. Part of our brand new series on Education Research published in association with BERA.

A state-of-the art compilation of the research, practice and application of best practices in the field of youth mentoring

A comprehensive guide to educational leadership preparation, this book helps foster an understanding of adult developmentthat enables education leaders to support professional learning-or build capacity-across schools.

A guide designed to deepen school board members' understanding of high quality professional learning, its impact on student achievement, and its relation to key responsibilities and decisions of school boards.

An accessible text exploring current themes in early childhood education and encouraging and supporting readers to engage with topical debates.

A practical and accessible text for trainee primary school teachers examining the 'new literacies' and exploring their place in primary schools.

Policy Analysis for Social Workers, is a comprehensive guide to help students understand the process of policy development and analysis so they can become effective advocates.

This accessible and student-friendly book is the first to focus specifically on schemas for children under three.