Enables practitioners, scholars and academics to understand how to re-design or suggest changes to curriculum structure, shape and content.

With a particular focus on the complexities of cross-national, comparative survey research, explored by a team of international experts at local and national levels, this exciting new handbook provides readers with a cutting-edge resource.

John MacInnes takes the fear out of statistics for students, and helps to raise the standards of their quantitative methods skills, by clearly and accessibly introducing all that's needed to know about using secondary data and working with IBM SPSS Statistics.

This new fourth edition takes the reader through the complex network of policy development with activities which make a potentially dry subject matter come alive.

Do you need good leaders to achieve good quality or does good quality create good leadership? This book explores the meanings and understandings of quality and leadership that are present in early years services and how to lead in order to develop and achieve quality in your early years setting.

A complete guide to exploring values and ethics in coaching

Whether you're undertaking an employability module on your course, or need advice on developing transferable employability skills throughout your degree, this handy guide provides the theory and practical help you need to get your foot on the career ladder on graduation.

A cutting edge exploration of this vital sociological sub-discipline. 40 original chapters offering a much needed international approach to cultural sociology.

An Introduction to Child Development, Third Edition provides undergraduate students in psychology and other disciplines with a comprehensive survey of the main areas of child development, from infancy through to adolescence, in a readily accessible format. It equips students with an appreciation of the critical issues, while providing balanced coverage of topics that represent both classic and cutting edge work in this vast and fascinating field. The new edition has been fully updated and fea...

A practical introduction to statistical analysis by this award-winning teacher, helping students to make clear connections between statistics and the real world.