The essential guide to teaching and learning in higher education for anyone in teaching and learning support roles at university, including early career academics, postgraduate researchers and graduate teaching assistants.

This book brings together theory on parents and early learning, and the role of education professionals in developing partnerships with families, focussing on how to support parents in their teaching of literacy and other aspects of early learning at home.

Exploring research methods in the context of early childhood, this popular guide approaches complex ideas in a clear style linking directly to practice. It covers all students need to know about undertaking research in early childhood, including action research, ethics and carrying out a research project.

This book provides the support that trainee and beginning teachers need to enable them to teach and assess writing. The book covers all the main aspects of writing, both compositional and transcriptional, including those where the National Curriculum has very little detail.

This book provides academics, trainers and supervisors worldwide the tools to effectively support doctoral students in the assessment process.

An accessible foundation to the topics of diversity, inclusion and marginalisation.

This book offers an accessible critique of recent Early Childhood Educational Research, taking an international perspective, and highlighting strengths and key focus areas within the field. It will also identify areas where researchers have yet to offer significant insights that support the development of theory, policy and practice.

This book develops the reader's knowledge of how and when gender stereotypes form and how they can be perpetuated in various ways through and during a child's education.

Fully-updated in line with the new National Curriculum and Teachers' Standards, this Second Edition provides a coherent overview of teaching and learning languages, combining practical strategies for use in the classroom informed by theory and research.

The author has been involved in a dispute with his employer, Lancaster University, about what he sees as irregularities in the REF process. In this title, he criticizes the REF for discouraging innovation and harming staff morale, and questions the REF's claim to provide 'expert review of the outputs' - the very heart of its legitimacy.