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The Shakespearean stage offered London playgoers a glimpse of the illiterate and rural plant cultures rapidly disappearing from their increasingly urban and sophisticated lives. The same cultures also circulated in popular texts offstage: bawdy tree...

Take your students on a learning journey to discover their personal intellectual interests and develop expertise. Using a research- based approach, the lessons in Quests and Quandaries are designed to teach students how to think and behave as a scholar...

Humanistic Sandtray Therapy: The Definitive Guide to Philosophy, Therapeutic Conditions, and the Real Relationship provides a comprehensive exploration of the underlying theory, necessary skills, and practical applications behind Humanistic Sandtray...

A sober yet encouraging look at how urban public schools have confronted challenges, defied expectations, and continued to improve In The Enduring Promise of America’s Great City Schools, Michael Casserly presents a forthright assessment of the past...

Throughout his twenty-one-year tenure as president of Columbia University, Lee C. Bollinger was an outspoken national leader on many of the major issues confronting higher education and society more broadly. One of the country’s preeminent First...

In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called “Tasting and Testing Books.” The column’s author, Emily Newell Blair, would go on to produce ninety-one reading advice columns...

This new edition of the bestseller, Reading, Writing, and Talk, responds to the urgent need for creating language and literacy pathways that are inclusive, intentional, and center wholeness and belonging. The authors explain, show, and offer critical...

Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the English language.Who...

This edited collection brings empirical, theoretical, and conceptual work related to learning spaces and practices that draw on the convergence of nature, humans, and the digital, in order to contribute to transformative action (that is likely) to effect...

This new edition of the bestseller, Reading, Writing, and Talk, responds to the urgent need for creating language and literacy pathways that are inclusive, intentional, and center wholeness and belonging. The authors explain, show, and offer critical...

Redensarten, Floskeln und Geflügelte Worte sind essentieller Bestandteil der deutschen Sprache. Die Einführung behandelt auf Basis empirischer und korpusbasierter Erkenntnisse so anschaulich wie unterhaltsam verschiedene Typen von Idiomen, diskutiert...

'How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!' The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays, with not one but two sets of twins sliding past each other into mistakes, violence, and madness. An early romantic comedy, it's often considered...

The Communication Games 2.0 series is a collection of resources for English language teachers, and Advanced Communication Games 2.0 is designed for intermediate language learners at CEFR B2+-C2 level.. Earlier editions of the series have been best...

Drawing together the worlds of classroom practice, school leadership and cognitive science, this is an essential how-to guide for initiating and maintaining a school improvement journey based on the science of learning.Providing accessible introductions...

Sarah Kirsch (1935-2013) zählt zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichterinnen. Erfolgreiche Lyrikbände wie „Zaubersprüche“ und „Erlkönigs Tochter", die Interviewsammlung „Die Pantherfrau“ oder die Erzählung „Allerlei-Rauh“ haben die gesamtdeutsche...

Practical Grammar Teaching for the Second Language Classroom provides a well-rounded foundation for teaching second language (L2) grammar for pre-service, novice and practicing teachers, as well as for teacher educators who seek to develop their...

Framed by real stories and grounded in research, the third edition of Transformative Leadership in Education presents an alternative approach to leadership that is engaged, active, and courageous. Noted scholar Carolyn M. Shields once again explores the...

The current companion will offer a survey of the Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan, and Turkic languages in contact with Iranian languages. Comparatively few of Iran's minority languages are well-documented or even widely known outside of a small cadre...

Water Stories in the Anthropocene explores how climate change has emerged as a major theme in our daily lives as it poses a myriad of economic, scientific, political and cultural challenges in the age of the Anthropocene. In all its forms and...

Are you a busy teacher, subject lead or senior leader looking to improve your curriculum? Based on the theory of simplexity, the idea that clarity and logic can make even the most complex tasks manageable, Curriculum Simplexity offers a practical and...

This fully updated fourth edition of the bestselling textbook Science 5-11 provides a comprehensive introduction to current research and professional practice for teaching science in the primary school.Chapters are organised into five sections, first...

Bee is an incredible child with a beautiful mind. Misunderstood at home and at school, Bee's is a wonderful world that others simply cannot see. Bee can see fairies and hear the sigh of the trees.  One day, Bee makes an awesome discovery that could save...

Instead of making readers into better people, what if fiction could help us to become better animals? On Fiction and Being a Good Animal argues that we should abandon the persistent humanist idea that fiction can produce better people. Instead, we should...

This book examines a creative approach to exploring choreographic practice artistically, theoretically, and pedagogically. It explores the interweaving of dance, dance teaching, dance onto-epistemologies, and choreography with a particular focus on...

This interactive guide is designed to help preservice early childhood educators use self-compassion to mitigate the stress of teaching. Barry argues that learning healthy stress-management strategies while enrolled in teacher education programs will...

Show your amazing mum just how much she means to you with this beautiful keepsakeBrimming with heartfelt affirmations, as well as delightful quotes from great thinkers and modern superstars alike, this little book will make the perfect gift to remind...

This book looks at educational reforms in Pakistan during Parvez Musharraf’s tenure as President (1999 – 2008) and analyses the relationship between education policy and curriculum and Pakistani identity and citizenship.It explores changes in the...

Joel Spring’s history of school policies imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization—the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group. The...

This book explores the literary history of the zhiqing, Chinese educated youth, during the liberal 1980s era of the PRC.By incorporating personal experiences, literary representation, shared history, and theory, it argues that attention to bodies’...

In Ancient Greek Heroes, Athletes, Poetry, Gregory Nagy continues where The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours left off. This book is also centered on some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient Greek literature—including the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey and...

Originally published in 1935, Testing Children's Development from Birth to School Age highlighted the greatly increased interest in measuring the development of pre-school children by other means than the older, inadequate "intelligence tests". In the...

Focusing on current educational systems in the US, UK, and Australia, Grant Rodwell examines the politics of gaslighting within school educational policy and how this links to political motives in a post-truth world. In recent years, gaslighting has...

This book examines relationships between language and sustainable development in the context of Bangladesh. Following inclusive and multidisciplinary perspectives, these relationships are explored in mainstream education, teacher education, religious...

This important book explores the intersection between mental health and Black college students, providing a crucial resource for higher education administrators and educators. Chapter authors provide invaluable insights into the experiences, joys,...

This important book explores the intersection between mental health and Black college students, providing a crucial resource for higher education administrators and educators. Chapter authors provide invaluable insights into the experiences, joys,...

A visionary overview of the political role of publicly elected school boards and a proactive take on the work they can accomplish toward social justice  In Navigating School Board Politics, Carrie R. Sampson examines the political power of the US...

Joel Spring’s history of school policies imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization—the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group. The...

Public Policy and Higher Education, 3rd Edition provides readers with the tools to examine how policies affect students’ access and success in college. Rather than arguing for a single approach, the authors use research-based evidence and consider...

What do we mean when we say that a text is relevant to a young person or to a group of young people? And how might a reimagining of relevance, shaped through the voices of young men of color, enhance literacy teaching and learning? Based on case studies...

In a context of increased politicization led by state and federal policymakers, corporate reformers, and for-profit educational organizations, The Politics of Education Policy in an Era of Inequality explores a new vision for leading schools grounded in...