Educational Policy & Reform

In this groundbreaking book, one of the world’s leading authorities on ways of developing equitable education systems addresses the greatest challenge facing education systems around the world, that of developing schools that are effective in educating...

The safeguarding and child protection challenges in education have never been more complex, nor the legal duties on schools and colleges more stringent. The criminal and sexual exploitation of children, FGM, radicalisation and online safety are sadly all...

The COVID-19 pandemic has left inequalities in schools wider and uncertainty about the future greater. Now seems an appropriate time to think about the contribution schooling makes to the communities it serves and the country generally. However, drawing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995565678Author Annie BoateFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint Coachinginschools.com PublishingPublisher Coachinginschools.com Publishing

Did your school encourage a life-long love of reading?Children who identify as readers are three times more likely to have good mental wellbeing. A reading culture that permeates a school can transform it into a space where reading is supported,...

Pull Devil, Pull Baker is one of the oddest autobiographies ever written.The novelist Stella Benson first encountered an eccentric Russiannobleman, Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec De Savine in the pauper'sward of a Hong Kong hospital. Striking up a...

This book addresses one of the most exciting and innovative developments within higher education: the rise in prominence of the creative arts and the accelerating recognition that creative practice is a form of research. The book considers how creative...

This book enables and supports teachers to deliver the content of the new statutory guidance for relationships and sex education (RSE) in secondary schools, operational from 2020. It is case study rich and provides clear and practical advice for...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Four o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human...

'Fleming's books are sparklingly sardonic and hilariously angry' - Guardian There is a strong link between the neoliberalisation of higher education over the last 20 years and the psychological hell now endured by its staff and students. While...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789895292Author Miles KellyFormat HardbackImprint Miles Kelly Publishing LtdPublisher Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd

In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences.Hirsch,...

"One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen."-Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR's Morning Edition A brilliant research mathematician who has devoted his career to teaching kids reveals math to be creative and beautiful...

LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2023'A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional impact' Telegraph'A literary provocateur' GuardianIsobel lives an isolated life in North London, working at a nearby library. She feels safe if she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909280915Author Jenny BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Practical Pre-School BooksPublisher Practical Pre-School BooksDimensions(mm) 297mm *...

Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that...

Anna Byrne is a jailhouse librarian. Most days, she loves her job and shares the life-affirming power of books to people who would have no hope without them. Often, she can get too close and forget some of these men are dangerous criminals.But some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398453517Author Jim WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Practical, effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' lives Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in-depth guide to reading assessment and intervention. It provides a...

Why is teacher education policy significant - politically, sociologically and educationally? While the importance of practice in teacher education has long been recognised, the significance of policy has only been fully appreciated more recently. Teacher...

This is a book about teaching, but it is not a manual on how to teach. It is a book about ideas, but not ideological. It is a book about thinking and questioning and challenging, but it also attempts some possible answers. The hope is that you will...

When it comes to those difficult questions about sex and relationships, how do you strike the balance between an answer that is professional but open, correct but doesn't create panic? Aimed at secondary teachers and trainees, as well as being useful...

Written by biomedical scientists and clinicians, with the purpose of disseminating the fundamental scientific principles that underpin medicine, this new edition of the Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences provides a clear, easily digestible account of...

From the makers of AWARD NOMINATED: Why, oh why, am I a crocodile?*** When mean Spider hears music for the first time, music that is being played by - of all unlikely creatures - a Fly, he experiences an emotion that he has never felt before.....

Cloud computing continues to expand dramatically and the 'as a Service' model is now both mainstream and ubiquitous. Cloud now encompasses everything from the remote provision of essential computer processing and storage resources, through to delivery of...

Complex times call for clear solutions-If initiative overload and fragmentation are keeping your best plans from becoming reality, it's time to start leading differently. The key to bringing about the kind of successful and sustainable change you need is...

Co-creation of learning and teaching, where students and staff collaborate to design curricula or elements of curricula, is an important pedagogical idea within higher education, key to meaningful learner engagement and building positive student-staff...

What will the schools of the future look like? What will guide their design, and what is happening now to create them? As we enter the age of disruption and hyperchange, it has become increasingly clear that our education systems are not adequate to the...

Previously known as Baldock: Understanding Early Years Policy is in its Fourth Edition. This best-selling textbook continues to provide fully updated coverage of all the latest developments in early years policy such as the revised Early Years Foundation...

An essential book for all existing and aspiring school governors in England which tells you everything you need to know about the role. Across primary and secondary, each of the roles within the governing body are fully outlined including teacher,...

This book interrogates rising fascism in America. It spotlights the major facets of fascism that increasingly characterize contemporary US politics, in relation to political authoritarianism, the rise of anti-intellectualism, the mainstreaming of...

Why are so many teachers leaving the profession increasingly early in their careers? What harm is being done to pupils' educational prospects by persistent teacher shortages? Why are teachers held uniquely responsible for the effects of poverty on...

At the beginning of 1916, as the world entered the second full year of global conflict, the cities, towns and villages of Britain continued to lay vulnerable to aerial bombardment. Throughout that period German Zeppelin airships and seaplanes had come...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122302Author Loren PopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 195mm *...

All teachers and trainee teachers need to work towards and within the framework of the Teachers' Standards. This is the essential guide to the application of these standards in the classroom. *Supports teachers and trainee teachers to interpret the...

This timely resource for teachers, leaders, and policymakers provides breakthrough insights into how to improve students' well-being in schools.Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, students' well-being was an increasingly prominent concern among educators,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535052Author James J. HeckmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 11mm

Children and young people in care rarely match the academic achievements of their peers and policy and procedures to address this inequality have not yet remedied the problem. Drawing on ideas from social pedagogy, the authors present a new approach -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618083459Author Alfie KohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 408g

The Battle of Berlin was the longest and most sustained bombing offensive against one target in the Second World War. Bomber Commands Commander-in-Chief, Sir Arthur Harris, hoped to wreak Berlin from end to end and produce a state of devastation in which...