Educational Policy & Reform

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...

Helle Heckmann describes a delightful Danish Waldorf childcare facility for children ages 1-7.Nokken is a wonderful example of a healthy child-care facility which accepts children from the age of one. This extended case study explores what places like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401324278Author Todd RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 348g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648765131Author Dr. Gina M. RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Callisto Media Inc.Publisher Callisto Media Inc.Weight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 1mm...

The aim of this book is to inspire a better politics: one that will enable future generations to be happier. Greater well-being and better health should be the goals - rather than wealth maximization. We need to value health-care more than hedge-funds,...

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 9781915080165Author Colin HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Critical Publishing LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 164g

Further Education is the most diverse of all the education sectors. Managing diversity and promoting equality, a legislative requirement of the 2010 Equalities Act, brings significant challenges for practitioners who are tasked with making the rhetoric...

A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is...

No study of Caribbean history can be complete without an examination and appreciation of the topic of reparation. The opposition to reparation by former colonial powers and others, though, means that the demand for it is an ongoing struggle...

A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, The Death and Life of the Great American School System is a radical change of heart from one of America's best-known education experts.Diane Ravitch,former assistant secretary of education and a...

What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all children-but all possible advantages for our own. So argues historian David Labaree in this provocative look at the way...

Furedi turns his attention to the education system, skilfully analysing current processes and providing a way forward. Never has so much attention been devoted to education. Everyone - government ministers, social commentators and parents obsess about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398453814Author Mark ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578668086Author Jane MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Truth Be Told PublishingPublisher Truth Be Told PublishingWeight(grams)...

Organised around the groundbreaking principles of 8 Keys to End Bullying, the two-book 8 Keys to End Bullying Activity Program for Kids & Tweens builds key social-emotional skills in readers ages 8-12, empowering them to cope with conflict and end...

This book guides PreK-12 educators and school-based clinicians on how to embed socially just practices into their day-to-day roles to achieve more equitable outcomes. Social Justice in Schools uses vivid vignettes and personal reflections to demystify...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909979529Author Guy ClaxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Crux PublishingPublisher Crux PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

A reflective guide for all those studying for the range of professional disciplines within the area of children and families. Written by a multi-disciplinary team, this book provides students and practitioners with opportunities to reflect upon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993064401Author Shurville PublishingFormat PaperbackImprint Shurville PublishingPublisher Shurville Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909979017Author David PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Crux PublishingPublisher Crux PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 12mm

The higher education industry might seem like it's booming, with over 200 million students in universities and colleges worldwide and funds flowing in like never before. But the truth is that these institutions have never been unhappier places to work...

Key factors that impact upon children's educational motivation and engagement are here considered from an international and comparative perspective. Based upon a major programme of research undertaken in sites in England, the USA and Russia, the authors...

This book offers comprehensive guidance to support those involved in primary education in developing the curriculum to meet the requirements of the new Ofsted (2019) framework.It addresses key issues such as the purposes of the curriculum, how to...

Black Rood tells the fascinating story of one of Scotland's oldest and most significant crown jewels. Once as famous as the Stone of Scone, the Black Rood was a gold and jewel-studded reliquary for a piece of the True Cross. This profound and holy...

Population mobility is at an all-time high in human history. One result of this unprecedented movement of peoples around the world is that in many school systems monolingual and monocultural students are the exception rather than the rule, particularly...

The field of education policy research is a dense, crowded space owing to its complicated relationship to different intellectual histories and the influence of various ontologies or ‘turns’. To aid comprehension and clarity, this book describes the...

In Educational Entrepreneurship Today, Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane assemble a diverse lineup of high-profile contributors to examine the contexts in which new initiatives in education are taking shape. They inquire into the impact of...

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...

Mrs Marple needs some plums for her pudding. What can she swap? Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined these with...

Children have a fundamental right to education, and to the protection that schools uniquely provide in the chaos that characterizes life for refugees and internally displaced persons. This book is grounded in the personal experiences of children, aid...

In 2014 an investigation into an alleged plot to 'Islamify' several state schools in Birmingham began. Known as the 'Trojan Horse' affair, this caused a previously highly successful school to be vilified. Holmwood, an expert witness in the professional...

Although many books have been written about naval actions during the Second World War - histories and memoirs in particular - few books have attempted to encompass the extraordinary variety of the experience of the war at sea. That is why James Goulty's...

This book focuses on two of the most cited figures in the debate on radical education - Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire. Both regarded forms of adult education as having an important role to play in the struggle for liberation from oppression. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863959995Author Joe ClementFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Black Inc.Publisher Black Inc.Weight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 154mm * 25mm

Terry Edwards and Carl Parsons tell the story of the takeover of England's schools by the super-efficient, modernising, academising machine, which, in collaboration with a dynamic, forward-looking government is recasting the educational landscape...

This workbook is designed to be used to facilitate discussion and disseminate awareness amongst all professionals (social workers, teachers and health care professionals) who are required by law to report instances of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)...

This vital, sensitive guide explains the serious issues children face online and how they are impacted by them on a developmental, neurological, social, mental health and wellbeing level. Covering technologies used by children aged two through to...

The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for...

First published in 1962, this book comprises lectures given in November 1961 to what was then the University College of North Staffordshire. It deals with the aims, rather than the administrative problems of the Universities, to put at the forefront of...