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How to Improve Your School by Tim Brighouse
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27This best-selling book takes a practical look at how improvements can be made in any school.It cuts through the jargon of the specialist and shows how ideas and intentions can be turned into direct... -
About Our Schools: Improving on previous best by Tim Brighouse
Booksplease Price: €36.27Through revealing interviews with most of the main protagonists in education since the Ruskin speech of Jim Callaghan in 1976, including nearly all Secretaries of State, Sir Tim Brighouse and Mick... -
What Makes a Good School Now? by Tim Brighouse 9781855390843
Booksplease Price: €42.64There is universal interest in the 'good school'. Parents want to find one, teachers seek to teach in one and children deserve to attend one. This book makes the assumption that success is possible... -
Inspirations: A Collection of Commentaries and Quotations to Promote School Improvement by Tim Brighouse 9781855392229
Booksplease Price: €36.74Politicians, priests, generals and football managers have all long known the value of a good quotation or a stirring comment that really gets people motivated. Teachers know this too: think of... -
The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Teaching and Learning Ted Wragg 9780415333764
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27In this new Reader, Ted Wragg has carefully selected contributions to reflect enduring and contemporary trends in the field of Teaching and Learning. Focusing on the major issues confronting... -
A Generation of Radical Educational Change: Stories from the field by Richard Pring 9781138941915
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €40.14How much have teachers and their pupils benefitted from the top-down Westminster-led control of policy held in place by a powerful national inspection regime?A Generation of Radical Educational... -
The Changing Government of Education by Stewart Ranson 9781138487970
Booksplease Price: €103.03Originally published in 1986. As the keystone of public policy-making and social reform in the post-war period, education has been expected to fuel economic growth, facilitate equality of... -
The Changing Government of Education by Stewart Ranson 9781138545458
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €29.01Originally published in 1986. As the keystone of public policy-making and social reform in the post-war period, education has been expected to fuel economic growth, facilitate equality of... -
Teacher Education, the University and the Schools: Papers for Harry Judge by David Phillips 9780415853569
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €29.01Using the highly successful Oxford model of teacher training and the widely respected work in teacher education of Harry Judge, a number of prominent educationists from around the world contribute... -
Teacher Education, the University and the Schools: Papers for Harry Judge by David Phillips 9780415499217
Booksplease Price: €55.32Using the highly successful Oxford model of teacher training and the widely respected work in teacher education of Harry Judge, a number of prominent educationists from around the world contribute... -
New Directions in Educational Leadership by Paul Harling
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €40.14Originally published in 1984. The argument of this book is that the preceding 12 to 15 years saw significant changes in educationalists' understanding and application of the concepts of leadership,... -
The A-Z of School Improvement: Principles and Practice by David Woods 9781441135667
Booksplease Price: €37.52This is not a book about the school system as a whole or how governments can help or hinder school improvement. It is a book about supporting and inspiring leaders and teachers to help schools... -
Race, Culture, and Education: The Selected Works of James A. Banks James A. Banks (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) 9780415398206
RRP: €73.77Booksplease Price: €68.46Considered the father of multicultural education in the US and known throughout the world as one of the field's most important founder, theorist and researcher, James A. Banks has collected here... -
Schools and Communities: Working Together to Transform Children's Lives by John West-Burnham 9781855392335
Booksplease Price: €55.62This book is rooted in the principle that every child and young person has a fundamental entitlement to equal educational opportunities. Human relationships are fundamental to educational and social... -
Tracing Education Policy: Selections from the Oxford Review of Education David Phillips (University of Oxford, UK) 9781138985865
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €40.50This book brings together key articles that trace the development of British education policy since 1975 and provides a valuable route map to developments within education policy during this period... -
The Good Teacher: Dominant Discourses in Teacher Education by Alex Moore
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €66.45Moore's insightful text explores and makes better sense of professional practice by examining that practice in the context of popular views. The book identifies and elaborates three dominant... -
Tracing Education Policy: Selections from the Oxford Review of Education by David Phillips
Booksplease Price: €131.72This book brings together key articles that trace the development of British education policy since 1975 and provides a valuable route map to developments within education policy during this period... -
Underachievement in Schools Hazel Pennell 9780415241328
Booksplease Price: €24.98There is greater pressure for schools to meet certain levels of pupil achievement now more than ever before. Teachers and policy-makers are looking for ways to ensure pupils are not underachieving,... -
Strategic Leadership and Educational Improvement by Maggie Preedy
Booksplease Price: €107.67`Strategic Leadership and Educational Improvement contains essays that will be invaluable to those seeking succinct guides to the subtle elements of school improvement' - Tim Brighouse, Times... -
Passionate Leadership in Education by Brent Davies 9781412948623
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €42.82'I recommend the book as an inspiration to those who are looking for the words that express what they may already do (or will do in the future!) for these well known writers have world wide... -
Underachievement in Schools by Hazel Pennell 9780415241311
Booksplease Price: €71.85There is greater pressure for schools to meet certain levels of pupil achievement now more than ever before. Teachers and policy-makers are looking for ways to ensure pupils are not underachieving,... -
The Knowledge Corrupters: Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life Colin Crouch (London School of Economics) 9780745669861
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.25In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt... -
The Knowledge Corrupters: Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life by Colin Crouch 9780745669854
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.31In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt... -
The Moral Imperative of School Leadership by Michael Fullan 9780761938736
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €32.95`The Moral Imperative of School Leadership is an important read for school leader and system administrators, not so much because it provides a prescription of the future of public education, but more... -
Reinventing Schools, Reforming Teaching: From Political Visions to Classroom Reality by John Bangs 9780415561334
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €107.91What lessons can we learn from the relationship between policy-makers and schools over the life of the `New' Labour and its predecessor Conservative government? What happened to `Education,... -
Education for a Change: Transforming the way we teach our children Titus Alexander 9780415334853
Booksplease Price: €55.07This challenging, hard-hitting book is about making schooling relevant to modern society. It starts from the premise that our present education system is ill equipped to serve students and society in... -
Change Forces With A Vengeance Michael Fullan 9780415230858
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €45.49Change Forces With a Vengeance is the third in the chaos theory trilogy (now called complexity theory). The first two books focused on understanding the real complexity of educational reform in... -
Key Concepts in Education by Jon Nixon 9781412903158
Booksplease Price: €93.05[The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages... -
The Power of Pedagogy by Jenny Leach 9781412907231
Booksplease Price: €119.87'[This book] is readable, engaging, informative and provoking' - Tony Rae, ESCalate 'The book is encompassing all my own passions as a holistic practitioner; I feel it is multi-cultural, offering... -
Reinventing Schools, Reforming Teaching: From Political Visions to Classroom Reality by John Bangs
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €33.07What lessons can we learn from the relationship between policy-makers and schools over the life of the 'New' Labour and its predecessor Conservative government? What happened to 'Education,... -
The Literacy Leader's Toolkit: Raising Standards Across the Curriculum 11-19 by Patrick Taylor 9781441138835
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €21.99In their new book, the winners of the TES National Award for Outstanding Literacy Initiative share the secrets behind school improvement through raising literacy levels across the curriculum. ... -
Teacher Leadership and Behaviour Management by Bill Rogers 9780761940203
Booksplease Price: €97.73In framing this book, Bill Rogers discusses `what changes' and `what stays the same' in teacher leadership and behaviour. Original chapters from well-known writers and practitioners set out current... -
Creativity in Schools: Tensions and Dilemmas by Anna Craft
RRP: €53.54Booksplease Price: €50.27Creativity in schools is changing, with greater emphasis being placed on creative skills across the curriculum than ever before. This shift has thrown up some challenging questions which this book... -
Leading & Managing Continuing Professional Development: Developing People, Developing Schools by Sara Bubb 9781412948289
Booksplease Price: €100.57Praise for the first edition: 'Peter Earley and Sara Bubb bring together, in a very accessible way, theoretical and practical aspects of CPD and suggest how leadership and management can be applied... -
Educational Leadership: Culture and Diversity by Clive Dimmock 9780761971702
Booksplease Price: €112.05`A highly recommendable and powerful work...I have found this book to be both a revelatory mirror on past events and an inviting window to future prospects. I am certain that it will be of equal or... -
8 Qualities of Successful School Leaders: The Desert Island Challenge by Jeremy Sutcliffe 9781441197504
Booksplease Price: €21.63"Imagine you were cast adrift on a desert island with a school full of children in desperate need of a great headteacher. What eight qualities would you take with you to run your desert island... -
Education through the Arts for Well-Being and Community: The Vision and Legacy of Sir Alec Clegg by Catherine Burke 9780367676490
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Education through the Arts for Well-Being and Community examines Sir Alec Clegg's distinctive contribution to education reform. Revisiting the significance of Clegg's principles for education in the... -
Dusting Off Thunderbolts: a quest for the heart of leadership Sir John Jones 9781398387508
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €20.35Dusting Off Thunderbolts is not just another book about how to be a good leader. Having worked in 50 countries on a quest to find what he calls the heart of leadership, Sir John Jones shares wisdom... -
What Works in School Leadership?: Making Evidence-Informed Choices Linet Arthur 9780367202729
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €32.05The key purpose of school leadership is to improve learning. What Works in School Leadership? examines research evidence and leadership models that focus on learning and provides resources that will... -
Radical Education and the Common School: A Democratic Alternative by Michael Fielding
RRP: €69.01Booksplease Price: €64.43What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the school? How does the ever more pressing need...