An essential companion for all primary trainee teachers, whatever their training route,focusing on the school-based experience. It provides both practical strategies and opportunities for reflection, so trainees are challenged to critically evaluate their learning in order to improve attainment.

Paints a graphic picture of the lives of displaced children and young people in the UK and the daily struggles and challenges they face.

You write something in order that it can be read, not in order that it can be written – write reports that achieve and illuminate.

This book analyses informal caring across a variety of contexts, describing the nature of these relationships and the conditions under which they take place, and discusses the ways professionals can support and empower carers.

This book is an essential introduction and guide for a critical engagement with social problems. In short, What's your (social) problem and what are you going to do about it?

A walk through all the most important issues in education, comparing commonly-held beliefs with simple summaries of the evidence, providing you with clear, jargon-free information. 

An up to date multi-disciplinary and holistic approach to the well-being of young children that supports child development modules on a variety of university courses.

A useful resource for people seeking to understand witchcraft branding as a contemporary form of child abuse. 

Key extracts from Modern Mental Health: : Critical Perspectives on Psychiatric Practice which present a range of ersonal experiences.

Practical strategies for post-16 tutors to improve teaching and learning in the key areas identified in lesson observations.

A research-based yet highly practical exploration of using digital video within both HEI- and school-based teacher education, suitable for primary and secondary programmes.

An accessible and critical sourcebook about the FE sector for all those working towards QTLS.