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A tried and tested guide for undergraduate students on how to write a brilliant dissertation.

A compendium of policing skills specifically designed to aid both newly-recruited and established Police Community Support Officers (PSCOs).

Young Children Learning

Managing External Relations in Schools and Colleges

Careers Education

School Culture

This text highlights issues concerning the child's first year in school and considers the needs of four-year-olds. It sets out the basics of good educational practice for the under-fives and considers the factors which support that practice.

`Helpful and stimulating' - Company AccountantThis bestselling guide was developed with all managers in mind. It brings together practical ideas and advice for busy managers wishing to improve the effectiveness of their self development and study skills.

This text explores six educational themes. Each theme begins with a quotation from Froebel's writing, and an introduction to articles selected from the Early Childhood Archive and the National Froebel Foundation Archive. The articles are followed by a contemporary commentary on the theme.

Management Control and Organizational Behaviour provides an introduction to the understanding of human behaviour in work and organizations, by considering the key issue of management control.

Reflective Readers take a new approach to providing trainee teachers with challenging and topical theory in a structure which will underpin their reflective learning and practice.

A therapist may be a living expression, or embodiment, of a chosen theoretical approach. Practitioners here articulate their own "embodied thoery". Approaches covered include psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, rational-emotive behaviour therapy, existential therapy and gestalt.

Deals with the practical therapeutic applications of philosophical research. This book contains exercises designed to bring out and enlighten the client's values, conception of the good life, well-being, happiness, pleasure, and the proper place of reason in life.

In response to recognition of the importance of the quality of attention and the sense of relatedness in therapeutic change, this book considers how relationships and change can be facilitated by very subtle attention to qualities and flows within the therapeutic process.

Learners & Pedagogy

Examines controversial aspects of learning theories, in particular the differing perspectives on the process of knowledge construction, and makes explicit the implications of the various theories for assessment practice.

Learners and Knowledge is founded on the idea of learning as knowledge construction and the implications of this for the nature of knowledge and for the way it is acquired.

Introduces the reader to historical, political, social and cultural influences that contribute to curriculum assessment development.

Management Theories for Educational Change

Human Resource Management in Schools and Colleges

Explores the effects of teachers' and lecturers' research and its impact on organizational improvement. This book shows how improvements in management and leadership arising from practitioner research can contribute to advances in teaching and learning.

Men in the Nursery

This book helps the next generation of doctors understand how they can contribute to making healthcare safer.

An introductory text to help student midwives understand and engage with concepts related to normal midwifery practice.

An accessible text exploring the wider principles around ethics and values in education and supporting students in establishing their own professional identity.

This practical, research-driven book provides professionals with the knowledge and skills to maintain their duty of care in respect of those with whom they work.

Suitable for teachers committed to Circle Time and for looking for various ideas, this book provides activities and various games including: ice breakers; mixing up games; and, energisers.

Since 1990 we have joined many schools to help them organise anti-bullying days for pupils. This publication is a collection of activities, processes and programmes that have been put together to help schools organize either a single awareness day or a series of shorter workshop sessions for pupils, which include:" practical aspects of anti-bullying work" ideas for whole-school keynote sessions" facilitators' instructions for group activities" copiable worksheets and overhead foils.The programmes are suitable for secondary and upper primary use. They provide an excellent project for primary/secondary liaison based around Year 6 and 7 joint work during the summer term.

A 12-session course for primary aged pupils. It builds on the "Circle Time" process to teach a range of personal and social skills with activities and ideas for follow up work. It includes strategies such as: listening; turn taking; accepting differences; giving and receiving compliments; co-operating with others; and confident speaking to peers.

Based on research in schools, this book demonstrates that school improvement must start with a reconsideration of school effects upon the home, and home effects upon the school. The student's school experience must acknowledge the daily influence of the family in the classroom.