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Movement-play encourages physical activity in a child-led manner for the benefit of children's health, learning and wellbeing. This book looks at the theory behind the importance of movement and how 'movement-play' works within settings along with practical advice on its implementation.

Including both classic and contemporary readings, this four-volume Major Work evaluates, explains and highlights the key issues in multiple disciplines where the term "culture" has a partially unique and partially shared history.

Previously known as Teaching ICT, this Second Edition has been carefully revised to meet the new demands of computer science as a curriculum subject.

Packed full of up-to-date and engaging case studies, this guide to the essentials of doing participatory methods in a broad range of health contexts covers all of the stages of the research process, from research design right through to dissemination.

Packed full of up-to-date and engaging case studies, this guide to the essentials of doing participatory methods in a broad range of health contexts covers all of the stages of the research process, from research design right through to dissemination.

A self test tool for trainee primary teachers to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses in English and monitor and evaluate their progress towards Qualified Teacher Status.

A self audit tool for trainee primary teachers to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses in science and to monitor and evaluate their progress towards Qualified Teacher Status.

A self test tool for trainee primary teachers to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses in mathematics and to monitor and evaluate progress towards Qualified Teacher Status.

This is a guide to a theoretical awareness and understanding of the role of creativity in teaching and learning across the primary curriculum.

This Major Work gathers key research studies from that vast array of international resources, focusing in turn on assessing and educating gifted and talented, and creative students, with organization and commentary that allows the user easy access to and understanding of the literature.

This introduction to the main psychosocial interventions in mental health shows nurses what they are, why they are important and how they fit in to their practice.

A concise and practical guide to becoming a nursing mentor

The comprehensive complete guide to the TAQA Award covering all units, written accessibly to support learners from all contexts with differing experience of training and assessments settings.

This new SAGE Major Work presents a collection of important papers - both classic and contemporary - that cover key contributions in the area of cognitive development in children, designed to be a touchstone text for scholars, practitioners and educators with an interest in children's thinking.

Updated to include the revised Early Years Foundation Stage, this new edition comes with more activities and examples for playful teaching and covers all the latest topics in the field.

This well-loved book by high-profile authors provides an accessible introduction to the history of early childhood education, featuring a series of 'conversations' with key figures and pioneers.

This new, valuable six-volume major work builds a map of the topic of coaching and mentoring by bringing together the most influential papers on the subjects in a single resource. The volumes are organized thematically and contextualized by an introductory chapter written by editor Professor Bob Garvey.

Incorporating recurring case studies, student real life examples, and packed with exercises, chapter objectives and suggestions for further reading, this highly practical guide encourages personal development and ensures that trainees and qualified therapists get the most, both professionally and personally, from their practice-based research.

Identifying the practicalities and key challenges of carrying out organisational research, this important new book introduces students across disciplines to all that is involved with this type of fieldwork

"This is a very useful book that covers all the key topics that the students will need to know about. The book is easy to access, and a good mix of theory and practical ideas." -Lisa Jeffery, School of Education, Northampton University

Introducing the major concepts and theories of early years care and education, this text helps you examine topics in depth, using level appropriate tasks and further reading, as well as supporting your development of key academic skills.

"This is a very useful book that covers all the key topics that the students will need to know about. The book is easy to access, and a good mix of theory and practical ideas." -Lisa Jeffery, School of Education, Northampton University

Introducing the major concepts and theories of early years care and education, this text helps you examine topics in depth, using level appropriate tasks and further reading, as well as supporting your development of key academic skills.

This popular text explores all the major themes in early years education and care, providing a real insight into the changing world of Early Childhood.

This popular text explores all the major themes in early years education and care, providing a real insight into the changing world of Early Childhood.

Offering an in-depth study of validity, which forms an important part of education assessment, this book addresses complex concepts in a straightforward manner, while guiding the reader through the evolution of validity from the 19th century to the present day.

A state of the art guide to the issues and debates surrounding feminist theory, mapping both the present and the future of this broad, interdisciplinary field.

Providing a clear overview of the therapy profession for those embarking on professional training this book takes the reader step-by-step through what 'counselling' actually is; introducing and exploring the basic concepts, historical development, research base and structure of the profession.

This unique, self-contained and accessible textbook provides an introduction to computational modelling in psychology and neuroscience accessible to students with little or no background in computing or mathematics.

Helping students to easily compare and select qualitative methods, this new introduction from expert authors is a practical guide to the research process