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Becoming a Teacher of Language and Literacy explores what it means to be a literacy educator in the 21st century. It promotes a reflective and inquiry-based approach to literacy teaching...

Understanding Curriculum: An Australian Context encourages readers to reflect on how curriculum theory can enhance classroom practice. This book provides a critical introduction to contemporary curriculum theory and practice, outlining...

Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature fifth edition is the most comprehensive text in English Education for pre-service teachers. It covers the whole literacy curriculum: reading, writing, speaking, listening and...

'Teaching the Humanities and Social Sciences 6E' prepares teachers to develop and implement programs in the humanities and social sciences learning area from F-10. It successfully blends theory with practical...

From the Centre to the City: Aboriginal Education, Culture and Power

This book takes us inside the complex lived experience of being a First Nations student in predominantly non-Indigenous schools in Australia. Built around the first-hand narratives of Aboriginal and Torres...

This groundbreaking book presents a national picture of who succeeds and who fails at school. . Half the boys living in working-class suburbs to the west and north of Melbourne...

What if everything you know about careers is false? Bombarded by toxic misinformation about unemployment and failing career prospects, job hunters are often halted by fear. 101 Career Myths Debunked...

Diane Tavenner, founder of Summit Public Schools, offers a blueprint for a better way to educate our children, based on the revolutionary lessons, insights, and methodology she and her faculty...

How to Teach is the most exciting, most readable, and most useful teaching manual ever written. It is not the work of a dry theorist. Its author has spent half...

In Tony Blair's first term, 1997-2001, much was promised in reform of social services, but relatively little was achieved - except perhaps in Education, where Michael Barber was head of...

"The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis" is a ground-breaking, practical, step-by-step guide to harnessing the power of your unconscious mind. Using a structured and unique methodology, this book shows you how absolutely...

Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. He has conversations with people inside about their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings, and listens as the men and women he works with...

Embrace challenge and celebrate Eureka! Challenge makes learning more interesting. That's one of the reasons to encourage your students to dive into the learning pit-a state of cognitive conflict that...

What can concerned parents and carers do to ensure their children, of all ages, develop great learning habits which will help them achieve their maximum at school and in life?...

Infancy: The Basics offers an introduction to the developmental science behind the fascinating world of infant development. This book takes the reader from before birth through the moment infants come...

Indigenous scholars strive to produce research to improve Native communities in meaningful ways. They also recognize that long-lasting change depends on effective leadership. Living Indigenous Leadership showcases innovative research and...

This is a true story. More than fifteen years after he left the scouts, the scout leader was falsely accused of raping a scout. What was the evidence? How could...

From the author of the bestselling 'Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind', comes a breakthrough book on the future of learning. The new sciences of brain and mind are revealing that everyone...

Break the cycle of surface-level change and failure How do leaders become clearer as complexity increases? We live in a world where decisions require judgment, getting people on board, drawing...

Bill Handley is well known for making maths fun! The first edition of Teach Your Children Tables challenged over 20000 readers -- and Bill has been inundated with letters of...

This book is the first comprehensive history of Australian education systems, programs and policies of the period since 1960. The narrative of changes in schooling, training and university life is...

This bestselling Coursebook addresses the need for a systematic approach to training in translation studies by drawing on key areas in modern linguistic theory and relating them systematically to a...

This edition of The Sign of Four is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms.

The world's leading educational technologist makes an inspirational case for how we should use AI to support pupils and teachers The generative AI revolution has come to education. Salman Khan,...

'One of the most fascinating and important books of the past decade . . . It will change millions of lives.' Carol Dweck Acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager reveals the...

Hilarious, intelligent and moving, Pnin is the tale of a generation irrevocably severed from its past Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart...

A heartbreaking nonfiction classic from a renowed child psychologist In 1964, renowned psychotherapist Virginia M. Axline visited a New York school. There she encountered a little boy apart from teachers...

A searing analysis of the disturbing trends in universities and a must read for parents everywhere. Have good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence...

With the first cup of tea, you are a stranger. With the second ...a friend. With the third cup of tea, you are family. One day Greg Mortenson set out...

The home of trusted English dictionaries and thesauruses for school use. A fantastic mini school thesaurus for age 11+ (Key Stage 3 and GCSE) in the best-selling Gem format to...

Banish the back-to-school scaries with the perfect resource for classroom organisation: The Best Teacher Lesson Planner. Finally, the one and only planner you'll ever need to make activities and scheduling...

Great math skills are a head start to lasting success Teach Your Children Tables is the ultimate guide to improving your child's mathematical abilities. Written by a renowned education expert,...

We believe this is the first guide of its kind ever published. It is designed by experts for experts, to help them actively build their capability. It assists experts in...

"It is rare for a book to tackle the range of problems and difficulties counsellor training involves in such a comprehensive manner, it is rarer still for the style of...

"English People" is a portrait of the subject "English" as it is experienced by teachers and students in British higher education. The author has interviewed staff and students in the...

Making the Grade offers clear and practical advice in all the areas of communication - reading, writing, listening and finding information - to help students to carry out the tasks...

Workplace bullying is widespread in New Zealand - from the boardroom to the shop floor - and there are few people who don't have a story to tell. Some people...

It removes the mystery surrounding outstanding learning, and enables staff to make the great escape - setting them free to do what really matters for their learners. It identifies key...

This provides graduate students in the social and behavioural sciences with the specific set of skills needed to write a successful dissertation proposal. It gives guidance for the whole process,...

Discusses ways to improve the American educational system, arguing that the art of teaching is far more important than increased spending.

'I couldn't put this book down. Whip smart, hilariously funny and shocking. A must-read' Amy Chua, Yale Law Professor and author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother In 2009,...

Not sure how to begin writing university essays? Four essays to write and only four weeks to go before the deadline? Then this book is for you. Find out the...

`This text provides a comprehensive overview of the range of issues that the EYP will need to be aware of to firmly locate themselves in their newly developing role' -...

Gervase Phinn - "your name sounds like a brand of French yoghurt" he is told - is appointed as school inspector in North Yorkshire, visiting schools in and around the...