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  • Learning Begins at Home

    A Study of a Junior School and its Parents

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1968, Learning Begins at Home records an attempt by two researchers to initiate and assess an innovation in a school in a working-class neighbourhood. The influence of parents upon children’s achievement is a platitude of education. The vital question is whether schools can become centres for education for adults as well as children, influencing the parents directly, and the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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  • How to Manage Children's Challenging Behaviour

    Edited by Dr Bill Rogers ...
    In this new edition of his bestselling book, Bill Rogers brings together contributions from practising teachers that suggest ways to tackle disruptive and challenging behaviour. Bill introduces and comments on each chapter, setting out key principles for behaviour leadership in the style that makes him such a popular author.There are numerous case studies drawn from practice, each showing how the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Guide to Early Years Practice

    by Sandra Smidt ...
    This is a practical, accessible guide to early years practice. The author examines current theories about how children learn best and focuses on how we can support and extend the learning of young children. This fully revised edition discusses Birth to Three Matters, the new Childcare Bill and the development of children's centres, and has additional focus on the Foundation Stage ProfilePacked ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege

    A guide to therapeutic work with boarding school survivors

    Trauma, Abandonment and Privilege discusses how ex-boarders can be amongst the most challenging clients for therapists; even experienced therapists may unwittingly struggle to skilfully address the needs of this client group. It looks at the effect on adults of being sent away to board in childhood and the problems associated with boarding, which have only recently been acknowledged by mainstream ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Bringing the Best Out in Boys

    Communication Strategies for Teachers

    by Lucinda Neall ...
    Series series Steiner / Waldorf Education
    These time tested communication strategies help get the best out of boys. The tips for tackling difficult behaviour will result in more classroom co-operation and learning ? so that everyone benefits. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Work with Children and Families

    Getting into Practice Third Edition

    This key text covers the knowledge and skills that social workers need to get into practice with children and families.The book covers core components of child and family work such as building effective relationships, assessment, child protection practice and working with the law. Clear and accessible, this practical book features case studies, questions and exercises throughout. This third ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Introduction to Play Therapy

    by Ann Cattanach ...
    Play therapy is a popular and important intervention for many children with psychological problems and traumatic life experiences. Written by a renowned expert in the field, Introduction to Play Therapy provides a basic grounding in play therapy intervention, answering questions such as:· Who can play therapy help?· What are the best settings for play therapy?· How should you train in play therapy ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Observing Organisations

    Anxiety, Defence and Culture in Health Care

    Observing Organisations presents a unique approach derived from direct participant observation of small units within institutions, all in the health and social services sector.A range of contributors bring together the results of their own observational projects to show how they were able to come to a psychoanalytically informed understanding of the cultures that arise within healthcare ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Bad Education

    The Guardian Columns

    by Phil Beadle ...
    Phil Beadle has been described as The scourge of education policy makers and A prolific writer of articles challenging the status quo in education. Bad Education is an anthology of his best columns. Written in his trademark, simple, luminous and down-to-earth style, this collection is a wry look at more or less every element of educational change over the last five years. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Reading Disaster

    Reclaiming Our Educational Birthright

    by Mona McNee ...
    By the late 1980s half the nation’s children were receiving eleven years of progressivist schooling that failed to give them even the elementary basis of education that was completed by the age of seven in earlier days. This great reading disaster was caused by the ‘looksay’ method of teaching, which presented whole words not individual letters. This book explains the causes and provides the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Young Children′s Personal, Social and Emotional Development

    Young children’s personal, social and emotional development is of central importance to all those working in the Early Years.Offering thought-provoking questions and practical suggestions to help readers to reflect on and develop their own practice, this fourth edition of Marion Dowling’s much-loved book has been fully updated to include:Expanded coverage of key topics including independent ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Wednesday's Child

    Research into Women's Experience of Neglect and Abuse in Childhood and Adult Depression

    As many as one in four women have suffered severe neglect or abuse in childhood. This doubles the likelihood of their suffering clinical depression in adult life. Based on twenty years of systematic research,Wednesday's Child examines why neglect and abuse occur and demonstrates how such negative experience in childhood often results in abusive adult relationships, low self-esteem and depression ... Read more

    $68.99 USD