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Pedagogies for supervision
Helping Doctoral Students Write offers a proven approach to effective doctoral writing. By treating research as writing and writing as research, the a...
Strategies for Reading, Revising and Rewriting
Revision is often taken as a largely instrumental process which happens after the real work of writing is done – it is an unavoidable and tedious pr...
Strategies for Getting Published
This title presents a theorized approach to writing that is crucially combined with strategies designed to assist the writer, guiding them through the...
Blowing the Whistle on the Corruption of Our Education System
With almost daily reports of failings in school management, what can be done to improve educational outcomes for everyone? Pat Thomson takes on Englan...
A Literature Review
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Strategies for doctoral researchers
There are a number of books which aim to help doctoral researchers write the PhD. This book offers something different - the scholarly detox. This is ...
Most teachers become heads for idealistic reasons, but heads are leaving work and there is a shortage of applicants for school leadership roles. Argui...
Making the difference in changing times
'A truly exceptional book.' - Michael W. Apple, University of Wisconsin, Madison 'A gripping insight into the local struggles facing disadvantaged sch...
Schools are complex institutions. They do not easily reveal themselves to researchers who rely on only one or two methods. Understanding a school, its...
Granny describes some of the pranks she pulled when she was young....
Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He argued for, and practiced, rigorous and reflexive scholarship, int...
Beyond Pedagogies of Poverty
Drawing on long-term case studies of four primary schools located in these communities, this book describes the difference between what is commonly pr...
Transforming Education through the Creative Arts
Recognising performance and accountability pressures on schools, Inspiring School Change shows how a commitment to the arts in education can meet core...
This book delves into the complex history of the gardening movement in schools and examines the question why gardens should be built in schools. It of...
Developing School Programmes that Make a Difference for Students and Families in Communities Placed at Risk
This paper explores how "equity" and "risk" can call into question the ecology of a school. It suggests that failing to follow a holistic approach to ...
Arts Education for Life
‘Why study the arts at school?’ This book offers a fresh perspective on this question. Informed by rigorous research, the book argues that the art...
When she decides to dress her kitten, Muffin, in baby clothes and stroll around town with her in the pram, Mary-Anne and her friend Josh have some unu...
Twee jongens bedenken van alles om in het 'Book of Records' te komen. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar....
In this comical tale, a little girl tells her slightly deaf grandfather of a trip to the zoo. The resulting conversation is nothing short of delightfu...
Share-a-story books have been devised by Pat Thomson for adults who want to encourage children to read, but have difficulty in finding suitable storie...
A father helps his son decide on a birthday present for a friend....
No Trouble at All
A selection of nursery rhymes with a picture story running along the background of three pre-school siblings going through the day....
Share a Story
In this story, part of the Share-A-Story series designed to be read by an adult and child together, Auntie tells of babysitting Susie, a little pet wh...
Als een jongen zijn besmeerde boterham op de grond laat vallen, vertelt zijn oma wat zij, als kind, voor streken uithaalde. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar....
The results are humorous and delightful when Mr. Morris and his young friend look through a catalogue and invent new meanings to the words they read....
A cumulative tale about a little boy who cannot fall asleep in the noisy old bed at his grandparents' house....
Alex has got some explaining to do. Everything he takes to school disappears, but Mrs Etheridge, Alex's teacher, isn't at all prepared for some of his...
Jo always keeps his marker-pen handy for sending messages, but when he and his friends try to rescue the boy down the road they may have sent one mess...
Thrilling WWII story. The Nazis have occupied France. Michel knows that there are Resistance fighters in his town and he's desperate to join them. Wil...
Russell Fussell can't stop speaking in rhyme. His problem gets him into lots of trouble - and its driving everyone mad....
Oxford Reading Tree All Stars are first class fiction at an appropriate interest level for infants. They are books by top authors and illustrators wri...
A wide-ranging collection of stories about dragons, dinosaurs and other mysterious monsters, suitable for 5-10 year olds. Some of the stories are funn...
Why and How School Leaders Do Research
Educational systems around the world now understand that school change is dependent on the understandings and skills of those that lead them. There is...