Education & Teaching

Manya & Eric De Leeuw - Read Better, Read Faster : A New Approach to Efficient Reading - PB 1969

Aims to convey techniques to increase spped and attention in reading texts - maximising the best use of time . 

Curtis J. Bonk / The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education (Hardback)

Discover the dramatic changes that are affecting all learners Web-based technology has opened up education around the world to the point where anyone can learn anything from anyone else at any time. To help educators and others understand what's...

Michael Barber / The Learning Game: Arguments for an Education Revolution

This overview of the British education system explains the crisis which has beset it and proposes radical and far-sighted solutions. It explores the issues from the perspectives of pupils, parents, and teachers, and proposes a complete reconstruction...

Noel Entwistle / Understanding Classroom Learning

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Nigel Blagg / School Phobia and its Treatment (Large Paperback)

School Phobia and Its Treatment. ". . . provides a clear and thorough review of the subject followed by a convincing account of what the author calls a rapid treatment approach. . . an instructive and encouraging book in which the author's practical...

Irena Martinkova and Students from Prague: Learning English through Stories: Clouds Dream and Create (Large Paperback)

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Joanna Grigg / The School-Leaver's Handbook - 2nd Edition (Large Paperback)

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Anne Cleary / Understanding Children (Volume 2) Changing Experiences and Family Forms (Large Paperback)

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Susan Hay / Essential Nursery Management (Large Paperback)

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Dr Beve Hornsby / Overcoming Dyslexia (Large Paperback)

Dyslexia is a common diagnosable condition that is estimated to affect at least one child in ten. In its most usual form it is manifested as a difficulty in learning to read and write, but it is widely misunderstood and often mistaken for low...

Tony Buzan / The Mind Map Book (Coffee Table Book)

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Annis Garfield / Phonics: The Easy Way (Coffee Table Book)

Clear and comprehensive, this is the only book for parents that includes and explains the new government guidelines in detail. There has been a shake-up in the way children are taught to read in primary schools in England. The government has accepted a...

G.D. Kewley / ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Recognition, Reality and Resolution

ADHD is a common, complex and yet often misunderstood condition, affecting children, adolescents and adults. It causes a wide range of difficulties with concentration, impulse control, hyperactivity, motivation and time awareness. This can often lead to...

Jefferson Frank / English Universities in Crisis: Markets without Competition (Large Paperback)

Recent policies have replaced direct government funding for teaching with fees paid by students. As well as saddling graduates with enormous debt, satisfaction rates are low, a high proportion of graduates are in non-graduate jobs, and public debt...

Steve Olson / Count Down : Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition

The author of Mapping Human History follows six American high school students on the quest for glory in the Olympics of math competitions--The International Mathematical Olympiad.       All of our books are second hand, and while...

Paula Polk Lillard / Montessori in the Classroom: A Teacher's Account of How Children Really Learn

What really happens inside a Montessori classroom? How do teachers teach? How do children learn? This fascinating day-by-day record of a year in the life of a Montessori classroom answers these questions by providing an illuminating glimpse of the...

Paula Polk Lillard / Montessori Today: A Comprehensive Approach to Education from Birth to Adulthood

Paula Lillard, director of a Montessori school ranging in age from 18 months to fifteen years, provides a clear and cogent introduction to the Montessori program for the elementary and later years. In detailed accounts, Lillard shows how children...

Raymond J. Wlodkowski / Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn: A Comprehensive Guide for Teaching All Adults (Hardback)

In the more than a decade since its original publication, Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn has been widely used in all educational and training settings where adults are learners, and has remained a work of enduring value to both practitioners and...

Freya Jaffke / Work and Play in Early Childhood (Large Paperback)

Rhythm and repetition, together with example and imitation, are pillars on which early learning is based. Freya Jaffke applies these simple principles in practical and sensible ways. She describes children's play in a Steiner-Waldorf kindergarten...

Barbara Coloroso / The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander: From Preschool to HighSchool--How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle (Large Paperback)

It's the deadliest combination bullies who terrorize, bullied kids who are afraid to tell, bystanders who watch, and adults who see the incidents as a normal part of childhood. All it takes to understand that this is a recipe for tragedy is a glance at...

Isabella Wallace & Leah Kirkman / Pimp your Lesson!: Prepare, Innovate, Motivate and Perfect (Large Paperback)

  No smoke and mirrors required, this book provides practical and easy-to-implement guidance on embedding outstanding practice in your daily teaching, all written in the authors' witty and accessible style. This brand new edition provides updated...

Denis Lawton / Education for Citizenship (Large Paperback)

There is now broad agreement that citizenship should form an important part of the curriculum. And that, broadly, is where the agreement ends. What it is that pupils should learn, how and why they should learn it, and how that learning should be assessed...

Sean O'Flynn / Conflict and Confrontation in the Classroom: Reflections on Current Practice (Large Paperback)

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Emer Smyth / Do schools Differ?: Academic and personal development among pupils in the Second-Level sector (Large Paperback)

Many factors influence the effectiveness of a school, including: its social context; school management and staffing; school organization and class allocation or streaming; disciplinary climate; academic emphasis; and pupil-teacher interaction and...

Jane Nelsen / Positive Discipline in the Classroom (Large Paperback)

Today’s classrooms are filled with children of varied backgrounds, and subject to many intrusive influences. How can teachers foster the essential skills and attitudes for success in their students? In Positive Discipline in the Classroom ,...

Nick Peim / Critical Theory and The English Teacher: Transforming the Subject (Large Paperback)

Written in a style which even those with no background in critical theory will find approachable, this radical exploration shows how teachers can use critical theory to bring students' own experience back into the subject.     All of our books...

Trudy Stewart & Jackie Turnbull / Helping Children Cope With Stammering(Large Paperback)

Stammering is a widespread problem among children. This guide advises parents on how to give their child support and how to get help. It describes what stammering is and how parents can combat it, and includes information on stammering in school, getting...

David Fontana , Ingrid Slack / Teaching Meditation to Children (Large Paperback)

This is a guide to teaching children the health-giving benefits of meditation, addressing their concerns specifically and thoroughly. It also shows how to use meditation for specific medical, psychological and social problems.     All of our...

Joe Wells / Touch and Go Joe: An Adolescent's Experience of OCD (Large Paperback)

Part of the Reading Well scheme. 35 books selected by young people and health professionals to provide young people with high-quality support, information and advice about common mental health issues and related conditions. As many as 2 in every 100...

Peter K. Smith , Yohji Morita / The Nature of School Bullying (Large Paperback)

The Nature of School Bullying provides a unique world-wide perspective on how different countries have conceptualized the issue of school bullying, what information has been gathered, and what interventions have been carried out. Written and compiled by...

Salman Khan / The One World Schoolhouse - Education Reimagined(Large Paperback)

A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide...

Daniel A. Hughes / Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children (Large Paperback)

This book shows how to work successfully with emotional and behavioral problems rooted in deficient early attachments. In particular, it addresses the emotional difficulties of many of the foster and adopted children living in our country who are unable...

Pádraig Hogan / The Custody and Courtship of Experience: Western Education in Philosophical Perspective (Large Paperback)

Throughout most of the history of Western civilization, Christianity and Classical ideals played a dominant part in education. In most western countries, however, this is no longer the case. In modern pluralist Democracies, church influence struggles...

K. Littleton / Learning Relationships in the Classroom (Large Paperback)

This reader explores the nature of interactions between children and their teachers in the classroom. It emphasises the importance of such relationships for children's learning and for educational practice.Part 1 looks at different cultural conceptions...

Mary Gauvain / The Social Context of Cognitive Development (Large Paperback)

Traditional approaches to cognitive development can tell us a great deal about the internal processes involved in learning. Sociocultural perspectives, on the other hand, provide valuable insights into the influences on learning of relationship and...

Artin Göncü / Children's Engagement in the World: Sociocultural Perspectives (Large Paperback)

This volume describes children's development in their cultural contexts. It stresses the fact that the development of children in diverse cultures follows different paths, depending on specific developmental opportunities provided by their cultures. The...

Liz Brooker & Susan Edwards / Engaging Play (Large Paperback)

This insightful edited collection brings together the perspectives of leading and emerging scholars in early childhood education and play from within Europe, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America. It includes a preface from...

Anne Meade , Pam Cubey / Thinking Children: Learning about Schemas (Large Paperback)

What are schemas and how can they be used effectively to enhance learning? How can adults best support schema learning to extend children's thinking? This book explores the frequently observed schemas of young children - patterns of behaviour from which...

Jeffrey H. Goldstein / Toys, Play, and Child Development (Large Paperback)

There are pronounced differences in the play of boys and girls. Why do boys prefer war toys, and girls Barbie dolls? Are video games addictive? What, if anything, do children learn while playing? Toys, Play and Child Development explores these and other...

Iram Siraj-Blatchford / Supporting Identity, Diversity And Language In The Early Years (Large Paperback)

This book provides the main ingredients for professional development in working with young children in a diverse society. It fills the gap that most early years training neglects, that is, how to work with children in developing a positive disposition...

Cathy Nutbrown / Key Concepts in Early Childhood Education and Care (Large Paperback)

Key Concepts in Early Childhood Education and Care , Cathy Nutbrown′s second edition, explains the key ideas and issues in Early Childhood clearly and concisely, keeping students up-to-date with the latest developments in the field. New entries The...

Janet R. Moyles / The Excellence of Play (Large Paperback)

An exploration of how play aids learning.  The second edition of this bestselling book discusses the vital importance of play as a tool for learning and teaching. It has been extensively revised to cover the many changes that have taken place in...

Barbara Rogoff / Everyday Cognition: Its Development in Social Context (Large Paperback)

In Everyday Cognition leading scholars in developmental psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology have joined forces to examine how thinking and cognitive development are influenced by social context. John Seely Brown, Michael Cole, Herbert P...

Marion Dowling / Education 3-5 (Large Paperback)

This is an excellent book which should be in every playgroup and nursery school′ - Nursery World The National Curriculum, although not applicable to children under five, highlights the significance of education in the earliest years. Unless secure...

G. Dahlberg / Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care: Languages of Evaluation (Large Paperback)

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition...

Janet R. Moyles / Beginning Teaching: Beginning Learning (Large Paperback)

Reviews of the first"Janet Moyles's carefully and imaginatively edited book will be of great interest to a wide educational community... This is more than a handbook for students and their tutors - it is a manifest of the dedicated and closely focused...

Glenda Mac Naughton / Doing Early Childhood Research: Theory and Practice (Large Paperback)

There are a growing number of courses on early childhood education at university level. This has placed new demands on both students and staff as research is a key feature of many of these courses. Research training is an important element in both...

Sue Elliott / Researching Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Challenging Assumptions and Orthodoxies (Large Paperback)

This book captures the now burgeoning research field of early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) and comprises insights from an ever-widening and diverse pool of researchers, who are promoting, engaging and explaining the latest ECEfS...

Kath Hirst / Perspectives on Early Childhood Education: Essays on Contemporary Research (Large Paperback)

Fifteen original research accounts are described by the experienced early childhood professionals who carried them out. The research focuses on early childhood services and settings; gender and disability issues in provision and play and on how adults...

Monica Macnamara / Lifeskills - A Positive Approach(Large Paperback)

The keynote of this book is empowerment. Based on years of hands on experience, it provides practical, structured programmes that will enable parents, teachers and carers to train adults who have learning disabilities in the numerous small, everyday...

Deirdre Raftery / Choosing a School: The Guide to Second Level Education in Ireland (Large Paperback)

School plays a significant formative role in the child's life, second only to home/family life. Schools are not only sites for academic and sporting they are also places where friendships are made, values are transmitted, and pupils experience success...

Joan Franklin Smutny / Stand Up for Your Gifted Child: How to Make the Most of Kids' Strengths at School and at Home (Large Paperback)

What does it mean when your child seems "average" at school but brilliant at home? What if your son has a talent–and a learning difference that hides it? You know that your daughter has extraordinary potential in math, but her teacher ignores it...