Education & Teaching

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...

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)

      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. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

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...

Steven H. Strogatz / The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and a Student Learned about Life while Corresponding about Math (Large Paperback)

The Calculus of Friendship is the story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher and a student, as chronicled through more than thirty years of letters between them. What makes their relationship unique is that it is based almost entirely on a...

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...

Lilian G. Katz , Sylvia C. Chard / Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach (Large Paperback)

This new edition incorporates many insights and strategies the authors have learned while working extensively with teachers to implement the project approach. Since the popular first edition was published in 1989, the authors have continued to help...

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...

Bryan A. Garner / Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing (Large Paperback)

Two friends, both of them vocational snoots, sat down to film an interview in February 2006. Their subjects: language and writing. The interviewee drove more than an hour, from Claremont to downtown Los Angeles. The interviewer flew from Dallas. They...

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...

Frank M. Turner / The Idea of a University (Large Paperback)

Since its publication almost 150 years ago, The Idea of a University has had an extraordinary influence on the shaping and goals of higher education. The issues that John Henry Newman raised―the place of religion and moral values in the university...

David Cohen / The Development of Play (Large Paperback)

Play is an important part of our development. In playing, we learn to move, think, speak and imagine, as well as cope with other people. This second edition of The Development of Play addresses these key functions that play serves. David Cohen examines...

Janet Kay / Managing Behaviour in the Early Years

A practical guide to managing children's behaviour in childcare and early years settings. Brimming with tips and suggestions on how practitioners can help young children to learn, Janet Kay demonstrates how a variety of positive methods can encourage the...

Helen Pearson / The Life Project

'Eye-opening, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives' Financial Times'Superb' Literary ReviewThe remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain todayIn March 1946, scientists began to...

John Quinn - My Education: Interviews - PB -1997

Published by Town House Dublin, in association with RTE, 1997.  Edited versions of the much acclaimed radio interviews broadcast between 1991 and 1996, from a wide range of contributors , from Noam Chomsky to Maureen Potter.     

Teagasc Na Gaeilge (Large Paperback)

      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. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Robert Frank, Kathryn E. Livingston / The Secret Life of the Dyslexic Child : How She Thinks, How He Feels, How They Can Succeed (Large Paperback)

A practical guide for parents and educators to allow them to see the world through the eyes of a dyslexic child.     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...

Sandy Brownjohn / To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme?: Teaching Children to Write Poetry (Large Paperback)

This is an omnibus edition of Brownjohn's three previous books on teaching children to write poetry. The book contains new chapters, including one on writing drafts, and examples of poems.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

William Binchy / Litigation Against Schools: Implications for School Management (Large Paperback)

      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. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Amelia Davies / Teaching Asperger's Students Social Skills Through Acting: All Their World Is a Stage! (Large Paperback)

Winner of an iParenting Media Award!  When given the chance, young people with Asperger's can be the most charismatic actors that have ever hit the stage. In this guidebook, author Amelia Davies provides the theories and activities you'll need to...

Angela Macnamara / Ready Steady Grow! (Large Paperback)

Communication is the process by which we dare to share our-selves with one another. In this third and substantially revised and expanded edition of Ready, Steady, Grow! Angela Macnamara shares with you information and values to help you to be Ready for...

Gareth Byrne / Toward Mutual Ground: Pluralism, Religious Education and Diversity in Irish Schools (Large Paperback)

The Irish Centre for Religious Education hosted two international conferences that were a major contribution to the dialogue about what constitutes good education and good religious education in the pluralist context that is Ireland today. The...

Elizabeth Ashton / Religious Education in the Early Years (Large Paperback)

Discusses how to incorporate a wide range of religions in the classroom, considers how these can be explored in exciting and imaginative ways and helps readers to clarify their thinking on the subject.     All of our books are second hand, and...

Gareth Byrne / Catholic Education: A Lifelong Journey (Large Paperback)

  Catholic A Lifelong Journey is an exciting investigation of Catholic education in the parish, home and school, exploring the various ways Catholic education is present not only in Catholic schooling but throughout the whole of a Catholic...