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  • Essential Skills for Managers of Child-Centred Settings

    by Shelly Newstead, Emma Isles-Buck ...
    Managers in child-centred settings need to be able to draw on a wide range of personal and professional skills to ensure that they are providing the best possible service. Now in its third edition, Essential Skills for Managers of Child-Centred Settings looks at how you can develop the key leadership skills needed to manage people to achieve excellent settings for children.The authors outline ten ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Play Across Childhood

    International Perspectives on Diverse Contexts of Play

    Edited by Pete King, Shelly Newstead ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores how play is perceived and practiced through the lens of various different professional and international contexts. Children’s experiences of play will vary according to the different institutions and organisations they are involved in across their lifespan during childhood. The chapters cover play from pre-school to adolescence that includes education, playwork and the new ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective

    Edited by Pete King, Shelly Newstead ...
    Series series Advances in Playwork Research
    Play is of critical importance to the well-being of children across the globe, a fact reflected in Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Yet existing literature on the subject is largely confined to discussing play from a developmental, educational or psychological perspective. Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective offers a new and exciting angle from which ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Further Perspectives on Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective

    Process, Playfulness, Rights-based and Critical Reflection

    Edited by Pete King, Shelly Newstead ...
    Series series Advances in Playwork Research
    Building on the success of the first volume of Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective, this book further develops the crucial research of playwork as an emerging and unique discipline.The first volume explored how an understanding of playwork theory and practice can inform research into children’s play. From the seven contributors, four common themes to researching play from a playwork ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    by Justin Dillon, Meg Maguire ...
    This fourth edition is inspiring reading for prospective, trainee and new teachers, tutors and mentors, working with young people. ... Read more

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  • Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy

    Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders

    Edited by Kelly-Ann Allen, Andrea Reupert, Lindsay Oades ...
    Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy: Adaptable Policy for Teachers and School Leaders provides an extensive set of free-to-use policies for building better schools.The policies included in this book cover a broad range of popular topics for schools that are not readily accessible, and each policy is built on theory, driven by research, and created by experts. Each policy is based on ... Read more

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  • The Literacy Wars

    Why teaching children to read and write is a battleground in Australia

    by Ilana Snyder ...
    Do we have a literacy crisis?Fierce debates in the media over how to teach children to read and write have reached new heights in recent years. The intensity of the debates is not surprising as literacy education matters to everyone, but there is collateral damage. Public confidence in literacy teachers has been undermined and many believe we have a literacy crisis in our schools.The Literacy Wars ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Working with Vulnerable Families

    A Partnership Approach

    Edited by Fiona Arney, Dorothy Scott ...
    Poverty, domestic violence, marginalisation, drug and alcohol dependence are just some of the issues faced by many Australian families. Now in its second edition, Working with Vulnerable Families provides a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction to family-centred practice in Australia. It explores the ways in which health, education and social welfare professionals can support and protect ... Read more

    $68.09 USD

  • Responding to Self-Harm in Children and Adolescents

    A Professional's Guide to Identification, Intervention and Support

    by Steven Walker ...
    Self-harm is a growing problem in children and young people but it can be hard to understand and difficult to recognise. Responding to Self-Harm in Children and Adolescents will help professionals to understand self-harm and respond appropriately. It covers what the risk factors are, including social exclusion, and who is most likely to self-harm. Information on what self-harm is and what causes ... Read more

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  • Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education

    Knowledge, Values and Ambiguity in the Creative Curriculum

    by Susan Orr, Alison Shreeve ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Higher Education
    Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education provides a contemporary volume that offers a scholarly perspective on tertiary level art and design education. Providing a theoretical lens to examine studio education, the authors suggest a student-centred model of curriculum that supports the development of creativity.The text offers readers analytical frameworks with which to challenge assumptions ... Read more

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  • Social Work with People with Learning Difficulties

    by Paul Williams, Michelle Evans ...
    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    This book is part of the highly successful Transforming Social Work Practice series and is written specifically to support students on the social work degree. Full of practical activities, case studies and opportunities for students to critically reflect and explore theory and practice.Current practice in the field was driven by the government White Paper ′Valuing People′ (2001) which declared ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Research in Art and Design Education

    Issues and Exemplars

    Edited by Richard Hickman ...
    Series series Readings in Art and Design Education
    Although educators are increasingly interested in art education research, there are few anthologies tackling the subject. Research in Art & Design Education answers this call, summarizing important issues in the field such as non-text based approaches and interdisciplinary work. Contributions from internationally renowned researchers explore a broad range of topics in art education, highlighting ... Read more

    $34.19 USD