This brand new textbook brings you up to date with all the latest developments and keys issues from around the globe, and helps you understand how these changes are impacting on practice in early years and primary classrooms.Key issues in contemporary childhood are explored through three sections on The Child, The Family, and Emerging Trends, with topics including:the ‘Digital Child’ and the rise of new technologieschildren’s security and the impact of pover...

Thriving as a Professional Teacher explores the tensions and balance between developing the classroom you know will be best for the children you teach, and facing external pressures such as Ofsted, performance management, Teacher Standards and the need to prepare children for SATs and other tests.The book locates the professional in the political context before outlining the key challenges faced and experienced, and laying the foundations necessary for the professional to ...

A short guide to all you should know before you buy a Siberian Husky

This fourth edition is inspiring reading for prospective, trainee and new teachers, tutors and mentors, working with young people.

Shortlisted for the NASEN/TES 2007 Book AwardIncreased partnership between professionals, particularly through the integration of services, indicates a major opportunity for child and parent participation, but one that seems in danger of being side-stepped. Drawing on substantial research evidence, this book looks at reasons for this situation; what is happening now, what developments and initiatives have been tried and what can be done to develop a culture of part...

Do you love cats? This book contains over one hundred facts about our favourite feline friends. Find out little known facts about cat behaviour, statistics about cats and information about why cats are so great. Separated into sections covering each area to make fact-finding easy, Ailurophiles will just love this!

The aim of this book is to consider how schools and LEAs can develop inclusive policies and practices for students who experience a range of difficulties in learning or behavior. It highlights debates and contradictions about the realities of inclusion and suggests ways in which practice can move forward. The contributors look at key areas of development in special and inclusive education and considers ways in which the latest research can inform practice.Areas covered include prom...

In a pamphlet published in 2005 Mary Warnock expressed concerns about some of the concepts that she had helped to introduce in the field of special education almost three decades earlier. She argued that the role of special schools was unclear and the pursuit of inclusion had become too ideological.This highly topical book suggests that distinctions should be made between kinds of special needs and the possibility addressed that some SEN children might be happier and more effective...

The new edition of this book aims to critically examine the new EYFS and the key elements of the revised framework document.

Would you like to know everything and learn more about Russian Blue cats as pets?This book covers all aspects of passionate Russian Blue cat owners.Have you ever wondered about the mystic Russian Blues' personality, how to care for and pamper them? Or are you still looking for a perfectly matching name for your Russian Blue?It contains all this!Including Russian Blues habitat, food, shedding, feeding, diet, diseases, lovely pictures and much more.This boo...

Childhood and youth have become increasingly important key concepts across a range of disciplines, professions and studies. The short guide to working with children and young people is an accessible introduction into the main concepts, developments and policy related to this exciting area of work. Divided into two parts, the opening chapters prepare readers to think about work with children and young people by providing an overview of key theoretical perspectives related to the field. The ...

Diabetes is a diagnosis that strikes fear in the hearts of people, but it does not need to be a joy-stopper. This incredible book, written by a Type-2 Diabetic, offers very practical tips to help you manage your diabetes as you live your life! It is also filled with inspirational quotes, provided through Body checks, Mind Food, and Soul Notes. This is spiritual insulin for diabetics!