This Third Edition of Doing Research with Children is practical introduction to the process of designing, doing and writing up research with children and young people. At the centre is a commitment to engaging with children and young people as active research participants rather than as passive subjects. In the new edition, you′ll find up to date information on the fast-changing political and ethical debates around research with children and young people a...

Leila Porter was bored. Then she was scared. And then she was very wet and very angry. And that was all before the summer day was half over! She wanted a do-over. She needed a do-over. Instead, she met someone - a small, feathered someone - who would change her life forever.

Baillière's Dictionary for Nurses and Health Care Workers remains the nursing dictionary of choice throughout the world! The latest edition of this authoritative paperback has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs of nurses and health care workers in a variety of clinical settings. Published for the first time in full colour, the comprehensive dictionary entries are supplemented by common abbreviations, prefixes, suffixes and roots, together with units of measurement and ta...

The last thing Leila Porter ever thought was that a boy would come between her and her best friend Stephanie. The two girls both disliked boys. Until Justin came to town, that is. Now the girls werent talking to each other and Leila didnt know what to do. How could she get Stephanie to be her friend again? And would Julius, Leilas handsome and adorable sun conure be the key to solving the problem? Find out in this second installment of Flying Lessons.

This is the story of a little girl forced to become an adult overnight and the challenges she faced. Every day had an element of adventure, survival, fear, betrayal, and sometimes all those things combined with her will to stay alive, even when there were outside forces pulling her in a different direction.

Medical competence is a hot topic surrounded by much controversy about how to define competency, how to teach it, and how to measure it. While some debate the pros and cons of competence-based medical education and others explain how to achieve various competencies, the authors of the seven chapters in The Question of Competence offer something very different. They critique the very notion of competence itself and attend to how it has shaped what we pay attention ...

Ratburger, from Children's author David Walliams.Things are not looking good for Zoe. Her stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose for her. The school bully Tina Trotts makes her life a misery – mainly by flobbing on her head. And now the evil Burt from Burt’s Burgers is after her pet rat! And guess what he wants to do with it? The clue is in the title…

The comprehensive guide to the most influential theorists and their ideas on how children with special educational needs learn and develop.

How teachers form and maintain classroom and staffroom relationships is crucial to the success of their work. A teacher who is able to accurately interpret the underlying relationship processes can learn to proactively, rather than reactively, influence the dynamics of any class. These are skills that can be taught. This invaluable text explains how adult attachment theory offers new ways to examine professional teaching relationships, classroom management and collegial harmony: equally im...

"... a wonderfully easy-to-follow text which manages to combine practical procedures with clear explanations of the underlying theoretical concepts."Nursing Standard (from review of first edition)The third edition of this successful book incorporates recent developments in nursing research, with updates to every chapter. Abstract ideas in qualitative research are clearly explained and more complex theories are included. Structured into four clear se...

As Ben Goldacres Guardian Bad Science column debunks popular scientific myths, this book aims to do the same for education myths and unjustified claims.

Written for anyone beginning a research project, this introductory book takes you through the process of analysing your data from start to finish.The author sets out an easy-to-use model for coding data in order to break it down into parts, and then to reassemble it to create a meaningful picture of the phenomenon under study. Full of useful advice, the book guides the reader through the last difficult integrating phase of qualitative analysis including diagramming, memoing, thinki...