Written in a lively and engaging style, this book will enable both supervisors and supervisees to get the best they can from the supervisory experience.

Introduces students to the key legal and ethical principles guiding professional practice. Using an applied, practice-based and refreshingly 'real' approach this text will help to make law and ethical issues more accessible and looks at how legal and ethical principles interplay and inform professional development.

Focusing on organisation improvement and strategical leadership, this book offers a bank of creative ideas and guidance for teachers already in management positions, and those just starting out reflect on their leadership development.

Updated, practical, comprehensive guide to academic writing online and traditionally.

An essential overview of theoretical issues in psychology with pedagogical features to help students identify key terms and concepts.

New and updated edition of this popular core text helping students build confidence and understanding of leadership practice for EYPS.

'Hatton's book is a welcome antidote to stagnation and moribund thinking in contemporary professional practice and readers will gain much from engaging with the concepts he sets out and the challenges he raises.' Jonathan Parker, Series Editor

Covers essential skills of working with this client group in detail - communicating, listening and understanding children's behaviour.

An introductory guide to best practice in report writing for social workers

This provocative volume deals with one of the chief criticisms of ethnographic studies, a criticism which centres on their particularism or their insistence on context -- the question is asked: How can these studies be generalized beyond the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a method -- meta-ethnography -- for synthesizing from qualitative, interpretive studies. They show that ethnographies themselves are interpretive acts, and demonstrate that by translating metaphors and key concepts...