Unpacking the vital elements of SEND, Special Educational Needs in the Early Years seeks to empower students to not only understand the impact of policy on practice, but to question it.

Drawing on international examples from the UK, US, Australia and South East Asia, this book offers a commentary on fairness that is highly relevant to the changing context of assessment today.

This new text for education undergraduates covers a broad range of themes from across the education sector and focuses on some key contemporary issues. The text includes links to both up-to-date research and more seminal, often cited research and theories.

What will you learn from this book?You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel, so you look to Design Patterns: the lessons learned by those who've faced the same software design problems. With Design Patterns, you get to take advantage of the best practices and experience of others so you can spend your time on something more challenging. Something more fun.

This book shows you the patterns that matter, when to use them and why, how to apply them to your own designs, and the object-oriente...

This edition of Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach adds four new chapters and has over 350 lesson plans to help teachers-from elementary through secondary school-learn the tactics and skills of various sports. A web resource with video clips shows some lessons in action.

Latin American Politics reflects just how much the region has changed in the last two decades by drawing on contemporary research in comparative studies to highlight the big questions that political scientists seek to answer today.

Ideal for courses in multiple disciplines, the third edition of this award-winning text has been revised and updated with new topics, examples, and guiding questions to introduce each chapter’s sections. Patricia Leavy presents a practical guide to the full range of arts-based research (ABR) genres--narrative inquiry, fiction-based research, poetry, music, dance, theatre, film, and visual art. Each genre-specific chapter is paired with an exemplary research article or online video link (at ...

Converting curiosity into well-crafted questions is the start of learning. This guide provides tools to encourage students to ask their own insightful questions as they start to inquiry learning.

An accessible and multi-disciplinary guide to working together with other professionals to deliver a child-centred and co-ordinated approach to safeguarding, in line with the Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance.

An encyclopedic introduction to research, showing students how to think about every stage of their project and equipping them with the tools they need to understand different research processes.