A critical introduction to meaning and power in an age of participatory culture, social media and digital platforms. Helps students to understand the central role media play in the social world, and how they can become informed media citizens themselves.

The third edition of this popular text offers a uniquely scholarly approach towards the subject and has been fully updated to include technological advances in practice such as AI and virtual marketing, and a brand-new chapter on the rise of influencer culture and marketing.

A practical guide containing 50 different quality improvement and quality assurance approaches to help improve practice.

A book to inspire and support teachers to explore and teach amazing words.

This book looks in detail at the knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes that children need to enable them to come to phonics teaching ready to learn and with a good chance of success.

Author Jenny Rogers distills her decades of experience to guide you through the challenges and pitfalls, joys and rewards, and dos and don'ts of coaching.

The essential guide to the science behind reading and its practical implications for classroom teaching in primary schools.

How do you turn this teacher-centric dynamic around? In this book by bestselling author and education expert Jackie Walsh, the author shifts the focus to student-centric learning and how to develop student questioning strategies, including self-questions, academic questions, exploratory questions, and dialogic questions.

This book is based on one of the most important influences on student learning: teachers who believe that they can improve their students' achievements. Along with this, the book explores the notion that this powerful belief can also exist between students, enhancing their achievements but also preparing them for real world encounters and job demands.