This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of this groundbreaking introduction to current interdisciplinary studies of teaching and teacher education is structured around five prominent "frames" of formal education, together offering an overview of the historical and conceptual influences on educational practice.

This text examines the underlying causes behind the key challenges facing schools, and argues that we need to move from knowledge transfer systems to a deliberately developmental approach that transforms capabilities including emotional regulation, systems thinking, critical analysis, and collaborative capability.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to both traditional learning theory and the newest international research into learning processes, while at the same time being an innovative contribution to a new and more holistic understanding of learning, including discussion on school-based learning, e-learning, workplace learning and educational politics.

It has never been more important for trainee teachers to understand diversity, equity and inclusion from a teaching perspective. This text provides an up-to-date, grounded, and full understanding of the injustices and inequalities that impact our classrooms. It challenges trainees to rethink their own assumptions and biases and to take time to explore how schools and teachers can be active agents of positive change.

It empowers new teachers to be confident in their allyship of marginalised gr...

Exploring the influence of early family relationships on a child's development, with essential insights for fostering holistic well-being in the early years.

There is no single book, which introduces readers to the Bronfenbrenners model of development as a context for early years practice. Fully updated with one new chapter and broader coverage on transitions Bronfenbrenners theories on ecological systems in human development are one of the most influential models in early childhood education and yet many practitioners and researchers rely on his original work as the only source of guidance. Draws on practice-based research to identify and animate...

Approaches to Psychology provides a contemporary, accessible and coherent introduction to the field of psychology, from its origins to the present, and shows the contribution of psychology to understanding human behaviour and experience.The book introduces students to the five core conceptual frameworks (or approaches) to psychology: biological; behaviourist; cognitive; psychodynamic; and humanistic. The methods, theories and assumptions of each approach are explored so that the reader builds...