Offers an introductory qualitative research for social science disciplines. This book covers the full range of methodologies and viewpoints about the field, including coverage of social media as a tool to facilitate research or as a venue for study.

This best practice, reassuring teaching guide will help to build trainees' confidence in teaching PSHE to primary children.

A self audit tool for trainee primary teachers to help them identify their strengths and weaknesses in science and to monitor and evaluate their progress towards Qualified Teacher Status.

Touching on current curriculum concerns and the wider challenges of developing high-quality science education, this book is an indispensable overview of important areas of teaching every aspiring primary science school teacher needs to understand.

Essential support to achieve the new Level 3 Award in Education and Training, which replaces PTLLS, this edition is updated to include more case studies so students can engage more closely with what it means to be a professional in the further education and skills sector.

Explores the theory, research and practice of career counselling from a British perspective. Divided into two parts, this book provides a comprehensive account of theories of career development and career counselling and their implications for practice. Taking a critical approach, it also shows how research informs our understanding of the field.

The current challenges facing higher education are addressed, and the authors provide a new way of thinking about the many aspects of learning and teaching.

This book brings a wide range of themes under one cover: the supervision process, writing, the viva, the examination of written and oral 'performance' and the aftermath, including publishing.

Focusing specifically on the needs of primary teacher trainees and the requirements for Qualified Teacher Status, this book explores new initiatives in primary language teaching in a theoretical context. Theory snapshots, task boxes and teaching ideas help students understand the theory and translate it into good practice.

Students on every childhood course study the main theories and approaches in the field, and this book conveniently brings together the work of the main theorists including Montesorri, Vygotsky and Reggio Emilia.