With a key focus on mixed methods, coverage of the 'why' as well as the 'how', and a clear explanation of the CORE system, this book will be instrumental in helping readers to produce organized, ethical, insightful and, of course, comprehensive literature reviews.

With a strong focus on practice this is a guide for anyone becoming Early Years Teacher or Educator.

This book approaches research methods from a practice-first perspective that aligns research with professional experiences and identifies the tools and resources readers can use when conducting their own research.

Enables practitioners, scholars and academics to understand how to re-design or suggest changes to curriculum structure, shape and content.

This new fourth edition takes the reader through the complex network of policy development with activities which make a potentially dry subject matter come alive.

Do you need good leaders to achieve good quality or does good quality create good leadership? This book explores the meanings and understandings of quality and leadership that are present in early years services and how to lead in order to develop and achieve quality in your early years setting.

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Many of us rely on transformational and instructional leadership. But there are advantages in applying a holistic angle including all stakeholders-an approach known as collaborative leadership. Peter DeWitt unpacks six factors framed through John Hattie's research while painting a powerful scheme: meet stakeholders where they are, motivate stakeholders to strive for improvement, model how to do it. The blueprint will inspire you to:

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This book presents practical strategies and tools for increasing student achievement through the collective actions of educators.

A guide for internal and external quality assurers in the FE and skills sector by best-selling author Ann Gravells.

An international perspective on how to implement educational change through policy learning.