Drawing on contemporary research and case studies from the UK and internationally, this book examines the theory behind innovative teaching and learning and its practical application in primary schools.

This text brings Bourdieu's corpus into the arena of elementary and secondary educational reform and change, and offers policy, research and practice discussions.

Covering racist, religiously motivated, homophobic and disablist hate crime, along with gender and violence, this book provides readers with a fully up-to-date exploration of the relation of hatred and prejudice to crime and criminal justice.

The 'holy grail' of planning, this book explains why medium term plans are important and how to actually go about constructing them.

Takes an integrated, cross-cultural approach that weaves various developmental and neuroscience research into every chapter. This book includes separate chapters on bilingualism and sign language and offers integrated coverage of the social aspects of language acquisition and language use.

Offering students the opportunity to determine and understand statistical analysis by first choosing the answers to basic design questions, readers will find that this hands-on book simplifies a complex research design into a few basic components.

Walking the reader through the material at a steady pace, this book provides 3 - 5 pop quizzes in every chapter so the reader can check their knowledge about what they have read.

This Second Edition of The Tao of Statistics: A Path to Understanding (With No Math) provides a reader-friendly approach to statistics in plain English. Unlike other statistics books, this text explains what statistics mean and how they are used, rather than how to calculate them. The book walks readers through basic concepts as well as some of the most complex statistical models in use.

The Second Edition adds coverage of big data to better address its impact on p-values and other key concep...

Five Principles of the Modern Mathematics Classroom offers new ideas for inspiring maths students by building a more engaging and collaborative learning environment.

Provides a unified framework for both single-level and multilevel modeling of ordinal categorical data