This book offers an accessible and comprehensive new introduction to the subject and practise of creativity in early years education. Taylor takes a uniquely rights-based and inclusive approach to creativity, providing students with a holistic, internationally-minded overview of creativity and its place both inside and outside the classroom. Sections focus on:Defining creativity and its benefitsDifferent modes of creativityCreativity in a policy and social contextCreative pedagogy in practice...

This book helps students and researchers understand thematic analysis as a process that is a part of many qualitative methods, and provides clear guidance about learning to develop techniques to apply to research.

Written by the scholars who first developed the theory of self-leadership, Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence 3e offers powerful yet practical advice for leading yourself to personal excellence.

A clear and student friendly introduction to the field of child development, from a psychological approach.

Keeping the uniquely humorous and self-deprecating style that has made students across the world fall in love with Andy Field's books, Discovering Statistics Using R takes students on a journey of statistical discovery using R, a free, flexible and dynamically changing software tool for data analysis that is becoming increasingly popular across the social and behavioural sciences throughout the world. The journey begins by explaining basic statistical and research concepts before a guided tou...

A practical toolkit and essential guide to teaching and training vocational learners across all settings.

Qualitative research is designed to explore the human elements of a given topic, while specific qualitative methods examine how individuals see and experience the world. Qualitative approaches are typically used to explore new phenomena and to capture individuals' thoughts, feelings, or interpretations of meaning and process. Such methods are central to research conducted in education, nursing, sociology, anthropology, information studies, and other disciplines in the humanities, social scien...

The market leading textbook for trainees and practitioners counselling children. It contains lots of short chapters offering practice frameworks, skills and interventions.

The essential guide to teaching and learning in higher education for anyone in teaching and learning support roles at university, including early career academics, postgraduate researchers and graduate teaching assistants.