A practical and accessible text for trainee primary school teachers examining the 'new literacies' and exploring their place in primary schools.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to commissioning, managing and undertaking research in development work. Perfect for both students and practitioners.

An ideal study companion throughout a business and management degree, this text provides up-to-date coverage of hot topics such as effective reading, essay skills, how to use social media and how to secure employment after university.

This book on effective social work intervention will help students apply and integrate this knowledge in practice, to critically evaluate different methods and to choose the most the effective in any particular set of circumstances.

This exciting new text helps researchers to successfully understand and achieve impact in their research, and to demonstrate this impact in order to secure funding and to show excellence in REF

This book is a complete guide for those practitioners who facilitate action learning and who can, in turn, develop the reflective practice and critical thinking skills now demanded of Newly Qualified Social Workers.

An up-to-date, student focused introduction that will be adopted on sociology, human geography and population studies modules across the social sciences.

Long waited second edition of this popular exploration of media economics. Will be adopted on courses across media management, media policy and the creative industries.

By examining how young children develop and learn from conception through to the age of eight, this book explores ways to enhance professional practice in the early years. For further discussion and engagement with current issues and hot topics in Early Childhood subscribe to Sheila Nutkin's author blog.

A fully revised and updated edition of this widely adopted textbook. The First Edition was published in 2003 by Hodder.