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£14.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780745345222 | ISBN 10: 0745345220
The heart of any trade union is its reps and activists organising in the workplace. After years of membership decline across sectors, a renewed recognition of this essential fact is behind the 'turn to organising' in the union movement today.
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£15.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781646043569 | ISBN 10: 1646043561
Learn how to incorporate equitable teaching practices in your everyday classroom with this helpful guide designed to help your young students thrive.Â
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Bringing racial equity into the classroom doesn’t have to be an intimidating task. Teac ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571366989 | ISBN 10: 0571366988
The rediscovered classic: a trailblazing Guyanese woman's memoir of post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion')Â
Denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529063745 | ISBN 10: 1529063744
Thought-provoking, witty and completely unafraid, I Heard What You Said is a timely exploration of how we can dismantle racism in the classroom and do better by all our students.
'Essential reading' Guardian
'Sharp and witty with moments of ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529114805 | ISBN 10: 1529114802
In 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were Boris Johnson and David Cameron. Â In those days a private boys' boarding school education was largely the same experience as it had been for generations: ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781841883335 | ISBN 10: 1841883336
Step inside one of Britain's most notorious prisons... Â
During her time as a prison teacher Mim Skinner met every type of criminal. But her job was not to judge them, it was to teach.
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In this compelling, inspirational memoir Mim takes you b ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781119762935 | ISBN 10: 1119762936
A timely guide to online teaching strategies from bestselling author Doug Lemov and the Teach Like a Champion team.Â
School closures in response to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic resulted in an immediate and universal pivot to online teaching. ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781509840311 | ISBN 10: 1509840311
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020. Â
'The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever read. No-one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying'
~ Philip PullmanÂ
Kate Clanchy wants to change th ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783351275 | ISBN 10: 1783351276
I will teach them literature, poetry, culture. I will teach them The Waste Land! I will be the Best Teacher Who Has Ever Lived! Or so The Secret Teacher thinks. On his first day at an inner-city state school he gets nuked.Â
The class he is made t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781474601016 | ISBN 10: 1474601014
A revealing account of the abuse that occurs in Britain's elite boarding schools and its long cultural fall-out.
No other society sends its young boys and girls away to school to prepare them for a role in the ruling class.
Beating, ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785922916 | ISBN 10: 1785922912
A practical guide to delivering Forest School methods to people with autism - both children and adults - with advice on how to adapt activities to make them more inclusive. Includes tips on how to set up a Forest School, safety issues and how to gath ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781138937178 | ISBN 10: 1138937177
Opinions about comprehensive education are often made into easy-to-swallow sound-bites by media and politicians alike and whilst the benefits of a genuinely comprehensive education for all pupils are obvious, untruths have unwittingly evolved into ha ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781782796374 | ISBN 10: 1782796371
Is 'Romeo and Juliet' really a love story, or is it a play about young people living in dangerous circumstances? How might life under occupation produce a new reading of 'Julius Caesar'? What choices must a group of Palestinian students make, when pu ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846044830 | ISBN 10: 1846044839
It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months she w ... more
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£21.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847879059 | ISBN 10: 1847879055
Bullying involves the repeated abuse of power in relationships. Bullying in schools can blight the lives of victims and damage the climate of the school. Over the last 25 years a burgeoning research program on school bullying has led to new insights ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781683255 | ISBN 10: 1781683255
The Chicago Teachers Union strike was the most important domestic labor struggle so far this century — and perhaps for the last forty years — and the strongest challenge to the conservative agenda for restructuring education, which advocates for more ... more
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£42.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780415711869 | ISBN 10: 041571186x
Queer Inclusion in Teacher Education explores the challenges and promises of building queer inclusive pedagogy and curriculum into teacher education.
Weaving together theory, research findings, and practical "how-to" strategies and material ... more
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£40.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780415641463 | ISBN 10: 0415641462
Although scholarly examinations of privilege have increased in recent decades, an emphasis on privilege studies pedagogy remains lacking within institutions. This edited collection explores best practices for effective teaching and learning about var ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781781350102 | ISBN 10: 1781350108
The only book for teachers of students with dyslexia written by a dyslexic student teacher.
Who better to help teachers support students with dyslexia than someone who is a dyslexic student teacher? The Little Book of Dyslexia references bot ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844088119 | ISBN 10: 1844088111
'The People's War' comes to life in this wonderful diary of life on the Home Front during World War Two.
May Smith is twenty-four at the outbreak of World War Two; at night, the sirens wail, and the young men of the village leave to fight. But ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781780880518 | ISBN 10: 1780880510
Show Me the Prisoner is written from the perspective of a prison teacher who later served on the prison monitoring body. It covers a 15-year period of involvement in two of Northern Ireland’s prisons during the troubles, when terrorists hogged ... more
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£39.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780230573703 | ISBN 10: 0230573703
The short story is moving from relative neglect to a more central position in the literary curriculum. As a teaching tool, its accessibility offers students a route into many complex areas, including critical theory, gender studies, postcolonialism, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781906694876 | ISBN 10: 1906694877
Daniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning him the task of writing a novel. This was the moment Pennac realized that no-one has to be a failure f ... more
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£7.99 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781903660096 | ISBN 10: 1903660092
Two things are urgently needed in the teaching profession today: an understanding of real children, not theoretical ones, and intelligent humour.
The Bitter Root offers readers a beautifully concise and readable book, as well as a mixtu ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781906308179 | ISBN 10: 1906308179
Charlie Carroll finds himself teaching English to nice children in a nice school. It’s the perfect job – so why is he so bored?
Determined to find out why a staggering 50% of British teachers quit within five years of qualifying, he gives up ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780719521270 | ISBN 10: 0719521270
Dear Ms Crossley-Holland, I didn’t Oink at you yesterday but I do admitt I did oink it was a private joke between me and Billie. Know I do Admitt I should not of been making noises so I am sorry for making noises but yeah as I said I am only sorry fo ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780767931724 | ISBN 10: 0767931726
"There are lives lost in this book, and there are lives saved, too, if salvation means a young man or woman begins to feel deserving of a place on the planet...What could be more soul-satisfying? These are the most influential professionals most of u ... more
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£8.50 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781903080122 | ISBN 10: 1903080126
England has 25 contemporary ‘monster schools’ – of more than 2,000 students, four times as many as a decade ago. There are 263 English secondaries – twice as many as when Labour took office – of 1,500 to 2,000 students. Large schools are cost effecti ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781583228852 | ISBN 10: 1583228853
Winner of the Prix France Culture/Télérama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (L ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781905399369 | ISBN 10: 1905399367
Where to find a book about teaching by a teacher? All I could find were grim behavioural manuals that all started with 'Getting The Buggers To...' or alternatively the comfort read, those nostalgic fests about a village school in the 1950s and 1960s. ... more
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£69.99 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781402061097 | ISBN 10: 1402061099
There is much ambivalence in women’s experience of the academy as teachers and students. Allthough today many more women follow academic careers than in the past, they do not find the welcome that they had hoped for and expected. Additionally, women ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780826489814 | ISBN 10: 0826489818
If you thought reading Gervaise Phinn was like drinking a warm cup of tea, this book will knock you over with the force of a vodka slammer. Mr Read survives the nightmare of planning, Ofsted and an incompetent head... He also takes the class to Irela ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780349117782 | ISBN 10: 0349117780
Through a series of serendipitous encounters, Will Randall found himself in Botswana, resuming the career as a teacher than had already taken him from an inner-London comprehensive to Poona in India. And now, in Botswana Time, that career veers ... more
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£8.50 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780226644899 | ISBN 10: 0226644898
The buzz word in education today is accountability. But the federal mandate of "no child left behind" has come to mean curriculums driven by preparation for standardized tests and quantifiable learning results. Even for very young children, unstructu ... more
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£14.50 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780758201874 | ISBN 10: 0758201877
The challenges of working in an urban school are not for every teacher. Some get burnt out fast. Some lose sight of why they started teaching in the first place. Some find their calling in other neighbourhoods... with other kids. But not Salome Thoma ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780385494229 | ISBN 10: 038549422x
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students – whose ranks included substance abus ... more
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£16.95 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780674002739 | ISBN 10: 0674002733
White teacher, black children: Paley approaches this largely unexplored minefield with candor and incisiveness. In this humane and beautifully written account, the wit and sureness of her observations are compelling. Repeatedly, she uses anecdotes to ... more
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£16.95 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9780674505865 | ISBN 10: 0674505867
The author, a kindergarten teacher, sets out to discover the truth about the multi-cultural classroom from those who participate in it. Here are the voices of Black teachers and minority parents, immigrant families, a Native American educator and the ... more
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£16.95 paperback (1991) - ISBN 13: 9780674080317 | ISBN 10: 0674080319
How does a teacher begin to appreciate and tap the rich creative resources of the fantasy world of children? What social functions do story playing and storytelling serve in the preschool classroom? And how can the child who is trapped in private fan ... more
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